Calyx of the Noosphere
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Written: August 17, 2025, for contest sponsored by: Rob Carmack
Quote“Let there be no boundaries. When you lose all sense of self, the bonds of a thousand chains will vanish. Los...
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Categories:
calyx, analogy, character,
Form: Free verse
Our effervescence
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Written: August 16, 2025, for contest by Unseeking Seeker
Line of inquiry:
"conjoined with the whole - we play our life role
exuding a scent - granting love consent"
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Categories:
calyx, analogy, love,
Form: Free verse
Palimpsest of Love
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Written: August 05, 2025, for contest Marathon Mile 3 Poetry Contest / Sponsor- Mark Toney
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As it rises shakily, the aurora radiates,
Shore gets ba...
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Categories:
calyx, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Flickers of Paranoia
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Written: February 14, 2025 for Brian Strand Contest
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In twilight, specks become stars,
bridges locked in gold,
Engraved whispers on walls
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Categories:
calyx, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Dreams Adrift on Silken Tides
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Written: November 24, 2024 for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann
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In a calyx of ambivalent dreams,
where shadows swirl as si...
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Categories:
calyx, analogy, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Crushed
...Petals falling
from unseeded bud
opened by a midnight sun
sparkling it to love
then vanishing
to return on its course
in candle lights
stolen star to star
unmindful
of ice pellets
teari...
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Categories:
calyx, love,
Form: Free verse
Man Alive-Deep Purple
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Written: February 25, 2024
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A sun sets in the west; oh, boy, he has gone to rest,
Mama grips her breast in an apocalyptic pain que...
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Categories:
calyx, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, song,
Form: Rhyme
Odyssey Scope
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Written: December 28, 2023
Beneath the shades
of velvet shadows
swarms of amber
luminance of daylight
and elusive flits
of faerie embers.
Veiled in jeweled which
rhymed with
Calyx e...
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Categories:
calyx, analogy, angel, appreciation, life,
Form: Free verse
Can You Hold Onto a Peach
...In the winter of my years, stands my barren tree
Its leaves stripped by autumnal winds
Against hope, it had one life left to give
I blew a warm breath into a lone branch
Hoping against hope, I st...
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Categories:
calyx, extended metaphor, father son,
Form: Free verse
Dawn's Calyx Woke Her and She Saw Pink Explosions
...Dawn's Calyx Woke Her And She Saw Pink Explosions
Dawn's calyx woke her and she saw pink explosions
As if hot flaming rays across the window sill
She woke me, I was brainstorming some implosions...
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Categories:
calyx, girlfriend, happiness, joy, love,
Form: Sonnet
Crucible
...Crucible
Peer into an unpredictable universe
Of ambivalent depths
A calyx cul-de-sac tipped up
Into a crucible of the unexplainable
Where curiosity strides into pure moments of mystique
Fie...
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Categories:
calyx, fantasy, future,
Form: Free verse
Sequined and Ambrosia
...On wayward ivy
calyx in woodlands
a spruce-blue butterfly
sparkling rustles
of
sweet wind chant
swings in the ethereal morning light
legato lilts silk...
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Categories:
calyx, analogy, beauty, character, inspirational,
Form: Other
A Cup Runneth Over
...A Cup Runneth Over
My cup in dry abyss boils over
Condensing dewdrops in vapors of blessing
Into foaming condensed extracts
Like effervescence of divine dust
That bubbles up to the rim.
Res...
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Categories:
calyx, life, water,
Form: Free verse
Flight of the Rose
...Flight of the Rose
Soft petals of pale pink rose,
Each engraved in eulogy,
Rise on the white wings of dawn,
Take flight over calm waters
Lapping at the line
Dividing land’s end and endless ...
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Categories:
calyx, death, journey, morning, rose,
Form: Free verse
Farchadat Alte Kaker Here At Highland Manor Apartments
...I (a youthful sexagenarian)
can no longer quip being
a country boy at heart,
but me as urban cowboy,
I declare would never
so fuhgeddaboudit dear reader
nothing 'cept bucolic existence
labori...
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Categories:
calyx, adventure, atheist, character, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
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