The sunset kissed the world.
A colourful goodbye, it left saying 'Goodnight'.
We glided through its stillness.
Wordku: 5-7-5-words
AP: 2nd palce 2025
Pond of utter stillness
Placid pool of calm
Tasteless touchless tranquility
Self-less senseless serenity
All attachments are left at the gate
All disturbances desires and egoisms
All thoughts delusions ignorance and dualities
All hatred envy greed and aversion
All suffering extinguished and blown out
All rebirth ended
Pure consciousness pure intuitive silence
Pure consciousness beyond all forms
Pure consciousness infinite ocean of no-self
Pure consciousness transcending cause and effect
Pure consciousness pure motionless water
Pure pond of utter stillness
Pure nirvana
Pure ocean of utter bliss
Haunting voices from deep under
forest dreams alive with
birds and water cascades
Emerald reservoirs of moistened earth
sprinkled fantasies at the
cusp of morning bliss
A splash of dusk across the
meadows of my quiet mind
oh what a precious find
Trees that hold their secrets
deep within the crook
of an old enchanted fortress
Mermaid songs by chill of Autumn
right before the snow arrives
white dipped paper butterflies
Stirring the senses with mysterious breath
pure mystique
captivated by the essence of this moment
I just am...
Inner peace and outer beauty
the two meld in one scene of serenity
I breathe it in and it completes me
A bold statement to sit so pretty
when winter snow is about to fall
peace is a tangible gift to one and all
And I hear death's sweet call
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
I remain in peace
anchoring light through the dark
Venus in my heart
in
your
sacred
moments
of surrender
you relinquished
your natural instincts
to angel’s silver shroud
with joyous turquoise tears
and when again you soared
~ you carried dad with you ~
to the other side of the skies
as the sun bestowed a halo
upon the celebration of
~~~ONENESS~~~
*
o
xOx
ooOoo
xxXOXxx
oo-LOVE-oo
xxxXXXXxxx
~ooOOOoo~
~~xOx~~
o
xOx
ooOoo
x-JOY-x
ooOOOoo
~xOx~
I'm in a wretched state of needing to seek serenity.
The chaos that surrounds me has gotten out of hand.
I've learned to treasure each stolen moment of solitude
when the outside world is most eagerly abandoned.
I draw the curtains and for at least a little while
I can pretend the universe is readjusted and aligned.
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Beauty takes our breath away
Serenity hides where we least expect it
Nature communicates with the soul
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: 1st place 2025
My garden is quite exclusive
I only invite fellow cultivators of peace
We nurture serenity and harmony
Wordku: 5-7-5- words
AP: 3rd place 2025
The sun set without fanfare
A feeling of serenity fell over us
The evening would be magical
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Serenity was in the air
Artfully she channeled grace with every stroke
A token to be treasured
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
autumnal midnight
serenity and repose
very calm cold breeze!
Can you breathe
Serenity
Ethereal
Unreality
Can we grasp
What is not there
In blackness deep
And peace so rare
That company
We cannot keep
Let it die
Into the sleep
Be left alone
Both you and me
Chasing sweet
Serenity
My memories haunt the wind, my blessings blowing
From the still silence to the gentlest sigh,
Beautiful as the music who restores my soul, glowing
Softly against the night, a friend and why? Oh, why?
Moments turn to years in the blink of an eye
And I still feel the silent wind, reminding my soul
Wherever I go, wherever I’ve been, I look to the sky
And see the beauty of His grace – He’s making me whole
My life is passing by, so quickly, like a star’s quiet twinkle
And I let it all pass by, so deep into the music, the pulse
Slowly I turn to the right, then around to see the wrinkle
Time has left me in the past, while on a gentle nudge, an impulse…
Reveals the music of God’s truth, His breath a quiet hope
Pouring through me in rhythms of light, softly playing
It is His love that tells me I have all I need, I can cope
Because He is – the light, the life, the Maker – all I’m saying
Is life is as it should be, I was once a child and now I see
From my youth He was with me, all the strength I’d ever need
Reassuring me that, with Him, I will always be free
And I believe, He is the way and I’ll go wherever He might lead
Wind sighs gently, breathing her smile through the leaves
Whispers of light flow with each word, so I’m blessed
Praising and praying with kind hearts love believes
Oaks, elms and maples writing memoirs I’ve guessed
Autumn has a grace that can’t be written gone
It is with my last breath, I’ll sing her love song
Though I love her ways, I sometimes kneel to pray
For those who cannot see past the forest’s gray
Wind weeps as the snowdrifts climb higher, wilder
Ice paths cross through the darkness of this season
Seems I’m grouchy, hope winter will be milder
Hate this weather, who feels lost, without reason
Living through winter, one of life’s greatest feats
As the sun swallows up the darkness she cheats
Leaving shy flakes surrounding me with night’s grief
I pray through the silence, met by one lone leaf
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