Autumn Is Near
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Contest : Seasons Now And After
Sponsored by : Nette Onclaud
Date : August 10, 2025
Trails of rain fade at the fringe of summer,
supple northern breeze whispers on its way.
Strands of si...
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Categories:
cinnabar, nature, seasons,
Form: Other
Summertide Pairings
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cinnabar and cinnamon
strawberries and cherries
apricots and luscious mango
windchimes and crystals
hummingbirds and butterflies
sailboats and sunsets
summer nights and nuptials
AP: 3r...
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Categories:
cinnabar, appreciation, fruit, fun, summer,
Form: List
Half Past Summer, Two Months Till Fall
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Half past Summer, two months till Fall
A Monet image, relishing!
Brisk sienna steppingstones spraw...
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Categories:
cinnabar, autumn, beauty,
Form: Triolet
That Which Makes Me Smile
...From a reddish horrifying gloomy cloud which brings upon a frowning
beast~ I shall overcome and finally a smile shall bring me peace—poet :)
Smiles are weapons against pain
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Categories:
cinnabar, simple, smile,
Form: Free verse
Indian Paintbrush
...Indian Paintbrush
Cinnabar to rum.
Bluish to a pink rose.
Curious toward a new path.
Waltz through painted daffodils.
Crystalline ruby sky.
Scarlet blood red devine.
Indian Paintbrush.
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Categories:
cinnabar, flower,
Form: Rhyme
Discontent Stream Flows With Happy Memory
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The sinking beauty of the spreading spectrum of sadness I revel
as the cinnabar sunset takes away my departing day.
The joy of twilight time the last rays of drowning dusk unravel
in ...
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Categories:
cinnabar, analogy, angst, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Autumn Scene
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Climbing cotton clouds float away
across canvas of summer sky.
Birds bathe in blue bay,
to amber nest they fly.
Autumn comes with golden spray.
Sunburst horizon’s chromatic drape draw...
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Categories:
cinnabar, autumn, color, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Epitome Of Afterglow
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The smoky dust screen blows away far into the halcyon horizon,
the flotilla of cotton cloud sails in the concave depth of cobalt.
Bowed down slender blades of cinnamon grass sway
in th...
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Categories:
cinnabar, analogy, autumn, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
The quill this evening is not a mere instrument, but a primordial beast
...The quill this evening is not a mere instrument, but a primordial beast,
A lacquered leviathan with a tip sharp as obsidian fangs,
Its body coiled like an ouroboros, devouring its own ink in vengea...
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Categories:
cinnabar, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Sunset Swansong
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At the frail fringe
of the twilight zone
the dwindling day flushes
depleted
the halcyon horizon
with the last shower
of cinnabar sequins,
the sunset splendor
tran...
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Categories:
cinnabar, analogy, life,
Form: Free verse
Television News Reporter
...Cinnabar remittance ailerons squall federal cobblestones. Lank alpine squint modest. Nectarine grimace, cloys toothsome.
Coiffure chain rod composure anemic, primogeniture Swedish cotton murk optics...
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Categories:
cinnabar, cat,
Form: Free verse
Sonata Of Sunset Swansong
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At the fringe
of the twilight zone
the dwindling day
flushes halcyon horizon
with cinnabar sequins,
the sunset splendor
spins celestial strands
in the formless film
of cadenced cloud,...
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Categories:
cinnabar, future, hope, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Falling With Leaves of Autumn
...The leaden cloud-covered sun
relentlessly starves the summer harvest-
strangling its life-giving light to wield the death
of all filaments and assemblance of living green.
Leaves plot their fate ...
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Categories:
cinnabar, autumn, change, death, extended
Form: Free verse
Aureate Footfall
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Crisp breeze blows summer’s scorched screen away,
the somber sky revives to radiate the alluring aura,
clumps of cloud turning cotton span its canvas,
sail shapeless across the arena of serap...
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Categories:
cinnabar, autumn, color, nature,
Form: Free verse
September Rhapsody
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The clumps of climbing cotton clouds
float slowly away, brushing the azure arena
of the end-summer’s ashen sky.
The returning birds bathe
in the glimmer of the blue bay,
as thro...
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Categories:
cinnabar, analogy, autumn, beautiful, nature,
Form: Free verse
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