Stillnesses Poems | Examples


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How Still The Waters Rage

How still the waters rage
In stillnesses of day
Moving tranquil on their way
Across the placid page,
While simmering beneath
In silent, stormy stare
The torrent underneath
In boiling cauldron glares – 

Between the lines the blanks
Bespeak in volumes swept
Words unheard in all their strength
Speak, where they are kept
Beneath the calmness of the page –
How still the waters rage –

Intimate Space and Stillnesses

Her beautiful misty eyes,
And sensuous soul,
Exotic and soft,
As rose petals,

Warm as candles,
And bright as crescents,

Are lost,
In the intimate space,

And,
Surreal,
Stillnesses,

Like,
a melody,
and,
her,
Love
Reynaldo Casison

Premium Member Timed Out

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Web Dancer

Spinner, jammed into the vibration.
  Collecting stillnesses and morning dew.
    Waiting instantly for the beloved
               web dancer.

       Splayed, unusual balance,
moved by the music of wind and wisp.
  Captivated in the net of longing.
        Caressed, tightened!
       A fitful passion. Bitten!
      Swooning, overflowed.
Spinner spins her, then kisses 
      with the same
          kiss the beloved does kiss.

     In that melding, merging,
   melting, 
              drinks slowly.

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