Picturesque Propinquity
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Written: February 11, 2024
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Features: fugacious fascinating beat
I saw smoke, but no flames in sight
I caught a cynosure o...
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Categories:
seraglio, analogy, appreciation, beauty, love,
Form: Free verse
The Moon Butterfly
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Written: November 17, 2023 For Anoucheka Gangabissoon Contest
Butterflies are self-propelled flowers.~R.H. Heinlein
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Categories:
seraglio, analogy, appreciation, butterfly, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Beatitude
...Written: October 22, 2023 For Dilly Dally Tritina Contest
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Blooms swell akin to cynosure elixir
Emollient radiance scatteri...
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Categories:
seraglio, analogy, appreciation, beauty, wisdom,
Form: Tritina
Soul Battle
...Written: October 05, 2023
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Where the paradisiacal angels reside.
A myriad of creatures, ebony and betide
A dinkum dissolut...
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Categories:
seraglio, analogy, appreciation, birth, death,
Form: Rhyme
Restorative Splendor
...Written: September 11, 2023
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Don't fret, dear; let's wend off the strife,
Candor your winsome grace—embrace life.
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Categories:
seraglio, analogy, appreciation, beauty, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Ethereal
...And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams! Edgar Allan Po...
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Categories:
seraglio, analogy, appreciation, beauty, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Music
...Mystical labyrinth of twisting harmonic warnings
Gazing into infinity’s composing handiwork –
Moonbeams in silver sung sonatas –
Ivory hued cantatas resolved from heart pacing crescendos
Sprin...
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Categories:
seraglio, music,
Form: Free verse
Because of You
...An extremist is always avoidable
Yes; nowadays I am addicted to you!
O Love
In me the thoughts of you are poisonous
I know my addictions are excess
Excess anything of necessary is poison
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Categories:
seraglio, love,
Form: Free verse
Chatoyant of Seraglio
...She shed her clothes; fur and silk first
Petrichor lingered in her hair
Seraglio was the holy-grail
For most women of the enlightened age.
Not for her; Chatoyant lady with her lithe body
Was a w...
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Categories:
seraglio, adventure, beauty, birth, emotions,
Form: Narrative