Quiet juxtaposes sound;
a time when mute thoughts abound.
And though quiet may seem rare,
it can be found anywhere.
Quiet resides in stillness,
a respite from life's shrillness.
From cell phones to children's toys;
we get bombarded by noise.
Quiet's a sanctuary;
when chaos becomes scary.
And quiet's a peaceful state;
that regulates your heart rate.
Quiet is a time of bliss;
comparable to a kiss.
It's a feeling of calmness;
you've garnered from aloneness.
Quiet's that extended hush
when your mind tells you to shush.
And morphs into a gateway;
when you need to get away.
Categories:
juxtaposes, anxiety, extended metaphor, how
Form: Jueju
Tui birdsong starts again, melodious warbling
bitter southerly wind still bites
sleet, horizontal and cold, flattens the daffodils
sudden rays of bright warm sunshine
race over paddocks
vivid green grass juxtaposes clear blue sky
Earth warms
Categories:
juxtaposes, seasons, weather,
Form: Free verse
Just like humans, Janus
Juxtaposes two sides
Jared in the same vessel,
Just the name, “gatekeeper”,
Jettisons his salient
Justly potent power,
Janus is lord of time.
Syllable count: HMS
February 26, 2022.
Categories:
juxtaposes, god, myth, mythology,
Form: Pleiades
Kind of Blue in Mood Indigo
Feelin’ kinda blue irony ~
Jazz harmony
In wailing rifs
Of blues mischief
Modal mood indigo moonlight
Jives at midnight ~
Juxtaposes
Notes with roses
Jeweled mood rhythmic expression
Of reflection -
Songs ingénue
In dusky blues
Inspired by the iconic jazz pieces Kind of Blue and Mood Indigo
7-23-21
Contest: Twelve Lines in Rhyme
Sponsor: Joseph May
Categories:
juxtaposes, blue, color, music, night,
Form: Rhyme
Jazz Pleiades
Just feelin’ kind of blue
Jazzy blues harmony
Joined modal indigo
Juxtaposes smooth joy -
Jaunty jives splashing notes -
Jiven’ through the moonlight -
Jeweled mood reflections
10-14-20
Contest: Pleiades – Music
Sponsor: Joseph May
Dedicated to Miles Davis; Kind of Blue
Duke Ellington's Mood Indigo
Categories:
juxtaposes, music,
Form: Pleiades
they put us
side by side
on a shelf
turning our
keys at the
same time
but we each
have different
tempos as we
motionlessly
pose in stance
atop our music
boxes and turn
merry go round
as if to dance
you a ballerina
me a frog with
tux and tails
top hat cane
complete
Puttin' on the
Ritz which
juxtaposes
though we're
both on one
leg your form
is balanced
on one toe in
that of sacred
geometry
so as our music
slowly slows
yours shows
still melodic
lines symmetrically
infinitesimal eternal
my song has stopped
but in the faintest quiet
yours will always be heard
Categories:
juxtaposes, muse,
Form: I do not know?
No matter how or what you write:
A myth, a melodrama or a mystery,
About your life or a dreadful night
In a poem, a song or a short story;
Write in a manner to evoke pathos,
And in matter to mirror a tragedy,
Establish a sincere sense of ethos
Whether you write a satire or a comedy.
Either try to provoke a hearty laughter
Or to elicit a feeling of warm sorrow,
Steer them stealthily to a myth buster
Or promise them a better tomorrow.
Write an epic, an elegy or a pastoral
With a sublime, visionary imagination,
A ballad, an ode or even a doggerel
of a dramatic event or a silly situation.
Perceive the pulse and tone of the people,
The image, the rhythm and the sound,
The habit, custom, creed and the foible,
Develop the theme with metaphors abound.
The essence of life belongs to poetry,
It is an ever enriching avocation,
Where purity of love overcomes bigotry,
Where reality juxtaposes with imagination!
Categories:
juxtaposes, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Down where the Rain Lilies blossom
Rain drops drip from roses
Spider Lilies dance to rain's song
Color juxtaposes
Spider Lilies of deep orange
Spider Lilies of white
Delicate petals curled upward
Morning beauty delight
Finis'
Started July 08, 2013
Categories:
juxtaposes, life, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Cool liquid drizzles down from the skies
upon the riot of hues and tints
that stretch forth from verdant fields
I see crimson colored rhodos,
crepe paper orange poppies, and
sunshine daffodils
each distinct in it's own form and fashion
decorated to grace the backdrop of my mind-
such a beautiful and lovely day
perfect for lazing around and soaking up the sun
counting clouds as they melt by
until the afternoon
juxtaposes itself against the blanket of the evening
This evening finds me wrapped in the comfort of your smile
holding memories of the day's wondrous sights and smells
it's so good to be alive
as I make the transition from day to night
I've fallen for the luminescence that I find in your eyes
as it follows me now
wherever I go
so that I am never alone
anymore.
Categories:
juxtaposes, imaginationme, daffodils,
Form: Free verse
In today's sunlight bleached ... The woman sit
Covered by modernity in a complex view -
Of purple printed dress exhaling his wit:
A purple bag juxtaposes the old with new
She seems to sit on the lowest green rows
Of hill, her mocassin boots in a blue shade
All her mystic Indianess about her flows
Like sunlight through the childlike glade.
And I before him stood a child amazed still
With the uncorrupted pastoral of his world
The unblemished lines of a rolling hill
Stretched like a strand of fencing his love unfurled
Denying the eyes temptation to things
Grander than a pink sky above it all, one
White cloud of memory like a tear brings
The absent buffalo hunters from lost horizon
Categories:
juxtaposes, art, history
Form: Ekphrasis
Reason bare of structure like a storm
Ovulating in an angry sea
Stir sedition and juxtaposes its norm
Ego-wise against a season's glee
Latent turbulence primed with insecurity
Drizzled from a tempestuous sun
Altar of a sadist's alternating history
Gulp your blustering track to the mark
Rendered as God's boundary
Exert not your vain effort to spark
Excitement of lightening in the air
Never more your rage shall cloy my heart with fear.
Categories:
juxtaposes, angst, hope, people
Form: Free verse