A thousand bird songs
We awake
selling a lantern of hope
the dawn decides
the wherewithal
melting mountains
fly me around
Life is a tricolour horse
Love is a knock hold rose
smelt gladly
Categories:
harken, allusion,
Form: Free verse
see the petals form
follow on early spring
storm on daffodils
you have your festivals
to arrange
See the tulips gallop sun dance
Celebrate the green portals in the garden
prestige your sun bronzed shoulders
hoe down to the soil
Categories:
harken, allusion,
Form: Free verse
See the tubers forming
sun kissed
they harken
see the flowers in the garden
petals displaying
fortitude, they are all forming
a wonderous fulfilment
Categories:
harken, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Sunday morning sardines
Sing trademarked sermons
No gain, guitars must be clean
To harken out the predetermined
Donation cards in cursive fonts
A prayer for a new patio to
Crosses finished like their countertops
Their fair-weather faith up for review
This is for the poor Diet Coke debutantes
In Burberry scarves with lipstick grins
Money isn’t everything but it's all they got
Life is just so hard for those who always win
Categories:
harken, christian, faith, nostalgia, rude,
Form: Rhyme
Pandemics don't come with waivers
Pandemics don't exchange favours
From beginning to end
Whether loved one or friend
Pandemics produce cadavers!
Categories:
harken, health,
Form: Limerick
Sadness within me is my skald,
Ignorant world, taunting my afterworld,
Why is my soul in this soil pinfold...
The sky is filled with dark enshroud,
Am dumbstruck, thunderstorms cloud...
Love is an unloved harken,
The heart in me, a shrunken token...
Fey reliquary in the sand,
Buffing the defoliated leaves off my land,
She lay her tears on my heartland...
Miseries of the silenced one...
Tortured hell gone...
Categories:
harken, abuse, betrayal, courage, lost
Form: Rhyme
E-very word is heard,
A-s it listens carefully,
R-egarding God's call.
Form: Haikustic
Categories:
harken, poetry,
Form: Haiku
Your heart with mine commune in voice,
It speaks to me with tongues of choice,
The words are whispered soft and clear,
The warmth I feel as though you near.
With radiance see your face and smile,
how words of love can travel miles,
a tear is shed for happy be,
the waves of passion shared with me.
So close, can touch your palm of hand
and smell your breath in sweet of song,
with eyes that’s closed in harmony,
to harken your voice in melody
Categories:
harken, dream, happy, imagery, love,
Form: Rhyme
Music to your eyes
Candy to your ears
Harken at your sighs
Hasten at your fears
Wish upon the stars
Wipe away the years
Wilt away the scars
Wisp away the tears
Categories:
harken, friend, friendship, funny love,
Form: Ballad
So a feint hope seeps through,
Though she won't wait.
And I am taken aback.
Sit, watching the entrancing eyes
Reflect an odd transcient light.
Well now I slowly grow
Feel gradually more old.
Quiet musings, once ventured
I cannot reclaim.
So I look down upon skin.
Let desire becomes licit.
Let avarice reach out.
Consume, enjoy.
All in unseemly yearning.
We are all awful and I'm complicit.
Categories:
harken, girlfriend-boyfriend
Form: Free verse
Harken as the snowflakes fall
Attend the trumpeting winds that call
Praise the new year, one and all
Prior months were sad and grim
You were sure they’d do you in
Now's the time - let joy begin
Erase the memories that drain
Wear you down and cause you pain
Yes! Now let abundance reign
Embrace the days ahead of you
Awaken to what’s brave and true
Ring out the old, proclaim the new
For Carol Brown's "Happy New Year" contest
Categories:
harken, holiday, inspirational, uplifting
Form: Rhyme