Best Speckling Poems

speckling dark green pines
gifting the dark diamonds white
moonlit snowflakes lay
soft fabric for children's play
and knitted clouds on the roofs


26~12~2014
Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich
Contest Name: A Quintain Christmas...

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* This is a poem about basically feeling like when a part of yourself dies. Then certain 
people can come along and make that one...

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Today I will write about stars-
Not the usual
Compressed galactic-gleams,
Not the speckling
In deep sky seen,
Tracked and charted
By singular-minded, bright-eyed teams-

No-I will speak of Real Stars,
Day and...

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Diagonal snow
Glides effortless through
the countryside of the
Amputee windshield
For the passenger side
Has always had a reticent view

Steam rises loftily
From a topless treat
Of gas station coffee
That which...

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Smoke trickles from red brick stack
Children make ready for slumber
Through the frosty panes of boudoir glass
Eyes amaze at the wonder before
Amber radiant glow of street...

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Allowing great alembics access over hill and glade and brush and dale of mind and swimming softly through the river running up fantastic meadows speckling...

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she lingers,
     forever embedded in my memory,
          the most beautiful girl I’ve...

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"The Friend"
I own this stereotype.
Heavy in belly, soft tall demure,
Trying to saint the boxing sinner.
Mother loved, father manly worried,
I wander passion for unrequited state.
The socially...

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Orange bulb lit firefly, 
Silhouetted scaffolds delude my reticent pace
Speckling lights flutter to my grazing eye, 
Across a barren waste. 
Lonesome night breeze crispends forward...

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I don't often see beautiful things outside after summer
But today I saw something that made my jaw drop 
Imagine: a cool autumn day, 
I'm walking...

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Autumn in the leaves
Speckling change 
with crisping dew
when a season done
with green
(as earth's sky
paling blue)
putting to rest
the old
making way
for God's new;

I finger the age-spots...

other blemishes
nature's...

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Eggs whites strew across the evening sky, anticipating rain

Brown fluff interspersed with white, folding across the horizon

Hints of orange ribbon bleeding through the gaps of...

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I lean down over
    the squirming corpse to be
and remove
        a chunk
   ...

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I slide through
          the darkness
     within your walls,
following wires
   ...

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For what do you beg my attention in wrath
Shall I now be a god to your vile misdeeds
Your promises that foamed your vowels in froth
Your...

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