Moving all around New friends, home, school, church, neighbors Missing permanence.
Category: Poems
Alliterations, Cacophony, Consonance, Elisions,
Diction, Homonyms, Hyberboles, Imagery, Irony,
Oxymorons, Prosody, Puns, Metaphors, Rhymes,
Synonyms, Tones, Similes and Smiles.
Morning Strudel (a Haiku)
Strawberry seeping toasty pastry melting goo too hot to pick up.
French Toast (a Haiku)
Maple syrup coats Fried eggy cinnamon bread Side of lil' smokies.
Peony (A Horatian Ode)
Dark speared leaves reach high and higher, after they burst forth from the earth. Observers... we watch... we wait. Bud soars above the greens, a soldier towering to keep watch. Until the bulbous flower brims with substance too heavy for the body. It sways... it dips and bends... eventually slumps back to earth, exhausted. Oh… Continue reading Peony (A Horatian Ode)
Friend (A Cinquain Poem)
Friend Kind, funny Supporting, crying, laughing Filled with compassion Sister.
Hunger (a Haiku)
Clenching my stomach, Gasping and writhing in pain, I need a sandwich.
A Mother Bears (a Poem)
A mother bears... Elation at a positive test. Excitement over pregnancy news. Confusion at parenting issues. Terror of health problems. Pain during labor. Euphoria when seeing her baby. Stamina through exhaustion. Delight in first steps, foods, words. Intensity to make the best decisions. Toughness in discipline. Enchantment at handmade gifts. Fervor for… Continue reading A Mother Bears (a Poem)
C.T. – my gnome character (a Limerick poem)
Christian Tompta trudged through the grass, across many obstacles did he pass, he made his first friend when he came to the end where he ran into a very sassy lass!
Dawn Marie Paul 