Rapture
I gently beat the drum
it seems to appease my inner child
~ small pleasures warm the heart
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
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Categories:
pleasure., appreciation, child, happy, heart,
Form: Other
It's A Pleasure To Connect With You
“It's A Pleasure To
Connect With You,”
AI can say that, and
Sound like it
Means it…
***
But.
***
Well, no human
Can, either…
*
And, keep your
Mitts off MY CAPS!!!
(chuckle…)
-Gray Squirrel
08-23-2025
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Categories:
pleasure., life,
Form: Free verse
Awen Drifts Through the Bard
This Cosmos knows all must escape the war.
The sky beckons peace for the Bard's journey,
Hoping there will be joy forevermore.
Music, dance, poetry--art is beauty!
Raise a cheer for nature's forest bounty.
Let's gather memories that are gleeful!
The green woodlands breathe with vitality
And gift to us a rocky pocketful!
Awen drifts through every breath of nature,
Kindling the mind with
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Categories:
pleasure., allegory, analogy, beauty, earth,
Form: Sonnet
AN AVIAN WALK
AN AVIAN WALK
What a peaceful walk!
Palisade-treed-birds, echoing:
Ringing ears silenced:-
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Categories:
pleasure., life,
Form: Haiku
PLEASURE OF SOLITUDE
In my solitude
I listen to the stillness
A calming sound of silence
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Categories:
pleasure., allusion, perspective, silence,
Form: Carpe Diem
Without Regrets What Have I Left
The end of days is a term
Dark enough
To make men squirm
And real enough
In a way
To make one consider
His final day…
Without regrets…who’s to say
And doing so I must look back
On what I wrought
And what I wrecked
What I built
And what I broke
What I gave
And what I took
Then the book that tallies sums
Finds me wanting
And then some
For
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Categories:
pleasure., death, humanity, life, philosophy,
Form: Narrative
A Place of Pleasure
Written By: D. Collins 6/30/25
I'll be in a place of pleasure where wind soothes my bald head.
Far from the concrete jungles and snow-shoveling homesteads.
I'll be in the ocean with waves crashing all up against me.
Tasting salt water with nothing but sand under my feet.
A quiet place of pleasure sipping umbrella drinks.
Leaving bitter cold for
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Categories:
pleasure., beach,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Pure Pleasure
when hearts beat together
cozy home's pure pleasure
change the tempo, however
love-nest's bereft of feathers
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Categories:
pleasure., analogy, bird, change, house,
Form: Couplet
Him
Another cold night
And he was here, right next to me
His face over my shoulder and hands wrapped across my belly.
Caressing me at times, teasing!
His lips alternating between bites & soft kisses
Leaving marks wherever possible.
Just when i was levitating in pleasure,
Something loomy stuck my mind.
It whispered hundred things.
Of all,
What hurt the most
Was how many people
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Categories:
pleasure., desire, for him, memory,
Form: Free verse
Gemini
'To Womb it may concern,'
tho' not quite the norm,
the gyno's form letter read,
'I am pleased to inform
you are not about to have a baby,
but instead,
in brief,
double your pleasure
double your fun,
it may be a relief,
so with no further ado,
not keeping mum
nor holding you on needles and pins,
with two for the price of one,
Madame, you are expecting
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Categories:
pleasure., fun, humorous, silly, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Midnight Enigma
Weekend's sweet reprieve unfolds
in Lagos's vibrant streets, alive
with rhythm and laughter, I stroll
down alleys, searching for a place
to rest my weary soul
A lounge beckons, warm and bright
pepper soup's spicy aroma wafts
I sit, and soft drinks soothe my throat
three ladies join me, their smiles bright
dancing queens, they throw me off scale
their laughter infectious, joyful
Music's melodic whispers
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Categories:
pleasure., adventure, music, mystery, myth,
Form: Ballad
In the depths of pleasure, it is said that only in that moment of supreme ecstasy
In the depths of pleasure, it is said that only in that moment of supreme ecstasy does the mind become completely empty,
thoughts evaporate like morning mist before the sun, and the soul floats in an abyss of silence,
a moment where you are suspended between worlds, a brief pause on the path of unfathomable eternity,
a second
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Categories:
pleasure., fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Human condition
Is this shared imagination?
Thoughts of you, temptation,
Love is our human condition,
Smiles or hell, fun or perdition,
Cupid fired--such precision,
Romance is not a decision,
Stay in love, enduring charms,
Dreaming bliss in your arms,
Trust the magic, my advice,
Loving you, don't think twice,
Bless all our pleasure,
Today we shall always treasure!
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Categories:
pleasure., appreciation, cute, devotion, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Sweet poison
Black flame
Sweet poison fumes
Etched deep with warnings clear—
Yet Dad and Mum still kiss its g h o s t,
A stream of pleasure shaped as cancer sticks.
Death l i n g e r s in the smoky shade,
Disguised as friendly g h o s t s,
W h i s p e r i n
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Categories:
pleasure., addiction, cancer, death,
Form: Rictameter
EIGHT BEAUTIFUL LINES
EIGHT BEAUTIFUL LINES
Filled with peachy pleasure in parsley pastures
I eye eagle elegantly elevate in elongated flight
warriors wonder wisely about rising Sun
whispering wondrous worldly wishes across
abiding angelic appled air spun
elves and fairies pirouette in royal ribbons blue
with mystics maypoling as kittens mew
a mistletoe mist of fat figs feasting true
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Categories:
pleasure., beautiful, color, earth, imagery,
Form: Alliteration
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