Too Much Is Enough
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The sparkling dawn lights up
my heart’s ebony horizon after the onyx night,
spreads the sunburst colors of yearning
in the fervent garden of desire,
blossoming with the patina of my love,
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Categories:
swathes, lost love,
Form: Free verse
The Jungle Untamed
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Written: July 29, 2025 for contest Sponsored by: Constance La France
Quote: "You Are not a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a drop." by Rumi
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Categories:
swathes, earth, journey,
Form: Free verse
Those We Love
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“Those we love don’t go away,
they walk beside us everyday”,
become our lasting second shadow,
always close to us, we all know.
They fly in our secluded skies,
on silver-lined clo...
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Categories:
swathes, emotions, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Glimpses
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The grass waved hello
the birds called back.
Telegraph poles stood still
like tall slender trees.
the birds liked that.
the crickets a constant tickle in the ear,
swathes of brown grass boun...
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Categories:
swathes, appreciation, beauty, dog, earth,
Form: Free verse
Kaleidoscopic Sky
...Wild swathes of manic hues
struck ghostly angst in me
a fireball ambience
ensued and my banshee
wail at bright splodge ink sky
shattered stained glass moon’s glee...
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Categories:
swathes, anxiety, color, dark, deep,
Form: Verse
hiku - luck
...rich emerald fields
vast swathes of three leaf clovers ~
sweeping irish luck
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Categories:
swathes, beautiful, earth, imagery, magic,
Form: Haiku
Sky of Silk and Bliss
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Written June 5, 2025, for contest: Etheree Of Your Heart - Sponsor: Ink Empress
Syllable count verified: www.howmanysyllables.com
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Bree...
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Categories:
swathes, analogy, beauty,
Form: Etheree
Sanguinity
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Mystique mist Shrouds the penultimate pathway
to the future fading Away in the obscurity haze.
At the onyx edge of Night the tunes of sunset swansong sway
th...
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Categories:
swathes, feelings, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Emotional Shrapnel
...Continuous cathartic resonance of black bashful veil,
imposing the darkest recess and its tangled tantrums amassed,
phases exist without problematic manifest intrusion illusory but for a while,
th...
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Categories:
swathes, anxiety, august, change, courage,
Form: Free verse
Missing Window
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Gloom descends upon my head,
Think it will never end.
Paint brush comes out,
Primary colors flit about.
Across the canvass in wide swathes.
Inked in buildings,
Some don...
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Categories:
swathes, 12th grade, color, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Thrust In The Centre Of The Storm All I Could See Was You
...Serrated swathes of overwhelming savage gusts without compassion,
directionless dilatory daydreamer that I am ostensibly vulnerable,
to the serendipitous intrusion at a wispy sapphire cloud flacc...
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Categories:
swathes, angst, anxiety, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Light
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‘I was born with the meaning of home running through my veins.’ - Lauren Eden
the road to travel is long
wheels of time turn in last lap
on the path turning to subterranean river
incis...
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Categories:
swathes, analogy, home,
Form: Suzette Prime
Skating Upon Saturn's Rings
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In
cosmic
wilderness
icy rings swirl
with frozen rock dust
in thin ribbons on flight
in solar system unique,
around the sleeping Saturn far,
as it’s leftover wandering waste,
mak...
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Categories:
swathes, analogy, dream, fantasy,
Form: Etheree
I Dived Into The Cauldron Of Magic Potion And
...Catapulted into seething temperatures beyond the imagination
risking excitement in escapades that may seem inane,
potential hazard weighted against predicament predestined,
at some future stage I...
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Categories:
swathes, adventure, character, courage, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Upon a dark and stormy night
...Upon a dark and stormy night...
as jagged bolts of lightning
tore thru the the midnight clear
and figuratively ripped the sky to shreds
(analogous to jumping Jack flash),
and ear splitting thu...
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Categories:
swathes, absence, america, animal, character,
Form: Free verse
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