Best Captured Poems

With just One of your Smiles
       
I’m reborn to Fly

Higher than an Eagle
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When leaks my pen of flowing ink
I quickly staunch the flood
by blotting with my fingertip
the pool of chromatic drip

Escapees while my mind took flight
wandering across the sky
writing in script of a damsel's plight
until the globules caught my eye

Often, I've stopped writing to think....
there lies drops...

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Blue skies and rainbows

Science fiction and fables

Poetess and poet are making love 


She’s writes the verses to undress me

Great lines that flower in her hair

Her lips of ink are red and rosy 

Each stanza goes straight to my head


I want to read and read her

Over...

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He left
That night locking
Her away with a kiss;
Her soul captured by his spirit,
She stayed.

She waits -
For the spirit
To light her pitch-black days;
To breathe into her missing nights;
She’s still.

maria.corado

12/14/14

Traditional style cinquain: syllable count: 2/4/6/8/2
for the Cinquain Contest of Dr.Ram Mehta (theme: Longing)...

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Cecropia, transported through the night
on satin wings lined white in their design,
hovers over innocence by moon’s shine.
A fragrant bloom has stopped him in his flight,
and on a petal he prepares to light.
He ceases fluttering so as to dine
on that sweet nectar of his valentine.
And I...

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I watch you fade away
Until you are seen no more
When day breaks and night falls...

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When the golden sun sets over a horizon 
Mirrors inside glittering with reflections 

Sparkling Underneath the realm of possibilities
Far away drifting oasis upon a cloud called nine

Where heaven holds the creation’s seat 
Kneeling before lashes fold 

Enthroned by your light breathing through clouds 
Beneath adoring...

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          Deep in the Florida steamy everglades,
A single blue heron strides in cobalt blue water;
     Regal and grand with grey and azure plume feathers,
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some moments are mindless
     insanity with twisted reality
he says
he says a lot
     leave pain behind
an endless word flow 
a whale's
fountain

his face mirrors mine

his finger swipes dark
dust, blows waves
into deep oceans
where I drown

     Hide in dreams
he says
     dream a bull to swim
     across...

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The following was based on an iconic picture of Mandy Rice-Davies by David Steen. Rice was infamous for being part of the 1963 Profumo  political scandal.



The sun sets and so do inhibitions.
 Rising even as darkness falls, 
Vices murmur in cajoling tone;
Whispering of delights...

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I remember that night as if it were yesterday,
sitting and watching your chest moving rhythmically 
up and down as you took each breath.
Your face was that of tranquillity.
Your cheeks were scarlet from spending hours 
on the beach in the November wind. 
As your little eyelids...

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Sitting downstream in this delightful setting
When you close your eyes there is just no forgetting

I can still see the scene that my mind has captured
The most glorious of colours leaves me in rapture

The bluest of sky seeps through a canopy I behold
Mirrored on the stream...

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When the sun shines upon you, take the sun rays within
You never know when it will be dark or where to begin
And when you see the stars sparkle in the night,
Oh my friend hold on, just hold on very tight…
Not knowing when the clouds will...

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The detritus of a household of smokers was a joy to the young child, stifled in a family he believed he had outgrown. Matchsticks, by the score, he used to build magical castles with towers to climb or Spanish Galleons to sail away to places...

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Love Captured on Film

 

You and me in that photograph,

time paused as each to the other we glanced.

Funny how the camera never lies,

as even then I could see the glint in your eyes.

 

I kept that photo locked safely away,

waiting for your return each and...

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