DESERT DATE PIP
... Sponsor : Tom Woody
Contest : Black Hole Love
Submitted: 16/7/25
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“Love embodies in millions of forms and frequencies, not all known. Its int...
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Categories:
mirths, allegory, allusion, change, character,
Form: Ballad
Waning Twilight
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Written: March 09, 2024 For Charlotte Puddifoot Contest
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with serendipitous moans—ocean lulls
It's russet embers
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Categories:
mirths, longing, spring,
Form: Free verse
Au Revoir
...If time shall not our derelict joys
Revive with tunes melodious so,
Let past's nostalgic merries balm
Our souls and bid all sorrows go.
Should ebbing laughter and smiles
Their cold arcs yet...
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Categories:
mirths, absence, anxiety, break up,
Form: Rhyme
Erratum
...Mightily buoyed by cherished blood,
Brazen struts laxest wit undeterred;
And fair nobles her giddy vinos swill
Oftener than mild sips of ironed skill.
Sometimes charmed by gilded gold
Slack s...
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Categories:
mirths, allegory, allusion, anger, evil,
Form: Didactic
Unbowed
...How would it feel having no single woe to bear,
In that sooty heart oft stung by ceaseless tear?
Wouldn't the sobs-accustomed soul court pain,
To save those melancholic rhythms in its stain?
It...
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Categories:
mirths, allegory, angst, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Didactic
Dreamwords
...Silence settles to sleep.
It carries me on wings of dream-
to fall to mystic seas, where
gallant cry
from ocean guid...
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Categories:
mirths, mystery, nature, night, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Obtrusive Skies.
...I never challenged the obtrusive skies
Nor destituted the benevolent earth
With tender warmth I sensed the whole
When each stone became endeared to soul.
Held voices in many hands
Sang with th...
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Categories:
mirths, passion
Form: Lyric
Bard of Avon { Cameo}
...It may be audacious even to attempt
a definition of his greatness
But it is not so difficult to describe the gi...
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Categories:
mirths, education, history, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Free verse