ALL FLOWERS
...All flowers all the time:
Another day for admirers hungry eyes
Bouquet to deliver in the
Company of love
Dainty daisies beautifully alive
Especially the rose
For the lover in you
Guess I d...
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Categories:
xeric, beautiful, birth, flower, rose,
Form: Abecedarian
Bloom
...After it all ended
But a moment before he left
Casted me away
Did what i had dread
Expressed his discomfort over
Fights we never had fought
Gave up on us
Handed my heart back
I felt a...
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Categories:
xeric, angst, devotion,
Form: Abecedarian
Equinox
...Every day moves differently.
Quietly ebbing and flowing,
Under the guidance of time,
Invigorating growth even when
Neutral systems dictate cell death.
Only to show greater maturity, whether
Xer...
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Categories:
xeric, spring, weather,
Form: Acrostic
Shifting Wings Lifted
...Canal channel calm
Calm swan route rowed
Rowed with your oars
Oars of square shoulders
Shoulders I sheltered beneath
Beneath...
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Categories:
xeric, absence, allusion, encouraging, father
Form: Blitz
Fun At the Zoo
...Antisocial anacondas don't associate in numbers;
Bears and beavers don't become the best of friends.
Civet cats catch rats, so is it any wonder
On doleful dingoes dire dilemmas do descend?
Effete...
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Categories:
xeric, animal, humor,
Form: Alliteration
Anguish and Zest
...At day I fight the warriors fight.
Because my heart is made of light,
Comes the dread of mine own blight-
Demons dark as blackest night.
Except that oh, they do forget
Falling Angels, a-many, I ...
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Categories:
xeric, absence, abuse, allusion, angel,
Form: Abecedarian
Cholla's Legacy
...A diverse array of flora and fauna reign majestic
in vivid tawny imagery of shifting sand dunes
and barren rocks-- sixteen miles
from the golden rays of western tomorrow.
Time is played out i...
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Categories:
xeric, america, appreciation, august, beauty,
Form: Free verse
The Hinterlands
...unaccompanied
I set out to traverse the hinterlands
perceiving myself as a blemish on society
all eyes averted from my unsightly visage
the pernicious shadow o...
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Categories:
xeric, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Blessings From Demise
...And then the blunders of the past merged into serenity. Tranquility
ensued where wild storms had been raging.‘Safe travels’, they whispered
‘now you’re prepared and able to let go.’ The past beca...
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Categories:
xeric, celebration,
Form: Abecedarian
Out of the Desert
...Stiff, stifling, arid air: snakes, lizards, sand,
and cactus. Scorched red rocks and baking skin.
My canteen empty in a barren land -
my romance landscape till first love walked in.
One summer ev...
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Categories:
xeric, first love, love, summer,
Form: Sonnet
Fleur Fluency
...My (bleeding) heart is filled to overflowing,
To see any growing glad(iolus), garden glowing;
Each sun peached, (petunia) petaled delight,
Is frozen in precious moments of pure delight,
From bur...
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Categories:
xeric, beauty, color, flower, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Season of Smiles
...All is calm; all is
Bright on this lovely
Christmas Eve night.
Do you see how
Easily the smiles come?
Feel the warmth that envelops you and
Glows in loved ones' eyes.
Hear the fervent joy
In...
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Categories:
xeric, celebration, christmas, jesus, joy,
Form: Abecedarian
Bacchus Rose - Anacreontic Verse
...Anacreontic verse
Bacchus rose
joy purging
xeric throats
choking upon
libations
conflicted aims
dancing naked
fearlessly awash
escaping
inhibition’s
tyranny
loosing anger’s soul
thr...
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Categories:
xeric, celebration,
Form: Lyric
The Zwieback Warrior
...The Zweiback Warrior
Zweiback cookies – teething biscuits
Yucky, gnawed upon, gummed delights
Xeric surface absorbing wanton drool
Wielded, by the toothless cherub, in
Valiant fencing stance...
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Categories:
xeric, children, humor, metaphor,
Form: Abecedarian
Bites of Apple Pies
...A pple pies, that's what I want to bite.
B egging my mom: "Mommy please, please..", as I
C ome closer to her..
D ancing a little to the left and right;
E very move a way to tempt my mom
F or...
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Categories:
xeric, food, happy, humor,
Form: Abecedarian
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