Bliss in Silent Waves
Written: January 22, 2026 For Gregory Richard Barden's Syncopated Cinqopet Poetry Contest
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By nightfall, gentle winds all blow,
The bright stars soar with cheerful flow.
The dreaming world at last does glow,
Soft pulses in silence wait.
The crave curbed, not fully sate.
Beneath the thin sky, the pond lies,
Where wispy reeds in languor size.
Below the waves, soft songs arise,
Lands where all its grace does dwell.
Where bliss drifts through silent swells.
An echoing palimpsest drifts.
As fancied rhythms weave all their gifts,
And cloud and clod do gently shift.
In nexus threads - web is spun.
Day gives way to setting sun.
The clangor fades to whispers mild,
A spell that calms the troubled mind.
No cure stands firm; balm reconciled,
Its core is still held through time.
In sighs, longing turns sublime.
Through hubris, catharsis takes form,
A rakish truth the tongue won’t norm.
From day is born, the rising storm,
Quintessence of time makes chime.
A bell tolls through wretched time
Tag: Elysium
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