Best Enclosing Poems
Come, watch with me my darling child, before you go to bed
Here, hold my hand, while evening comes and takes the day away
Evening shadows tiptoe to what the sun has said
And now it's time to listen to what the moon will say
Here, hold my hand, while evening comes and takes the day away
We'll watch the sun dip gently, in the cooling twilight air
And now it's time to listen to what the moon will say
All the daytime weary creatures, have gone to nest and lair
We'll watch the sun dip gently in the cooling twilight air
Let's be witness to the fire that burns in evening's sky
All the daytime weary creatures, have gone to nest and lair
While twilight paints it's crimson colors on a canvas vast and wide
Let's be witness to the fire that burns in evening's sky
Time suspends as if one moment, in this fragile hush of time
While twilight paints it's crimson colors on a canvas vast and wide
And then we'll see the faintest trace of stars begin to climb
Time suspends as if one moment, in this fragile hush of time
So gently, watch the dark erase the last of fading light
And then we'll see the faintest trace of stars begin to climb
Enclosing us within the change, of shadows of the night
So gently, watch the dark erase the last of fading light
Evening shadows tiptoe to what the sun has said
Enclosing us within the change, of shadows of the night
Come, watch with me my darling child, before you go to bed...
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6//26/13
Categories:
enclosing, nature, sky,
Form:
Pantoum
Roving a youthful shadowed ebony heaven
as the earth is still on blissful spring night flight.
I fly through and over the enclosing trees,
boughs', and the susurration fluttering leaves.
I emerge to nesting Nightingales
and their cacophony melodious
of unfilled cries , calling me
to come to appease their needs.
Alighting and dripping down
for a short quick kiss to each one.
I woke to a vision of streaked ,wisps
of timeless gray clouds before the morning.
It's not a silent night, stars glitter and wink
in the dark as they look down on me.
Minstrels outside my bedroom window;
the birds were there somewhere
between the treetops and the cloud bottoms.
There will be no sleeping beauty upon these white linens,
as a result of reverberating sounds of those crying cuties.
7/2/2017
Categories:
enclosing, bird, music, sleep,
Form:
Free verse
She's
a
diamond
sun of snow,
envied by venus,
lifting her peacock eyelashes
to stargaze beyond pinkish petals of mild moonrise,
enclosing rusts of rosy jealousy in ancient ruins like lotus Minerva.
Categories:
enclosing, deep, emotions, freedom, life,
Form:
Fibonacci
a dizain
Admire her casting, lines of silky floss;
survey as artist drafts her masterpiece.
Enclosing space invisibly across,
then single-handedly, she will increase
the center parts to form unseen valise.
A purse of unsuspected, vicious taint -
its straps in hand, she naps - a wily feint.
Artistic beauty flows, but will soon ebb,
when tender insects clutter her restraint.
Artiste awakes to wealth within her web.
Nov. 17, 2010
Categories:
enclosing, 11th grade, imagination,
Form:
Dizain
She pleaded to me with a blushed body,
ready readily for the holiday my maintinance could muster for her pink engine,
the electricity my overtime bedtime love ryhme induces, innerbody outerbody attention,
my woman pled and I fed, her skin smelled like sweet leather, expensive and exotic,
her taste, oh her taste,
a salt infused with inimitable vanilla extract of erotica,
shes my virgin tonight, shes my soul purpose, my handicraft her sole investment,
my rough hands ceaselessly surveying the surface of her vulnerable and vital being,
no flaws are found, because no flaws are sought, no resistense, nothing fought,
upright together, gripping her nape, kissing the pulse on throat,
flaxen hair swiming across my focused face, one arm around lower curve of back,
in unison the slots inbetween my thumb and index sweep upon her breast
cleverly turning & tightning into nipples elevated for enclosing excitment,
eyelashes grazing my cheek and her moist mouth on earlobe
elicit the need for perpendicular laying, for ramming motion ritual,
I unfold her, with fingers lovingly clasped on that nimble neck of hers
as I insert and glide with a job to do, a love to pursue,
the words came latter, instinct inspired now -
J.A.B.
Categories:
enclosing, dream,
Form:
Romanticism
Magnetic attraction, enchanting dream of a lifetime -
majestic pyramid attracts my eye,
mystique draws me in
O, your architecture! Pavilions, colonnades; art enclosing art,
every square inch deliberately designed,
ceilings pour forth scintillating splendor
Antiquities from Rome, Egypt, the Orient:
trying to wrap my head around art
created in Mesopotamia 6,000 years ago
Dazed and captivated in your Greek sculpture hall:
Bronze beauty, marble magnificence,
Venus de Milo seduces still
What history you have archived on your walls and pedestals!
Charlemagne holding his scepter,
Louis XIV in regal resplendence
Oil on canvas communicates genuine genius
Rembrandt, Rubens, Raphael,
Vermeer, Van Dyck, Vigée-Lebrun
Mythology awakened to life in marble:
Hera, Hermaphrodite, Neptune, Nymph,
Psyche and Cupid
Even commoners respectfully regarded:
Messina's military man, Brueghel's beggars,
Michelangelo's dying slave
Centuries of religious faith expressed with grace and grandeur:
Moses in the bulrushes, Islamic ivory,
the penitent Magdalene, Virgin and child
Artistic vision reflects and redirects history:
Renaissance masters forecasting the future,
Monet's Impressionism a daring new style
Fifteen minutes till closing, where have the hours flown?
What of tapestries, textiles, drawings, decorative arts?
Alas, another day.
Highlight of the day, world's most famous painting:
mysterious Mona Lisa smile
thanks me for coming to visit
Louvre:
timeless testimony to artistic aesthetic
cathedral of contemplation
history of humanity
Written 15 Sep 2020
Categories:
enclosing, art, paris, travel,
Form:
Free verse
I closed my mouth and I spoke to you in a hundred different ways.
You will hear my voice
In the air you breathe,
In the birds singing their hearts out
Heralding the spring.
In the beauty of the Rose
It's enclosing petals
Hiding my love for you
Waiting to show you ...expound my words
In the stream
That meanders past
Gathering speed and strength
To flow into the sea,..... run fast.
That's how I speak to you
In all you say and do
All you visualise, listen please
I am saying,......I am here
Open your ears
Open your eyes
Look and listen
My words are everywhere
My lips are closed
I am showing you through life
That I am here
Living within you.
Visual 2
Penned 2 May. 2015
Categories:
enclosing, life,
Form:
Verse
Dark days end slowly before the light,
And shield a heart from love's flame, once warm.
To live in darkness, an eternal fight,
And shiver in the cold silence of its storm.
As shadows surround, start to confine,
Time moves without notice or understanding.
Black becomes the color of the soul's design,
Dreary the emotions, now demanding.
How long, before the sun begins to rise?
To shine on heart's shadows, growing small.
To chase dark days, unmask their disguise.
Rip away this dark,dark, covering shawl.
Trapped in this world of which I'm concerned.
Passing in darkness, time ever slowing.
Lost in rooms dark, where I've always returned,
Until the depth of my despair stops growing.
Touching each wall, hoping to find light.
Once more pain, I can't stand, can't breathe.
Darkness dwells deep into a seamless night.
A wound, continuing to seep through, Depression seethe.
Unbearable, I can't eat, can't sleep.
Again, I question the sun, how long must I wait?
Drowning under my tears dark and steep,
Torture becomes solid, enclosing fate.
Dark days, lounge every moving vibe within.
Burning and grooming self-pity and doubt.
Darkness betrays, portraying to be kin.
The only one who knows me, in and out.
A Poet Destroyer Collaboration
contest Collaboration Celebration
8/6/15
Categories:
enclosing, emotions,
Form:
Rhyme
Inside Out
Does enclosing a part of the outside
To make a dwelling
Really create an inside
Sitting in my house
I look out and realize
The house is part of and sitting outside
And, so am I
Inside out
Categories:
enclosing, riddle,
Form:
Free verse
Carve not a tower enclosing your heart
Allow our breaths to play, let warmth prevail
Sabers fling across moors searching the grail;
While armor of conquest tears us apart.
Unload all hardened marble in a barrow
How far one’s dauntlessness, how near one’s pride
A hallway of song waits as laughter abides
When ripened moment calls for love to glow.
In silken cape, you enchant the regal court
Yet lonely the man commanding alone;
Instead, let us scurry where moonlight roams
With dewdrops on our lips as we cavort.
Harken, weigh not the power you behold
A jester amuses only for a while;
But splendor of oneness lasts to beguile
Come, nurture our castle before life folds.
For Shadow Hamilton's 10th Contest Castle
by nette onclaud....2/1/2014
Categories:
enclosing, devotion, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
God cares* for you truly, more than I do
Offering His best from compassion’s heart
Dearest friend indeed; darling lover, too
Cheering with bliss He does impart.
Affection of His… warms our partnership
Refurbishing relationship’s strong cord
Enclosing us in His divine friendship
Securing our bond through prayer accord.
Faithfulness of the Lord keeps us intact
Ordering our steps for service ventures
Reaching out, sharing His gracious love’s pact
You and I are blessed in His green pastures.
Opulent in Christ’s caring wealth, I stay
Upholding you by faith’s anchoring way.
* 1Peter 5:7 Casting all your care upon him (God); for he careth for you.
Prayer-dedication to my siblings who are my best friends: Manong Rudy, Ading Bert, and Ading Ming
Sonnet in Acrostic form
November 25, 2019
1st place, "Best Friend Sonnet" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Regina Riddle; judged on 12/22/2019.
Categories:
enclosing, appreciation, christian, devotion, friendship
Form:
Sonnet
BOOTS
I treated my new walking shoes today
I Dubbined leather the old fashioned way
And was minded of my first football boots
That reinforced school winter day pursuits
In stiff rough hide of bovine animals
Their toe caps fashioned more like cannon balls
With boots like that when you took to the field
You went out there to conquer not to yield
At boots today we would have looked askance
As more suited for poncey ballet dance
No these were BOOTS, not fancy schmancy pumps
They crushed the soggy grass and mud in lumps
In baggy shorts enclosing legs like sticks
We braved the rainy days and had our kicks
Oh! Happy days, young hearts enthused and hale
Believe that? I’ve a bridge here that’s for sale.
Categories:
enclosing, memory, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
October 17 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Acts 8-9
Key Verse – Acts 8:10 To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.
LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY GREAT AND POWERFUL CHRIST
Lord God, You are my great and powerful Christ,
always working beyond my incapacity
Thank You for healing me of my sin-caused infirmity
Truly extricating me from bewitching worldliness-vanity
Indeed beholding me with Your loving security.
Lord God, You are my great and powerful Christ,
always responding beyond my prayerfulness
Thank You for prodding me to do well with Your gracious steadfastness
Truly convicting me to repent of my unrighteousness
Indeed pardoning me with Your forgiving zealousness.
Lord God, You are my great and powerful Christ,
always granting beyond my desire
Thank You for declaring to me through the Scripture what You require
Truly moving me to believe You along Your revival fire
Indeed making me rejoice in Your bliss that does not retire.
Lord God, You are my great and powerful Christ,
always rescuing beyond my threatened situation
Thank You for accompanying me in my spiritual journey along Your direction
Truly leading me through Your divine vision
Indeed showing me Your goodness with Your compassion.
Lord God, You are my great and powerful Christ,
always upholding beyond my strengthened might
Thank You for proving to me Your amazing and confounding light
Truly watching me by Your counsels so right
Indeed taking me away from harm by Your protecting sight.
Lord God, You are my great and powerful Christ,
always cheering beyond my fear
Thank You for comforting me as to Your heart You draw me near
Truly making me whole against iniquity-affliction’s tear
Indeed enclosing me around Your care I hold so dear.
Lord God, You are my great and powerful Christ,
always comforting beyond my grievous weeping
Thank You for consoling me in my frustration-groping
Truly lifting me up when I lament, miserably coping while hoping
Indeed supplying me with Your blessings that are heaping.
October 17, 2023
Featured as Poetry Soup Poem of the Week, October 22-28, 2023
Categories:
enclosing, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form:
Rhyme
Breathless, he whispers warmth through me
Coloring my mind in hues of fancy, brilliant
Like a smile, his hand on mine, so resilient
Almost as strong as the moon above the sea
Laughter, hungry for his soothing embrace
Romance spilling light all over my thoughts
His kindness has my heart all tied up in knots
Like a song playing endless, full of sweet grace
Yearning, my soul lingers in his alluring sun
Hoping for more of his gentle compassion
Knowing that this love is so full of passion
Even though, in all truth, it has only just begun
My dreams are being created as time is spent
Knowing each other more with each meeting
Enjoying the happiness that he is completing
It’s almost assured that for each other we’re meant
Love and light, joy and imagination, hope and trust
All silence any doubt that this is where I should be
Anyone who sees us with each other is sure to agree
We’re better together and this is more than wanderlust
If you’re in awe of all the glitter you see in our eyes
Listen to the poetry written by the stars in the sky
They tell a beautiful story, all sparkling so they amplify
The wonder that is life since love like this does hypnotize
Listen to your heart, my friend, and always abide
By the truth of its voice when it tells you to hear
Love so alive and dancing with thrills which endear
It is brilliant and wise and in it, affection is magnified
Feelings soar to the clouds, through rain and drought
Enclosing the spirit in splendor so dazzling and clear
There is nothing in life so mysteriously sweet or severe
As this shimmering energy only love can bring about
In his eyes, I see the part of me I can respect
The hope, faith and love that makes me grow
Into the woman whose love brings a happy glow
Filling life with miracles that are so very perfect
Categories:
enclosing, love, romance, romantic love,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
I want to run away
To a place where I belong
The tinsel town and dazzling lights
Have left my heart forlorn.
Like maggot that feed upon the flesh
They have fed upon my soul
Left none to waste
They carved out my woe-begotten dole
They chase me in my car
The paparazzi and media
I know not why I chose to be
This well sought out diva
I have a bed of gold
And food fit for a king
But I cannot sleep a wink
Or eat a single thing
The child in my heart
Painfully craves to be set free
Dark shadows now enclosing
The price was paid by me
Categories:
enclosing, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme