The Beauty of Change

“Beauty is change; change is beauty.”
               ~Quote by poet ~

A crystal dew glistens … on a thin blade of grass,
And sighs bruising her eyes, feeling the rising sun;
Grins a bubbling bud of rose, at withering glass
Of dew … and cheers the rising sun to haste his run.

A wriggling worm tiptoes toward a wrinkling rose,
And hisses she may sleep in a pretty casket,
And mimics, he can read an elegiac prose,
Or she can ride with him in a ... bamboo basket.

Picks a magpie the wriggling worm on its swift flight,
An attribute to Bacchus, the lover of wine,
A swift runner this magpie is, the prince of night;
I dream of him lying dead with his broken spine,

And a day’s mirage of beauty, ends with sun's fall
Into a dead end, losing his glamour of reign, 
Mocking at clamour of men, draping a gray pall
On the coffin of day’s beauty, saying, “in vain”.  

A crystal dew glistens … on a thin blade of grass;
A wriggling worm tiptoes toward a wrinkling rose;
Picks a magpie the wriggling worm on its swift flight,
And a day’s mirage of beauty, ends with sun's fall.


Syllabic count: 12 in each line (Ref. howmanysyllables.com)

March 8, 2021
ALL YOURS (Mar 9) Poetry Contest
Contest sponsor: Brian Strand 

*A 1st Place* in the following contest (Judged on Dec. 13, 2020)

Dec. 1, 2020
My Created Form Poetry Contest
Contest Sponsor: Constant La France

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Date: 12/15/2020 4:00:00 PM
Newton, congratulations on your win in my Created Form- Rhyme4-Mix Contest with this excellent poem, I like your quote too _Constance
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Date: 12/15/2020 4:25:00 PM
Thank you so much, Constance, for the great comment and the placement!!
Date: 12/13/2020 6:42:00 PM
Wow! Beautiful portrayal through words :)
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Date: 12/13/2020 6:50:00 PM
Thank you so much, US, for this great comment!!
Date: 12/13/2020 2:54:00 PM
WoW!Newton, What a beautiful well-written write and vibrant nature write! Your imagery is so vivid! Everything is lovely. Congratulations on your 1st place win. Have a great day:-) Alexis
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Date: 12/13/2020 3:39:00 PM
Thank you so much, Alexis, for this impressively great comment and the congrats!!
Date: 12/5/2020 8:15:00 AM
I like the repeating of the first lines as the last stanza of this very descriptive work. Thanks for all the visits to my page ..Sara
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Date: 12/5/2020 3:50:00 PM
Thank you so much, Sara, for this impressively encouraging and sweet comment!!
Date: 12/4/2020 2:48:00 AM
A superb creation Newton, it’s a changing world that’s constantly twirling, so many beauteous wonders unfurling... Belle
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Date: 12/4/2020 6:30:00 AM
Thank you so much, Belle, for this immensely great comment!!
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