Best Guileless Poems

                   A coloratura rises 
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3/2/03
 I saw no way- The heavens were stitched
I felt the columns close
The earth reversed her hemispheres
I touched the Universe
378: Emily Dickenson

The Shape of Death

Because...

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My life spirals ever downward...
The grave taunts me with its laugh.
Death's bony fingers are affixed my throat
As the jester of my unmerited epitaph.

My angst at...

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As we worship, bring the silence
in gracious peace ring down the day.
Stay the light that's stained with violence,
deliver calm, pass ill storms away.

Send to us...

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Standing all alone in the woods;
eyes shut, I feel the lilting light.
Sun dodges needles through the crown,
beams land on my skin softly so.
Brisk breezes quicken...

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How shall I, let your kind and most tender heart go
with its immense depths, sweet kisses, resplendent glow.
I could do no such, no more than...

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For Within Thine Eyes, I See Love's Eternal Gaze, 
- a collaboration with Susan Ashley
 
How shall I, let your kind and most tender heart...

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She curled her tail around her toes,
Covering whiskers, chin and nose.
An ear twitch here, another there;
She claimed as hers the easy chair.

Tormentor of both mole...

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It must have felt like love at first,
The clinging of the ivy vines,
Until his rich red heart had burst.

Her tendrils slaked an ancient thirst,
The tender...

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Oh ...

Spring-tide ...
Always things that juxtapose,
Life never flows as smoothly as a gentle rill 'round a stone.
Brief notes of harmony, torn asunder by a cacophony...

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He assembled in darkness the corroded horn
by familiarity and sense of touch.
Then cast as thunder into the empty night
long tones void of musical melody.
Sustained tones,...

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We warrior poets
calligraphy ride boldly into the foggy fray
Our ancient, iron-will pens
are always getting battle-tested
time and time again     by cloudy blot...

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Colours bounce in euphoric ecstasy
and another day is birthed, in melody,
as the dawn brings forth emerald reflection,
the sun playing on the looms of nature's glee
with...

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Sleepy,
Weepy,

Sweetie,
Cutie,

Babe drools.
It crawls,

On floor,
On four.

Burbles,
Gabbles,

Wets bed,
Cute bud!

Guileless,
Artless,

Chuckles, 
Giggles,

Grows up. 
Sits up.

Child walks.
Child runs.

Climbs up.
Falls down.

Naughty,
Haughty,

Spoiled brat!
Moppet!

Mom’s joy!
Dad’s toy!

God’s gift
World’s light!

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August.2.2022


Brian Strand Premiere Choice Poetry Contest






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Waltzing ‘mongst the redwoods she now meanders
Shyly smiling, candid in guileless virtue
Feeling carefree, gleeful, of threats unwary...
Progress encroaches.


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To Taste, Trenchant Flavor Of Her Soft Kiss
		  
To taste, trenchant flavor of her soft kiss,
        ...

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Imbuing the hour with piquant fog 
an intricate yet final sway of this arc rises:
How autumn’s skyline  reels  into  weaves
as stars orbit...

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       oh there, the dappled meadows held
   our dreams, though unassuming
 love twined amidst the highland fells
like...

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oh there, the dappled meadows held
our dreams, though unassuming
love twined amidst the highland fells
like grasses thresh - sweet saffron flesh 
two callow hearts soft-blooming ...

we...

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I really loved it when
I had that bubbly youthful nature
I’d wake up enthusiastic 
Hopeful for what each day would bring

Years of disillusionment pecked away
And eroded...

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How fresh you are; you are a summer breeze.
I am the leaves of trees.
You blow my way and make me want to dance.
You have me...

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The Perfect Proposal

For us girls it’s the day
We patiently await
When the perfect proposal
finally comes our way

Faceless as yet
We only picture the scene 
Our life long...

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Dismantling Dysphoria -New blood synthesis


All colours evaporated, vitality ceased
Deep agony! Topsy-turvy my life turned 
An inferno of grief engulfed my heart
Surged to the top, pain...

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Unquotable quotes: Outsiders and Odd Men – XXVIII

                 for...

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While the sun lent breath to the moon,
Steadily dropping the dusk of its guileless veil
Oh! Such eagerness in demise, I'd never seen
Madness dripping from the...

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