Tag: poetry
member name: Barbra L.
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June 11, 2009 12:31 PM EDT --
Tatting: Queen Anne's Lace ~ Triolet
Queen Anne tats white, tiny clusters
Of lace without synthetic yarn.
Even through riotous blusters
Queen Anne tats white, . . .
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November 17, 2009 02:09 PM EST --
“November”
October’s surly winds now cease their gusts
As cooler wintry days are ushered in . . .
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November 09, 2009 06:58 PM EST --
"Transformation"
A bright, colorful day
evanesces from Gadsden.
Hues imitating jubilant kaleidoscopes
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April 19, 2008 07:48 PM EDT --
Gossip
Round and round it goes;
Where it stops, nobody knows.
Rampant, vile, vicious lies,
Roll around tongues, pretentious in guise.
Circulate within a domain . . .
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January 11, 2007 07:31 PM EST --
“Panthers”
Black stealthy creatures
Whiskered sensors like radar
Noiselessly rove by
ã 07 Barbra L
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January 18, 2007 11:23 AM EST --
Exuberant rays
Sun, coddle me in your warmth
Target my cold heart
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May 23, 2007 10:18 PM EDT --
My poem is about a mighty ship and its crew who come up against a horrific storm at sea. I’ve used the term ‘tar baby’ throughout because it means a very troublesome situation, . . .
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June 10, 2007 10:21 PM EDT --
“Particular Memories”
Particular memories jolt our senses,
Like Parker House rolls and white picket fences.
Tall parfait glasses with short, rounded stems
And sparkling stones that . . .
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July 08, 2007 09:39 PM EDT --
“Persistent Asperity”
Percussive hail permeates my senses
As it daunts with persistent asperity.
Its all-pervading attempts to insult ~
I perceive with perfect . . .
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October 18, 2007 09:05 PM EDT --
Courtesy Encarta ® World English Dictionary:
*paranomasia; pun: a play on words, especially a pun [Late 16th century. Via Latin from, ultimately, Greek paronomazein , literally “to name differently,” . . .
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November 21, 2007 09:18 PM EST --
“The Menu for Tomorrow”
By Barbra L.
It is Thanksgiving Eve! What is on the men u for tomorrow?
A men ities of yesteryear
From which our souls . . .
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January 12, 2008 12:02 PM EST --
*The message I'm hoping to convey with the senryu duo, is the battle of the mind that can ensue, once our suspicions are aroused. Betrayal is a great nemesis, and one of our greatest . . .
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June 28, 2008 08:43 PM EDT --
"Parting"
How striking our ties,
our quickened senses;
our broken hearts,
our recompenses.
We'll add to the waters
a floodgate . . .
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October 25, 2008 12:44 PM EDT --
" Memories of Apple Butter Making" - A Short Mémoire
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November 10, 2008 09:51 PM EST --
A Wrapped Refrain style of poetry by Jan Turner @ shadowpoetry.com consists of:
2 or more stanzas of 6 lines each
an 8,8,8,8,12,12 - syllable count per line . . .
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December 11, 2008 04:50 PM EST --
WE WHO SANG...
Ring around the rosy
A pocketful of posies
Ashes, Ashes
We all fall down...
Recall the imagery of pigtail plaits, missing . . .
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March 22, 2008 06:29 PM EDT --
If I could ,
I'd like to lay out my memories for you, on a vast table,
And sort through them, like pictures.
I would choose the ones I loved,
And discard . . .
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May 21, 2008 09:06 PM EDT --
"WAR IS SELDOM WITHOUT LOSS"
S oldiers
of daring boldness, intrepid . . .
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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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January 31, 2007 06:02 PM EST --
Pretty circled moon
Full disclosure becomes you
Crescent phase curves you
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