My village around the borderland, estranged
Mountain from the other side, rejoiced within gray shaded area to bloom
Echoed the echo of the midnight hymn, darkened a shade, deeper fill in xanthosis, lasted beyond the yonder valley o'er the meadow, fall color blossomed then.
Echoed a sound lasted, I heard, an echoed a sound lasted
Eavesdrop and a try , as I meant for that
Beyond the sensible perception, to understand
Opening the eyes, I try to see
A failure to gaze to perceive a gaze
Closing my eyes , I am a fanciful thought
O intellect , I failed to perceive that
I am a failure to a thousand mountaineer causes , caused
A failure to climb those events larger than a life, presented
Echoed the echo of the midnight hymn, darkened a shade, deeper fill in xanthosis, lasted beyond the yonder valley o'er the meadow, fall color blossomed then.
Echoed a sound lasted, I heard, an echoed a sound lasted.
Based on a song from subcontinental vibe
S-poken
A-rt
R-eceives
A-pplause,
H-aving
J-ust
A-dvanced
L-iterary
I-deas
L-ike
U-plifting
L-ine
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Monocrostic (Birthday of Sarah Jalilul)
E-ver
R-ighteous
I-n
E-xpressing
L-ove
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Monocrostic (Birthday of Eriel M. Asiado)
Growing pains
We drop the chains
Allowed to live
We must forgive
Unlock the beauty
See your journey
With truth we are freed
Allow devinity to lead
Taking your stand
You will understand
Please recall
Love is all
Do not sigh
For we hold allys
Do not continue to deny
Look further where silent heart lie
Look past your grief
You shall find relief
God has the voice
For he is our choice
Believe of what you may not see
Prosperity was never the key
Created to produce fear
So we would adhere
Begging you to feel
See what is real
Those footsteps that you left at the door,
Echo the last words I heard you say.
Turning to me, my eyes meet the floor.
I needed to prove myself today.
Again, it was your hope that I tore.
I’ve proven who I am, to your dismay.
What I say, pitted to what I do,
That I’ll never be there for you.
J-oy
O-bliterates
S-orrowful
E-yes
P-leasing
H-eart
I-n
N-icely
E-choed
D-elight
E-nding
S-ad
T-ime
A-gain
Topic: Birthday of Josephine Desta (June 19)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Look to the sky to witness morning glory
As rising vision writes an amorous story
Painting cosmic canvas delightfully spry
To witness morning glory, look to the sky
Listen to the birds for message they heard
As the horizon lit-up when emotions stirred
Blowing cheery winds chanting your words
For message they heard, listen to the birds
Every day goes by without you by my side
Waiting to decide, I see you teary eyed
Trust the answer you have, don't ask why
Without you by my side, every day goes by
Heeding my advice you echoed my voice
Leaning on destiny you made your choice
Trusting my friendship won't exact a price
You echoed my voice, heeding my advice
June 20, 2018
Placed 1st: Late June 2018 standard contest by Brian Strand
NOTE:
This poem is a Swap Quatrain. This form was created by Lorraine M. Kanter.
Within the Swap Quatrain each stanza in the poem must be a quatrain (four lines) where the
first line is reversed in the fourth line. In addition, line 2 must rhyme with line 1, and line 3
must rhyme with line 4 and so on, BUT not repeat the same rhyming pattern on subsequent
stanzas. Rhyming pattern: AABB, CCDD, and so on.
Echoed voices from distant shores
They sound the same as mine and yours
The languages differ, a different tone
From distant shores we speak our own
Echoed voices across the seas
Hitching rides amongst the breeze
Speaking words that come to mind
Peace be with you, and to all mankind
Echoed voices in open air
Brothers and sisters cry despair
On distant shores we hear their cries
Together, we all must rise
Echoed voices for peace on earth
Loving one another, is what it's worth
Voices are heard like mine and yours
Our echoed voices from distant shores
Favorite Poem Written in June 2018 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Dear Heart a.k.a. Broken Wings
6/18/2018
Smiling hotly you're the flame captured underneath
burning with a sunrise golden gleam frosted
Sparkling within dewdrops crystals crash
over oceans waves rise and fall to grace
At your feet adoring they kiss salt saluting promise
kneeling upon the sand footprints hold ground held
Those inside one thousand memories wrapped forever
perfect jewel you are the pearl of a deep sea always crowned
Lustre of one rainbow washed clean cut perfect flower
white lily from the heart of love you brought peace
The inner sphere of echoed thought beholds
The urn of changing vapor from the height
Of lost remembrance. Darkly, mist unfolds
A weight of madding blindness with such might
That all within the realm of misery is stirred
To joyless life, announcing its pursuit
Of softer voices, pantingly interred
By sparkless fires, unmoved in their dispute,
Outsoared by unextinguished will Earth’s gold to loot.
The mastery of unfulfilled descent
Within the madness of the shattered wreck
Which binds all light to us, dim mortals, lent
By desolation is for Phoenix birds to peck.
Indomitable as the burning heat
Of blazing suns whose rays descend on me,
The task of breathing is a hurtful feat
Whose worth is hard indeed to see.
What oracle might have foreseen my fate’s decree?
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