Best Etchings Poems

I hope to grace this page today 
With  musings from my soul
And write between the lines
The greatest story every told
In trails of crimson etchings 
Bleeding from an open heart
As line by line  my inhibitions
Simply fall apart

A spirit free from earthly bonds
Oblivious to ...

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On the canvas of life, your signature lies,
Etched onto my granite heart, and the ever-changing skies.
Your essence, turned my primary colours, to vibrant schemes,
And now, in every hue I see that it’s you tinting my dreams.

You recoloured my world, breathed life into grey,
Transformed rigid contours...

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in soft outline
strokes
whorls&
      stains
cropping close
 
    piercing black
upright
&
 informal
  imaginary &surprising

 ambiguous
perhaps
 an allusion
      
 something from
 nothing
      refined
evocations
of
minimalist
  tracery...

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On the cold harden stone carvings names remain,
Charcoal etchings sketching’s, rubbing’s of forgotten history,
Textured rows of this human bone yard called a cemetery.
Rough carved gray monuments to life’s fragileness,
Isolation chambers of remembrance lie hidden beneath
This earthen soil, as for-get-me=knots floral arrangements
Garnish these graves of emotional...

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Walls stripped bare of time.
Symbols shinning through
moon phases
piled as sand.
Carvings of past hunters
speak a bewildering code,
of lives washed from history. 

Meaning vanished.

Impression conveyed.

Time has left the message,
and betrayed the creator.
His flesh gone
language scattered.
A people swallowed by disease,
and famine,
storm and drought,
war and disunity.
The only evidence of...

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hoarfrost coats the grass
etching it 
like acid on a metal plate
defeating the
morning glories 


*10/20/12...

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ETCHINGS

Ebony chalk  e t c h e s-
Easel full of parchment
exasperating me-
Edges of drawings that
elude my skilled talent-
E N D L E S S  soft artisan...


Pleiades E - Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Kim Merryman

Date Written: September 16, 2016...

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Euphoria


E~ Enchanting ecstasy at each glowing    
      thought of you.


U ~ Unreserved understanding that I do
      not write the script for the planet.


P ~ Plato's philosophy is divine, to 
      question all things mercilessly.


H ~ His Hellenic eyes, sparkling from
       Olympus, calling me.


O...

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Etchings of sunlight, 
Shatter a glass world, 
A glass heart.
Melting the grains,
To create, 
To deceive the eyes,
To make love.
A puddle of molten glass,
Is held,
Shaped, 
And without meaning to,
Reformed delicately, 
Lightly,
Lovely...
So lovely...
He can't stand it,
The feelings that surge inside of him,
Of lust,
Of vanity,
But mostly of
Pure
Unadulterated 
Affection.
I...

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watching as twilight
crept over the brothers
and stars being re-birthed
to fortify the Great Wall


street lights line to ignite,
the shimmering black mantel
concealing azimuth,
and seductive ebony lips 
slide,over the lamp


once more,
A visage of ivory
looks upon earth
on the cusp
is where your found,
a palled specter
drifting shadow to shadow
passing as
a will-o-wisp...

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ETCHINGS
 strokes
whorls&
stains
cropping
  close
 to the
 frontal
plane

intense
insistent
 strange
piercing black
beneath
anguish
in isolation
calm
upright
&
 unaltered


NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique...

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wisps of clouds
drawn across blue skies
celestial calligraphy
gracefully etched
i try to read the message 



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on October 27, 2022...

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image making
                     at the epicentre
                    ...

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Years arrive and leave, 
Winters roll and weave
Lines around your eyes
Making you look wise.

Wise enough to know 
Every wind to blow
Leaves its time and trace 
Furrowed in your face.

Lines of love and grief,
Hate and disbelief,
Rage, and loyalty, 
On your face to see....

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Years arrive and leave, 
Winters roll and weave
Lines around your eyes
Making you look wise.

Wise enough to know 
Every wind to blow
Leaves its time and trace 
Furrowed in your face.

Lines of love and grief,
Hate and disbelief,
Rage, and loyalty, 
On your face to see....

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