Sunset Reverie
...Smiling down on the speckles of sand,
already the warmth is fading.
Dreaming of brilliant
stars to appear
as their mother rested on waves.
At the height of graceful magnificence
her soft chr...
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Categories:
cyan, appreciation, beautiful, imagery, nature,
Form: Free verse
Intrusive Thoughts
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Written: June 07, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
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The Phantom Choir
In the quiescence of last Sunday,
Prophecy heralded the hour p...
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Categories:
cyan, bereavement, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Water
...p u l s e s
diastolic
systolic
fluid rhythm tides
e l a s t i c
memories mix with water ...
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Categories:
cyan, joy, loss, nostalgia, sea,
Form: Free verse
Opal Dreams and Gold Gleams
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Written: May 31st, 2025, For contest: By Joseph May
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"The stars beckoned her song to reach the crescent moon."
A sonata spun in silver, diaph...
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Categories:
cyan, appreciation, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Under the Ocean
...Swimming under the surface of the Pacific
Past the border of the ocean
Where the two meet, brown and blue.
Met by tiny swimming jewels here,
Living within the tall crystals,
The ecosystem of cry...
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Categories:
cyan, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Anxious Seas
...an
albatross s
k
i
m
s
above
a n x i o u s cyan seas ~
escalating d
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Categories:
cyan, deep, earth, imagery, poetry,
Form: Haiku
Confess, Corn Flakes!
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You know her
You feel she mingles in your reason in rhythm
Not with your possible pain of angina in arrhythmia
She is a calm serenity prayer
that knows your tear and that needs to run down o...
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Categories:
cyan, art,
Form: Free verse
The Now Continuum
...The sky bathes the harbor in cyan turquoise
cadet-blue sea foam bubbles the only gorget one has
versus the flamingos and canaries absconding littoral mire
the gashes on my feet, the burn in my <>
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Categories:
cyan, age, beauty, bird, first
Form: Free verse
Antique Ink Euphoria
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Written: April 1st, 2025 for contest sponsored by Brian Strand
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esoteric lines are etched
with antique ink
as wise men dither to think
euphori...
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Categories:
cyan, appreciation, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
And There were Three
...Three faceless Misses
amble amidst vagarious March rains
under parasols / veiled in the anonymity of death/burial
Three / shifting between tangible lives
breathless bellies barely acclimat...
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Categories:
cyan, art, black african american,
Form: Free verse
discoloured palette
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cyan blues indigo into nighttime
darkness scorches the soul to the core
hellfire’s charcoal embers
dissipate lightness of being
achromatic void
engulfs a self-fulfilling promise
rose petal...
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Categories:
cyan, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
In Marked Territory
...I surf through the crooning crests
of warm, blue waters,
breathing poetry and prose,
carved in topaz and turquoise,
for I am the goddess
of the bittersweet estuary,
crowned with foamy salt ...
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Categories:
cyan, art, blessing,
Form: Free verse
dare Angel
...Dear Angel,
I dare you, shimmering…glimmering star
To shine anew where you are
Dare Angel, so true
Who knew, who’d knew
You were the color of cyan
I will be your man
I will be having my tan
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Categories:
cyan, angel,
Form: Free verse
INSPIRED INGENUITY
...colored dots
the deal
wide& closely
spaced
joined-up
large-scale
real
in popular
appeal
an
ambivalent
pastiche
off
the leash
other shapes
irregular...
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Categories:
cyan, art, poetry, word play,
Form: Didactic
Nature's Foursomes
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The four seasons mark the turning year,
Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter clear.
Four phases of the moon at night we can see,
Waxing, Full, Waning, and New, set free.
The earth has four elem...
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Categories:
cyan, earth, emotions, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
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