Pirouetting Poems

Submerged Continent

...Fingers pull at sunlight, warm and trembling,
curling it around small, unstoppable palms.
Dust sparkles in the air like fairy particles,
twirling and whirling as if the sky itself,
is shaking sec...

Listen to the Wind

...Listen to the wind sweeping autumn leaves,
pirouetting amongst a citrine sunset.
Whilst light rain collects at corners of windowsills,
illumination from a crackling fire
bounces upon unpigmented ...

Cupid’s Quantum Entanglement

... 

Cupid’s adept at quantum entanglement 
his arrow has no shaft instead a crafty wave
two spinning end curves, not a singular head
as this emissary sends signal to maid and knave 
...

The Silent KISS

...The Silent KISS
"Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild w...

Dancing on One Leg

...
Dancing on one leg, 
On one leg we live with agony. 
Agony shapes our wobbly footsteps.
Footsteps made into inaudible power. 

Power blossoms through a series of gaffes. 
Gaffes in life we mu...

The Rapture of Rot

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Written: August 02, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Crystol Woods
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In the slipshod cradle beneath the apple tree,  
a bruised fruit folds ajar—  
molten...

Nebulous Horizon

...
When alabaster twilights 
rain upon celestial roses,
with tear-soaked trinkets 
of ancient aromas ~
I wear their amaranth scents 
upon acrylic wrists, 
and tie my terracotta threads
of t...

Will-o’-the-Wisp

...
The furtive idea, flares ghost-ignited, 
in a fevered yellow-blue glimmer,
on the edge of sight,
just out of reach,
beckoning you towards it.
Pirouetting, bobbling and whirling,
above the sod...

On the stage of life, I paint my lips crimson, a smile stitched with invisible thread

...On the stage of life, I paint my lips crimson, a smile stitched with invisible thread,
While the scar beneath my ribs sings a melody only I can hear.
The halogen spotlights burn intensely, bleachin...

In Stars Above

...I’m the Swarovski pearl
of an origami dream,
sailing amidst superficial salt,
soaked in sinister sparks,
floating like deceptive debris
and artificial aquamarines.
As the sea weeps luminous...

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...

Abandon the Faithless flares

..."The sun loved me again, when it saw that the stars would not abandon me" Jenim Dibie...

I paint on the blue-black arms of blank skies,
with pirouetting promises in ...

star-stitched silence

...in her star-stitched
           s i l e n c e
she breathes ~
     glass-winged h o p e 
weaving angelic hymns
          with lilac light
like a ballerina
      draped in chiffon ~
pirouetting...

The Butterfly, collaboration with Mystic Rose Rose

...'As she drinks nectar from a flower, sweetness from heaven falls like dew  
anointed with a gentle rain amidst sun showers she appears as if on cue
 
Lifting her wings she lands on a Zinnia beneat...

swan's ballet

...
toes
en pointé
reeling  high
dancer of swans
her brisk frame...pirouetting like night wind----
I watch her arms flip when  tragedy lurks
pas de deux wanes
cascading
i n t o
death

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