Best Espies Poems

Sad Sammy starfish, all alone on the beach
Wishes to find  a soulmate, but no one is in reach

He looks around, raises his hands into the air
Is there a lonely starfish somewhere out there

Suddenly Sammy espies upon a rock 
A stunning pink starfish wearing a...

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Equivocal Euphoria


A bird song heralds

a halcyon morn, espies--

wiles of a keen hawk.


2019 May 20

*2nd Place

Writing Challenge 3, May 2019, Nature Haiku
~~Constance La France...

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Lovely to know He is everywhere,
For love blooms anywhere He goes,
Answering every fervent prayer-
The source of endless rainbows!

Knowing just what to do and when,
Every single time, right on time;
So shadow flowers may recur again,
And fruit so blushes at its prime.

And creepers know whence to creep,
As...

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Written: September 15, 2023
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In the halter of destiny, we are all bound.
A monody of souls dissemble and found
With every lynch of trice vicious hand,
We quest to the ossuary of the apex land. 

Yet in this hoedown of life and death,
We descry trices to canonize our...

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Born so meek, far out at sea
She gathers strength, espies the shore
White caps atop her apogee

Escaping ocean's grip, the wave is free
Foam and spray rise high and roar
Born so meek far out at sea

Mounting ever higher she would be
A fount, from her triumphant waters soar
White...

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She'd had her round in Life's blighting furnace,
Where stealthy wear and age blurred her face.
Dents shot where dreamy dimples had grown,
Lightning smiles usurped by involuntary frown.  

In her livelier turns by Midas' glowing shores,
She galloped and gleamed like grated brass. 
Time’s grim cankers fell...

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In whispered silence two hearts run in league
Reluctant each to raise the wakeful mist
By mantle of night and moonlight’s sweet mystique
While forbidden fate hides a lovers’ tryst

The moon espies what hides in gentile guise
Though fate forbid a love one can’t resist
To live, to love and...

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Unquotable quotes: Writers – XXXVIII

     for Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoieski  
     who let not even hope sustain them and who used their own last   
     drop...

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Bright yellow, green and blue
Are some colours to name a few.
And in their daub or scroll compete compare
To the carnival’s lively and zany air.
Powdered faces pale announce
A disregard (of) or speak to superficial self,
As buzzing rides revolve and reel,
While the spielers project and create (their...

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What once was a peaceful delightful place 
Joyful and friendly creatures in God’s grace
A stunning morning a soulful sunrise
A village heaven has gifted a prize
The most grandiose of rainbow arches
The villagers spirited because March is
The time for pleasant picnics by the rill
Fishing for mackerel over...

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My deplorable emotional collapse. 

Lucky for me, she happened to be in her many hour siestas!

My dear sister amelie came over (previously arranged to pick up some rocks that z mama rolled in a pile) and upon opening the front door all internal hell broke...

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Bright are the hues in springtime's overflow
The sad winds proceeds thro' the sensuous room
The flowering garden kept gently reciting
The flowing notes 'neath the sun shaped moon.

The candles flicker and the blue stars glimmer
The dead pools ripple thro' the winds pulse
The light grows thicker, my heart...

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DRAWING WITH INK AND BRUSH

By the corner of the room,
there you'd find the comely girl who draws
and paints with just her ink and brush.

She looks and observes carefully,
and then draws not only what the eyes see
but also the souls of men.

Others like her draw and...

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The sea captain's weathered house still stands above the shore.
'Tis said that the old place is a century old or more.
Its long-shuttered windows face out t'ward the restless sea.
From the widow's walk his bride yet makes her mournful plea!

On dark and stormy nights 'tis said...

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A flicker of light from each eye
Radiant blink of blue-winged firefly
Blipping waves of stardust amplify
Transitory illusions of grandeur apply
Dark shadows with fluttering beams vie
Only telepathic conduit mind's eye espies
Aesthetic appeal lingering memory ties
To the surreal, iris vent in cloudy skies
On short, pulsing wavelengths hope relies
Yet,...

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