Best Afternoon Poems

The rain set me adrift inside a dream
My mind was on a painting miles upstream
An unforgotten "en plein" I once viewed
A light pastoral springtime interlude

Two horses, one snow white, one shiny black
Two barefoot boys in blue jeans ride bareback
Through pasture weeds bloomed orange almost red
White...

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The incendiary wick
of a lemon afternoon
flickers in the lime lagoon
as sunset breathes fire,
tangerine scorching
lilting melon waters
until incandescence
drowns in dusk's indigo 
and coconut hills rise
to cerulean shadows,
when night whispers 
in plantain lanterns
swaying in the slender trees....

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                                         magnificent sky
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It was one lazy afternoon
 
laying in the hammock
 
under the azure sky
 
sheltered from the blistering sun
 
by the canopy of the old oak tree
 
chru   chru   chru
 
 warbles from the Bluebird
 
can be heard
 
as she calls for...

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her sunlight shaded with clouds 
burning love shuttered in pain. 
rainfalls pour down on her feet 
black widow spits in demon's face. 

broken mirror hangs in the wall
she sees face dirty and old.
pulling down tears one by one
rinse the wound caused by his hands.

she caves...

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Dozing
on a cream-colored comforter
I care not
for a cacophony
of color
cloistered
near my ear
but vague vestiges
of vanilla whispers
melting
in an ivory bowl


1st Place
Mid Summer Standard Contest
Sponsor:  Brian Strand
7/19/17...

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            Rain sneaking softly
            First soft winds then a cold chill
            Clouds...

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Here in warm sunshine I sit,
near by a beautiful lake.
Many birds in the tree like to flit.
Long lush branches the breeze likes to shake.
Pretty birds all around call twit-twit -
Sweetness of which I partake!

Spotting some boats off a way
dotting the lake, happily
I have put down...

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Upon the roof, outside the walls,

                              now tapping soft its whispered calls,

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dark clouds brewing
rolling thunder, lightning strikes
     stormy afternoon...

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I.

Oh please, not to fade so fast into the afternoon
The one that is scattering in a goldenly swooning loneliness
The one that is shattering at a purply time of faintness
And the one whose wind is playing with so many violins

Because the wind will flow away a...

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My path’s uninterrupted as I float near the ground
Passing through the colors of rainbows that surround

My song is softly playing in the breeze of the wind
I encircle a fountain and turn back again

Drifting effortlessly through the wild
Dragonflies meet me with grace and style

Drinking in the...

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You came into her house through the kitchen. 
The big door in from the front porch
Hadn't been used for years;
Furniture stood hard against it.
A knock at the front door meant a stranger.

Aunt Celesta makes a tall pitcher
Of green Kool-Aid and ice cubes.
She fills two glasses...

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late afternoon
reading white ink blotches
in the sky



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Submitted on July 3, 2022 for contest THE SKY IN JULY sponsored by ANDREA DIETRICH  -  RANKED 1ST

Originally posted on September 28, 2018...

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Snow White took an unladylike bite
of a big red apple polished bright
	she snoozed quite a while
	he kissed her with guile
and they shared an afternoon delight...

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