SUN SETS
Simmering Setting Sun scattering squashy rays kissing horizon
flashing golden glow on sapphire sky to blush
pasting soft shy patches in crimson hue
in zest and zeal with zephyr brush.
Sun sets and spreads displays spectacular rays !
Fantastic pictures shown on sky album.
Drastic dispersion in queue of rays at random !
Setting Sun rays in sober style
get reflected, refracted, diffracted
to paint on canvas of sky in multicolour patterns.
Weary bird to fly towards nest in slow moving dusk
Whimsy torn clouds welcoming eve on dusty mask.
Serene Sun bids bye, bows to sky.
Tranquil twilight turns pale periwinkle.
Hazy halcyon horizon in indigo border line.
Sublime solitude stepping soft following sundown.
CAPTIVATED
On lazy noon at non-busy hours
Me feeling dizzy
to watch chandelier hanging in central hall
sometime slightly swinging
by soft wind coming through window.
Crystals, strips of cut glass tinkling sweet.
Shimmering Sun rays entering through glasses
reflected, refracted, diffracted
displaying spectrum,
flashing dazzling designs
embellishing walls and ceiling.
Not mere decent but magnificent
in sparkling splendour
in whimsical wonder.
My eyes are glued to spectacular charming patterns:
Continuous changing altering
as chandelier swaying slow.
Me got captivated
not to leave the view
though eyes are tired inviting sleep.
I swim in drowsiness
I sink in dulcet dreams.
10/18/22
Captivation
Contest by Julia Ward.
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.
Cool evening breeze against golden and olive skin.
Fleeting instants after 6 p.m.;
Perfect moments don't last long,
Seconds of solace,
Concealed is the day by azure-colored ripples.
Will they lose themselves too?
Like the lost shadows after sunset.
Immersing in their soul and the night.
The irony of being moonstruck at dusk.
Peace or grief?
A nostalgic dilemma;
Is this what it means to be human?
Being haunted by your sweetest day memory at night.
SUNRISE and SUNSET
Sunrise paints a new day
The skies are a golden reel
The paint brush lies with the creator
..He is the All-wise Master Artist
Each dawn.a blushing surprise
. ..
Sun sets, spreads, displays
spectacular rays,
twilight to welcome
Fantastic view
drastic dispersion in queue
of rays in air at random.
Sun rays reflected
refracted and diffracted,
paste colors on sky album.
Sun does not leave sky.
From any place, verify.
At dawn, sure to come.
11 /15 /21
First Place
Two Poems entwined
First Part : "Dawn Artist" by Jo Daniel dt 11/05 /21
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Second Part: " Sun sets but sure to rise " by me dt 03 /27 /17
'Do it (Duets') Contest by James Edward Lee Sr .
We’re the electromagnetic spectrum;
Particles, waves, almost eight billion strong.
To coherent frequencies some belong,
some divided by color through prism.
Varying energies from low to high,
narrowly diffracted photons scatter.
Lacking mass, believing we don’t matter,
Invisible to the unaided eye.
Synchronized, polarized, amplified beams,
collimated waves propagating dreams,
refracted rays bend to reflected streams
We may choose to oscillate to and fro
by joining a wave in communal flow,
or as single sparks in diffusive glow
diffracted rays tint
the sun's birthing and forecast
a rough day at sea
Brian Johnston
Unknown Date
diffracted rays tint
the sun's birthing and forecast
a rough day at sea
Brian Johnston
8th of October in 2019
A photon wave, I lighten the broadest vista,
not a nook that has ever contained me,
unable to choose between two dark eyes
my ripples enter both simultaneously
striking but one heart, I'm free.
One light is all that can exist
and though I am but a fragment
the chance of you not surfing
my expanding disturbance of space-time
is infinitesimally small.
Let us rejoice then however many times
our reflected waves may interfere
and celebrate our massless voyage
that always reaches outward,
diffracted at times but determined.
To stay the course our heart's desire,
our memories will last as long as
God still looks to future days,
recognizing in our tiny spark,
the birth of universes He has yet to dream.
So, you and I live on in time,
how could one dream forget another,
what God has joined with, in His heart,
cannot be torn asunder,
for as He Is, I Am, and You Are - always mine.
Brian Johnston
May 28,2017
Sun Sets But Sure To Rise
Sun sets, spreads, displays
spectacular rays,
twilight to welcome
Fantastic view
drastic dispersion in queue
of rays in air at random.
Sun rays reflected
refracted and diffracted,
paste colors on sky album.
Sun does not leave sky.
From any place, verify.
At dawn, sure to come.
03/27/17
Vernal Standard 2017 Contest by Brian Strand
Third place
RAINBOW
Delighted sunray dispersed.
Shy sky felt embarrassed.
Ray reflected refracted
scattered, diffracted.
Through rain drop ray splits,
and just exhibits
bright Sun spectrum
pasted on sky-album.
Sun-Rain combined coverage
Earth rejoiced with flora- foliage.
Sun ray shows its colorful bow
Raindrop displaying rainbow.
03/12/17
My Easter Premium Contest by Brian Strand
Point Of No Return
Nor here or there we stand before creations
Stardust secretions with loving limitations
Heaven bounded in the lap of lachrymal lure
Multiverse in reverse as we euphorically endure
Immaculate infernal of soul’s conception
Divine destiny draws us to deaths deception
Holographic injections of celestial skies
Soothing stimuli of diffracted disguise
Fragile flowers falling into edacious eternity
Theatrically thrown upon mammoth mystery
Cosmic castrations of redundant rebirth
Sanctioned slaves of this emancipated earth.
Dec.05.2016
Point of No Return - Contest
Sponsored by: Nicola Byrne
TWILIGHT
Sun sets, spreads, displays
romantic colorful rays,
twilight to welcome
Spectacular view
owes to drastic dispersion
of rays in air at random.
Sun rays reflected
refracted, diffracted to
paste colors on sky album.
07/21/16 Fifth place in Choka Contest
THE BRIGHTEST STAR
To view the brightest violent star,
that glints and glitters from it's scar.
It's life is burning, blurred and far,
we cannot know, just where they are.
The brightest star takes breath and lives,
in sparks and flares, it dusts through sieves.
From a faint galaxy home, it gives,
a joy and bliss, it winks and lives.
Delightful in which one contemplates,
It is our neighbor that winks and waits.
Away our breath it reels and takes,
and puzzles us with the home it makes.
Refracted, Diffracted, Inflected light,
splayed from slight of eye to sight of site.
Tucked in berth, by birth, to be in flight,
Camouflaged the brightest star in white.
Edlynn Nau
© February 12, 2016
Breaks an egg and out comes the sun
Begging for forgiveness
For lighting
Ducks sailing on the spikes
Women watching them trough keyholes,
Light diffracted into Meduses-
My happy face
Circularly deformed-
The brave man behind lens
Is the sunset’s zipper
Of the blue eye spot-
Her face – mechanic eyes
Lied on the floor, naked-
A pomegranate breaks beside her-
Lucky charm, said someone –
(originally written in modern Greek and released in February 2006 from Nocturnal
Publications – translated here by the author)
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