Ductile Grace
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Written: July 26, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann
Quote: "Be still, for the silence of God is the language of the soul." by Rumi
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Categories:
coruscating, appreciation, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Starlight
...Stars burn bright
against the backdrop
of a velvet black sky,
pearls of light
coruscating through
a veil of darkness
like beacons
to distant worlds.
A celestial body’s radiance
becomes its...
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Categories:
coruscating, light, night, planet, sky,
Form: Free verse
am I not art
...as the wind whistles
warm wishes
echoing the
sea-salt silence
flowing beneath
silver-kissed waves
I think of synonyms for
love
illustrating hate
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Categories:
coruscating, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Ukrainian Poetry Translations 2 by Michael R Burch
...Love in Kyiv
by Natalka Bilotserkivets
translation by Michael R. Burch
Love is more terrible in Kyiv
than spectacular Venetian passions,
than butterflies morphing into bright tapers–
winged c...
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Categories:
coruscating, funeral, love, sad, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Seijaku
...Despite the pulsing pirouette of urban thresholds,
coruscating catalyst amid detachment,
of golden spoke carousel magnetism,
circle-shape swivel platform roundabout,
that spreads incipient wish f...
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Categories:
coruscating, appreciation, beautiful, care, character,
Form: Free verse
Gemini Garden-Silent One
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Written: June 09, 2024 For Ink Empress Contest
“a mute tongue is a slave to silence” - Silent One
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Categories:
coruscating, appreciation, silence,
Form: Free verse
A Dazzle of Poetry
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pulchritudinous ingots chisel and shades
dazzle and illuminate umpteen reasons
poetry is like a swirling, susurrus-sibilant chimera
of innuendo arty souls, albeit vapid syntax
around sere...
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Categories:
coruscating, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Suzette Prime
Upbeat Day Ahead
...I hail each bronze, red, and blue coloured dawn,
as pulsing heart mould torch flame of bliss,
to gaze across some awestruck mint sprig lawn,
that golden birthright never goes amiss
Ey...
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Categories:
coruscating, birth, blessing, celebration, cheer
Form: Quatrain
Light Knight
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Coruscating Fire, Wielding Shields Of Knights
Brandishing Spears Sacred as Light,
Crusading Upright St.George Like
Into Fields Of Destiny with Steeds Of Epic Flight,
Chasing Legends
Dici...
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Categories:
coruscating, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
When the Time Stands Still
...The saplings are growing into plants
and the plants are ageing into trees
They stand tall and stagnant
getting bored of the cool sea breeze
?Whiling away the days and nights
they strike a s...
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Categories:
coruscating, destiny, environment, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
A Wardian Case of Coruscating Light
...Preternatural beauty dense and thickly lush
elegantly displayed requiring very little gush
A terrarium bottle garden in a growing rush
staving deep with vibrancy and gentle hush;
A wardian cas...
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Categories:
coruscating, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
The Power of Poetry
...I Climbed rocks winged with words,
and paint beauties on my path,
invade palaces unhindered,
bearing arms welling from this frame.
I draw the sword from the scabbard,
piercing dictators with...
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Categories:
coruscating, allegory, allusion, analogy, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Funny Thing Is
...gusts of raucous laughter
greet wide smirk jesters coruscating flippant jibes
sought after
humour in train
punchlines on cue evoke swell vibes
heal pain
quips now
stoke fun-starved tribes
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Categories:
coruscating, art, blessing, creation, fun,
Form: Rhyme
No Shadows After Sunset
...Long human silhouettes at eventide.
Dry lips, coruscating eyes, hungry souls, a lakefront view.
Water shimmering in the diffracted coral beam; upcoming moonlight.
Pair of warm and cold hands.
Coo...
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Categories:
coruscating, art, courage, deep, longing,
Form: Free verse
First Time Magic
...Hall of mirrors, reflection and cheers of cherry eyes.*
Toddler’s dimpled cherub skies open amazingly wide.
Coruscating spectral display of fairy lights on preponderant fir.
Silver and gold charms...
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Categories:
coruscating, christmas, love,
Form: Free verse
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