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Night Light ( Cinquain )

Stresses Per Line The first line has one stress, which was usually iambic meter with the first syllable unstressed and the second stressed. Line two has two stresses. Line three has three stresses. Line four has four stresses. Line five has one stress. Syllables Per Line Following the invention of this form, Crapsey made changes to the form and included a certain number of syllables per line. Line one had two syllables. Line two had four syllables. Line three had six syllables. Line four had eight syllables. Line five had two syllables. There are other forms of cinquain but I liked this one.

My Dream

We should listen to our dreams.

Sixty Blues

I'm real gone like the sixty blues Change came along but I said refuse Cause I dig the sixties still walking in my shoes It's a beat like hey man here's the jive You know everybody knows it's hip to be alive Living life is a work of art Paint

Dante: nature is the art of God

(or the unwitting brilliance of someone who didn't know it) you never walked.. 'twas more the curve of the earth.. found a mooring.. in the shape of your foot you never sang..' twas more a distillation of vibrated yearning.. and what emerged..

BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH

I was half awake and half asleep the other morning and I saw this with my eyes closed. Believe it or not - it's up to you.

I CAN'T REMEMBER -- author unknown

I'm 70years old, I read this poem for the first time when I was about 8, my mother had got it from a friend at work.

ballad of a backwards playing jukebox

I'm going down to the record station.. I'm gonna buy me a backwards jukebox.. I'm going to play all my favourite songs wearing nothing.. but my hat and my socks and listen to Blaze.. as he sings every song.. ending to start.. and ill get all my s

You gotta love him.

It's not about what's on the outside.

Turn On A Dime

Turn on a dime and look my way Put on the brakes my baby If you believe that music is in the air Give love a chance it's only fair Add your change to the jukebox And play your favorite goldilocks song Take my hand for this dance As we move

Easter Traditions

I colored my Easter eggs this morning.

School

This story was one of the biggest of the last century. Unfortunately, it still is being repeated in different ways in different cities and small towns all over this country.

Ain't no Bananas on Mars

The uniqueness of Earth..

No One's Gonna Mention The Time

It doesn't take money to write It doesn't take success to rhyme But it takes a good heart to be polite And no one's gonna mention the time It doesn't take money to look at a blue sky It doesn't take advice to walk by a clear stream But it tak

No One's Gonna Mention The Time

poem was edited

The Last Of Days

In years gone by people knew why Men were men And women were women The compass point use to say Jesus saves Now it's been thrown away And no one wants to find it in the last of days Now it's a text message race A rocket ship to mars And m

HAUNTING SEARCH

Different to the types of subjects I normally write about. Up late one night ...

No ideal answer

There is no ideal answer to life's dilemmas or its demise No ultimate thought or idea or eloquent word to enlighten our eyes All there are but perceptions and often projections Just individual interjections hoping somehow we can pause for

That thing you want to try

ALONENESS

Aloneness is different from loneliness It is an occasion for personal growth It gives an insight into humanness And helps us realize our self worth Being with others continually Denies us from ever having a chance To look at ourselves objecti

notes on a woman

you know the summer's fading.. and the night is getting cold.. there's an east wind in the harbour.. and lord knows I'm getting old.. and my work it takes me everywhere.. and nowhere fast and slow.. it takes a man to plough an acre.. it takes a w

Plutonic Temple

Should anyone read it, bear in mind that it is art, an expression of it through writing. It was however inspired by my initial awakening & how unsettling & awkward it was in the inability to convey something I did not yet understand. They say the more you learn, the crazier you will sound & the more intelligent a person actually is, the lonelier the life they live. I do not accept that answer. Life is experienced in the way you yourself choose to experience it just as people treat us only how we allow ourselves to be treated. Knowledge is power, truly. Once the buzz is felt from the power, from that point on.......it is now addiction.

Heaven is near

Tell the moon and tell the sun There's life and love when we are one Heaven is near Heaven is near Showers of light and love will shine like the mourning dove in kind Heaven is near no more fear Tell the mountains and the sea it's all

Fire of Love

If I could feel your body close to mine. I think it would take my breath away. To feel your lips upon mine. Is a dream where I wish to stay. We are locked together in the dance of life. No wish to be free. Just you and me. Looking like cut ou

Natural Balance

Inspired by reality of a dream. She is a myth, a fable. Over the decades & many many an expedition, I have encountered Bigfoot twice now in my lifelong quest to find the "one" That should tell you something in a world plunged into the sea of never ending temptation & opportunity.

Don’t drop me in it

Men, what are they like?

the cowboy and the mermaid

there's a golden sun on a spinning wheel there's a yellow fleck in a pan full of steel there's the fire I spat and the breath I once drew there's work that I'm doing and the work that I do there's a girl, half fish singing songs abo

canderel

Your just like canderel, the artificial sweetener. full of shite I dont understand. not real and leave's a bitter after tasting pill. need double the amount just to compensate. dissolves in second's, but remains. that slightly unnatural feeling it p

Lyin eyes

For the many lies we say to avoid hurting one another of the truth.

The pain of love

When the pain of love is just too much that eventually one needs a crutch to hold together the pieces of a fragmented heart When nothing seems to matter As that last desperate effort to salvage what is left We are still in bereft When

Sarah Montague

Every week day at one p.m. the object of my heart’s desire hosts a news programme on the radio.

Dinosaurs on a Plane

I love the movies that have animals attacking people. The best scene in Jurassic Park was when the Trex ate the lawyer sitting on the toilet.

THE DIVER

world of alice: walrus and the oysters

Nuance

June 8, 1982.

She Whispers..

About the heart that cannot receive the gift of love..

Odd Man Out

To see someone these days whose attention is not completely monopolised by their phone is quite a novelty.

Out Live The Snakes

There once was an old man who lived a long life I asked what his secret could be he answered polite He said this answer might not sound so great But pray you live a long life so you can out live the snakes Snakes will bite you and train little

I Will Wait For You

You are the most beautiful woman to ever grace the face of this earth... Only God Himself will ever know just how much I love you... For there are no words in existence that can describe my love for you... I fear that it is only in heaven that I m

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls

I’ve borrowed the title from Longfellow’s poem “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls.” As Macduff says: "Sometimes we just have to commit if we are to stay vaguely in control of things," in control of our life.

Made Of Paper And Pen

From writer to reader How would I know what to say I know you're looking for something But how to be carried away For I'm not talented No major breakthrough words around the bend From writer to reader I'm only made of paper and pen Perhap

the sea

be it in the tumble aft the winch or out the bow in winter's pinch my heart oft seeks the raven tide in floating cabin I reside bearded, wild quick tempered be my natural place is on the sea my northern star her memory the anch

Fairground Memory

A memory of the fairground back in the sixties.