While you're there, beneath the sun's warm glow,
Where green trees whisper secrets, and soft breezes flow,
By Bootleg Creek, where the waters gleam bright,
Purple and red Crowley Ridge agates catch the light.
With hands in the earth, you'll dig and pry,
Getting very dirty, with mud to the sky,
Each treasure you uncover, has a story to tell,
In the heart of the wild, where the rockhounds dwell.
Scattered by the river, pink and blue drusy shine,
Glimmers of beauty, nature's design,
Up on the hill, where the green jasper lies,
A hidden gem waiting, beneath the vast skies.
On Haunted Ridge, where the quartz crystals gleam,
You'll wander in wonder, lost in a dream,
And by the old dude's house, where the petrified wood,
Whispers of ages, in silence it stood.
The sunshine dances through leaves overhead,
As you sift through the soil, where the earth's stories spread,
Each find a reminder of nature's sweet care,
In this world of wonder, oh, I wish I were there.
Categories:
agates, day, fun, journey, missing,
Form: Rhyme
Washed up on the shore
agates sparkle and shine in
a hazy sunshine
Categories:
agates, sun, water,
Form: Haiku
Stepping over the threshold
Locating the floor buttons
I press the 3rd floor
~ my brain images still flashing ~
Disfigured long flames curl around
Cherished memories-
Dry spruce branches smoking and crackling
Glowing coals cooking steaks in a fire
Above the crashing waves on the North Shore
Of Lake Superior with mom and dad
Laughing and sipping root beer
Spying a twisted piece of petrified oak
most likely a plank
From an ancient sunken vessel splintered
In the Gale's of November
Loosening the piece from the grips of glistening
Basalt boulders, etching our names and place
Of discovery above striated agates embedded in
Crevices a millennial ago
Proudly displayed on the mantle above my fireplace
Gone
Now
Only precious memories remain
I flash the card lock on my hotel room
Entering
The
Future
2/18/23
Categories:
agates, loss,
Form: Narrative
Ebony skies a backdrop for salty,
sweet staccato ecstasy
a tune of elation.
Ivory limbs play out crescendos
upon seabed gems, crystalline towers,
aquamarine dreams and tortoise shell agates;
pink anemone and corals
wave-dance amid swaying
amber Carolina sands.
Octopii link arms
in a mesmerizing reel,
as scorpion tails tip-tap out rhythm
on on the cannon of a skeletal ship.
Stroboscopic eels keep the beat;
using their bodies to form lyrics.
Upon his chariot-throne of Lapis-Lazuli and Gold,
escorted by dolphins, rides the king
and festivities have begun.
It’s all good at
Neptune’s annual Briny Ball;
come dive down for some fun!
Categories:
agates, animal, nature, ocean, places,
Form: Free verse
Caught within the web we are rolling pearls rolling towards the sea
Golden dreams soft on pillows of joy bloom inside every pure hearts.
Entering a new world of light and beauty, we find our destiny's path
as our hearts become agates, pure diamond studs, ephemeral lights...
Only in dreams are we truly free to be ourselves and follow the sail
that glides us towards our Celestial home. As we follow our wishes
through intricately woven threads of consciousness, we find our
true selves.
We find our courage as we swim the waters of hope and as our
eyes adjust to a new reality, we find the meaning of each fantasy.
Daring to become our authentic selves, our dreamcatchers glow
with pride, watching our auras fanning out with colors richly bright.
Enter into the realm of dreams and leave behind the world of day
Create in you a space , a sanctuary of grace where you can live inside a dreamcatcher world, as safely as a magical fairy in the emerald forest. Caught within the web, we are pearls , rolling and rolling our way home.
copyrighted: Mystic Rose
Categories:
agates, appreciation, dream,
Form: Free verse
Tranquility is
Amethyst skies
And
Lapis seas
Sprinkled
With
Diamond dust.
Jade fields of
Topaz and malachite
Dancing
In the
Suns rays.
Agate gardens
Filled with
Swirling
Flower colors.
Amazonite grapes
Filled with
Liquid
Crystal juice.
Deserts of jaspers
And
Agates
Of all races.
4-8-2021
ALL YOURS (APR 9) Poetry Contest
Brian Strand
Categories:
agates, appreciation, earth, environment, nature,
Form: Free verse
About Marbles Are Many Theories
About marbles there are many theories,
So we then decided to develop a series,
Name of mess,
A wild guess;
Called them agates, steelies and clearies.
Jim Horn
Categories:
agates, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
C’est la vie, Billy!
His cheeks a deep scarlet,
His jaw tightened in an eerie grin,
He stands, rooted to the spot
While the snot in his nose
Like a long gooey
Streak of
Chewing-gum
Slowly comes dripping
Onto his dappled T-shirt,
and his eyes, like dazzling agates,
Fixedly follow the interminable course of
The red rubbery ball
As the projectile
In a deafening clash,
Smashes the headmaster’s office window.
Categories:
agates, boy, middle school,
Form: Free verse
The healing stones rest.
Fondled and smoothed by
Fingers as gently as Hail Mary beads,
Of those seeking grace- Questing new life,
Stilled by hands uncertain of
Direction or destiny, begging to rise
Like the Phoenix from fiery ashes.
The colors of agates, crystals,
And rose quartz, erased and tossed
Into brackish waters, lashing at the
Seaside, salty on tongues which
Speak to mythical Gods, crouching and
Praying on knees with
Bowed heads, requesting miracles...
Sometimes answered- Sometimes not.
Uncertainty soaked in blood and stains of
Grassy patches drift outward,
Sealed in jars, wedged in ghost ship gallows,
To be tasted by sea nymphs, mermaids, and
Caught by fishermen, casting reels off wooden bridges.
When opened- A breath, a whisper, a sigh escapes
And drifts along corals, swallowed up then spit back.
The Queen of Hearts, the dreamers,
All with black diamond crowns,
Scribbling journal entries will await with nets on
Coasts of oceans and impatient streams.
Categories:
agates, conflict, destiny, feelings, journey,
Form: Free verse
Eternal granite, crystalline scree, agates, boulders, rise
to hills, towering tors,* mutinous mountains, endlessly growing
rising, lifted, then toppled by the fiery rebirth of draconic lava**
Like the cracked shell of an avian egg***/ **** both molten yolk
and watery albumen mark the passage of time, the swings
of the multiverse, they pacify Charon’s passage on the Styx
Seen and unseen the arched openings spiral, poled in ten
dimensions by exigent mathematical quandaries, branching
boles boldly rooting in islands of primordial I, chained
screeching***** shadows infer larger beings who manhandle
the infinite construct of finite man
*Alliteration Repetition of consonant sounds [
** Hyperbole A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
*** Assonance The repetition of similar vowel sounds [A vian, A gg]
**** Simile A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike
things using like, as, or as though.
*****Onomatopoeia a word that imitates the sound it represents
Categories:
agates, life,
Form: Verse
My
poet’s
life (not known
then as such) flowed
along life’s swift course
rippling with glee and roaming youth’s chasms.
It then streamed relentlessly to the Now.
I polish agates
left in its wake
so I can
display
them.
Categories:
agates, life,
Form: Tetractys
Sometimes, when I gaze at thee
I am confused by what I see
Some kind of dichotomy
Eggs and agates
Protective shell
Fragile
Easily broken
Fluid thoughts and emotions within
Needing warmth and nurture
To spark the life contained
To grow
To fly
Eggs and agates
Hard
Roughened by life and time and experience
Tough
Dulled by doubt and thoughts of imperfection
Incredible beauty within
Reflective
Bright
Multi-coloured
Shining
But crystallised by judgement
Eggs and agates
But, these eyes that gaze at thee,
Fashioned from rocks and bones and pieces of shell,
Have learned to look with a different sight
They see the beauty on the outside
They see the beauty made manifest
In all your actions
In all you do
They feel the beauty in the aura
That surrounds you
That spreads out around you
That shines from you
They are touched by the beauty within
By your heart
By your mind
By your soul
These eyes see
The life contained within the shell
The world within the agate
These eyes see the whole of you
Categories:
agates, friendship, life, passionlife, beauty,
Form: Free verse