Best Northern Poems

In the silent breathing of night,
treading through 
the darkness and the hush
(A heavy band of slave)
like black ants snaking
through the forlorn distance.
Grieving with tears
Of yesterdays burning anguish. 
They hum a languid song
On the fragrant breath of wind.
A haunt that invades my trembling eyes 
With a...

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Your love is real 
the love you feel.
Your love is great 
the love you make.
Your records are on fire 
its your desire.
Take me out tonight
and go wild and crazy, 
or be fat and lazy. 
So I played some Doors 
and saw some whores. 
So I...

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rainbow at twilight 
shimmering northern lights glow
Monet paints our skies

(Contest:Instant Telegram
Sponsor: Nathan D - was contest never judged)

Submitted to any poem written in Feb 2016
Sponsored by Laura Loo

02~19~16...

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white icelandic snow
beneath natural light show ~
emerald green shroud


Written 26 January 2020


For contest Nature themed haiku with color...

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With the autumn
like the trees
I turn
and shed my graces
bare
but for mustered 
reservations
for a long nights 
depression
that's as faithful
as the seasons




11.30.17

Composed for Russell Sivey's
Choose A Topic: Depression and Sadness

Submitted to Laura Loo's
Free Verse: Winter Blues
2nd Place

Submitted to Julia Ward's
Your Favourite Free Verse Poem From October 2017...

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They are not from Chiang Mai,
they are a tribal people
who speak a hill language.
They ride through the night
on bicycles to settle at dawn
beside the Ping River.

Girls' unroll rattan mats
squat beside straw hats brimful
with the tang of burgundy chilies
They have vegetables
grown in lime green waters,
parched salty...

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malibu coconut rum
cuppa dark hot cocoa
peppermint altoid
ginger altoid
heavy cream
hot mug
swig...

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...my reality ceases to run marigold flowers burn
Running along the green horizon
The earth, and every common ground,
Awesome to me just beautiful, hey...
Paralleled in celestial light,
Galaxies surround greys hues of purple brights;
thousands of aeons of yore;-
Churn planetary consignments birth born  
O' northern star, my darling...

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a disproportionate amount of night is lost
        as we close doors and shut curtains
take my arm, walk with me
 I'll never be this beautiful again
        nothing will
    ...

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The Northern Lights have always been associated
   with myths - fairy tale - mystery and legends
   One of these is that the Northern Lights
   are light that dances in the sky
   together with the goblins and trolls
...

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northern lights rehearse

hibernating bear blinks, yawns...

     first cold blanket sown...

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Starstruck

Gazing at the stars in the nighttime sky
A shooting star reflects an awestruck sigh.
The Northern lights make their appearance nigh
With vivid colored ribbons soaring high,
They penetrate my soul and mystify.
A cosmic gift to almost deify,
The wind joins in to sing a lullaby, 
I feel conjoined...

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Lament

Brooding days,
     Vanquished in the unconnected gloom,
            Shower frost,
Standing watch at dawn to pierce the morning
With an artic tempest,
Swirling ‘cross a land lost in forgetfulness:
     ...

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When the solar winds stir magic
Unleashed beauty a riot of colour
It undulates and swells, ecstatic
In darkness I stand and wonder

Colours sublime capture my mind
Turmoil of life far, far away
Life on hold not counting time
Arura Borealis forever and a day...

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Upon the stage, curtains wave and part;
halos arise from black velvet canvas, an aurora-lime dance.
Arced streamers among the nimbus lends it’s flavors of cherry and 
orange, personality to a taste of the ethers.
A display of lavender-pink tones are electric kisses and promenade. 
A luminous do-see-do...

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