THE PRISMATIC SELF
...Contest : The Prismatic Self
Sponsor : Daniel Henry Rodgers
Date submitted : 19/5/25
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for best tasting wine, most exquisite
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Categories:
materialise, age, character, courage, destiny,
Form: Bio
The direct path
...“The path appears when we walk upon it ~
That we stumble not, lamp of love is lit”
~ quote by poet
Poised in staid silence where no thoughts arise,
our heartbeat echoing the cosmi...
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Categories:
materialise, god, spiritual,
Form: Italian Sonnet
I AM POETRY
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I AM POETRY
‘In the Beginning
was the Word’
light penetrated dark
sound big-banged birthed
three in One creating
~ P o e t r y ~
I am this poised superlative
unchangi...
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Categories:
materialise, allegory, character, creation, deep,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Winter's Solstice
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(A lone voice whispers)
Will you
Come all
Yes,
Yea and dance
For
In the deepest woods
In that old
Woodland grove
Something stirs
An electric emotion
Consuming the very air
C...
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Categories:
materialise, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
A Time For Me
...When will the time for me arrive
when I no longer have to strive
to fight to keep myself alive?
When will I travel land and see,
no longer bound by misery,
but free to bask in revelry?
When...
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Categories:
materialise, future, longing, time,
Form: Rhyme
Trauma
...TRAUMA
anxiety
feeling
unprepared
yet resilient
&very blessed
hybrid
of naturalistic
fantasy
elaborate
sequences
compelling
but
fascinating
warm
& captivating
interesting
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Categories:
materialise, poetry,
Form: Other
Glimpses
...GLIMPSES
look anywhere
randomly
& experience
subtle
movement
quite natural
slow motion
circulating
a concise i
mage
a happening
drifting
through
experience
sounds
qui...
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Categories:
materialise, poetry,
Form: Other
Transport Terminals
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"Transport Terminals"
When ghosts find ghosts
they walk through the
core of each other
expecting knowledge
of the other’s being
it’s surprising mirrors
are consider...
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Categories:
materialise, muse,
Form: Narrative
A Conversation With Walter Mitty
...“Azure blue sky dreamer.
Where you bound today of mystifying days?
Can you hear me through that enigmatic fog?
Your Milky Way incarnate hyper trance phase.”
“Fellow wonderland adventurer.
I’...
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Categories:
materialise, art, beautiful, celebration, character,
Form: Rhyme
Poem - Making
...if you can capture the moment
and all its salient points
remember all the details
and recollect what happened when the dust settled
in a way that’ll keep people reading
until the very last full ...
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Categories:
materialise, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Merging the Trinity
...Merging the trinity
By: Erastus “Popyeny” Shipuleni
@December 2020
Not always do I get what I want,
Neither does my request materialise as requested,
Nor desire implemented as desired...
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Categories:
materialise, desire, destiny, encouraging, faith,
Form: Free verse
The Embarking of a Lightning Strike
...Consider the beginnings of a tree
this wooden bark all comes from a seed
through the years of growth to materialise
producing wood meets many a need
But not every tree reaches its goal
some ar...
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Categories:
materialise, fire, nature, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Golden Ticket To My Desire Factory
...Let me tilt my top hat,
And put on a smile,
Let me courtesy and bow...
“Name’s Charlie”
“Welcome to my desire factory!”
Let your own mind illuminate
Rest of the journey,
Chocolates are obsolet...
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Categories:
materialise, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Spring Renku Tribute Pt 4
...pt 4 of quaternion
delight
of the season
expressed
freed
from the dark
beginning
a busy cycle
a celebration
of
the poetic senses
a sudden calling
a reminescence
a
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Categories:
materialise, people, poetry,
Form: Verse
When Frustration Creeps In
...What do you do when frustration threatens to destabilise?
I tend to look for a chocolate bar of a decent size,
And wait for a new strategy to materialise.
My recent bout of frustration,
Is due ...
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Categories:
materialise, anxiety, baptism, blue, character,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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