Short Emboldened Poems

vernal equinox
	lemon-zested oracle ~
		emboldened healer...

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Seeing life for what it is
We ascend on the wings of chance
Here, available, powerful
Knowing what we choose
Emboldened by the infinite mystery...

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I have to ask you
why you have not kissed me yet.
Your mouth tantalizes me.

I am a shy guy,
but now I feel emboldened
to taste your sweet honeyed lips....

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Cheap art
or excellent craft
You decide
what floats the raft

Good intentions
hell repaved
Choice emboldened
—heaven saved


(Dreamsleep: August, 2022)...

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Emboldened hearts combine and share- to surrender fears, lay each soul bare.

October 8, 2016

~2nd Place~
Contest: One-Liner About Love
Sponsor: Silent One
Judged: 10/09/2016
...

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If we could touch time
or taste a new dream
Awareness exploding,
beyond the extreme
To see every fragrance
or hear every wile
Our senses emboldened
—as memory smiles

(St. David’s Pennsylvania: March, 2021)...

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approach of hell's wind
scatters well established things
important to us

greedy fire from hell
consumes like spoiler, glutton
unconcerned impact

fire-nado, winks
emboldened, signals elites
get's on the ballot...

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Have you checked your mailbox for incendiaries
Watch out for suspicious looking packages from radicals
Could be a warm welcome
Filled with incendiary venom
The political climate has emboldened these crazy nationals...

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He was poetically intolerant,
she thought herself an Emily
writing sonnets 'how do I love...'
he indulged her feeble whimsies
in light of other finessed talents, 
essentially, larks amidst boudoir's  
uncommonly emboldened expertise...

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Better to try than to never know
Relinquishing comfort for an unknown gain
Acknowledging what it takes to grow
Valiant within torrents of rain
Emboldened in the midst of pain

9-23-2023
Try a Quincrosticain! Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich...

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Listen to poem:

Pour your heart out, let it flow.
Like a river's torrent, let it go.
On your bare arms let it glow.
Let its rhythmic pulse show,
that you really, truly, deeply can bestow
pure, stark, emboldened emotions all aglow.
With heart exposed, a sleeve gateau....

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A beautiful woman
who has the power to transform my soul;
sweet captivation,
breathless enchantment, I lose my control;
spells suspend reason, 
a siren stare which I cannot withstand,
emboldened by love, 
filled with such longing when I hold her hand....

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A beautiful woman
who has the power to transform my soul;
sweet captivation,
breathless enchantment, I lose my control;
spells suspend reason, 
a siren stare which I cannot withstand,
emboldened by love, 
filled with such longing when I hold her hand....

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A beautiful woman
who has the power to transform my soul;
sweet captivation,
breathless enchantment, I lose my control;
spells suspend reason, 
a siren stare which I cannot withstand,
emboldened by love, 
filled with such longing when I hold her hand!...

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A beautiful woman,

she has the power to transform my soul;

sweet captivation,

breathless enchantment, I lose my control;

spells suspend reason, 

a siren stare which I cannot withstand,

emboldened by love, 

filled with such longing when I hold her hand!...

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They called me Mellow Yellow
Way back in the day we used CBs*
To say hello.

We were as anonymous as could be
Emboldened by CB talking
With those we never would see.


*Citizens Band Radio
For: BITE SIZE POEM no. 28 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Line Gauthier. 
November 29, 2021...

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One mint balloon dreams ceiling
to keep it from the sky, and
such balanced vision
steadies days by and by.

Until one day it takes a breath,
emboldened by greater sight--
one great sea has turned all gold from all the light.
With eyes turned desirous to float ever high,
one mint balloon adopts a new flight....

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We are His legacy;
We, the untold children
Who have heard about the Cross...

We are emboldened to say His Name
Proudly and without
Fear or loss

Jesus Our King,
Our Warrior in our fight against the Devil
Here, on saddened earth

Jesus, love us,
But we know you do, for you have proved
To us our worth





5/8/2015...

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A monster in our midst
it knows no borders,
flouts the strictest checkpoint,
shows no pithy,
its tentacles of horror seizes headlines,
sends shivers down the spine of those cocooned.
Despite all this there lurks an inner zeal,
emboldened human mettle on the march
that bullies such ?as these can never match or ever bargain for....

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From silver to gold,
  the years marched along

As language emboldened
  its words into song

The grey of my twilight
  a welcome relief

All reasoned excuses
  another’s belief

As the winds through the canyon
  blow the valley to sand

This ending now welcome
  —beginning again

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)...

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From silver to gold,
  the years marched along

As language emboldened
  its words into song

The grey of my twilight
  a welcome relief

All reasoned excuses
  now another’s belief

As the winds through the canyon
  blow the valley to sand

This ending now welcome
  —a new beginning again

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)...

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And I let you fly like a nightingale,
Coward-less and emboldened.
I am your God and you are mine as
Silliness sounds into total surrender.
Every person's beauty shining 
Like any morning glow.
Like your face always.
My love is made possible by your existence.
I bow down towards your every breathe. You,
The Savior I help save,
Saving you saving me,
Saving you saving me....

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As darkness fell with suddenness,
the sun slid behind the blood moon.
Sounds of nightlife emerged off tune.
You flaunted your unevenness, 
emboldened by dark drunkenness.
Your twisted mind a fierce monsoon
	as darkness fell.

You came with sulky sullenness 
and brought your foul humor jejune.
You played the part of grisly goon
and had lost all your humanness
	as darkness fell....

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Be of courageousness, 
And not of cowardice.
Be of strength, 
And not of weakness.
Be of joy,
And not of sorrow.
Be of joy, 
Because there's a better tomorrow.
Be of love, 
And not of hate.
Be of an emboldened spirit, 
And stand in your faith.
Whatever offenses you may encounter in the world, even if they be doubled, 
Remember that it is written:
'Let not your heart be troubled.'...

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When I was only seventeen,
I met my darling Norma Jeane.
And I, still wet behind the ears,
Emboldened by too many beers,
Approached her and forgot my fears,
Became the envy of my peers -
But knew our love would end in tears.
And after many lonesome years,
I saw her on the silver screen -
And dreamed of how it could have been…

Using Duo-Rhyme, a form by Mary Ports, for Andrea’s Duo-Rhyme contest...

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