Desultory Poems

Calyx of the Noosphere

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Written: August 17, 2025, for contest sponsored by: Rob Carmack - Placed 2nd in the contest

Quote“Let there be no boundaries. When you lose all sense of self, the bonds of a thous...

Brown Paper Packages

...Desultory winds

chimera in throes of doubt

effusive, disconsolate

-clanging in hills stout-

Ductile mind bends sound.

virtuoso of the void—

sweet, zoetic, browned

poolside

...I love a long holiday and as a general rule
you’ll find me out by a turquoise pool
cause it’s hot outside and I’m nobody's fool.

Closing my eyes I lazily daydream
listening to my favorite music...

Do Your Worst

...Perhaps you think I’m sitting here, amazed.
Egregious as the test you set me is,
the truth is, I am utterly unfazed.

Desultory, to me, this kind of quiz.    
Of course I like a challenge. Don’t...

The Art of the DOGE DO-D-GE

...DOGE DO(D)GE is a game:
Accepting praise - never blame.
It's a dodge all right!

DO(D)GE shifts Left - then Right;
Disruptive through winds of change.
It's a dodge all right!

DO(D)GE bans br...

NATURE’s BLOOM

...Sunlight seeping through my sash windows, so bright,  
A silver whisper, anemones in oak’s light.

Piscine fins capture daylight's faint gleam,    
Cormorants align, a verdant, vibrant dream.

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Love VI

... Fervent  rainbows vow to deck
 a gloomy, woeful moon 
with merriness and blissfulness.
 Whispered dreams of virtue
triumph over a murky ,
desultory  brook.
The serene , meandrous 
butterf...

Remembrance of Things Passed

...When old age arrives adorned in grey grace, 
When desultory dreams of fast fled youth 
Persistently insist on poignant truth - 
Among a few, stands out one loving face. 

That one she so caprici...

Echoes of a Forgotten Love

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Written: January 05, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori

Poem Inspired by the Hughes Turner Project,
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Stars ...

Dreams Adrift on Silken Tides

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Written: November 24, 2024 for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann
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In a calyx of ambivalent dreams,   
where shadows swirl as si...

moonflower

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I …

am provenience …
the heel of my father’s foot -
the damp of his brow
and his burgeon …
I am my mother’s bloom
sown in the soil of her intentions
seeded with wonder
and promise …
but ...

Speak no evil

...In the crepuscular halcyon sunset, bells tolled urging
the desultory audience to attend the sermon of the new pastor.
Despite their cynical sentiments, they dared not absent themselves.
The look o...

Desultory Existence

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Dry dust rises behind me as I walk
The earth has become a panting sterile desert
Words become incoherent and rattle as I talk
Dry dust rises behind me as I walk
When I try to commun...

Of jaded muses and digital distractions - POTW

...The allure of mused poems,
No longer visits this nonchalant psyche.
It trickles now, once a roaring torrent
Now a lazy stream

Am like a desultory jaded heaven
Where starry jewels once decked t...

Incurable Romance

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     A word or two with you
       worth a million texts

     Squeezing hands ‘fore parting
       cure for desultory sex
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