Short Damask Poems

scent of damask
roses upon the air
ladybug landing


8-3-2021
Haiku Challenge Poetry Contest
Regina McIntosh...

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scent of damask
roses floods the air
poppies wave

 

3-23-2021
Favorite Scent(s) Poetry Contest
 Chantelle Anne Cooke...

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Her aroma
Is like 
The fragrance 
Of a
Crimson glory - 
Sweet Damask
A Heady Scent
Her body
Opens 
Like it’s 
Deep, velvety red
Petals
Blooming 
For him, 
And only him…...

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A rose-laden climber
bows to the morning sunlight.
I inhale the sweet fragrance
of damask delight and
Monday fades to sensory ecstasy.
The only way to begin a day.



Bite Size Poem Contes
Line Gauthier
5-31-2022...

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Words have power
    and strength
    They have a gentleness
    As soft as a downy feather on a breeze
    As passionate as the deep red of the Damask Rose
    They also have the power
    To cut
    To wound
    And kill dead
    That was once so precious
    How harsh and oh so gentle
    Is the tongue...

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Like ballerinas airdropped from on high, 
Snowflakes pirouette to damask the air, 
Tutued geometries dimpling the sky, 
Veil our stinging eyes with arabesque fair. 
Downy fields we walk, where aureoles tide, 
And white breaths upon your face softly flare. 
As my swooning kiss to your frail smile dips, 
A wayward prism alights upon your lips....

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Charm the waves, 
Entail algorithms of templates,
Subclass the seasonal stripes, 

Smash this tasteless flame stitch. 
A chevron turning into an imperial damask. 

Intarsia the charming argyle in this rotunda.
Rub the blotch off the bull's eye,
Collage the camouflage in this calico assemblage. 

Chintz in the heart, chequer in the mind,
Charming Patterns....

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A Damask Rose displays 

Dizzying swirls of velvet petals;
Amid the greenery, as she plays.
Magnificently among the nettles;
And beauteous is her facade.
She’s really quite aromatic,
Sensual scented gift of God...
Kunzite sculpture enigmatic.

Reveling in her piquancy,
One becomes quite mesmerized.
She sings her beauty eloquently;
Evocatively touches my eyes.
...

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CLOWN FROM DAMASCUS

            Came clown wearing gown from Damascus.
             Bought tent from down town for the circus.
                     He put nice rose Damask
                     on the nose of his mask
            wearing  garland of red Hibiscus

   04/12/18
     
    Note: Damask is a type of Rose from Damascus
 

  'May 2019 Premiere 8' Contest by Brian Strand...

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Sloth-toed ivy flutters
in lissome breeze,
each pentagram the pinion
of a jade butterfly
clustered on a brick wall.
In the throes of spring
they sojourn
from dark loam
toward shingled firmament,
past celestial windows
pewter with light
as they besmirch
diaphanous peril,
imagining
when they reach heaven
they will repose like angels
in the shimmering damask
of God's aura.

5/23/18...

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SAME MAN, SAME FOLK


The day I adorned value:
Damask king of attire
Gold made me new mint
And my finery nonpareil ;
Even kings called me son.


Then dearth dressed me up
In a calico from cockroach’s jaw
And hooves that tilted starboard
It was want’s magic moment:
The visible turned invisible.


So I wondered what had changed
Same man , same folk
Then a thought sprang up in me :
No one avoids a man because
He rode on a horse yesterday....

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Listen to poem:

Ballads and candles of lyrical light
in stemmed yearning

breezes of ethereal pearl

shimmering translucence 
in a velvety damask

A celestial serenade ~
glittering gold, a halo of airy haze
An ostentatious cynosure, a wispy elixir

Calcite talismans and ethereal melody.
The cosmos is in harmony

zingy zest blasts in sapphirelike gaze
A flow dashed over the scary abyss.
an emollient erstwhile fugacious lyric...

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Far from harsh reality
Of cruel peasant life
Gilded surroundings
Of smooth parquet floors
Damask-lined walls
Crystal chandeliers
The background music of
Imperial fountains
Soothed the nobility at Peterhof
St. Peterburg's bow to Versailles;
Carriages and troikas 
Moved elegantly, smartly 
Conveying crowned heads
Seeking favor from the tsar
In a great hall now guarded
By old Russian babas
Nodding, fighting sleep
As they glare at the tourists....

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Spending  their time in prayer ,devotion and hymms
The golden haired Angels curly shiny braided locks
Glistened  in  the  sun as  she  fluttered  her wings
Glitter dust sparkled in the sunbeamed secret attic
Heavenly music flowed from  her  bejewelled harp
as  she  gently  played  her  mesmerizing  melody.
Another angel in beautiful fabrics downward flowed 
Dancing  and  lightly playing her magical silver flute 
Damask silk twinkling and glittering as she bowed....

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