Echoes in Silk
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Written: July 17, 2025, for contest by Joseph May
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Silk voice ties the tunes of the throng
As you play the chill, snake-hands song
Void d...
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Categories:
smarm, appreciation, heart, lost love,
Form: Quatrain
Love Thaws in Winter Embrace
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Written: February 03, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Charles Messina
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This clock let forth one painful scream
Bliss time shrank, as a ...
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Categories:
smarm, love, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Rapture
...The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
Joseph Campbell
A calm, unpretentious, breathtaking connection,
A hypnotic glimpse of Z...
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Categories:
smarm, analogy, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Rubaiyat
Rebel Hens: Escape To the Picture Show
...The hens from our small, urban farm,
Had wild idea, caused great fright:
Escape their pen, come to no harm,
See a show, without a blight.
With feathers ruffling at benight,
They made p...
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Categories:
smarm, animal, appreciation, funny, repetition,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
Split Wide Open
...In quiet, space breaks down into insight.
Opposing the edge amidst deceit and blight.
Imperceptible resonation is reflected back.
On a hunch, or at the stroke of night track.
A leth...
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Categories:
smarm, analogy, character, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Wandering Ethereal Glow
...Breathing on the strings of the heart
Confronted by a swarm of wings wert.
Swinging melody on your glass tightrope.
Like a pendulum swung in a chasm of hope.
Much like Saturday eve...
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Categories:
smarm, analogy, angst, character, cute
Form: Sonnet
Of Infinity
...On the exquisite wings of fated infinity.
We move with subtle elegance and fluidity.
To sail into odd space on a vessel of silence.
It is clearly the domain of the swanky credence...
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Categories:
smarm, allegory, analogy, appreciation, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Dead Poets
...He took his leave of this world
with the truth on his lips
while soaking in that warm bath in Paris
where he had flown to pursue a new path
having been forced to publish his poetry himself
beca...
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Categories:
smarm, death, money, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Song of Spring Flowers
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"Roses rooted in the earth
Bud in rhyme and verses sage
Lilies laugh at joyous birth
Strewn across the patterned page"
Marigolds whisper their charm
By scripting a soft story
Daisies sw...
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Categories:
smarm, beautiful, flower, poetry, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Recounting Wounding Costs
...I know what it costs
to parent a tyrant
24/7
52 weeks/year
and yet avoid judging,
feeling guilty,
self-blaming shame
for all I am not sufficient,
yet.
I remember learning curious distincti...
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Categories:
smarm, caregiving, discrimination, emotions, feelings,
Form: Political Verse
A Sweet Little Lie
...I struggle to tell her this truth,
I consult with her pleasing smile.
Woe is a world where flaws exist,
As stains breed until flavors amend.
She hears me mince through fearful smarm,
Pandora hop...
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Categories:
smarm, confusion, funny, hope, muse,
Form: Free verse
My Rock, My Twin Lynne
...My rock, my Twin Lynne
Laura and Lynne
Not two, but one, twin
From the start, in the womb
Sharing time, past the tomb
The yang to her yen
The right to my wrong
Harmonious in song
The ligh...
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Categories:
smarm, best friend, family, growing
Form: Rhyme
Agga Aggrey
...He was once a well-built youth wielding young power
That waned little by little with every advancing hour,
Those days his upheld gait scared both man and beast,
Very stout and with less manly thin...
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Categories:
smarm, love,
Form: Rhyme
She Dont Know
...She's so captivating that she has my eyes wide like a hawk
But as always I'm contemplating maybe she thinks I'm a dork
I never quite know what to say to her and mutter every word
Everything ...
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Categories:
smarm, write,
Form: Rhyme
Glamour, Glamour, Glamour
...Glamour, glamour, glamour!
Where does it come from?
What does it form?
At first I thought it comes from French.
But no! In Scottish is the wrench.
In old days it meant proper grammar,
Today it’...
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Categories:
smarm, social,
Form: Free verse
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