A Night Out at the Carnival
...Under the inky façade of the night sky,
With reluctant steps, I joined the stream of men
Flowing to the place of the great celebration.
A huge crowd was already there in the temple p...
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Categories:
festoons, celebration, feelings, night,
Form: Free verse
Poetry Soup - A New World
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A hospitable host for the poets all over
Decorated with the festoons of poems
Disseminating the aroma of knowledge
With eye-feasting and insightful portraits
Serene and sweet music of...
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Categories:
festoons, happy, world,
Form: Free verse
The True Christmas Spirit
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As the happy season of the year has come
Replete with merry songs and dance
When Earth is given the greatest gift
That Heaven could ever bestow on mankind
It’s time to lift our he...
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Categories:
festoons, beauty, celebration, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Christmas In July
...July is the month of monsoon rains in our part of the land when there will be incessant downpour and flooding in coastal areas and low lying lands
In the vast expanse up so high,
In the caligino...
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Categories:
festoons, birthday, celebration, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Orchid Blooms From My Garden
... On a bright morning I was greeted warm
By a host of flowers of the self same hue
Smiling disarmingly from an orchid wild
With their white petals washed in dew
Amid the vernal green...
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Categories:
festoons, beauty, flower, garden,
Form: Rhyme
Sensual Loss Sensual Gain
...Her golden locks glide grandly through our gladioli gilded garden gateway,
I gulp ginormous groundbreaking gulleys,
telltale tear tsunamis cut cataclysmic currents,
raw reckless rupture of romant...
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Categories:
festoons, birth, color, courage, deep,
Form: Alliteration
In the Pink
...I think pink is a colour for the young,
It's also the colour of our tongue and lips,
And if we are
caucasian, even our hips.
Sugarplums, babies bums, shell-like ears are pink,
Some jewellery ...
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Categories:
festoons, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
September
...The beans are still green
but the corn stalks have begun to brown
I watch the first leaves fall lazily from an elm tree to the ground
I’ll soon find frost on my windshield in the morning
when I...
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Categories:
festoons, autumn, loneliness, nature, seasons,
Form: Free verse
The Immortal Earth
...The earth elated with rain
Dry land gets back life again
Breaking coats, seeds plan to sprout
From nooks, gnats try to come out
New shoots sway as green festoons
Birds fly like rich hued ballo...
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Categories:
festoons, earth,
Form: Rhyme
Night Roses
...Night roses dipped in purkinje, tendencies of blue
lost inside this dream I urge the winds to carry me
onto the hammocks of the night where antic roses lie,
moonlit soaked and mulched ...
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Categories:
festoons, romantic love,
Form: Free verse
Spring Gifts
...burgeons’ aroma
myriad hues of festoons
mother earth’s birthday
Spring Haiku - Traditional Form Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin
Syllable count : PS
Date: 29-03-2021
Placed: 5...
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Categories:
festoons, birthday,
Form: Haiku
Trick Or Treat
...Black balloons on the gate,
The sky so dark and cloudy.
Dad hadn’t wanted us out late,
But we begged quite loudly.
“Trick or treat,” we spouted,
The words just an expression,
We had nev...
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Categories:
festoons, children, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Festoons
...FESTOONS
A day of festivity in fresh air
Festoons forming an entry pair
Gorgeous drapes of silky velour
Incense having their share
Festoons in the doldrums
As one is one less than twelve
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Categories:
festoons, imagination, yellow,
Form: Free verse
A Mid-Winter Night
...Moonlight oft softens the summer night,
but comforts are few, in the deep of night
when winter arrives with its vicious bite,
and we shiver to see our world turned white.
Winter is cold, starkl...
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Categories:
festoons, nature, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Horrors of Extiction
...I did see the buoyant bubbles of bliss
fizzing out of my charming muse's smile.
A bubbly butterfly that she is,
was fluttering and whirling around me with verve.
She was so excited to exp...
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Categories:
festoons, nature,
Form: Free verse
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