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Epoch Of Reticence

Serpent! Those words were! 
On the way, is silence
Because words aren't meeker 
this time, to confront grievance

Epoch of reticence! 
On the way, is winter of despair
Because hope is true
this time, for thy worst nightmare

Prognostication won't work! 
On the way, is melancholic fall
Because eyes are ought to be slavish
this time, to gaze, they won't answer the

Categories: reticence, fate, fire, irony, silence,
Form: Rhyme

Reticence

‘tap, tap, tap’

your petite knuckles
gently attacking my door -
I envision their French-painted nails
dancing in the shine of
the hallway light
like a row of bishops bowing to the Pope
(your sensual sacrilege)
I don’t make a sound
though my eye is to the peephole -
watching you for signs of obvious despair …
or … SOMEthing … anything …
a rill of tears

Categories: reticence, break up,
Form: Free verse

Reticence

perched on the branches
of a high verdant tree
an introvert savours silence ~
his inquisitive mind flies
on the wings of fantasy


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A Brian Strand 
PREMIERE Poetry Contest
    Placed 3rd
Posted May 2022

Categories: reticence, social,
Form: Tanka

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Ellipsis

we stopped the car on the corner, about a minute or two and through the wet window we watched the movement of that ordinary afternoon, people running to their destinations, umbrellas open, cars everywhere and at that moment a dismay hits us in full, it's just something people feel, we think, the feeling that nothing

Categories: reticence, emotions, imagination, sorrow,
Form: Prose

Reticence To Reclusivity

stunted
     emotions
in
  a troubled maverick

          liberated 
by landscapes
 impassioned
  in pink green & blue

 fixation freedom
in a mountain 
              view 
the provincial peasant 
prevailed 
by
 'art of

Categories: reticence, art, tribute,
Form: Ekphrasis

Reticence

He made me the centre of gravity.

Pride dressed, lone like blood moon

Whose deserted home became vanity

Did I become evil or was I rune?

Greater insight and realized sanity,

I was the diamond his life festoon.

Categories: reticence, irony, love, nostalgia, passion,
Form: Rhyme

Incandescence Nothing Reticence Noislessness Said Quiet

Nothing said surroundings environmental still;
Nothing's heard still loneliest beats of warmth chills;
Nothing said
No moving parts stationary Surround -Soundz
No moving parts listless
Listlessness 
Incandescent no voices 
No surround sound 
Stalled echos laden calls
Mouth stops all sound drops
Everything all elements are still
Nothing said

9/01/19
Placed 3rd place in Contest
For Silent Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Silent One

Categories: reticence, analogy, angst, environment,
Form: Free verse

A Revered Gift of Reticence

Having heard the harping howls 

of a hungry herd on the prowl

I realized reticence is a revered gift

like the sweet love song of a swift

Categories: reticence, animal, nature, , sweet
Form: Alliteration

Reticence of the Heart

One day
When we’ve finally had enough
When we’ve drained each other dry
We will wander forth
Exhausted, and beneath the star-lit night lie. 

In bewilderment 
As we wonder how much much time slipped by
Reflecting on fleeting sensual moments,
Which stood still an eternity in time. 

Rebecca .A. Huxley

Categories: reticence, loneliness, passion,
Form: ABC

Mutably Cataclysmic - Unbeknownst Reticence

O what forgotten providence,
to which my soul falls victim
on and off and on again,
indecision marking each page 
with dog eared brutality.

Know not, want not, we 
could never truly return
a moment as inconsequential 
as that which marks. . . 

Providential Dreams whose ends 
are more mutably cataclysmic
than their begins.

Can only be born of indecisive 
wonderlust,

Impendent scenes

Categories: reticence, confusion, lost love, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse