Tag: poetry
group name: bringsmepleasure
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November 07, 2009 08:37 PM EST --
Flesh of an apple
A drop of red; stains earth; proves gravity;
grows up as a sprawled tree; bears alluring,
glistening fruits I have brought for you at this
sickbed. . . .
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January 21, 2009 08:29 AM EST --
I wish that I could find a place,
Where everyone can embrace,
Without feeling strange.
I wish that I could find a home,
Where kindness and love did roam,
With . . .
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December 14, 2007 08:51 PM EST --
In a manger born
With joy we celebrate him
In death crowned with thorns
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November 14, 2007 08:11 PM EST --
I Wonder…
When pioneers crossed the American* pr air ies,
Did children in pr air ie schooners* know . . .
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May 12, 2009 01:01 PM EDT --
I just posted a short Mother's Day poem by my 10 year old sun. This poem is by my 8 year old daughter. Little Sistah Sunshine also write her first haiku because she is on the Shedding . . .
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May 12, 2009 12:54 PM EDT --
Lately I've been talking to my children about poetry, thanks to Mariana T. and Shedding Light. My children join me during the walks and read my haikus about them. One day Sistah Sunshine . . .
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November 05, 2009 08:40 PM EST --
A letter from anyone
A letter has been thrown from the window
of a white girls’ school-bus to no one
in particular and the glory
belongs to all the boys. The letter . . .
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January 28, 2009 08:47 AM EST --
I'm amazed,
How you love me.
Even after I fail,
Miserably.
You care,
Even when I'm
Everywhere,
Except with you!
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August 29, 2007 04:12 PM EDT --
“At the Carrefour”
Rhythmic clip-clops from the carriage horses
Bedazzle my careworn senses.
I turn round at the Carrefour’s juncture
To peer through the row of quinces. . . .
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August 13, 2008 11:35 AM EDT --
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I have never been fishing on the Susquehanna . . .
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February 27, 2009 11:12 PM EST --
Rivers
Run rambling on
remembering reaching
restoration by residual
of rain
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October 30, 2009 09:56 PM EDT --
The sky was gloomy and dreary
The moon was darkened yet there
The scarecrows stood around really weary
Their job almost done for the . . .
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July 29, 2009 10:31 AM EDT --
Exotic, alluring, luxuriously wild
Eye candy to each passing child.
Soft, pointed rainbow talons reach,
Toward endless skies and salty beach.
Roots firmly planted in sandy ground,
Tucked . . .
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January 31, 2009 11:18 AM EST --
I hope to see,
In my life time,
The power of God,
Displayed majestically,
All over the earth.
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September 19, 2007 08:58 PM EDT --
“A Formidable Presence”
I skip over the freshly mowed grass and dash onto the sidewalk…
The towering trees shower autumn’s season with dappled leaves . . .
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September 19, 2007 05:17 AM EDT --
OH HOW I HATED TO GET OUT OF BED,
I NEEDED COFFEE AND SOME TOASTED BREAD;
I PEEKED OUTSIDE, THE SKY WAS RED,
TRAVELER’S TAKE WARNING, OR SO IT’S BEEN SAID. . . .
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September 07, 2007 07:17 PM EDT --
“Antiquity’s Shield”
© Barbra L.
Its jacket may be antiquated,
worn and tattered,
too.
It makes no difference
to the reader, the story’s still
brand . . .
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April 25, 2008 06:14 PM EDT --
Why Should I
Why should I go through life doing you,
Prickling my finger on thorns of rosebushes
Planted upon weeded ground;
When I can do me,
Stopping to smell the aroma of the . . .
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September 13, 2007 04:38 PM EDT --
This week, for me, has been a week of remembering the forgotten. The prisoners of war who are tucked away within the recesses of the depth of the Earth, . . .
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November 23, 2007 12:20 AM EST --
Okay, here it is, it's judgment day
I have to d o judging,
with some trepidation
on those with whom I usually play
. . .
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