Echoes of Fading Light
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Written: June 11, 2025, for contest: Sponsored by: Constance La France
Quote: "When you seek love with all your heart, you shall find its echoes in the universe." By Rumi
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Categories:
unhurriedly, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
The 5am Call of Nature
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The birth of each new morning
like magic before my eyes
unveiling for a first time
over and over again
a sun unhurriedly rising,
patient in the flow
of everlasting time.
In that one early ...
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Categories:
unhurriedly, appreciation, morning, nature, sun,
Form: Free verse
In the inner garden where silence lays its mantle of blue dust
...In the inner garden where silence lays its mantle of blue dust,
The butterflies in my stomach have slept so long they seemed like stones,
Or perhaps they died in a winter of forgetting and cold sha...
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Categories:
unhurriedly, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Son, You Need A Haircut: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
..."A dressed day has disrobed into the depth of a drawer's nightstand."
(Oh, how positively awesome that what can be sorted out in such an explanatory pattern that a difference would maketh a day.)...
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Categories:
unhurriedly, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Prose
My Kind of Silence
...My secret love is silence;
to be alone in the loud clash and tumult
yet to be silent
and not have to speak, or acknowledge
the presence of anyone.
I need at least 3 hours of aloneness
not inc...
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Categories:
unhurriedly, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Solitary Retreat
...I take an unhurriedly walk
through the virgin forest
with paths fully covered with brittle leaves,
its trees emit mournful laments
to protest its anguishing fate until spring arrives
and transfo...
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Categories:
unhurriedly, culture, emotions, fear, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Reve Parisienne
...Walking in the back streets of Paris
On a warm balmy evening
Talking with a friend enjoying
The night and watching
As the people went on their way
Unhurriedly ,also enjoying the day.
The pa...
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Categories:
unhurriedly, city, dream, inspirational, paris,
Form: Narrative
March
...The calendar hanging on the wall says,
"Beware! It is yet winter,"
Though the night air whispers,
"Listen not to this."
The lashing rains, deafening and onerous, pass.
Frogs rejoice in loud, r...
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Categories:
unhurriedly, change, earth, march, nature,
Form: Free verse
Upside Down, Inside Out
...Hummingbird hardly heard,
airily, merrily
extraordinarily
effortless floating, near
weightless transparency,
seemingly without the
slightest of care.
Urgent persistency,
terribly panicky,
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Categories:
unhurriedly, nature,
Form: McWhirtle
Out of the Way
...*Image of Hikers Warning by Pixabay.
Out Of The Way
As a self-proclaimed ruler of my person, I am mindful of the internal convictions, external constitutions as Lord overseer of my ...
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Categories:
unhurriedly, death, perspective,
Form: Narrative
The Venerable
...At this trembling staggering age,
Dear deprived mother of,
I don't know whom,
Struggling to survive,
And might be survival of,
Someone, older than you…
Vending toys, ball-pens,
Sun-screens ...
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Categories:
unhurriedly, inspirational, life, old, woman,
Form: Free verse
The Hearse
...A foul breath of misty, cold, damp air
brushed across my cheek, caressing hair;
then, unhurriedly, around neckline
while slinking languidly down my spine,
which shivered at that, and eerie sound;...
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Categories:
unhurriedly, scary,
Form: Rhyme
I Am Stone
...I am stone kicked about on a grassy path,
boots stomping unhurriedly find their mark in me,
the owner seems lost in thought -
but the boots keep kicking me accurately,
I drift as in a dream, if s...
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Categories:
unhurriedly, dark, lost,
Form: Personification
Forgetting
...One of the pitfalls of growing older…as life heads into its December…is how the aging process plays havoc our ability to remember.
Things we remembered easily when we were younger…things which qui...
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Categories:
unhurriedly, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Slow Boat
...aspect allowing imbibes divine bliss
filling our form by gentle osmosis
felt within as a teasing love caress
rapture renewal with nothing amiss
ecstasy unbound within thus present
oft lets out...
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Categories:
unhurriedly, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
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