Strange, thou art such a passion pill
...Well-groomed ye keep thy ample locks curly,
Thy tender big eyes stretch nigh up to ears,
O slender heavenly fairy,
Bright teeth on fair countenance endears,
Thy pearl garland adds to bosom’s b...
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Categories:
endears, beauty, passion, women,
Form: Ottava rima
SONNET ON CUPID
...Oh! illusion of all illusions
Art thou incarnated as Cupid?
Depicted ye with wings
And hath armed with love-shaft
Entwines ye many hearts of innocence
And warms thyself in their perdu passio...
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Categories:
endears, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Lady Aya
...Oh fair and fiery beauty,
In your gaze, the stars align,
A spirit brave and wise beyond your years,
You wear your heart, a gem divine.
In whom calm and grace abound,
Your laughter da...
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Categories:
endears, birthday, care, humor, i
Form: Rhyme
A Lingering Dream
...Someday to write
the greatest poem
The most powerful words
forever to hear
Someday to write
the moment solemn
Where time will stop counting
— and prescience endears
(Dreamsleep: March, 20...
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Categories:
endears, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Blue
...Blue is the colour that paints the sky,
As clouds drift across the vast expanse,
Mysteries traverse and dance,
With the sun taking its place in this proud hue.
Blue is the colour of the s...
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Categories:
endears, art, bird, blue, nature,
Form: Rhyme
NEW YEAR SOJOURN
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Journey Journal
NEW YEAR SOJOURN
By Leon Enriquez
Brand New Year
Prize happy cheer
Live fond bliss
Greet all you miss
Be happy
Live your story
~~~~~~~~~
Here and Now...
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Categories:
endears, inspiration,
Form: Couplet
KNOWING
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Journey Journal
KNOWING
By Leon Enriquez
You know the feeling
A deep kind of knowing
A true feel of being
A certain kind showing
Knowing can now tease
A flamboyant life lease
...
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Categories:
endears, inspiration,
Form: Quatrain
CHRISTMAS - BOXING DAY 2024
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Journey Journal Page
CHRISTMAS — BOXING DAY 2024
By Leon Enriquez
Here on this good earth
A story draws near
A tale of wise mirth
To usher good cheer
A touch of true peace
In a w...
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Categories:
endears, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Woman Wrapper
...You are always staying home
My neighbour muttered
Yes, I always do, I answered.
You are a woman wrapper, he replied.
I like to retire to the comforts of my home
after work,
If so, so be ...
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Categories:
endears, black love, christian, life,
Form: Free verse
Voyager
...Listen to the deep stillness here,
Feel the inner astronaut glide;
Glimpse the pure grace that ever cheers.
Relax into that mystic sphere,
Smell the fragrance of time and tide;
Listen to the d...
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Categories:
endears, allusion,
Form: Villanelle
Sound Bites: 8-6-2024
...Verbal Foundlings
Free or blank
tomato
tomatto
Without rhyme’s link
there’s no
bravado
The verse left orphaned
all kinship
spurned
As unconnected
words crash
— and burn
(The N...
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Categories:
endears, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
And I keep writing
...I feel the weight of tears and keep writing,
An odd word endears, and I keep writing.
In life there’s pain, there too is emptiness,
Yet, as love pours from spheres, I keep writing.
My heart g...
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Categories:
endears, poets, writing,
Form: Ghazal
Pure Heart is a Spotless Mirror
..."The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of infinite beauty
are reflected,” Rumi
Placed 6th in:
Mirror Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Sara Kendrick
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Categories:
endears, appreciation, beauty, heart, mirror,
Form: Quatrain
Your flaw endears Dear more than irks
...No one nor you, me love, be free from flaws,
A flaw endears more than it ever irks,
It sounds strange, dimple a dire flaw ere was,
Life comes alive with foibles, whims and quirks.
A mortal li...
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Categories:
endears, beauty, for her,
Form: Sonnet
Code Sad Mode
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Journey Journal Page
CODE SAD MODE
By Leon Enriquez
My heart knows how love hurts
Blush of wild fling casts dirt
By day sad dreary hues
By night pain comes on cue
My soul feels...
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Categories:
endears, depression,
Form: Quatrain
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