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Heart Afire

melita catalina warren 1949 (Kansas)

Desire equals a heart afire dancing on a high wire.
Options for honest expression: Nothing dark or dire.
One may not the choir yet dandelions still admire.
Toward lofty ideals we aspire, learning from an old friar.
Silent tongue one speaks to lift others out of the mire.
Rambling on an ancient lyre may t times inspire.

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Rhyming segment of my fantasy life.

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Written on May 22, 2022

Submitted on May 22, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABBABB
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 320
Words 62
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
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melita catalina warren

I am a senior citizen, visual artist, and inspirational poet. My spiritual quest to know Jesus Christ intimately relates to many of my rhymes. However, I also write romantic rhymes and rhymes drawing from other topics. One of my goals is to illustrate my rhymes with my original drawings. more…

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  • Dougla$Irishman
    Dougla$Irishman
    Melita the Catalina, I love your wire, dire, admire, friar, mire and inspire and`` ` afire, expire, lyre` poem. The dandelion choir, I love it
    You are a smoothie, but not ancient yet ! Poem on to great fantasies ! 
    LikeReply1 year ago

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