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Home Style Archive for category "Free Verse" (Page 19)

Category: Free Verse

Another Beach
. Peaceful / Free Verse / Sentiment

Another Beach

I visit a beach; a different one under the same sun as the one before. Immediately it dares me to describe, exposing a lack of vocabulary within my mind. I …

 beach / imagination / joy / observation / Peter Smallwood
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Albatross
. Solemn / Free Verse / Loss

Albatross

We viewed the frail old man laid out in his casket; how little there is to the dead. I expressed my condolences, and the widow gave me a smile: “It’s …

 death / funeral / Jerry Kemp / tribute / veteran
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Commute
. Contemplative / Free Verse / Life

Commute

The opening is sterile, bloodless, a necessary nexus; nature lingers, lapping at the heels of my passing. A sparrow stills my hand upon the handle, and I am why he …

 crowd / noise / people / rush / silence / William Keller
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Vertiginous Autumn
. Contemplative / Free Verse / Hope

Vertiginous Autumn

Sweetness in Amber Sweetness of the autumn days savored, tucked under my tongue to melt to oak-gold shadows– Wind-cleansed, rain-shined, polished leaves dance their last cotillion. I will not think …

 autumn / beauty / gift / reading / season / Susanne Donoghue / WW Schwim
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brown paper and string
. Solemn / Free Verse / Loss

brown paper and string

sometimes I think I know too much not… in an arrogant way but more in a… we’ve been down that path before we know where it leads and that path …

 hurt / lessons / memories / Peter Smallwood
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