Trapped Breath
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Written: August 07, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Mark Toney
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Corset of steel tightens—ratified pain,
Vestigial breath trapped in ischemia thrall.
The...
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Categories:
maunder, analogy, character,
Form: Free verse
The Rapture of Rot
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Written: August 02, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Crystol Woods
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In the slipshod cradle beneath the apple tree,
a bruised fruit folds ajar—
molten...
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Categories:
maunder, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Manifesto
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Written: December 27, 2024 For Contest Sponsored by: Hilo Poet
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At dawn of a place cocooned once in avarice
silver-haired sav...
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Categories:
maunder, america, angst, health,
Form: Free verse
Barren Shadows
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Written: May 26 2024
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Dark, drizzling recesses that pulse and flow.
A nebulous haze of nothingness, a sad show.
With rasping...
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Categories:
maunder, adventure, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Divine Magnetism
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Written: May 1st, 2024 For Unseeking Seeker Contest
Rumi Quote: "The beauty you see in me, is a... magnet, stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion"
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Categories:
maunder, analogy, magic,
Form: Rhyme
Dwelling Vespers
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Written: April 3rd 2024
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How I venerate you, O Lord
In your lens, lenity and levity loom
as a benign breeze
Stars doth glitter in a p...
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Categories:
maunder, analogy, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Ethereal Lanterns
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Written: March 30, 2024 For Ink Empress Ethereal Lantern Contest
Quote By Rumi: “The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-m...
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Categories:
maunder, light, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Behold the Beast
...Behold the beast, wandering in astral night
From dark caverns he emerges by starlight
to quaff nectar from his ambrosia chalice.
A leering creature with evil eyes of malice.
What nefarious thou...
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Categories:
maunder, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
A Plea For Awesome Phrase
...On a shattered pebble beach my kernel,
becomes this dervish dancing to the maniacal symbol rash tune,
of inchoate monsoon grass beat timpani,
that’s dimly frowned on by sonic virtuoso,
but terms ...
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Categories:
maunder, care, character, color, creation,
Form: Free verse
Harvest
...Tithing untested talents to tyrants;
Heaving hearts and minds in Humpty dumpsters
With vibrant energy and emotional overload,
As sensible as armadillos playing on a road,
To forge a Nirvana from ...
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Categories:
maunder, animal, children, heart, life,
Form: Free verse
Unveiling the True Meaning of Love
...Written: September 21, 2023
True Love Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori
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In a world wher...
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Categories:
maunder, analogy, appreciation, beauty, inspirational
Form: Rhyme
Ghosts of Qianku
...In the large nation that nests
The Azure Dragon that now rests
There is a town with no pests
Where ghosts slain by the dragon rests
Who were angels of light sent
Linger and worship to the p...
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Categories:
maunder, beautiful, culture, dedication, memory,
Form: Musaddas
Maunder Minimum
...Sunspots boil oceans
Cycles rage in ebb and flow
Rollercoaster life
04.06.22...
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Categories:
maunder, science,
Form: Senryu
You-My Soul Voice
...When you get your sabbatical leave,
it endow me heal....
I shine like pearl with maunder in galore......
You are as precious for me as Coral is precious for the diver.
You are my desire;
make my...
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Categories:
maunder, first love, innocence, truth,
Form: Lyric
On a Road
...I found comfort in hope, a raw reality in regret.
And lost my way in the game of life, all my chips in on a bet.
I stared at an amaranthine desert that stretched out to the sky, and so I traveled f...
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Categories:
maunder, beautiful, change, drink, journey,
Form: Rhyme
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