Marigold
...“It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is you are flowering.” Rajnesh
Placed 10th in:
Admire a Summer Flower Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Jay Narain
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Categories:
perfuse, appreciation, beauty, color, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Sanctuary
...Placed Second in :
Sanctuary, Soft, Stir, Surreal Words Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Constance La France
"Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.” Rumi
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Categories:
perfuse, extended metaphor, god, muse,
Form: Verse
Paradise Tonight
...There lives a touch of the Divine inside my soul tonight
and as I surrender to its peaceful ways I begin to awaken gently
I am a wayward soul in need of Godlike essence,
a Seraphic beauty tha...
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Categories:
perfuse, analogy, meaningful,
Form: Narrative
Canons of Maternal Love
...Canons of Maternal Love
Whirled pestle like a dervish,
a meter long wooden rod,
in a mortar of clay.
Body swayed in rhythmic moves
as her feet anchored mortar.
Jingle of bangles added ha...
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Categories:
perfuse, 12th grade, mother,
Form: Free verse
Us Sponges, We Are Not Our Bodies
...Does the Sea
Suffuse...
Does the Sea
Perfuse...
the sponge?
Slipping, sidling
in:
the Great Outbreath
of the far forgot shore;
so small now as to be
Unimaginable,
upwells in swells ...
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Categories:
perfuse, nature, ocean, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Oxygen
...Two joined elements swirl around
Into its lungs with wisp of sound
Turning its blood from blue to red
Preserving life as cells are sped
And though not regnant is the right
Concentration to giv...
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Categories:
perfuse, society,
Form: Rhyme
Colours Perfuse
...Colours Perfuse
Bluebell tinkers in soft mellow waters
splashing in her fantasy and dreams
Tolling oceans flicker chakra’s paths
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Categories:
perfuse, color, muse, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Splash Bang Reflection
...Splash Bang Reflection
W ~ hen it has hit home with a big splash bang or silent reflection that time
E ~ lapses and fireworks are for the moment and not forever young displays
W ~ here h...
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Categories:
perfuse, philosophy, song,
Form: Acrostic
The Second Circle
...There is a whirling dervish of-
cries,
screams,
and misery.
This swirling cauldron is filled with-
sorrow,
hopelessness,
and perfuse bleeding.
These ingredients blend ...
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Categories:
perfuse, fear, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
perfuse, faith, friendship, heart, imagery,
Form: Romanticism