Long Nocturnes Poems

In glamor-light of sunset
a new crowd of cumulus clouds arrive
and revive a sepia sky-scene—
unworldly woolgatherers gather
spinning fantasy fluff into quixotic yarns
of debutantes dancing with honeymoon hunger;
their dewy eyes blurred by the sawdust of stardust

pseudo-princess-pleasure-seekers
—drama daring...

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Claquée j’ai quitté mon lit douillé 
J’ai peur de sombrer dans ma tête souillée 
Dans mes rêves je suis toujours exilée 
Je n’ai jamais trouvé le sommeil espéré  
J’ai savouré le mal qui me...

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Pursue love,
the love that has no meaning,
the silver ports of the moon,
shine so bright,
that it blinds you in the twilight
she is beautiful and she is divine
she is the song sang by the sweet nightingales
in the...

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The blue hour takes root ...

There is the dark wing of the steamer,
Which takes the open sea, and carries away its regrets,
Tiny passengers, waving handkerchiefs
And the seagulls passing and passing again.
Heavy rusty chains, in heaps...

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I love listening to Bach on late evenings, especially his flowing ‘Ave Maria’,
just as I like tuning in to Schubert’s ‘Ave Maria’, far too many Ave Marias!

Nothing compares to Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight Sonata', it’s simply beautiful;
George...

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Today, there are no busy little feet running through the house
    with high pitched voices that threaten to pierce my solitude.
    I made it clear to my lover and...

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Dare Listen
            by Odin Roark

Time chooses to whisper,
Having endured shouting decades,
A species’ feigned listening,
Maelstrom's obsessive noise-making.

Still persistent
Is but a parade,
A just married tin can...

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Hackneyed breath of words and the clichés hit the wall, 
A stream of summoned nonsense bounces off of me like superstition,
Benevolent limits of indulgence, on the other hand, - oh, well!

The oeuvre of life, I...

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Poème poète égyptien : Abdel Latif Moubarak

Traduction: Nuran Hourani

Toi;

Votre terre;

Te jette.

sur l'aile d'un poème; tu repose

Peut etre ; ne pas égarer  de vous laisser tomber ...

Pays;  sur la porte de l'enfer même si...

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** SCENES FROM HOME **

The curtain wafts on an open-window’s breezing air, like liquid 
Blue in the room, bringing beauty with magic’s tracing

The woman with her still raining, trickling water-streams
Over her calf as she lifts...

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Nativity foremost
Next to the Christmas tree.
Numerous carols sung
Near twilight Christmas eve.
Nourished with special treats,
Nocturnes joyously played.
Namaste to the world.

December 23, 2016

Merry Christmas And Happy 
New Year Pleiades Contest 
Sponsor Andrea Dietrich

Note: 
NOEL capitalized : means christmas
English speakers borrowed...

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The days full busy wends inevitably to its close
Cool wind half light filters through the awakening chorus of crickets
While the last chirping of a solitary birds farewell goes un-noticed.

The trees now stand sentinel guardians on...

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Sunrise, Oh aural hymn of spirituality,
Vibrant in it’s splendour and magnificence,
Sending nocturnes to daytime slumber,
Bathing life to a yawning earth.
 
Piercing the day’s birth with colours and hue,
The Master’s tableau, a glorious canvas,
Fiery paints, swirling...

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On the tides of words,
The eyes too light,
In the running of zebras,
I’m looking for it,

Under the wool, night dreams,
On the precious jewels,
The faces without worries,
I’m still looking for it,

On the torn heart,
By the Mayan treasures,
On...

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Fingers aching to melt the keys
Piano lying under the weight of my soul
Composition scratched, enigmatic release
A pillow to cushion the world and it's blows
Mozart alive in the pulse in my wrist
Chopin in nocturnes sings me...

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Ataraxis

Of that, that lazed in the league composed,
faraway sights gifted reserve from activewear a euphuistic fence,
the settling dust of undisturbed light flickers an arrival.

Yon an ornate circular gate is a varied stone patterned garden,
and a...

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NOCTURNES BY MIDNIGHT

AND for every memory whose hands have touched
my hungry lonely moments;  I am always here,
between laughter and weeping; singing and 
shouting.  Just today (which I realize is 
everyday in eternity) I...

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Life is a song,
incomplete, yet soothing—
lullabies lulling the world to sleep
with its balladic lilt, gently swaying 
to the depths of its nomadic 
syncopation.

Where I can subdue archaic
hieroglyphics in hues of 
rose gold notes, invading my...

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I’m a woman, far forsaken
In the hour-glass of tiresome life
Reveries chase me here and there
In the steep, bent cycling path
I’m an awful woman of fate
Who wants to conquer mysteries
Love kindles my passion of life
And rescues...

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Moonlight Garden 

Across the silent garden moonlight creeps
Full moon wears the blush of an amber kiss
Soft Luna’s face a midnight vigil keeps.

Moon lights drip from boughs in feathery bliss,
A gleaming signature in pearly white,
In nocturnes...

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When I thought of dreamland
Sleeping
The dozy dreams-cape dazing
Deep into that darkness shuddering
Nightmares
I crave the trembling, thudding tingle
In my shrieking, I could not awaken
Chattering and chattering with my fairy tale
Am I in dreamland
Shall I dream now
Quietly
Yawning,...

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Jata Jata jing jing jing
live a life of dance and song
poetic stanzas for all to sing
sailing to realms you truly belong
in misty caverns of colored time
I forgive the past
confide in my present
leaving futures unknown
good tidings...

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 Chopin Nocturnes

Listen....autumn rain is gently falling
Within enchanted hour of twilight sky.
In my heart, Chopin is softly calling
Lovely piano notes that make me cry.
As Luna slowly rises in the east
Her soft lambent glow lightly veiled...

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Shadows come out as dark strokes ply,
Evening shouts as last light flies.


Sudden and swift the coldness chills,
Cold breeze adrift in piercing fill.


The distant hills are silent now,
Darkness can fill a deeper how.


Voices of day lie...

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The lonely night holds new remorse
like songs of old we've heard before
And though the sky may know the chords
tonight's moon seems to stray off course

In dark tonight all eyes are blind
The crescent moon, so small...

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