Meraki
...Always remember Meraki
In a time that is fleeting
And will soon be gone
In the moment I am alive
And my soul at peace
Oh how often we forget about sonder
A raconteur can only say so much of...
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Categories:
sonder, appreciation, beauty, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Flickering Dreams Beneath Stars
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Written: February 1st, 2025 For contest by Sponsored by: Brian Strand
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Tethered to a wick, flickering in...
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Categories:
sonder, dream, moon, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Breath Of Summer: Saturnian II--SCHEMATICS ONLY
...A stretched gloaming tethers creation in a
U - - U || U UUt U U - || U - X
daystar's wake ... askew parts The Old Guitarist
U U - || U UUt - || U U U U - X
ebbing lambent stars strung to a yarn...
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Categories:
sonder, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Personification
The Breath Of Summer: Saturnian I
...A stretched gloaming tethers creation in a
daystar's wake ... askew parts The Old Guitarist
ebbing lambent stars strung to a yarn of spring ...
'Tis the volley of calendrical crasis
poised t...
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Categories:
sonder, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Personification
Ephemeral World
...No mortal should be fooled by the worlds ephemeral splender,
have people lost their souls?
or just unable to feel Sonder.
Modest the kindful may seem,
but be aware of what kindness may render.
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Categories:
sonder, conflict, confusion, death, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
The Example, A Grab Sample
...Spree three quite legal vehicles at a four-way intersection by selection,
suddenly,
abundantly,
glaring,
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Categories:
sonder, allusion, analogy, assonance, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Songs of Nature COS No 10: ABBA
...Melts to a smooth touch that norms Autumn's eve,
eyes calm swans ballet, glissades silhouette,
faint lights pair, a porcelain minuet.
A curio stand, well placed, best achieve.
Nice culled singles...
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Categories:
sonder, analogy, appreciation, meaningful, motivation,
Form: Sonnet
Cosmos
...We are finite beings in an infinite space;
We are thrown in at the start,
Pushed into the unknowable depth
Of the darkest waters, without warning.
Sometimes we take pause,
Allow ourselves to ...
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Categories:
sonder, allegory, beautiful, celebration, graduate,
Form: Free verse
Dawning Poetic Dreams
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I'm an enlightened
equinox, strolling in
faded universe,
dreaming poetry in
susurrus serenades
of rustling
ruby-leaves which
whisper cool
beamish hues
to my autumnal-
quartz hear...
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Categories:
sonder, autumn, betrayal, dream, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Quixotic
...In a world where dreams are rakish and quixotic,
Where quiddity seems extravagantly chaotic,
A chivalrous soul dares to be different.
With a heart that beats fervently, so magnificent....
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Categories:
sonder, analogy, appreciation, creation, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
sonder, anxiety, blessing, childhood, faith,
Form: Senryu
How Great Thou Art
...I
Wednesday, in Eastern Cape Province,
The God of the night and of New days
Was gently then greaty praised
Glory, at a senior center, South Africa
II
Old folk, with few family visiting, bus...
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Categories:
sonder, appreciation, bible, caregiving, creation,
Form: Free verse
The Marble Stones
...Silent Stones
Granite and Marble
Testement to our Mortality
Sun gazes brightly, blinded by sonder
Upon memorials to our fatality...
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Categories:
sonder, dark, death, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Starry Night
...The stars shine, indifferent to what was and what will be.
In a way, the night sky, as beautiful as it may be, is the most nihilsitic thing one may look at
The same stars remains unchanged- from Ar...
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Categories:
sonder, appreciation, i love you,
Form: Free verse
Selenophila
...Image of Moon Clouds Air provided by Pixabay.
*Selenophila
Ballet of calm swans glissades, silhouette
placed culled singles tryst, pond sides by vast knoll,
balters few burbl...
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Categories:
sonder, color, moon, night, sky,
Form: Sonnet
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