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Category: Life
Home Archive for category "Life" (Page 2)

Category: Life

. Contemplative / . Nostalgic / . Pensive / Life / Metrical / Rhyme
The things I have lost

The things I have lost

Roaring flames of treasure blaze Sparked by distant memory days Of pirate ships and ferns for spears Of splashing streams like …

 #aging #childhood #Jim Loft #memories
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.Expectant / Free Verse / Life / Nature
for birds in a time of plague

for birds in a time of plague

how can i write about the plague when syrup-seeking silver-eyes flit for aphids, rich in honey-dew should i mention the …

 #earth #gratitude #healing #Maggie Z. Brown #plague #renewal
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Legend / Life / Metrical / Narrative / Rhyme
The Minstrel

The Minstrel

The oak she leaned her back against was twisted, gnarled, and bent —A fitting place for one last song, one …

 #courage #lute #medieval #music #passion #Thain Emrys Bertin
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.Observant / Life / Metrical / Rhyme
I went to look for poetry

I went to look for poetry

I went to look for poetrybeneath the midnight moonout where the potholes pocked the road,and spotted a raccoon. He’d torn …

 #character #Gareth Marks #old man #raccoon
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Neruda’s Tasks

Neruda’s Tasks

Like above and below, my duties achedto converge.   One was to climb all the waydown to the bottom of …

 #Evan Fowler #Pablo Neruda #timelessness
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. Happy / Free Verse / Life / Sentiment
It’s Hard to Explain

It’s Hard to Explain

Ants will visit every feast.If the potato salad has mustard and sweet pickles,I can put up with crawlers.And if I …

 #blessings #gratitude #optimism #Susanne Donoghue
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. Contemplative / . Nostalgic / . Pensive / Change / Life / Metrical / Rhyme
Ode to the House that Raised Me

Ode to the House that Raised Me

I saw a ghost today. I peered inside her vacant eyes and brushed the years away. I saw her youth,and she saw mine.We …

 #Leo Durrant #ravages of time
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. Pensive / .Lonesome / Fixed Form / Life / Loss / Love / Metrical / Sentiment
The Old Man in the Mist

The Old Man in the Mist

A lonely path through clouded memories his fading mind once sharp and clear, now lost in hazy fusion, time betrayed …

 #aging #dementia #Helen White
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