The Festival of African Rain
...The natives have
(since the seventh month peeped
through the lean crescent eye of the moon)
worn cloaks of festivities.
They dance the rites,
squelching proudly in mud and green pools
of wate...
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Categories:
tremulous, africa, culture, rain,
Form: Free verse
The Festival of African Rain
...The natives have
(since the seventh month peeped
through the lean crescent eye of the moon)
worn cloaks of festivities.
They dance the rites,
squelching proudly in mud and green pools
of wate...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
tremulous, africa, rain,
Form: Free verse
Confronting Shadows- POTD
...On a dusky evening long time ago,
When shadows huddled at every corner,
When rain had gone and birds had roosted,
You held me close and whispered in my ear;
“In your eyes I see, th...
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Categories:
tremulous, beauty, lost love, missing
Form: Free verse
Volcanic Eruption of a Soul
...At times the soul gets clenched,
in an unspeakable grief.
In a demoniac grip,
it chokes and w r i g g l e s~
The pain of being stung by a dozen scorpions
or hacked piece by piece by an axe.
...
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Categories:
tremulous, angst, depression, pain,
Form: Free verse
Artistry of Poetry
...My pen is always near at hand, waiting
for my gentle grasp to give it the chance
to fulfill its purpose. It seems to be anticipating
being held as if we tango together in a ritual dance.
Whe...
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Categories:
tremulous, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Bird's Nest
...In the unpretentious backyard
Of my house— not a home,
Bloomed a bird's nest
Concealed concernedly
In the benevolent branches
Of the dear aged tremulous tree.
When I noticed the...
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Categories:
tremulous, appreciation, beauty, bird, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Sui Generis
...The sun opens her eyes behind a roseate veil,
her aubade harmonizing with Argus-eyed blackbirds
as it rises to a crescendo, staring in her husband’s
cratered eyes, ready to relieve him of his watc...
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Categories:
tremulous, analogy, beauty, love, spiritual,
Form: Prose Poetry
To Fly
...Confined within rusty iron bars,
grounded eternally
to hop and trip,
wishing to fly
into Heaven’s starry bower,
a bird b e a t s her wings in vain,
voicing her anguis...
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Categories:
tremulous, angst, bird, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Thought of the day
...this matrix is nothing but a template
wherein tremulous souls express intent
in timeless time, ego’s desires abate
whereupon fickle heart grants love consent
simply by following its sublime sce...
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Categories:
tremulous, god, life, love, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme Royal
I forgot what this poem was originally about
...Life hums with haste - the clock hands fly
thoughts slip past, clouds in the sky
like chalk on a rain-slick slate,
like the stars through a tremulous haze.
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Categories:
tremulous, 12th grade, time,
Form: Rhyme
Our life, our choice
...A thousand lives, a million fears,
tremulous smiles and painful tears,
we sip the brew, which is now stale,
bound to ego, who at us leers.
We fight for freedom tooth and nail,
yet demons we co...
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Categories:
tremulous, desire, fear, freedom, silence,
Form: Rubaiyat
Moonlight Over the Hill
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Written: January 23, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Regina Mcintosh
"There are twilight times when only the moon will muse on my misery." By POET.
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Categories:
tremulous, analogy, love, moon,
Form: Kyrielle
In My Deepest Fantasies
...Sunday cockcrow nascent promulgate aural essays reveal,
laissez-faire luscious lustrous buoyant raptures,
radio behemoth prompt to that untamed erudite fantasist,
me the one possessing rippled ra...
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Categories:
tremulous, celebration, character, confidence, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Celestial romance
...Earth woos Venus but she is resistant,
reflecting light of sol in the night sky,
mirrored by her lover who’s persistent,
that tango dancing, tremulous hearts sigh.
The girl next door is the bea...
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Categories:
tremulous, fantasy, love,
Form: Sonnet
For our eyes only
...As in the void we wingless fly,
stardust sparkles in our third eye,
orifice in fontanel whirs,
causing tremulous heart to sigh.
Divine magnetism within purrs
as flow of soma nectar stirs
pola...
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Categories:
tremulous, spiritual,
Form: Rubaiyat
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