Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Every day you drive down my street, through my neighborhood, anticipating the day we'll infinitely meet
I tried to ignore the feelings I've felt since the moment I walked into your convenient store but it ever holds the creative precipice of something more
You stood less than a foot away while I unconsciously held my nervous
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Categories:
winnipeg, allegory, boyfriend, corruption, desire,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
winnipeg, winter,
Form: Tanka
Sun Up Near Winnipeg
SUN UP NEAR WINNIPEG
Endless black land sewn to pink sky
Flawless dawn over the sown field
Crack of gold splits the seam
Pink is flooded with mauve
Land is spread with sunshine butter
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Entered in Francine's contest
( Chosen category is NATURE )
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Categories:
winnipeg, nature,
Form: Imagism
Memories of Winnipeg
Memories of Winnipeg
We often
intensly disagree,
but I know your face
and over the long term
you have always been here
and tightening my strings.
.
Now I see you broken.
You have
temporarily lost and
every one of your days is scary
as you hang on a string above the
safety web, with king safety poised to
eat you.
.
I could gloat and will and do in private
while
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Categories:
winnipeg, friendship, work,
Form: Light Verse
Winnipeg From 30 000 Feet
WINNIPEG FROM 30 000 FEET
Flight over the Lakes - turbulent altogether:
Wingtips alarmingly shaken like sticks.
In the Manitoba prairie’s settled weather
Pilot finds his clear-night city-fix.
Winnipeg’s rarely thought of as pretty;
But now working girl’s out for the night:
On starless ground
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Categories:
winnipeg, urban, , cute,
Form: Sonnet