Best Jaunt Poems
Around the Corner...around the corner...just!
light brilliant...trees freshly brushed...
a breeze meandering through the grass...
a baby blue sky, an occasional cloud shaped and reshaped,
...a waterfall ro......
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Categories:
jaunt, introspection, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Where Cheerful Robins Dance...Gleefully you and I smile from a scenic window on life
Enchanted by nightfall befriending quixotic autumn sky
Embossing crimson brushstrokes on vermilion arc
Akin to a painting in classical style ......
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Categories:
jaunt, imagery, nature, travel,
Form:
Free verse
On the Backslide...another somber rise of day through autumn's reign
where clouded thoughts backslide through eyes
while the anguish of my pain lies misted in the lash of october's skies
i watch as the breeze strips......
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Categories:
jaunt, autumn, feelings, sometimes,
Form:
Free verse
A Time of Change...A time of change awaits you, friend.
It crouches on your track.
It peeps its head round yonder bend
and knows you can’t go back.
And being time, itself it bides,
(albeit a time of change......
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Categories:
jaunt, change,
Form:
Rhyme
The Restless Sea Historical Quatrain For Contest...THE RESTLESS SEA
As dawn swept 'way the morning stars
A gloomy Helen glared
Poor Paris stood in silence-- watched--
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Categories:
jaunt, history, men,
Form:
Quatrain
Shodden Down-Trodden...My shoes lie prone like dogs waiting for a new adventure
Will it be a soft seashore shuffle?
A jaunt through the mall, all dusty with grime
A plunge to tippy-toe into mud and puddles
A climb up a......
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Categories:
jaunt, clothes,
Form:
Free verse
Weaving Tears Among Saturn's Rings...She ventured far beyond Earth's realm
past cordoned confines of heart and soul
Tumbled, as did Alice, down the rabbit hole
Drifted, like an Autumn leaf blown from an elm
She soared past di......
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Categories:
jaunt, adventure, love,
Form:
Verse
Ode To Vigan City...Take your halcyon moment, have your blissful jaunt
Explore the northern hills and rivers, their helix flaunts
From zigzag paths of the south, from verdant plains of the north
Passing by the west c......
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Categories:
jaunt, beauty, dedication, nostalgia, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
The Night In Goa...Sleep, my love, near placid waters
Under a pale moon that lights the way,
Mosquitos resound their ranks to attack
A humble cottage where you and I stay.
I forage through your hair like the tiger......
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Categories:
jaunt, love, lust,
Form:
Sonnet
The Bleeding Sky...There’s a line of flapping, red-starred flags,
they wag their rags, as dogs wag their tails,
when the master’s home;
and the summer wind taunts their linen
crease; then takes them on a merry ......
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Categories:
jaunt, history, patriotic, remember,
Form:
Verse
Easter Bird...The Sinai Rose finch, oblivious to the commotion in the nearby city, busily gathered dry grass and floral fodder to repair her nest, disturbed by a human behemoth, snatching the thorny brambles which......
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Categories:
jaunt, bird, easter, nature,
Form:
Prose
Retirement...How do I start retirement? With grandsons galore, cooking and cleaning, barrel of fun, and a runway to the twin cities. What’s next, you ask, on this escape from my library duty? Well let’s say it ar......
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Categories:
jaunt, life,
Form:
Haibun
Knock, Knock!...Knock, Knock!
Who is it that goes there,
It is me; I am in your air,
And a deep root we share.
Knock, Knock!
What on Earth do you want?
It is me, the one they daunt.
But you and I have to ja......
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Categories:
jaunt, dedication, devotion, faith, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
Conventional I'M Not...My steady eyes observe a jay
lodge against the fissure of night
To glide at morn, its rebellious cruise
as plumy wings reach hills and skies, and orbs:
Somehow, I feel each turn of reels
identi......
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Categories:
jaunt, image, self,
Form:
Blank verse
Split Wide Open...“Love is a power so strong, yet if compressed without
outlet, it is as good as stagnant waters"---by poet
As we roamed under the star spangled sky,
Sharing many a trivial though......
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Categories:
jaunt, destiny, emotions, i love
Form:
Free verse