In a forest glade where no shadows fall.
An emerging scene of a lovers tryst
Amid yellow broom and the elm trees tall
They embraced each other and gently kissed
She’s just a young girl, he, almost a score
Their romance is new, innocent and pure
And among the blooms on the forest floor
The fledgling pair find passionate allure
Fused in each others arms desire grows strong
With feelings of rapture right from the start
The lovers engage, like in an old song
Vowing to cherish and never to part
There in the woodland they plighted their troth
Amongst the tall elms and dense undergrowth
Categories:
plighted, love, romance,
Form: Sonnet
Simplicity in life, reduces stress
Icicles hang upon the heart
Of those who are plighted
With desserts spelled backwards
With no end in sight
Choose simplicity in life
As along those well-traveled roads
You have to pass
A Cadillac is no better than other cars
Nor of people Gucci dressed
A meal can be soup and sandwich
You get what you need
Add some fruit for dessert
It is bound to fit what your food
Allowance entails
Living in the fast lane
Doesn't have to be your fate
Try to make a left turn
And find saving Grace
A small town, out of the way place
Look for ease in living
A calm home to come to
At the end of the day
Say Grace at the table
Have room for Him in your heart
Categories:
plighted, fruit,
Form: Other
Promises are bestowed
Pledges made from their hearts
Precious vows of marriage
Proclaiming troths of love
Plighted to each other
Personified with rings
Partners 'til death do part
April 10, 2021
Pleiades P Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Kim Merryman
Categories:
plighted, love, marriage,
Form: Verse
Torn and tattered leaning in disrepair
up on tiptoes little eyes want to know
lost with flying forms of trepidation
hiding memories one cant let go
Hand painted soldiers with drips of white
once straight arrows pointed to the sky
plastic suitcases meticulously strewn about
cloistered chickweed climb making daffodils cry
Stone crumbles under small weathered frowns
dreams of the next Simone laid to rest
tall grass softens another fateful fall
escaping a sharpened prowess put to the test
Sights plighted a place most aristocracy fear
but bubble gum giggles are often heard
the dirt and dust so easily brushed off
a fortress full of fantasy in world that's blurred
Categories:
plighted, hope, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
Hauntingly explicit, plighted
in yesterday's cloaked mystery,
wafting as whispers through
wistfully grayed memories on dimly
recalled moonlit indulgences,
winding imprecise hazy endings
beyond darkly covert horizons
love isn't blind, it's persistently unsighted
by distantly echoed adrift endings
Categories:
plighted, dark, heartbroken, memory, moon,
Form: Free verse
BEAUTIFULLY BOLD
The purple angel facing the sun, so fair to look upon
has a tenacious grip on the moors; it roots secured.
With its head held high, it sways at ease in the breeze;
yet for puncturing thorns, surely, it will be scorned.
Never trained for battles, its winter seed pods rattle
defying each foe, flowering even in spring's white snow.
Its sharp spines bring tears, pricks equals to a sharp spear
to Scotia a dauntless brave, for their land was saved!
Like a woman defending her virtue, to any, she is bold to face,
yet, the angel as a lion-heart. Her words full of art,
bloom despite the pain, a greater beauty she attains.
Where ever she may live, this heavenly thistle will thrive.
This humble weed will prosper in the rich faithful soil she seeds
before the sun she and Royal Scotland have plighted their troth
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***Inspired by the painting Thistle in a Field, by Fidelia Bridges 1875
__Olive Eloisa D. Guillermo__
January 19, 2015
~~This a late post because I have no internet connection for almost 5 days...
Categories:
plighted, beautiful, flower, strength, symbolism,
Form: Personification
Pursuing wealth can be a double edged sword to those who blindly seek riches without its own set of principled means.
The capable with excesses to bleed these riches and still not see these riches are not necessarily plighted with an indoctrinated greed
But essentially, they are those who have chosen to live life well enlightened and yet sighted far within their own hill of beans.
Categories:
plighted, allusion, appreciation,
Form: Prose Poetry
ONE FEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST
I met a few
I forget a few
I surprised a few
I despised a few
I vowed to a few
I bowed to a few
I housed a few
I aroused a few
I delighted a few
I plighted a few
I chased a few
I embraced a few
I faced a few
I defaced a few
I churched a few
I besmirched a few
I sated a few
I hated a few
I tried for a few
I lied for a few
I worshiped a few
I lip to lipped a few
I rhythmically dipped for a few
My juices dripped for a few
I nudged a few
I begrudged a few
I may never forget a few
I wish I never met a few
A few brought me dread
And a few ought to be dead
© 2009…..free cee!
Categories:
plighted, angst,
Form: Monorhyme
Sarah Grace
Born in the morning as daybreak was dawning
With her came sunshine, our babe Sarah Grace
As she was growing, her beauty was showing
Already a charmer, the child Sarah Grace
Her lips always smiling her eyes so beguiling
A breaker of hearts was the girl Sarah Grace
When moonlight was beaming and stars all a ‘gleaming
She plighted her troth, the young Sarah Grace
With years now behind her, ‘tis here that we find her
A wife and a mother the same Sarah Grace
A gift and a treasure, she brings us such pleasure
Our own darling daughter, is our Sarah Grace
Brian's 'Thicker than Water' contest May 8th 2010
Categories:
plighted, daughter
Form: Couplet