Best Prismed Poems

Open aired and pastel pillared, vaulting the ceiling; 
This bye to Paradise; & illuminating vision:)
Stand in-violate, in golden tones, in orange hues
in glowing aqua, do...

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Each day at dusk, prismed skies unfold
Pink threads are woven with rays of gold
Sunset's glow is reflected in soft glimmers
on waves rippling in serpentine shimmers
Earth...

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"Up at dawn, the dewy freshness of the hour, the morning rapture of the birds, the daily miracle of sunrise, set her heart in tune,...

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Dedicated, a second time, to our beloved Connie.

At twilight, prismed skies unfold  
Painting Earth in roseate light
Pastel hues brushed on clouds in flight

Pink threads...

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"The sun shall shine in ages yet to be, the musing moon illumine pastures dim, and afterwards a new nativity for all who slept the...

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I've constructed a picket fence around me to keep jackanapes out
Through pickets they can see me, but I never allow them to touch
private parts of...

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"Everything holds a tinge of beauty, something unique,
but not everyone recognizes something beautiful."
            ...

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Enchanted was I with a cloying scent...
whiffs of wild magnolia
mingled with the woodsy tang
of her lemon verbena perfuming the air
Like Samson's strength, the sun's threads...

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fragile
the tiny egg
laid on a milkweed leaf
devoured by a hungry lizard
 deprived of becoming
a butterfly
Life ends

fragile
the butterfly
sipping from a pink rose
becomes the feast for a...

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Sea, I stand upon your shore with the rising of the sun 
as sanguine shades of dawn blend with an amber sky
Long before the overture...

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Everyone sees color differently

some color-blind

yet they know the texture and 
warmth of shades, bland
grays more a product of heart
and not one’s eyes – 

not all...

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Written: August 22, 2023
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radiant echoes
sunrise morns and sunset glares~
lost souls find their way

wavering colors
northern lights dance in the sky~
beauty in chaos

a flower persists
growing through the...

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Fstop. (SNAP!)

our moment.

our pier.
in a split second, 
a single-slipped ray
of animation 
senses and egresses
ambient light  
into the 
cauterized bloodstream 
of two enamored
lovers.

Fstop. (SNAP!)

our reflection.

my...

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#1
ground fog’s servant role
life’s earthly scent offered up
rain drops coalesce

#2
peace is oxymoron
evolution Nature’s plan
soul deepest meaning

#3
understanding flawed
promises are prismed light
God’s word must be felt


Brian Johnston
April...

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the rapture 


Each story fell to the ground
feathers were collected
in the die-off different colours
prismed in the silver dust 
of moon eclipsing sun
the in-between time
where the...

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