Long Winter Coming
...I see a long winter coming
(yes, I know)
the dull gray spreads ahead of me,
there ain’t no use in running
(if I could)
from yourself you can never flee.
There’s a long winter coming
(how’d I...
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Categories:
triviality, death, loss, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Ductile Grace
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Written: July 26, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann
Quote: "Be still, for the silence of God is the language of the soul." by Rumi
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Categories:
triviality, appreciation, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
A Mountain’s Idea of Love
...A mountain sits
And a river flows
A mountain suffers her tears
And the infiltration of life
Wildflowers necklace it
As the goats dance up and down its rocky parts.
It can wiggle off snow as w...
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Categories:
triviality, butterfly, change, cry, love,
Form: Free verse
The Court of injustice
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40 years passed
Judges came and went
Unrelenting dates continued
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Categories:
triviality, irony,
Form: Free verse
Triviality
...I sit in the shadow, being invisible
Looking at the clouds overhead
They float slowly as piles of snow
Or the jade carved white tides
The sun might forget its duty time
And tedious being with...
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Categories:
triviality, day, feelings, good morning,
Form: Verse
The stars and me
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They shine in the night
Billions of them, perhaps more
Disappear in the day
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Categories:
triviality, stars,
Form: Free verse
not happy
...Not Happy
This morning on a site. we saw the hotel where
Hemingway stayed to write an important book
We wait to see which bed he slept in, also
it is an ad when a site feels the need to out-bas...
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Categories:
triviality, absence, abuse, adventure, art,
Form: Blank verse
Jolted By Twilight
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The zephyr in dainty dusk ruffles sunk sun’s sequins,
ripples the radiant facade of the placid pond,
where on the lilting lap of a silken lotus leaf,
floats forlorn, rolls restless, a rain d...
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Categories:
triviality, analogy, life,
Form: Free verse
Transfiguration
...The human nature touched the divine nature on the hills.
The cliffs, rocks, and boulders were full of beatific thrills.
The future of your coming was seen in the present form.
Glorification of the...
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Categories:
triviality, jesus,
Form: Sonnet
In the ethereal quiet of twilight's embrace
...In the ethereal quiet of twilight's embrace,
Where shadows weave tales of existence and pale light,
Death steps softly, a silent harbinger, unveiling
The veiled truths that our lives have cloaked ...
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Categories:
triviality, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Enjoy
...Poetry usually brings me joy,
though honestly, I delight in any triviality.
A thousand small things brighten my day.
Like when you smile at me in the morning,
or when you ask me for a h...
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Categories:
triviality, beautiful, happy,
Form: Free verse
CHANCE POEM 060824 trifles
...open
&
banal
smatterings
submitted
weaved
& stretched
in
gratuitoius
pride
of place
triviality
amongst
the
representive
in
decline
slight
impulses
filte...
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Categories:
triviality, word play,
Form: Other
Full Moon Dream
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In the futile triviality
of the desolate wasteland,
a sunburnt solitary tree
languished a long while,
cast nonetheless
on the parched ground
a sensuous shadow,
my secret sanctum.
A...
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Categories:
triviality, analogy, fantasy, love,
Form: Free verse
Detachment Derivative
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In the dreaming domain
of dainty dawn
gentle zephyr flows,
ripples the radiant facade
of the placid pond,
where
on the lilting lap
of a silken lotus leaf,
floating forlorn,
rolls re...
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Categories:
triviality, analogy, feelings, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Through the shadow of thought and shards of questions
...Through the shadow of thought and shards of questions,
Where the soul dances among constellations,
Stretches in burning silence the difference,
That separates through valleys and peaks - a him fro...
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Categories:
triviality, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
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