In sunless dark dusk
winter blizzard blows across
the road I walk chilled back home.
Cupful hot coffee
my wife gives me at fireplace,
we’re on cloud nine together.
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January 13, 2023
Syllable count : 5 7 7 (HMS)
Contest : Winter Sedoka
Sponsored by : Charles
She is on cloud nine, all is great, and fine.
She is on cloud ten, doing it again.
She is on cloud eleven, heading toward earth heaven.
She fell back to eight, but life is still rather great.
The spent sun sets, takes away my day
I paint new sun on canvas within
The silver moon in satin night sky
Reflects in inner mirror my dreams
Configured in essence euphoric
For your charming closeness completes me.
I walk the penultimate ninth mile
My soul spreads wings for the final flight
Soars to eternal bliss on cloud nine.
May 13, 2021
Syllable count : 9 per line (howmanysyllables.com)
Contest : A Time For Nine
Sponsor : Michelle Faulkner
The earth is sleeping under the blanket of fog,
daylight gently awakens her from her stupor,
misty mountains melt in the magical morning,
as each step surprises us to what lays ahead,
The clouds float by, spreading their chillness in the air,
wispy breeze blows past sprinkling wintry cheer around,
atmospheric brume brushes away all boredom,
hovering haze heightens our heady adventure,
The climb uphill is as fuzzy as it can be,
vapours blur our vision and view of the valley,
beauty of the place is hid behind cloud curtains
with the biting weather assaulting our senses,
Walking through the clouds in an ethereal feel,
the presence of God is tangible than ever,
words cannot describe the artistry of that place,
some things must be experienced to be fathomed.
12.29.2020
Red wines I drink make my cold blood hot red
Flames flow turning neurons wild in my head
Tongue slithers to utter a word
Legs morph into wings of blind bird
Hazy garden path on cloud nine I tread.
November 6, 2017.
Red wines I drink make my cold blood hot red,
flames flow turning neurons wild in my head.
Tongue slithers to utter a word,
legs morph into wings of blind bird.
Hazy garden path on cloud nine I tread.
October 19, 2017
Form : Limerick. Syllable count : 10 10 8 8 10
CRUISING ON CLOUD NINE
hills like green seas
skies lower clouds
like living rooms
furniture crowds
suffocating
simplicity
rooms accessories
with lifelike décor
pitiful candles
flying into nothing
small flames of delight
stay bright then flitter
dimmer into darkened
stop places of dread
no dreams…
is my life intriguing
perhaps appeasing
to your worsened
state of being
well…
I am on cloud 9
cruising…..
not caring
or
amusing
I hook myself
to only me
sticky candy
and
full treats
© Kim van Breda—20 October 2015
I float up in the airway up high
It’s like a drug and I’m always high
I don’t want to come down can’t you see
I enjoy it too much I’m in ecstasy
Your love makes me fly and it suits me fine
I here with you but I’m always on cloud nine
I live in the atmosphere looking down on earth
Some people find it strange but to me its all the worth
I don’t need wings to move around
Just one kiss from you and it makes me bound
Your love makes me fly and it suits me fine
I here with you but I’m always on cloud nine
One hug from you sets me free
Beyond this world into far off galaxy
One word from you or even a verse
Will send me in orbit traveling the universe
Your love makes me fly and it suits me fine
I here with you but I’m always on cloud nine
My friends tell me i'm glowin'. I say " Is the crush really showing?" I can't help but
be happy. This guy has gotten me scrappy. I have a crush and I can't fight it. I like
this guy and my bait, he's biting it. I tell my friends "The pimp in me just died" this
guy has got me sitting on cloud nine. Never had I had such a crush. And with
him all I do is blush. We talk on the phone for hours at a time. It doesn't even
bother me that he's not yet mine. But i'll keep liking him as long a he keeps me
on this cloud. I got a thing for him and I wont hide it. This crush thing, it totally fits.
So as long as I'm on this cloud. I don't want to come down.
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