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The Burnished God

Once the burnished God awoke
He saw naught but confusion veiling his eyes,
A mistiness thick and real 
permeated the iris like obsidian or steel,
Till saw they no more.

Frantic! They run, fly, rub at their eye,
But blindness still.

How faint now the Universe seems to be without sight,
And the God lay back to sleep,
Slightly more sagacious now.

Categories: burnished, confusion, god,
Form: Rhyme

Autumn's Burnished Canopy

"Autumn knows a mother's heart. 
 It gives and then lets go."~ Angie Weiland-Crosby

How proudly she stood, surmounting the tallest hill,
a blazing maple tree whose limbs spread far and wide.
In Summer, her green leaves swayed upon soft breezes,
but Autumn painted them shades of crimson and rust.

A burnished canopy, gilded by golden rays of the sun.
Ruffled

Categories: burnished, autumn,
Form: Imagism

Burnished Bouquet

You brought me a translucence 
of amber for my burnished bouquet.
Love was an ebullience of golden wheat,
our laughter a resplendence of sunflowers.

A Resplendence of Sunflowers
11/5/21
Liberum Divisa 8

Categories: burnished, autumn,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Burnished Glow

Autumn leaves, red-gold crowned-

each falls, weaves shawl around

their tall, grand, Maple trees

briskly fanned by Fall's breeze.

From broad limbs, colors flow;

landscape brims burnished glow.


August 17, 2021

Contest: In Essence 2
Sponsor: Joseph May
Image Chosen: #2
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Categories: burnished, autumn, color, tribute,
Form: Verse

Burnished Gold

doomed forbidden love~
	secrets of immortal soul 
		life’s buried treasure

Categories: burnished, lost love, love hurts,
Form: Senryu

Burnished and Brushed Hints of Spring

spring is murmuring

whispering with...tiny little breaths...
burnished and brushed hints 
of hope...irresistible
...optimism 

subtle ...cagey  
peaking
around the edges of things 
elfin wisps...
playing hide n seek...
"catch me if you can"...but only with the corner of your eye!

stealthy little darts 
popped from mystical brown bows 
blue and white and a softest ever green

greys too so they blend with

Categories: burnished, hope, spring,
Form: Free verse

Burnished Love

How do we define a love without dimension,
One that refuses to be restrained in any space?
We only know that it exists for us now,
in this time, and in this place.

How is it possible to fall so fast and so deep
into the emotional depth of each others soul?
When we are together and merge into one,
we unite

Categories: burnished, love,
Form: Sonnet

Burnished Skies

Cloaking a Burnished Coppery Sky
the darkness fully ebony black
hides the blaze of silvery stars.
Not a single twinkle could be seen.

Then like a true goddess of light
she rode out of the darkest black
and her silvery beams conquered
sending packing that bleak dark.

Now released streaks of copper
heighted and high lit her beams. 
Triumphant riding the starry night
the Moon

Categories: burnished, dark, moon, night, star,
Form: Verse

Burnished Bog

ghostly lilypads
brightly adrift in moonlight
alligater sleeps

Categories: burnished, adventure, animals, nature, seasons
Form: Haiku

Burnished Refelection

Stark space 
could allow for ease 
of breath,
but flooded glow washes 
in unrest.

Wood burned mirror
rest in farthest
corner wedge.
Its trim scrolls 
heavenward in facile
attempts.

Obsidian glass obstructs
true face. 
Instead providing 
an image voided 
of narcissistic delight.

Categories: burnished, art
Form: Ekphrasis

Behind the Burnished Moon With You

Just to the North of yonder star

six rainbows form a bow

tails dipping down to wrap

me up and take me home 

to you,

Flamingos fly beside me

 their bulbous eyes

so brilliant in the dawn.

I smile at wizards in the 

clouds,

charging their pointed hats

inwith stolen stars,

fluffing out their capes at

purple puffins

waddling  over  worlds below

thoughtless of the

Categories: burnished, adventure, imagination, love,
Form: Free verse