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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

Premium MemberFlickering 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



Premium MemberThe Breath Of Summer: Saturnian II--SCHEMATICS ONLY

...A stretched gloaming tethers creation in a 
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daystar's wake ... askew parts The Old Guitarist 
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ebbing lambent stars strung to a yarn...
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Categories: sonder, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Personification

Premium MemberThe 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



Premium MemberThe 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

Premium MemberSongs 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

Premium MemberDawning 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

Premium MemberQuixotic

...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

Premium Membersonder

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shooting star -
     will my wish 
  weigh it down...
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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

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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

Premium MemberSelenophila

...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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