Ageless Designs
Graceful
classy stanzas,
a theme with good posture.
She’s a fresh Capricorn poet.
Walking
with a metaphor on her head,
stubborn refrains...
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Categories:
emotions, feelings, january, poetry,
Form: Cinquain
January FlowerJANUARY 2023
You keep checking the date,
Like the days can pass in hours.
And you know you'll be bitter if you miss it.
Just keep checking the time you fool.
But the days can pass in hours,
And you keep counting the months,
Because you know that delusion is better than honesty.
You know that the days pass in hours, you fool....
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Categories:
january, love,
Form: Blank verse
Christmas Is Five Days DeadEvergreen corpses strewn on sidewalks
like victims of plague,
still adorned with specks of tinsel
abandoned and forlorn
once welcome houseguests now in the street
never to greet another New Year
all the presents unwrapped
put in proper place
beside last years loot of
sweaters, records and notebooks
never got written in
nothing to drink and no money for the bar
the food all...
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Categories:
january, bereavement, christmas, december, depression,
Form: Free verse
Freyja put to shamepale blue
Polar vortex/
pre-dawn light, puce, gold glow/
no match, She trades Her mere myth for
the Depth...
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Categories:
beauty, faith, growth, january,
Form: Cinquain
Woodsmoke in the WindMy long-lost winter is here
Even if it has not snowed,
For by and by, woodsmoke is near
Drifting slow across the road
A most distinctive scent
It carries to the nose,
Up, up a chimney vent
Where a fireplace glows
Quite pleasant, yet strong
This scent I do remember,
Though it lasts not long
From many a dying ember
The season's sure sign
Where a chill...
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Categories:
january, appreciation, december, february, fire,
Form: Rhyme
My January Fix Brought February's Kick8x8x8x8 Poetry Contest
Charles Messina
So here we are in the new year
Throw confetti wishes and cheer
January opened its doors nicely
Merry old me entered modestly
Shook the monkey off my back
Took his banana in place of a snack
How losing a few pounds inspires
Now I can climb the tree of desires...
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Categories:
january, celebration, desire, health,
Form: Rhyme
Gifts of the Winter WitchA venetian red yearling’s head
Pops up
From behind a fallen log
Licks rouge from its lips
And the syrup sipped from dark maple bark
Ears tweaking
To the snow-crunch creak
Of my dog and me approaching
From down the trail
Forest
Tamed by these trampled snow-winding paths
The deer doesn’t flinch
Up ahead
Top of the trash receptacle
Is aflutter with cardinals and sparrows
Though observed
The object has not...
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Categories:
angel, animal, earth, january,
Form: Free verse
January 1973January 27, 1973
I was sitting in the barracks
yelling and screaming echoed through the halls
sirens blaring, horns blowing, fireworks popping;
the war was over
...
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Categories:
january, war,
Form: Free verse
Never Abandon Stellar AmbitionsWhoosh. Whoosh.
A fire beneath steel,
The engines burn, the heavens kneel.
Thrum.
The pulse of courage, the beating heart,
Each mission a daring work of art.
Seven names on Challenger’s sky,
They rose with dreams, they dared to fly.
Crack. Pop. Boom.
The frost betrayed,
A cloud of grief where hope once stayed.
Seven more on Columbia’s flame,
Mach fifteen carried their names.
Hiss.
The breach unseen, the...
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Categories:
january, appreciation, death, february, hero,
Form: Rhyme
JanuaryIn whispered hushes, the year awakes,
A canvas fresh, where dreams will take.
January’s breath, crisp and clear,
A brushstroke bold in time’s frontier.
Fireworks bloom in velvet skies,
Dreams ignited, hopes aimed high.
Resolutions inked in hearts anew,
Paths imagined, leading through.
Snow-clad earth, Winter’s delight,
A **Wonderland** bathed in silver light.
Frosted panes hold tales yet to be told,
While ambered hearths shield us...
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Categories:
appreciation, beauty, celebration, january,
Form: Rhyme
Wretched emasculated celibate anchoriteWretched emasculated celibate anchorite
(any relationship between the following poem and living persons -
namely the writer of these words ranks as purely coincidental and fictitious).
nevertheless he suffers existential blight
covered head to toe
in black and blue bruises
linkedin wherein
yours truly (himself) did self flagellate,
less for religious reasons,
than cuz he felt contrite
about his mein kampf and hard times,
where purpose...
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Categories:
january, adventure, allegory, animal, atheist,
Form: Free verse
My music adventureMay 2024, when I decided to stay away,
To help keep my feelings at bay.
I found a piano at this place.
Started practicing, thinking of impressing someone.
Now, the friendship has long gone.
I continue to play the piano at many places.
That was how my music adventure started.
Today, while playing at MC,
Something amazing happened.
A young man stood by and...
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Categories:
feelings, happy, january, money,
Form: Free verse
As Children Watch the Florida Sky: 38 Years Gone ByTick-tick.
The countdown starts,
Dreams ignite in hopeful hearts.
Eyes so wide, they cannot stray,
The Florida sky calls them to stay.
Whoosh. Whoosh.
A rocket’s flame,
A silver arrow carves its name.
Thirty-eight years, yet echoes ring,
Of seven souls who chased the spring.
Boom. Boom.
The morning cracked,
A plume of white, the silence stacked.
“What happened?” they cried, young voices shake,
As innocence crumbles with the...
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Categories:
january, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Winter Jasmine
Sweetness is a Jasmine January
Seeds its scent along the inkberry
Starflowers streaming a fecund path
I bask in a heavenly perfumed bath
Winter bouquets an Elysian Field sanctuary
Jasmine scents ladies of the night
Jazzman ticklin’...
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Categories:
january,
Form: Rhyme
My first posted poemThursday, 2025.1.16
Happy birthday to my sister.
She turns a mile stone at the new corner.
Now she earns the title of being a senior.
Congratulations to you, my sister.
Congratulations to me too.
Today, I was introduced the Poetry's world.
I started to post my poems,
Few days later, my first piece of work,
Was listed in "This Week's Featured poems".
It was read...
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Categories:
appreciation, birthday, january, poems,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of January Poems
Definition | What is January in Poetry?