Best Immortalized Poems

In an effort to immortalize you,
I gilded ocean size frames in gold leaf
and painted your portrait with peacock feathers dipped in oils.
I spelled out your name in bumble bee wings
still quite attached to tame bumble bees
hovering in obedience and formation in the sky
I built a...

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A guitar man you were born to be
riding the waves of nature's melody
Your first guitar you called your first wife
You started at 13
and you had it in you to be an example
for others to follow in your footsteps 
in the bluesy sort of way

Later there...

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She waited all day long for the evening ray.
Trees were all barren, weather of a colder day.
 
She finished reading the letter, kissed it, lovingly, much
Some words never get old, so full of life those are, such.
 
Then, sunlight was melting down with a magnificent...

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A long journey's home bound was expected in
a time of short,While teasing of others at
their expense was,a practiced doom of a
sport!The teasing and calling of names,
T'was only the guilty one's pointing an
accusing finger at"the house of blames!"
This appendaged tool,that may grasp a pen
so fine,Was the...

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Canvas represents
Features traced with a painter 
In the white beach shore 
About his secret admired
Immortalized with great fame












Example for Cynosure Contest
6-26-2016...

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Star clad
Loving warrior
Feeling the souls of the past
The rich beauty of the black sea
Immortalized honor

Russell Sivey

Username: sivey01

Entrant into Nette Onclaud's "PEN A PENSEE" contest

6/29/2012

Constellation: Orion

Form: Pensee, 1 stanza...

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I thought of my love tonight,

Hoping for a letter,

Or perhaps a word,

But of her I've seldom heard.

 

I thought of my love tonight,

And her veiled eyes;

Open thy curtain,

...There be Juliet,

Not Oedipus blind.

 

And where is Romeo?

Lying by your side?

No, he is dead,

and buried inside;

 

Inside...

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