Out of the Blue
...Out of the blue, into the gray:
why do all things happen this way?
Those who are close stay in my mind,
but out of sight, fall far behind.
The world turns and before I know it, I’ve lost you -
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Categories:
wrapped refrain, friend, memory,
Form: Other
Showman
...To great applause, I walk the rope -
I’ll stay upon my feet, I hope;
I look below and see no net -
And smile (although my brow is wet).
I juggle, dance and skip, recalling painful falls;
Then ride a ...
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Categories:
wrapped refrain, on work and working,
Form: Rhyme
A Cowboy Is
...The Vaquero
Create for me a vaquero
With slow walk, loving rodeo
Long rides on cool high mountain trails
Where it's wooded__love never fails
Who rides comfortable as can...
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Categories:
wrapped refrain, cowboy-western, fantasy, love, nature
Form: Rhyme
What Vision
...(Done in a form called Wrapped Refrain)
What vision most inviting I now see before my eyes,
upon this grassy hill beyond which peaks of mountains rise
to heaven’s heights, where clouds are swirl...
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Categories:
wrapped refrain, sweet,
Form: Rhyme
For Nomen Global Language Institute
...The school I've worked for half my teaching years is feeling more
and more the woes of these hard times. I walk the corridor,
remembering the better days
before I felt this new malaise...
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Categories:
wrapped refrain, god, old, sad, school,
Form: Rhyme