Yesterday's feast was most extravagant.
So much variety pleasing one and all...
Reminded many are less fortunate.
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Seas swift with the speedy dunes of their aqua
To teach the clouds to swim faster in the sky!
The moon does skiing towards the west
To bring the delight of dawn from the dusk of stars!
From soul loft
Speak words soft
From pure heart
Let love start
From deep mind
Dare be kind
From fine craft
Share clear draft
From sweet style
Beam fond smiles
From brisk haste
Purge all waste
From walk brief
Bind not grief
From your space
Sign prized trace
From each word
Worth is heard
Leon Enriquez
02 September 2019
Singapore
White stretch limo type night.
Parked and awaiting at my front door.
Ready to spring into action.
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
Why do they come to call
Those men who lack in passion
Why do they bother at all
If their blazing fire be rationed
So piercing so radiant
The fumbling for words
An intimate clumsy rhythm
Lyrics sweet melody unheard
Captivate my heart with exaggerated life
Like a summer wind playing in my hair
Sunlight dancing in your eyes ever bright
Monotony oh mediocrity please forebear
Love me with extravagance
Not dreary sunless hues
Fill your praise with eloquence
My famished femininity perused
Must I plead for security
If I fall to worship at your sight
Do not evoke my immunity
The mystery of me begs to ignite
Embrace my pain
Soothe my soul
Your longings I'll claim
No thing shall I withhold
Bid me not my heart surrender
If by time my countenance shall fall
For a lie is still a lie though delivered tender
While dreams denied the living a nightmare to all
Extravagant-
The cries for help
Unheard
Step by step
She walks into the darkness.
Each without a print-
I guess her path will remain
Unknown. Unsure-
Of all the places she would go
How she would get there and
Why.
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