Abates Poems

spirit breath abates

monarch fragile tests my mask

          welcome threshold stay


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Dreams,desires,bitter so sweet
An adolescent trail trodden,
Engulfed by moods,melancholy and sudden;
Aches from a first love leaving,
Painful yet poignant;
Novel experience sadden,then abates
Then will gladden
As mellowed..anticipation awaits....Read More

As the trees' shiver with delight
at the fresh autumn breeze,
The cycle of life has met 
his match with her.

Her cloak now adorned with all
the fallen acorns,
while gently the sun abates
for less to see.

Its sensual warmth no longer felt
by lovers in...Read More

Shimmering stars through barren trees –
I see far as the eye can see!
For clouds are in and snuggled tight,
reveling in this midnight sky.

Others join, as one by one,
each darkened house awaits the sun;
they slumber as the night doth play
and prosper...Read More

The splayed light of an obliging red sunset
lays upon the darkening meadow
of windswept grass

Slow-moving fingers in a visible dance
wrap in quiet space
when moonlight, silhouettes our hands
as they bond

A falling star etches the night sky
burning its canvas like a struck match
vanishing...Read More

Anybody
Answerable
As
Anarchy
Arrives
After
Apathy
Accrues
And
Action
Abates?
All 
Affected.
Aspirations
Annihilated.
Armageddon
Anticipated.

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28 October 2019 *2nd Place*
Tautogram Poems Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Eve Roper
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Your flame melts tears into the pool of wax
that remains in the filigreed dish that was your life,
growing ever dimmer as I gaze into your aged eyes,
those familiar eyes, the brilliant blue, graying
where time yet lurks as discarded shades of...Read More

soft light waves within
a heart of crystalline rays
the darkness abates-
bright vision of flame combusts
angel orbs dispel the haze


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The splayed light of an obliging red sunset
lays upon the darkening meadow
of windswept grass
Slow-moving fingers in a visible dance 
wrap in quiet space
when moonlight silhouettes our hands as they bond

A falling star etches the night sky
burning its canvas like a...Read More

J-ust
O-penly
S-ee
H-ow
U-nity
A-bates

R-age
O-f
D-ivided
R-ace
I-f
G-roup
U-nloads
E-gotism
Z-one

Topic: Birthday of Joshua Rodriguez (August 18)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...Read More

Uneasy and queasy cos my TV set
Is showing another celebrity vet
My legs are crossed tight, just as tight as they get
Has that little dog lost his testicles yet

While eating my lunch, or was it my dinner
The cat on the screen...Read More

They guide her up two wooden stairs;
         One on either side
         bracing worn feeble arms.

         She...Read More

M-orn's
E-arly
L-ight
A-bates
N-ight
I-n
O-pen

P-icture
A-s
N-ewness
U-ses
G-low
A-gain

Topic: Birthday of Melanio Panuga (November 30) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...Read More

K-eep 
E-ndorsing 
N-ice 
N-ewness 
I-n 
A-pparent 

V-iew 
O-f 
N-ature 
A-s 

E-arly 
M-orn 
A-bates 
N-ight 

Topic: Birthday of Kennia Vona M. Eman (November 30) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...Read More

With the eye popped he seemed ugly
Mimicking the stinking diabolical
Image of the unimaginable hungry
Whose head the slug left unstable

The slug left the shell with mucus
To end into the seas of darkness
Where he swam the wagging focus
Whose empty shell spent relentless

As...Read More

 As the trees' shiver with delight in the fresh Autumn breeze
 the cycle of life meets her match, she walks on , my She...
 She wears a velvet cloak adorned with cocoa shaded acorns
 and as the gentle sun...Read More

R-ays
O-f
S-un
E-merge

A-s
N-atural
N-ewness

A-bates
R-ain
E-ndorsing
V-ivid
A-nd
L-ovely
O-penness

Topic: Birthday of Rose Ann M. Arevalo (December 29) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...Read More

While rummaging, mining,
and distilling me gray matter,
stoking mentality activates
oft time surprising me,
where unexpected novel

cognizance never abates,
I experienced becoming
linkedin with cosmic fates,
sans collective unconscious
soul of the universe,
and chanced to espy,

(albeit only a trimmed speck),
the spirit of William Butler Yeats
considered one of...Read More

When spring is like the dawning sun
through frosted panes anticipate
the morning after winter's done.

In vernal womb where life's begun
the anxious babes of summer wait
when spring is like the dawning sun.

Another lace of frost is spun,
the doily art, so brief, abates
the...Read More

R-adiant
H-ope
E-ndorses
A-nother

C-hance
A-s
D-awn
A-bates
W-ind
A-nd
S-torm

Topic: Birthday of Rhea Cadawas (November 12)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...Read More

B-ehold
E-arly
R-adiant
N-ewness
A-ft er
R-ainy
D-ark
I-s
N-egated
A-s

T-winkle
A-bates
Y-our
A-nguished
G-ray

Topic: Birthday of Bernardina Tayag (November 09)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...Read More

The Devil’s watch has started and the time is consummate
A strange and tranquil calmness mocks our terrifying wait
There, just beyond our window moves like fearsome reprobates
A pair of tortuous demons meant all Hell to perpetrate
We will not yield in panic!...Read More

S-un
H-as
E-agerly
R-elieved
Y-our
L-oneliness

A-s
G-low
U-nder
I-lluminate
L-ight
A-bates
N-ight

Topic: Birthday of Sheryl Aguilan (October 24) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...Read More

I-n
V-ividness
Y-ou

R-ejoice
O-ver
S-orrowful
E-vening's

D-isappearance
A-s
S-unlight
A-bates
N-ight

Topic: Birthday of Ivy Rose Dasan (October 09) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...Read More

When streets are all covered with snow 
There's one thing I surely do know.
In order to stomp
On the snow hills and romp 
You need snow boots wherever you go.

Your toes will stay cozy and dry 
Even if more flakes fall...Read More