Mellowing Poems

Tea Time

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Lure of sunset quiets the soul
Mellowing hazed thoughts from day's work
Nothing but herbal tea clears mind
Oft not , caffeine- loaded Starbucks -
Peace wafts by brewing turmeric


Acebedaria...
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Categories: mellowing, cool, drink,
Form: Abecedarian

Premium MemberGlimmers at Dusk's Edge

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Written: March 1st, 2025, For Brian Strand Contest

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   In the heart of 
a howling waterfront, 
where waves weave whispers 
to the waning night, 
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Categories: mellowing, analogy, beauty, nature,
Form: Free verse


The Bitter Bite of Night

...The Bitter Bite of Night!

Night creeps in sotto voce
melding with the mellowing village life.
Night, a seemingly mischievous cat,
slips along incognito in its prankish mood,
teasing any light ...
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Categories: mellowing, imagery, night, winter,
Form: Free verse

Buttered Fields

...Buttered Fields
 
It was early when she was tickled awake
as light eased under the eaves
to trickle through a sigh of curtains,
to whisper across the bedroom floor,
to nudgingly nestle beside h...
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Categories: mellowing, imagery, nature,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPlum Delicious

...Jack Horner was an impish little boy, who lived on Cherry Orchard farm;
That produced varieties of fruit. For a mellowing sun, kept groves warm.

The Horners had always been a serious set-...
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Categories: mellowing, christmas, fantasy, fruit, nature,
Form: Couplet


Premium MemberMarigold

...Marigolds bloom for you,
Morning light breaking through,
Memories old, yet true,
Marking paths we've once crossed,
Majesty never lost,
Mirrors of love’s soft glow,
Mellowing hearts, we grow....
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Categories: mellowing, flower,
Form: Pleiades

Premium MemberAutumn Leaves

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                                           Autumn Leaves

              When leaves in the midst of trees change their hues
                         Turning to a sweet palette of colours
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Categories: mellowing, appreciation, autumn, nature,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSeptember Falls

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                                    September Falls

                     Since the days of creation of seasons
                     Earth has witnessed the splendors of nature
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Categories: mellowing, analogy, appreciation, autumn, september,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberWhispers of Autumn

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                                          Whispers of Autumn

                         Whispers of wet winds on mellowing leaves
                              Herald coming of the autumn seaso...
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Categories: mellowing, analogy, appreciation, autumn, nature,
Form: Sonnet

A subtle summer

...In the gratifying embrace of the sun's glow
a delightful plight, a verdant tableau;
Where the blazing sovereign of light reigns 
scattering, a gleam of kaleidoscopic refrains;
The sweet sounds of...
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Categories: mellowing, cheer up, creation, imagery,
Form: Rhyme

The Tenth Twilight

...Twas' a mellowing twilight on the end of the day
Where the whispers of dusk benignly sway
when the weary traveler of orange bid adieu
varnishing the sky with amber and blue
As the shadows lengthe...
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Categories: mellowing, introspection, nature, perspective, weather,
Form: Rhyme

Optimism

...Positivity breeds it graceful wings
Disseminating compassion, to all the lowly things.
'Tis as lustrous as the mellowing sun
delivering exuberance to everyone.
Yet there are shadows, lurking 'hin...
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Categories: mellowing, analogy, blessing, faith,
Form: Rhyme

Ille Terra Lamentum

...The consummate scent of Earth's due decay
Subdues gently the fervor of Death's perennial
Parade, whose incumbent silences the withering leaves
Do so barely correct, by singing tremulous or crying ...
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Categories: mellowing, autumn, death, life, october,
Form: Quatern

Premium MemberAutumnal

...In depth of woods how autumn dazzles, swirling beauty of ornate décor,
Waltzing with ochre hickory, birch; whirling flaxen moods of sycamore,
Gracing my view upon blazing foothills, where vistas ga...
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Categories: mellowing, autumn,
Form: Rhyme

Frosted Smiles

...The night falls deeper
And the pain anguishes 
In the embracing laughter
The dewing ire of happiness
Falls in my lap
After the long showers of saddening
In the shady cave
The decked up soothin...
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Categories: mellowing, 12th grade, appreciation, emotions,
Form: Free verse

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