Best Featherlight Poems

Hibiscus rays of light
herald the sun's stretch from slumber
in a bloom of ravishing red passion- 
Oh! how I despise dawn's blushing optimism
and lust for life!
for I am too young to cry
but too old not to

a handful of heartbeats ago
we crystal-gazed into evening's lustrous orb 
anticipating...

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This is the story of mad Molly Shaw
She might be mad now but she wasn’t before
she came home to find her man dead on the floor
She lay down her bible and let out a roar 

She walked into town with her hair in a mess
Fresh...

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damsel dragonfly
how I envy your freedom
featherlight
fragile and delicate 
effortlessly 
you glide
ever so graceful
with your whispery wings
translucent in the sunlight
in a carefree dance
atop a sunray
onto the next
hovering 
nonchalant



AP: Honorable Mention 2022, Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on February 13, 2019 for 2019 POETRY MARATHON MILE 18 sponsored by...

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I still have that dream of us
on what would be my last day in Uruguay
sitting on a low stone wall
overlooking the vast sea
while the sun is chased away behind us
and the wind gently brushes the hair from your shoulder
to tease at my arm.

Between us is...

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On a breathtaking midsummer day
Catching a ride upon a sunray
Serenely fluttering hovering
Teasingly skipping gliding soaring 
As sweet as a baby's lullaby
A featherlight azure butterfly
Playful flirtatious hits and misses
Purple violets purple kisses



AP: 1st place 2022, 3rd place 2023

Submitted on June 12, 2019 for contest YOUR CHOICE...

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FOR YOU

This is for you, because I cannot reach you
For you because my heart is filled with you
You overflow me, every corner
Of me, every fragile bone
every elastic ligament
All of me is you

I write for you because you are so far away
That I can only talk...

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That night, as so many, I woke
     and stepped, half asleep, featherlight
     out of bed, so steep, or did I forget
As usual I fall, could not make legs
     stand at all.

Lying on the...

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Whispered, sweet nothings,
Skin caressed,
Sheen of sweat,
Barely dressed.
Laboured breaths,
Closed eyes,
Featherlight touches, 
Quiet sighs.
Guttural groans,
A devilish tease,
Animalistic passion,
Begging pleas.
Strong arms,
Heated kiss,
Pure lust,
Discovered bliss....

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Through the fluttering buds, pregnant with
Colourful blossoms in their child green
Cuccoons. Sunlight filters, flittering in a 
Mid-afternoon breeze. It carries the scent of
Ocean tides on featherlight wings.

A spiders web, moist with dew, draws the light between
It's gossamer thighs to refract translucent
Rainbows across quartz crystal strands
To...

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A turning point with
advantage of 20/20 hindsight
identifies severe dislocation
birthing emotional plight
intervening years since psyche wrenched
by rather innocuous event at first sight

exaggerated haunting shadows
sparred illuminated by dim backlight,
now conviction hammered home startdate
coffin unwittingly nailed airtight
death of spontaneous bright
eyed bushy tailed

spunkiness extinguished
gored me lifeless,
asper bloodless bullfight
all entrails...

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music blares, drowning my senses
i see you; the light shines in your eyes 
and glisten like the stars themselves
as if the fairy queen herself has enchanted  
you her radiant light. 

you take your steps toward me 
a smile broadens across  your lips 
revealing...

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weird as it sounds when my thoughts wield their all mighty hold

cast inflictions twist meaning and imply the truth of whats told


I resorted to reason which seems to be a contradiction of terms

of engagement with the enemy and looked for alternative turns


loops of neuronal contraptions...

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To walk with butterflies which seem to dance
greet a hummingbird as it slows the flight
I hold gardens in a tender romance
and feel my skin kissed by wind featherlight
in the midst of it, all beauty is found
as a flower's scent brings the honeybee
while birds glide high...

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Featherlight touches
Fluttering kisses
Thudding heartbeats
One look
One gasp
A million desires erupt.

~ PoeticSoul...

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The apartment leaks footsteps.
Ghosts avoid their featherlight padding.

They dwell in the fabric and pith,
teaching the walls to speak;
fragmented recordings
always threatening to utter
something intelligible.

Who are they, what are they?
Such questions
only arise under closed eyes.

They abide

they arrange and restore
whatever you thought was yours
as you dream of being...

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