The final, phosphorescent
water slows,
To weave a microscopic lace
of white,
A meditative riverbed that
flows
Beneath the omnipresent
stars of night.
The tide returns to where it
first began,
To heal the jagged, deeply
broken floor,
To wipe away the enormous
life of men
And soften the crinkled
of the ocean.
It is a perpetual, primordial
design,
An everlasting victory over
death,
Traced softly by a entwining
line.
The wave dissolves inside the
open sea,
A brief snapshot of pure
infinity.
Looking out my ever-open front door
as the closing day slowly dies
the sun bleeding iridescent colours
across endless turning skies
as I live and breathe
so you won't forget
I'll draw back the curtains
before fading into the sunset
and yet
leave something behind
to illuminate the room
remind those who follow
and dispel any gloom
as the sooner the better
now would be opportune
to shine a light
my words please mark,
to you I say,
“When it's dark
out there,
know what's watt, don't shirk,
put your hands in the air,
for many hands make light work.”
iridescent wings
the size of a bumblebee
~ a large butterfly
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
I aim and shoot for the sun
Blind me, I come undone
I feel the heat beneath my skin
Your iridescent soul within
Meets mine
Like a heatwave in December,
You're the flame from the ember
You're what I remember
When you go down
You stay close to me
As she drinks nectar from a flower, sweetness from heaven falls like dew
anointed with a gentle rain amidst sun showers she appears as if on cue
Lifting her wings she lands on a Zinnia beneath a tinted sky of April blue
flight of fancy fanning fast, fabulous marvel, she is beauty true on true
A delicate design, gently painted are white ink spots on each wispy wing
polka dots align her spine, O what a sight for sore eyes in virgin spring
A fancy moth is what some say, an insect with a marbled brown fringe ‘til they're taken aback by flair’s array, iridescent cerulean and teal tinge
A thousand miles she will fly, against Fall's tender cool azure sky
golden rays her solar compass, to orient her pathways—alas
Her journey comes to an end, up the coast where time she’ll spend
Vanessa flutters by, a painted lady, a butterfly
It’s cold
It snowed
I shivered
I shoveled
A Solstice sun
Silently smirked
Iridescent icicles
Licked their lips
A crunch of crusted snow
Battled the scritch of shovels
Headless snowmen
Wandered in wonder
I shoveled
I shivered
It snowed
It’s cold
Iridescent innocence,
a spectacle of stars
dripping down delicately;
Instigating imagination
that storms a sea of sabbatical;
Dangerous and deranged;
May its magic manifest momentous.
Power to invoke aesthetic delight,
is found in cave of heart, betwixt bliss beats,
teleporting soul to zenith like height,
love’s refrain that unendingly repeats.
Subtler than the subtlest scent to us known,
God’s elixir sublime enlivens form,
revealing deep truths, to us alone known,
soothed by magnetised mists, both cool and warm.
Slowing down life’s pace, we garner God’s grace,
felt as light radiating from our core,
holding pristine presence in close embrace,
bliss that leaves heart begging for an encore.
In timeless time as we become the flame,
endless bliss rapture is our claim to fame.
Fairy bird was a mythical bird thought to bring good fortune
She had a melodious voice, and was known in mythology
Today’s fairy bird is an iridescent blue
She lives in the forests of Vietnam, Philippines and Asia.
She eats figs, fruits and berries.
I like to think she also brings good fortune, don’t you?
My new clogs are iridescent,
Making people stop and stare,
Which doesn’t happen to the other
Shoes that I might wear.
The color’s kind of different
From the way they looked online,
Yet once I tried them on I knew,
Of course, that they’d be mine.
First they’re greenish, then they’re purple,
Like some feathers on a duck.
If you’re trying to describe them,
You’d be mostly out of luck.
For the thing with iridescence
Is the way the colors shift,
Though their very changeability
Helps make my spirits lift.
iridescent beads of dew
loving the way of you today
magnified by my appreciative mind
I imagine being inside one of your glorious drops
urging the grass to shoot up
Binural filters
blind chasms of endless drifts
cosmic adventures
welcomed Event Horizons
wormhole games of hide and seek
sipping sweet syrup
ruby throated hummingbird ~
flower flutterer
August 23rd, 2020
Haiku - Color With Alliteration
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ducks
hear the
splashing feet
of a young girl
that sends rings of iridescent ripples
across the placid surface of the pond
signaling them
to gather
for free
food
Shadows illuminate my existence and is the light in my darkness,
Creations together one after the other,
We are as one, Walking by as the shadows embark on the earth,
The iridescent sunset of crystals of colors from the watery leaf and darkness
from beneath, lining it's curved beauty in the shadows below.
As the sun sets and my shadowy darkness grows into night coveting my body
into slumber flight it moves into the shadows of silver light with a half moon, that
shines from above to light the sky and stars above.
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