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Calyx Poems - Poems about Calyx

Premium Member Flickers of Paranoia
... Written: February 14, 2025 for Brian Strand Contest *********** In twilight, specks become stars, bridges locked in gold, Engraved whispers on walls ......

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Categories: calyx, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dreams Adrift on Silken Tides
... Written: November 24, 2024 for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann __________________________ 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
Premium Member Man Alive-Deep Purple
... Written: February 25, 2024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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
Premium Member Odyssey Scope
... 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member Successor's Name Is Death-Bell
...The most audacious dynasty will beget darker. When I'm not on the moon, prefer courtship. When a child is accustomed to bearing a light. A scotopic vision marker to support you to view......

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Categories: calyx, analogy, anxiety, bereavement, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Calyx Eclipse
...With indecision rode abreast Intended path becomes digressed Old age accompanies us soon Protected from sway of heart's swoon Independe......

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Categories: calyx, angst, beautiful, desire, flower,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member Late January
...Budding, preening tendrils in winter sunshine Flora grasping, creeping from terra firma Standing breathless, dawn is a sapphire calyx Hope springs eternal......

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Categories: calyx, hope, spring,
Form: Sapphic stanza

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