Flare For Poetry
A sunset at sea,
clouds resemble sweet roses.
Waves swell with passion.
That smell of cut grass,
go for a run right through it.
You’re a child again.
A slight taste of salt
from tumbling in the ocean,
just a dash burns lips.
The sound of a roar
before you can see a thing,
You’re on high alert.
My Muse is easy
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Categories:
flare out, emotions, nature, sea, sun,
Form: Free verse
Before the sun sets
Before the sun sets
A million miles to go
Before my eyes are closed
I just learned how to dream
And now I got my wings
Lots of desires are winking in mind
Hopes are glowing like stars in night
A million miles to go
Before my eyes are closed
I just learned how to walk
And now I got my own floor
No chain,no bond
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Categories:
flare out, desire, dream, emotions, life,
Form: Free verse
Flare-up
festivals flare up
in July’s fever
cooler instruments prevail over time
snare-drums’ syncopation
grass skirts' gyrations
blank verse douses their rhyme
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Categories:
flare out, celebration, fire, july, music,
Form: Rhyme
Special people
Jackie who was permanently stuck in the twos after
a childhood vaccine that was due..
Larry's addiction and prior crimes that led to his
affliction and wheel chair confine.
Bill who struggled with his c.p., only hoping that
others could see beyond his disability..
Joe whose institutional blows caused stuttering,
frustration and angry explodes..
Carol whose Asperger's left her obsessed compulsively
dialing strangers on
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Categories:
flare out, mental health, people, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Anger
Anger towards people, a tempestuous art,
Echoes through the soul, tearing every part.
A shout to pierce the walls of an alienated heart,
Yet louder we become, seeking a distant counterpart.
Rage fans the flames, tearing the poor heart,
Fury ignited, tearing emotions apart.
Yet in the inferno, a chance to restart,
To communicate with care, mend and chart.
When anger boils, and
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Categories:
flare out, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Hieroglyphic Flare
Tattooing scars gives them flare,
stylish make up is what others see;
Sometimes disguised completely
proper angles let old marks shimmer;
Stylish make up is what others see,
perfection glitters at first glance;
Proper angles let old marks shimmer,
past sour notes glow on canvas;
Perfection glitters at first glance,
there is beauty in your mistakes;
Past sour notes glow on canvas,
thus the
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Categories:
flare out, art, emotions, feelings,
Form: Pantoum
Fervent Flare
In my arctic heart
perennial permafrost
freezes fragile emotions.
In your flaming fervor
glacial desire turns cinder
in the inferno of love.
In my blazing yearning
searing crave swirls
with fervent flare of fire.
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January 8, 2023
For Brian Strand Contest No. 1167
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Categories:
flare out, analogy, desire, fire,
Form: Free verse
Flair In Flare
I lay asleep drunk beneath thy stream
I cried for help just to realize it was a dream
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Categories:
flare out, adventure, allusion, art, change,
Form: Couplet
Vanity Flare
Beneath the hot Summer sun,
Bathed in pools of sweat.
Cooking of my skin begun,
And it wasn't noon yet.
I felt my forehead fry,
And my whole body quiver.
In the heat of July,
It was baking my liver.
I hoped for a cloud,
And prayed for a drizzle.
I even shouted out loud,
But it continued to sizzle.
After two to three hours,
Had to rethink
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Categories:
flare out, beach, body, humorous, july,
Form: Rhyme
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, rivers, and pith.
Other planets rotating around the sun’s glory,
Venus basking in heat along with Mercury’s boiling
Blast of oven cooking for a star light to humans
Looking at the sunset
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Categories:
flare out, earth, nature, planet, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Shuddering Flare
And then the cold had its story to tell again and emerged overnight
The seasons had not changed but as always kept a sudden surprise
Days sunbathing and skinny dipping on the beach felt like a shiver
As the UV filter congealed in oily tubes and prepared to hibernate
Shells from the shoreline caught the fading light by
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Categories:
flare out, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Fire Flare and Charcoal Glow
double trouble on the boil
earth bowels ooze devils oil
ancient rock and occult blood
darkest liquor thick as mud
cauldron charged to overflow
fire flare and charcoal glow
spirits rising from turmoil
circulate alembic coil
thus set free an evil spell
toxic breath creating hell
double trouble on the boil
earth bowels ooze
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Categories:
flare out, dark, destiny, earth, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Colorful Flare
They zoom in flight, buzzing through the air
Tiny hummingbirds are darting all around
To the sugar feeder with colorful flare
Swooping, without landing on the ground
Tiny hummingbirds are darting all around
Territorial chirps at one another in flight
Swooping, without landing on the ground
It is a swarm of such a beautiful sight
Territorial chirps at one another in flight
To the
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Categories:
flare out, beautiful, bird, color, sound,
Form: Pantoum
Solar Flare
.for public domain
Solar Flare
A long, slender dollop of dribbled concrete,
amidst others on a construction site,
liberally seen as a ray of sun,
I fashioned for a stony sculpture piece,
around an alabaster ringed flat rock,
to shine an artist's light for everyone.
From a pea graveled bush bed by a lawn,
where lovers lie and kiss, and others yawn,
near abandoned bird
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Categories:
flare out, mirror,
Form: Blank verse
Flare
They say it's not my business
to console her, to lend her grief
brief respite, for winds blow cold
on remote torment and regret;
yet death revived an ember,
a flare not shared since we were one
in better days that I shall ne'er forget.
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Categories:
flare out, angst,
Form: Verse
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