July unfolds magenta-colored skies
and launches blasts of pinks emblazed with gold-
exploding artistry that causes sighs-
as sunsets fashion fireworks to behold.
July 7, 2022
Contest: The Sky In July
Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich
Form Used: Quatrain
Suddenly she is there,
her young face in the hurrying crowd.
I spin into a forty year old whirlpool
recall how we were
and how time has tested us both.
There she is
emblazed upon in a strangers form
and I struck high and low,
a moonbeam washed over
the edge of a timeless waterfall.
Drummer boy and Drummer girl.
Creating echoes of emotions intentions.
Speak your mind in catchy unfurl.
In tantric mind pounding experi-dimension.
So happy they're not blades,
You're wielding.
I'm just saying, drummers are crazed.
Those sticks, instead, are an extensions of a quest for fire.
Kindling, I hope, for holy smoke of a heart emblazed.
Caroming over a glade overlooking desire.
Unbridled energy for getting your point to be made.
Shoehorning passions through my pounding head.
Up the irons! The likes of Nicko Mcbrain.
Standard Bearer of the Serenade;
Kim Iversen, what do you do for an encore?
Fight like a Standard Bearer, for the People of the U.S.A.
It's not the furious storm battering,
or the massive tides rising
that seem a real threat
to the existence of this fortress
defended by your grit
to retain its stately appearance!
Make your last tower stand strong,
allow no disarming thoughts cause a defeat;
show you valor with a vigorous beat:
to be victorious one must keep fighting along!
Let hope reflect the boldness
of your will when the cunning enemy
will attemtp to climb front and side walls
you've fortified with tremendous audacity;
ignore their mocking, they won't fall,
continue surveilling them until nightfall!
Make your last tower stand strong,
amid loud clashes and terrifying screams,
keep an eye on your emblazed flag;
it must not be drenched in blood or tears!
How high, how low
is our inner glow?
How long will imagination swirl around
before finding that unique mind
in which lives a stunning vision
long pursued, never realized?
Which are the true colors
of flowers of an emblazed sunset...
when the spectacle delights?
Is the peaceful spirit immersed
in contemplation rather than prayer?
Are the fading gleams a sadness
never felt so profoundly?
How high, how low
is our inner glow?
How desperate we become
when we grope for uncertainty...
considering its outcome
with decreased probability?
How captured are we by those
vivid colors before they quickly
vanish into the vastness of space?
Carving the antennai
watch the carved butterfly
touch and felt
by bored passing students
forced summer drive
Its glory emblazed
on a plastic label
Cabbage white model
last known
circa 2025
A smile is cast upon your sultry face
as lover's glance makes way for love emblazed.
With timid touch your breast my fingers trace
in search of love's familiar urge unfazed.
Your skin like silk pressed warm against my chest
entices feelings longed for in my bed
then with a kiss your love leaves me caressed
with cloyed emotions, burning flames have fled.
But lonely hearts, so filled with you, will break
on lips as soft as heaven's sweet whipped cream.
I taste your soul with every breath you take,
when passion's hunger's lost within my dream,
then dreams of you are all that I can see,
for love for us, in truth, can never be.
08/02/16
The instigator relates, we cheer.
Deflates nay Sayers
The instigator retraced all fears
Detest all stares
The instigator dissects dialect
The instigator obliges his faith
What phase? The instigator
Emblazed freeze gaze.
Counsels full LAWS.
Legal eagle at the cause.
The instigator has
FAME No game.
The instigator takes flight
Ignites surprise
Do fly red eye
Nice GUY GOOD GUY
GOOD BYE
CLARITY
crystal clear blues
emblazed
across thought of
Eternal sun
sparkling dark hues
encompass all
one by one
veins rerun
undone
small tender volumes
like tears that melt
glass
my throat rolls the wine
a harsh acidic
farce
kissing life
between
elusive and vague
shafts
worlds growing
apart
strangling the
clarity of a
lucid
finite
© Kim van Breda
The panoply of midnights half moon smile,
emblazed beneath her part drawn shutters,
captured my glances and pseudo beguile
so sweet nothings were just mumbled stutters,
and to the rhythm of her soft inhale
this heart I stitched to sleeve, shed comforts veil,
for although the breezes laid down their song
and played hypnotically upon my mind,
they could not break sensualities throng
as your beauty and thoughts became entwined.
So never more will my steps leave distance
between commitments shallow insistence.
*** This is a Sixtain - The rhyme scheme being ababcc, but not in iambic penta-meter. Each
line should have the same syllable count (in this case 8) to soften the rhythm.
The airs crisp and invigorating,
With every breath I take.
For a brief moment out of many,
I take the time to appreciate.
As I stand before you oh mighty one,
I look out across the land.
For all about are true wonders,
Created at your command.
Above me I see the heavens,
On a clear day, of cobalt blue.
Emblazed by the golden sun,
As it warmth brings life anew.
The patchwork coloured countryside,
Stretches out, far in front of me.
And the meandering of a crystal chord,
Flows timeless, but unstoppable.
As it makes its way,
To where mountains meet the sea.
another wink of day creases
from the lofty dappled spaces
glowing in twilight's splendor
through the slightly opened door
the soft melancholy matures slowly
that once emblazed the black immensity
when the dainty streaks of light
herald the beaming yonder's knight
the cold hazy light dissolves the stars
seeping in through the earth's reservoir
into the ocean of green shrubs and trees
and a horde of butterflies and bees
the hills are drenched with crystal dew
then softly glow with flaming hue
when the first beams of dawn
repaint the earth's cocoon
the sleepy mountains' crest
serenely swim out of blue mist
greeting the royal sunbeams
with jolly bird's cheers
the morning beauty liquifies
before my thirsty eyes
catching me half a dream
as the splendid spectacle
embrace my captivated soul
Looking for the formal definition, structure, and history of this poetry form? Visit the Poetry Dictionary entry below. Then return to explore how PoetrySoup members bring the form to life through their own poems.