Best Scintillant Poems

Starbright

As I gaze into indigo skies,
Stars are brighter tonight,
Twinkling in the darkness 
Of a new moon.
Orion's belt enchants 
My impassioned heart
As my thoughts of you...

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Ave-Maria hymns lift you in flight
to Heaven’s gate apt angel does ascend
and follows lantern's light predawn of night
on star-dust wings for spirit a Godsend.

On April...

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In the days of mystic Merlin and captivating Celtic lore
The Ancient Druids danced and exuberantly did explore
The Celtic Circles of cityscapes and festive furthermore

They gathered...

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Man of melancholy - memories ashen and shadow gray,
heart harrowed, solicits solace from her psychic energy.
An offering, his woebegone weeping wildflower bouquet,
teardrops titian, sorrow scintillant,...

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Luminesence 
besprinkles fantasies
on liquid love
surrounding us.
Riding the ebb and flow,
we rock
we lull,
we ripple
in the reverberations 
of our aphrodisia.
Salty breezes
teases our excitement
as we salute Venus
with sexual...

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Nestled in the woods,
away from sundry glances,
she sleeps in his shadow 
and sighs in dusky dreams.

Her melancholic, frozen limbs 
ache for the warmth of his...

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I watch her in the sky shining like a diamond chit 
splashing her light around in the midnight sombre
she is more beautiful then all other...

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| I Dream Poetry in Darkness and Light |

Unbroken, my light rises like deep alluvion of sweet rivulets,
Craving passions and tragedies like written poetries of...

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Why do the stars die?
What if such light vanishes?
What if glows darken?

Seek new horizons,
Illuminate dim radiance,
Burnish darkened clouds...

Should glows be polished?
Should obscure stellar cores shine?
Are...

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The hymns of harmony
Refer to me alas—
With gallant glowing glee,
And shiny silver glass.

Scintillant starry streaks
Of light cleverly hide
The wakefulness we seek
Between The Worlds' divide.

And fumes...

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Observance
by Michael R. Burch

Here the hills are old and rolling
carefully in their old age;
on the horizon youthful mountains
bathe themselves in windblown fountains...

By dying leaves and...

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 Your love orbits my celestial body causing earthquakes and floods,

Within a calamitous canopy mixing of the barbarous bacterial bloods…

A seditious satellite roaming amongst the...

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Poems about Poets I


The Wonder Boys
by Michael R. Burch

for Leslie Mellichamp

The stars were always there, too-bright cliches:
scintillant truths the jaded world outgrew
as baffled poets winged...

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She knew she wasn't the
first shy girl conned beneath
a scintillant moon.

Why do boys lie so 
- inveigling fabrications
- hoping to impress?

Why interlace fibs,
when, from first...

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The mist of the dew
smokes my vision
before the shadows
that penetrate my mind
because of your fallacies, felonies
and fallible conviction;
that with notable ghostings
they falsify your reason...

Well, I'm...

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