The Morning After
...The floodwaters shimmer with opalescence in the morning sun
The torrential rain finally comes to a halt
In the stillness of it all floats the body of the banker’s son
Six feet above-ground, his ...
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Categories:
opalescence, birth, earth, environment, natural
Form: Rhyme
The person I used to be
...As you start to walk out on the way,
the way appears.- Rumi
Tonight, I speak to the moon,
lunar verses echoing the piercing
lyrics of an aching heart....
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Categories:
opalescence, deep,
Form: Free verse
A Pearl
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In the cobalt depth serene,
where silence whispers,
concealed aquatic elegance
transforms the gift of the sea
into spheres of opalescence
within clammed hidden heart,
a beauty shaped from f...
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Categories:
opalescence, analogy, beautiful, love,
Form: Free verse
moonspeak
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your skin …
cornflow’r in the moonlite
through louvers that
slice you to tender shards
of opalescence
arranged like piano keys on
Egyptian percale
the sea of sheets we so
often drown in …...
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Categories:
opalescence, analogy, kiss, love, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Death By 5 In the Kitchen
...Death by 5… in the Kitchen
or, A Bottle Garden No One Expected
Perched on an oak table, there rests an opulent and ornate glass bijou bottle,
a growing collection of nature’s organic ja...
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Categories:
opalescence, garden,
Form: Free verse
Eleemosynary Ubiquity
...sawed-off on the
crimson emerald from a cloudy sky
squeal
and, at times, the reason
low-slung why
sparkles of a pearly salver
modicum of encrusted damask mist
befuddles me
a...
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Categories:
opalescence, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Everlastingly Treasured
...Aesthetic things bestow us lasting satiety.
as time oozes, its beauty only widens
dwindling in a jolt, yet prevailing to arise
a calm haven for us to unwind our soul
the sheen of opal...
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Categories:
opalescence, analogy, appreciation, beauty, happiness,
Form: Free verse
A Tale of Feminine Forgetting
...The opalescence of the early morning light flows over everything
It touches over ever leaf, every tree, every exposed part of her skin
She stares at the sky as the dawn breaks
It shines brighter ...
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Categories:
opalescence, beautiful, beauty, spring, woman,
Form: Free verse
When Love Is Not Enough
...Love is not enough sometimes;
like melting wax on a candle as it burns
and vanishes into a kiss.
You pour every ounce of love hoping
that what you offer will come back to you.
Those that love ...
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Categories:
opalescence, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Fantasy Is the Luster of Opalescence
...As I search to adorn my naked thoughts in nacreous chic,
breathing bliss and sipping soulful seas,
my wild whimsy in wanderlust glides like an albatross
seeking the iridesc...
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Categories:
opalescence, appreciation, art, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Essence of Black
...Black brings beauty to white and coral opalescence
Lends obscure luster to gold and yellow’s fluorescence
Artists present wondrous reality with its clear presence
Crea...
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Categories:
opalescence, appreciation, beauty, christian, color,
Form: Acrostic
Gaze Upon the Sky
...When the twilight embraces us, so does the Light
and with the Light comes inspiring encouragement. Quote _ by Poet
When I was a young child, I would lay on the green
Grass and...
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Categories:
opalescence, childhood, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Fable of Felicity
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In the orchard of opalescence
magnificent myriads of mellows
fervently flow in fountains
breathing beguile blossoms
a forgotten fable ferments,
in haunting hollows I hear.
My heart ...
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Categories:
opalescence, analogy, flower, garden, hope,
Form: Free verse
Voluptuous Bullets
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"Voluptuous Bullets"
In the game of Love and War
voluptuous bullets
penetrate a mouth of warm words
Lacking defence lines
boundaries come ...
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Categories:
opalescence, muse, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Moonstone Shines My Truth
...pearl-like
but not of the sea
pregnant with opalescence
magic rainbows
depths you cannot plunge
mesmerizing many
At nape of my neck
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Categories:
opalescence, truth,
Form: Free verse
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