I hope the shadow of my soul
is clear and present to be seen
And that it fits around the world
to smile in all its lustered sheen
I wish for it to know no bounds
for being one and one for all
And ready for what lies ahead
when spinning off this great blue ball
A soul I think, must know the truth
and so in comfort I remain
Though understanding shuns me now
that one day it is mine to gain
So when I leave and say goodbye
and wing my way unto the sun
When ashes scatter in the breeze
and all the worry said and done
If but one thing I hope remains
as gentle as the skies above
I hope with my still beating heart
the shadow of my soul is love
Categories:
lustered, feelings, hope, how i
Form: Rhyme
I Silently sipping the last limping remains of wine
within the crumbling confines of my glass.
guiltlessly glistening in the amorous arms of evergreen.
Lonesomely, my eyes lift themselves
up from my blackened
blue brass bottle of bitterness
and gradually grows aware
of the arid aristocratic atmosphere.
Lustered with the luminous larks
who lurk within the numbing neon
nature of the iridescent nightlife.
But among these unfruitful flocks
feebly flutters the faint fanciful feathers of the frigid finch.
Who still sternly staggers his weakened way through the
world’s wishful
word woven woodlands of what if towards the eternally
terminal edge
of mortality.
In search of an answer
patiently perched upon the topic of
what light lingers within the relieving realms of truth.
Categories:
lustered, bird, life, longing, night,
Form: Alliteration
Lips lustered with Venus-enchantment flirt as
Imagineer steers your swoon to the Moon on a love song..
Beyond oneness with another, the lover and artiste
Relishes color in counterpoise to white rising light, and so flows
Abstracts across a sunrise canvas to laud a treaty ‘tween night and day
Susan Ashley
April 8, 2021
*aesthete: a person who has a special appreciation of art and beauty.
*imagineer: a person who is skilled in implementing creative
ideas into practical form. A Blend of imagine and engineer.
Poet’s note: not for a contest but inspired by the “Star Sign Acrostics” poetry contest sponsored by Charlotte Puddifoot.. Thank you, Charlotte, for the wonderful inspiration. I’m sorry I missed out on entering your contest.
Categories:
lustered, appreciation, assonance, beauty, happiness,
Form: Acrostic
The wonder of your smile is always there,
just like you gave me on that special day,
when first I saw you on my front porch stair-
your smile imprinted in my heart to stay.
Just as in spring and summer long ago,
and then in later years, your smile assured
my joy of knowing our love stayed aglow-
and now, past autumn years, have still endured.
The sparkle of your smile from first-love throes,
and blissful wedding day we said 'I do',
still lingers in my heart, although now shows
a special glaze from winter’s weathered hue.
The wonder of your smile- those early years,
that glowed with brilliance like untarnished gold-
became my treasured prize and now appears
with warm patina-sheen as we grow old.
Though years have flown and age has had its way-
your antique smile now etched with lines anew,
and lustered with the wear of each new day
brings priceless meaning to my love for you.
Categories:
lustered, love, marriage, seasons, winter,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Softly silver snow sifts, soundless,
lattice-like, a lacquered lace of layering light,
startling sparrows, shyly shivering for shelter,
on leafless, lustered limbs - lancets, londonite.
November 28, 2017
For Alliteration Contest
Categories:
lustered, bird, nature, snow,
Form: Alliteration
Less lustered now, the once proud sheen
Of that silken-petaled rose,
As from the wilting touch of a hundred hands
Its fragrance, festered flows.
Categories:
lustered, lost love,
Form: Couplet
The dawning of being
In a lustered curl of gray,
And the the Divine loves
Of your smile,
And the rhyme of doves,
Cures, for awhile.
Categories:
lustered, love,
Form: Free verse