Astray, I pray the day
Will stay the way I say
My heart to start the part
Compart, outsmart my chart
To rise, eyes on the skies
Revise, apprise the prize
And blest with zest to wrest
My quest to crest the test
To share my flair with care
Aware repair is there.
Like a body needs a head to start
So does a poem need a title smart
A title is like an anchor that holds it apart
Held down,keeping it steady right from the start
Till you flow into the middle of a poems heart
Into verses we need to compart
Every poem converts into works of art
Captivating from the start to engage
The title on top makes the spark rage
Words are like characters on stage
Emotions and feelings expressed on center page
The body flows with the framework of age
Releasing your thoughts locked up in a cage
As we read the title once more to re-engage.
30.4.2021
Contest Name: What’s in a title in 14-20 lines
Second Place
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
Lamenting love rest upon my humble heart,
May thy candle burn quickly before thy night…
Loves lament lies lingering from far apart,
For the slings and arrows deploy and depart,
Solitary stars sacrificed amidst dying light…
Lamenting love rest upon my humble heart,
A broken hearts graveyard a calamitous compart,
Release my soul this warmless winters white…
Loves lament lies lingering from far apart,
Your love has harpooned a distrustful dart,
Like a raging rioting roar with a bitter bite…
Lamenting love rest upon my humble heart,
Lost in love, arrested & abandoned by black art,
Your voiceless words are daggers that ignite…
Loves lament lies lingering from far apart,
For you, my love has become an infamous impart,
Where tedious tears testify tenderly in twilight…
Lamenting love rest upon my humble heart,
Loves lament lies lingering from far apart.
Jan.21.2020
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Placed 5'th...Thank You
It took me some practice
to understand art
Everyone sees
but not all compart
Step one
know the subject
Step two
then to reflect
What is it you see?
what’s its importance?
This may depend on the being
their particular first glance
But history is history
repetition be bound
The word significance
is no doubt to be found
Maybe it’s striking
right under your nose
Otherwise hidden
only time will expose
Riches for wealth
magnitude for prestige
The more art you meet
the sharper an expertise
This I find true
About art, music, humans
The more conscious the study
the more meaning illumines
So this also fitting
that in this art world
My mere 23 years
will have revealed
The best merits are shared
by the greatest of greats
Which is why inside you
I find old beloved traits
We laugh like my favorites
and love like them too
When I’m 80 and dancing
I’ll be dancing with you
In Love- Constanza
Where love expands beyond our heart
Twilight dreams of resins gold
The Angel’s wings will unfold
When lovers endure and thus compart
The rainbows spew their colors layed
Our innocence drawn in a blush parade
Sensuous sultry streams a work of art
Loves palette a cosmic view
Where paradise’s lost bid adieu
Illicit incantations idle a la carte
As passions erect in midnight air
Exotic exploding desires on a flare
For Love dominates the celestial chart
As the undying Unicorns unite
On mystical magical moonlight
Where love expands beyond our heart
When lovers endure and thus compart
Sensuous sultry streams a work of art
Illicit incantations idle a la carte
For Love dominates the celestial chart.
Dec.01.2017
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Sponsored by: craig cornish
Of mountainous harmonic highs everlasting sacred skies, meadows evergreens
Our Love swiftly soars beyond the seraphical shores, of everlasting dreams
A ripple in the parental pond a wizard waving wand, love bewitchingly beams
Like birds in their native nests Love rarely rests, feeding on sensual streams
Love may take a waiting while you surrender to its smile, you give and receive
Once you've been bit you sacrificially shall submit, to the thriving thieve
It steals your humble heart as you comply and compart, to conquer and deceive
Like a rose in disguise chasing beauty and chastise, in the end we always grieve
But Love carries on like a softly swimming swan, thru ripples to the end of time
Come what may Love will always Satyr stray and rivetingly romantically rhyme.
July.04.2017
The Creative Collective Anthology Series
Sponsored by: Geraldine Taylor
Happy 4th to my US buds and buddets lol
Sum of two, percolating hearts
Two forks merge, Love's current to kickstart
Love's seminal streams nutrients cart
Naively, through winding conduits dart
Each mind's eye the vital signs chart
Through coronary arteries; blithe goals, hopes jump-start
Strains increase blood pressure, tearing conjunctive cells apart
Gritty plaque dams; communication channels thwart
From heart's door, through silted veins, corroding dreams depart
Alter egos swell; each inflammatory argument a counterpart
A professional, therapeutic stent does bypass lane impart
Until acute thrombosis does stagnant minds compart
Divergent heart streams dissected on Love's flowchart
A brother I want
a sister I sought,
but in the end I am
alone and sad
with my heart contrite
in a rain of tears which I sought to dry
with the love of my dear.
Alas she is not.
For her stay I fought,
but sadly she left,
without a word,
without saying goodbye,
her promises unkept.
Shamelessly she lied.
Oh what a crime
committed without
shame nor a sigh,
a dishonorable route.
A new girl I shall find
who shall be to me a delight.
Hopefully this girl
shall be my precious pearl
with whom my heart
I shall compart.
Love is multifaceted;
Love is tenderness.
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