Best Aptly Poems
With pen in hand I sat, clearly I could visualize
the graphic scene I intended my readers to see.
Each detail was so vivid when I closed my eyes;
a child, happily singing beneath a dogwood tree.
Trying to write the words, my breath was shallow.
How could I describe the curled edges of a leaf.
or the color of soil in the field beyond, left fallow?
How was I to aptly convey Spring in poetic motif?
My pulse quickened as I filled my pen with ink
Images were copied from my mind to stationery.
Blue skies came alive; leaves were fringed in pink
Verses flowed freely; I dared not dawdle or tarry.
There was nothing ambiguous in what I had penned
Expressed realistically, the child's voice could be heard.
Through imagery, a poet has the ability to transcend
readers into each verse when the imagination is spurred.
Wise words work well
Time truly tells
Speak simple swirls
Timely thought twirls
Live loud laughter
Walk wild wonder
Touch tickles time
Rapture reaps rhymes
Seek starry space
Treat tensile trace
Be beyond blame
Nice notes niche name
Aptly ask aim
See sober sane
Laughing lines loom
Zealous zest zooms
Brief blooms blossom
Aim arcs awesome
Feel fancy float
Bright beauty bloats
Dream dazzling dance
Claim cheery chance
Leon Enriquez
16 February 2016
Singapore
Princess was a cat aptly and appropriately named.
She had gorgeous blue eyes not in the least tamed.
Her mother dressed her in silk gowns of royal azure blue.
She was treated like a princess, or a queen, also or too.
Ask now
Endow
Be well
Love tells
Charm clowns
Purge frowns
Dance trip
Firm grip
End game
Fits name
Frame feel
Sure thrill
Glimpse grace
Now trace
Hurl hurts
Dump dirt
Ink words
Joys heard
Leon Enriquez
25 February 2016
Singapore
Sit here dear
Feel more clear
Mind moves more
Sense deep core
Love now dwells
You can tell
Wit trips time
Stop gap rhyme
Rain wets all
Love thrills call
Wet and wild
Feel love child
Say no more
Feel warm shores
Dance and dream
Love funds theme
Apt blooms bask
Dare to ask
In a way
Prize prompt play
Round the bend
All things end
Leon Enriquez
12 April 2017
Singapore
(Dedication: For my wife Ann)
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Feel fertile fill
Watch waking will
Seek silence still
Prize profound peace
Live lovely lease
Thrill tensile tease
Apt asking aims
Forge fleeting flame
Now niche nude name
Dance deep dream dwell
Wise way wills well
Time truly tells
Vet vicious voice
Purge poignant poise
Caress calm choice
Leon Enriquez
05 February 2017
Singapore
slowly erupting
beautiful woodland specters
beware Death Angels
So much has changed
Yet love remains;
Sights seem so strange
In sad refrains.
You are gone now
Yet all looks bright;
Fine works endow
Our common sight.
Daze follows gloom
In sighs we heave;
In ample rooms,
Sadness still grieves.
Each mortal shines
In fond light brief;
Both yours and mine
Live joy and grief.
Too late, too soon
The final wave;
And ere the noon,
No time can save.
In stray echoes,
The new day dawns;
In ebb and flow,
New meaning spawns.
We will be free
To live with zest;
Your legacy
With seed our quest.
So rest in peace
With love and light;
Be now at ease
With homeward flight.
Aptly we think
Upon your stay;
Let progress link
The light of day.
Leon Enriquez
30 March 2015
Singapore
These days live flair
With easy airs
In set affairs
The times bring change
In matters strange
To fit lost range
Space out the trace
In ambient race
That strikes odd pace
The moments here
Swirl fear and cheer
As storms rush near
Cast of many
Yearn for plenty
In mad hurry
So many takes
To make or break
What frenzy fakes
True peace of mind
Is what you find
When stillness signs
Restore the feel
Of truth that thrills
In love's goodwill
Come now and see
Times so funny
That joy sets free
In just a while
Wear vivid smiles
In face you style
There is a place
Beyond all trace
That weaves this space
Knowing knows best
The curve and quest
In form and fest
To manage each
Let peace now teach
Love that gives reach
Ask to be
Glad surely
Just as you see
Leon Enriquez
27 June 2015
Singapore
Start success sure
Prime pleasure pure
Sense sacred sight
Lift lasting light
See sanguine stay
Waltz willing way
Touch truly tells
Dare day dreams dwell
Charm clever cheer
Nurture nice near
Ask ample airs
Feel fragrance fair
Flair frames feelings
Bloom bright being
Leon Enriquez
14 December 2016
Singapore
Bright blossoms bloom
Rich rapture rooms
Clear charm crafts cheer
Niche nature near
Warm welcome wills
Taste touchy thrills
Wit wanders where
Thought trembles there
Bright bounty big
Wears whimsy wig
Trust then the truth
Ply playful proof
Treasure tells time
Rude rowdy rhymes
Aptly arm art
Seek sacred start
Leon Enriquez
21 March 2017
Singapore
Words work
Brisk jerk
Joy thrills
Calm feel
Love stays
Each day
Prime poise
Lift voice
Style tact
Clear act
Feel grace
Lift face
Just breathe
Pure peace
Waltz quest
Taste fest
Glimpse grand
Live span
Leon Enriquez
30 November 2016
Singapore
Mad mushy make
Treat troubling take
Mean minding more
Set silly score
Mind milking moves
Gain gaudy grooves
Spread something sweet
Mingle mad meet
Trite telling taut
Niche nothing naught
Silly self shows
Broken brief blows
Mushy mind moans
Glimpse grumpy groans
Nil never not
Piece puzzle plot
Dust decays drop
Set simple stop
Insane ink inch
Tell touchy tinge
Apt anxious ask
Trials tumble task
Leon Enriquez
10 May 2018
Hamlet Place, ACT
Wise wonder works
Jumpy joy jerks
Seek sublime stay
Ply profound play
Sweet secrets speak
Thrilling times tweak
Live lovely list
Glimpse grandeur's gist
Form funny face
Seek sublime space
Wit welcomes worth
Bridge bubbly birth
Create clear craft
Dream dazzling draft
Aptly art asks
Bright blossoms bask
Calm charms clearly
Sure success see
Leon Enriquez
05 July 2017
Singapore
Voice that sure tell with words that show,
Etch thoughts that dwell with profound flow.
Rise with sure change the path you see,
Sense wonder strange curious and free.
Exult in joy that lives fond acts,
Swift smiles employ that gracious tact.
Style works due form in factual glow,
Health moves each norm as time must show.
Obey the soul with heart and mind,
Words mingle whole in sacred finds.
Leon Enriquez
17 August 2016
Singapore