Short Illustrating Poems

As the bark of fear ascends
callow pages crease 
illustrating a youthful doxy
abreast a sheet of smoke
waltzing betwixt velveteen lips
as if tomorrow’s mistakes 
mattered yesterday...

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all time
different kind
same time
not all mine
illustrating sublime
sounds of chime
no more time
it's a sign
wouldn't pay a dime
warn out overtime
should be a crime
smells of daytime
-ugly piece
you left here when you decided to leave!...

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Black is not white
Nor is it black or white
Ask any purple Zebra
He will explain so colorfully
Illustrating the life and love
Of a dancing Gothic chicken
Around  a lake of make-believe dreams
Steam punk trains
On the tracks of time
Tickets available
At yesterdays window...

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Tugging at matter that was
Always there.
Vivacious with life even 
In strife.

Monstrous joy,
Illustrating new forms of happiness,
Looming a low level glow in the eyes.
An acrobat of body and soul.

Just you wait, though,
Over the hills booms bombastically,
Even more than what you thought love could be.
Yours, truly....

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the clock ticks again and again,
a reminder of each treasured moment,
as some moments pass and need to be left behind,
bread crumbs on the path of living,
illustrating a path that will not be walked in return,
mementos of unknown significance that can not be cashed in for anything of value yet priceless in the living,
until the living ends and the ticking continues....

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Illustrating erectness in such a bright sky.
Soon, the sky turned from blue to dark gray.
Rhizomes of two giant oak trees.
Interweaving as beauteous poems breeze.
Rustling branches without groans or smoke.
The lightning strikes the killing stroke.
It echoed the most powerful thunderclap.
A lifetime spent together, was under the cap.

Written: November 09, 2022...

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The eloquent foundation of a treaty evolved
Luck danced within the fabric that was our skin
Virgins we were to such tasteful artistry
Senses sharpening with each candid discovery

Phosphorescent rivulets blandished our bones
Displaying bravuras of a sensory love
By the vines of felicity we were skeined

A bed of our locks sleet had designed
Fleet each word had become razed
Illustrating wicked fallacies...

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*Image of Tropical Arrangements by FukuFlow.

The Islands Call

Hawaiian
rainbow colored
precious 
mixture of fine
blooming fragrances
that seizes
both eyes
and nose filled
breaths of
sweet nothings
sealing fate
forever bridging
dreams illustrating life's
gift
at Paradise shores.

2022 December 16
*2nd Place*
Writing Challenge - Yalto Form
~~Constance La France: Judged 2022 December 19

*HMS....

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PREFERENCE
the succulence
  on display
 arrestingly
 different
a
timeless
exactitude
 alongside
 luscious
 beauties
  concoctions
of symbolist n
abstractions
 simplified lines
  emptily idealised
yet
authentically
expressed
 & depicted
if
somewhat
in absurdity
of
  an  exploration
of  the sensual
in
the  of
  conscientious
to   make
a startling
 masterpiece
illustrating
&
 portraying
a naive
  fantasy...

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Clay climbed and clobbered Clemson Clue
Doing deliberate diamond disciples daring do,
Enough Elizabethan excitement expressed Ellie Lou
Finishing fancy French frankfurters, freeing Friday’s flu.

Gigantic gyrating griffendorf’s glazing gibbon’s glue
Harboring horrific hellacious hippos’s in hindsight’s hue.
Ignoring illustrious iguana’s illustrating indigo’s favorite blue.
Jiggling jumbled jabborwock’s justified jellies and jams for a few....

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While no colors
Tinge over my skin
Your sepia eyes
Ink tattooed
Upon my spirit
Under sleeve…

A beauty so steadfast
Breathless
Innocence awash
Across heavy riptides
Dancing within
Truculent waves

Bartering dawn for dusk
Warmth for solitude
Aching to hold that gaze
Only momentarily
Touching a delicate taste
Of fiery gossamer 

No ink stains
Illustrating you and I
Only beauty of yesterday
Ever imprinted
On who I once was
Tattooed…...

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Sanmati, my angel, has decorated jawline.
Aside puts cold anger and does repine
Negative things in her life, but always supine
Merry things about the wide world divine.
Against me or her things she despise saline.
Tough tenderness she got for me in palatine,
Ignoring angry love or a speck on her tine
Jot down related things like family of feline.
Almighty may support her in future design
Illustrating Triumph and Failure, outshine
Nebo by her sweet behavior saccharine....

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Dragons are rare epic
Dark mystical  serpent
Dashing luminous scales
Deadly  talons  fire- spew
Dandyish  flight across
Disguising vanishing 
Dread mystical serpent


8/29/2016



Pleiades D - Poetry Contest 
 Sponsored by: Kim Merryman

One word title starting with D (don't put Pleiades after your title)
7 lines all starting with D, describing or illustrating the title.  6 syllables per line 



https://www.howmanysyllables.com/poem_syllable_counter_workshop/index...

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