To penetrate the fresh bloom of a flower,
is a rare joy, a kind of love felt deeply,
when virgins struggle, full of desire's power,
then collapse in warm, sensual link so sweetly.
With one, I have not known such love before;
not in a touch, but found in books and lines,
a joy that I love, rapturously explore,
and whose sung beauty lyrically shines.
Although I'll never know the former love
aforementioned, the Muse's consolation
is my reward: chaste, and pure as a dove,
she uplifts me to peaks of inspiration!
If love must be to love a woman only,
then the Muse's bloom keeps me from being lonely.
Categories:
rapturously, art, desire, flower, inspiration,
Form: Sonnet
Far more words than
open ears --
a world of chatter;
words everywhere --
difficult to avoid such
precipitous splatter…
poets use them, vociferously!
Politicians use them, surreptitiously!
Ministers use them rapturously
Words live
when they are infused
with passion; strengthened
by conviction --
my cat says it all
with a well aimed look
twitch of her tail
occasional meow
and luxurious purr
Categories:
rapturously, animal, cat, cute, humorous,
Form: Free verse
"Earthquake in a Tea Cup"
the earthquake
rocked through
a pink haze
soft and powdered
scent of lit smoke
flaming fires
hot oven baked
green apples
ripe skin sizzled
and popped
ice cool cinnamon crisp
lemon peeled martinis
black russians and they're
ripped unfriendly cousins
Long Island Iced teas and
Asian Pear Chit-Cha toddies
osmanthus oolong trading
asset smiles flying under
the Roger Ramjet radar
exploded rapturously
candied petals floating
hearts marachinoed
stevia sweetened cherries
skewered and buttered up
mercilessly on the q.t.
roses burnt apricots
she arrived shimmering
in the clouds
a seduction
ruffling feathers
in their
crème de la crème
tea cups shaking
their quiet worlds up
dominoes lined straight laced,
drugged and shot
they all thought
it was the second
coming
the world
was her stage
the fall out
was atomic
their shadows
scattered
nuclear imprints
incalculable,
the numbers
(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)
Categories:
rapturously, muse, satire, sensual,
Form: Narrative
She visits me in the darkness of night;
a soulless winged creature of vampire lore.
A shadowless shadow that shuns the light;
she softly scratches at my bedroom door.
With my heart pounding, I opened the door;
rapturously under her ghoulish trance.
And after we kissed, I craved something more,
as we swirled in the throws of our blood dance.
And we waltzed to the very edge of time;
drinking deep from the chalice of the night.
Slightly nervous, my anxieties climb,
for every vampire's kiss starts with a bite.
Yet, as befitting creatures of the night,
our silhouettes morph into bats in flight.
Categories:
rapturously, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Sonnet
I am standing under chromatic trees
Watching the romance between leaves and breeze
Autumn bride
dressed in colorful attire
dances with ebullience
The groom breeze
hovering around
gently caresses her.
Trees shower hued
blessings on her
endlessly
Her colourful dress
and gold ornaments
glitter in sun
As I walk,
I hear her rustling
love song
Her happiness
permeates surrounds;
I'm filled with exhilaration
Oh, my love, come, caress me
Let me dance rapturously
like an autumn leaf
Rain me exhilarating
overwhelming sensations
that thrill and excite
10.10.2021
Poetic form couplet, imagism, choka
Syllables checked at PS syllables counter
Categories:
rapturously, autumn,
Form: Verse
RAVISHED
Ravished with joy, delight,
refreshes my being.
Releases my tensions,
relaxes my senses,
resulting in pure bliss.
Rapturously feeling
radiant and glowing.
4/14/21 Pleiades R Poetry
Kim Merryman
Checked: How Many Syllables
Categories:
rapturously, feelings, joy,
Form: Verse
Joy Unspeakable
Culminate since birth, sprung opened trials,
hither, somewhat tither, consequence waits,
opportune knock as an opened door smiles,
means of one's worth misery, rapture rates.
Character, their drawn portion brings about,
steadfastness accrued, witnessed by others,
contentment approves summation per clout,
worries cringe test, gladness is my druthers.
Cheerfulness wholehearted, sure of oneself,
planned groundwork correspond accurately,
prevailing arrangement fills some bookshelf,
groundbreaking moments burst rapturously.
Enchanting anecdotes, proving their ground,
recurrence linked praising is the best sound.
2021 February 25
*3rd Place*
CONTEST: Joy continuum
JUDGED: 2021 February 26
'NA Poem From a February 2021 Judged Contest -'
~~Constance La France
Categories:
rapturously, joy,
Form: Sonnet
Please don't speak his trumped up name
Like ValdeMore
and more
and more hard-played cards
in my competing hand,
history echoes such dark memories
fettered, now and then,
by death's final reincarnation
Because some will claim
his was a name
for Boys will be CowBoys
all White the privileged
well-capitalized same,
An unspoken name
for Wild CowBoy Lost,
a martyr for washed out
useless
stupidly competitive lives
following red's latest overpowering authority
shifting and shifty
while barely surviving Followers
deny, or even religiously
rapturously celebrate
Earth's final redhot climate death
And others will take up his StraightWhiteMale
miseried DeathCulture tune
and persistently
resistantly speak his name
as if its virally true
red white and deadly blue,
He was wild;
A cowboy who could buy your ranch
and you
and all your neglected and abused riches
for tomorrow,
and all Earth treasures
borrowed from health manifest,
destiny of win/win Wild Liberating Bounty,
beautiful green democratic Us
Who barely remember
his weaponized
violent
CowBoy name.
1/23/21
Categories:
rapturously, abuse, anger, angst, anti
Form: Political Verse
mundane the tweet of this outside bird
but i yearn for its voice every day.
this inside bird yearns to capture
the flight,
hang onto the bluebird’s wings
and fly...fly desperately,
breathlessly... until my mind
grows rapturously tired,
dreaming still
of my flight
for miles and miles ~
the twenty-fold
surrender to scent,
sunshine,
divinity
sublime
4/10/2020
Categories:
rapturously, freedom, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Mucking out and milking we are curds in the churn.
Our house is a blooming belly brimful and snuffling,
feet planted in the green rubber of muddy dawns.
A fox rapturously cherished a hen last night;
brown feathers speckled red fly now on the wind.
The patchy cat watches; it knows that we share
a dream guzzling tractor, with its rhythmus purr.
The tangy beasts are fed, the turkey and goose fatted.
Our meat squeals in the marketplace and struts to auction.
What is not eaten, wallows.
We live thigh deep, grub and plow;
partake in the love of it.
Categories:
rapturously, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
synergetic soul ~ the bow
slides rapturously, aligned
with her voluptuous violin
3/1/2018
Categories:
rapturously, music,
Form: Verse
In Jesus’ name
We already have victory
In Jesus’ name
The blessings are guaranteed
In Jesus’ name
We live joyously
In Jesus’ name
Eternity is a certainty
In Jesus’ name
Satan is put under our feet, crushingly
In Jesus’ name
Life is given abundantly
In Jesus’ name
We know God totally
In Jesus’ name
We will be taken up rapturously
To live with Him blissfully and
Throughout all eternity
This a blessed assurance most resoundingly
Categories:
rapturously, bible, christian, god, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
The rain pelted around me and washed away my purity
Leaving me bared, exposed in my femininity
Now, instead of puzzling over my reclusion,
The whole world shall gape at my vulnerability!
Why, if only I could just die out of combustion
I would have saved myself from this ruination
Always had I been rapturously involved with faith
How am I to live when deprived from its elation!
But then, life forced itself into my breath
Pray, it said, love when true and pure is my strength
Meant it is, to be celebrated as a boon of mercy
Fight not, let the rain guide you into a most exalted rebirth!
3 July 2017
Categories:
rapturously, longing, love, rain,
Form: Rubaiyat
I cherish you betwixt
the spaces of darkness
& white lightning,
creative spiritedness
amidst insecurities,
Chantilly lavender lace 'neath
abrasive gunnysack burlap,
mid late night news & poetry of early
dawning 'pon acquiescently sleepless nights,
'tween whispered wisps of lilting light
and duskily echoed shadows
catching twilit moonbeams whilst
stargazing midst your eyes,
enveloping infinite expanses
which rapturously
invoke none other
Categories:
rapturously, desire, devotion, joy, light,
Form: Romanticism
Listen intently to echoes
wafting off the mist of
exalted mountains whispering,
as designed poetry 'neath ether
rapturously incites secrets
of versed journeys' resolve
while quintessence reawakens
'tween passages of stardust
and eclipsed lunar moons,
knowledge of a lofty universe
lavishing abundant resources,
whorling sumptuous seascapes
Categories:
rapturously, earth, emotions, moon, mountains,
Form: Free verse
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