Winter's mist curtain
Sweet fragrance of tree jasmine
Sunshine filtered in
the glint in your eyes and your smile like the sun, so Spring promises fun
Love letter in hand
And the last thing I saw was
a glint in the night
Thru cracks in the clouds
whitish sun glints
No warmth issues forth
barren rock without flint
Clouds return ash-gray
no matter I squint
despondent sun keeps away
done, today's stint
Ah, now for some juice~ a poetry fix!
What will my pen mix, dabble to affix?
Definitely not some Romantic, tear-jerking
Shtick! But maybe, a frozen delight, a
summer's day treat to ogle and lick –
What will this trick mind conjure and say?
Will the heart be enthusiastic or lazily
play – will my soul be squeamish, aghast,
shout nay!? Sip the venom of latte, such
frothy, beguiling display...my usual time to
write alarm set for the night~ yet, now it
is day, the 24/7 of poesy, night's chance slept
away. I got it! So off and running! Be
back with you shortly; it will be dazzling,
yes stunning! Brilliantly cunning!
The jog of my pen, full throttle, a blazing
sprint! Be back in a flash, after a fluff...and
tint...a deliciously enticing glint!
The sky was an iron skillet
To heaven it crept and filled it
Swallowed the color from every eye
An iron skillet was the sky
The earth no glint of morning touched
Fields swept black, the horizon crushed
To dawn the dark would not give birth
No glint of morning touched the earth
On the galvanized drummed the rain
Rivulets streaked the window pane
The ground it splattered and atomized
The rain drummed on the galvanized
Warm and tight you wrapped around me
In morningtide we could not see
I loved you through that stormy night
You wrapped around me warm and tight
September 10, 2022
Swap Quatrain Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Emile Pinet
Let go of the past, let go of the pain.
You never knew that parts of you would hit the ground like cold, hard rain
Find a balance in your mind for what’s right and what’s wrong.
See behind your own eyes for what you’ve become.
Life reshapes your smile and dims the glint in your eyes.
No one even yourself understands the madness of your love or the lost hope of your cries.
With age comes wisdom and the understanding of your mind.
The acceptance of the track of your life no matter where the future may wind.
The reasons for living can be summed up in the positives and negatives of this life.
The water still flows in the rivers no matter how dark or wild the waves crash under the moons of your tides.
the fire ring made
just before dusk
with the two of us
in daze of yore
drank many more
frothened mugs
forgotten or
remembered
as embers
toward
midnight
made it's light
by the moon but
not on this new moon
night as haggard
staggering steps
took me before
the tents door
i unzipped
leaving forth
a piss to put
out the last
of the light
and on that
night's demise
for no fire
was left to light
the last if the
pheonix's
everlasting
life
A-nother
N-ew
G-lint
E-ndorses
L-ovely
M-orn
A-s
Y-ou
M-eet
A-pparent
N-atural
Z-enith's
O-penness
Topic: Birthday of Angel May A. Manzo (November 04)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
A-nother
N-ew
G-lint
E-ndorses
L-ight
I-n
C-ool
A-pparent
M-orn
A-s
R-adiant
C-larity
I-s
A-bounding
Topic: Birthday of Angelica Marcia (August 21)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
M-orn
A-nd
R-adiant
G-lint
A-pparently
R-elieve
E-vening
T-wilight
P-leasantly
R-emoving
O-bscure
F-og
E-ven
T-he
A-mbiguity
Topic: Birthday of Margaret Profeta (August 08)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
advent of first light
dew drops on a spider's web
maiden-grass curtsy
8/6/2018
dew drops on petals
dawn glows on wilting flower
joy glints eyes in tears
July 6, 2018
Syllable count checked on howmanysyllables.com
Take a closer look on the table
Dust? Ants? Frog? Banana?
It's sparkling
Maybe it's the magic fairy dust
Or a tiny alien that travels through space and time
Oh! I know!
It's your reflection, darling
See, it's the most beautiful person you've ever met
You spark so much
Do you believe me?
It's illogically, I know
Tables don't even have reflection
But the eyes to yourself is
You're great, wonderful and beautiful
Be you
Strong, courageous and amazing
lavender tendrils
ripples on depthless water
deer snaps his head up
5/24/2018
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