Short Saturnine Poems

Primrose promises
saturnine rejections flow
categorical...

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a doleful twilight
tenebrous clouds in the night
The moody monday














4-11-2016...

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Whenever alabaster clouds 
Above my head turn grey 
And darkness engulfs sunny days, 
Almighty God to you, I pray



Date posted: 07/29/2021...

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Cave
saturnine…murky
spelunking…painting…mining
Explorer…Caveman…Hideout…Monastery
praying…planning…plotting
penitent…palliative 
Cave

8/9/2022...

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She's free of his clutches, at last
       It's as if she's been reborn!
    Her saturnine face now smiles;
  her clipped wings is growing back
  as she's learning how to fly again!


Date written: 07/05/2020...

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KILLER

Saturnine sleeper of the night,
Soaring slowly, out of sight,
Sleekly shadowing the gloom,
Silent harbinger of doom,
Innocent assassin, surreptitious, sly,
Stainless scandal slipping by,
Scything swiftly through the dark,
Hark the herald warning: Shark....

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So favored by Selene, he gathers her moons…
a collection that enhances a sparkly plethora:
Those rings within rings, of ice he holds taut
Under his saturnine smiles, they glisten thru
regions of black; magic calling each voyager:
New wrecks to snare as he revolves taciturn …

(5/18/21)...

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Avenged adult world
Fishy funny kids’ play world
The saturnine feast.

Sorcerous* Nox night
Lone places yawn hell pervades
global fun-disease

Ghosts grovel and then wolves weep
Goblins grin skeletons sway
Thus the streets savaged

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* Roman goddess of night

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Date: 28th Sept'13
Dr. Ram Mehta
Contest: Everything Halloween by Russell Sivey...

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The Buddha casts no shadow
smugly seated at high noon’s
forever present moment
 
a ripple-less façade placidly
ignoring its turmoil filled depth
masked in fates saturnine smile

a somber stoic’s silent grin
mocking the wind blown leaves
amused by time’s chaos

plumply sated in his idyll
disconnected from all things
the Buddha casts no shadow


John G. Lawless
©12//23/2018...

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You are both statuesque and sweet.
        My dreams of you, eternally,sensuous!
        Above all, you are second to none!
        Both sweet and scrumptious, you lie on
        silken-starred sheets.

        In super angelic moonlight, smiling, supine.
        And I, twirl my long,auburn hair is
        saturnine splendor,
        Yes, my snuggly lover, forever.



         5/14/2019
         6am PST...

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Laughter echoes, summer times, joy takes flight.
Amazing times, love the daylight, joy reigns.
Never let go; summertime; is now fading.
Autumn chills, colors shrill, days get shorter.

Dark winter, quiet and cold, to the bones.
Emotions, rapture to sad, going saturnine.
Last summer, memories, now quite distant.

Radiant flowers bloom, despite the winter.
Enjoying spring, can’t wait for summer.
Yawning sunlight, woohoo! Summer is back!...

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So radiant in yellow gold hue
Under a bright afternoon sunshine
Neck turning slowly to directly
Follow and kiss the sun;
Loveliest of flowers, a symbol
Of optimism and happiness 
Welcoming all with such glee 
Even on saturnine days. Ever so...
Resplendent...that's why I love thee!


Date written: 06/18/2021...

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Books – a medicine saturnine.
Those who have books shine
With lively bright colour twine.
Books – a Daniel – be in shrine
To take us all up with whine.
Saraswati, indeed, did opine
My talents with saccharine
And help me for Her to reassign
Her position in the world malign.
With her help I Monorhyme define
And made many people it dine
With garlic or ginger or brine.
Oh! Goddess! Help me refine
The world with your dyne –
Books – a medicine saturnine....

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Morning is a bright looking florescent
that unfold splashes of sultriness;
thrilling luminosity blewing off saturnine 
incessantly each day you awake
to greet your pallid-cream face.

It shoot in succulents embrace
flurrying optimism and illusory hope
as fiery as your desires
just enough for a blade
to slash through depression
with unassailable sense.

Whilst to others
it's a suicide ice 
& huge spectre
that will ruin
the gambles of their nights....

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How bright and jovial is the summer sun
Promising life and fertility
How different the October one
Dealing death and aridity
No longer do we espy a golden glow
Now there is but a dark blood red orb hanging low
Cyclopean with its brooding ,glowering glare
Sinister in its Saturnine stare
It is but the harbinger of a deathly gloom
There to lead Persephone down to her Plutonian tomb
There she will,with Demeter's reluctant assent,stay
Until the shoots of spring come out to play....

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