Fountain Poems

Animated Joy Under Philtre Fountain

Flows fountain of delight,
enwraps the parched spirit.
Drink glee philtre sated,
leap dazed with fulfillment.
        Charm dreams show
        slow motion
        scenes you know
        owe your joy
   

fountain from mountain

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Fountain Pen

Out of my fountain pen
sprays droplets of words
onto a pavement of paper;
Out of my fountain pen
runs a river of ink,
I write all that I think.

How Deep is the Fountain

How deep is the fountain from which my joy floweth
How high is the mountain on which my feet stand
How vast are the marvelous wonders He showeth
How great is the strength of His mighty Right Hand

How sure are His mercies—made new every morning
How bright is His light in the the days that are dim
How great is

Fountain Pen Versus my Muse Trixie

The fountain pen ran off giggling and lost his pants
Leaving a string of letters, none of them seemed by chance
How dare he think he can write? Said my non-amused muse
angry enough to give him some really mean reviews

He’s just a pen, a one-trick pony!
Blue and plastic, common, bony!

The pen came back to hear my thoughts
I’ve

Fountain

As I drink from that strange fountain. 
I’m going to give you a single clue. 
And tell you where the treasure lies. 
The whole treasure, 
Could take hours to explain through the sparkles. 
I have nothing except my mind which is like a microscope. 
The sky is bugging me and made of dots. 
Rotting logs

Fountain of Colors

Change of season joy
beatifying day with color


Third Place Winner: Constance La France-Write Two Beautiful Lines-3/4/25

Fountain

This type of poem is called a tricube

3 syllables each line, 3 lines per stanza and 3 stanzas

Fountain


a fountain
in the street
water flows

children splash
play all day
mothers watch

with utmost
elation
life is fun

ANYTE OF TEGEA TRANSLATIONS

ANYTE OF TEGEA

Stranger, rest your weary legs beneath the elms;
hear how coolly the breeze murmurs through their branches;
then take a bracing draught from the mountain-fed fountain;
for this is welcome shade from the burning sun.
—Anyte translation by Michael R. Burch

Here I stand, Hermes, in the crossroads
by the windswept elms near the breezy beach,
providing rest to sunburned

the fountain

Unforgiving crash against a gentle surface
The power falls harshly on the fragile reflection
The light shines on the face of her
But she ruins the image of grace with her roughness
Or so she thinks
Others look to her for their calm
Her tears tirelessly fall
If only she could see
The gentle grace she portrays
Then would she love herself
Then would she

Like a dried-up fountain, I sip from my shadows

Like a dried-up fountain, I sip from my shadows,
Dusty memories, like forgotten books on shelves of dreams,
I swallow my existence, like a sea of silence,
And let it flow, spread, dissolve into verses.
I would like to open my heart, to sprinkle my blood
On the white paper, to write with the venom of melancholy
And to see how

A Coin in the Fountain

There've been moments when 'twas courage I needed 
like the time I climbed to the crest of a mountain
to overcome my fear of heights. It was superseded
with bravery I found in myself to give me credibility
instead of wishing by throwing a coin in the fountain.
Quarters, nickels, pennies wasted, tossed in futility.

To Rome's Trevi they flock

The Fountain of Old Age

Hi how are you?
Is it really you?
You used to look magnificent 
but now you look so different!


I must confess
that I guess 
that all those late nights
and cat fights
made you find 
your own kind

On the Midnight Mountain
you found the fountain 
of old age
while I found the page
on youth on my bed.

A coin in the fountain

Young and old they throw 
making wishes with each coin 
waiting for magic

A Coin In The Fountain

Twirling
Head over heels
Sun glinting
On its edges
Dreams afloat
On riffled air
The splash
A cool see-saw descent
Of hope’s
Last penny

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