Time Etched in Flesh
The rustling of leaves interplays with the ocean breeze,
as traces of moonlight escape through blackout curtains hanging from steel rods.
Bolts of illumination highlight stacks of books caked in dust,
while a man, decrepit with age, sits on a worn auburn-coloured leather chair.
His balding hair is grey from years of turmoil.
Wrinkles lay heavy, nestled deep within his
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Categories:
etched, angst, gothic, imagery, old,
Form: Free verse
Inputs Imprinted, Expression Etched
A-im
N-either
T-o
O-ppose
N-ew
I-nsights
N-or
O-bstruct
Q-ueries
U-ntil
I-deas
D-o
D-etail
A-ll
M-essages
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Monocrostic (Birthday of Antonino F. Quiddam)
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Categories:
etched, birthday,
Form: Other
Under the sky like an ancient parchment, etched with falling stars
Under the sky like an ancient parchment, etched with falling stars,
I told her I would be the shadow of the tree under which dreams rest,
I said I would be the place where tears turn into butterflies,
That I would be the silence that embraces the echo of extinguished pains.
But when she came, carrying a universe of
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Categories:
etched, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
An Etched Memory
Tumbling down in a rhythmic flow
Bestowed
a dream appear
With crystal light
The ocean bright
Rising in sunlit mirrors
White clouds drift
The sand shifts
In hues of golden brown
A rhythmic flow
The tempo grows
In harmony
A gracious sound
Each shillouette
Stands
undisturbed
Gazing out beyond
To find a dream
Of life redeemed
In poetic words
And a song
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"An etched memory is that of a painted dream
Wandering free
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Categories:
etched, beauty, happiness, love, nature,
Form: Free verse
Love Etched In The Sand And Heart
Two hearts written
In sandy shores
Is passed and short.
No wonder hap
Romantic do
Seek joy short live.
Live not penchant
Dream love that paint
In sandy shore.
True love is etched
Inside the heart
Forever lived.
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Categories:
etched, fantasy, love, romance,
Form: Than-Bauk
FOREVER ETCHED IN STONE
FOREVER ETCHED IN STONE
SILENTLY I WALKED UPON THE DAWN OF DAY
REMEMBERING THE TIME WE SPENT
AS THE SUN CLIMBED AWAY
WITH SUBTLE HINTS OF SPRING BLOSSOMING BUDS LINED THE WAY
I ROAMED THROUGH ENDLESS WOODS DREAMING OF YESTERDAY
TWENTY YEARS HAVE PASSED
AND I STILL RECALL OUR SONG
OF ENDLESS LOVE AND LAUGHTER
OH HOWI LONG
BENEATH
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Categories:
etched, lost, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Etched In Stone
in ancient language,
I read amazing info
about history
what a great discovery
so ancient text etched in stone
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Categories:
etched, history, old, write,
Form: Tanka
Etched in Stone
He weeps while carving out her form
From memories of long days past.
Their life was like a raging storm
In every weather, so steadfast.
Together they had spent their lives
Happy, carefree, no worries known.
He took her for his loving wife
She took him also for her own.
Entwined in love a sweet caress
His fingers found a lump one day.
T'was in
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Categories:
etched, love,
Form: Rhyme
Etched in Stone
Contest: This or That, Vol 30 – 2-4-25 Sponsor: Edward Ibeh - Title Chosen: Etched in Stone
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Etched in Stone
Two hearts glare at each other
Clutching their stone tablets
Written by the finger of their rightness,
Guarding the secret handshake
In single sighted delinquent tantrums
Refusing to share the offertory
Of a loving cup -
Consumed by
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Categories:
etched, anger, conflict, words,
Form: Free verse
Etched in Stone
Etched in Stone
In the soothing serene silence of a shining summer day
Strolling along a lonely alley laid in black stones
Bordered on both sides with
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Categories:
etched, appreciation, life,
Form: Free verse
Etched in Stone
Our village has a standing stone
and on it etched are many names
Of village men, both young and old,
who gave their lives amid the flames
The flames of war to end all wars
A delusional hope for sure
For as we know it still goes on
To kill and slaughter many more
So when we lay the poppies red.
Honour
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Categories:
etched, world war i, world
Form: Rhyme
Etched in Stone
I gaze out my glass doors,
engrossed in
the clamorous cadence
of screeching stillness,
emitting electric tones
of love etched in stones,
and fervent flares of fireflies,
stolen from the riverbed of memories,
where songs we played on repeat~
to the moon and stars
weeping in darkness~
reverberate like redolent refrains…
And in this s i l e n c e,
I question every word unwritten,
as the essence
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Categories:
etched, emotions, romance,
Form: Free verse
Etched In Stone
It’s been almost five years since you’ve been gone
It’s hard to believe it’s really been that long
Memories of you often haunt my mind
As grief can be painful and unkind
Today, I stopped for a visit to your grave alone
And stared at your name, forever etched in stone
My raw emotions are now swirling like a storm
Cutting my
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Categories:
etched, dad, grief, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Etched in stone
Destiny is not etched in stone,
It shifts like sands in the tide,
With every choice, the future sways,
A tale rewritten in countless ways.
Fate is not etched in stone so tight,
It bends and sways like morning light.
With will and heart, new paths are sown,
The choice is ours, not fate alone.
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Categories:
etched, destiny,
Form: Free verse
etched in stone
drenched in pomegranate juice
the sand stone wished to be granite
yet a figment of imagination
eluded the tomb and it was over
eternally gone final impermanent
the children wept crocodile tears
but ancestors knew about snake bites
betrayal unforgiveness treachery deception
inscribed were false words
and only time would tell
if his wishes were granted
shaded under a fig tree
his begging bowl was empty
not one
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Categories:
etched, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
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