Best Marquee Poems

I met her  in a pawn shop on a warm summer night
When running from the rubble of  my shattered life
To sell a broken...

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A marquee of stars dims, to beckon early winter’s stage;
Reflecting crunched flowers in ghastly hues, detached from their limp boughs.
The nightfall drapes hush of serenity...

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While powdered flakes gently spill from heaven
Like embroidery of gold tassels kissing buds
And hawthorns ,the  frost twinkles and drifts
Unto winter’s  beautifully formed marquee,
tangy...

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I will pedal fast to recover.
To the bookstore! To the library!
Wild for books! The feel, the touch.

Those pages fast or slow, they flip for me.
I...

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Oh how this bodice is dressed in taffeta,
Lined with hundreds of lavender pleats
Spiraling, drooping, whirling
All over my voluptuous contour …
Bare these limbs grinding on soft...

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My Dearest Lee…How we miss thee!
Please come back…here is our plea…
If you’d come back, we agree…
To eat cold Brussels sprouts and a pea
To swim across...

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As she walked across the sand,
receding waves made graffiti
out of the footsteps of a Valkyrie.
An ocean’s city let go of her hand
as we passed under...

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Oh readers, may my brevity be realized in this passage
Oh fruitful earth, may you please ignore our credulity 
Oh bountiful harvest, may you please continue...

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delicate lace linked by crochet
labyrinthine stitches a doily a day

counted by repetitious candlelight
motherly hands of preponderant foresight

twisting and surrender of silent threads
tucking each one into...

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Passing through a moist and darkened wood -
heading home, I gazed above a lea.
Suddenly I'm not where I should be,
Rising in wonder, my eyes tattooed!

A...

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A galaxy 
lives within me
through sky’s marquee
my heart beholds

one earth’s design—
as  moon, lake twine
in peace, I shine
from heaven's mold.



Desiderata Contest--nette onclaud
Franco Gonza  7...

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A  nightingale perches on a hillside,
Through its lilting notes,  crimson the  fields reap
As  October sparkles on grasses dyed
When rising of dusk...

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*Image of Betty White by Pinterest.



Betty White RIP



Alas!
She Passed,

Betty,
Firstly,

Then White,
Finite,

Icon,
Like On,

TV,
Marquee,

AM,
FM,

Invest,
Her Best,

Female,
Prevail,

Guinness,
Booked As,

Premiere,
Career,

Shadows,
Gameshows,

Mary,
Murray,

Ted And,
Sue Ann,

High-Strung,
Sharp-Tongue,

Antics,
Frantics,

Leaven,
Seven,

Golden,
Stolen,

Bea, Rue,
Stan Too,

Miles And,
Nylund,

Fourth Gal,
Estelle,

Neighbor,
Failure,

Drop Dead,
She Did,

Gun Shot,
In Shock,

Hearts Race,
Shot Vase,

Herring,
War...

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A cardinal whips its trilled zest
Where fields extend into a mile;
That upon bright April's request
My toes wiggle here for a while...
I pause as sunrise paints...

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Marquee gave me a choice.  "What would I rather be, a better writer, or to be  able to use my  computer?" They...

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