Write Sunset Poems

Written: Apri 26, 2024 For Joseph May Contest

2. Tangerine sunsets composing chrysanthemum hymns

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Along the South Banks,
I sat staring at the river
Shimmering in city lights,
Ferries gliding by,
Occasional airplanes in the sunset sky
With a half-baked moon,
All reflections are converging...

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Orange sunset, shining like rusty gold 
Parting beautifully as day grows old 
Towards the hill where I stand 
Its parting smile, so fair and grand...

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"Sunsets are loved because they vanish." - Ray Bradbury 

Days like this, I could forget
If they were all to vanish,
Come to an end in a...

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Don't go down sun
Please stay up a little more
Your colors are spectacular
And though I've seen them all before
I never seem to tire
Of beholding pretty things
And...

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Amber sunsets streak the sky
Reminiscent of millennia encased in resin
For the patterns across the heavens
Hold fast all that passed through

So we stare in wonder
If not...

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Kaleidoscopic  - Collab with Jo

Enjoying the kaleidoscopic view, 
As the sky changes to a brilliant hue, 
Songbirds fly across the clouds to their home,...

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What person would dare decry
the wonder of sunset's sky.
Before light begins to fade
Sunset's colors on parade!

Crimson, gold, even a pink.
we pause and begin to think
Of...

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Comets

Little comets
Large comets
Fabulous comets
Green blue
Violet and red
Comets
They have amount
Of dust and ice
Cold dark and hot
Sun makes them more
More beautiful in skies
How mesmerizing and 
Enchanting comets...

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Good day, Sun;
so nice to see you.
At my age, despite 
what odds I give I 
can't get anyone to bet, 
all wagering off, as to...

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Does he notice? I scribble,
gripping my writer’s notebook
with the steady grip that I can only
manage when on vacation.
I write about the way he stands,
face to...

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It's seven o'clock and the sun is setting.
It's my least favourite thing about fall.
Too soon it will be days so short
we wonder if they were...

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The sun slides as do fingers on the smooth surface of satin
below the horizon in silent surrender as surly clouds creep 
across the scarlet and...

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a red sunset lights the sky
as if over Dante's damned inferno
fierce fiery colours lashing out
across the horizon's jagged ridge

the fangs, they gnarl and menace
they growl...

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as I look out to
         sea, I remember
      how we used to...

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