Quilled Poems

Novel Distractions

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~ I’ve found a place to court a writer’s muse;
this window seat along the boulevard.
For now, it’s only penning I'll peruse 
and charming interruptions, disregard. 

   I’ll fill my pages with...

If I were to,

...Lock ruby ridden doors for roach ridden floors bleed without grace 
Roused rounded wounds throughout nightly escapes
And gaping fields of endless escapades
And gaping seas my moses blade has wrenc...

the prismatic Self

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gauntlet of mirrors transparency personified
transparency personified when the curtain falls
in an arena of quick sand and impromptu judgement

the stage was well set though actually
it presen...

Auto writing Ghazal

...The calendar date, red-inked into alpine
white vellum: a blood-letting, a quilled line.

Old ducks [politically incorrect] featherless,
waddling like myself, fall neatly into line.

"It is time...

Poetry Soup Is

...Poetry Soup Is…

A place to post words and be heard
a platform for prose, a poet’s eatery
A sonneteer’s palace, for the sagacious or the absurd 
A silver chalice that pours golden poetry
Rhymed...

A Flap of Crows

...The bare branches were shaking,
twigs rattled like ill-fitting teeth.


I thought:
'any moment now
the coal black lumpiness of them
will break a bough,
and all tumble down or up,
creating sk...

Soft Murmurings

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Like an avian roosting when his cawing has spilled,
I mourn in grief as this shadowed night grows cold
Crushed and grieving from promises unfulfilled
Sorrow burgeons my heart, in bitterness ...

Waning Twilight

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Written: March 09, 2024 For Charlotte Puddifoot Contest

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with serendipitous moans—ocean lulls
                  It's russet embers
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Moonlight Sonatas and Morning Kisses

...In the realm of moons and breathless tides,
where promises dance with a serendipitous sonnet of sunrises,
along with morning kisses, unfolds a love story—
a poetic novel etched in the chronicles
...

Alcedo Atthis

...Kingfisher! Sculpturally shaped! Beam with a bold bright beak!
How splendidly your soft-strong somatic symmetry shines!
Awesome is the charm of your topaz eyes and rainbow quill.
Wondrous are your...

How to Touch the Lips of an Eclipse

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"How to Touch the Lips of an Eclipse"

calamity, the heart rushes in 
up against a wall of thorns
and the one removed watches it all

Love comes in little steps small,
or...

Quetzal

...Quaint multi coloured bird
Quilled feathers exotic 
Quiffed plumage quite unique
Quintessence of beauty
Queen like, monogamous 
Quavering mating call
Quixotic, soon extinct...

Mockingbird

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"Mockingbird"

What sayst thou?
Now, here you sit and I speak to you
through strange keys revolutionary,
poetry what is thy purpose for? A mirror wall? 
Where visions unse...

A Dillydally Way

...Trailing naked toes, hat low peaked
fingers laced abaft head and sun,
white-water gently threading through
the webbed keel of one foot.

The sky is blasting blue,
splotching louder blobs of cob...

My Awakening In the Presence of the Goddess

...Quilled into the scriptures of the earliest greek mythology
I was a girl. Beaten.

She uttered this in the moonlight of my room
Appearing on my balcony, atop my red sofa just as I was reading of ...

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