Short Endears Poems

Love drenched,
Thirst quenched,
Heart clenched.
Desire sated,
Pain abated,
Feel elated.
Tearful fears,
Yearning sears,
Love endears.

for Lin Lane

© Dave Timperley 07 June 2017...

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Someday to write
the greatest poem
The most powerful words
forever to hear

Someday to write
the moment solemn
Where time will stop counting
— and prescience endears

(Dreamsleep: March, 2025) 
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Look to fond cheer
To heal wounds old
As grace endears
What truth unfolds

Let love abide
With beauty fine
Here by our side
As words shape lines

~~~~~~~~~


Leon Enriquez
31 December 2020
Singapore...

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#2: TONE


Taste a calm deep that shows up now,
One touch endears a love profound;
Niche beyond sleep a perfect light,
Etch happy here on placid grounds.

~~~~~~~~~



Leon Enriquez
11 January 2021
Singapore...

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My Molly Magpie endears to baked delights
Toiling in the afternoon, proving through the night
   Darkness raised the finest flour with courage
   Baked alive transformed, the test of scourge
Transfixed all mollified await the finest bite...

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“She dances she glances 
Beyond her shoulder 
She peers 
Looking back
Her beautiful smile 
She poses in the mirror”

She sings voice rings
Ripples in air
She endears
Ballerina steps
Enticed by melody
She dances with angelic flair...

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Quatrain #105:
FEST


Feel how pain feels in times of fear,
Express goodwill when tough times veer;
See time reveal a distraught world,
Touch funds fond thrill when peace endears.

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
15 November 2015
Singapore...

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Quatrain #678:
FATE


Feel poise that grows a charm that cheers,
Apt is the flow of voice right here;
Thought in swift show prompts wordplay glimpse,
Etch what you know as choice endears.

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
21 April 2017
Singapore...

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Yen for zen, if not now, then when
Love the touch that endears
Bliss bubbles burst, in our heart’s den
Erasing narrow fears

Heart glows, in stillness slow
Pure inspirations flow
In blissfulness mellow

Poet’s pen
Yen for zen

01-December-2021
Quietus ...

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Karmic seeds sown meet fulfilment 
When boomerang returns 
Heart rests in quiet contentment 
Erst ferality burns

When the light divine nears
Lower mind disappears 
Into void that endears

Bliss currents hone
Karmic seeds sown 

06-November-2021
Quietus ...

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No one listens, although ear hears
Frigid minds, so brittle
We feel not bliss, that heart endears
See how habits whittle

We don’t learn, till we burn
Stewing in pathways stern
Till ego we upturn

Wisdom glistens 
No one listens

24-December-2021
Quietus ...

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Thirty seven years have gone by
Each moment fulfilling 
Seeing you, heart let’s out a sigh
Pure joy, over spilling 

Together, hand in hand
Destiny, by God planned 
Life beauteous and grand

Rapture that endears
Thirty seven years

01-October-2021
Quietus...

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All these years
life passed under sweet hollow tree
A wind blows and tears
calling me free
A life it fears
Startles my memory;
And the trees endears
when wind hurry-
lightening under me'
A destiny this life gathers
where itchy feet carry
A new dawn heart desires
and I long to be free...

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Whiskey whispers
Liquor laden squeeze
Alcohol breath sneeze
Rancid whispers


Strong liquor strokes
Massive surge endears
High hurling high here
Stupor now yokes


Rush upon rush
Strokes of strange gladness
Runaway madness
Blush after blush




Leon Enriquez
11 December 2017
Singapore...

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Contentment

Some attest that happiness is belongingness
that endears throughout the tears and years to grow.
A bond of self contentment's far beyond the best,
with your fascinating face of grace to know.

8/10/17

Rhyme Battle: Happiness: Round 8
Sponsored by: Juli- Michelle ...

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Coffee shoppe chit-chat
Random topics here
Mull all this plus that


Brisk as sensuous play
You say and I say
Time oozes away


Ideas in odd spheres
Much mellow gain here
Private cheer endears


Prompt wordplay surprise
Watch puzzle speak clear
Feel stray touch of spice




Leon Enriquez
28 March 2018
Singapore...

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Blood soaks 
      Into the grain 
Of the wooden cross
  Salvation sustained 
       At the ultimate cost

A spear lifts 
   A wet sponge 
    To lips cracked 
        From the heat
As the beloved companion 
   Cries at his feet

The blood of Christ 
   Drips from toes 
        Like tears

Shed by a forgiving 
     Love that endears...

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Meet a new form,
Urge woos a feel;
Sounds that feed norm;
Instincts that seal;
Charm in sure range.
Sense in clear pitch;
One swirl most strange,
Notes that flood rich;
Glimpse of bliss sown.
Deed in brisk tact;
Apt grace now known,
Niche in swift fact;
Cheer knows no fear,
Escape endears.




Leon Enriquez
27 October2014
Singapore...

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Play possum, feeding not dark fears
As they spiral inwards 
Choose bliss instead, that love endears 
Propelling us upwards 

Transcend fear and desire
For love and light, aspire
Pure innocence afire

We’re awesome
Play possum

23-October-2021
Quietus

Pick-A-Title, Vol 26 - Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh
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Left, to my right,
  another half

As two we’re whole,
  on different paths

My cloudless sky,
  your world in shade

Whose peace endears,
  my war invades

Our grass once greener,
  turns to brown

A soul we share,
  now turned around

Symbiotic,
  twins we pray

Conjoined in conflict,
 —hearts forayed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)...

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Morning sun glow
Wake me up slow


Spiral staircase
Winding a chase 


Dream upon dream
A pile of schemes


Corner cafe
Buzz now displays


Morning cuppa
Late agenda


By my window
Sudden rainbow


Old lovers here
Wrinkled hands steer


So many years
Love's web endears


We sit here now
Watch years endow


Leon Enriquez
24 June 2014
Singapore...

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Keep love in mind where joy flings cheer,
True peace you find as grace endears.


Keep faith in love as hope greets zest,
Light from above moves all life's fest.


Keep mindful thought as feelings urge,
Quest and play plot in visual surge.


Keep still to know that vital feel,
Light ever shows true love that heals.





Leon Enriquez
15 October 2016
Singapore...

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See the known fact:
Fear is just fear
That marks thought clear.


Feel the harsh tact;
Fear makes things clear
Right now and here.


Sense the right act:
Fear helps to steer
The tact you cheer.


Forge the bold pact:
Fear speaks most clear
True cause right here.


Live a new fact:
Faith transcends fear
When poise endears.




Leon Enriquez
13 February 2016
Singapore...

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For so many years.
Our friendship
Has always been true.
Friendship given freely
Never greedy,
Always each other’s peer.
With smiles or tears
Always there for each other
Even in our fears
Our love endears..

Thirty-eight years later
One thousand seven hundred miles
from each other
our friendship is even stronger.

12/9/2019

Friendship Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Beata Agustin...

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Scented flavours rise
Infused with surprise


Fragrant tea of choice
Profound taste grooms poise


Chinese tea prompts feel
Prized brew floods goodwill


Choice of cheery moods
Glimpses of grand good


By pavilion old
Watch nature unfold


Hummingbird flight
Subtle sensuous sight


Browse this verse book here
Profound voice endears




Leon Enriquez
12 January 2018
Singapore...

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