Light that lights all lights
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Written: December 05, 2024 for contest Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker
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Line of inquiry:
“we look for that light eternal ...
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Categories:
stoutly, analogy, light,
Form: Rhyme
Hope Fulfillment
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Written: September 24, 2024, For Mohan Chutani Minichu Contest
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My fate brilliance award
I'm stuck on a small path, getting wick...
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Categories:
stoutly, analogy, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Power of Words
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Written: May 10, 2024
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Cosmic candor will be suitable
beyond our sight, providing insight
we sift and shift, sustaining a sanctum...
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Categories:
stoutly, analogy, words,
Form: Free verse
SWEETER AS THE YEARS GO BY
...When we’ve commenced this journey of love, so profound.
Our hearts are filled with hope that our love may abound.
Hand in hand, we embarked this relationship anew,
And through the years, our love ...
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Categories:
stoutly, anniversary, love, marriage, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Aunt Rose
...Politely stood
with feet together
and socks not up
resigned and ready
the boy awaits
as towards him sails
coos and quivers
powered cheeks
and bright red lips
gently lifted
and tightly ...
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Categories:
stoutly, family,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Misty Circumlocution
...Coming together like living magic, breaking liquidity apart
More infused with passion, that never has an end or start
Strongly vibrant with rhythmic silent sounds, that be still a stoutly content b...
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Categories:
stoutly, art, beautiful, beauty, color,
Form: Monorhyme
Perchance To Dream
...Do you ever look forward to falling asleep...
In hopes of escaping into sweet dreams so deep? :)
If you dread nightmares, careful what TV you watch
(My advice: E.W.T.N. is topnotch!)
Could re...
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Categories:
stoutly, bible, cheer up, death,
Form: Couplet
Pain
...Dartmoor in a rainy morning light
On the shoulders a well full pack
Regulation fifty six pounds hanging
On an already near breaking back
Marching on a compass bearing
No deviation allowed
Hour ...
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Categories:
stoutly, adventure, humor, rain, soldier,
Form: Rhyme
Once Submerged Beneath the Dark, Accursed Sea
...Once Submerged Beneath The Dark, Accursed Sea
Darkened winds beyond the long and hidden veil,
Rising sea its calm repose then casts away,
From some distance away, moaning church bell
Calling fa...
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Categories:
stoutly, art, death, deep, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Con Carnage
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Mere husks remain,
unnaturally strewn,
lying by the dozens
on a red-soaked field.
Once stoutly girded,
masking fiery resolve
underneath unassuming
exteriors, naught but the
faintest...
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Categories:
stoutly, food,
Form: Elegy
10,99 Special
...I cut my flowers too short.
My billowing, green vase drowning their maternally short stems
and never-blooms.
Within a week’s time, (and I know this)
The leaves I neglected to p l u c k
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Categories:
stoutly, allegory, analogy, mother,
Form: Free verse
Surrounding Astounding Sermon
...priest were surrounding
sermon had been astounding
so clearly sounding
always stimulate
we knew that it would be great
to hear can hardly wait
sermon heard by God
which He would give it Hi...
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Categories:
stoutly, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
The Story Weaver
...In a garden filled by inky night
she reads by fairy firelight
with dreams of magic and of cheer,
in a land when fantasy draws near.
Where unicorns flutter in mid-air,
and fairies shimmer with ...
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Categories:
stoutly, childhood, fairy, fantasy, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Henry
...Bellow, snarl and luster
listen to the mighty roar
of crimson green and mellow beam
and crook and flame and muster. We cluster
drawn to creaky oak and misty morn and poplar,
birch and cedar, sme...
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Categories:
stoutly, england, history, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Vision
...An ample quantity of faith
I Preserve
A Sample of filtered love, please
To my reserve.
Almighty, I am a humble bee
Surrounding and singing you
I wish to be
A small ray is enough
For me to sta...
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Categories:
stoutly, devotion,
Form: Free verse
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