Here for the Moment
...Janice Avery loved deep green nature; like cherry sunset owls, gawping.
She dwelt with her parents and Sissy, when old, golden days were walking.
They lived out in the hilly country, wher...
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Categories:
noons, bird, color, fantasy, memory,
Form: Couplet
In the flow of time where memories float like leaves over the silent river
...In the flow of time where memories float like leaves over the silent river,
I will keep in my soul our kisses, lips burned by the fire of love,
And how you gave me everything you had, every corner ...
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Categories:
noons, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
In the liquid sanctuary of silent noons, where steam rises to the sky like an unfulfilled dream
...In the liquid sanctuary of silent noons, where steam rises to the sky like an unfulfilled dream,
we meet in the dance of waters, two spirits swaying under the warm curtain,
her hands, springs of te...
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Categories:
noons, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Along Dry Path
...Am I fitful,
fluctuating, fluid?
thin compass waver
as I jubilantly weave
lilac tree vignettes
that weep or chortle,
rainbow figment curtain
rashly wished upon
in grain smudge zephyr
garne...
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Categories:
noons, august, birth, celebration, character,
Form: Free verse
If in a corner of time, that dances with possibility
...If in a corner of time, that dances with possibility,
Our solitudes were to cross paths, both yours and mine,
I would bury the compass that seeks you, in extinct pursuit,
And nestle into the secre...
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Categories:
noons, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
A Mother's Thanksgiving
...Mother's mornings, we're getting up, she's thankful for waking,
mother's days, we're at school, she's singing while she's cleaning,
mother's noons, we're eating lunch, she's with dear fri...
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Categories:
noons, appreciation, beautiful, encouraging, growing
Form: Monorhyme
Upon Evening and Exotic Shores
...Upon evening and exotic shores,
I feel the mist of your hair,
Your hips,
Of the sweetest crescents,
Dance like a ballerina,
With an irises love,
And its blush of lavendars,
Serenading vases ...
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Categories:
noons, beauty, hair, love, nature,
Form: Free verse
Cattle Egret
...CATTLE EGRET
Makinde Adebayo Adeniyi
Silken, snow-white feathers
Slender, elegant legs
Lovely long sinuous neck
Beautiful and benignly noble head
Stout, straight, sharp beaks
The cattle...
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Categories:
noons, animal, nature,
Form: Free verse
A School Glorified
...Six years on foot
Through far and hurdling paths like wilderness
My secondary learning root
Which taught me to taste and endure bitterness
Oh my brain of rational thoughts:
In the mornings it fe...
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Categories:
noons, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Bygone Childhood Memories
...Memories are the lamps that illuminate the dark channels of life
Eden Verse
In the light of summer sunset
Shimmer they on silver sands
Days of childhood days of mirth
Come and stand in byg...
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Categories:
noons, adventure, art, bereavement, cool,
Form: Rhyme
Rainy Season
...Every cloud has silver lining
And with stories all untold
From the far off ocean chambers
From the far off foggy fold
On the puffs of summer zephyr
Come they rowing then unfold
Oceans, rivule...
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Categories:
noons, age, allusion, color, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Rainy Season
...Every cloud has silver lining
And with stories all untold
From the far off ocean chambers
From the far off foggy fold
On the puffs of summer zephyr
Come they rowing then unfold
Oceans, rivule...
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Categories:
noons, age, allusion, color, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Garden
...Come in scented summer garden!
Come in nature super show!
veins of Thee all turned to yellow
Mistletoe! in spring woe?
In the scented breath of summer
Laugh and look at magic show
Beaut...
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Categories:
noons, caregiving, creation, death, deep,
Form: Verse
Let Dust Blur the Pages
...Let Dust Blur The Pages
By Phan Tan Hai
Let's close the pages, where the dreams still linger
let pen and ink flow the lines of poetry on their own
words written down are the incarnation...
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Categories:
noons, anniversary, appreciation, art, best
Form: Free verse
Bomb Cyclone
...Choking, churning dense river of clouds.
Vengeful, raging, wrathful airspace,
where seraphs and cherubs are murdered,
where cold torrential demons are unleashed.
Dank deep noons and nights int...
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Categories:
noons, extended metaphor, heart, life,
Form: Didactic
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