Tag: poem
group name: enthusiastsofall
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March 20, 2008 02:15 AM EDT --
sestina
Money for Nothing in Sugarville, Tennessee
On my left hand, I wear a diamond ring,
A gift from my old man, he calls me his sugar.
On my right hand, I wear nothing.
Today the . . . more
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October 13, 2007 02:32 PM EDT --
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February 13, 2008 11:41 AM EST --
For the little valentines out there, and those a little older whose minds love to come out and play--Happy Valentine's Day!
Flowing ribbons,
Colored valentines,
Friendly thoughts
Of . . . more
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October 20, 2006 04:06 PM EDT --
Inside writhing, squirming, screaming,
Head spinning, swirling, streaming,
Fear feeding, growing, controlling,
Misery unrelenting, maddening, roiling,
Terror afflicting, torturing, overpowering,
Mind . . . more
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December 18, 2007 04:45 AM EST --
Suffused cumulus
Precipitates the first drop
To flip a crisp leaf
Copyright 2007 Jim Ross
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October 09, 2006 03:04 PM EDT --
Thoughts are random and scattered,
Like fragile leaves caught in a whirlwind.
Twisting, turning, until tattered,
The memory of your words leaves me badly chagrined.
They play in my mind like a broken . . . more
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November 11, 2007 09:23 AM EST --
My Place
By Carole Shukle
Copyright 1999
Young eyes
capture this paradise
of salt-white sand
and watercolor seas.
Giant sugar-mound dunes . . . more
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October 28, 2007 12:23 AM EDT --
Minnesota Ties
Carole Shukle
Copyright 1996
Stately sunflowers stand
like golden-haired women
gathered to gossip. Yellow
heads bob in the . . . more
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March 27, 2008 11:43 AM EDT --
Beneath your lonely feet
Walk a long desert.
The gold of a sky
Eternal, liquid.
Fire of sand touches
Both your lonely feet.
They call those bushes snake flowers.
The breeze . . . more
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November 02, 2007 03:44 PM EDT --
Love
By Carole Shukle
Copyright 1995
Love looms like a giant shadow.
He blocks my flight, and touches
me with hands like forged steel.
Like a doe escaping . . . more
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January 17, 2007 04:28 PM EST --
Silence.
Three in nature:
Sun’s setting in the west,
Orion’s constellation. . . And
Snowfall.
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The cinquain challenge request was to devise a . . . more
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July 22, 2008 06:30 PM EDT --
The hourglass was now empty
And suddenly she was out of time,
So she walked away from a life
That no longer seemed to rhyme.
The sand had slipped through her fingers
Through a crack in the bottom . . . more
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June 30, 2008 07:28 PM EDT --
Washed up,
but never clean,
hanging by a thread
to your dirty dreams
that carry you off
like a random wind,
twirling you around
in your secret sin.
Better stop . . . more
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December 19, 2007 02:21 AM EST --
This is a sad one, friends. Such is this fact of life: not everything in it is jolly. Never fear though, tomorrow, someone's tomorrow, will come on new golden rays . . .
Now when you weep . . . more
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May 27, 2008 10:49 AM EDT --
Flying
Tu ne seras pas oublié.
You were not ready when you flew from earth,
snatched, like a bird in a storm.
Now I sit at your desk writing the last words in your journal.
I . . . more
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November 11, 2007 07:32 PM EST --
Like Rapunzel’s golden h air , trailing . . . more
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December 10, 2007 06:30 PM EST --
Double Ended Rainbow
© 2005
By Carole S.
The tiny rainbow arched
Just beyond my reach.
Both ends touched
My backyard.
No pots of gold, . . . more
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November 13, 2007 08:04 PM EST --
Whirlwind
By Carole Shukle
Copyright 1999
The world is like a child’s top,
spinning out-of-control.
An invisible . . . more
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December 29, 2007 07:42 PM EST --
Sometimes, when I least expect it,
I think about you, and it makes me smile.
I remember how we use to laugh,
the way you would touch my hair,
the way you would say my name.
Sometimes, when . . . more
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November 14, 2006 11:11 AM EST --
Watercolor Morning
In the light of dawn
Glorious Earth reappears
Weak at first, then bold
© 2006 Jim Ross
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