Best Gilded Poems

When fleeting storm said goodbye
The darkened sky detected a lie
Besting clouds her thoughts host
Drenching doubts that block riposte.

As the cobalt sky and ocean meet
On the sapphire arc revelers greet
The changing season's vibrant theme
In golden attire of autumn's dream.

The sound of wind whirls in trees
Musical tones...

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"The sun shall shine in ages yet to be, the musing moon illumine pastures dim, and afterwards a new nativity for all who slept the dreamless interim."                  ...

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While gilded breath of autumn sighs
Whirling colors of season's dream,
How nature's painting dazzles eyes
On sapphire arc’s chromatic theme.

Zephyrs with zeal rustle leaves gold 
While gilded breath of autumn sighs
Where maples-red flaunt visage bold 
Cheering grief of summer's demise.

Horizon crimson thrills mauve skies
Where twilight’s halo sweethearts...

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Lost in a labyrinth of
Glistening sights
Infinitely out of reach,
Trembling amidst sweeping mistrals, 
Fabricating a life of nostalgic allusions,
Caught in lapsed reveries, of 
Restless arias and faint rustlings
Sequestering my rampant aura,
Bleeding in russet naivety, 
Evaporating in silent elegies....

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Lo' beneigh' the random bield, bewails upo' the leaf
An' lea'e me naught but grief and pain, as moone breaks through the heath
Upo' the gilded braes we kissed, luve sang a zephyrs cry
Where say, my luve, o' fare thee weel, till a' the seas gang dry

An'...

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The Gilded Leaves of Autumn Sigh

As the gilded leaves of Autumn sigh,
I’m haunted by the shadow of a long-lost love.
I’ll always remember the soft song of a summer breeze…
from golden days when we were carefree butterflies.

I’m haunted by the shadow of a long-lost love…
memories of...

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I listen to the waves washing ashore
when the wind is but a breeze, nothing more.
And I sit all alone upon the beach,
looking up at heaven, just out of reach.

Darkness defuses daylight's dimming glow
as a sprinkling of stars begins to show.
And bathed in quietude, I've naught...

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I stare out through my golden cage
The bars of my beautiful gilded prison,
I suck in my breath to let out my sweet melody,
But the air in my prison is putrid, toxic.

I beat my wings at the golden bars,
Of my beautiful gilded prison,
My foolish heart promises...

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I look across the windswept canyons, see the blazing trees.
A gold and russet ocean swells beneath the autumn breeze.

It surges as the highest tide to reach the mountain tops.
An endless wave of beauty rushing on, it never stops.

And in the sky of tangerine, its gulls...

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Flightless Birds Trapped In A Gilded Cage.
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Fledgling innocents incarcerated in a gilded ornate cage
Budding pretty flowers 
Within the blossoming of youth
Of tender sensitive age
. 
Born into an imperial dynasty
By destiny and decree 
A view from a palace window
To the outside world
Was all they’d often see
Far...

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In the city of gilded glamour,
slow motion is seen as an outsider;
a slip of tongue is as common as mocking grins! 
They turn around and criticize,
cursing back with offensive slangs 
at anyone without rush who hates to apologize!

It's in Times Square we actually met,
above digital...

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The Gilded Mirror


I hold my dreams inside my past
Where moonlight glows on rivers fast

And raging temples built in haste
Will dissipate, no longer chaste

O the anthems proud men froze
In gilded frames of priestly pose

Release my shackles! bound inside
My beating heart, where fears reside

At dawn the grassy...

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The gilded leaves of Autumn sigh-		   
   their velvet green has vanished now.	  
They miss sweet Summer's lullaby;	  
   warm breeze caressing every bough.       

Their velvet green has vanished now, ...

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Miasma of night melts in morning’s gilded glow of the sunburst sky

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May 29, 2022
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Dawn's light awakened sleepy eyes ~ twas of sunflowers in the meadow


greeting their namesake
an ochre field in full bloom ~
petals gold gilded


Brown-eyed cyclops swaying in the breeze
Like turbulent waves in roiling seas
Standing upright on stems of great height
Sunflowers bow their heads at twilight



June 9, 2023
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