April Acrostic Poems

Written: April 22, 2024 For Matt Caliri Acrostic Contest

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April showers may dampen Dallas Texas torrents glooming deluge on path way
Priceless zooming presence; shrouds blend violets and daisies blooming in May
Rain forecast an encumbered...

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Granddaughter Shaili visiting aging grandfather, Me)

Along she came in my lonely life,
Pausing me to think how important she was in my life,
Roaming in different paths,...

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      Pressed on perforated lines by a lonely playmate 
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XANADU, NOW THINKING OF YOUR APEX

ASTOUNDS MY HEART TO FIND ARCADIA

NOTION THAT A PARADISE-LIKE HEAVEN

ABOARD MY EARTH WILL GRANT UTOPIA

DELIVER ALL OUR DREAMS, ACTUALIZED

UNREALISTIC WHIMS-...

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"Let's not worry. It's too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately!"
Albert Camus


Esotericology is a fond pursuit of mine
Xenolithic feelings, I'm out of...

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Wednesday, it was; Nineteenth, exactly if I must mention
Housewives, feeding kids and pets, were getting true tension
Eastward sky grew grey; impulsively, cattle rushed homewards 
Nightingales,...

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Utterly cold waters for two southerners from Oslo.
They take our breath away when swimming. 
The land of the midnight sun and the gorgeous
Aurora lights are...

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"The sky is the soul of all scenery. It makes the earth lovely at sunrise and splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over...

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"Sometimes shadowy parts of our minds bother, intrude and narrate over our lives. But to create a shadow there must always be a light source...

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SPREADING HAPPINESS

Sharing is form of kindness, spreads Happiness.
People, usually surprised to receive. 
Readily appreciate, happy, and to be truthful,
Even more appreciated when we are the...

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Removed from people, cities and towns were we.
Enchanted by our quaint cottage, we enjoyed the scent of pine trees.
Mountains rose to our north; how fresh...

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S –haring goodness of God while His serenity spreading 
P –roduces joy as peace from the Lord keeps on pervading… 
R –evival prevails and restoration...

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Aspirations flood
Periods bloom like flowers
Raining poetry…
In a photographer’s lens
Lure of spring…gone in a flash



April 2, 2023
Contest: March into April Tankacrostic 
Host: Andrea Dietrich

Checked by: howmanysyllables...

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Another downpour
Pelting on the metal roof
Raps in crescendo ~
Incessant the reminder
Lest her nagging slips my mind

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