Best Pleiades Poems

Ribbon arcs across skies;
Red, orange and yellow
Revel with blue, green and 
Ravishing violet
Romanced by indigo --
Revealed by raindrops’ slick
Rifts of the sun’s white light


Susan Ashley
April 15, 2021


~ Second Place ~
Contest: Pleiades R Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Kim Merryman

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Porcelain keys create
         Passionate sonatas
         Pitched in dulcet notes through
         Prewritten preludes that
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Dreamscape of daffodils
Designed in acrylic 
Depicts saffron smeared faith
Dawning of balmy views
Deep pink and purple hues
Drifting through musky air
Darling, you'll find me there...

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Vulgar pale appearance
Viscount of blood sucking
Vicious creature of night
Vulture seeking its prey
Venomous fangs hunger
Victims heedless to threat
Veins puncture on impact....

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Impassioned pleas for help -
   inviting God to work
       in people's hearts and lives.
Incomparable peace
    infuses our soul when
        intense prayers are wrought,
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Inception of true life,
  Incitement of new birth,
Immaturity pure,
  Instruction to follow,
Information from books,
  Inexperience but
It leads to deep learning....

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Wicked cold wimp weaving 
       Wrinkled woes on Samhain
       Warlock of witchery
       Waving threefold fiction
       Whilst hanging on chaos
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Only wise when awake
Outgoing like the wind
Opposed to nothing small
Ousts mice very quickly 
Ornery predators 
Outstanding birds indeed
Onlookers are enthralled...

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Believer of starlight, 
Blooming love in twilight
Bestows soft latte skies, 
Blissful faith of peach dyes
Bronze balm in sun's flutter, 
Bright glow of honey in
Butterfly's mauve kismet....

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Nestled paths for signals,
Neutral navy chemists,
New stimuli framers, 
Nurturing dopamine,
Nascent as life's beacon,
Neon nirvana-stars
Nourished in our wine flesh....

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Fairy lights of insects
        Fascinate the senses
                 Flaring in the nighttime 
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Rich get richer as they
ride shamelessly over 
rights, and equality; 
remorseless profiteers,
reaping their lust for gold,
reduce the rabble to
rats in a maze of debt....

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                                      Patience is the first rule
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                                     Cupid nacreous clouds
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Flickering in green gold 
Floating little light bulb
Flying with silent wings
Flightless females await
Flashing to find a mate 
Fluttering together
Flare of sparks dance composed...

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