Best Sensory Poems
Frame feel
Hope heals
Taste time
Rich rhymes
Smell stuff
Prize path
Heap health
Write wealth
Touch thrills
Warm will
Prize poise
Charm choice
Reach right
Sense sight
Glimpse gain
Prompt plain
Leon Enriquez
11 February 2018
Singapore
Written: October 21, 2023, For Mohan Chutani Minichu Dream Contest
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Orchards in glowing pink
dream blossoms swung in a tone of crimson pattern
nectar drink
would dare to dream
orchid bow bring bright breath batten
wind stream!
ghost chime
the moon may learn
climb!!
orchards in glowing pink
orchid bow bring bright breath batten
climb!!
What’s left of my mind
when I open my mouth
is the part I could never say.
What’s left of my mind
when you open yours
is a place I hope we can share
free of alone-ing despair.
What’s left of my soul
when you open my eyes
soars through our blue
and brown thrilled skies.
What’s left of your soul
when I'm lost in your eyes
hides a smile for our prayer
"Send us light,
send us light,
send us light."
What's left of my heart
when I open your tears
screams for relief
from my mad
and our bad
sad climate fears.
What’s left of your heart
when I open mine
is a gift I most need to hear.
What’s left of your soul
when I'm lost in your eyes
hides a smile for our prayer
"Send us light,
send us light,
send us light."
Her lavender essence daily presents
It announces her iconic presence
Hard high heels knocking past my office door
Her fast feet fleeting over the flat floor
Peaking rewarded me with a vision
Her profile store memory revision
Dear like head light looks reduce my stature
I Velcro rip my eyes from her rapture
I taste thick clouds of pheromones mid-air
Magnetism draws me away from my chair
Blind ignorant flawed emotions lead me
to a place where love and life cannot be
I hear my name but it’s just a mind game
My senses cheat me to a dying flame
fragrance
overwhelming
olfactory assault
unexpected punch to the nose
bloodied
Windy chill
Skin feels cold;
Hint of rain
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Tropical sun
Cranky and hot;
Punishing heat
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Grand harvest here
Nature provides;
Gratitude grooms
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Busy street corner
People rush about;
Busy distractions
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Train ride detours
Rush hour ventures;
No time to stop
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Old lady limps
Knees buckling;
Decipher Ageing
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Old photographs
Sepia story tells;
Dead mother's gaze
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Memory resides
Old family album;
Still life portraits
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Midnight alarm
Sleepy reminder;
Dreamy surrender
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Polling station
Ballot box;
Secret vote
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Sensory feel
Dreamy detours;
Misty mirage
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Bamboo leaves
Windy rustle;
Hint of wetness
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Leon Enriquez
09 September 2015
Singapore
Dark silence I embrace
Dark silence slows the pace
Dark silence cuts my frustration down to size
Dark silence quiets the chase
Dark silence relaxes my face
Dark silence cools my eyes
By Robb A. Kopp
All Rights Reserved © MMX
Tonight I smell musical notes in the air
as I taste babies breathe springlike smiles
and I feel the voice of reason
as I listen to velvet dark chocolate
while I see myself clapping angels
hands in the azure clear skies
As I have greater faith now
in my God's reality for me
through him a cultivation of a keen
sixth sense leading to a higher self
Love now blind for humanity
as I am now a multi-sensory being
intuitive, mystic, and psychic
a higher level of reason achieved
to care more for the universal common good
and in turn life better for my womanhood
By Susan Mills
Contradistinction
opposed quality and form
our eye's can fool us...
Contradiction speaks
opposed word choice inflection
our ear's can fool us...
Conventional truth
learned behavior mounts as,
our mind can fool us...
Indifference comes
vibratory energy
collective magnet...
Imprisoning textures
and routine lectures
in loneliness,
"your own fault"
"not Other's loss"
blame
shame
dipolar co-arising
Loneliness effacing
cognitive/affective reason
and denying access
to more social future seasons
Including primal memories
of self-appreciation
self-sufficiency
communication resource-fullness,
And yet,
and yet,
Beneath such reasonable busyness,
when I can sustain
opulent MeWe identity,
Even so,
even so,
EgoWe remains curiously distinct,
courageously Not Othered,
curiously not yet Othering
Embracing
peak biosystemic health,
abstractly known integrity
falls short of panentheistic lust
specifically touched
sensory
and sacredly sexual
mystery
Mysterious loneliness sees,
smells,
hears,
tastes,
appreciates
deeply depreciates
absence of fully embodied
love touches
of verbal sound,
of nonverbal skin
hair
fingers
toes
and other shyer shows.
Loneliness knows opulent warm textures
and peak sensory beauty
Effaces more theoretical reasons
win/win
for co-empathic healthy seasons
Of nurturing resonant,
full-embodied resilient,
Self/Other recombinant
transubstantiating
panentheistic full-color wealth,
PolyPathic
PolyPhonic
PolyCultural
PolyVagal
not yet climate loneliness
chronic traumatizing despair
Including multiculturally evolving SelfAppreciation
BioOrganic revolving SelfSufficiency
CoOperative involving resource-fullness.
cut off
deprived
magnetized
sensitized
to crave
desire
ache
the longing
touching
caressing
skin tingling
reacting
sensations
heightened
devouring
sole passion
AP: Honorable Mention 2022
Fresh warm cakes smell like your home,
as if a friend on the phone.
It can make you feel calm, safe.
A part of you – flesh and bone.
ESP extra sensory perception
the ability of some to see the devil's deception
those that possess this extraordinary ability
agents of the Lord who can see what most others can't see
they have the gift to see the evils that dwells within
the hearts and the minds of the devil's men
a keen sense of observation
the acumen of revelation
ESP extra sensory perception
insightful and cognizant reception
in their mind's eye they see the wrong that has been done
the intuition to detect when the spiritual battle has begun
emissaries of God's truth and His light
sent to set those wrong deeds right
agents and earthly angels with the means to discern
children of God about true justice they are concerned
ESP extra sensory perception
the ability to uncover life's deceptions
Be sure to stick that head out the windows of your life.
It's okay to bark but don't dare bite..
A roll in the mud brings a sensory delight..
Guard your family every day and every night..
Greet strangers with a wag and all your days will be bright.
Sensory affirmations
fig perfume wrists
Howard’s violet candy
on our lips as we kiss
Evergreen sprigs
leave us green fingertips
as we pinch the pine oil
to breathe in the scent
Pickled ginger interlude
between tuna tataki
yellow tail sushi
soy sauce, wasabi
Orange blossoms popping white
against the backyard tree
Sensory affirmations
reaffirm my memories