drenched in bursting light
mauve of sunset flits gently--
ushering eve's rest
Categories:
mauve, sunset,
Form: Haiku
The man who learns mauve from chartreuse
Is rendered quite gay by the news.
For courting sweet lasses
A man means amasses
That too many colors confuse.
Categories:
mauve, color, confusion, funny, humor,
Form: Limerick
They make me wonder---
What fingers wove the tapestry of their being!
The splash of violet here, mauve there, white with red stripes—
They stand tall and do not bend till the wind forces them to.
Though soft, they manifest dignity.
When stress and depression shoot their thorns,
A glimpse of these beauties spell discipline.
‘We are of the earth and we belong to her.
She has given us beige, yellow, red and has waited
For us to grow, in effort and ecstasy.
When butterflies, birds and bees hum around
We greet them with glee. We fear not.
We bear the heat, the dust and the cold--
Even in pain, in disdain, we find the sun.’
In their company, I find freedom. And
In their being, my soul.
Categories:
mauve, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Mauve sun is rising
far across the frothy sea
From mists emerging
at the edge of the blue world
and the pause of dusky night
Destination noon
and blithe before and after
Headed everywhere
In the quiet room of time
when stars are disappearing
Categories:
mauve, beautiful, color, morning, nature,
Form: Tanka
Spindly stretching brambles rebel from main form
Amused bending stems eject spikes of rhino horn
Thorns barely a repellent for birds resourceful
Tweezer glowing twilight globe, a bitter morsel
Fresh field alien green cone births berry's infant
Chantilly lace pale pink petticoat wraps nymphet
Confetti celebratory moult bulges her fertility
Eighty protruding bulbs shiver in vulnerability
Stern season carousel chastens scanty branches
Snow swallow, boggy terrain new tepid attaches
Saw edge foliage unfold, twitching fox ears
Clusters encombour limbs, absinthe adheres
Florid flocks tossle, augment midnight family babble
Morning dew melt sapor stains fingers which dabble
Outcast tongue teaser, lumpy rubber cleaved
Mauve motivate jaunty juice, mouth received
9th August 2022
Written for Contest:
Thoughts on Blackberries
Sponsor:
Matt Caliri
Categories:
mauve, celebration, nature, purple, winter,
Form: Couplet
In the hall of clocks and mirrors,
Winds of time bring fragrant whispers,
Of midnights of magic moonlight,
And reflections of past delights!
Of golden days when lost in blooms,
And dancing joy in summer rooms!
A blur of green in woodland scene,
And the purple twilights velveteen.
Time's reversed to infinity,
As ensues with sweet memory.
And heartsongs waft, out of mauve mists,
And all life's seasons coexist!
Categories:
mauve, heart, imagery, memory, mirror,
Form: Lay
Rose and Mauve
Rose and Mauve arise -
Rooster crows tell moonlight leave -
Windmill sings dawn praise.
4/25/20
Categories:
mauve, color, morning, prayer,
Form: Haiku
mauve petals tumble
framing eve's littered canvas--
stylus of autumn
8/4/2019
One Haiku Contest of Rick Parise
Categories:
mauve, autumn, image,
Form: Haiku
shadows canvas night -
giving light to the moonbeams...
sweep purple-brown hues
July 12, 2019
Haiku-Hue Poetry contest
Sponsor: Kim Rodriguez
Categories:
mauve, allusion, night,
Form: Haiku
I cannot see a mauve rose without falling tears,
mother- even after all these long years;
the sweet scent makes me weep, weep,
I close my eyes and see them all again, draped;
on your casket- on the ground some have escaped,
most days, I can bury this memory deep, deep.
__________________________
June 17, 2018
Written for the contest, When Line Six is a Perfect Fix
Sponsor, Silent One
First Place
Categories:
mauve, dark, deep, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Moorish,
Actual beauty personified,
Unique qualities,
Vivacious,
Enlightening.
Categories:
mauve, visionary,
Form: Acrostic
Lavender sky ghost
Take the fear away this dusk
Coastal haze, grey pain
Inspired by Raul--Thanks!!
Categories:
mauve, fantasy
Form: Haiku