Short Vespers Poems

Closing of the day,
Aviary canopies;
Vespers in the woods....

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Somatic vespers
the rush of time on our hands 
blind absyrations...

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evening silence
  fog swallows chilled vespers
     a lifeless child...

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Vespers of the falls,
Exclaiming the earth’s past pains;
Whispers in the mist....

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Twilight sonata
     on swirling wisps of moonlight,
            enwrapped silver string...

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Brilliant nightfall views 
Barbs of darkening hues 
Specter of sunlight gems 
Vespers obscuring into godsends
Elegant devoutness 
In worshipping grandness...

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you were with  her at lourdes
whilst the sun was shining
two worlds became one
light flickers
from the water edge
bread and wine are your sole ambition
trust in vespers
a catalogue of goodliness



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Whispers of vespers
I am tickled by nocturnal whiskers
whisking away the camera roll
of morning and afternoon
whiskey pictures
a picnic bowl of marvelous
madman mixtures
I voice my witch doctor
opinions with high dialect scriptures...

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What is the summary of these two poems : "on the memory of mr edward king, drowned in the irish seas by john cleveland, mark anthony;"when as the nightingale chanted her vespers dirge" by james shirley. Please I need feedback on these two poems....

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          pure waters annoint

               with rippled effect...

                   trees whisper vespers

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Inspired by John Freeman's contest
Nature's Precept Haiku...

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Three fifty two—as with me
As with you
A deep darkness
Not a truck nor plane vibration
No distance sounds
Complete silence
No lights no radiation
Perhaps the flutter of air
No hoots from owls
Not even a mouse whisper
During this night no vespers
The peace is complete
Harbinger
Sighs...

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Born in 1161, Jerusalem had a son
An heir to the throne, an ill one
Moving and acting a normal son
A bloody prey, eaten inside of the Chosen One.

For people's wealth, his left arm prospers
For brotherhood and peace, his right arm decrease
Health ebbed his vespers
Perished in 1185, with mask and sheaths
  to cloak his disease......

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Listen to poem:

Redemption
David J Walker

The unrelenting quest
For the rest of
What was meant to be said
The best intentions 

	Mislaid 
Mislead conventions 
Discarded convictions 

Colors of lost horizons 
Least of the left last rites 

The Vespers 
	of whispers
The worshipers 
The shoplifters 
			all
	Seek redemption

Before the end of the end
Of the evening
		To come...

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from my morning stoop
a cloudy magenta sky
softly takes.my soul free-flight 
lost in God's beauty
I murmur golden vespers
as one angel flutters in flight

a soft english rain falls
revealing a rainbow 
gracefully brushing
the western slope
of yellow back ridge

I rise to my feet
sipping a hot cup of coffee
smiling upon God's grace
I forge onward
to begin a glorious day...

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After your butterfly alighted my dreams,  
I never forgot your kiss,
You became the object of my vespers,
The refuge for my injured toiling chest.
I await your spectacle, your curtain call.
Your fragile teasing dance. 
Like Groundhog Day, I predict your fluttering 
Wings, the wavy flurry of your bowstrings,
Again and again.
What wonder comes next?
 Are you counting down my dreams?...

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When night did then soft vespers raise
To holy heights a herald,
Sad Earth farewell'd and gentle sighed
As her little rose took flight...

And the world was less the splendorous
Though Heaven grew the richer-
Unboundaried Love by Love well hailed
'Pon shining shores of Evermore...

Noble soul, take well thy rest
And deathless dance midst saints!
As dew-drowned eyes due tribute pay
At the whisper of Mother's name......

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nobile storm      sospirando wind 
calling dolce      vespers of light 
intimo, bound    a song begins...


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Contest~3 BY 8 IMAGE 
Picture #3
Poet~ Rick Parise
01-01-2015
poco a poco: little by little
nobile or nobilmente: in a noble fashion
sospirando: sighing
dolce: sweetly
intimo: intimately



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Arising in me 
are the voices
of two different
worlds.

One calls for  closeness_____
with
its rise of 
passion and gentle decline.

The other calls for 
distance
without voices clamoring
for attention.

Ears that are yet
weary of
human sounds
and physical closeness.

Distancing from vespers,
It calls up pain________
not understanding____to
weary to ask.

Just needing space 
to heal, 
Space that honors
what is!...

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Conflicting Desires:   
 
Arising in me 
are the voices
of two different
worlds.

One calls for  closeness_____
with
its rise of 
passion and gentle decline.

The other calls for 
distance
without voices clamoring
for attention.

Ears that are yet
weary of
human sounds
and physical closeness.

Distancing from vespers,
It calls up pain________
not understanding____to
weary to ask.

Just needing space 
to heal, 
Space that honors
what is!...

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Conflicting Desires:   
 
Arising in me 
are the voices
of two different
worlds.

One calls for  closeness_____
with
its rise of 
passion and gentle decline.

The other calls for 
distance
without voices clamoring
for attention.

Ears that are yet
weary of
human sounds
and physical closeness.

Distancing from vespers,
It calls up pain________
not understanding____to
weary to ask.

Just needing space 
to heal, 
Space that honors
what is!...

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the sack cloth lay
black as ash upon the mourners  
the sack cloth lay
tears could not soften or defray
rods could not break its rough corners
upon witnesses at vespers
the sack cloth lay


Revelation 11:3
And I will cause my two witnesses to prophesy 
a thousand two hundred and sixty days dressed in sackcloth...
Romans 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, 
but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, 
Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord....

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December susurrations mingle 
in this lissome isthmus

and our wispy Vespers,
these suspired planets

gossip along misty vistas
of silvery insinuations 
and hushed hints. 

The fractured lisps 
of elusive revelations
curl in the breeze, 

a gypsy veil 

between shivering lips
in the cusp 
of our trysting breaths.

Ascending daystars converse
in this lexis of secrets
and draw us a scroll to Venus
with each breathless ellipsis 
between whispers....

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The dark fantasies
of forbidden,
lusts and silhouettes
of scarlet passions.

The lovers,
they mingle
like serpents asunder,
coiling about,
becoming entwined
as chaos 
to the enthralls
of jealousy. 

Jealousy. . .
with no means
of explanation.
The lovers' emotions
again embrace. . . 
feelings
of anger,
of hatred,
arise, 
fueling their desires.

Their feelings of loss
and emptiness
flow,
as dismal squalls
of nothingness
cry out 
like a climax of vespers....

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