Our Beautiful Evening Star
...A dictum that no mortal may impeach:
abundance is the concubine of dearth.
You soar above the surly clouds which wreathe
around us: you’ve enabled us to reach
beyond our matter-patrimony, earth...
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Categories:
wreathe, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Young Wild Chasm
...Take of a turn of three
time to talk of penumbra tales
beneath a taramond tree
trials and wailings of two lives in the vale
The life of young from it infancy
thence gradual, conventional neith...
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Categories:
wreathe, 9th grade, africa, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
I Am Thankful For
...
For the luscious pure air, I breathe,
My life story hang round a wreathe.
Bed so soft to curl up and sleep,
Fragments of my life within, deep.
A gift of family outspread,
Closeness of lov...
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Categories:
wreathe, self,
Form: Rhyme
Overmantle
...Bacchus confronts us in a shady place, A tangled grove, and he, astride a cask. Gross limbs and belly, small besotted face, And lips pursed to the uptilted flask. A buxom dryad, white against his...
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Categories:
wreathe, culture, dream, drug, freedom,
Form: Free verse
It's Easier To Say It By Mouth
...It's easier to say it by mouth than doing it
and whenever I bump into you,
I get a strong feeling to hold you;
oh, if that ever happens: I'll be smiling a lot!
I don't quite understand what's ...
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Categories:
wreathe, anxiety, courage, desire, dream,
Form: Lyric
Capsizing the Costa Concordia
...Capsizing the Costa Concordia
Divers wreathe silently through
the submerged corridors of a
140,000-ton wreck. Little fish
dark haphazardly through
the juxtaposition of tilted ballroom,
grani...
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Categories:
wreathe, sea,
Form: Alliteration
I Seek You
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I seek you till time ends,
as with moon rays you dance,
glow like a pearl of dew
in my silken meadow,
my love sparkles for you.
I seek you till time ends,
while you stroll in sea ...
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Categories:
wreathe, desire, love,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Violet
...A purple temperature within my gloves—
For this night, the bleak snow is on and on,
Which I am gathering your meaning of—
For our knit in-between is slowing, gone.
I'm to your losses; snowflake...
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Categories:
wreathe, dream, inspirational love, introspection,
Form: Quatrain
A Toxic Dream
...I see no reason for this toxic state
other than hate or desired submission
found in my dream
where a kiss upon the heart
is a rusty chain
hanging on walls of circumstance
a vision within a vis...
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Categories:
wreathe, conflict,
Form: Free verse
star-crossed lovers
...We’re destined to love and fated to seethe.
But our stars don’t align
Were you somebody who just meant to leave?
If walking away was the correct choice to find a delight
Was I ever part of your e...
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Categories:
wreathe, love,
Form: Free verse
The Bereaved Avenges Herself against a Selfish Lover
...I may love you, once love is all I have;
someday, with tears I'll wash away your grave:
till then I curse you since you died at last,
leaving me broke, alone, going nowhere fast.
Despite young...
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Categories:
wreathe, allusion, betrayal, desire, extended
Form: Heroic Couplet
Love Behind
...The moon fell, splashing into the sea
and left me grasping for its last light.
I turned, accepting we did not agree.
Would the moon rise again so bright
as when you were beside me,
embracing in ...
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Categories:
wreathe, betrayal, emotions, feelings, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Stop and Breathe
...Stop and Breathe
Sometimes I need to stop and breathe
sit still and calm my busy mind.
Reflect upon my inner seethe
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Categories:
wreathe, self,
Form: Rhyme
Hope, Dear Hope
...Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul
and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
- Emily Dickinson
My search for gold dust glow in harvest ...
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Categories:
wreathe, depression, hope, light,
Form: Ode
It Is Just a Bit of a Wordplay One
...Rushing rhymes with ahs and ers
adjust near rhymes on the first and third
spelling errors which mass occur
Murder grammar
Massacre
Screw it nailed it
Insecurities
Fail threw fell quick...
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Categories:
wreathe, word play,
Form: Rhyme
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