Interment
...In fifth grade, I earned first place
statewide for violin
against the girl I half-loved—
her fingers quicker,
her lineage more illustrious—
but that day,
mine did not tremble.
She chose a pi...
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Categories:
wineglass, 5th grade, celebration, childhood,
Form: Free verse
NOONRAY IN WINTER
...NOONRAY IN WINTER
Noonray in your navel
a locus for language light
whale wave wishes
in water songs kisses
as July just jokes along
Winter wonder words waffling
storm crown chakra baffl...
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Categories:
wineglass, 12th grade, color, extended
Form: Carpe Diem
First Kiss
...She felt the soft brush of the grass
upon her fingers as she tripped
amongst the lazy Spring meadow.
Her faint flesh blush, vibrant, aglow
from the sweet cider she had sipped
of the long forbidd...
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Categories:
wineglass, love,
Form: Rhyme
A pose in meditation
...I hold the stem of a wineglass, a pose in meditation,
cradling the glass as if it were an injured bird.
This is my moment of peace, my mind at ease
in stillness I peer at images and visions
teas...
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Categories:
wineglass, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Vermeer and His Girls
...VIRGINAL GIRL
begin the beguine..
Make your music mine
LAUGHING GIRL
joy's outflow-from eyes aglow
GIRL WITH EARRING
a look of love-
into eternity's mirror
LACEMAKING GIRL
intricate detail
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Categories:
wineglass, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Wine Glass
...Darling,
Your lipstick on the wineglass was my last sip of you. I put my fingers around yours, and drew a deep breath, putting my lips upon your rouge, as I savored the last drop of your chardonn...
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Categories:
wineglass, kiss, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Wicked Game
...Late the music played in the smoky air
in our noir Bogey and Bacall vignette,
and hands that stroked your silky chestnut hair
held a red wine and lit a cigarette.
Your soft skin smelt of ...
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Categories:
wineglass, love, wife,
Form: Sonnet
Mourning a Broken Wineglass
...Mourning a broken wineglass
Brittle and beautiful you were, you were.
Brittle and broken, you are, you are.
"A thing of beauty a joy forever?
O profundity I cannot measure.
All earthy things w...
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Categories:
wineglass, beauty, loss, wine,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
A Glorious Lunacy
...I found a stream running down beside a landscape,
chuckling as it splashed. I envy its intimacy with nature.
I tread softly along in dreamy euphoria,
picking flowers and tossing them into the wate...
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Categories:
wineglass, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Keeping It Real
..."One day I woke up to a world of topsy-turvy
one minute sharing a meal and hugging my kids
and the next, keeping my distance with a masked smile"
I believe that tomorrow was ne...
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Categories:
wineglass, appreciation, life,
Form: Free verse
The Village On the Water V
...Showering white light illuminates
Bright-Moon Bay;
In the overlooking Moon-Inviting Pavilion,
Li Bai had raised his twinkling, rich amber
Coloured wineglass
To invite the same reticen...
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Categories:
wineglass, appreciation, beauty, places,
Form: Free verse
Come Back
...Saša Milivojev - COME BACK
Come back In a slumber
In a contellation
I listen for your soft steps
Vanished touches of mute fingers
Wrap my untouched neck
Like a wineglass overfilled
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Categories:
wineglass, cute love, i love
Form: Lyric
The W's Have It
...Well-established wonder-stricken wayfarers will work with wizards,
who worry worm-eating warblers will wander by with Wyandottes.
Witchdoctors wallowing with Weiss beer will widen willowy wonky
wi...
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Categories:
wineglass, word play,
Form: Alliteration
The History of a Wasted Mind
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“The History of a Wasted Mind”
What goes through the mind of a recidivist
Fist full of hate and hurt marking time
Fist full of history, got down with the dirt
The History of a Was...
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Categories:
wineglass, abuse, child abuse, war,
Form: Free verse
Form and Poems
...Form is the wineglass from which I pour,
The many words and thoughts I store.
It holds vivid images blended there,
Subtle and smooth, or feelings austere.
Without form, words spill out every...
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Categories:
wineglass, writing,
Form: Couplet
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