Palimpsest of Love
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Written: August 05, 2025, for contest Marathon Mile 3 Poetry Contest / Sponsor- Mark Toney
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As it rises shakily, the aurora radiates,
Shore gets ba...
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Categories:
paradisal, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
MULBERRY TREES AND BUTTERFLIES
...MULBERRY TREES AND BUTTERFLIES
Don’t go back to heavy sleep
dwell in the wakefulness
of I AM THAT I AM
here mulberries and butterflies
beckon across filtered fences
which you can comely cl...
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Categories:
paradisal, butterfly, change, color, earth,
Form: Rhyme
When Sunset And Stars Shine On Sacred Ground - a Collaboration with Frederic Parker
...My love, let us live this paradisal evening
dressed in wispy clouds of red
and tailored in strips of orange embellishing the horizon
where shades and shadows embrace your face
as the last glimmer...
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Categories:
paradisal, beauty, garden, nature, night,
Form: Free verse
When Sunset and Stars Shine on Sacred Ground a collaboration with Susan Ashley
...My love, let us live this paradisal evening
dressed in wispy clouds of red
and tailored in strips of orange embellishing the horizon
where shades and shadows embrace your face
as the last glimmer...
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Categories:
paradisal, beauty, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Balmy Peacefulness
...Written: October 04, 2023
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In the tranquil aura of a tropical clime
An idyllic scene, serene, pacific, sublime,
As paradisal ...
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Categories:
paradisal, analogy, appreciation, character, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Ocean Symphony
...Written: September 12, 2023
Ocean Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Ink Empress
“The sea is an underwater museum still awaiting its visitors.” – Phillip Diol...
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Categories:
paradisal, appreciation, beauty, deep, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Almost Xanadu
...Beyond boundaries, beyond humdrum of human race,
Beyond provinces mundane, among mysteries of space,
There is a realm of thriving wonderment, an idyllic place,
A place of peace and goodwill, hosti...
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Categories:
paradisal, dream, fantasy, paradise,
Form: Rhyme
Metaphorically Speaking
...paradisal
unity
in a
circular
round dance
faraway
looks
in
metamorphosis
of
illusion
of the
ephemeral
stilled
in a pictorial
cosmos
of t...
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Categories:
paradisal, art, tribute,
Form: Ekphrasis
Angelic Notes In the Rain
...Angelic Notes in the Rain
Heavenly harps in the rain, as melodic minstrels cascade
Vibrations cast away the pain, as the air rings in their aid
Symphonic strings sustain, for they ...
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Categories:
paradisal, angel, music, rain,
Form: Quatrain
Light of Heaven
...Light of Heaven
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Oh light of heaven, lifting light of mine
In early seven, I felt your salient shine
Thru windows pane, and morning mist
Within love of radiant reign, you did ...
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Categories:
paradisal, god, light, love,
Form: Rhyme
Irrational Numbers, With Lyrics
...The number of folks sitting
on the back porch
waiting
for peace to strike,
like waiting for my garden to grow
without yet having planted it.
The number of people
noticing that chronic victim...
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Categories:
paradisal, earth, education, humor, love,
Form: Political Verse
The Elegant Eagle and Watchful Wolf
...My soul surrenders and soars like the elegant eagle
As my mind melds of the wolves wildly witted
Experiencing mother earth thru the eye of the needle
Frolicking forests as is perceptually permitte...
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Categories:
paradisal, adventure, analogy, destiny,
Form: Sonnet
Legend
...Nearby, drained, workaday faces pass by:
Working people with working class woe:
Faces bent in suffering, near hopelessness, made indiscriminate rue.
But turn on the car radio as the people...
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Categories:
paradisal, music, work,
Form: Prose Poetry
In Another Time
...A pencil, sheets of paper, a keyboard and a frown,
the relics of an author who would one day wear a crown.
So many days there are in store; one would surely think,
that anything is possible, t...
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Categories:
paradisal, destiny, future, imagination, time,
Form: Couplet
Just a Thought
...Never to such lofty order have I treasured company.
Yet the promise of your presence grants a peace so true to me.
I wonder if you’re conscious of the medicine you bring.
My wounded form is despe...
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Categories:
paradisal, confusion, happiness, romance,
Form: Sonnet
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