Refrains Poems

Whispered Refrains

Written: June 17, 2025, For contest Sponsored by: Brian Strand

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longing 
             goes On
our warm kisses 
               

To My Love- Refrains in 8

 Oh Love! Throb and thrill of my life
  Why you desert me in my strife?
   Why stay far, giving no delight?
    Don't fade like a symphony sweet.

 Won’t you come near and ease my pain
  Can’t you see me in sorrows lain?
   Be with me

Rhythmic Refrains

 Musical notes in sweet refrain
 Sentimental rhythms soothe the soul
 Nostalgic song in hearts remain
 Musical notes in sweet refrain 
 Rhapsody of joy to attain
 Sing along as the lyrics roll
 Musical notes in sweet refrain
 Sentimental rhythms soothe the soul

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Urbane Refrains

Hokey-pokey 
rhymes with Skokie
  largest village in the land

New York's a city
'tis a pity
  still inhabited by man

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Skokie, IL -- population ~ 75,000

Musical Refrains

Strolling down memory lane as a saxophone plays
 a haunting melody,  notes floating like ghostly dreams
 as time meanders like a river through eternity

 Love etches its way into the heart of eternity
 With melodies of a violin, so bittersweet it plays
 For sometimes it ends in broken hearts and dreams

 Musical refrains take

Sweet Refrains

Dawn spills hues of honey-tangerine
  and leaves its sweet dew on the rose,
    Sunbeams sweeten the morning,
  With warm caramel glows
 A dulcet bird song floats
      and sugar coats the breeze
 awakening all the flowers
      Which give  nectar to

Dulcet Refrains

I open my book of memories
 As I travel back in time
 I see us embracing 'neath palm trees
 Our hearts as one do chime

 Dulcet refrains of the violin
 The fragrant scent of the rose
 Notes from the piano now join in
 a melody only our hearts know

 We stroll the beach 'neath starlit

Refrains of Winter Sonata

REFRAINS OF WINTER SONATA


When fallen brown leaves brush a sepia picturesque 
and the bubbly breeze blows a heated winter sonata,
the giant roses of clouds are teased, they shed
icy petals tumbling, drifting like little ballerinas

dropping to rest on branches of trees, grasses, houses
and down to window ledges clustering in lily-white hues.
Frosty mornings and nights lure the

'no Quatrains, But Refrains' - Part 6

(a poetry collection)

for The Beloved and in honor of Mevlana Jallaladin Rumi

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Third Leaf: "Mavi" (Turkish for 'blue')

We love dreaming hallucinations
of ivory towers out of fear
of tumbling truly asleep into visions of
doghouses and nightmares of
Tinseltown-Princesses
falling in love with the dog in the backyard…
* * *
Alexander… they called him Great,
loved a beautiful soldier and a beautiful horse,
kissed

'no Quatrains, But Refrains' - Part 5

(a poetry collection)

for The Beloved and in honor of Mevlana Jallaladin Rumi

… the mind within mutely knows that much of love´s pain is not surrender, but self-infliction, 
yet willingly surrenders to a blindfold worn above a knife thrust into the heart…

* * *

… in vain, we hope the wound will heal, though the wind will

'no Quatrains, But Refrains' - Part 4

(a poetry collection)

for The Beloved and in honor of Mevlana Jallaladin Rumi

… you´ll find yourself through the agony of giving birth to your friend, brother and lover, the 
same blood throbbing to the same pulses through the same veins from the same heart 
making love to heart… … the unsolvable riddle of essence born and

'no Quatrains, But Refrains' - Part 3

(a poetry collection)

for The Beloved and in honor of Mevlana Jallaladin Rumi

… illusions don´t matter when you see the best of yourself reflected by the beloved in the 
garden pool of your affection…

* * *
… your ocean reverberates in mine, the terror of darkness in its thunder, sunrise-surges in 
its motion, and resonating to all,

'no Quatrains, But Refrains' - Part 2

(a poetry collection)

for The Beloved and in honor of Mevlana Jalallidin Rumi 

… beyond its usual flavor, the lemon is only as bitter as compared to the sweets preceding 
it… cleanse your taste buds with it and turn the favor on its head with the caress, again, of 
sweets upon your tongue, forgetting the bite

'no Quatrains, But Refrains' - Part 1

(a poetry collection)

for The Beloved
and
in honor of Mevlana Jallaladin Rumi
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First Leaf: "Radiantly Dark"

I have wandered the moon-smitten byways of earth and not seen
a divinity as radiantly dark as your eyes, and knowing this I am
lost, not caring, for my mind is lost just as well…

* * *

… I won´t be found until the eclipse of

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