I seek you in the silence of the night when the moon rises over the sleeping world,
On deserted streets where memories ripple like a delicate mist,
Where every whisper becomes a murmurous carpet of images and dream,
While the heart beats ancestral rhythms, calling you from the abyss.
I lose myself on forgotten paths where quietness blinks from its shadows,
With thoughts of our love, sweet and bitter, a balm in the night,
Rare as the dew on leaves that perishes at the dawn of the first light,
Waiting to soothe your sadness with the verse of a divine song.
Longing lures me, a phantom on your invisible trails,
I search fervently for you, the solace of the restless soul,
In the cold air, with the promise that, should I find you, I will stop time in its tracks,
To weave you a bed of flowers and wake you with the sweet kiss of deep fire.
Days tumble, deceptive shapes, towards you and my quest,
I will wait for you with an open heart, understanding, and inner peace,
With the belief that dreams find shelter in our vibrant reality,
I might ask you, there on the frozen shores of time, "Do we live our love, or do we merely dream it?".
In the porch of my house
Is hung a cage, small
In it dwells two inhabitants
Ounces of flesh in feathered coats
Two Finches, a male and a female
The vastness of the sky being denied
Do they live in regret?
Do they have dark remorse?
Do they miss the fair fields?
Do they long for the blue skies?
Do they envy the birds flying high?
I wonder…..!
This cage is their sky and their world
Here they co habit in love
Unruffled by confinement
Often seen preening their feathers
I see them doing it for each other
At times they seem to sit entranced
Their songs are not of plaintive notes
Across the bars they see the sun,
The moon and the stars
Remote from preying predators
They live in unperturbed solitude
Loneliness heightening their need for each other
When we turn to them
We hear their sweet murmurous tweets
And the fragrance of their love
Seeps into our wistful lives
With night fall, they cuddle together
Close, so close, she and he locked as one
In such indivisible togetherness!
There upon they sleep
Drowsing…. drowsing deep!
Dec.23.2022
Here they are before me,
surreal in the dazzling morning sun.
Against clear skies of brilliant blue,
these tall glaciers of Alaskan ice,
stand heavenly before my eyes.
Their marbled, glistening whites-
arcane crevices and jagged peaks,
stir visions of cold, ghost-like forms
that glare at me in this mysterious bay
of murmurous creaks and moans.
These huge shapes of water speak,
like eerie, moving forms,
in corridors that shift and moan-
and with their loud sonorous wails,
give birth- calving chunks that fall.
With an abrupt, roaring explosion,
all at once, it starts- the large,
calved segment plummets to the sea.
These exotic glaciers live and speak-
more than the eye can see.
Oh, it was a beautiful cloudless sunny day,
as I wandered a meadow to make a bouquet;
all about butterflies were dancing a ballet,
and I was dazzled by the song of a blue jay !
To a rippling stream I went on hearing a song,
and there a man sang a tune beautiful and strong;
his heavenly voice mingled with each wild birdsong,
and I stayed with him just talking all that daylong !
It would be a summer dalliance dulcet sweet,
his ethereal kisses made me overheat;
on gossamer threads I floated to our heartbeat,
we were on a labyrinthine path bittersweet !
On the last day we found a lagoon secluded;
and wept murmurous whispers of love concluded !
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May 5, 2021
Poetry/Sonnet/A Summer Dalliance
Copyright Protected, ID 05-1352-721-05
All Rights Reserved, 2021, Constance La France
Written for the Standard contest, Summer Love Sonnet
sponsor, John Hamilton, Judged 05/24/2021
Third Place
My nights have lately become sultry
as suffocating heat chases sleep away,
I lay wide awake unloved and sweating
beneath the murmurous ceiling fan
hoping for some refreshing relief.
Each eventide I hear her bittersweet song
drifting from the verdant vale
like seductive perfume on the breeze.
I cannot resist for long. I must visit every night.
People say there's magic in her.
Rancorous rumors have it that
she seduces with a whimsical smile,
subdues with an enchanting laugh,
soothes with a surrealistic sigh.
Maybe they're right. I know they’re right.
For I am under her arcane spell.
Late at night I leave my rumpled bed
and like a somnambulist I tread
through mysterious corridors of my house.
The dazzling moon shines the pathways
that lead down the surreal vale
into the sonorous cavern where she
concocts her alluring recondite runes.
There I hope to get a glimpse of her
Embrace her gorgeous beauty for untold time
Till inexplicably I find myself alone back on my bed.
Can you blame me if I’m under her spell?
8 January 2021
dalliance in a bungalow; euphony.
our mellifluous voices blend and
no longer is mine demure
felicity fills our love lagoon
an effervescent elixir
that which is becoming of beauty
that, which is so ephemeral.
fugacious love succumbs to day
for when the gossamer web of amorance
turns chatoyant in sunlight,
their murmurous musings begin
and so we must reveal the imbroglio of our verboten affairs.
‘tis all clandestine, dear ingénue,
we found serenity by serendipity
and though our tryst succeeds the lullabies,
it must to languor yield by aurora
thus, let us savour this
dalliance in a bungalow, bucolic and aglow
with the tintinnabulation of your summery lilt.
our mellifluous voices blend and
no longer is mine demure
Demure young maiden
A bucolic bungalow
A fallen hero
Situation hot
Gray thick diaphanous smog
Cannot cool it
Desultory dance
A quick surreptitious
Fine country wedding
Grandma’s tailsmen
The bride adorned with daisies
Murmurous rumors
A nonchalant groom
A sempiternal set up
Quintessential joy
It is surreal to me.
Corridors of dazzling colours.
Sonerous gurgling from hidden streams.
I must be in a gorgeous dream.
Murmurous whisperings of fairies.
In arcane little dwellings.
Or are they in the bulbous swellings
of unopen water lilies?
Far off I spy two beautiful fillies.
Until I stroke their silky manes.
In case I ner return again.
Please don't wake me.
Mystic Vision
Until the inner sonorous cues
reverberate to make believe the surreal,
As murmurous truth
walks down in corridors
Once again to rest arcane,
to be unfolded ....
While its gorgeous radiance
dazzling white amidst darkness,
Makes all black evanesce,
unveils the thaumaturgic clouds,
to a soulful vision ....
Written May 2nd, 2016
For contest by Mystic rose
A surreal thought:
Sonorous corridors are murmurous minds.
An arcane thought:
Gorgeous means dazzling
but sounds unrefined.
MORE THAN THE EYE CAN SEE - Poetry Contest
Clinging at the boundary of the universe;
if it can be called a boundary at all,
is an androgynous infinity whose murmurous echo
ripples the silence of ancient marble corridors.
The once sonorous booming, a mere relic, yet
etched still in the arcane runes of forgotten civilizations;
encoded, lies dazzling truth, gorgeous and universal,
appreciated no more beyond mysticism or the surreal.
Yet it clings, desperate to exist
Where no eye shall behold,
and none shall find,
…save the listeners.
4/30/16
Contest Submission: More Than The Eye Can See
Hosted By: Mystic Rose
Free of worries and cares, so dazzling and gorgeous
U might want to know, and about it, psychics are murmurous
The future has many ways it could happen, kinda like a mansion's corridors
U can not really understand it, it is arcane
Really very surreal, bizarre to those who know it
Every person has one, not very sonorous
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Vision
Look into my eyes
To see into my soul
I’ve been called wise, gorgeous and beautiful
To tell the truth is pivotal,
Wise beyond my years
Middle name should be mystical
I get lyrical on my keyboard
Pulling words together from the inner beat of my soul
The roar of a lion in me making sonorous sounds
Pulling heartstrings making stronger my strength
In a world so cold
You’ve gotta to have courage and safe place to go
Falling to sleep to dreams that haunt murmurous bad memories
Dignified in unhappiness untold
Shake off the dust, until it’s time to unload
Walking through the corridor, searching for the light to explore
With all this love in my heart
I'm bound to find something pure
It’s so surreal when I spill buckets of emotions out my heart into a book of poems
Like death being poured out to make room for love, hope and real happiness
Richness isn’t in materialistic gain
It’s a dazzling joy when you overcome pain
I am lyrical, spiritual, and arcane
Hardly analytical, careful not to be so critical
Whatever you’re following is the truth of your heart
Hope all my sins are forgiven
Look into my eyes
To peep my vision.
©StephanieGutierrez2016
Silently, my breath aligns chi centers
as I reach a dazzling state of harmony ;
when quiet, murmurous drift brings me
to corridors of an unknown vortex
beyond ceiling of stars arcane, where
a swirling trance pervades my essence...
the howl from a surreal mind becomes
reverent, erased from the tousle
of barbed wanderings. And as inner light
swells within my third eye, this being
connects with Divine Presence like
one immeasurable union: this sonorous
music purer than all chapel bells winging,
draping my flesh with heavenly joy. Through
undisturbed contemplation, a pervading ease
cleanses all the insolent woes now
transformed into a river of gorgeous beats,
where soul’s center finds my holy nature.
More Than The Eyes Can See Contest
For Mystic Rose 5/1/2016
Words: Gorgeous, Surreal, Sonorous,
Dazzling, Murmurous, Corridors, Arcane
The dismal morning seemed to sigh
As sonorous thunder heralded the dawn
Surreal was the sky
That the rains had spawned
All the gardens were abloom
Except for one beset with weeds
It was a garden full of gloom
It's just tender loving care it needs
Hummingbirds didn't visit the garden anymore
In other corridors they now flew
But it was dazzling once before
Where gorgeous roses grew
Murmurous was the sound
When the thunder did recede
I decided to make this garden rebound
And give it the care it needed
I tended to the garden and gave it beauty again
Beautiful was that garden when the summer came
The lady who lived there thanked me
But I found it quite arcane
For she had died some years before
And yet she knew my name
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4/28/16
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