Best Illuming Poems

PROLOGUE
The Flame, aflicker, licks and flays,
illuming evening’s negligees
With braided curls she swirls and sways,
and flits and floats in light ballets

           APOLOGUE
A Flame, to conquer creeping fog,
flew dancing towards a random log
Her flight perplexed a leery...

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A bright announcing beacon

Of that divinely vivid moment

Casting out it’s cleansing light

For all to see and partake of

Calling the Magi to the manger

Purity of deference for the Messiah

Illuming human shadows with belief

Granting all the peoples a choice

And the gift of chance for…eternity...

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Bozhidar Pangelov&Vania Konstantinova/In Memoriam/

Under the Coat of Arms 

In Malta, in the ancient walls
is beating the sea so salty.
Somewhere behind,
distant,
hidden
are shining through southern almonds.
There is no moon.
The light is illuming 
herself
in the pearl of your eyes.
Harmonious.
Without gunshots
of the squadrons by Lepanto. 
The falcons on the...

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She landed on my moon,
Even though she was from Pluto
Too cold, to get too close
Her confusion kept us from fusing
She felt she shouldn’t feel this
So insisted I was an illusion
Yet and still kept intruding
She knew my light was to illuming to elude it
But too deep...

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The brisk Autumn breeze
crisply smiles and leaves
inviting seasonal ascendance.
Past dark hollowed eaves
her departing breath weaves
a path for Winter's wondrous entrance.

Courtly canyons kowtow 
the mighty mesas bow
sparking December's grand revival.
Barren branches applaud
as mountain peaks laud
Jack Frost's ever welcomed arrival.

Carols liltingly sung
whilst wreaths are gently hung 
silver...

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Streaming dust specks of his aura left as evidence
A celestial being formed of stardust *
To adorn him any less of his scintillating charm,
his signature star walk, or shimmering trails,    *
I’d need to resign to an asylum to deny a twilight of stars
To...

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Moonlight eyes 
cold as night
retrieving from love 
its light 
orbiting around 
in cycle
repaying hurts 
real or imagined 
with lie of pretending 
to vanish.
Bitter sweet 
debris
storming 
clear water of love
with turbulence 
midnight darkness
ahead and beyond
only light 
limpid in the night 
the I Am Star
Sun of midnight...

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My little silver shooting star,
such energy you do possess:
A chilling, silky elegance, 
from you, I would expect no less.

You twirl about me gracefully,
illuming, as I lay you down.
The planets play a raggish tune
while diamonds jive about your gown.

My little white marionette,
oh are you meant to...

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Johnny MacAlister was six-years-old, young enough still for wishes,
Baby sister, Rosie, was all of three, all giggling and adorable kisses.

With fond, indulgent parents, the family was content in their home,
In a town, sleepy in sunlit day, where a scarlet cock used his comb.

Johnny played with...

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Your vision is delicately illuming the edge of my mindfulness. 
A significant pondering in the lucidity of my spirit otherness. 
Leaving me with a grin in the corner of blissfulness. 
Had been enclosed by the heavenly palms of awes kindness. 

I was stuck in the...

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Binge fiend of opulent fear. Between two way mirrors sponsoring fright, pale sheets of red color paint. Tell me if you believe in the boogey man. 
Does it nip the tips of your toes while you sleep? Dreams of animosity teethed at the hair strewn...

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Motivation of complexity,
A web of mystification where
The beauty of numbers emerges…
Holding the meaning of logic, of
Equality, of righteous thinking,
Making the world more meaningful, 
As it modifies what is unknown… its 
Trance enraptures the minds of many,
 Illuming the world with brightness, with the
Chants of knowledge,...

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miasma of despair
       motionless
         matter-of-fact
in brooding silence
                        loneliness
a...

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Love all the elements exposed to.. growing up free,
gentle winds, warm rays, light snow.. all nurture me.. 

Bowing down head, believe.. I love soft rain most,
sprouting up untethered, I wind up round fence post..

Sharing...

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lowering lids 
on starry eyes
velvet black 
on moonlight 
smile
on silence
mantle
slept
day from work 
to rest
illuming lips
stone fire
heat
love jets
fountain
drunk head
pierce
ball exploding
in meteors
streams
vagabond
love
star wish
dream
circling forever 
in firefly 
spring
clock hands
embraced
in nostalgic
glee
dew sparks
smiles
that sigh
and flee
vagabond
ecstasy
love spring
mystery


Honorable Mention-Brian Strand-Your Choice K-4/8/25
Seventh Place: Craic Cornish-Vagabond Dream-9/10/21...

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