If discipline be righteous let me stray but for a while
And beg the Fates indulgence on the morrow
For surely cruel as fate can be
There's kindness in the breast for he that
Strays in ways gods envy and admire
If heaven smile the while you dally
Lost in that space none dared precede
It can't but wonder how creation
Dwelling under heaven's folly
Follows on the path you have created
Hearts together beating as two within one breast
Facing love with nothing in between
One casting from the mold the gods broke on request
The fate not resting til it wrest from Chronos
Moments precious lost in time now found
Lives entwined as flames no quenching thirst can hold
So bright the night can hold no purchase on the soul
Hearts aflight would light now holding fast against the darkness
Which would swallow and consume that light most richly blest
Whose purchase can outshine all heavens gold
see her, you see
That distant part of me
Never to be lonely
In the mind of my "one and only"
Omare in her sight
Feelings are aflight
Jousting for attention
try as i might
She will not ignore me
Nore has she ceased caring
Transparency of my love
I am undeserving see
I'll always love my bonny girl
So fair and lovely, beautiful
I'll always dream of her and I
And write her name up in the sky
With a little airplane, orange and white
That doesn't reach too great a height
But high enough so she can't see
The pilot there is none but me
It's me alright and how she'd know
Is because I'd never want to go
I'd write all day without a shout
'Til just before my gas ran out
And when once more the plane did land
I'd tie it down there at it's stand
And recall back upon the day
When I took her flying city way
The same small plane that day was flown
That now I fly just me alone
And think of her then when I do
And pretend she's sitting in there too
Next time though she'll sit next to me
I'll hold her hand and we'll sightsee
Instead of hearts drawn in the sky
Inside that plane two hearts will fly
No matter how the wind blows,
As long as you're here I feel like time slows.
In my heart this love overflows,
Your name that's etched in my heart still glows.
I don't want to spend a lifetime with you,
Forever and beyond is what I plan to do.
Seraphic, Angelic, Euphoric is what I feel towards you.
Through the toughest of days, I'll still sought you through.
You'll be my world and my light,
The reason why I have such might.
The reason my head's in the clouds aflight.
Forever with you is all I sight.
So love you with all my heart I'll do,
So that the end we'll see it through.
Forever entwined with someone like you,
I'll cherish this moment till' I Perish with you.
She sits alone in a darkening car,
waiting for Jimmy, a soccer star.
He's taking longer these days, it seems;
but he's one who gets tangled in his dreams.
Her neighbor sees her, asks if she's going in
just waiting for Jimmy, she smiles with a grin.
She sits in the car and takes June's hand,
saying, June, I don't think you understand.
Jimmy's not in the house anymore;
nor out on the soccer field kicking a score.
He left three months ago, to this day.
he had errands to run and on his way,
an angel, embracing him, took him aflight.
It won't help to sit here all of the night.
He watches over you, of that, I'm sure,
for Jimmy's love was always pure.
Please, take my hand and come with me
We'll go inside for a nice cup of tea.
Then I'm calling Big Jim to come right home
because I don't want you to be all alone.
She follows directions, thinking how can it be?
What I really want is my son hugging me.
I must make this long day end somehow,
Jimmy is gone, I see that more clearly now.
No longer on earth, I now understand:
I won't see Jimmy grow into a man.
Tears won't help a mother who yearns
for a son who has left and will never return.
Winter finally moves his lumpen sluggish weight,
Spring is like a shy dryad shivering in his arms
Wind's whippets droop to trifling whine
Sullen rain hisses to a grizzle.
tiny fruit buds swell enough to moisten lips.
First daffodil maidens preen, bright faces so fair!
Chattering swallows check granite grey mortared mansion.
Duck naps snug, beak a chest --- gull floats overhead.
Longer days mean I must leave my snuggly, sleepy daze,
slightly more light; work energies reappear
poetry is laid aside in favour of trimming trees
seething solar heating sound, signals dimly smiling sun.
seed packets eagerly spread out – What to plant this season?
Suddenly, more bees aflight – our crops will be alright!
Another cycle begins!
1) Anthropomorphism 2) Simile 3) Metaphor 4) onomatopoeia
5)Synaesthesia 6) Personification 7) Sensory Imagery
8) Ellipsis 9) Homophone 10) Caesura 11) Pun
12) Alliteration 13) Rhetorical Question 14)Internal Rhyme
15) Truism
Written 20th August for Line Gautier Contest - A Litany of Poetic Devices
Touch the rising mist of cherry smiles
Herald cries of joyous miracles aflight,
Echo brisk allure of God’s spearing light
Cry in the bosom of Abraham’s seed
Refrain the ways of fame and greed;
Yield to peace though hate overrules
Intimidate the wicked with warm arms
Negate adversarial luck and vain charm,
Glorify the brooks flowing quietly still
Rise early...saturate thy heart with prayer
Inquire of strangers who hunger and thirst,
Verily your works of love shall surely rise first
Entertain the need of God’s angels unaware
Rejoice in eternity from life’s pain and tear.
One summer’s eve in Spain,
I fled through an open window,
Butterflies aflight
In the very pit of me,
And I tramped the streets,
My heart abrim
With such a love,
But a love now long gone.
With my final matches,
I forged a heart
At that maiden’s doorstep;
I was like a thief,
On that torrid night,
My heart abrim
With so much love,
But a love now long gone.
And what of the maiden in azure?
O! What an inferno raged
Within my soul for her,
But that love
Never bloomed beyond a dream,
My heart abrim
With such a love,
But a love now long gone.
While
plumes
flutter
in rhythm,
swans twirl a ballet
girdling through agile quills aflight
and pivot in choreography of glazed moondance
till wings leave at finale's point when icy November appears on a graywashed stage.
Contest Form- F sponsored by Broken Wings
1..28..2017
It was a day like no other
ethereal was the feeling in my soul
my longings knew no border
as hope soared in a thousand fold.
The rendevous pointed out
to the dot of 'i'
the fine print sorted out
to the cross of 't'.
It was a date with destiny
to me a 'fait accompli'.
At the appointed time, i was on my way
my feet a myrmride, setting the pace
more like a tumbrel, wheeling me away
no clogs as i totered through every maze.
The spectacle was a deflation
to my soul, a siren's rendition.
All afore thoughts aflight
a vernal season, light turned to night.
I said the bye without a tear
avoidind the Becos Para Golpes.
A DISTANT LAND YOU SEEK
AWAY FROM YOUR MOTHERS ARMS
NOW SEE WHAT PRIZE YOUR PRIDE
HAS GIVEN YOU
A BITTER PAIN OF WORTHLESS GAIN
NOW YOU STAND AWRY WITH SHAME
AND MAIMED
LOST IN AN ISLAND OF AN ANCIENT TALE
YOUR FRIGHT SEEMS LIKE AFLIGHT OF
ENDLESS WOES
BOUND TO DIE A DAY BEFORE
BLOOD OF AGES STAY ALIVE
YOUR LAND AWAITS YOUR HUMBLE STEPS
THE ROOTS OF YOUR JOURNEY STILL LIES
AWAKE
A MAMA’S ARMS FAR OUTSTRETCHED
TO RECEIVE YOU BACK HOME ONCE AGAIN
SEE THE FACES AWAITING YOUR COME
NOT TO SHARE YOUR WEALTH BUT THE
WORSE
OF YOUR ERRAND OF A THOUSAND MILES
She glides in splendour along the fields
with orange lace on rafters,well-hued
by fragrant air as her waltzes roam
to dazzle boughs thrilling a night's mood.
On fancy tones, her music drools
in rhythmic shimmer of wings aflight
and she draws me towards a bright stage
unto a rung of midsummer's height.
Yet, when dusk floats with her velvet trail
short-lived, the butterfly flutters by
descending to rest on maple's palm;
I weep for a beauty's swift goodbye.
Kelly Deschler's The Butterfly Flutters By
Darkly glancing dragon eyes
Dancing pools of fiery light
Sparkling gems witched from the skies
Emerald, pearl, and ruby bright
Opal, sapphire, amethyst
Coyly blend their crystal beams
Diamond spheres by heaven kissed
Doorways to a thousand dreams
Wild -- undreampt since Ancient Time
When the dragon ruled the night
Words were Magick, Music, Rhyme
Bardic songs set hearts aflight
Man and Woman ruled as Kings
In that Golden Paradise
Soaring high on dragon wings
'Til the snow-white moon would rise
Gone -- Lost in Night's endless deeps
Yet its phantom-image lies
Where the waiting dragon sleeps
Deep within your dragon eyes.
AFLIGHT IN THE HALE-BOB
The puzzle comes apart deep in the sky;
calls nothing that is concrete to the mind;
as far as we can tell and meets the eye
the reason for the tail's not ours to find.
We stand confused, and only guess at why
the wonder of it all has stilled our voice
did David Korish ever really die?
and is it all worked out, with little choice?
Mount Carmel but a coming of an age
the catostrophic ending of mistake,
what hope is there to ever quell the rage
appeassing what is wrong, for honors sake?
Is there a sign that's ever flown the sky
or is it just a dream where-in we die?
© ron wilson aka Vee Bdosa the Doylestown Poet
Through a glazed nightfall shimmering on meadows
Gold rays, moontones, widescreen-to-sky entices
When stars bloom freely on southern hour, find me
Tracing dusk's lattice
Catch the mist aflight before the glow withers
While basin of light reaches its finale,
Then my skin will begin to memorize
One nocturnal trail
For Craig Cornish: Sapphic Stanza Contest
by: nette onclaud
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