Best Stirrings Poems

Words fail
Meaning blurry;
Nothing rhymes

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Upstairs apartment
Renovation works;
Pneumatic floor blast

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Idle talk punctuates
Not much meaning;
Bizarre thoughts

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Sonic headache
Disturbing pounding;
Head time-bomb ticking

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Constipated movie
Suspicious assumptions;
Character flaws

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Dragonfly pond
Lotus flowers bloom;
Mud bed ascend

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Brief excursion
Exploration;
Abrupt exfoliation

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Beauty delights
Ample assets;
Tipsy tryst

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Orange butterflies
Dazzling flights;
Breezy patterns

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Wavy handwriting
Cursive scripts swirl;
Verse outburst

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Sleepy somnolence
Mid afternoon fare;
Lazy disposition

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Word tiles
Pattern styles;
Thought textures

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Black bird...

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I have trodden many a creature under foot
A few, unbeknownst
The bug has an intolerably short life span
And shorter yet, under foot
Do I traipse out of spite or cruel wonder?
No, it is just my disregard and shortsightedness
For I have been trampled upon,
From creatures smaller than me
They...

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Street alley stalls
Tourist bazaar fare;
Souvenirs to go

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Seasonal fruit
A yearly dessert;
Duku escapade

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Old colonial shophouse 
Freehold property;
Modern facelift

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Business cycles dash
Yesterday's bubble tea;
Today's cafe glitz

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Shopping arcade
Organized pandemonium;
Electronic extravaganza

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Bread and toast
Shopping mall happenings;
Cafe pondering

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Old haunts call
Flavours and tints;
Urban oasis

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Congested roads
Peak hour traffic;
Air-con consolation

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Morning kungu-fu dancers
Graceful as swans;
Dreamtime exhibits

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Busy feet...

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Eager tourist
Seeking the unfamiliar;
Newfound exploits

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So many colours
Blooms in full steam;
Bourgainvilleas smile

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Bamboo leaves
Breezy dance cutting;
A hundred raindrops

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Winding path
Tall grassy foliage;
Natural camouflage

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Old house on stilts
Stench of mud flats;
Change of tide

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Across endless sea
Lone ship sails;
Distant horizon

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Cotton clouds
Speeding skyway;
Aquamarine glare

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Little boy giggling
Laughing little girl;
Infantile romance

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Paradoxical moods
Feelings intertwine;
Sanguine crossroads

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Leon Enriquez
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Epigram #59:  

STIRRINGS


Metaphors in sure rhymes
Stirrings tinge journey chimes
Expound rough space and time

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Leon Enriquez
18 May 2015
Singapore...

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Before my front fence,
Gayly clad crocuses chase winter thence.

Behind, rose canes poke few leaf tips yet,
Asters hug ground with green tendrils closely set.

Elsewhere newly bared hydrangeas and mums,
Revive from their winter mulch asylums.

Chickadees and other songbirds visit my feeder now,
After its lonely winter vigil, rewarding...

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in whimsy
perfumes dance
calling out
for spring

uplifted souls
join forces
to wake nature
up to its feet

stars do align
the sun the wind
their might
spin this earth
till warm and
full of life

bells ring
it’s time 
for spring
to detonate
to sing 
put on its
annual parade



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on February 23, 2020...

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An afternoon prepares you
with lengthening shadows
that cool and leave
you listening to the hum
of air alive with wings
lifting to where
somber canopies open to sky
and in the evening
with stirrings that stretch
in the corners of your quiet
and there, under moonlight,
you hear its trembling presence
drawing closer, closer,
yet never near...

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~ Stirrings of Spring ~

  a bright-eyed bud 
  on a mulberry bush

  a robin's chirping 
midst the melting slush

  fresh tulip leaves
push up through the earth

All these, to pangs of love 
  in my soul, give birth



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Take from the air a breath so deep
Awaken from your slumber sleep
Recount the dream before it fades
From black to white, to grey-like shades
Be not afraid from whince it came
Delve deeper still in the mind's dark cave
Unlock the mystery to your own past
Molded into a permanent...

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he rose from ashes
with a trace of renewed hope
adjusting to the idea

that maybe

maybe some day
he'd be ready
to make new memories



AP: 1st place 2021

Posted on October 1, 2021...

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running, moving away
    never really got a place to stay
        ran fast and far all my day
not away from, but away to
    where I'd lay me down smiling
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Deep within me, where I often seek
To share the part that is so very meek
There lives the passion that delights
Illuminating even the darkest nights

Deep inside, where Love is like a fire
Burning bright, vividly caressing desire
Rich with colors that express sincerity
Longing to live in such joyful...

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Stirrings
Feral

They rise
Within

Lower
Instinct 

Do we 
Allow

Indulge
Body

Or pause
Looking

At source
Seeing

All that
That is

Being
But one

At play
Here now

11-February-2022...

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sun through window
birds in chorus
touch of sheets
dreams linger
thoughts about my love
life’s fortunes
longing to poem
longing and appreciation
quiet beginnings
longing and appreciation
longing to poem
life’s fortunes
thoughts about my love
dreams linger
touch of sheets
birds in chorus
sun through window
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