Palimpsest of Love
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Written: August 05, 2025, for contest Marathon Mile 3 Poetry Contest / Sponsor- Mark Toney
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As it rises shakily, the aurora radiates,
Shore gets ba...
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Categories:
auric, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Sacrificial fire
...ascension requires sacrifice
pure heart with resolve will suffice
that we rise higher and higher
discarding each and every vice
truth is a sacrificial fire
consigning ego to the pyre
our auri...
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Categories:
auric, fire, spiritual,
Form: Rubaiyat
Unintended Innuendo
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Written: April 22, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker
Line of inquiry:
“as we passed her she did wilt
which caused in us sense of guilt
since our stance perhap...
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Categories:
auric, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
talked to a star one night
...Talked to a star one night
It whispered
From behind a greying cloud
“I’m lonely”
It seems stars are so busy shining
They have little time to chat
They find it ironic that we humans
Write so mu...
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Categories:
auric, loneliness, star,
Form: Free verse
Zen mode
...we feel divine energy
penetrating nodes of form
ushering ineffable bliss
rotating polarity
our vibrant auric field
permeates boundless space
singular consciousness
as both this and that
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Categories:
auric, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
The River
...One of life’s sunshine days
A pleasant walk down to the river
Scene of all basking in high summer sun
Sheep graze roaming enamoured of the warm grass
The river flowing passing on its ancient mea...
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Categories:
auric, heaven,
Form: Shape
Open secret
...revealed yet concealed
power that makes breath flow
love’s elixir with which we are healed
as our auric field thus continues to grow
the beauteously slow blossoming of a rose
caterpillar tr...
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Categories:
auric, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
no proof offered
...It has come to this that there’s nothing save bliss,
with divine magnetism humming day and night,
compelling us to plunge into the abyss,
wherein we see our true self as living light,
in time di...
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Categories:
auric, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima
Dead man walking
...Oblivious to love’s heat,
mind was unable to tweet
scents that pervaded the air,
seeking a lifelong affair.
Save in silence, we are bound
to dark desires that confound
but if we’re still, v...
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Categories:
auric, introspection, love, spiritual,
Form: Jueju
At the crossroads
...Parallel lines of attention,
one being urge of the ego,
the other loosening tension,
preferring soulful musings slow,
playoff between chaos and bliss;
in both cases, a deep abyss.
If we feed ...
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Categories:
auric, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Hybronnet
The esoteric kind
...Kismet’s hand stretches the fabric of creation;
Ichor of the gods entwines with auric fields,
Numinous ideas become our inspiration;
Deeply planting the ascension seeds....
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Categories:
auric, deep, destiny, extended metaphor,
Form: Acrostic
Farewell to Summer - 2024
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Falling Autumn leaves brashly wave goodbye to Summer
And strew the pathways with emeralds, rubies, and gold.
Radiant beauty engages the land in mummer
Encouraging Sum...
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Categories:
auric, autumn, environment, nature, science,
Form: Acrostic
Practicing the pause
...resting endowed functionality
as bestowed by the universe
a stirring yet arises in the heart
to emote a melodious verse
humming pulse of innate aliveness
cajoles us to dance on life’s stage
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Categories:
auric, peace, self, silence,
Form: Rhyme
Rainbow body monk
...the socially awkward erudite recluse
who suddenly disappeared one day
remained unacknowledged till death
lacking tact scratched no one’s back
thus remained in self-imposed exile
yet invisible s...
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Categories:
auric, mystery, myth, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Glorious Whispering
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Written: June 02, 2024 For Regina McIntoch Contest
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Discovering God doesn't bear broad browsing
He's all over on Earth's orbit or ...
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Categories:
auric, appreciation, god,
Form: Free verse
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