I lay with languor praying for an answer I’d been seeking.
Azure glitter-drops splashed upon
the clean white sand nearby my feet.
I drifted into sleep then as wisps of clouds
in a sky mirroring the cerulean sea beneath it
wafted slowly like my slackening pensive thoughts.
I’d dozed and was awakened by gulls’ shrill long calls.
Instantly, I was jolted by twilight, and I
saw crimson and persimmon devouring sky.
Slathered-on apricot and rubescent streaks
formed the backdrop to the seagulls’ piercing shrieks.
Some saffron deliciousness was also in my view
when just as suddenly came the answer to
the question I’d been pondering before my nap.
It came as if the sunset had the sound of a snap!
Gamboge, tangerine and raspberry sorbet
drizzled into sea at the end of that day.
Mesmerized and well-pleased, I lingered there.
Dusk turned into night with the hush of a prayer.
Categories:
rubescent, sunset,
Form: Verse
“Rosalie, oh Rosalie!
A contrast of beauty, with a saturation of rufescent
What every heart intercepts when they have reminisces
which never transcends herself when she is mistakened of fluorescences
Rosalie, oh Rosalie!
She harmonizes one's life, with her humility of delight
Yet her dashing aspects are remarkable in light
For not once she palettes a stage of fright
Rosalie, oh Rosalie!
When she lifts the flushed rose to her blushed rubescent lips
The curtains of the heavens began to lift
for her chastity is for what relieves rift bids
Rosalie, oh, Rosalie!
She enriches one’s future,
She diminishes their past,
She lives her present; from beginning to last
Rosalie, oh Rosalie!
Her spikes are what prick one’s heart
So emancipating apart
Which devotion comparts
Rosalie, oh Rosalie!
Is she not just a hallucination of humanity's delusions?
Or is it just component of revolution;
So ruinous of this only luminescence of faith
Or might it be something to only recall my presence late?
Rosalie, oh Rosalie!”
Categories:
rubescent, allusion, assonance, confidence, conflict,
Form: I do not know?
flare
of rings
crimson sight
fount spring linger
carnations with frills rubescent frenzy
shade the twilight in ruby-red rapture
how do leave your
mind's richness
fit space
save
December 11, 2022
Categories:
rubescent, forgiveness, meaningful,
Form: Tetractys
poetically sees
rubescent threads of life
enmesh me in its tortuous hold
as it stings me
with the venom
of a thousand bees
i taste its poison
through memories
raveled tight
in life's intricate grasp
as each victim
became prey
within the
clasp of death's
atramentous fold
i dangle on the threshold
within the labyrinth of mind
between the stitches
of life and death
where i struggle alone
trying to free myself
before i become
the next victim of fate
July 11, 2019
picture #3
Poetically Me THIS PICTURE WHAT CHA' SEE
Sponsored by James Edward Lee Sr
Categories:
rubescent, insect, life, memory,
Form: Free verse
ROSARY
Off the North Atlantic Ocean
it's a cold wind a' blowin,
and a rubescent a'glowin
from the rocks by the sea.
There's a lass and she's been playin
with the thought of her not stayin
in her life--and she's cryin',
as she does her rosary.
Keepin count with her prayers,
every mystery of Jesus on her mind,
but she wants not to be leavin',
if she'd never ever seen
just a little bit of reason, j
ust a little love to find.
Off the North Atlantic Ocean
she could see where she's a'goin,
from the Bloody Foreland's rocky coast,
and down into the sea,
every prayer she's a'breathin
tells her why she's a'leavin'
from her life. That she's dyin',
as she does her rosary.
Keepin count with her prayers,
every mystery of Jesus calls her on,
and she wants to believe Him,
in her time of greatest need,
But this Celtic girl is too far gone.
Too far gone.
© ron wilson aka vee bdosa the doylestown poet
Categories:
rubescent, abuse, fantasy, prayer, sea,
Form: Lyric
December – A Time to Remember
Deep into Fall, as brown wrinkly-faced leaves wave adieu
Ebony evening sky twinkles with rhinestone-studded stars
Chilly winds blow … a sign that winter’s just next door
Erubescent sunsets flaunt their majestic golden crowns
Mingling with gray and white patches of layered cotton-white clouds
Beautiful, ruling planet Jupiter aligns with Venus and Mars
Ever the auspicious harbinger of wisdom, prosperity, and power…
Reminding my mother of the day I, her first child, was born.
12-06-2015
Contest: Any Poem Written on your Birthday
Sponsor: Laura Loo
Placement: 3rd
Categories:
rubescent, beautiful, december,
Form: Acrostic
She hangs upside down in her night sky chair,
Chained to the heavens by ropes of bright stars
With rubescent cheeks and moonlight-soaked hair.
Wrists raw with redness of eternal scars,
Her silver tears drop like gems to the sea,
Chained to the heavens by ropes of bright stars.
Cursed by Poseidon, she'll never be free.
Punished for claiming the beauty of gods,
Her silver tears drop like gems to the sea.
She wallows in shame, so lovely and flawed.
Regrets bloom like roses with crimson thorns,
Punished for claiming the beauty of gods.
Jailed by nighttime, her weary soul mourns,
Weeping for freedom that will never be.
Regrets bloom like roses with crimson thorns.
Pinned there forever, unable to flee,
She hangs upside down in her night sky chair,
Weeping for freedom that will never be,
With rubescent cheeks and moonlight-soaked hair.
Five little stars
Represent her fate
Can she see us staring?
*Based on the mythological story of Queen Cassiopeia and her constellation
Categories:
rubescent, fantasy, night, beauty, beauty,
Form: Terzanelle
The sky is a gigantic bowl of pink turned upside down,
spilling soft rose petals that peeked out
from beneath snow white billowed clouds
till - fully blossomed - they burst forth.
Growing radiant at the edge of twilight,
they’ve scattered as rubescent streaks falling,
lush and luminescent, as we watch in solitude.
No parade this evening - just you and I aglow,
wishing for an eternity to be like this:
so splendidly in love. . .
in the pink.
Title and first line changed back to original
Submitted Oct. 5, 2021 (#8 word - Rosy)
for '''R'' Contest, New or Old' Contest Info
Sponsor: Constance La France
Categories:
rubescent, love, nature,
Form: Free verse