In the autumn that trickles slowly, like the sand through an hourglass,
The frost of the morning laments on the deserted pavement,
While the clock of the heart, with its ticking keeps measure,
Creaks inside me, reminding of an unfulfilled past.
On the edge of a forgotten newspaper, I read fates broken in the wind,
And from the ruins of hope, I rebuild a new purpose,
Memories tremble within me, lost loves, a burning yearning,
And the must of life, which sometimes, turns into dew wine.
In the drawer of the heart, where I hid dreams and desires,
I play with life, among rains and empty, grey days,
Conjugating the verb to be, in memories and reminiscences,
And in the night that swallows me, the clock at the gate beats for me.
I am the forgotten hero of a moment that got lost in the distance,
The apprentice of life, forever learning lessons of love and pain,
And when it hurt you, I felt a deep wound in my soul,
For in our silence, we buried words, without measure, without forgiveness.
Categories:
trickles, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
When the loud thunder died, clouds open a smile with sunshine.
Raindrops danced upon blush of scarlet petals, cleansing the warm earth.
Sparrows chirped an explicit scene engaging melody.
Petals trace upward akin blazing tongues, a quick kiss it asks
Moving blind and incoherent, cold wind spirit dejected
Blaze hues of love upon the sunrise, exhausted with passion.
9/22/2021
Your Best Sijo Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: William Kekaula
Categories:
trickles, bird, nature,
Form: Sijo
evening is silent
as gust trickles on asphalt
ruffling umbrellas ---
fingers in coiled position
grasp steel rod not letting go
Categories:
trickles, rain,
Form: Tanka
Softly touching deep cords vibrate within,
The song within my heart with golden notes begin.
As sadness flows trickling In Cello magic,
Soul's storm It Is flowing In Violin tragic.
Like a river babbling wild free,
The heart has no bounds where Love has to be.
Sweet dancing upon ripples of air,
A waltz In the clouds with dream's lady so fair.
Flowing Into an open ocean's waves,
Upon your golden heart your dream Love engraves.
Singing echoes haunting our world,
Dream's memories before us unfurled.
Rising salted emotions suffering powerless,
Sadness grows and the heart loses Its prowess.
Baited breaths shawled deep held Inside tears,
Cold Ice cube memories brittle Icing fears.
Floating breeze fluttering gently,
Touching desires In Love's flame diligently.
Touching each string cries out,
What tunes shall these strings shout.
A songbirds lament,
In grief It Is sent.
A piano speaks so softly,
As Its keys play music loftily.
Telling one story In tune,
That shall ever be told before moon.
How sweet your beautiful words sung deeply,
How they did touch my tender heart completely.
A Collaboration by Liam Mcdaid & Michael Clarke.
Categories:
trickles, beauty, emotions, feelings, heartbroken,
Form: Couplet
waterfall trickles
thawing ice releases drops..
moss 'pon rocks turns green
The frozen giant towers
Great mighty melting water
waterfall's moisture
seeps as spring awakes nature...
deer sups deep from stream
rain from mountain top
turns to mist as it comes down..
rainbow in my eyes
The bridal veil waterfall
Seen through Azaleas' blossoms
The morning day scents
Come blooming into my life
Melting waterfall
Russell Sivey & Sara Kendrick
This is a collaboration between Sara and myself.
She did lines 1,3,5
I did lines 2,4,6
Categories:
trickles, life, nature, water,
Form: Rengay
waterfall trickles
thawing ice releases drops...
moss 'pon rocks turns green
The frozen giant tower
Great mighty melting water
waterfall's moisture
seeps as spring awakes nature..
deer sups deep from stream
rain from mountain top
turns to mist as it comes down..
rainbow in my eyes
The bridal veil waterfall
Seen through Azaleas' blossoms
early morning scents
come blooming into my life..
melting waterfall
Rengay collaboration between myself and Russell Sivey..
We have been working on this for a few days now..
I wrote first, third, and fifth
Russell wrote second, fourth, and sixth
Categories:
trickles, nature,
Form: Rengay
Jesus said, "Love, love
your neighbor as self".
How can I love self?
Only through knowledge
That Jesus loves me
He loves me, He
really loves me.
He loves even
me, He loves me.
Love trickles
Outward, love
Trickles out
Love comes
Back too
Love
Sponsor: Dana Smith
Contest: Form Diminished Hexaverse. Topic Love Yourself
Categories:
trickles, faith, love,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Rain slowly trickles
Dribbles from blue asphalt roof
Wets ink 'pon page
"Twas dry dull work written by
The old poet as tears did flow
For Jimbo
Categories:
trickles, life, nature,
Form: Tanka
Take from the rich and give to the poor
Our country expects Robin Hood’s implore
From the top, trickle it down
Thanks from all of us, the clown
Now we must all wait for trickles to spore
For Contest: Economic Woes Limericks
In Honor of: Carolyn Devonshire
Placed #2
Categories:
trickles, funny
Form: Limerick
The rain trickles from a leaf
Drop by drop
Like punctuated grief
Or the drip
Of empty cup
Draining mercy to the dregs
We live at the edge of fire
So flammable
Our gullible hearts of sin
And so blind
As the forest burns closer
And I
I do not tell again by smoke
The world too acrid, lies
And I
Listening for dripping water
Hear
Mercy merely dripping from a leaf
Categories:
trickles, allegory, nature
Form: Free verse
As our longing smolders, wrecked
by basics we can't correct,
faith's fruit rots whole from neglect.
Nil can cure this forlorn state
as I suffer death's debate,
each tortured whim shall stagnate.
Frosted inside, clutching hope
while sliding down psyche's slope
to rattle each isotope.
These energies I've rendered
realize care surrendered
far from promises tendered.
Yet, I won't fall degraded
by expectation jaded
inside vacuums, unaided,
ignoring noble meaning,
basking in visions, gleaning
sympathy intervening
once our spirit flies, leaving
behind gravity's heaving
fortunes once worth believing.
Swelling forces must mature
if reservoirs shall endure
to offer essence to cure.
Categories:
trickles, forgivenesslonging,
Form: Monorhyme
the gentle trickles that are rain
fall down accross the roof tops
and hit the floor again
stars flicker in the nights lacey vail
as your memory returns to haunt me
screams a distant sorrow pain
voices in the back of my mind
drill through my sences and feelings
broken all my organs inside
my candle will burn no more
Categories:
trickles, song-
Form: Verse