Best Pleiades Poems
Porcelain keys create
Passionate sonatas
Pitched in dulcet notes through
Prewritten preludes that
Piercingly vibrate when
Pianists softly press
Pedals to enhance tunes
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
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.
Impassioned pleas for help -
inviting God to work
in people's hearts and lives.
Incomparable peace
infuses our soul when
intense prayers are wrought,
instilling faith and hope.
Kim Merryman
2/23/17
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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Only wise when awake
Outgoing like the wind
Opposed to nothing small
Ousts mice very quickly
Ornery predators
Outstanding birds indeed
Onlookers are enthralled
Inception of true life,
Incitement of new birth,
Immaturity pure,
Instruction to follow,
Information from books,
Inexperience but
It leads to deep learning.
Wicked cold wimp weaving
Wrinkled woes on Samhain
Warlock of witchery
Waving threefold fiction
Whilst hanging on chaos
Wretched and worthless from
Worn out dry iced love spells
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.
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.
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.
Fairy lights of insects
Fascinate the senses
Flaring in the nighttime
Feel the magic moment
Filagree wings in flight
Flitting in a bright dance
Free flow sparks of wonder.
Written on 9/12/2023
Patience is the first rule
Passionate harmonies
Playfully on the keys,
painted in black and white
Prelude in E minor
Piano ... played all night
Price; be famous and rich
Cupid nacreous clouds
Cradled near setting sun
Creamy temple pillars
Cyprus grow in spirals
Cloud nine is for lovers
Clasp me close in your arms
Closer to the divine
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