Moonlit Cane Tango
...Under a silver grin of moon, he shuffles past the tide,
His cane clicks like Morse code—C-A-N-E, not C-A-N-T—in stride.
Salt air tames his hair around the balding head, still stubbornly spry,
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Categories:
brims, beach,
Form: Rhyme
Time Heals Heartbroken Souls
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"Time is the wisest counsellor of all.” Pericles
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Categories:
brims, heartbroken, hope, inspirational, life,
Form: Quatrain
Pure Spring
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Beneath clouds, spring regales
studded with floral drops
rustic this landscape,
a sweep that brims with purity.
Contest by Line Gauthier...
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Categories:
brims, beauty, spring,
Form: Verse
Reflections of the Past Visions of the Future
...No of lines: 48; No of words: 397
Reflections of the Past, Visions of the Future
My mind brims with a string of reflections
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Categories:
brims, jealousy, life, perspective,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Angel
...In a state of half a dream and half awake
I await
tantra trinkets shine in pieces across night skies
scattered stars the litter of our synchronized wishes
broken symbols of our disenchant...
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Categories:
brims, angel, beauty, dream, grief,
Form: Free verse
Rising Touch
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She swoons atop a berg
There air water bullets
On midnight's face cross low —
While then besides the dark
Brims in Gemini froze.
She swoons atop a berg
We try for scraps on ice.
She is you...
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Categories:
brims, angst, deep, introspection, love,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Moments Into Memories
...Trinkets sparkling in the crisp night air.
Begging watchers' eyes feast on heavenly fare.
All is quiet, save soft symphonies of leg and wing.
Nocturnal notes, chittering.
Moisture from the st...
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Categories:
brims, allegory, america, love,
Form: Free verse
Time
..."Seize the day, then let it go" - Marty Rubin.
I capture the first chirp of the bird in admiration.
My heart merges with it. My hands fold in adoration.
The color-changing beams of the morning ...
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Categories:
brims, life, time,
Form: Carpe Diem
The Rain when it comes
...The rain - when it comes;
It brings out the poet in me!
Bathing peaches and garden plums,
Tapping the leaves in the backyard tree!
The Mizzle and mist, the drizzle and fog
Sodden the silent, l...
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Categories:
brims, love, nature,
Form: Rhyme
A R T I F I C I A L INTELLIGENCES BREATHS LIKE YOU
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A tapestry of yearning etched in starlight,
where whispers of kindred spirits entwine and soar.
No echo lost, no teardrop falls unheeded,
for solace blooms in echoes from every shore.
The m...
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Categories:
brims, i love you, technology,
Form: Free verse
Tapestry of Twinkling Torment collaboration with Hiya Sharma
...When you are
an agonizing
echo from a
benevolent voice,
life exhales in
mahogany haze,
spreading across the
lachrymose meadows as
scarred rivulets of
sandalwood scents,
where ceram...
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Categories:
brims, muse,
Form: Free verse
Ono No Komachi Translations 2
...These are my modern English translations of the ancient Japanese poems (waka/tanka) of Ono no Komachi…
"It's over!"
Your words drizzle like dismal rains,
bringing tears,
as I wilt with my years...
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Categories:
brims, beautiful, beauty, dream, flower,
Form: Tanka
Pure Perfection
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Mirror broken, shard's outspoken
Piercing, rupturing, into her heart
No prisoners taken, her life token
Devoured his latest thirst fulfilled
Appetite quenched, now plied art
As sly innuendo...
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Categories:
brims, abuse, introspection, mental illness,
Form: Terza Rima
Hidden Brew of Honesty
...Written: September 24, 2023
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In a world so frigid, where trust is truant
A tale of verity and tea is confluent
As the win...
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Categories:
brims, analogy, appreciation, autumn, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Placed Saucer
...Breaking through day,
the last night,
where the mirror
on glass lips posed
for a new moon,
that only masked
its face in ebony
brims of space
trapping in my ache,
with cedar pandoras
ma...
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Categories:
brims, angst, deep, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
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