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  • "I love me not"s
    Yellow construction paper torn
    Into long ovular petals
    12 lines, 9 comments, on Apr 16 11:18 PM 2007. In Life, Personal, Thoughts
  • Winded
    Time has waned its fouling purge
    And winds have slowed since treachery
    16 lines, 21 comments, on Apr 25 8:45 PM 2007. In Hope, Love, Nature, Pain, Sad, Spiritual, Thoughts
  • Driftwood
    Grayed by unrelenting time
    And youthful structure scarred by many hateful water's purgings
    6 lines, 9 comments, on Apr 27 3:34 AM 2007. In Angst, Life, Nature, Pain, Sad, Hope
  • Old Barn
    Papa said "Every old barn needs some paint." / ButI look beneath the lovely aging surface that only God gave you / And remember fumbling fi
    11 lines, 7 comments, on Apr 27 10:46 PM 2007. In Love
  • The Eruption
    the
    intensity
    feeling pressure rumble
    15 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 28 1:39 PM 2007
  • Granny Smith
    10 words only. . . describe a favorite fruit without mentioning it's name
    5 lines, 11 comments, on Apr 30 7:58 AM 2007. In Thoughts
  • Crown of Creation?
    Elizabeth's head-- / / Masterfully manipulated descendant of earth's pristine dust, / Flame-forged and forever flawed by depravity's filth
    8 lines, 2 comments, on Apr 30 9:19 PM 2007. In Society, Spiritual, Thoughts
  • The Dipping
    Let me but taste that hallowed place / Where streams run rapidly / In pursuit of deeper drink / And let rounded, twin pools of intellect an
    13 lines, 18 comments, on May 11 2:01 AM 2007. In Life, Love, Nature
  • Silk
    The soft of silk surges my soul at each imagined kiss, stolen.
    6 lines, 15 comments, on Jun 1 11:24 PM 2007. In Love, Personal
  • Beneath
    storm-torn bark falls off / like leprous limbs' numb shedding / exposing raw flesh
    4 lines, 4 comments, on Apr 28 5:22 PM 2007. In Nature, Pain
  • Enchantment's Wind
    He lifts me up-- / Alive, uncertain and afraid. / Undergirding me with patient breezes / Wafting gently, waving softly / Teaching me to flu
    12 lines, 12 comments, on Jun 11 7:31 PM 2007
  • The Verdant Vine
    Many-leaved vigilante / wrapping / warping / wrenching / volitile heart of flesh
    5 lines, 11 comments, on Jun 22 10:58 PM 2007
  • Kentucky Blue People
    Appalachian mountains-- / speckled with cyan robin eggs / of inter-nesting cousins /
    6 lines, 9 comments, on Jun 23 5:10 PM 2007
  • Oh! If Just to Taste
    Limbs dripping / with sweetest fruit / In orchard / not my own
    7 lines, 10 comments, on Jun 23 9:39 PM 2007
  • Sea of Fertility
    Shadowed towers interspersed / In broken canopy / Leave space for hope / That moon would marry grasses / Splashing passion's / fervent, sem
    8 lines, 9 comments, on Jun 24 11:56 PM 2007. In Love, Hope, Nature
  • Diverse City
    Sea of faces / multi-colored depths / with crests / of kaleidoscope cultures
    6 lines, 7 comments, on Jun 26 2:25 PM 2007
  • "Two Down" in the Mountain
    Deep in the swelling dark of Appalachian cavern / dwells one,stark and horrid / They say he lures unsuspecting lovers-- / past the realm wh
    23 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 29 6:41 PM 2007
  • Torn
    Love is waking / Freshly wafting / Blowing seed of flower promised / Blade is chopping / Mocking, chiding / Leaving only weed of doubting /
    8 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 4 9:31 PM 2007
  • "Tales" of the Demented Drycleaner
    Linen leisures / Taffeta treasures / and sequined silks / Worn in haughty / circimstance / Turning heads-- / snickering / at iron burns / a
    13 lines, 9 comments, on Jul 5 1:43 AM 2007
  • I See You There--It's Been a While. . .
    Fond friends might embrace; / but I-- / remain aloof. / For even faintest brush of flesh / dissolves resistance, / leaving me-- / willing h
    13 lines, 15 comments, on Jul 5 12:10 PM 2007
  • 2 A.M. Arrival
    Inebriated breath / creeps under weeping covers / with sweetheart / --long forsaken-- / whispering aroused affection / . . . too late
    6 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 10 5:23 PM 2007
  • Unsung Lullabies
    Rocking chair / void of soothing / Teddy lies / never reached for / Joy / --sleeps not in cradle
    11 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 10 8:07 PM 2007
  • Song of the Treetops
    her song / of weeping moon forlorn / --rests in starlit treetops10 / his serenade / by sunlight, heated, / --blazes there to meet / but moo
    13 lines, 20 comments, on Jul 10 9:09 PM 2007
  • The Way
    In blackened pit where flame is void of light / every molecule screams and breath is short / Folly marks the forhead / and thirst announces
    15 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 12 7:49 PM 2007
  • Fields of Baby Girl
    flitting little dragonfly / flirts with raspberry dewdrops / that bathe the clover fruit-- / her loveliness engulfs them / as rainbow flowers sky /
    8 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 14 1:53 AM 2007
  • Imagined Touch
    ribbons from your fingers / encircle me with silken soft / first caressing length / then crossing back in strings / of sultry stay / enrapt
    12 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 15 7:28 PM 2007
  • Illuminations
    fresh / as firefly's / brightening bud / love / lifts darkened / shrouded hood /
    9 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 15 8:15 PM 2007
  • Labrador Lovers
    by day / wind tossled youthful hair / and sang lively song / beneath St John's towering cathedrals / by night / beach was bed / and Amhurst
    13 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 15 11:23 PM 2007
  • Ignited
    Like blaze of raging bonfire / Flared high against my stacks, / And piqued inexperience, / Rendering me without shield, / Was love when fir
    45 lines, 14 comments, on Jun 6 5:40 PM 2007. In Love, Personal, Sad
  • What Goes Up Must Come Down
    helium innocense / floats. . . / heavenward / marred / helium horror / rains... / destroying children /
    10 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 1 8:54 PM 2007
  • Tabled Appetite
    broth of lofty promises / ladeled into pefect crystal bowls / but wanting season / marinated cuts of pleasure / in colorless au jus / dress
    14 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 17 9:46 AM 2007
  • Ultimate Reflection
    cotton / puffed on azure canvas / hyacinth hills / adorned with stately greens / child's gleam / bright-- / amid ambered sorrow / &nb
    13 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 19 12:01 AM 2007
  • Ghastly Experience
    Night's gnarled fingers / creep beneath covers / strangling ease / as echoed hideous groans / rattle creaking planks / of cellar door / for
    18 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 21 7:29 PM 2007
  • Baked Wisdom -- a Terza Rima Sonnet
    A Terza Rima is a poem with an eleven syllable count in each line and a rhyming scheme / of aba, bcb, cdc, dd. / For even more of a challen
    14 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 24 11:47 PM 2007
  • Keeping Time
    Passion's / playful sands / passed through / narrow curve / to hollow / building there / mound of awaited / gladness / with grains / of fli
    28 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 30 12:06 AM 2007
  • Freckles
    brilliant shafts of sunlight
    hidden behind once-blackened thunderheads
    23 lines, 24 comments, on Aug 1 8:04 PM 2007
  • Not Like This
    She splashes spray upon my toes
    tickling them in coy flirtation
    43 lines, 28 comments, on Aug 10 9:28 PM 2007
  • The Expanse
    a vast blue chasm
    is splashed between two sky pillows
    32 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 20 4:58 PM 2007
  • In the Center
    turmoil spews it's howling winds
    and trouble spits it's fury
    15 lines, 5 comments, on Sep 9 8:27 PM 2007
  • Cello
    alliteration/internal rhyming challenge
    52 lines, 66 comments, on Aug 29 7:02 PM 2007
  • Sunday Best
    Beulah Adair was a church goin' woman
    who invited us over after long Sunday sermon
    78 lines, 9 comments, on Sep 18 11:19 PM 2007
  • Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono
    When I stand atop the rock
    of volcano's cooled smoothness
    28 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 10 5:29 PM 2007
  • Treehouse
    Beneath the treetops interlocking
    stands the house
    30 lines, 6 comments, on Oct 1 9:51 PM 2007
  • As One
    When I was frail, and you had want of fruit
    We grew, in twain, in meadow green alongside playful fawns
    25 lines, 8 comments, on Aug 23 10:42 PM 2007
  • Chado (The Way of Tea)
    Come to me
    down winding way
    106 lines, 10 comments, on Aug 29 7:33 PM 2007
  • On Flesh of Want
    Angelo's pristine forefinger
    extends as brush
    16 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 1 12:53 AM 2007
  • Crisp, White Handkerchief
    He pressed his lips
    with linen cloth
    10 lines, 10 comments, on Sep 2 9:18 PM 2007
  • Sheathed
    Sleekest sword as soul's extension
    needs not pretention's boastful taunt,
    15 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 17 6:04 PM 2007
  • Pharisee's Appraisal
    When wicked words roll from off forked pen
    21 lines, 10 comments, on Sep 29 11:30 PM 2007
  • Pitter-Patter
    Will the wet of heaven,
    spilled,
    15 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 7 9:56 PM 2007
  • New Every Morning
    Trickling, swift,
    from sweetest lips of Source
    23 lines, 16 comments, on Oct 8 9:50 AM 2007
  • Transcribing the Wind
    What is that precious essence
    perfectly spilled from wells of poetry’s
    41 lines, 18 comments, on Dec 11 8:41 PM 2007
  • Extensions
    Dark extends
    his creeping chill
    17 lines, 3 comments, on Jan 9 9:21 PM
  • Union
    Tightest grip
    holding...
    22 lines, 6 comments, on Jan 10 7:30 PM
  • The Fugitives
    Tiny frame revolts at persistent, deft escape
    18 lines, 8 comments, on Jan 18 11:16 PM
  • Wanderer
    Will I live dreams,
    traversing
    21 lines, 11 comments, on Mar 4 7:12 PM
  • Utterance
    What noise? What sound
    of heaven’s swift articulation
    40 lines, 12 comments, on Mar 8 11:57 PM
  • Enough
    Music’s
    decrescendo tumbles
    33 lines, 19 comments, on Feb 13 6:58 PM
  • Osmosis
    Silhouette against sterile, porcelain squares--
    6 lines, 6 comments, on Feb 13 7:07 PM
  • The Innocent
    Mantle
    of perfect
    18 lines, 5 comments, on Feb 16 10:27 PM
  • Countenance
    Fallen rose-- in air
    9 lines, 6 comments, on Feb 19 5:01 AM
  • Ice Skater
    Whirling
    on the frozen dark
    10 lines, 10 comments, on Mar 28 7:31 PM
  • Song of the Adolescent Shefox (revised version)
    A song drifts gently through the midnight wood overtop the swaying trees.
    Its fingered mist creeps down to beckon me with soft, repeated,
    24 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 2 9:29 PM
  • Loves Me Not . . .
    How many petals must I pluck
    one by languid one
    24 lines, 6 comments, on Jan 18 8:54 PM
  • Humble Image
    psalmist strumming, singing perfection imperfectly
    21 lines, 4 comments, on Feb 8 10:48 PM
  • Just to Know
    When the moon spreads her lace
    across the African sky’s vast darkness
    34 lines, 16 comments, on Apr 5 11:12 AM
  • Mosaic
    Shattered abruptly
    While yet warm from potter’s kiln--
    36 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 8 3:01 AM 2007
  • Lively Stone
    "."
    49 lines, 7 comments, on Apr 8 8:31 PM
  • Reachable
    Oh, let me fly on sparrow wings,
    not as eagle who soars to heaven’s heights
    32 lines, 3 comments, on May 1 12:38 PM
  • Bearing Reflection
    Coming from the edge
    of crowded, winter wood
    35 lines, 28 comments, on Jan 29 1:38 PM
  • Asphyxiated
    When forgiveness is buried
    by dirt, shoveled over
    13 lines, 8 comments, on May 12 9:56 PM
  • The Apron
    "."
    15 lines, 7 comments, on May 14 1:02 AM
  • Lia, Mama wa Afrika!
    Upon the reed of Somalia’s horn
    a call sounds out and does not quiet
    48 lines, 11 comments, on May 25 3:30 PM
  • Keepsakes
    One blonde curl
    ziplocked, tucked
    20 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 7 11:04 PM
  • Still Skipping Stones
    Long sleep of waters
    --altered--
    12 lines, 13 comments, on Jul 7 11:54 PM
  • Abacus
    Came across the small pouch today
    where you tuck away your spare change.
    68 lines, 17 comments, on Jul 21 12:25 PM
  • The Partner
    He came to me in wanton field at dusk
    When I laid down in drying grasses, nose to earth,
    64 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 2 11:28 PM
  • Beneath A Trickling Serenade
    I am slowly spoken, rocky whisper,
    evolving gift
    by kaibab 95 lines, 9 comments, on Aug 23 2:29 PM
  • Sure
    Though restless sun
    will never reach her trembling pinnacle
    45 lines, 23 comments, on Aug 31 1:05 AM

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