lovely lavender
languidly, lavishly, lithe
lushly living large
Written on 2/26/2023
For: Alliterku Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Charles Messina
Categories:
lushly, beautiful, flower, nature, sunshine,
Form: Haiku
Green was the theme, mainly green and blue
then came you
in your floral dance and open mouths,
red insect-eating lips. snaky tongues
big, bold, and subjectively pretty,
objectively fleshy,
lushly, lustful, lapping at life.
The sun adopted the new
grey turned greyer next to you.
Blooming bouncing behemoth begonias
yet uncultivated, all hungry to suck the soil,
burst breeding seeds, pollinate, infiltrate,
dominate, habituate, inflate.
Then when the small ape-like manikins
(proto us),
began to populate
they picked you.
Categories:
lushly, poetry,
Form: Free verse
As flushed as ripe plums the fuchsia does swell
Weighted with thick sap its cloak lushly blooms
Passion’s flower sweetly grieves sad farewell
As our goodbye speaks like this summer’s plume
Our waltz in the sun like sultry guitars
Fueled fiery flames to warm us through the night
Hearts lay like cinders to mix with the stars
Embers smoldered while it squandered our light
Sweet rain does fall as tears with our parting
Shadowed skies have embraced our love’s blind fate
Lost in the glow of sad secrets guarding
Ill-fated lovers whose dance came too late
I can ere forget the lingering fire
For burning hearts bleed with lonely desire
May 6, 2021
Summer Love Sonnet Poetry Contest
Sponsored by John Hamilton
Categories:
lushly, desire, emotions, goodbye,
Form: Sonnet
Winter Storm
By Joji Varghese Kuncheria
The tropical winter in Munnar hills, ?
Brings in due and mild mist every morning, ?
Brings out the coveted taste within us, ?
And thick fog covers us in the evening. ??
Playing a hideous game this season, ?
The sun shows up bright and strong sparingly, ?
Bringing the humid air this mild season, ?
Helping us to sprout all over lushly. ??
We bring that rich aroma they covet, ?
The people love the taste of Munnar tea, ?
And where we flourish richly they visit, ?
We're part of their life; they come to sight-see.??
We rejuvenate their spirits high up; ?
We are the thunder storm in their tea cup.
Categories:
lushly, 12th grade, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Sonnet
My roses are teasing with tiny buds right now.
How long before their first flush show?
Thankfully, my bearded iris, hanging low,
Amid the sluggish roses are voluptuously aglow.
Pastel pink, translucent and tissue sheer,
Their flopsy, ruffled petals beguile me I fear!
Charming with serene, easy care elegance,
While roses offer few blooms by chance.
But come first flush of my many gaudy roses,
Slumbering lushly under rose canes, each iris knows,
I’m a foolish handmaiden to their thorny neighbors.
The quiet joys we shared before sustaining my labors.
M. Renee Taylor
5-21-17
Categories:
lushly, flower, joy, rose, spring,
Form: Sonnet
Green leaves listless languor lushly suspended
Dew glistening on grassy fields in early morn
Breeze gathering, cumulous clouds upended
Sun's rays burning through atmosphere's haze, reborn
Sweet corn on the cob gracing street vendors' stalls
Ice cream creations on cones piled up so tall
Love's blossoms on flower petal arrangements
Bridal showers, joyous wedding engagements
July 09, 2018
Categories:
lushly, flower, love, summer, sun,
Form: Rispetto
O June linger on with your youthful charm;
Fireflies and evergreen still gloam to disarm
Woods brimming lushly , perfuming the air…
Let springtime flaunt this elegance so rare!
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Wnen A Fourth Line Helps It To Rhyme
Contest of Silent One 6/9/2018
Categories:
lushly, leaving, spring,
Form: Rhyme
One Proud Yellow Dandelion
Lantanas and pears are lushly in bloom,
Baby chartreuse leaves brighten winter’s late gloom
And one proud yellow dandelion.
We wait for the redbuds – where are you?
There are dark spring clouds under the blue,
And one proud yellow dandelion.
Nandina berries like Christmas late,
Spring cold breezes now sealing their fate,
And one proud yellow dandelion.
Courageously the dandelion stiffly stands,
Knowing it will change, blow like sand,
And mother the earth with new children.
To bloom and fly away.
Categories:
lushly, metaphor, pride,
Form: tristich
I want to envelope you
Just like you captivate me
... I want to be all over you
I want to be your sweet smelling sensation
I want to be the pleasant smell you wear, confidently
I want to be lushly on you, just like your daily smile
I want to be sprayed all over you...
Just in the right quantity
Categories:
lushly, angel,
Form: Free verse
Where my body may dwindle,
As hunger saddles the atmosphere
But sounds of Joy will always jingle;
As Mama will lushly care
Take me to that place
Where shelter may not shield from cold,
Yet I am cuddled in love untold
Where luxury os but a tale,
But zest never goes stale
Take me to that place
Where I am clothed in nakedness,
But not stripped of my happiness
Entangled by poverty's web,
But free from the wrath of a boss
Take me to that place
Take me home!
Categories:
lushly, africa,
Form: Ode
She drizzles on mounds of brick stones
Her tresses pouring like silvery mist
Robed in a veil of pewter and crystals,
Fragrant breath spreading a tune
Across the glossed moorland lushly blazed;
Till she refreshes the prism of grass
Enchanting the eyes from sterling clouds
While barefoot kids fondle her taps.
In October's daze, winds start to prance
As ripened boughs pop confetti of dew...
With her voice waltzing across the sky,
She delivers a lining in float of mist
To gather hues from a wondrous ride
As puddles beneath trickles a glow…
Oh, the youngest daughter of Rain
Coasts on moistened stars; then to fade in grace.
Rain Contest
For Silent One
Categories:
lushly, joy, rain,
Form: Free verse
Will you kiss my heart tonight Lord?
And make me bloom lushly
like the lotus moon rising over
a barren and lifeless desert
how I languish in the scattered funeral
petals of another orphaned day
seeking only Your radiance and
those luminous orbs that dance
around the sun forever
Who can love me like You—God?
robed in a long dark dream
I wait in the orange embers
of Your Presence
for the only caress that
really matters
the only kiss
that truly endures
Categories:
lushly, inspirational, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Another Sweetheart’s Day my love
And once again I am alone.
No loving message in the mail
No whispered words by way of phone.
At forty-one, God took you home
You have been gone for fifty years.
The grass grows lushly on your grave.
I place my flowers and shed my tears.
I ask this question every day
And wonder why God planned it so
Why I should live and you should die.
In God’s own time, he’ll let us know.
You said you’d be my love until
My chestnut locks had turned to white.
I hug the promise that you gave.
It keeps me warm the whole cold night.
Categories:
lushly, love, god, god,
Form: Quatrain
Under divinities shadow,
Rests the tree of life.
With aromatic branches,
Dissected by a pocket knife.
Medicinal veins lushly flow,
Carrying remedial cures.
A verdant daze ensues,
As romantic buds allure.
Poetic smoke…recites,
The stanzas of cannabis trees.
As healthy lungs exclaim,
The power of curative leaves.
_______________________
Inspired by a Lucky Lopez!!!
Categories:
lushly, health, science,
Form: Quatrain
He plows his harrowed fields—visions grand!
Lushly, planned, large yeilds;
Bugs frantically seeking shields
As farmers plant the hayfields.
Ó November 15, 2011
Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
Categories:
lushly, people, work,
Form: Englyn
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