Best Mid September Poems

when everything was possible
when everything was new
when my heart beat out of my chest
and found it's way to you
 
when skies were emerald green 
and...

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Outburst of joy from the silvery streaks,
Of skies with blue and clouds that speak -
Silenced by the breeze, the waves flow through
Washing the past...for a...

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A stranger
Odd
Sad
Quirky
Unwelcome
Ignored
Once extended a courtesy
Cannot do enough
For her new friend
Stranger no more
Odd means unique
Sad is empathetic
Quirky translates to self-assured.
Unwelcome is ignored.
Best friends are born!

Written 9-11-2018...

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Any teardrops that I can borrow?
In those Spanish eyes of yours
In those big brown Spanish eyes
of yours
 
 
Senorita Sorrow
Can you run away with me...

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The queen of birds Sari dear lived in the mango tree
              ...

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--Her Name is Synesthesia --

 I imagine color so vivid 
  leaving those lips--
   as if a doorway 
to another dimension.

Each hue...

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Winding  down wrinkled bumpy lanes ,  halting steps not taken back 
Barefoot strolls over hot rough  streets,  skimming across smooth asphalt...

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“ the problem with Equality is that we desire it only with our superiors”


“Equal were all and happy they all were,
Deceits and falsehoods were unheard...

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A black fruitbat
swaying across the 
half moon_
of mid-september...

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THORNS

I walk naked among the thorns of life
waiting to breathe in a sweetened spice 

Scratched and bruised I overcame,
and remained patient just the same.

A wary...

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The Wind

It’s a dark night

I hear the whistling 

through the trees

“Pitter patter” the sound of the rain falling

I closed all the windows and all the...

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The daylight's gone and dusk has come,
The heavens make a mumbling sound
Of raindrops on my window glass-
It brings me to a soulful past.
I travel back...

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PSYCHEDELIC SUNSHINE

psychedelic sunshine,
with cephalopod rays,
stretches upward
to the blue-eyed heavens.

commander of sea and skies -
the waistline of the bittersweet sun -
under the tendril waves.

sweet suckers stamp...

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feeling exposed as mud splatters,
the cotton clinging and drenched
chattering teeth, seething relief
as the sun warms the rancid smile
of bulbous peaches pressing,
depressing and like an eclipse,
a...

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fire
wild, torrid
crackling, consuming, liberating
passion, heat, chill, frost
freezing, seizing, imprisoning
solid, compact 
ice




Submitted on September 18, 2018 for contest MID SEPTEMBER 2018 PREMIERE sponsored by BRIAN STRAND

Originally...

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