7/14/2025
The splatter of sunlight on the azured-wall,
Does in soul- filled ecstasy brighten!
My soul to write in glory, an uplifting creation.
God, may all poets, their summered-words ,enlighten.
Categories:
summered, poetry, poets, summer, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Whispers of Autumn
Whispers of Autumn
Autumn wakes to an umber jubilee
In the splendor of scarlet reveries ~
When she shakes free these her golden tresses.
Now Autumn whispers an amber sonnet
In summered fields, for fading bluebonnets ~
Love poems float above forest undress.
Summer's ephemeral breath turns cold
In the oncoming blush of autumn gold ~
Frosty zephyrs pass with a silk caress.
Honeyed harvest of falling crimson leaves
Fill winding paths like golden handkerchiefs ~
Rhythms and rhymes of silver sighs that bless.
Sung sonnet gathers notes from spinning leaves
Portrait of spring in autumnal reprieve.
Categories:
summered, autumn,
Form: Sonnet
Summer deals its first hand
no bluffing behind her eyes
depression heated to irritating comfortless
catching tunes upon the air
that haunt from summered pasts
the clink of ice on crystal
Mowers scream from close by
a yapped chorus bites the air
the haze lifting from cement
for a moment ripples reality
then a falling wind chills
with the burning shadows
of anything stopping the sun's stretch
Categories:
summered, poetry,
Form: Free verse
seeking elusive violets
in shadowy patches
beneath jacaranda trees
a window of sunlight fell upon you
desiring your favor
despite rapidly descending sky mists
our eyes connected momentarily
my caramel riveted to your mountain pine
misted veil dropping quickly
my carnal plans subverted
by humidity’s mood
rendering song
unto that which moves air
eddies, curls and swirls
soon swept the fog like curtain afar
gathering buttercream yellow anemones
coupled with heather thick ferns and leaves
a bouquet of forest wealth gathered for you
requesting you spend the season’s breath
with me
we summered and beyond
a petite blushing hand held mine
swimming lost in your windswept sea
blood in my veins surged
at a savory full smile
chest leaping when your lips
formed the name I carry
meadow green vision sipping of my affections
greedy for every pearl of my wine
Categories:
summered, imagery, love,
Form: Free verse
The Messenger
I watched the clouds of afternoon
Gather tempest force;
Now, from a cozy shelter
View October's raging storm;
Watching through rain washed windows
Golden oak trees quake
While from their summered branches
Autumn treasures take.
Drops of glistening rain fall
From the clouds above
When darkening skies of eventide
Hurry bust'ling crowds;
Through storm winds call they homeward rush,
Not hearing autumn sing,
They search the night for quiet havens,
Shelter from the rain.
Children run along the street
Among the fallen leaves
Gathering autumn's artistry
Riding on the breeze;
The wind blows cold, time's messenger,
Of dark days yet to come -
Taking from the land its harvest
Making way for the ice blue sun.
Have published nine chapbooks of my poetry. The Messenger is one of the poems published in a chapbook titled Rhythms and Rhymes - Award Winning Writings.
All of the poems included in Rhythms and Rhymes have won a contest or an award.
My books are available through my website - www.samkservantsheart.com, or through me. That is an amazingly self serving piece of information but I thought I would include it.
Categories:
summered, autumn, october, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Wildflowers
Your words scream out the relative cynicism
Of an age that doesn’t believe
In anything –
Not God nor Goodwill
Nor possibility:
You label me a Pollyanna,
Mary Sunshine,
And a fool
For believing –
For grasping onto every positive mystery,
For staking claim to promises
Made in an ancient land of promise;
But,
Remember, my friend,
When we both awaken
In the same morning
Weary of the greyness
Deep
Within that place
Where life breaths life,
I will look up with a wrinkled grin
To laugh out loud
Embracing life
In the wind
Blowing through early summered trees
Keeping watch for the coming of the rain
Nourishing
Wildflowers of the fields - on mountainsides -
Blooming in August.
Categories:
summered, faith, flower, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Summer sun bakes the desert hot rocks near sand
Swimming pool, cool decking, green grass welcomes
Warmest season, diving board jump and splash
Smiles, laughter, enjoyment; now lunchtime chips and dip, with yummy ginger ale hums.
Sky blue, vivid green, sunshine yellow settle on summertime
Fruition, fulfillment, happiness, and beauty smile on
Family harvesting seeds sown in many good ways in summer attire,
Summer heat and summer crops getting ready for Independence Day dawn.
Picnic with spouse on grassy park hill enjoying soda pop
Vacation in June, July, August after summer solstice,
Summery dream a reality feeling cheered and happy
Glad we summered at our beach resort enjoying the sun’s full kiss.
Fourth of July red white and blue fruit parfait pudding dessert
Flavorful picnic enjoyment, Frisbee games frolicking in the park,
Time stands still holding almost timeless feelings and emotions of good happiness
Bang fireworks brighten the evening sky, freedom’s alive varoom in fireworks stark.
Categories:
summered, family, firework, happy, independence
Form: Rhyme
On a chilly night
while humanity snored,
love stormed
the world without a whisper.
With soft trumpet sound
Heaven chimed a melody,
pricking psychic ears.
Three men in the fields nudged
their flock, floated East
led by a winking star…
to a shack of manger.
Joy poured from their hearts,
gifts from their bags; heads Salaamed.
The thrilled night stilled
as the shepherds sailed back
under smiling stars,
rhyming with Heaven’s
tuneful song of the Lord:
Unto us a child is born;
Unto us a son is given...
It was on a chilly night
while humanity wintered
Love summered in a manger,
flooding the world with light.
© 2017 Celestine S Ikwuamaesi
Categories:
summered, christian, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Saint of Lust
Release these chains of tortured deeds
Along a sculpted veering hedge
Upon this path where darkness feeds
Of jagged cliff so near the edge
For one false move, beware ahead
Beneath the agony now shown
Within these eyes and lips of red
Sit heartless wishes winged and thrown
So find from me a hand so born
You maiden fair this summered breeze
To greet thy heart within this storm
Unshackle those in motioned ease
To lie with me of feathered dreams
And take of this, my soul can bare
Your beauty comes of all it seems
In flesh that I do long to share
For of thy skin my mouth does long
Aroused in pleasured flitting feast
Rose petal soft, magnolia strong
To sooth the yearnings of this beast
O’er endless days to hold you near
Pure love doth conquer moistened loins
Melodic whispers call thy ear
Eternally we shall be joined
For I am called the Saint of Lust
Come taste the flavor’s scented mist
Young soul now lost, misguided trust
As I partake your orphaned kiss
As evening whets this appetite
And shadows stand beyond the crest
My kingdom beckons of thy sight
O’ crowning jewel to quell my quest
Categories:
summered, dark, night, sensual,
Form: Rhyme
Grace had floated royal
among the sweet summered months,
and not a moment had passed
without the nectar of love;
Three feathered lords so fledgling
white-black,
sleeping white at noon,
'neath arbors brawn....
where the nestles are soft with love,
and dream to host all the world watching;
from horizon's scarlet painting pink
the billowed white hues ---
and black-purple from the Lord's smile
What crimson disguise five plumed hearts
beating as one,
return again o'er Swan Lake,
or with eternal love thy cherubin ponds;
with fountains swooning infinite grace
then they are gone.....
to privy their existence made,
sleeping black at night
('neath the gaze of tomorrow's moon)
the future brim with wind....
elder wings at dawn,
unto valor in evening's song,
fain to life again....
(flight of thy Royal Swan)
***Dedicated to the black swan and Queen's royal
swans of Ottawa***
Categories:
summered, animal, beauty, freedom, love,
Form: Classicism
09-25-2015
Summered Autumn Winter Bite
Abundant harvest
fall growth cycled lay
gather send a wheeler paid
festive heir praise life
Shortening days
kneads winter forward
home stead deli stock stack flue
baked chopped butchered cords
A shivering morning turns to light snow while unseasoned eyes study the hoar frost web of an architect; built during warmer wet days now slowly legging her icy fingers across an exposed neck the capture sweet with summer yield and autumn fill
Categories:
summered, earth, seasons,
Form: Pastoral
Summered through blazing sun at its zenith,
Canicular days ahead,
Tough it out, groom yourself !
Kimo - 10/7/6
Written on 2/6/14
Contest- A poem you have not entered in a contest #7
Sponsor- PD A
Ranked 11th
Categories:
summered, summer,
Form: Kimo
The cottage was small and squat
and set in a clearing
high above a summered vale.
The boy returned in dapper clothes
and holocaust mind and asked
to where it was he came.
Young eyes moved
along the winding road below;
his search had taken him
to wizards of resplendent robes
and sordid lies.
Listening to the whispering stillness
of wind kissed trees he sank within
to cleanse away a recent stash
of hand-me-down dreams.
He was a child of God growing weary
looking for the path
to Valhalla.
Categories:
summered, philosophy,
Form: Free verse