Daily morning ritual rain or sunshine
Eye romance beginning on a bus stop queue
Founding jaunty mawkishness everlasting
Teenager pining
Background music softly enraptures the mood
Candelabra flickers on snowy linen
Sparkling bubblies celebrate our encounter
Eagerness mounting
Flawless cuteness leaning on steaming bathtub
Bashful petals casting their lovely fragrance
Spellbound, swirling in midst of bursting bubbles
Hankering simmers
Blurring horn halts instantly my intense trance
Prospect missed as porcelain beauty vanished
Left with a foretaste of that magic moment
I vow she’ll be mine
11.27.2022
....is both dried berries and nut tree,
by the leafage, the sunlit the phizog,
oaks skirted the edifice's entree.
he never mentions his mother as unreal.
as I involve my mother, did he prevent her?
mawkishness -
spawned a popping sound,
What a foolish,
& semantic quibble.
mawkishness -
To defy reason,
& sanity.
m a w k i s h n e s s -
It's nearly dreadful,
in its evilness,
mind-bending,
in its hurdles.
Written: May 20, 2022
Sentimentality Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Julia Ward
Senryu
A cynical person
Protects his soppy heart
From mawkishness
Senryu
A lurid nightmare
Is an extension of a day
That went ing bad
Senryu
They say he is rude
When objecting against old age
They expect poise
From sunrise in the morning, to sunset at night,
concerning knowledge, I have an insatiable appetite.
For the body and soul, there is ambrosia in a bowl.
Generous servings have me attaining my goal.
Progressive thought, both systematic and arbitrary,
have all of my faculties in solidarity.
I must not succumb to facts with mawkishness.
Tediousness can lead one to soporific listlessness.
I can attain truth and success through perseverance.
The key to the lock is maintaining diligence.
All that is illuminated, I can see through open eyes.
Only with alert consciousness for living can I realize,
I am in propinquity to attaining life’s ultimate prize.
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