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Pretty May
le mai le joli mai en barque sur le Rhin... G. Apollinaire, Mai may pretty may in a boat on the Rhine... G. Apollinaire, May Looking for poetry, haikus, or any prose that celebrates beauty in the month of May. I would like to hear about regional beauty like the jacarandas in Los Angeles, or about a poignant moment, perhaps at a grave on Memorial Day. What makes May pretty for you? As I'm all for brevity, please keep it under 500 words.
Ended May 27, 2023 • 3 Entries • Created by KyleSmithLaird
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le mai le joli mai en barque sur le Rhin... G. Apollinaire, Mai may pretty may in a boat on the Rhine... G. Apollinaire, May Looking for poetry, haikus, or any prose that celebrates beauty in the month of May. I would like to hear about regional beauty like the jacarandas in Los Angeles, or about a poignant moment, perhaps at a grave on Memorial Day. What makes May pretty for you? As I'm all for brevity, please keep it under 500 words.
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GerardDiLeo

As the Ecliptic Turns: May

Every eight minutes I'm bathed in light

One month along our world's ecliptic

23 degrees align so right

Toward biochemistry eclectic

Pheromones precipitate

Out of proteins to which they're bound

Hormones exacerbate

Ushering each, to others, found

The month brings the wind

Blowing the cautions that are thrown

To let debauchery out from in

For reaping wild oats sown

A special photosynthesis

Angles with lighted, lusty slivers

Unique to those days of fickleness

Igniting the takers and givers

Knowledge of good and evil

And committing acts right or wrong

Are not products of moral upheaval

But airs, Earth, orbits along

Verdancy in May is more than green

And Spring is more than time

Ambrosia in the æther machine

That lets us savour sublime

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Pretty May
le mai le joli mai en barque sur le Rhin... G. Apollinaire, Mai may pretty may in a boat on the Rhine... G. Apollinaire, May Looking for poetry, haikus, or any prose that celebrates beauty in the month of May. I would like to hear about regional beauty like the jacarandas in Los Angeles, or about a poignant moment, perhaps at a grave on Memorial Day. What makes May pretty for you? As I'm all for brevity, please keep it under 500 words.
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7v7

Mayflowers

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Asterisks that have Blossomed

. . . . You at the Margins . . . .

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05.24.2023

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Pretty May
le mai le joli mai en barque sur le Rhin... G. Apollinaire, Mai may pretty may in a boat on the Rhine... G. Apollinaire, May Looking for poetry, haikus, or any prose that celebrates beauty in the month of May. I would like to hear about regional beauty like the jacarandas in Los Angeles, or about a poignant moment, perhaps at a grave on Memorial Day. What makes May pretty for you? As I'm all for brevity, please keep it under 500 words.
Michellemaq

May

May is a month of sunshine. A month to pamper your mother or to remember her if she's no longer there. May is a month to memorialize our soldiers. May is a month of sunshine and flowers. May is a month to cherish what we have. We begin with May Day and we end with Memorial Day. In the middle there is everything from Teacher Appreciation Day, Cinco De Mayo, National No Pants Day (quite a fun one), Mother's Day, Peace Officer's Memorial Day (I didn't know about), National Missing Children's Day, International Hug Your Cat Day and National Smile Day. The Month of May is filled with days to remember and make you just feel good. It is a month of sunshine and happiness. So get out your sunglasses and get ready for a fun filled month. Even if there are people you are missing whether it be a mother, a grandmother or a family member that served in the military there are ways to remember them in a way that would make them. happy as well!