External Storms
...External Storms
Listen close, the winds whisper low,
A symphony of sorrow's ebb and glow.
Thunder rumbles, a beast awakening,
Heaven's own heartbeat, in warning speaking.
Pressure builds, unsee...
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Categories:
engulf, confusion, courage, encouraging, faith,
Form: Free verse
Amidst the Kiss
...A soft caress within the night
awakens my burning need for bliss.
Entangled with your warm delight,
seduction starts amidst this kiss.
Your lips, alluring and divine,
engulf me in desire'...
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Categories:
engulf, desire, kiss, love, lust,
Form: Rhyme
In stars above
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Humming in hemlock heartbeats ~
along the shorelines
which once swallowed the sun
in their searing shadows ~
I see those smoking seawaves
swirling upon my skin,
as the silhouettes
of d...
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Categories:
engulf, deep, emotions, imagery, moon,
Form: Free verse
Grey
...For Color My Mood Poetry Contest 26th May 2025
Sponsored by: Nette Onclaud
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Ominous leaden clouds sink low in the sky overhead.
As sha...
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Categories:
engulf, color, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Accepting My Fate-Breathless
...Quote "Dont play with fire - It doesn't play fair"
This has been attributed to a song by the Rolling Stones.
It started with burning embers, Prometheus, the fire god casts an evil spell.
Then ...
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Categories:
engulf, fire,
Form: Rhyme
Rubicon Crossing
...My resolves, like ivy vines, coalesce around.
My caverns of thoughts constantly open and close.
Amidst scorns, I hear a spitefully silent sound.
Absurdity whirlpools as though decoded morose
Cou...
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Categories:
engulf, life,
Form: Ode
Lost in AAAANOTHER wORLD
...I thought that I was living in modern times but something dynamic has crossed my path and I found myself gliding
Between the earth and the sky and my spirit start humming a
Tune composed from a dis...
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Categories:
engulf, america, animal, birth, business,
Form: Free verse
Sun, Sand and Sea
...Walking barefoot along the beach
the sun is setting over the waters
and it paints the sky orange and pink.
The wet sand squishes between my toes,
I take a deep breath of the salty air
close my e...
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Categories:
engulf, sea, sun, wind,
Form: Free verse
The Cold Embrace of Death
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I love the cold as I lay beneath my
feather doodah, or chill-out
in my warm down-filled wind cheater.
I love to run through fields of ice and snow
with steam expelling from my mouth
with eve...
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Categories:
engulf, cool, life, weather,
Form: Free verse
Gossamer Future - Dream Phantom
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Written: April 09, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Daniel Henry Rodgers
Quote: "Do not look back, no one knows how the world ever began. Do not fear the future, nothing lasts fore...
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Categories:
engulf, analogy, future,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Love's Mountain
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Written a ton of poems
Many of them silly, many about love
Have decades of experience
But the love I'm feeling now
Surpasses any I have ever experienced before
In my whole entire lif...
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Categories:
engulf, light,
Form: Rhyme
Zen mode
...as form, we dissolve
in the stream of bliss
as divine magnetism, we engulf
body urn so yearning
to connect
who on earth can name
the resultant rapture splash
brought about by love’s embra...
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Categories:
engulf, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Nearby Ghetto
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i wish i didn’t* but
i have to get across town
so off i go taking the bus
that drives through a nasty ghetto
i’m shocked as i look out the window
to see several dismal characters
i can’t i...
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Categories:
engulf, life, poverty,
Form: Free verse
In a world of shadows and sounds that break
...In a world of shadows and sounds that break,
Where thoughts flow like a river seeking its course,
I'm enveloped by the scent of a trembling memory,
Like a pale light on the falling autumn leaves.
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Categories:
engulf, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
I hate you because I love you too much, a paradox that tears my being apart
...I hate you because I love you too much, a paradox that tears my being apart,
The river of my thoughts flows into an ocean of contradictions,
Waves of passion and fury crash against the shore of my ...
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Categories:
engulf, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
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