Best September 29 Poems

rain dance

Evil takes his victory lap
while ashes like confetti fall.
But demons stay their hands mid-clap,
now doubting they’ve won, after all...

For on the charred and war-stained sands,
Hope, in pink galoshes stands.




September 29, 2019
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you carve your words precisely 
like a master does a flawless diamond
infuse your images on the head of a pin
not a letter wasted 

you who
speaks from deeper within 
with every new write

never one or one hundred reads suffices
each new recite reveals something new
grabs the readers...

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Alone, beneath the skies of sunset wine,
    infuse me with your golden minutes’ keep -
       break the cloudy mantle’s mood so dreary,  
  subdue the winds to flutes of airy sweep 

imbibing rays of...

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Shattered and battered by the inequities of life
Dark nights hindered shrouding luminous skies
In a childhood that missed the thrill of playgrounds
And adulthood that ran a solo sprinter’s marathon,

Crossing continents on pedagogic visions of joy
When testimonials of knowledge bestowed wings to fly;

And there I landed far...

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In dampened blur of violet dawn
as angels’ weep did touch upon
a mourner’s shoulders mist enshroud - 
to soften edges gauzy haze
that hug around these painful days
and mellow memories endowed
in sacred stillness of time gone.

In silent water droplets clear
is beauty precious every sphere
collecting on the silvern...

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gently beaming just above
you tempt me with your glowing charm
and stir within these thoughts of love
while sending softly fear’s alarm.

and on this late October eve
with chill of autumn in the air
while in the shadows soft you weave
a decadence, with face so fair.

your softness shown and...

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Autumn unreeled
Forests shaken hollow
               settling
               like shipwrecked beauty
Tree masts of moss
Colourful mobs of decay
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Some folks who got lost
took a road that had no signs
and found each other.

Poem of the day on 10-1-2017
September 29, 2017
Placed 2nd: Standard contest #195 by Brian Strand...

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A great Blue Heron

The park behind our house recently redone
And a Great Blue Heron has discovered fish
I saw the heron standing in tattered wings
Like a tattered skirt and tattered grass
I wonder, what scissors have cut them all?

A graceful neck, curved at crest
Ready to catch and...

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You walk through my thoughts
With the same sure-footed command
You walked through the house.
Your pitter-patter of feet
Pounds like a drum in my head.

No bowl in your special corner
You thrive on the meat of my mind.
No wrinkles on my bed
Where your purring body slept
Just my heart, crumpled
By...

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New Year, Past Years

Dawn, looking as blush as twilight,
Where the silhouette of trees still lingers 
And envelopes me— 
Transporting me to my world of yesterday.
I can still hear my children’s laughter; 
Watch them play and dance 
To their sweet singing tunes. 
How quiet the morning...

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night is spent
dawn hesitates
selah

between heart beats
silent cesura
holy hush

belief
amid doubt
stands still

a moment
twinkling spark
of recognition

infinitesimal
but
undeniable




September 29, 2019

(Yalto)

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"The only thing I am afraid of
is fear . . . " Arthur Wellesley, 1831

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Though young, I fly on wings of time-
Life a parenthesis sublime.
Haunted, I fear death,
taking my last breathe.
All fear death,
the last chime.

On the ragged edge of this life-
Will I be full of...

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For the love of words


Deep in love with words,
I keep digging through the day,
Although words fail me,
Still can't help reverberate,
I am a structured poem !


Tanka- 5/7/5/7/7
Written September 29th, 2014
For contest 'For the love of words' by Pendleton Arkwright...

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September 29, 2012
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This secret life of lies you keep
Cause me to stumble and in pain to weep
Shine a light in the darkness
Help me travel safely through this darkness
This wretched, blasted dark you keep me in
All the doors locked, I crash into obstacles never to win
This...

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