Lost Cinquain Poems

Curtains flutter over the nursery sill, 
Waiting for their mother to find
The coverlet tossed aside, hanging still, 
Patiently expecting mother to right the spill,
The beds,...

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Lover
Painful, Selfish
Crying called romancing
and always a problematic 
Stranger
...

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"When you lose your love to death, you are left with a wound- 
it will heal in time but you will always have a...

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He left
and stole moon’s glow
from the skies of July.
Warm nights – I miss them so. Bereft
am I....

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People  
good and evil  
make this old world go round  
good will win out over evil  
hooray...

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Senile
conversations
of long lost olden days-
yesterday's forgotten stories
repeat....

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Song of My Heart

Heart song,
Midsummer dream,
Intones sweet poetry,
Love notes resolve in harmonies -
Vespers 

Music,
Weaves themes of joy,
Transposes dawn and dusk
Tableaus of half-notes bind lost chords...

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Heartbreak
Forever lost
Sitting dwelling staring
Longing lonely yearning telling
Broken

Song of my heart Poetry Contest
13th May 2023
Sponsored by: JCB Brul...

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loving 
kindness blending 
makes our world heavenly 
a new place where all can rejoice 
now peace...

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Fragile
Heart hungers for
A flicker of your face,
Slowly trace the breadth of your frame
To be

4/15/2023

Traditional Cinquain Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Sotto Poet...

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I'm lost
too weak to surf
my sad board in  two halves 
the waves tossing me like a leaf
at sea...

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Tonight
I am alone
And thoughts of you become
The only music in my mind
Again.

for Bite Size Poem Contest
#20, 09/04/2012...

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Days and
Nights tied in frayed
Ribbons of resentment--
She throws out his careless words while
Leaving....

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Love found
In a bucket
Full of debauchery--
She found love, but lost it in his
Wildness....

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FORTIES PLAYTIME

Hopscotch
with whip and top
or marbles and five stones-
pastimes lost now in memory's
chasm.

Copyright © Brian Strand | Year Posted 2007...

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