There was a priceless moment
When he smiled openly, innocent
To the careful way I’d held him to my heart
As he laced a path across my soul
Notching out breaths of hope and joy
Serrating hollows of serenity and faith
Feelings flowing through my crimson veins
In whispers of laughing pleasure
Songs of winds shifted through my hair
Beckoning my thoughts with grace
Painting vibrant flames of wisdom across
My life, where he giggled and grinned
Caressing my spirit with the love
Only a babe in arms could have given
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"Footprints" Old or New for a Prize Poetry Contest
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April 30, 2021
Categories:
serrating, baby,
Form: Free verse
Little words the broken hearted heal
Little smiles the morose comfort
Little deals prime movers seal
Little irritations sometimes stray into the fort
Where they wreak havoc
Instead of sowing care
In circumstances where cavok
Would minimize the despair
Felt in hearts lost in a sea of doubt
Sown helter skelter
Among slaves to gout who tout
Diffidence in a dark shelter
Where hope comes to the rescue
At the eleventh hour
Cutting short a queue where a miscue
Attempts to desiccate the flower whose power
Restores the pristine state
In which hearts smile
Serrating hurdles and bundles of blues in a haste
To ascertain bliss and peace of mind increase beyond the hundredth mile in style.
Categories:
serrating, poems,
Form: Free verse
"Gleaming diamonds in sediment seams,
The trickling washes slithering into streams,
Notching clouds serrating luminescent beams,
Hazy mirage of mosaic jigsaw dreams,
The interlocking notches of ones jeans,
Assorted tiles of pixelated screens,
Grinding, grooved cogs of steam machines,
Double-edged relief on drawn up vaccines,
Grasping at far away stars to stay up on a wave,
Gravity, anchoring has mankind shackled as a slave,
The bearing of antimatter flash in the black of a cave,
Fireballs, spiralling in diluted spheres at a rave,
The bipolar compass roots scattered forming a knave,
Burning sensations of liberty that which we crave,
Straying from hard beaten paths that others pave,
Ever lurching, learning with one foot in the grave"
LF
Categories:
serrating, adventure, allusion, beauty, blessing,
Form: Limerick
Like the serrating sun of the east
Setting upon the lashes of my brow
His appearance out of the wind
Detest the parting of my soul
Look!look the burning furnace
The reward of sinner's fate
Came the voice from the wind
End the toil of human being
Within the turmoil of defeat
Categories:
serrating, earth day, freedom,
Form: Blank verse
Walls of flesh
Separate us
Serrating our love
Lost in glances
Wandering in time
I escape
Again and again
Returning without
Mind
Like a child
Losing scope
Always struck
Brand new
We reach
In lyrical tombs
To crawl out
Of frozen rooms
My shuttle
Is destiny
But delayed
Like poison arrows
Still
Resurrected hobbled
God and sleep
Bumping heads
Making swollen
Beds
Categories:
serrating, girlfriend-boyfriend, introspection,
Form: Free verse