..............................Profligate ornate attire
Awful music, dance
Asian transgender bender
anyone goes trance.
When makeup undone
Worries back on old faces
No one is for none.
07 July 2021
Seguidilla Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: William Kekaula
G-reeter
R-ightfully
A-pplies
C-omposition
I-n
A-crostic
A-s
L-iterary
C-onnotation
A-dvances
Z-est
A-nd
R-apture
Topic: Birthday of Gracia Alcazar (December 24)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Terracotta dreams alight
in rising Roman aqueducts
slipping in twilight hours of the night
where mysterious Spanish memories are plucked;
a momentary plunge
with Hercules standing muscle-bound
from which olden images are hung
as winds rise without a sound;
a flare in dance upon the castle floors
to pray a prayer aloud
beyond grand cathedral doors
holding visions authentic to each crowd;
slip in and out the corridors of legacy
Segovia and Madrid, the old Alcazar,
where history lay in wait splendidly
and time marches on, near and far;
these are mere images that remain
to tell a story old yet true
by which history is framed
a place, a legend, a story not new;
let it rise, let it stay
mysteries laid in the past
while awe and beauty grace the day
and visions and dreams race fast.
G-lowing
R-ays
A-re
C-ool
I-n
A-ppearance
A-s
L-ucid
C-learness
A-nd
Z-enith
A-bate
R-ain
Topic: Birthday of Gracia Alcazar (December 24)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Lethargic lucid dreams
Filled with fervency and vivid imagery
Of the gravitational pull of my alcazar
Blissfully bringing the waves crashing
Upon my distasteful catacombs
Visions of the shell shocked sandy floor
Crowd my frontal sightseers
The caress of the sluggish amphibian
On my eccentric costumed feelers
Leaves me gasping in search of newly found pleasure
As I take one, two, three drowning steps
Subtlety submerging in my self worth
The liquids surround my fitful being
As it consumes its prey
I exhale once more
And the world is for a minuscule moment muted
All is cleansed in the chemicals
Watch as it slowly floats and becomes colorless
In the near futures distance
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