were i dream'n
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normally
mine artist
hearz
smellz
feelz
thuh morn'ninz
crisp this early spring
yet
this a.m.
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Categories:
sylph, seasons, sexy, tribute,
Form: Romanticism
Firefly
...Firefly
We were sleeping on balmy nights
Blinds were awakening in sticky October
People were waiting and whispering during the flight
Mob was ecstatic and somber.
Sylph, a beautiful nymph em...
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Categories:
sylph, beauty, blessing,
Form: Free verse
spaghetti kaftan
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from thuh straps draping
hern shoulders
it's linen
flowing unto hern
hip's limb'z tramp's
digits
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Categories:
sylph, allusion, beautiful, blessing, sweet
Form: Romanticism
Flickering Dreams Beneath Stars
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Written: February 1st, 2025 For contest by Sponsored by: Brian Strand
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Tethered to a wick, flickering in...
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Categories:
sylph, dream, moon, nature,
Form: Free verse
Deciduous
...My springtime blood did flow a river’s rush
in stream bed’s cradle anchored to the land
as dreams rode jet streams to the cirrus strand.
I grew beneath the nimbus, thunder-lush
but autumn’s d...
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Categories:
sylph, birth, imagery, life, metaphor,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Memories of the Night
...The queen of the daylight lurks likes memories.
Then is gone her silky array of words in Bangla
Disappearing fast as the blue king of the night in Hindi,
She regains her place, moves back and forw...
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Categories:
sylph, best friend, cute love,
Form: Free verse
Mother Snap
...As I pivot to confront my offspring, I anticipate the sight of terror etched in their innocent eyes, a reflected horror that would mirror the abyssal darkness that has long resided within me.
Inst...
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Categories:
sylph, dark,
Form: Free verse
Birthday of beloved buxom babe I betrothed
...Birthday of beloved buxom babe I betrothed
Pardon my hyperbole if in fact such embellishment can be sifted out amidst the pretentious poetry and/or prose NOT aired to appear superior, but more so ...
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Categories:
sylph, anniversary, appreciation, birth, birthday,
Form: Free verse
Hollow Chest
...Bonfire fly it’s light high into the nigh
A flicker where I see you countenance
Ironically to splay the feast
In that glimmer
Something simmered
Two never be released
Touch me, rub me, kissy
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Categories:
sylph, dark, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Kissing Ghost
...An abattoir, a hymn of scythes severing flesh, is sung mellifluously by a siren with onyx scales. Bubbles in the twilight abyssal depths, a symphonic orchestra of eels gavotte. Orbs watch at these pr...
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Categories:
sylph, beautiful, dark, deep, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Vepertilian
...Lest I halt this pervasive thought that’s wiggling in to perform something indescribably ineffable. As repose in this boudoir, my ossuary exudes a graveolent aura, a baleful lust for the necromantic....
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Categories:
sylph, crazy, dark, death, deep,
Form: Free verse
Graceful
...The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low. Richard Carlson
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Categories:
sylph, analogy, appreciation, beauty, character,
Form: Rhyme
New Grounds To Shrink a Kiss
...I could feel the rhythm of my obscure
thoughts in sync
sturdy scrutiny, into the mirror
I glimpse deeply in the
reflection of the nymph
somehow I outwit the quixotic
hold of the sylph,
frig...
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Categories:
sylph, anger, break up, deep,
Form: Other
My Gypsy Muse
...“I can hear my muse whispering tenderly in my ear. There is a story that wants to be told, and I'm merely its chosen vessel.”
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Categories:
sylph, muse, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Elegance of the Night
...When the Moon fell in love with the night,
Her luminous knight held her ebony hand,
And the Earth twirled with the day out of sight
She wears a crown of constellations, a breath-taking sight,
A...
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Categories:
sylph, love, moon, night, romance,
Form: Villanelle
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