Rose Enclosed Rhyme Poems

Just lay back and I’ll be your atlas 
let’s explore the craters of Saturn;
Beauty lies in so smokey a burn
erupting into perfect stained glass;

Wild rose...

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In the splendorous sky of my ardent heart,
you sparkled like the sequins of the moon. 
As I suffused your sapphire sheen to attune,
my heart turned...

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"The voices howl in the dark frightens even the brave."
Quote by poet

Voices, do you hear them in the pitch dark.
They drum from pressure within moist...

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Love is a rose, so beautiful and bright,
A symbol of beauty that shines so right,
Its fragrance so sweet, it captures your heart,
And fills you up...

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Tell me the truth, yet you must state it straight
The reality of punctilious twisting within the tale 
Our life is often how it should be, sans...

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*Image of Mirror Lake by Pixabay.

Enclosed Rhyme Sonnet: Nature's Mirror

Forget-me-not thy scent hast taste of time 
for thou art pleased thy stance ere errant cast...

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Born in brilliant rose dawn, when dreams were still possible,
I'm a silent ebony shadow, who has never felt the fiery sun.
In cool, dark regions I...

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The velvet blanket of night gently lifts
                  ...

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What I'd like to give you is an ounce of my cologne
wafting refreshing sweetness of childhood vibrancy
reminding you our wondrous after-bath ecstasy
midst strawberry fizz and...

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It was a crisp fall November weekend, 
We had gotten up early that morning 
A frantic rush, buzzing to go camping. 
We'd packed the night...

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Flamingo (Paintings by Patricia)


Fairest flamingo of my memories, 
oh, I loved watching you from cool shadows 
reflecting your beauty in pink and rose,
gracefully wading beneath...

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My beautiful mystical rose
From the ashes of defeat you rose
Beauty bestowed lacking flaws
The same iron lady everyone knows
With your slightest move they tremble; your foes
As...

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Dreamscape

Fright night echoes sounds clink tapped chalices,
Amidst caused bruised concoctions aplenty,
Dons alehouse barmaids geniality,
Fair distance yonder gates of said palaces.

Camaraderie placates fools, nightfalls,
Host chambered snores...

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Roman à clef tragicomedy...
overlaid with façade of fiction = Mein Kampf

No need for yours truly to dig deep,
(albeit bonafide figuratively)
by Dickens thru mine Uriah Heep,
a...

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IN THE HUB

Pounding in the hub of his chest —
    a ruby, as red as a polished apple.
    ...

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