Best Lilts Poems

Out of the dark, a lambent, lovely day has dawned
In silvery brilliance the early morning is drowned
In the sapphire sky, the sun has appeared on his diurnal shift 
Over the firmament the vagrant clouds aimlessly drift
	
Pigeons nestle with their fledglings in the eaves 
Bright sunshine...

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Cars are the wind on the streets
semi-truck wheels shriek thunder,
rain shatters against stone and brick walls
on dusty roads, oak trees fence with twigs—
wushu wooden clatters.

Dreadful arrays of dryads
azure and amethyst gossamer haze,
sleek, silken strikes gist an opera of wisteria,
as they sway to silver breeze's sibilant...

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Butterfly rhythms playing on silent wings
 To the verdant refrain of springtime strings

 Iridescent dance of the dragonfly
 Waltzing with the wind beneath azure sky

 Flowers blushing at the kiss of the breeze
 As spring smiles upon the birds and the bees

 Fragrant scent of...

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Lemon meringue sweet-laughter-light
fills shadows cerulean blue.
Café de Flore’s summer hot night
where dreams tangerine rendezvous.

Six strings strumming lavender notes
tones, violaceous lilac lace,
heartbeats' delicate music floats
on fanciful lilts ears embrace.

Conversation thrills with saffron!
Hints, amorous in coral blushed sheen,
lashes flirt, lush fluttered chiffon;
intentions are aquamarine.

French liqueur sipped, yellow...

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Unlike as in the West, there was no dating in our time. After a formal meeting before the family members, the boy and girl will be allowed sometime for a private talk. (that too only if the parents are progressive) If they like each other,...

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Sheer lucid waves caress this oyster beach,
an aqua drowse viewed through a saffron lend,
and siren rip tides coax into a breach
as lambent grains of sand insouciant wend
the dunes of torpid eons through the bend
of hourglasses warped like new-blown glass.
In half-remembered mimes soft breezes send,
behind my...

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Through the gates of Absalom,
steed and gate did ride,
charging fast and furious
o'er centuries gone by;
peace did shout in vain,
the Lidless Prophets...
must come again,
nigh is the evening sky
but full of hope

The ramparts held fast, ballast and beam,
cannon-fire bombasting flesh and bone,
groans of death ---
such dreary breath!
of...

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Written: January 12, 2024
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Their buzzing goes unabated
the cool air scent of lavender
in this unfathomable cosmos
where dreams are fulfilled,
a smidgeon of silver wind
utterly...

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Written: January 23, 2024
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Their melodious humming drifts
through the fragrant night air
carrying a sense of tranquility
In this enchanting universe
where dreams come true
A delicate whisper
of silver breeze captivated softly.

Trees are lavishly graced
with azure...

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The orchid moon and I look in kind
at the dimpled ocean's
aubergine plain, meandering thought's
violet caves.  I've lost my way
in the lavender vortex 
of a tuberous begonia.

A July storm has passed.
Brackish petrichor lilts with the purr 
of surf, now jade in lilac light,
unfolding on mulberry...

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Sometimes when hearts are separated by
a distance cast upon them by life’s fate,
their words sing out across the azure sky
like distant songbirds looking for a mate.

And like these birds that sing love from afar,
I send to you my thoughts along the breeze;
poetic thoughts that shine...

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So gentle is the morn in spring
   as tender as the rose
whose dewdrop petals long to bring
   their beauty to expose.
The warm sunlight and fresh spring air,
the breeze is blowing in our hair.
      The warm sunlight…
...

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An absent spider 
left a tattered web to blow
in rosemary spines.
An ancient silk ruin hangs
in memory of the past,

of disappeared life,
just as the spines turn brittle
to die in summer's
heat and tell a tale of woe
from a once vibrant garden.

The drought is now past,
but the damage...

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Across the room,  harsh moonlight  flares
like a blister inside your eyes…
those gazes piercing into my forbidden secrets
and inadequacies,   numb —
holding me captive among lackluster stars
that prowl on ashes of confession,
an untold reparation wrought by pride:

Candles burn while I lean motionless 
In...

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To run with daybreak’s ambient wind,
sliding past a legion of balmy trees
while  fragrant vapor meets the dew;
like a satin ribbon twirling ‘round 
fresh dawn, awakened:  and it playfully
ruffles my dress through mild whispers
brushing my air-tossed hair:

~One more soft roulette 
of tangy draft pats...

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