spring's breath
my breath of air ~ fresh and cool ~ from staccato raindrops
Contest: Spring Monoku
Contest Judged: May 25th, 2025 6:10:00 PM
Sponsor: JCB Brul
Placement: First
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Categories:
staccato, cool, rain, spring,
Form: Monoku
Keep the Faith
To hang your head in shame for past that feeds
the thoughts you cannot tame, rehashing deeds.
‘Look up! Look up!’ at blinding light;
His Grace: display of awful* might.
Relentless worldly worry brings you low.
Look up at blessings He on you bestow.
The world we might have seen through narrow lens
could make us very keen to jump the fence.
‘Keep
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Categories:
staccato, faith, religion, religious,
Form: Other
Staccato Call
Symbols crashing on each side of the head;
One side magnificent, the other side, dread,
Violins play their calming current,
Bass and Cello raise anxious annulment
My caller is happy, but he carries both dire and grand news,
Someone precious, in trying to lose
Lose his youth, and play his own symphony fine,
By leaving his home a new conductor to find.
And
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Categories:
staccato, confusion,
Form: Couplet
Staccato
Hi,
it's me...
what?
..say again
No..
ok
..maybe
tomorow:
I'm fine
with that..
no,
no,
...really!
why
do
you ask..
of course
I will..
you
know
I do
why?
..you
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Categories:
staccato, i love you,
Form: Verse
Staccato Heart
Sometimes I think you can hear
The raging tide in my chest
Sending waves to my throat.
Do you see them crest at my wrist?
Plunge, recede, and plunge again -
Your undertow has sucked me in.
Like skipping stones over water,
My staccato heart is lost at sea.
No metronome can tame it.
No borrowed breath can save it.
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Categories:
staccato, confusion, loss,
Form: Free verse
Staccato Roots
Surly songs
Played by hungry men
Plucking staccato roots
Spotted chords of dried dearth
Cleansed in strummed pots of boiling verse
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Categories:
staccato, allegory, angst, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse