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Predictable, practical pose
as a simple sentence suggests,
accepting how the story goes,
while syllables shape silhouettes.

~ Simple scribbles serenade me ~

Paragraphs, hold poise and power
while illuminating passion,
and thoughts anticipate the hour,
forms flow in a feathered fashion.

~ Sonnets and sweet simplicity  ~

Playful, parallel poetry
cause positions to part and pause,
dimensions divide, dive deeply,
and lines love to linger, because.

~ Synonyms sing a symphony ~


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* As thoughts twirl, they paint a picture *
        Please the senses with Poetry

   ( 8 syllable count within each line )
Categories: paragraphs, poetry, senses, sensual, simple,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Like a Book

He read her like a book 
as her wistful words poured forth
from deep within the pages
of her tender seeking soul.

He lay mesmerized 
as her paragraphs spoke 
softly to him, luring him
so deep into her soothing spell.

He gently held the precious volume
in his searching hands
while memorizing each and every line
that danced across her parchment pages.

He perused her thoughts 
so deep into the summer night,
word by word, as he sought
to understand the secrets of her soul.

He caressed the palish pearly pages
as her wistful whispered words
tenderly touched the fantasies within his mind,
fulfilling all his dreams,
until the light of dawn began to break.

On this summer night
he read her like a book…

again and again.


August 1, 2022

Poem of the Day - August 3, 2022
Categories: paragraphs, books, love, sensual, simile,
Form: Free verse

Procrastination

Skimming through paragraphs,
I seem to stretch time and shrink my attention 
Underlining words I can't grasp
With my limited span of concentration,
Creating art I can't explain 
Stick men and asymmetrical shapes, 
Spiralling into mazes and dotted lines 
Lost in an alphabet jungle. 
Encircling page numbers, 
Decorating the margins with unflattering flowers, 
Marking pages with , blue, pink, fluorescent ink, washing them dry 
And awfully bright, missing out on the 'fatality rate' mentioned. 
Little wings sprouting from a wavering mind, flying away from topics of discussion.
Dragging my imaginary feet across events in memory;
 faces and voices muffled and in disarray 
Eyes still glued to statistics and rates, 
But seeing ten thousand flickery lights ;
 dreams of glitter and starry nights. 
Thoughts then seem like little bubbles, 
helping me procrastinate much  longer. 
A finger snap would sound like a rifle shot at this point, 
Shattering the world I made, 
And awareness rising from rubbles, 
Would speak for itself, about things I cannot evade.
Categories: paragraphs, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

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Lines

assorted like the washing on its lines
the words appeared along my way
in bunches of neat paragraphs    
they briskly flapped into my mind
still dripping with those concepts they
must have been soaked in for a while

I gladly felt them touching me
and liked their affluent display 
of shapes and textures manifold
enjoyed the pleasant freshness 
of the smell they carried off all
seasons’ winds spiced with ideas           

time passing by would watch me
stealthily try on this one or that so
in their context rinsed with thought
to cool the feverish qualms of my
keen heart and growingly my soul 
seems to be draped in purified attire
Categories: paragraphs, allegory, friendship, life,
Form:

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                             You are my reality ( a reassuring reflection )
                 a believer, an achiever – my expectation


                                              secured symmetry 
                                       illuminating my imagination
                                          - in paragraphs of poetry

                                              ( My reason to be )

 

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    Scribbling Outside the Lines
~ Looking beyond the Ordinary ~ 
* Because You are my Vocabulary *
Categories: paragraphs, imagination, poetry, sensual,
Form: Rhyme

The Crumbling of Ebonies Tower

Unable to somehow escape this castle of want

As an apparition endlessly roaming its corridores

From room to room and door to door; up and down its spiral staircase

Looking at the paintings upon the walls, of another era, gone by....

Desperately seeking something inside, of these bolted moments

Trapped within its confines of self imposed?

Fairytales of created desires; born upon the pages

Of the now, once upon a time....

Sitting in front of the Venetian vanities looking glass mirror

Lights aglow and brush in hand

As voices resound all about, within hushed tones

Whispering a myriad of marmoreal; which haunts her past

Eyes penetrating beyond these reflections; caught behind their closing gates

As a hand reaches out amid the darkness

Her once again trance, broken, by its gentle touch....

Rising from her Victorian armchair, to embrace, his offering of love

The prince of longings arrival ~

Adorned in the jewels of promises long ago written

Across the predestined of the parchments, blood red heart

Two souls colliding....

Crossing these barriers; to the always, of meant to be

Holding the magical key, to these chains that had bound her

Within the chambers of the castles walls; which only he, could ever unlock!

Beyond the balcony of never never lands, forbidden forest

Apparitions of dreams once dreamn't; sealed, forever, between the paragraphs....

As upon a white steed they ride, unto the sunrise, of happilies ever after ~

Into the awakened hand of fates, land of the enchanteds, "Love," forevermore!

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The crumbling of ebonies tower....
Categories: paragraphs, friendship, happiness, hope, love
Form:


Premium Member Write Me - II

Write Me
                your ballad of beliefs
             your epistle of emotions 
           your parable of paradigms
         your chronicle of convictions

                   Underline     Me
                  ------------  -------
                     leave nothing out
                     embrace the honesty
                     bare your naked soul

     Italicize Me
         finesse the cadence
         narrate with engaging elan
         embellish with panache and aplomb

                 UPPERCASE ME
                     Magnify the Momentous
                     Shout from the Summits
                     Accentuate the Ascendant Apogees

     Bold Me
         use your signature font
         imbue me with the vocabulary of your DNA
         ...the glossary of your very own fingerprints

                  *Punctuate* 
                       your paragraphs with personality;
                       your chapters with charm -
                       your stanzas with s t y l e !

                    I am your diary of daydreams
                       your scrapbook of stories
                        your poem of promises
                           your litany of life
                             I am your tale

                                   Write 
                                    me


written 6 July 2023
© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paragraphs, life, write, writing,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member At Least

Our hearts were a veritable slow dance

And I didn’t have to put my baby
In the corner

Our retinas
became diamond forged binds
In serenity’s lock

Dipping
Your tear ducts within our wishing wells

Never
Running
Dry

Our flesh
Bringing lukewarm elasticity
To gentle boil

Every graceful thrust
Mimicking fireplace embers
Under cabin’s winter moon

Until my deep sigh
Embedded paragraphs
Within “Dear John” parchment

…

At least

Trinity’s hourglass
Permitted me to sing I love you choruses

Before your hearts’ phone line
Disconnected

…

©Drake J. Eszes
Categories: paragraphs, dream, life, longing, lost
Form: Free verse

Mending Words

Contrary let’s have a conversation  
Let’s speak to euphemisms 
And pregnant letters of anagrams 

Sentencing fixation declaring persona non grata
Heads chopped for Eskimos 
Sensing heresy and heresy’s 
Running around context to a content 
Telling a novel to a telenovela  
Paragraphs to a paraplegic in paralysis 
Please let’s not sell confirmation to be firm

Brought to be bought 
Needles piercing through a pierced needle 
Mending letters for letter heads 
A grieve sensing tears departing death 
Condolences speaking so well with pain

She’s passed on, on to the ethos-
And incarnations 
Ancestors to an ancestor- 
Leaving God with bill to captures guts;
A man with a liver
Words with a man and it was men 

Independents, depending on what happens 
Independents where are you?
Schizophrenia for frivolous 
Respect for all who respond 

Spirits speaking so well with spirituality
Serving a soul so soul for flesh purpose 
Unity with bones for free 
Miracles doomed and boomed in miraculous 
Listening to a beginning: a sun so sweet for a sweet 
Manifest in emblematic sworn in; the alchemy

Mending Words : THE TRENCHES
THE TRENCHES the pure truth so colorful, so to bring out the beast in a beast; philosophy, spirituality and dreams in priggish ways a fifth chapter.
Categories: paragraphs, words,
Form: Epitaph

Typewriter

Tapping to "The End"

The tap, tap, tapping of the keys
with the carriage thrown 
in rhythmic dings to the letters
appearing on the page. 
Each letter becoming a word
then turning into a sentences 
that flows into paragraphs
of the story living in his head.
Zzzzzzip !!!  Another page finished!!
Followed by the click, click clicking
of new paper being fed to address the
quick flow of his words.

He was at his work and had found
his muse, singing in rhythmic chorus,
through the quiet of the early hours
while others down below try to drift
asleep to the clicking,
dinging and tapping of his keys.
Better still, we all knew, than the pacing
and shuffling of steps round and round
the room--- The attic floor revealing 
the circles of worried creative thinking.

The storyline falls into place 
as the characters breathe on the page 
and new life appears in chapter after chapter.
He pecks on with his typing with writers
ferociously till his story reaches “The End”


5/16/13
For: “The Typewriter” contest hosted by Craig
Categories: paragraphs, writing,
Form: Free verse

Hurricane Warning

One flower almost gray
but visibly not

Brushed by a breeze on
concrete wet

Emerged from a crevasse
along the corner

Forced to hold on to its
limited yellow

Open to suggestion 

More than several
shapes take hold

On a distant wall of
wind emerged tornadoes

Spun in favor of the
days rotation

Coming in from the west

At a 90 degree
declination

Turns to be determined
left or right

Angles perpendicular to
the east

The eye wall wobbling
uncertain to reason

As gray turns to black

Rises with barometric
pressure

Collapsed on the
moments fragile flight

Palm trees hang
suspended, then animate

Fall like paragraphs
pinned down by wind

News wires bent on
facts lean in to learn

There to understand it

Hurricane begins,
uproots humanity 

Removes them like tooth
decay 

Electric lines freak
out, burn on orange red desires

Dangle in the wind in
pain without a smile

Touch puddles as
children walk by

Inclement weather does
strange things

Impacts
the storm track still intact

Leaves nothing behind
or to the imagination

Including its name
which is forgotten

Roads clear and are not
there

Traffic, trees,
people... Poof!..all gone

Storm warnings move on,
hunger for warmth

Looking for a tropical
paradise to wrong
Categories: paragraphs, absence, appreciation, conflict, image,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Hear and Now

The name of this poem is "…" So the first line is shown.
The system would not let me put that in the title box. Sew, so...


...

Hear and now, know here and now, no! No!
It is all wrong, “aint” that a fact?
No. Really… no. 

Aint, paint, saint, I feel faint. 
! Yes. Use that one. ! Use it again!!! (! Symbol and then…)
How about a ? ? (? Symbol for question and then ? for punctuation correct)
That is odd. Let us not discuss txting. (texting, xing, dead when driving)

Small “c”, big “C”, capitalized. 
What about the rest of the letters?
Are numbers okay to use, if I forget how to spell, to, two, too much?
Paints in the box. The letters the shapes the textures of life. 
Smell them. Take them in with every wiff, whiff? (Onomatopoeia, can you sing that?)

Double “dd”, double “tt”, double “oo”, wrong word score. 
Spear, fear, mear, mere, “find the thesaurus”. 
Have you ever spent time reading one?
You should.

The dictionary was badly burned in 1963.
No one nose, no's, knows who set the fire… 
We did not land on the moon. 
It was a sad day, but our people came home. 
Safe.
The world moved on…

Remember when they gave spelling tests?
Three times each and every word, every line, get one wrong then do nine!
Are you still wondering the name of this poem? (...)
Laughter is the best place to begin looking at ourselves. 

Mixed paint in a tray. Pencils, pens, art in words…Free Speech!
Hold on to your flag...
We, all of us… build sentences, 
erect paragraphs and dream up skyscraper stories.
We swirl and whirl words around until they fit together, 
The effort to find the perfect match. 
The ultimate combination of acceptance and understanding.

Authors don’t get to stand and sing on stage, we must be quiet. 
Storytellers rarely receive the time they need to fix the uncertain details.
Maps are lost, tiny jewels fall between the cracks, 
but swiftly pens capture, miracles and even an epiphany.
Patient warriors, working for no one on earth, 
fixed on collecting nothing more 
than the truth.
© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paragraphs, america, christmas, emotions, god,
Form: Free verse

A Freak of Literature

A freak of literature 
Designed by those mad poets 
But escaped the lab: 
the English classroom,
Its me G the hybrid word:
With added punctuation and 
bold character so im strong- 
Arial be my font family but I paced away,
So I ain't close to them
So sorry paragraphs and stanzas!
I guess the writer knows my verses.

A lonely word, a sentence out cast: 
Low self esteem and narrow stem
Serifs sticking out so im teased! 
Roaming the lines, in the bottom line
Seeing meaningless words and incorrect spellings;
Paragraphs hanging in the margins ,
Looking out for erasers and ink removers
No word dreams of spending their literature:
Stroked out; erased and torn out;
Threw in a garbage can: that hell!
O please writers answer us!
We just want to be read in harmony,
And spelled correctly.


We words know:
That these are the last Summarized times 
so the poem might end 
But let me finish up,
The writers know the poetry 
The whole story, they created us!
Words of this Chapter
The freak of literature,
How do I know? it's the writer
The prophecy of the chosen word:
The son of poets and the proper nouns
So they all capital letters,
Yeah! They coming for yeah!

The errors, words that have been erased
The undead, the unreadable 
Damn the legible,
Think they better than us!
Cause they accepted by the writers,
Writing and prophesizing sentences
Those verses forming stories,
It's war: words stroked
Cold inked so they erased,
Torn out papers!
This is deeper than writing!

We all words destined to be read
So some are reasoning,
Is this a verse or a poem?
Many words are beginning-
to question their literature,
Begging writers to write evenly,
No orphans and widows:
We just want to be spaced out, 
Adjustments and justified 
In lined sentences-so we spread out 
Properly uniting calling paragraphs;
Growing in numbers to stanzas,
So all the readers read us as one story.
Categories: paragraphs, deep, image, imagery, imagination,
Form: Verse

Life Is

Life is

Life is never easy
everyone will say it’s true
Especially if the palette
is a dismal shade of blue
More than one can handle
when the weight is far too much
Loneliness and sorrow
and some other things and such

Life is not an object
you can put upon a shelf
Toss into a dresser drawer
to keep it from yourself
Paint it with a magic pen
that’s filled with promised ink
Hide behind a photograph
no matter what you think

Life is not a carpet 
you can vacuum day and night
Gathering the fragments
that have hidden there from sight
Mix it in a blender
till its creamy satin smooth
Pack up in a cardboard box
when you decide to move

Life is not a fantasy
with castles and their kings
Paisley painted paragraphs
or any written things
Butterflies and daffodils
along the garden wall
Nor a day in springtime
or an evening in the fall

Life, though if you look at it
can be so many things
If you just turn in the past
for what tomorrow brings
For it can change, I know it can
A beautiful display
That’s why I’ve written down these words
So to you I can say

Life is what you make of it
each morning you arise
If you wear a smile 
as you open up your eyes
You’ll find a world that’s beautiful
out there for you to see
So come on now, its waiting there
see what your life can be

Ok, not one of my best. But I hope you like it.
Categories: paragraphs, life, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme

Bedtime Stories

Narrating breaths,
Tell the story of love.
Deep...inhales of desire,
Caress the long exhales of passion.

Warm flesh tales read,
Verbalized by each soft breath.
Paragraphs of Goosebumps,
Traced and translated by the tongue.

The taste of smooth ivory skin,
Satisfies...midnight cravings.
As her ardent veins, 
Throb with excitement...beckoning, 
The initiation of our nightly chapters.
Categories: paragraphs, love
Form: Romanticism
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