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Glaucous Poems

Halcyon Moon Glimmer Ignite

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Written: April 13, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Constance La France

Quote: "Let the water settle and you will see the moon and stars mirrored in your being," By Rumi

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Categories: glaucous, appreciation, moon,
Form: Rhyme

The Lingering

...follow the poolside shadows
Venus of Delphi
daughter of bitter waves
peek through the peephole
of my glaucous thorax
open your byzantine eyes and
spurn your locomotor ataxia

one glance at ou...

Categories: glaucous, imagery, surreal,
Form: Free verse

My Heart

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I dig with maniacal gulps in cupped hands
fearful of what I might find.
Yet with furrowed brow I dig further, deeper,
lips moist with perspiration.

Your shadowed visage then emerges clearly
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Categories: glaucous, dark, death, heart, loss,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Apollo's Crown

...Lush green verdant hills of peace 
beneath lavender skies of 
linen and oleander gentle pink 
inside my seaside windy garden nook 
a gift for Pythia, high priestess of Greece 
Flower of ...

Categories: glaucous, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Verse

Talisman of Adoration

....The Universe revolves around our love.
As I run through your hair with my finger,

Hungry fingers supply magical grasp
Lying in the gloom, silent next to each other.

At sad daw...

Categories: glaucous, adventure, appreciation, beautiful, cute
Form: Qasida

Monday With Blue Brushes

...Still life.  What bite have my grapes and plums?
I capture the glaucous coating — the powdery residue.

A fairytale gown needs just the right godmother-dusting of azure.

The sparkling suds and ...

Categories: glaucous, art,
Form: Free verse

Floating Cruise Ship

...The cruise ship charged 
Whistleless at my sail boat
In a narrow channel
Between Islands 
Of The Salish Sea.

I was powerless with sails up
Tacking against a current 
Knotted against me.
The...

Categories: glaucous, adventure, allusion, animal, boat,
Form: Free verse

The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part Three

...The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Three

Note:  I do hope it’s clear to readers by now that – strictly speaking – in these ruba’iyat, I deviate from the original Persian medieval model, introduc...

Categories: glaucous, allegory,
Form: Quatrain

Spring Recital

...an attentive passerby can hear the full bloom raucous
gardens have been awakened by the iridescent sun
tulip orchids, with their gray-green leaves of glaucous
heed to chimes of silver and blue bel...

Categories: glaucous, imagination, nature, spring, spring,
Form: Rhyme