Can you feel heels and laughter spin,
rotating and dizzy on scattered dots?
Throwback beat in the air is blasting
music and bodies stay in circulation.
Rotating and dizzy on scattered dots,
nothing can compare to this dance.
Melodic transfusion revitalizes the soul.
Throwback beat in the air is blasting,
a snapshot of every couple before them.
Longing electrifies those neon panels.
Music and bodies stay in circulation,
never enough feather boa smooches.
Dark euphoria dresses up that disco ball.
Categories:
revitalizes, dance, dark, emotions, feelings,
Form: Other
Old wishes carried into the new year,
Former desires brought into the new year,
Dim lamps longing for brightness in the new year,
Incomplete books searching for the missing pages in the new year,
Feeble trees in need of vitality elixir in the new year.
Redemption songs buoy the soul into a new world,
The bell chimes in the old cathedral reminding us of the creed,
Orbs in the sky strengthen the weary elements for another chapter,
A divine majesty accompanies us into a new arena,
The old fountain still grants wishes.
The new year revitalizes frail strands,
The new year highlights the pale colours,
The new year wets the parched ground,
The new year replaces worn-out tyres,
Bring your old wishes into the new year with hopeful hearts.
January 5, 2025.
Categories:
revitalizes, desire, new year, old,
Form: Free verse
Winter is a bitter goddess, freezing cold, but also blue and white dazzling.
She sparkles with a glitziness that rivals a virgin’s wedding gown.
Spring refreshes, revitalizes, rejuvenates the grasses and perennials
Pushing delightfully delicate dandelions and daffodils toward the sun.
Goddess summer is resting after a plethora of weddings and graduations.
Sharing a scorching sun that gives us no mercy in August.
Autumn shows off golds, browns and yellows in pumpkins and gourds.
She revels in craft fairs, apple festivals, football games and bonfires.
Categories:
revitalizes, seasons,
Form: Personification
W-Winter’s
I - Indigo sky
S - Sparkles bright
H - High over
I - Ice-covered
N - Nurtured
G - Garden.
Y - Yearly festive time
O - Once again is
U - Upon us to celebrate.
M - Mountainous
E - Excitement
R - Revitalizes
R - Resurgent rapture of
Y - Yearning children.
C - Christmas gifts
H - Happily they wait for.
R - Restless the night before,
I - Impatient when
S - Santa will come with
T - The toys wishing
M - Merry Christmas
A - After the long
S - Sleepless night.
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December 8, 2022
Contest : Christmas
Sponsored by : Bobby May
Categories:
revitalizes, children, christmas,
Form: Acrostic
I do not believe in a judgement gate
I do believe in heaven’s gate
I feel when we arrive there will be five questions.
Who did you love? How many did you love?
How did you show them love?
Did you love everyone you saw or only your friends and family?
Did you show them love in empathy and compassion?
it is my truth, and I live it daily, for I know the benefits
Showing and sharing love to everyone I meet
Showing love to animals also. It revitalizes and rejuvenates me.
It keeps me skipping forward toward heaven.
Fearing no one, knowing I have done my best today.
Ready to answer these questions if I should be turned over to heaven.
Categories:
revitalizes, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Clouds, cotton balls, a fresh canvas, a crisp page, snow
White lives free, with confidence and no apology.
Popcorn, whipped cream, milk, cream of wheat
She is pure and innocent, fresh, and comfortable
I am honored to know her.
Freeing herself up from all the problems of the world,
White lives her truth, renewing, refreshing, inspiring
I reach for her to paint puffed up clouds,
It revitalizes my painting, beautiful contrast to the sun.
She makes me feel loved and cherished.
In the evening I sit in awe of her moon.
All knowing, self-assured, watching, enlisting silence.
White freshens up everything
She has a purity that cannot be duplicated.
A combination of all colors, she tugs at my artist heart.
Categories:
revitalizes, art,
Form: Free verse
Come closer, dearie, and let me tell you
About a cleansing concept, I know that is true
It revitalizes and freshens your likeability too
A concept that starts with a clean slate overdo,
You can start all sparkly and dazzling, giving a coo.
A resounding theme which is clearly the opposite of boo hoo
We are all starting with a diamond fresh page with no goo.
A clean white pristine canvas. Of course, the concept is new.
A happy fresh start, clean, and joyful, a do-over for you!
Categories:
revitalizes, new year,
Form: Free verse
Nothing refreshes as hard or as fast As cold mountain water, a spurt or a blast.
It revitalizes me immediately, I cannot get enough Bring over my feed bucket, I am going to savor this stuff.
delighting my mouth
refreshing me instantly
cold mountain water
Categories:
revitalizes, water,
Form: Haibun
With an open heart and a loving mind
Affection flowing from my grateful pores,
The sight that so beautifully spends my time,
Children laughing and playing out of doors.
Here I sit soaking in adoring sun,
Children playing silly games in my drive,
Having a world of good, clean fun
Innocent hopefulness is so alive,
Loving my catbird seat, watching them play.
Dashing and darting, laughing with goodness.
Revitalizes me in every way.
Enthusiasm blatant must confess.
Nostalgia sets in, remembering my youth.
Leisurely days with my grandchildren here.
Aware suddenly I’m long in the tooth.
Urgent plea comes in from the youngest now.
Grandma, you can play! You surely know how.
Happiness Reigns, so take that Aunt Ruth!
Written January 24, 2019
Contest: Word Play Sponsor: Bobby May
Categories:
revitalizes, child, grandchild, joy,
Form: Acrostic
Carried away on a summer breeze
riding the current of a Sirocco wind
floating on clouds with grace and ease
summer time always carries me away.
Summer breeze against my face
summer breeze I love these bright days
feeling the wind blowing through my hair
these summer feelings leave me without a care.
And in the evening when the moons high
I can still feel it's warmth wash over me
and as I sit meditating under a grove of apple trees
I still feel it's warmth and intensity
and it revitalizes every aspect with in me.
I love these summer days, with this warm breeze
invigorating and lifting me and my frequency
as I am carried away on a tranquil summer breeze
and I let myself go completely, I let my spirit go with the flow.
02/08/2018
Categories:
revitalizes, feelings, moon, summer,
Form: Lyric
A daily pilgrimage to the seaside refreshes and revitalizes by imposing meditation.
The rhythm of the tides and surge of the waves, to and fro, in and out
Calms the spirit of those listening to, and watching, the pulsing mantra of waves breaking,
Whooshing and hissing, splashing and dashing, surging up the shore and back.
Every day the sea is different in some way,
Yet like an old friend, forever familiar as the same old sea and ocean.
The waves break and rush white with foam, bubbles and froth up the wet shore
Leaving wedding gown train crescents on smooth glistening wet sand.
The rhythm of the sound and visual surge of the image is meditation
To all who come to the shore daily to be refreshed, adore and pay homage
To 'mater mer', the mother and matrix, and womb of all life, here, on Planet Water.
Categories:
revitalizes, beach, ocean, sea,
Form: Free verse
Shadows stretch, and hungrily
they gobble up the cold and homeless,
Joe and Mary shiver, searching
street fronts for some sign of meekness.
Mary's pregnant, Joe is jobless,
faith and hope belie their plight,
all is dark, but wait, a flicker
penetrates the inky night.
Ken and Ted's auto repair shop,
first to greet the business day,
a welcome in with smiles and hugs,
our supplicants have found a way,
a refuge from the icy blackness,
blankets and a warming brew
revitalizes souls in torment,
homemade biscuits, homemade stew.
Daylight breaks, it's Christmas morning,
Ken and Ted know time won't cease
for squeaky fan belts, faulty starters,
broken soul mates seeking peace.
German shepherds watch in awe
as Mary's baby cries and sputters,
workers give what they can muster,
"Praise the Lord!" the 'midwife' utters.
A lowly place, a sacred mission
celebrated there this day,
Joe and Mary ever thankful,
all God's Children kneel and pray.
Categories:
revitalizes, christmas,
Form: Verse
Shadows stretch, and hungrily
they gobble up the cold and homeless,
Joe and Mary shiver, searching
street fronts for some sign of meekness.
Mary's pregnant, Joe is jobless,
helplessness their plight,
all is dark, but wait, a flicker
penetrates the inky night.
Ken and Ted's auto repair shop,
first to greet the business day,
a welcome in with smiles and hugs,
our supplicants have found a way,
a refuge from the icy blackness,
blankets and a warming brew
revitalizes souls in torment,
homemade biscuits, homemade stew.
Daylight breaks, it's Christmas morning,
Ken and Ted know time won't cease
for squeaky fan belts, faulty starters,
broken soul mates seeking peace.
German shepherds watch in awe
as Mary's baby cries and sputters,
workers give what they can muster,
"Praise the Lord!" the 'midwife' utters.
A lowly place, a sacred mission
celebrated there this day,
Joe and Mary ever thankful,
all God's Children kneel and pray.
Categories:
revitalizes, christmas,
Form: Quatrain
Shadows stretch, and hungrily
they gobble up the cold and homeless,
Joe and Mary shiver, searching
street fronts for some sign of meekness.
Mary's pregnant, Joe is jobless,
faith and hope belie their plight,
all is dark, but wait, a flicker
penetrates the inky night.
Ken and Ted's auto repair shop,
first to greet the business day,
a welcome in with smiles and hugs,
our supplicants have found a way,
a refuge from the icy blackness,
blankets and a warming brew
revitalizes souls in torment,
homemade biscuits, homemade stew.
Daylight breaks, it's Christmas morning,
Ken and Ted know time won't cease
for squeaky fan belts, faulty starters,
broken soul mates seeking peace.
German shepherds watch in awe
as Mary's baby cries and sputters,
workers give what they can muster,
"Praise the Lord!" the 'midwife' utters.
A lowly place, a sacred mission
celebrated there this day,
Joe and Mary ever thankful,
all God's Children kneel and pray.
Categories:
revitalizes, christmas,
Form: Quatrain
After years of alienation
from my religion
and after having fun on many
Friday nights at the beach or in a bar
Strangely enough, Shabbes has
come to find a place in my life
The singing- and of course the Shema
revitalizes one
Nothing would happen to me if I
didn't go to shul on Friday
(and sometimes I don't)
but how could I join in
the dancing if I wasn't there?
I have even travelled to
the land of Israel - holy spot for
the three Abrahamic faiths
Strangely enough,Shabbes
Categories:
revitalizes, jewish,
Form: Classicism
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