Best Noontime Poems
showers at noon
drip through our heels--
carving footprints
on leaf- whisked mud
*
taking boots off
cleansed by soft dew--
we pause 'neath oaks
to learn rain's dance
8/5.2019
Charles Messina's Charlie-Quadku Contest
the glare of noontime
scorches young August petals
rain taps on wild blooms---
and summer cools her flamed heat
to gently fondle morn’s dew
Tanka Written With a Decent Pivot
J-ust view
E-very daybreak,
Z-one of dawn is lovely,
Z-enith waits for the beacon to
A-scend.
Topic: Birthday of Jezza Panuncial (April 30)
Form: Acrostic Cinquain
It's a glorious, beautiful noon
I wish were dressed in green;
spring is around the corner.
Hosanna! Lavenders will soon be
in bloom and smell so sweet!
I'm sitting here
on a weather-beaten bench
watching birds hopping about,
tap dancing with their beaks.
Strangers walk past me, left and right
Yonder, the afternoon sun
hovers above a tamarack tree
being gently stirred by the zephyr.
I just spotted an eagle
commanding the sky solo
Hope floats happily
in clusters of alabaster clouds
It's powdered in faces, too
It makes my soul sing a song
with the cheerful birds
How beautiful is today?
*written outdoors in real time*
03/07/2021
No person had relief,
noxious spreading disease,
notorious caused deaths,
nobody quite possessed,
now last rites are given,
noon time clock is ticking,
noose hangs unforgiven.
4-23-17
R-ay
I-s the
Z-enith's light,
Z-one of brightness
A-ims to emit beacon's shine at noontime.
Topic: Birthday of Rizza V. Quiroz (April 17)
Form: Acrostic Tetractys
E-arly
M-orn
M-akes
A-nother
N-ewness
U-nder
E-ffulgent
L-ight
M-eeting
E-very
R-ay
A-s
N-oontime
A-waits
Topic: Birthday of Emmanuel E. Merana (January 01)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Z-enith
A-rea
C-hooses
E-levation
Z-one
E-agerly
K-eeping
I-ts
E-ternal
L-ight
E-rasing
C-loudy
H-ighway
A-t
N-oontime
O-penness
Topic: Birthday of Zac Ezekiel L. Echano (June 08)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
S-un
H-as
I-mmediately
E-rased
M-orning
M-ist
I-n
R-ay's
I-lluminate
E-arliness
H-elping
Y-ou
S-oar
H-igh
A-bove
I-nto
Y-our
N-oontime
Topic: Birthday of Shiemmiriehy Shaiyn (June 15)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
H-eat
A-nd
S-un
S-ee
A-nother
N-oontime
Topic: Poet (Hassan Hayati)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
M-orn
I-n
Y-our
A-rea
M-akes
A -nother
R-eturn
A-s
S-unrise
I-s
G-azing
A-t
N-oontime
Topic: Birthday of Miya Marasigan (May 22)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Z-enith
E-mploys
N-oontime
A-ppearance
I-n
D-aylight
A-s
L-ucid
E-ffulgence
O-pens
L-oveliness
I-f
G-low
A-bounds
O-bviously
Topic: Birthday of Zenaida Leoligao (November 18)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
T-he
A-pparent
N-oontime
Z-enith
I-n
L-ife's
A-spect
R-emains
E-xceptional
H-aving
M-irth
A-nd
T-hrill
Topic: Poetess (Tanzila Rehmat)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
D-awn
I-s
O-ffering
N-o
I-solated
S-hadow
I-n
O-pen
D-aybreak
O-r
M-orn
A-s
N-oontime
T-ruly
A-waits
Y-ou
Topic: Birthday of Dionisio L. Domantay (May 22)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
A-pex
L-ets
Y-our
Z-enith
Z-one
A- chieve
L-ight
U-sing
B-eacon's
R- ay
I-nside
N-oontime
Topic: Birthday of Alyzza F. Lubrin (May 9)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic