Best Gild Poems

tenderly ...
as if robin's eggs
I consider the brittle fragments
of her heart, cupped in
my tarnished Tin Man hands -
not taking for granted
the entrusting of their care
I...

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Written: January 27, 2024
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"Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary...

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O glorious Autumn of melancholic 
Gold -
All abouts the brightly lit
Woodlands
Your wonderful artistry behold!
Tinted bronzes,
Darting between awkward firs
Of sobering Evergreen,
Loiter inside mauve havens
Splashed with palest...

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When time stood still, it found us two
on higher ground. A wondrous view
lay below, for it was spread
with jasmine blossoms white and red
and bluebells nodding...

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A harvest breeze invites the leaves
to shimmy on the tree.
In haunting song she sighs and grieves
as on her breath they flee.
They dance and twirl away...

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(For "Focus on Syllables" contest, by Catie Lindsey)

Below we two, 
a wondrous view
Lay below, for it was spread
With jasmine blossoms white and red;
And bluebells nodding...

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we just met
yet ... I know you
as myself, I know you
before now, before then, before time
bounding a meadow through the dew of eventide
careful business for...

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Foggy mists engulfed the bright
When raindrops fell throughout the night
The lampposts glowed at midnights dark
When sweethearts kissed at Lover’s Park

The fluid rhythms, realm of rain
Where...

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For so long, I wondered my life ‘neath the palms
               ...

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My weeping eyes behold the changing sky
O'erspread with clouds of grey where once was blue
With gaze upturned, I heave a burdened sigh
At all the world...

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Black edges a turquoise horizon,
inking silhouettes a cobalt blue.
And shining stars, like twinkling candles,
faintly flicker in and out of view.

Color escapes from night’s dark abyss,
as...

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Ethereal rays of light
dilute darkness into gray.
And black no longer shrouds night,
only shadows defy day.

A spiderweb casts a hue
of iridescent flashes.
And the morning mist drips...

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Summer sunsets o'er majestic Pikes Peak are a wonder to behold.
Unequaled hues gild the western sky in flaming red and gold!
Mere artists will never portray...

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At first was spring, and everything was quenched of every thirst

Summer came, but soon was gone,  it quickly played its game

Autumn, lingers here again,...

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For Timothy Lee, the best of me


Breathe in promised peace, Darling One – feel its ease, with heart try,
and know, as clouds never lose sky,...

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