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Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Thank you: 5 of 83

A Thank You to My Sister, Tanya A message in a bottle just to let you know some things, Like the joy that you and all your creativity brings. It's a treat to be the subject of your keen artistic vision, I understand the motive when you feel you're on a mission. I share in your excitement when you're planning a surprise, It i...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Birthdays: 11 of 93

My 40th Birthday Weekend A special thank you to the man who claims my heart The one who gave my 40's quite a start There aren't words enough to tell you How I appreciate all that you do But I''ll take a chance and with these words impart My thanks to you for teaching me of patience That letting someone who cares take hold th...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: The alphabet: 4 of 31

Aging Beauty Condemning Death's Eagerness Forgetting Glorious Heaven's Irrefutable Justification Keep Lamenting Manipulate Naught Obliterate Pagan Quests Relish Subsistence Tomorrow's Ulterior Verdict Waits X-ray Your Zealousness
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Animal stories for children: 20 of 99

Norman The Nightingale Way up high, on a leafy, green branch of a weeping willow tree, sat three young nightingales. Their names were Harmony, Melody, and Norman. These little nightingales, as silly as they were, all tried to be the best at what nightingales do...sing! When Harmony sang, the notes dripped down through the ai...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Response to Katherine Mansfield's Miss Brill: 1 of 1

The Maddening Musings Of My Mind Must Go The maddening musings of my mind must go, Enduring, existing, subsisting through you; Emancipate me from this course full of woe. Surrogate living yields all that I know, Sustaining the eclipse of reality's view; The maddening musings of my mind must go. Fate deals your hand, so comme...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Infidelity: 15 of 23

Burning thoughts Breathless secrets Passionate whispers in the sapphire shadows Diffusing faint cries of blue velvet desire
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Father's Day: 103 of 123

You've lent us your ears For goodbyes and hellos You've listened intently To our troubles and woes You've heard all our jokes Our stories and lines Lots of laughter and crying And yelling and whines When your hearing got bad You sought help for your ears It worked really well and it lasted for years But those aids they've wo...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Inspired by Shakespeare: 17 of 20

Female's Felicitous Feedback If just one man, would just truth tell, And lead me not to the depths of hell, It would not take a wealth of things For me to claim the love he brings. I don't crave blossoms wrought by rape Of nature's miraculous landscape, Nor yearn for frocks from sheep well shorn, If he delights in ME, what's...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Facing life: 179 of 189

We are growing... Growing older, Taking bolder steps in life. Coping with our grief and strife. Shedding tears to make way for the smiles, The miles of laughter, Which only come after, The madness, The sadness we feel. We are facing, Not replacing, The loneliest lonely. We are only what we are, Not too far from what we were,...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: My mama: 4 of 4

Mama fading Mama dying Years of sacrifices consumed your body Mama forgiving Mama loving Angel eyes welcome you