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“The
earth
laughs
in flowers.”
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~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Elfje: (Cinquain)
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luminous
shadowy light
deep inner glow
filmy but subtly translucent
opalescent
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Tanka: 5-7-5, 7-7
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loved to distraction
awful close to smothering
you cannot own them
too jealous is a sickness
room to breathe does much better
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Poem:
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act your age
I don’t know how
I’ve never been this age before
am I supposed to act like a bore
it is not an act, I think I am real
I know I am not a very big deal
I’m just glad to be little old me
a soul that is happy, joyous and free
getting old has not been fun
that and too many things left undone
will the circus ever come back to town
do you have to grow up if you are a clown
in the beginning the sun will rise
all of nature will look to the skies
when all is done the sun will set
each day a deadly game of roulette
today I’ll act the way I want to act
regardless of my age, and that is a fact
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ME and the Boss
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