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Title: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May
Artist: John William Waterhouse
Year: 1909
Location: Private Collection
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J Ann Crowder

J Ann Crowder

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FREEDOM, My Words

FREEDOM, My Words

I write freedom with the sound of


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Metaphors for Joy

Metaphors for Joy

I was told while feeling sad, “tur
My heart ponders metaphors, for jo
It reaches towards Mother Nature
My heart becomes the germinating s
My soul is merely a locked door wa


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Desert Rose

Desert Rose

You grow on sandy blankets, like s
You dip toward a sky’s dotted and
You soak beneath heaven’s lampligh
Stars bow to your gaze and a dry,
You are an oasis of pungently swee


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My Bonnet

My Bonnet

A song, not sought, intruding
Robbing my fairy dust–my happy tho
A song, stomping loud and robust u
She hovers over me, a dancing bonn
What a blue, warm haven she is upo


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Frost

Frost

Frost touches tree pines, as sun s
Near, are those fairy silver-sheen
Cold, this icy bend, illuminated b
Where lakes froze, and those spiri
All is genteel & kind—quiet as tho


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Crown Shyness

Crown Shyness

In woods blown by a wind’s unharne
On those higher, mightier planes o
Such is cracked mud drinking reple
Liana climbs the art strewn canopy
Liana touches each tree-being, dra


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We Write Once More

We Write Once More

I will
Of me and I, within my heart writ
With feathered flanked pens on par
Thus words grow old and dusty; yet
Growing eternally, stamping moonli


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YOU

YOU

You were once ashes of molten, bur
Now, you are star dust bursting th
Y-O-U are diamonds forged within
You are celestial fountainheads in
You are a soothing center, rooted


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Unicorn

Unicorn

In mystic waves she floats amidst
From enchanting slumbers she arise
She travels from ocean to beach be
She is a rarity, like fallen stars
Her flauntless, spiraling headland


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Nighthawk

Nighthawk

I could smell rain saturating air,
As I sat on my concrete porch—its
As my heart quickened, I could se
I envisioned him looming in the pi
His beady eyes of black beckoning


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She Haunts Us

She Haunts Us

She hangs on my wall—a maiden of
To death she sailed away whilst wr
her hair, like spindled gold spun
She sings her mournful song with m
Her touchless dalliances rest insi


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Politics

Politics

Politics, what say ye?
May you play the game fair?
This is only a wanton wish
A fools hope
My hope


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Live

Live

These moments, I love, in tranqui
Ever a dream rising in life’s blis
Dreams may weigh heavy in our long
Such heaviness leaves us distraugh
Yet, there is no need for hopeless


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Sleepless

Sleepless

Sleepless, I am
As a breathless, stainless night t
Noises of my house awaken
My pillow is a rock beneath my res
Dreams awaite me, sifting through


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BIRTH

BIRTH

Spring was our birth
A season of airy hycinths and viol
Summer produced a jungle
A juncture, wild and spellbound by
Autumn relinquished a solemn breez


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Black Swan Beauty

Black Swan Beauty

I am a transformative swan of deep
I sing with gentle muses on Apoll
In many a dream, I dance with gra
My inky, starless hues are a vast
In a suffering, aphotic morose, my


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THE END

THE END

Starting anew
With wishes and stars
With new lives and living tabernac
With new shorlines glowing underne
A glimmer


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Sublimity

Sublimity

We argue of creation and God’s tr
In her perfection she denotes
With each star synchronized, in ha
For one alteration could cause a d
Her science surely precise, as ear


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Shangri-la Tides

Shangri-la Tides

I, so long for Shangri-la tides c
My heart's deepest whims thus desi
Therein I walk roads gold, herald
Jasper, jeweled by jade forests an
Sappheiros, a holy stone wisely ad


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A Wolf in Shadows

A Wolf in Shadows

A wolf follows me, his musky, onyx
He’s always there, with a simperin
I envision his bite venomous, like
He is my fear trapped within, my d
His venom is the poison of thought


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From Dust and Ash

From Dust and Ash

A thunder and lightning's dance st
Life moving swiftly, like drifting
’Tis the luster of a barren wilder
Thus, she dreams of what hides wit
Dashing to corners strewn by unpav


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Yellowstone

Yellowstone

2 bear stops, of grizzly grey and
Mamma Black, and cubs, enjoying a
Geysers bubble; pressure ignited
Hot boiling dew rises as bison tak
Springs run hot


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Stories of My Grandfather

Stories of My Grandfather

During my childhood, stories were
He was young when he went to war,
Many missions he flew, dropping bo
A miracle he survived—Distinguish
Hero sung and honored—exemplified


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My, Orchid Blue

My, Orchid Blue

Many an Orchid ’tis fair and choi
Many anew, florid with rosy, blush
Betimes, simply bearing brightness
She is efflorescent and oft gently
We walk jungle cliffs overlooking


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I, Sleep on Moons

I, Sleep on Moons

I imagine I’m sitting
On the edge of moons
Seeing what is to become
My future
If only we could see what befalls


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Wind

Wind

Ah, a transient, elusive wind—movi
Oh, how I wonder from whence and
Warm
Hot
Cold


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Window to My Soul

Window to My Soul

The inner me is never simplistic
I am filled with miraculous wonder
My eyes lift as open windows, reve
Evil no longer conceals its naked
I rise through timbers burning wit


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Baby Boy

Baby Boy

Baby boy, you write essesnses of j
Tis’ truest melodies of love—joy s
No word to describe this feeling o
As your long awaited arrival has f
Our eyes gaze upon each other mome


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Transfiguration

Transfiguration

Hope is a design of expanding, uto
Hope is a genteel medicine of fair
’Tis magick
An emblem of authentic truth in wh
By and by, vibrantly cherished joy


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A Vision

A Vision

Magic, like sparkling dews falling
In her
Compassionate, mother
She nourishes with fruitful fortit
Tranquil, mother


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émigré

émigré

They are the banished and branded;
Castoff like stones plucked into w
Coalesced,
Fleeing
Indignantly hunted


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With Thine Heart

With Thine Heart

To this be true, with thine heart
Live always for a rose’s breath up
Live for hands gentle and voices c
Live for kind words dancing with c
To warm lips and admiring eyes be


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Tīgras

Tīgras

Drawn with a burnished ink—a Tige
An illuminating spirit of élan ele
An agile grace unseen in cloaking
A quiet gallop of balletic grace
His eyes like lanterns in sanguine


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Old Birch Tree

Old Birch Tree

•From the genus Betula; (Betula a
I enjoy a quacking aspen, a larch,
Yet, none I enjoy more than a Bet
’Twas nightly moons gleaming-away,
Serenity, amongst a scurry of nigh


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Extinction

Extinction

Hearts beating their final round—l
Spring gullies dipping into nature
Nigh, approaching the inevitable f
’Tis a beautiful fate!
Wooded gardens I admire


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What is Earth?

What is Earth?

What is Earth?
Earth is but a parceled reef, pung


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