Best Untrimmed Poems
Now, I am speechless; I am without speech
As you transcend the simplistic to grand
Grant me the guidance of your gifted hand
In the temple of your pen, I beseech
To climb in your footsteps of verse, and reach
Green summits of imagery-laden lands
My throat growing tight as your voice expands
As my eyes feast on all you have to teach
Seeds planted long past still flower, untrimmed
Beyond the span of pink springs come and gone
Nor even the darkness of death can dim
Words lit luminous in eternal dawn
A timeless poet's timely passions brim
In lyrical legacy, sonnet drawn.
6/11/20
(this is an ode to my all time favorite poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay; if you would like to read some of her work, I recommend 'The Spring and the Fall', 'Dirge without Music', 'Prayer to Persephone', or the sonnet which begins 'Love is not all, it is not meat nor drink' or 'I shall forget you presently, my dear' - but I love all of it!)
Categories:
untrimmed, appreciation, poetess, writing,
Form:
Italian Sonnet
The art and delight of shade
expressions of gold buds bursting green
untrimmed garden’s lush expression
describe this eternal lease on passion
Nothing is temperate about soul’s possession
Mother said, “ Heaven is a Garden of flowers,
where we’ll always be beautiful.
A Summer's Day Redo Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Michelle Faulkner
Honorable Mention
Categories:
untrimmed, beautiful, heaven, summer,
Form:
Verse
Honey gold warmth in possession of June;
And jeweled birds sing heaven a soul tune.
Untrimmed hedges, sassy and emerald green,
House creamy butterflies in the noon sheen,
As temperate winds lease the fragrant air,
And riotous buds are blooming everywhere!
But, noon's complexion yet holds mystery,
In pleasant shade of its evolving history,
As the undying, eternal, sweet rhythm repeats,
Such beauty, action and color in its beats!
Categories:
untrimmed, beauty, flower, green, imagery,
Form:
Couplet
Concealed in a spring
of honey dye on alder field,
clipped wings and feet coupled,
a broken appendage,
never to exhibit its grace
and charm that once was envied.
Forgotten as the seasons pass
it slowly shed its beauty,
imposed by red, orange, brown rust.
Roots, tendrils, leaves;
nests obliged nature’s creatures,
embedded in its coil,
worn down its cracked and stain,
leather seats.
Emerald velvet moss
concealing its frame,
lulled by pleasing harmonies.
Garment bent in the undergrowth.
Orchard grass and wearing morning
equally lay roads to diverge
a wooded field hidden,
away from travelers
and unruly sun
that never stops.
Wind runs free through windows,
mocking, nature's changing course.
Seasons run evanescent,
untrimmed that it's meant to stay
concealed in a spring of honey dye
on alder field long forgotten.
4/27/2018
Categories:
untrimmed, car, nature,
Form:
Free verse
In the realm of Fairyland, winged fairies
Flutter celebrating under August
Young moon, in depths of temperate forest
Shadowed shade. Their song of merry carries
Throughout and upward to cloudless heaven.
Nymphs watch over vast possession, buries
Beneath fancy small floral buds, berries,
Forest grace which they hold the lease. Leaven
Of humor heated a caramel gold
Complexion, as delightful spirit form,
Seemed eternal. Night to era transform
Nature's oblique left untrimmed fold on fold
The things that seem twas only just a dream
Magical solemnities morning beam.
8/3/2019
Categories:
untrimmed, fantasy,
Form:
Sonnet
in temperate climes of valleys yonder
gazillion lavish blooms and eager buds
burst into spectacular rainbow hues
granting a new lease of life
to dreary seasons gone and past
sunny skies usurp possession
of a crystal heaven’s sweet complexion
sprinklings of glitter dust of gold
adorn untrimmed vines in every shade
bestowing their divine enchantment
to each horizon across the land
AP: Honorable Mention 2022
Submitted on August 1, 2019 for contest A SUMMER’S DAY REDO sponsored by MICHELLE FAULKNER - RANKED 5TH
Categories:
untrimmed, color, flower, life, nature,
Form:
Free verse
I relax in the shade of the whitewashed porch
as my gnarled hands caress the arms
of the creaking rocking chair -
it was my late Gran’s favorite possession
I’ve been fortunate to be able to lease her cottage
the temperate climate here boosts my spirits
My once rosy complexion is pallid -
the doctor says my time is running out ...
soon I’ll be at eternal peace in heaven
I’m constantly tired ...
even the simplest chores exhaust me
I’ve neglected the cottage garden
it pains me to see the sweet honeysuckle
left untrimmed and straggly
yet, I wait patiently for its gold buds to burst open
releasing its stunning scent on the zephyr breeze
Required words :- temperate, buds, lease, possession, heaven, complexion, eternal, gold, untrimmed, shade.
A Summer's Day Redo Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Michelle Faulkner
8/12/19
Categories:
untrimmed, garden, sad, summer,
Form:
Free verse
To love is like holding a freshly cut untrimmed rose ..... you would never want to
drop or lose such a beautifil thing. so you hold it tightly,but the tighter you squeeze the
deeper the thorns cut in to your flesh...you endure the pain until the point comes when you
must losen your grip and in turn the rose falls to the ground but, as time passes and the
bleeding stops you try to forget,but then you look at your hand and the scars remind you of
the beauty that comes with the pain and you pick the rose back up.
Categories:
untrimmed, love, passion, romance, pain,
Form:
Shall I contend thee on a summer's day?
Thou art more vengeful and more aggressive.
Rough winds do shake the bleeding buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short to live.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven brands,
And often is his gold complexion grimmed;
And limit to the fear a mind withstands,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed.
Categories:
untrimmed, death,
Form:
Sonnet
Sacred Realm
As dawn's light appears in temperate azure skies
Gold rimmed clouds display the hues of heaven.
Untrimmed trees blow in the billowing breeze
Where verdant leaves re-gift their cooling shade.
As thoughts of you swirl and dance within my mind, how
We sought each other's kisses beneath these boughs.
How quickly buds soon bloomed in love's complexion,
A lease of unexpected pleasures as you took possession
Of my enchanted heart in our sacred realm of eternal bliss.
8-16-19
~Second Place ~
A Summer's Day Redo Poetry Contest
Sponsor Michelle Faulkner
Required Words:
temperate, heaven, gold, untrimmed, shade, buds, complexion, lease, possession, eternal
Categories:
untrimmed, day, romantic love, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Eternal gold sunset
Nearer to heaven than the flowers
Buds rising, trying to get there
A temperate complexion
the untrimmed garden
faeries have taken possession
Will they lease
Or are they here to stay forever?
I seek some shade while I ponder the climate
Faeries climb upon my legs and giggle.
My eyes remain closed
I do not want to ruin this.
Written: 8-02-2019
Contest: A Summers Day Redo Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Michelle Faulkner
Categories:
untrimmed, summer,
Form:
Imagism
Shall I compare thee to a rainy day?
Thou art more dreary and more malignant.
Rough winds do shake the thrashing waves of bays,
And Neptune’s lease hath all too long a date.
Always too damp the eye of heaven hides,
And often is thy grey complexion dimmed;
And every air to air sometime collides,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed.
But thy eternal downpour will not fade
Nor lose possession of that air thou blow'st;
Now shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in aging lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this takes life from thee.
Categories:
untrimmed, funny, parody,
Form:
Sonnet
In a spring kissed field with clipped wings, feet are tied
Never to display beauty and appeal where all men ride
As golden wheat field conceals my broken appendage and sheds
Forgotten as the seasons pass then slowly morsel fed
Imposing vulnerable disintegrating reds, oranges, browns
Embedding in my coils, nests of tendrils, leaves wearing down
Leathery cracks stain and smell of mold sun kissed rain
Dark green velvet moss conceals my frame
Friable distant by fate a hostelry
Obliging nature's creatures haven
Restfully sounds without words
Garment bent in the undergrowth
Orchard grass and wearing morning equally lay
The roads to diverge a wood hidden away
Traveled by unruly Sun that never stops and seasons run
Evanescent fleeting images through windows wind you call on me and make fun
Nature's changing course untrimmed I am meant to stay
6/17/206
Categories:
untrimmed, car, imagery, poetry,
Form:
Acrostic
Anonymous Valentine
Wand’rest thou in the evening shade
where growetj the buds untrimmed.
The rose with all its thorns, pales
fade, against thy beauty.
Far fairer is thy complexion,
which bids decline of sun,
less alabaster cheeks find
a gentle dust of speckles, unkind.
Thou art mine eternal Valentine,
leased only for a short time,
whilst hidden in shadows decline.
This braggart’s heart gives way
to silent love’s impediments,
as ink spills this declaration
from quills end, unmarked by its maker.
A totter’d weed, of feebled age,
besieged unfairly, bows low
to societies bequest of duteous
stage. A sickle swung before
a blind heart could ripen.
02/04/13
Categories:
untrimmed, love, romantic, heart, heart,
Form:
Free verse
Shy woods blush mahogany gold
Temperate wind's silky whisper
Stir pinking buds to waken from shade
Grasses' lush complexion freckled in yellow
Transforming mortal earth to hopeful heaven
Stretching to eternal untrimmed light
Bounty of wide limitless lease
As sun takes possession of my sight....
7/30/19
Example for my 'A Summer's Day Redo' contest
Required words: gold, temperate, buds, complexion, heaven, eternal, lease, possession, untrimmed, shade
Categories:
untrimmed, appreciation, nature, summer, yellow,
Form:
Free verse