Revealing Venus
...The sculptor became jaded with prostitutes
the young ones were vacuous,
their bodies unleavened bread.
The mature subjects
scored by the violence of disappointment.
Both the naive and the world-...
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Categories:
swathed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Zen mode
...God dwells within our form
holding erect our stance
swathed in mists cool and warm
in delight all nodes dance
endings mark beginnings
all we do is align
rapture rises, heart sings
bliss enl...
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Categories:
swathed, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
Evergreen
...jade firs stood on grass-grown scene
her slope swathed in verdant sheen
white frost came, a friend so dear
the woods remain, ever green
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Categories:
swathed, nature, snow, strength, tree,
Form: Jueju
Panning for Floating Gold
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Dawn blazed gold, as my quest for gold began.
I saw flickers of gold, twirl around the pan.
Flashing between, the pebbles and sand.
But then they arose, floating out of my hand.
Sunflowers fl...
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Categories:
swathed, dream, truth,
Form: Lyric
In Stars Above
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I heard the pious people say, angels live in heaven,
and with the pristine celestial beauty they glow
as the sparkling stars in the far away milky way,
but I know they often descend on earth t...
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Categories:
swathed, mother,
Form: Free verse
Silence Listens
...Silence listens to tremors of twilight,
spilled across shorelines bathed in lilac,
awaiting the soft sinking of the sun ~
soaked in storms of heavy heartbeats,
a Braille of dreams, a touch of se...
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Categories:
swathed, muse, silence, sky,
Form: Free verse
Is-ness of being-ness
...There are no moments which we need to count,
because we dwell in the eternal now,
with no fears or desires left to surmount,
as bliss mists rise within, which we allow.
With vibrant emptiness as ...
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Categories:
swathed, joy, spiritual,
Form: Rispetto
Silence in the Cemetery
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Written: May 28, 2025, for contest: Sponsored by: Constance La France
Quote: "If you come to visit my grave, my tomb will appear to dance."By Rumi
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Categories:
swathed, death, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Plagued By Memories
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In the splendorous sapphire space of my pristine heart,
shimmering in the sanctified radiance of the indigo night,
you gleamed like seraphic sequins of argentine moondust,
making me feel fas...
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Categories:
swathed, analogy, lost love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Blizzard Wizard
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To the skies...cries of have we sinned..the seasons spinned...winter grinned as before it’s really beginned...spring’s been sneakily binned..
That bitter wind does cheekily blow...delivers tingl...
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Categories:
swathed, nature, snow, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Koropuko Falls
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Hunger for perfectly placed punga path
Snakes surely slowly..garlanded scarf
Turns & rakes fern festooned forest floor
Sun dappled glade, bathed and swathed
Glorious green sheens in ...
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Categories:
swathed, nature, water,
Form: Rhyme
Crafting Collage Of Euphoria
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“The flight of butterflies designs in gloomy mind the collage
of ecstasy, framed by the beauty of life” – by Poet
My ebullient emotion replicates the wings of butterflies,
flutter...
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Categories:
swathed, analogy, beauty, hope, life,
Form: Free verse
Epitome Of Afterglow
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The smoky dust screen blows away far into the halcyon horizon,
the flotilla of cotton cloud sails in the concave depth of cobalt.
Bowed down slender blades of cinnamon grass sway
in th...
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Categories:
swathed, analogy, autumn, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Each star has a pattern of its Own
...The Moon
loves in lilac, sees in maroon,
swathed in gossamer and thyme of galaxies,
basking in the periwinkle pages
of my bejeweled mind,
as the night unravels a story
written in powdered vermi...
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Categories:
swathed, life, light,
Form: Free verse
the love of my life
...I surf through the silks
of his opium essence
swathed in moon-swept sparks
for this love stirs in silence
a verse sealed with fervent flares...
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Categories:
swathed, love, magic,
Form: Tanka
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