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spring peaceful nostalgia
Beautiful spring day
Yet out of season
Loving nostalgia
Drawing me into embrace.
Warm buttery sunshine
Dollop of ecstasy
Cascading over my back
Raining down like home and joy and peace.
Collapsing gently to the ground,
Stretching to feel green-gold earth
Beneath my fingertips
Chiming symphonies draw my notice.
As I lay there,
Still,
Feeling and listening
To the soft breezes
That the rest of the world
Perceived as gustings
Of
Wind.
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NaPoWriMo
NaPoWriMo Day4
Adveristy
Shorts
Termination inbound on the day
Ruminating over the cause
Sudden pain caused by fellowship
Heartstrings hand-plucked, wrought with strife
You take a bow, adversity on your fingertip
Perfectionist performance, chimerical display.
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NaPoWriMo
NaPoWriMo Day5
Ancient
Shorts
Ancient powers forever lost
Mourn their passing
When time stands still.
Wander over hill and dale
March along the river's edge
On no occasion to be found.
Again, sweet song sung by the water
Beauty's incarnation to see the light nevermore.
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NaPoWriMo NaPoWriMoDay1 Carcass death time
Death and life,
Time slips past
As one ends, yet another begins:
Carcasses are left to rot,
While their counterpart is all but forgot.
Yet why the difference in care,
Between mortality's apprentice
And life's most fair?
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Young Love puppy love youth love
Young love, fleeting like snowdrops
Melting snowflakes in the spring
One moment there and the next gone
Made more beautiful in its foolish haste
But also branding perpetual scars.
Some cannot break free from these old chains
Others simply wither away
Yet still there are those
Fighting the dazzling flame with passion undeniable
Carried on the ephemeral wind.
Their feelings sweep away all doubts.
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NaPoWriMo
NaPoWriMo Day2
Eloquence
Shorts
Many of the greats in poetry are said to be eloquent beings,
Well-versed in language as well as the human mind, soul, and heart.
Their legacy of distinct impressions;
Such aureate diction surely leaves the world a more vibrant, colorful place,
But at times I wonder: Do THEY leave this world more vibrant?
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Something broken,
Something lost
Til what they found
They paid the cost.
Never moving,
Always bitter
What caused this pain
Still, I shiver.
Once shining and glimmer
Now hangs,
Becoming still and dimmer.
Forever wander,
Lost little one,
Never straying from the path
The rest of us look on in wonder
Til the little one is gone at last.
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Hamlet Claudius regret woe
Tricked by feminie wiles and guile
My dear brother woefully departed
To the flame and ash not of this plane
Where do his sins be purged
Though not his soul be unscourged.
At his sudden passing dear Hamlet started,
A poor fool though wholeheartedly
Virtuous, as he does so obviously scorn my wife’s nuptials.
How I have come to regret my choice of action...
Had I known what fate awaits…
Those bright, pearly closed gates
Upon my arrival shut steadfast
A bloody crown not even my own,
Frail shadows wreathing my neck
Like fists of iron they twist,
Wringing my heart dry
Until not even the crows would dare pick at the remnants.
Greed settled in my heart like a worm,
Eating away at any trace of morality
As the serpent slithered into the garden,
Tainting me with its centrality.
Oh, if only I had known…
I regret my choice of action.
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NaPoWriMo NaPoWriMo Day3 Echo Shorts Response Poem
Looking down from the edge of the world,
I hear screams and a cry for help;
Wanting to reassure a tormented soul, I replied with a soothing tone,
An ache in my heart as I embrace it's suffering;
You found peace and comfort in yourself,
Leaving me behind, I fade away with a sigh;
I am always with you even if you do not see me,
I am always here for you even if you do not hear me.
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