Best Emblazed Poems

The Raven and the Bard
-Daniel Henry Rodgers

The Raven's quill drips shades of blackest night,
Its haunting words, a melody of fright.
The Bard's natural lines, like "Evangeline's" fair hair,
Shed history's warm light to chase away all care .
From shadowed chambers where dark ravens shriek,
To hearthside tales that...

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In the realm of moons and breathless tides,
where promises dance with a serendipitous sonnet of sunrises,
along with morning kisses, unfolds a love story—
a poetic novel etched in the chronicles
within the hourglass of time,
a journey that transcends the fabric of our mere existence.

You, my dearest love,...

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The airs crisp and invigorating,
With every breath I take.
For a brief moment out of many,
 I take the time to appreciate.
As I stand before you oh mighty one,
I look out across the land.
For all about are true wonders,
Created at your command.
Above me I see the...

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A smile is cast upon your sultry face
as lover's glance makes way for love emblazed.
With timid touch your breast my fingers trace
in search of love's familiar urge unfazed.

Your skin like silk pressed warm against my chest
entices feelings longed for in my bed
then with a kiss...

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Spring resume summers day with many choices,
In the reunion of all seasons the nectar entwined,
Sunshine to scream out excitement in our voices,
Find outside no place to hide chimes of our mind.
 
Dare we stray towards the heat of sunburn way?
Cold play under festival of stars...

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The instigator relates, we cheer.
Deflates nay Sayers
The instigator retraced all fears
Detest all stares
The instigator dissects dialect
The instigator obliges his faith
What phase? The instigator 
Emblazed freeze gaze.
Counsels full LAWS.
Legal eagle at the cause.
The instigator  has
 FAME No game.
The instigator takes flight 
Ignites surprise
Do fly red...

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The panoply of midnights half moon smile,
emblazed beneath her part drawn shutters,
captured my glances and pseudo beguile
so sweet nothings were just mumbled stutters,
and to the rhythm of her soft inhale
this heart I stitched to sleeve, shed comforts veil,

for although the breezes laid down their song
and...

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I've danced beside The Devil, pale moonlight we're 
toe to toe, the embers of my life emit a warm and 
somber glow,

which lights the darkest corners of a place inside my 
mind, a twitch defines my eye and I'm resigned to 
think of times,

When life...

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July unfolds magenta-colored skies

and launches blasts of pinks emblazed with gold-

exploding artistry that causes sighs-

as sunsets fashion fireworks to behold.


July 7, 2022

Contest: The Sky In July
Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich

Form Used: Quatrain
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CLARITY

crystal clear blues
emblazed
across thought of
Eternal sun
sparkling dark hues
encompass all
one by one
veins rerun
undone

small tender volumes
like tears that melt 
glass
my throat rolls the wine
a harsh acidic
farce
kissing life
between
elusive and vague
shafts

worlds growing
apart
strangling the
clarity of a 
lucid
finite




© Kim van Breda...

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another wink of day creases 
from the lofty dappled spaces
glowing in twilight's splendor
through the slightly opened door

the soft melancholy matures slowly
that once emblazed the black immensity
when the dainty streaks of light
herald the beaming yonder's knight

the cold hazy light dissolves the stars
seeping in through the earth's...

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Suddenly she is there,
her young face in the hurrying crowd.

I spin into a forty year old whirlpool
recall how we were
and how time has tested us both.

There she is 
emblazed upon in a strangers form

and I struck high and low,
a moonbeam washed over
the edge of a...

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How high, how low
is our inner glow?
How long will imagination swirl around
before finding that unique mind
in which lives a stunning vision
long pursued, never realized?

Which are the true colors
of flowers of an emblazed sunset...
when the spectacle delights?
Is the peaceful spirit immersed
in contemplation rather than prayer?
Are the...

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It's not the furious storm battering,
or the massive tides rising
that seem a real threat
to the existence of this fortress
defended by your grit 
to retain its stately appearance!

Make your last tower stand strong,
allow no disarming thoughts cause a defeat;
show you valor with a vigorous beat:
to be...

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Drummer boy and Drummer girl. 
Creating echoes of emotions intentions. 
Speak your mind in catchy unfurl.
In tantric mind pounding experi-dimension.
So happy they're not blades,
You're wielding.
I'm just saying, drummers are crazed.
Those sticks, instead, are an extensions of a quest for fire.
Kindling, I hope, for holy smoke...

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