Endears Poems

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


Premium MemberNEW 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

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Here and Now...
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Categories: endears, inspiration,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberKNOWING

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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

Premium MemberCHRISTMAS - 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

Premium MemberWoman 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

Premium MemberVoyager

...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

Premium MemberPure 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

Premium MemberCode 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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