one kiss
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* This was the first poem I ever entered into a contest, and it won! (Thank you to poet/judge John Hamilton). It is about a very brief moment, and all that our minds can process in an instant, espe...
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Categories:
opaline, analogy, kiss,
Form: Free verse
hiku - shadows of snowflakes
...shadows of s n o w f l a k e s
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rivers of m o on l i g h t
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Categories:
opaline, beautiful, imagery, moon, poetry,
Form: Haiku
Along With The Thunder
...R a i n ~ a misted mirror
coated in petrichor pain ~
fused with memories
pirouetting through the
veiled salt of the earth,
caressing the Pina Colada dreams
adrift in the icy-blue air,
amid...
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Categories:
opaline, angst, imagery, poetry, poets,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Autumn Scene
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Climbing cotton clouds float away
across canvas of summer sky.
Birds bathe in blue bay,
to amber nest they fly.
Autumn comes with golden spray.
Sunburst horizon’s chromatic drape draw...
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Categories:
opaline, autumn, color, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Captured Moon In Cauldron Of Love
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I hear the birds sing in the whispering breeze for you,
as the sunburst sky flushes your garnet-groomed face.
How endearingly attractive you’re then to me,
I know in my mesmerized mi...
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Categories:
opaline, analogy, fantasy, love,
Form: Free verse
A Tale of Pearl
...A single mote of sand gives birth to a pearl,
A seed of solace blossoms into a shell.
Our time tide is an outlet for love,
Charm clings to the heart's beating cells.
These precision...
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Categories:
opaline, beauty, love,
Form: Free verse
Supine, Looking at the Sky
...Awestruck in its grandeur, acquiescing to mystic of refulgence up high,
Exalted I feel, lauding designs iridescent, upon sapphire blue sky;
As I listen to birdsongs, reverberating missives of sensu...
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Categories:
opaline, eve, romantic, sky, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
Air
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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Cherish the moments, rising on fabric of fuchsia skies,
Painting motifs o...
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Categories:
opaline, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Spring Embrace
...Embracing Spring after winter season
Dour skies for months with chilling cold weather
Summer dreams where roses are Elysian
Highland hills swept with grandeur of heather.
Poppies and wi...
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Categories:
opaline, inspirational, spring,
Form: Sonnet
Painting You
...Painting You
Before painting, I first sketch you
In my mind’s eye…To compose
The lines, shapes, shadows and lights,
That work altogether to form a semblant sight
Of you for any relative, frie...
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Categories:
opaline, color, devotion, feelings, health,
Form: Imagism
Ivory
...It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was ...
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Categories:
opaline, appreciation, blessing, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Beneath the Strawberry Moon
...Hoisting passions fervid, probing celestial height,
Hypnotized we stood, enthralled in smile of June,
Caressing dreams flirtatious of a romantic night,
Reaffirming love, beneath the strawberry moo...
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Categories:
opaline, moon, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
Dear Fall
...Dear Fall, amaze us with your colors warm
the brilliant carmine, peach, and tangerine.
Weave a batik with more delicate charm
that glows and glints like lustrous opaline.
Bring the willful win...
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Categories:
opaline, autumn, environment, Lullaby, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Operetta
...Operetta
Opaline arias glow in moonlight
Shimmers in the whip-poor-will’s reminisce,
Opalescent anthems silvery delight
On the still waters, moonbeams leave a kiss.
Iridescent serenade sonat...
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Categories:
opaline, moon, music, night,
Form: Sonnet
In Realm of Love
...In realm of love, you are the awe of mystique~
Musings of smitten soul, passions bespeak,
When glances romantic lure enamored night
To dance of fantasies moonlit revelries ignite
Waltzing with st...
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Categories:
opaline, love,
Form: Rhyme
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