Purple Dreams In Other Realms - BLT Competition Entry
..."My dear fairy, for whom do you wait,
that time patina green your copper hair so it may match that door?”
Though I knew, t’was you, dear friend, for upon your stoop she perched,
Arms a-droop so qu...
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Categories:
chink, fairy,
Form: Free verse
Watchers and Doers
...The watchers sit around watching the doers do!
Who does that apply to, could it be you?
Are you a watcher or a doer, which one applies?
Be honest with yourself, without the lies.
Doers do what...
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Categories:
chink, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Vigil
...Through the curtain chink a ray
Shines across the darkened room
At the end of sunless day
Snow had fallen in the gloom
Later on it will melt down
But the early snow is there
Is it warm, or col...
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Categories:
chink, introspection, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Awoken
...~Awoken~
Dawn'd 'Pon Me Due Epiphany...
Mine War~Ravaged Heart, 'Tis Fine'ly Set Free!
Tho' Still Care I Hold Fast, For All Of This Earth...
I Must Give Way Th' Labor, That Now Has Begun Mine R...
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Categories:
chink, character, courage, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Freedom within LOVE
...Freedom within LOVE
By: Mallory Schlegelmilch
Vulnerability, a delicate thread,
In the armor of love where hearts are led.
Yearning to surrender, to let go,
Yet the mind holds tight, afraid ...
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Categories:
chink, deep, emotions, feelings, growth,
Form: Free verse
Who authors our poems
...Pen and paper in hand, our mind is blank,
our heart without fear because God is near,
with muse playing hide and seek as a prank,
soon adorning presence with words of cheer!
We author not poems...
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Categories:
chink, muse, poems, poets,
Form: Sonnet
Onomato-pea-a
...I’m Onomato-pea-a
The window is my home.
I love the sounds of cooking
At day, at dusk, and dawn.
Mom clomps into the room
And clicks on every light
The curtain whooshes open,
I wake up, “No ...
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Categories:
chink, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
A stab in the dark
...Niel Charles was a regular thief, I hope ' not a killer?
Well he came to grief; Bury St Edmunds. Market town
June 2021 himself he found. Tryiing some doors at
private houses around, its what he w...
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Categories:
chink, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Unconscious bias
...Conditioned belief and our jaundiced eye,
prejudges other souls we chance to meet
and we pause not to ask the reason why,
our deluded soul feels not their heartbeat.
Our stuporous stance causes...
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Categories:
chink, introspection, prejudice, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
ANGELS WINGS
...I'm not one to bale while there's a chink of light
I'm not going to fail in the dark of this night
Nor pounding the wall in some abject despair
Nor looking to stall while there's hope in the ai...
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Categories:
chink, desire,
Form: Lyric
Peoples peace day
...Listen intently..' peace.)
Munitions roar' the worlds mouth!
Utter death! and denial.'
Much life is lost, too bad.!
How do we count? In evil score?
Let us wipe the slates clean.!
Dared to s...
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Categories:
chink, adventure, appreciation, courage,
Form: Haiku
A second glass of wine
...Some nights I need a second glass of wine
Here we are poised like vultures on a limb
internal yearnings turn thin fog as we dine.
My mouth stutters as it runs ahead of my confusion
proximity to...
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Categories:
chink, drink, wine,
Form: Rhyme
Why I stopped going to Denny's
...It's because of the bacon.
Yeah, it looks good on the menu, sitting there at the rim of the plate. Glistening. Archetypally ridged and ruffled. Positioned perfectly next to the eggs over easy, the...
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Categories:
chink, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Bare with me
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"you first edvard"
thus did i
Thud
Thud
flop
chink
flump
plop
thus did her...
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Categories:
chink, body, celebration,
Form: Carpe Diem
Inspired By Joe DeMino
...Love Is The Force
Love is the force that gives us strength
when everything around us turns to dust
Love is the flicker of a magical flame
when the fires of passion ebb and low
L...
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Categories:
chink, love,
Form: Free verse
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