Short Opaline Poems

Enchanting moment
Ephemeral moonflower
Blossoms in beauty
Bathed in opaline starlight 
Through midnight hours unobserved....

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Translucent and absorbing light
Opaline and burning
A piece of farther norther glass
Death and nightmares earning

Silhouetted against the dawn
Flashing in mid-sun’s light
Laying on the burning sand
A crystal piece of night

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Skies cast an opaline tone on the periwinkle
From the outbreak of numbness
In the clangorous concord of the brain
Phantasmagoric cosmos of phantasms
Fully loosened by pennilessness and distress
Where genuine life dwells just as a nightmare
Strident sound singing a somber song

Written: November 10, 2022...

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My love, I call you opaline;
you dazzle like a jewel,
extending passion’s brilliant hues,  
when chill of night seems cruel.  

My iridescent evening star,
adorning canvas sky,
I know your fiery radiance
and ache to feel you nigh.

By Rhonda Johnson-Saunders, 3/27/15
for Nette's Let Me Feel Your Lines Contest
Theme - #6 Opaline...

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under a delightful moon
      air silvermist due to drizzling rain
  a pale patina rode wavetops
              of the mystic sea

creamy waters washed across my feet
depositing opaline conchs, whelk egg cases
    and bits of purple fan coral
  oceanic generosity
          fueled my thankfulness
      as the horizon's apricot blush
                  announced sunrise...

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Sheet whites billow into balloons
then thin to sickled moons; light
oozing out in an opaline Day-Glo…

Rich mist spreads, spraying wider
milk-bright swirls of a snowstorm…
Yetling wind turns into yeti, crazy!

Mountain’s giant sham
of eiders’ fluffy-soft; so 
newly hatched penguin,
deep-dives into ice-bird:
A hard-beaked miasma
yielding as diamond ply…

(12/22/2022 For Winter Storm contest)...

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Iridescent Colours




Winds whip, murkiness masks the blue,
Pearlescent clouds hurry,
Birds raise their pitch to suffused hue,
Whole scene appears blurry,


The coherent torrential flow,
Pellucids opaline,
Iridescent hues in rainbow,
Brewed to get perfect wine!






Written April 1st, 2015 
on theme 5- opaline
By Dr. Upma A. Sharma
For nette's contest "Let me feel your lines"

Awarded 7th place win...

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Oh ocean of that long-gone embryo
Careening stormy erratic, to pacific
Ever sculpting in navy-wavy trance
Atop your peaks diamond ambrosia
Never-never dreams, you've grown ~

Troughs, they stripped fear’s heart
Rendering a wanderer, now braver
Enameling away sea-shine opaline
as Nautili curling their striped sola
Soak me up to float down in blues
undulating in the sunk, spilled sou
roughened in a barnacle-concealer

Estuary-rich, unfurl the flowing life ~


(11/13/2020)...

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