A Tress of Hair
...Cocoon of late afternoon, amber-shuttered,
the day on hold for each secret moment
in sweet suffocating gold, trembling to touch
the sensual warmth of its coiling comet;
to let it travel, let it...
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Categories:
enwrapping, desire, hair, sensual,
Form: Free verse
In The Shadow Of Sunlight
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Floating in the flash flood
of divesting dissonance pervasive,
I see a verdant valley carved out
within the entity of lonesome me,
drifting away with the desolate sigh,
displaced from t...
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Categories:
enwrapping, analogy, life, memory, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Waterfall of Shadows
...I watch
as sun slides down in the sky.
The shadows increase in length,
a dark waterfall descending
upon the sandy beach.
Slowly I inhale and exhale,
savoring the fresh flavor
of the evening’...
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Categories:
enwrapping, eve,
Form: Free verse
Red Moon Rising
...From the falling edge of the ebony night sky,
as the surmounting shroud of despair darts,
the promise of the full moon I’ve made to you,
I’ll keep before the enwrapping eclipse starts.
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Categories:
enwrapping, analogy, desire, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Background Music
...Though I will play with others
They're never my first choice
With only one I want to play
My bluebird with her voice
So beautiful and warming
Like a soul enwrapping hug
I'll always d...
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Categories:
enwrapping, for her, i love
Form: Rhyme
Soulful Susurration
...“The dark wasteland of life I need to traverse
kindling the beacon of hope at the edge of time” – by Poet
In the flooding river of the tormenting time,
spreading the arms of smother...
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Categories:
enwrapping, analogy, hope, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Last Sigh
...I built a nubile nest for them so we could live together
kept it warm in the long winter time of frost and freeze
no speeding storm of strife could ever sweep it away
where I held them secured wi...
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Categories:
enwrapping, analogy, angst, children, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Heart Couldn'T Yearn Enough
...The dust on the lonely path
Blown by the wasteland wind
Meanders listlessly towards
The shimmering buoyant sea
The sapphire waves roll endlessly
On the golden beach outstretched
Adornin...
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Categories:
enwrapping, beauty, love, truth,
Form: Free verse
She Will Bloom Again
...This neighborhood young girl I know
has reached very early the life’s terminal,
for cancer is creeping in deadly silence
on sure clutching feet in her tender lungs.
Her drowsy eyes decline to cl...
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Categories:
enwrapping, analogy, cancer, fantasy, hope,
Form: Free verse
Solar Flare Alive
...Rolling through space Earth enjoys her comfortable
Distance from the giving sun, of his light, with
Warmth enwrapping daytime life of verdant growth in
Goodness wholesome grain, trees, wind, rain,...
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Categories:
enwrapping, earth, nature, planet, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnet of the Night
...Ringing in the stars with harmonies of night
no greater sonnet ever was then that of
midnight hues of moody blues and acorn light
oh blessed breath forsake me not thereof
no splendor greater ...
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Categories:
enwrapping, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Sonnet
Poetry and Me
...Poetry for me is all consuming, encompassing pain from tears I have shed
Only Poetry Soup lifts my spirit up high; I write poems from inside my head
Early each morn or late in the night, a time of ...
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Categories:
enwrapping, inspirational, poetry, uplifting, write,
Form: Acrostic
Alone Is She Beside the Sea
...With waves of gold locks falling down
around her shoulders prettily,
a woman sits in a silk gown.
Alone is she beside the sea.
Deep longing in her starts to stir.
She sits, arms round bent kne...
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Categories:
enwrapping, lost love,
Form: Kyrielle
This Quietus - Death
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This quietus death – sweet release-
a rhapsody enwrapping you.
Fathomless it is; pain will cease.
This quietus death – sweet release!
Your story does not end, for peace
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Categories:
enwrapping, death,
Form: Triolet
How Could I Forget
...#How could I forget#
How could I forget your widely smiling face,
Your warm enwrapping hugs, your frequent gifts of grace,
Before your brilliant mind, which used to dazzle bright,
Gave way to Al...
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Categories:
enwrapping, appreciation, christian, dad, death,
Form: Ode
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