Be flamboyant live loud, show your beauty
To be yourself is your mantra, and your duty
Be as colorful as a male peacock, strut your stuff
Wear all kinds of outfits, make the jealous ones huff.
Show out as much as you want, there is only one you.
To keep all of this beauty inside would make anyone blue.
Categories:
flamboyant, self,
Form: Rhyme
Greater Flamingos flock here*,
flames of white and pink bring cheer.
Tall and graceful, standing still,
playful pecking with their bill.
As a colony, they stand
with pink plumage, plush and grand.
Bending down curved snowy necks,
rummaging for food objects.
In the waters, feeding full
with their heads 'neath wetland's pull.
Insects, crabs and tiny fish,
shrimps and planktons as they wish.
Calling each other loudly,
honking deep, they court proudly.
Dancing, preening, paired for life,
Flamboyant flamingos rife.
*Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur, India.
22nd April 2023
For Emile Pinet's "Write A Jueju-Qijue" contest
Categories:
flamboyant, beautiful, bird, nature,
Form: Jueju
Five lines, that's it, that's all I can write
My attention span has flew the coop, taken flight
Age most likely's a factor
Think I'll become a famous actor
To sustain my flamboyant lifestyle every night
Categories:
flamboyant, career,
Form: Limerick
There's a place where you want to be;
You need to be;
Throw your hands up;
Flamboyant praise, life every voice is worship
Lift up
Lift up
Lift up the voice of Jesus;
O' and how did David dance;
How did David dance unto the Lord;
David danced in glory;
O' how did David dance;
He took his shoes off he stood on Holy ground and-
He, he danced dance and how did David worship the Lord
He took his shoes off he stood on Holy ground-
and dance dance danced
09/30/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020
Categories:
flamboyant, analogy, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form: Lyric
Eclipse
emerald eclipse
emanates effervescent
eloquent essence
~~~~~~
Feathers
fiery frivolous
fervent feathers fly flaunting
flamboyant facets
~~~~~~
Garden
guarding golden gate
gives gaiety green garden
glorious grandeur
July 22, 2020
Let the Pens Flow - Alliteration Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Jenish Somadas
~Winner: Honorable Mention
Categories:
flamboyant, analogy, flying, garden, nature,
Form: Alliteration
I’ve made my choice for my next life
I’m coming back fierce as a drag queen
I’ll be osé and voluptuous
flamboyantly vivacious
in stilettos and seductive gowns
wigs of lush luscious curls
belting out steamy tunes
on stage in cabarets
strutting my stuff
impersonating divas
living life large
as it is meant to be
with a passion that’s ferocious
AP: Honorable Mention 2020
Posted on April 15, 2020
Categories:
flamboyant, life, passion, song,
Form: Free verse
Scorching sun, baking earth
Wilted flowers, dried shrubs
Vibrant hues of Crape Myrtle
Lively displays of brilliance
Clusters of flamboyant blossoms
White, pink, red, lavender and purple
Crinkled paper resemblance
Astonishing dramatic marvels
Categories:
flamboyant, appreciation, beauty, encouraging, flower,
Form: Free verse
i once had a purple flamingo
who got stares wherever he'd go
it's hard to think
why he wasn't pink
but was a good friend of Picasso
Categories:
flamboyant, animal, bird,
Form: Limerick
vivacious
a freedom
that can't be bought
posted on September 16, 2018
Categories:
flamboyant, adventure, confidence, freedom, passion,
Form: Senryu
Flamboyant petals of flowers of anguish
Blossom in full bloom in your garden
Sworn your seasons and reasons for bliss to finish
Your favourite abode and space in the garden of Eden
Flowers of anguish vow at all costs to steal
Sowing and catalyzing sterling seeds of sorrow
Grown and scattered in every cranny and crevice at full capacity to fill
Your every tomorrow
Into your bludgeoned back pricking, sinking and sticking daggers
Whose blade
Singes, serrates and severs your fingers
Purloining your serene serenade to aid
Seas and vortices of pain
Shaken
Sustaining, absorbing and assimilating streams and reams of strain
Forsaken and beaten
Your teary bloodshot eyes peer into a despair abyss
Wondering if life in your case holds any more worth
As peace of mind you miss in a serpent’s hiss
When all at once a vivid voice on the radio reminds you henceforth
God is in control
Despatching at once a good Samaritan your way
To patrol
And heal all flowers of anguish as on your knees you bend to pray.
Categories:
flamboyant, poems,
Form: Free verse
FLAMBOYANT
Flamboyant blazes
in orange scarlet clusters.
Spring breeze moves bunches.
I gaze dreamy elusive
delusive, engrossed, absorbed.
Flamboyant vibrant
lames, dazzles in crimson glow,
merrily glistens.
Your sweet blush flashes in mind.
turning me wild passionate.
Flamboyant swings, sways.
Gust chases fallen pollen
whirling in circles.
Reminiscences push me
in abyss of deep vortex.
07/02/17
Edited on 09/27/20
'Completely Your Choice (17 ) Contest by Brian Strand
Categories:
flamboyant, appreciation, flower, muse,
Form: Tanka
Five lines, that's it, that's all I can write
My attention span has flew the coop, taken flight
Sure age is a factor
Think I'll become a actor
Maintaining my flamboyant lifestyle every night
Categories:
flamboyant, wisdom,
Form: Limerick
Five lines, that's it, that's all I can write
My attention span has flew the coop, taken flight
Age most likely is a factor
Think I'll become a actor
To sustain my flamboyant lifestyle every night
Categories:
flamboyant, fun,
Form: Limerick
Five lines, that's it, that's all I can write
My attention span has flewed the coop, taken flight
Age most likely is a factor
Think I'll become a famous actor
To sustain my flamboyant lifestyle every night
Categories:
flamboyant, giving,
Form: Limerick
FLAMBOYANT
Arcane quiescent bemused noon of Spring
Lustrous flamboyant dazzling blazing to bring
amazing ambivalent fervent feeling.
All buds in charming enchanting cluster.
Mesmerizing wild aroma shadowing sense.
Fantastic fascination quintessence,
Sinking in past on dense reminiscence,
reminding forthcoming event Easter.
Shedding flowers on ceaseless immolation,
to king of season with embroidered emotion,
I gaze on crimson glaze, oozing pearly passion.
Whirling wind chasing fallen flowers faster.
Note. I have Flamboyant Tree in my garden planted by me.: My Fascination.
11/16/16
Ten word challenge - 2 Contest by John Hamilton
Fifth Place
Re-edited on 05/04/17 for Rhymed Metered Poem Contest by Janice Canerdy
Categories:
flamboyant, beauty, emotions, flower, spring,
Form: Tail-rhyme
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