Wordle #123:(filters, springs, keep, bitter, cries, enough, South, train, fierce, out, pieces, gusting) “Lincoln’s Train” We watched the SOUTH TRAIN as it GUSTed forth: so pitiful, she pierced the air with CRIES. Her halting engine came from OUT the North; funereal and FIERCE her flaming sighs. Oh, BITTER sings this TRAIN from out the North…
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The Baffled Heart
The Baffled Heart A favored photo on the shelf I keep: My love, I know that look upon his face. I’ve learned to read his eyes though now he sleeps. He poses questions I cannot erase. “Where are we found when all of this is past? I only ask, as you’re the one around…” “Where…
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“A Quiet Space” Where prayer so muted as the humming-bird whose pause is heard among her hurried ohm, her wings seem stilled tipped over open bud yet hover; huddle home. Silent is her poem.
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The Teddy Girls “My world is just as smart as yours”, they said. “My hair piled high is simply fashion , sly. I am a well-bred, English girl who’s fed the latest fashion magazines to spy.” “My place a flirting, highfalutin’, sir; My jeans now turned conspicuously dared. To show the best part of the…
Read MoreTrifecta:Week 81
“Seasons” Her light has changed as April shades her eyes. A backward, golden glance as Summer strays. She runs past Autumn’s angst, alarmed with sighs. Then grabs the gray: old Winter, for her days.
Read MoreBullfinch’s Mythology
“Bullfinch’s Mythology” Greeks say that Eros, born of chaos clings to Erebus and Earth. Born of delight from the egg of night, filled with fervor; full of worth. Eros issues from her womb more love, from such darkness sets men free from the egg of night, born of delight; as duplicitous does man conceive. Eros…
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“Isolating the Pain” She’s separated from the life she knew. She’s closed the door and finds some solace where a mean and sep`rate silence does ensue as once, two souls together, harbored there. Upon a sep`rate sea her heart is lost; their common anchor broken in that storm. So, separation has alarming cost; an isolation…
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In this House I’m greeted in this house by wagging tail. He grabs that latest toy to share with me and from his lungs, he makes a sound; a wail that sings to tell of happiness and glee. I’m greeted in this house with shining eyes: He’s Malcolm and he’s happy I have come to…
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Sunday Whirl: Write a poem using the following: “striking, race, illuminates, hitched, concrete, pounding, circle, strain,wallow, scatter, incentive, stark” “Titan vs Nature” Henry M. Flagler’s train across the sea: a striking image in a race for time illuminates his personality. He hitched his wagon to such things sublime! A dreamer; Henry churned his century. A…
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