Crystallizing Poems | Examples

Undefined Fractures

You measure by mass—  
diamond resolve turning quietly,  
its shape carved from silence,  
creating shards of tension.
 
Light bending—crystallizing 
in my shell, waiting to 
crack open in the name of 
weightless worth.

Ice Angel

Soft flurry of snow, blown south to the sea,
brisk breath of Boreas breaks summer's stupe.
What strange, phantom dream here stands before me,
freezing river's course till it runs a loop?

How rapid the advance of blue-white ice-
crystallizing in my veins - no remorse!
Breath seizes at her sight - I drop the dice.
This cold snap - nothing better; nothing worse.

What right could I have - mad man of the marsh -
to harbor hope from latitudes higher?
Unseemly, uncouth, unwittingly harsh -
My spirit flickers as I watch her spire.

Yet, how could one complain, in summer's realm?
Such gift to see ice angels overwhelm ...


21 July 2023

Metamorph

before the ink dries
the mind is racing ahead
forming the next thought
crystallizing the abstract
old before it can be penned

Lipstick Lips

Lipstick Lips



Lipstick red lips on
Tombstone remains. Bloody red
Roses kiss the cold  
Breath of death, crystallizing 
Hearts overcome by the flame






Marckincia Jean 
Tanka
10/13/19

Covenant of Love

he looks at her eyes
butterflies surf dreams within
strolling twilight beach

shooting stars make wish
Prince wakes up serene Snow White  
something melts the night

stream of passion flows 
non stop chimes of Cupid choir 
crystallizing  breath

backdrop of embrace 
pearl in heart of oyster blooms
covenant of love




Sponsor	Rick Parise
Contest 1 -12 lines ONLY - A Poem That Did NOT Receive A Ribbon Placement 1-3 

Date written.. 24th July 2019


Earlier submitted to the following contest

Sponsor	Jamie Pan
Contest Name	Multiple-Haikus
Featured 50 in best new poems

Ode To Tear Drops

Legends be told, and written in tomes of a creature which roams the residence of the family: Lee-
Through shrubs and trees, though silent and unseen, it seeks seeds-
Ones of fire. Ones of sweet.
The creature seen only when: upon them, it feeds, simultaneously.
Its form of a boar with a tongue of alchemy, ignites in a spectrum of brilliancy. Hovering eyes remain but for a moment and weep vehement tears; crystallizing with the essence of harvest.

Winter Blues

A meter off the ground - it was chilling to the bone
  and they say high up the degrees drop 

In a metal bird with conditioned air
  forgotten are dreams of wanting to fly

I closed my eyes -        could sleep fast-forward eight months?
we stepped down at the other end of the universe

The Earth was wearing white     trees clinging on to green
         in the middle of this   I stood   very blue

the sun turned bleak,   gave into cold  
 all time spaced out    last day seemed old 

summer had waned -  and for ever, it seemed

frosting fell before my eyes, crystallizing tears
    salting snow                nothing stays pure for long

I was stuck in a snow globe,   wishing the white was pixie dust  
(you can take home away from a person, you can’t take hope out of them)

They say new years let grow new hope
but withering winds breed fear alone             


impatience in its veins  and  shoulders shaking



a spiritless shadow trailed  






           * * * * * * *

the ghost of a snowflake 
  settles on my glove
 
     cold touch of a memory

Beaching

beaching…

the rhythmic waves
frothing to and from
carry middle passage echoes
of journeying odysseys

the setting sun severs
the umbilical link
between motherland
and her children in diaspora

reflecting grains of sand
catch crystallizing tears
of memories of faded shores

the bleeding breeze blows
sea seasoned whispers
flowing from lost voices

from sea to shining sea
we’ve been anchored 
chained and auctioned

never can slavery be
a metaphor for memory
as waves dissipate
at the shores of time 

no matter what beaches
we roam
the shores still sing songs
stealing home.

Left It All Behind

Left It All Behind

Left it all behind!
hadn’t planned it
just sorta…. well…..
felt that shadow
creeping closer,
a chill……. following 
my every movement,
an icy angst
crystallizing memory,
shades….. slowly drawing
on the windows
of the soul.
No ticket
No boarding pass
No tomorrow
Left it all behind.


©9/19/2017

submitted to – Travelling Light – Poetry Contest

Freedom Bound

As far as the eye can see, thunder roars with such fury in the horizon.
Beneath the sea sculpturing deep tints and shades of blue, briny crystallizing.
The tide draws away and breathes its curse.
Articulating its exaltation moving force,
manifesting and mesmerizing.


Bout gaits end with the striking off sound.
Airborne when all four are off the ground.
Breeze laced through his mane with pride.
Feeling the cold embrace, he draws a breath with every stride.
As the rain caress, fire burns inside, free its soul bound.

7/20/2016

Rhyme      AABBA    AABBA
Two Stanzas - Two Only - Poetry Contest 
 Sponsored by: Broken Wings

Jack Frost

 JACK FROST.  


           
              J ourneyer of jazzy winter in a jovial mood comes Jack
              A rouses aspiration in little angels for snow fight balls
              C asting crystallizing icicles on icy forest and crispy lands
              K aleidoscope of frozen frost,kisses goodbye to kinsfolk of rain


              F rosty,fecund,fur favouring but gets ferociously frozen at times
              R hapsodic winter lovers go skiing along the snow ground razzmatazz
              O odles of snow,oncoming chills,skating thrills in his strolls offers Jack
              S himmering silvery snowful scenario adds to the shine of Jack's abode
              T roubadour of winterland prooves to be God's trustworthy tycoon.






               P.S-May GOD bless you all with a wonderful winter.
               Contest:Jack Frost
               Sponsor:Shadow Hamilton
               3.12.2015

Seasonal

When earths abundant harvest, nature displays.
   Then farmers will face, ever shortening days.
   As wet days of summer, change to shivering chills.
   Swirling light snow, veils those far distant hills.
   With white hoar frost silvering, autumns dead leaves.
   And long icy fingers,crystallizing on eaves.

   9/ 24/ 2015.

A Native Son's Sunset At Mo'Bay

A NATIVE SON’S SUNSET AT MO’BAY

As the sun kissed
the sea’s soothing bosom,
caressing waves splashed the shores
leaving spent froth
dissipating in the sand:
crystallizing aged memories
of sadistic slave ships once anchored here.

Your Beginning

Vacant longing in a sacred bind
Broken by love’s flaw
Eyes spill jewels upon the kind
Taking all . . . taking all
Kiss a drop of falling rain
Rising over the fears
Yank the warmth out of the pain
To welcome yester-tears

It was never about me,
Just falling around me
Rejoice with me as they take me all
And as I descend,
As I descend to face the night,
Know that my end, know that my end
Is your beginning

Chilled to the aching bone
You pick up remnants of the past
Far from home
Where all the emptiness blooms and lasts

Don’t crawl back to me in all your pain
Don’t pick up the crystallizing rain
Run, for my life never mattered
Fragments of this dream—cold and shattered

It was never about me
Just falling around me
Rejoice with me as they take me all
And as I descend,
Know that my end, know that my end


And never goodbye

Nexus of One

Continuously phantasmagoric  is its vitality,
Crystallizing within the depths of my spirituality, 
Sanctuary  against the maleficent reality, 
Encompassing  past the fortification of mentality,
Dependency upon its draught of lethality,
Praying for the verisimilitude of immortality, 
Enlightened after necrosis, for entwinement in  universality

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