The art was most masterful on the dark canvas.
The intricate designs, having rich color crispness.
Blending strokes together, shades creating expression
Giving way to natural warmth of self-expression.
Clouds floating across the fess azure sky
Like sailing ships over serene sea going by.
On a sunny afternoon two barefooted boys
Beachcomb the beach, numb to surf pounding noise.
Leaving footprints behind unaware of the world around
Them, ignoring the resonant sonorousness sounds
Of the sea, and inland cold air ruffled hair.
They stand on golden sand, slight spume unaware.
1/30/2024
Categories:
sonorousness, imagery,
Form: Quatrain
Clouds adrift across the blue sky, like sailing ships over serene sea on a sunny afternoon. Two barefooted boys beach-comb for treasures that have washed ashore, on the warm sandy beach leaving footprints behind; listening to the resonant sonorousness sounds of the sea, as cold sea air rolling inland ruffles their hair. A calm wave silently creeps leaving a slight spume over the golden tanned sand, then slowly drawing back a breath, taking their footprints back with it into its turquoise depth.
The two weary boys walk away with sand on their feet, leaving footprints behind on the beach, as they carry a handful of seashells; the sun draws it curtains close, and the night yawns a whiff of cool air exposing its sublime moon.
4/29/2021
Sponsored by: Carolyn Devonshire
Contest Name: "Footprints" Old or New for a Prize
Categories:
sonorousness, beach, boy,
Form: Free verse
Summer beneath the azure sky,
Seagulls rest on the air ripple,
Outward, appearing so simple;
Loud and hungry as they go by.
Calm sea on a clear afternoon;
Lost in scented briny cool drifts.
Sound of the sonorousness lifts
Deep navy waters pleasant tune.
Two barefooted young boys basking
In the sun building sandcastles,
Exploring tides pools, sand-beetles;
They piddle round and keep looking.
They run against the ebbing waves
In mirth, and back as it rolls in
Breaking on the beach where it's been.
Waves emerge takes what beaches saves.
Sun yawns a whiff of cool damp air,
A day of fun upon their mind.
Two weary boys leave prints behind,
Sand on bare feet and windblown hair.
1/10/2021
Categories:
sonorousness, beach, boy, sun,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme