HEART OF FALL'S KALEIDOSCOPE
HEART OF FALL’S KALEIDOSCOPE
Poem written for and submitted to “Tanka Triptych” Poetry Contest, John Anderson, sponsor.
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air shifts, faint changes
autumn’s clockwork ticks softly
the turning of time
air rich with scent of damp earth
the ground breathes in the brilliance
swirling, dizzy leaves
kaleidoscope canopy~
autumn’s gentle reign
life thrives beyond the branches
under gaze of watchful sun
autumn in mind’s eye
thoughts of
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Categories:
from the heart, 12th grade, autumn, introspection,
Form: Tanka
Tickling the ivories
In my youth I dreamt of playing the piano
filling the nights with romance and melodies
orchestrating sound and beauty
Reading and interpreting sheet music while
compressing innermost feelings into sequences of notes
translated in the language best understood by the heart
Swirling to the beat of rhythmic grace
rich with aphrodisiac chemistry
intoxicating mesmerizing beguiling
I’ve dreamt so long of pleasuring the night
to
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Categories:
from the heart, beauty, heart, music, romance,
Form: Free verse
Courage, The Cowardly Dog
Courage, lives in The Middle Of Nowhere,
"there's something wrong here" —
the dog
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Categories:
from the heart, animal, character, dog, friendship,
Form: Clerihew
The Journey Within
“The Path towards REMEMBERING is not for the weak. It is priceless. Move inwards, without faltering & know that you are held.” Poet
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journey within is strewn with jagged edges
and jewels
both can lead to detours
walking a straight and narrow path one
traverses own
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Categories:
from the heart, allusion, change, character, confidence,
Form: Free verse
A spotted grey post
Aged, wetherbeaten.
Repainted.
Aged, wetherbeaten.
Six fence panels
Next to a spotted grey post.
Right, right, wrong, right, wrong, wrong.
Split asunder,
Now siblings, they stand.
Nailed shoulder to shoulder
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Categories:
from the heart, family, heart, imagery, perspective,
Form: Free verse
My heart stripped bare
Each day, you make my heart race a long mile,
Yet you've always deprived me of your smile,
Your neglect and your frown work hand in glove,
As if that’s the price I’ve to pay for love.
Each of my words, to your deaf ear they land,
Why don't you want to kiss my shaky hand,
And send a cold thrill
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Categories:
from the heart, care, feelings, how i
Form: Rhyme
Dweller of our heart
Juan Paco Pedro De La Mar
why were you mean to me
i was so ing hot
i lost my sexual power
to your perfect ginger dick
i am not going to be what you want me to be
i am not the lost tortured small woman who gives you power
the scent of my flower self has been washed out
but something
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Categories:
from the heart, anger, care, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
soul forest
within your forest
quartz light from your gallant eyes
surround my ocean
breathing devotions
my thoughts quiver as earthquakes
whispers wishes blush
my soul faints daily
your robust masculine trees
my candle mind melts
wooden bough branches
build stalwart starry cabins
from your midnight pen
wanting fervor waves
carve sculptures within in my sands
mists around your
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Categories:
from the heart, beach, care, devotion, heart,
Form: Haiku
Tonight
I want tonight to be the night
The one that we keep insight
A forever moment cherished in time
The work is done, and the hill is climbed
One special evening with you cradled in my arms
I’ve fallen for your unique and beautiful charms
Now I need to show you my light inside
From a heart that nearly died
You are my
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Categories:
from the heart, happiness, hope, i love
Form: Rhyme
Dweller of our heart
"The essence in us is the same as the essence of the sun”
Dweller of our heart
A sun went out, a silent, sudden night,
and left a shadow where once there was light,
For in our chests, a solar flame still burns,
A borrowed heat that twists and gently turns.
The essence in us is the same as the essence
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Categories:
from the heart, death, death of a
Form: Elegy
External Storms
External Storms
Listen close, the winds whisper low,
A symphony of sorrow's ebb and glow.
Thunder rumbles, a beast awakening,
Heaven's own heartbeat, in warning speaking.
Pressure builds, unseen forces stir,
An invisible tempest, nature's curse.
Silhouettes dance on lightning's flash,
Echoes of laughter turn to ash.
As shadows lengthen and tempests rage outside,
Within these walls, another battle wages.
A heart laid
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Categories:
from the heart, confusion, courage, encouraging, faith,
Form: Free verse
Dweller Of Our Heart
“the essence in us is the same as the essence of the sun”
In the dark opaque night,
across the stupefied space of solidified solitude,
enfolding the languid landscape of existence,
bereft of the beguiled spirit in indolent life,
my forsaken journey’s pathway meanders
in the gloomy labyrinth of languishing agony.
The self-obsessive free-will,
ever seemingly dormant
beneath the sheath
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Categories:
from the heart, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
yellow raincoat
Your yellow rain-coat,
dripping of hair
comfort of hoodie
and scent
of nice
but cheap
perfume I love.
It's an aroma
to your skin
I'm so in love with.
Are they tears of joy
upon the splash
of water or salt
near your eyes.
I'm wrapped
in every
conversation
I have with you.
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Categories:
from the heart, happy, heart, love, lust,
Form: Free verse
blue spots
The blue spots after the rain,
in-between storms,
a remainder
of our nonchalant spring
before the storms bring
knuckle-biting angst & cries.
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Categories:
from the heart, endurance, heart, love, love
Form: Free verse
- Heart In The Right Place -
Memories from childhood summers
still tickling my stomach
Through overgrown paths
Red painted farmhouse
where flowers and weeds grew in harmony
It seems as yesterday, but it is long ago
Outbuilding with a heart on the door
Didn't exactly smell as roses
A carefree shed,
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Categories:
from the heart, happiness, humor, remember,
Form: Narrative
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