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Calyx Poems - Poems about Calyx

Premium MemberCalyx 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

Premium MemberOur 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



Premium MemberPalimpsest 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

Premium MemberFlickers 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

Premium MemberDreams 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

Premium MemberMan 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

Premium MemberOdyssey 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

Premium MemberDawn'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 MemberCrucible

...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 MemberSequined 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 MemberA 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.

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Categories: calyx, life, water,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFlight 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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