Airily Poems - Poems about Airily

Admonitions Concerning Poetry Competitions

...Tasks, by their very nature
are often painful to perform.
Polysyllabic pedantry exacerbates undertakings unnecessarily.
Strict contest-runners rate your
adherence to the stipulated norm.

Would...

Legend

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Written: April 1st  For Legend Silent One contest

Rumi Quote: Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

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A Vanilla Dove

...Cypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties 
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
gravel birth cords sinuous 
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Queue

...Queue, in my nation, is a customary circumstance, 
Women, each day, stand in queues for municipal water;
Young and old, before government ration stores, stand in trance,
Youths, with diplomas, sta...

The Stuff of Hopes, Dreams and Wishes

...By:Sikolwethu Mthethwa 

In readiness for my journey to the land of dreams,
I bring my pillow closer to the full moon
And wrap myself around the blanket of stars that litter the night sky
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The Stuff of Hopes, Dreams and Wishes

...By:Sikolwethu Mthethwa 

In readiness for my journey to the land of dreams,
I bring my pillow closer to the full moon
And wrap myself around the blanket of stars that litter the night sky
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Cats Try To Get Attention of Reading Witch

...The reading witch is unaware
She is being given a mean cat stare
Her book is open; the words are keen.
She is excited to devour this on Halloween.

The pages are turned by an unseen hand.
Amazi...

Midnight Mischief

...Merrily
fairies tease lyrical tunes
arranged almost airily

Breezily
frolic with wild woodland sprites
dancing through branches of trees

Kisses pressed
with great delight on the ears
of sq...

Chasing Moonbeams

...Folderol and balderdash,
nonsensical, sweet whimsy.
Musical, so airily,
she prances round the elm tree.
Mimsy do, in flimsy blue
with bells upon her head, ho!
Where she goes, I do not know,
ex...

Orchid Blooms From My Garden

... On a bright morning I was greeted warm
By a host of flowers of the self same hue
Smiling disarmingly from an orchid wild
With their white petals washed in dew

Amid the vernal green...

In An Apartment Roomy But Gloomy

...A man’s apartment is airily roomy
But wears he a face real gloomy …

Soon, I find out his eyes are rheumy 
And he thinks he got them through me!

Lousy Guy! My eyes for long not rheumy;
Two ye...

Upside Down, Inside Out

...Hummingbird hardly heard,
airily, merrily
extraordinarily
effortless floating, near
weightless transparency,
seemingly without the
slightest of care.

Urgent persistency,
terribly panicky,
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Silent Soliloquy

...Lavender lilacs pose pretty 
         with riotous rows of perfect petals
             wind whipped, airily arcing
       mesmerizing motions…paths pulsing
              sweet scents wistfully wo...

Moonlight

...An illumination one can’t achieve the marvelous with,
 Its 384400 kilometer distancing not a myth. 
Never a lantern for any length of night study, 
The printed in books a blur like the cloudy.
 
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Seas Eternal

...Spirits sail amber seas of 
an amaranthine void echoing airily.

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