Category: Poetry

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His Own Assembly

Haibun Poem   Frankie squats on the living room hardwood floor. He grabs a blue, semicircular plastic connector. Then he stares at the directions, makes adjustments and adds a short yellow rod. The “Demon...

poem about wishes 0

Three

Poem   I learned today that I must never have three children. One is enough to pour your entire love in to like pear nectar in to an empty glass. Two can become allies, a shoulder...

Birthday Poem 0

Birthday

Birthday Poem   Oh to be 30 again A life lost for one day added Each second older and wiser than my last The drip drip drip of wax upon sugar Constructs of egg,...

Nature Poetry, Butterfly Photograph 0

Monarch

Nature Poetry   You wonder how you ended up here. With this impossible creature- This bruised insect In this fading garden. Her shadow is a scallop. One wing torn off, she flies dizzily in...

poem about legacy 0

Sunday Memories

Poem   With tears in your eyes you told us stories about friendship, war, life and family. So we don’t forget, so you don’t forget your life that was already fading away. You came...

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Shore

Poems About Love   Today, I’m the ocean lapping your feet, swathing your back’s narrow, lave the tender bends of your legs. I would swallow you whole but you shouldn’t know; I’m already dreaming...

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Treehouses

Poem About Nature   Huckleberries Bountiful and almost ripe Cold lake shimmering turquoise Cooling the hot dust and bark Ripple in the water Imperceptible below the mountain Thousands of years tall Rows of trees...

poem about romance 0

Crystal

Poem Incredibly sharp Cuts soft with no pain Speak plain my words can go With anything you have on And highlight the best of what you Look to having, lovin’ gets embraced And the...

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Personal Paschal Mystery

Haibun Poem   You took your last breath. You, the Life, died. Where you could never be, you went. Death, through yours, becomes the door to life. My cousin, who could sit still no...

Free Verse Poetry 0

Along the Bones

Free Verse Poetry   See them as they race through the sinews and along the bones Interwoven with their preordained infrastructures ill-afforded them by freedoms Products of existing where they were born and expanded...