Category: Cherita
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Calixta
This Cherita was written for Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday but I failed to read the guidelines carefully. This should have been written in Tanka, Haiku, Senryu, Haibun, Etheree or Cinquain poetry forms. Ooops! Here’s mine anyway: Calixta bewitched her men as they dreamt, making them burn and ache with desire; craving her touch, her warmth. They…
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A Cherita: Still
Did you know that you still make my heart flip and fly like a trapeze artist without a net?
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The Live Oak
the old live oak dripping with Spanish moss and tenderly inscribed with our initials gentle and forever to the stars and back
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The Love Song: A Cherita
You are the love song My heart sings Silently, weeping itself to sleep it knows you’re in love without me.
aka, The Abject Muse 