When I sit atop enchanted hills
draped in green silk,
I feel your presence so fiercely;
our distance waning,
feeling it's gravitational pull, as
our souls are entwined in
iridescent bliss, amidst this
phantasmagoric love story.
Swirling amidst the clouds, that
blanket our hearts, with
everlasting emotions—
I cover myself in your
honey-glazed scent,
pirouetting beneath
glimmering astral showers,
drizzled throughout our
cosmic haven of resplendency.
Cradled in the ballad of
your sempiternal devotion and love,
I’m addicted to your alchemy, as
I feel wisps of our intimacy,
sparkling in alabaster beams of
a virescent destiny,
layered across aureate tales
of our chasmic ever after.
“Shine/ It’s your golden hour (oh)/ You slow down time/ in your golden hour (oh)” Lyrics from JVKE’s “Golden Hour” (Jake Lawson/ Zac Lawson)
I waken and see Dawn is raining down.
A goddess, she wears sun as her crown.
Her droplets (not wet) are instead, gold rays
sweeping landscapes as a flared flowing gown.
Glorious are the Goddess Dawn’s ways
as resplendency on my lawn she lays.
Flower petals pose, ready to unfold -
their faces upon the goddess to gaze.
How beautiful is my garden to behold -
Daylillies making a parade of gold
and the Morning Glories, facing the sky,
dance in the breeze. They’re enchantingly bold.
Their crimson faces are anything but shy.
Everywhere their warm brilliance meets my eye.
Birdsong now has stilled! Sky grows deeper blue.
To the “Golden Hour” I must say goodbye.
“Raindrops fall down with blisses, sent from angels kisses.”
She walks down the wet street with her chic style
Catching eyes of passers by with her smile
Captivated by her sheer elegance
In spite of the down pouring elements.
Her skirt sways with each step that she does take
No denying she's a beauty with grace
Moonlight and lamplight embrace all her charms
The yellow flowers she holds are enhanced.
Hair that’s flowing down with golden highlights
Illuminated in gleams of starlight
Beneath that hat, sat most elegantly
The crowning glory of resplendency.
The click and clack of her stiletto heels
Adds to her lovely engaging appeal
The pretty lady cannot be discreet
As off she goes walking along the street.
Morning bursts softly, gleams the ray
Buds exploding…new sun's display
As clouds peep
Wheatgrass rustles across fields, lush
Alive with canticles of a thrush
For yield's heap
And footsteps glide to meet each oak
Dressed by resplendency, its cloak
While hours leap.
Charles Messina's Contest
Triple Stanza Couplet Tail-Rhyme Poetry
6/10/2020
I don’t want him ready! I want him resplendent!
(Movie Kate and Leopold)
R-obbed, his attire, his soul —
E-ventide broods awful choices:
S-immering of melting irises,
P-opulation of fattened princesses.
L-eaping lords, jealous of him.
E-ager, the Uncle’s tongue slick, licking the envelope —
N-ettled invitation of eager straight backs .
D-inner, it is him, but curiously the clock moves ahead.
E-ntertaining in the end, Cinderellaesque resplendency.
N-ot of their time, she presented early and almost too late.
T-he bridge gapped by a lady leaping...his forever after happiness.
5/31/2020
A sapphire moon has come to rest
upon evening’s blue lake crest;
faeries conduct concert crickets
and frogs sound bass among the thickets.
In umbral movement shadows weave
playing round about the trees;
a glowing orb of celestial light
upon horizon, sits with delight.
Tree branches wave their greening leaves,
whenever there’s sufficient breeze.
With songbirds settled in their nests,
in peaceful slumber, they do rest.
Hoot owls salute old Luna’s face,
basking in her mothering grace.
Such luminous resplendency
inspires me to transcendency.
A kaleidoscope of azure and intense tangerine,
resonating beauty so peaceful and serene-
My eyes are raptured from the sun descending,
the most astonishing sight I’ve ever seen.
Soon the ebon sky shall arrive with dusk ascending.
Breathtaking and elegant I see nothing but appeal,
there are no metaphors to describe just how I feel-
With each blink of my eye the scenery modifies,
and with each transformation my heart does heal,
bringing resplendency to life with the closing of the skies.
Peach sapphire radiancy with staggering desire,
a long day of sunshine turns into eventide fire-
The day is concluded with heaven’s sweet abyss,
twilight approaches as tranquility I do acquire.
I watch the stillness appear as the intimate clouds kiss.
No sights can be seen with this much placid repose,
it’s time for rest for the weary as daylight comes to close-
Soon dawn will arrive with a new artisan hue,
and all things mother nature brings in marvel shall expose.
Now it’s time to bid farewell and say with awe... adieu.
February 15, 2018
Ecstasy
E xcited emotions and exhilarated thoughts
C ombine to produce a feeling of
S ustained pleasure beyond human measure
T otally bared of stress and anxious care
A ssociated with the mundane existence
S uperlative joy and unencumbered bliss
Y ou feel while contemplating nature's resplendency.
John Derek Hamilton
March 18,2016
A November Garden
Some colorful leaves still cling to trees
Though many more have gone bare
Cardinals are no longer crimson
The Robin Redbreast does not thrill
And the bloom has gone off this rose
They will all return to resplendency
When spring arrives again
But I shall not
Still, there is something to be said
For a finite life
November 24, 2009
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