Illusions on Rivulet Path
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Written: May 15, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Crystol Woods
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I’m neither harmonious nor a hidden hymn
Who said I'm wedded to whimsy, lil...
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Categories:
teals, analogy, character,
Form: Ode
Awaken Australia'
...Hear me mates, before its too late.'
Get awake..Not woke! It'll send you broke.)
I have cried in anger.' In sadess and rage.'
At the counrys humilliation, and the world its stage
Its time to leav...
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Categories:
teals, change, character, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Magnolia Moments
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When I whirl as wind,
unwavering ~
surfing on
watercolor wings
of simmering seasons,
which flicker
and fly through me,
filtering my faults
with a wrinkled fantasy,
I waltz whi...
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Categories:
teals, deep, devotion, emotions, heart,
Form: Free verse
I breathe life
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Dear me,
I breathe you
in the pulse of erased promises ~
I'm a shadow in your space
and not any voice which can be heard
above restless mists,
so, when the crystals of change mo...
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Categories:
teals, deep, emotions, faith, life,
Form: Free verse
sensitivity
...If I numb my feels,
It won’t bring me chills for real
My eyes are of teals
Sensitivity —
It’s kills and breaks me sorely
Tremendously so
Don’t break me or else…
I’ll tear apart at the seams ...
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Categories:
teals, feelings,
Form: Free verse
K K K
...Kant komment keener
Loony labour greens and teals
Liberal loosers
Rorts and squeals..Alphabet soup
They they can't connect.'
Their voice was rejected.'
Whars up next?
Reckless toothles renewa...
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Categories:
teals, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Panagiota and Nursing School Memories
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Panagiota and The Autopsy
An autopsy, I found, educational to the max!
Those sacred, holy,human body parts, being
removed part by part.
Weighed on a scale, as if in a l...
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Categories:
teals, education, imagery, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Shaggy Dog Limericks V
...Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever (Toller)
To “toll” is to dance like a fox
Luring mallards or teals to the rocks
Where a hunter’s awaiting
What the dog has been baiting
Scaring duckie...
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Categories:
teals, 7th grade, animal, cute,
Form: Limerick
Reacclimating
...reacclimating after the climatic gavel falls
after sunrise and sunset and flamingoes
after wood, Rembrandts and aluminum
after prodigy, prodigal and guitar strings
and chatter. after all...
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Categories:
teals, art,
Form: Free verse
Falsehood Dwindling
...Hyacinths in a trance, bewitched by hysteria,
Amid the shadows of a mythological eclipse.
Elixir of roseate red oozing out loose progeria,
In islands where the sea weeps azure breaks.
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Categories:
teals, analogy, appreciation, beauty, bereavement,
Form: Pantoum
Ghostly Shadows Set a Murky Stage
...A dreary sun shoots its milk-warm and colorless sun rays that
in this jovial season should be harmonious and radiant;
raves themselves are wearing the funeral dress...
they croak, lament, and crin...
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Categories:
teals, appreciation, courage, death, earth
Form: Rhyme
Hello Spring
...slice of sun unchains
cascading blue waterfall
teals glide in deep lake
March 2, 2022
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Categories:
teals, spring, sun,
Form: Haiku
Gifted
...What would be of my life
Without insanity
It is this portal that opens at will
To massage my feeble mind
To understand that the finite
Is unreal
Ah dreams of colors that never will
Invade the ...
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Categories:
teals, life, light, love, self,
Form: Rhyme
The Wilderness Quail
...They named me the wilderness quail
I'm not as pretty as other birds are,
my feathers are golden, brown and frail;
I hide when a storm starts and my bizarre
behavior becomes fret, no stone pine
c...
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Categories:
teals, beauty, bird, happiness, longing,
Form: Personification
Sheep And Other Animals
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I: Sheep
(A poem about Covid)
next door to 19 chimneys
and 'the dark satanic mills'
a flock of sheep is grazing
oblivious in the hills.
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Categories:
teals, allegory, animal, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
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