SOFTLY DAWNS THE DAY
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Daylight unwraps the hues of the world with an awakening magic. Early morning comes as a promise kept, bringing a sense of serenity, a peace that invited itself into my soul and made itself at home.
softly dawns the day
morning's gentle whispers sweet
summer's warmth awakes
Categories:
unwraps, 12th grade, day, morning,
Form: Haibun
Somehow, the deluge of cloudburst
unwraps my flesh pallid, as if to spill
holy water--maybe thickened dew—just
to give a name to lapses of my unheard cries,
while an insolent breeze fails to listen
as I howl in utter despair of life's requiem:
The thistle of wet soil chains my feet
anchored unto the swell of memories' bend;
remaining distant in an unknown,
vacant cemetery nourishing a loneliness
only vagrants like me could bear:
A scream of rain compels a thirst
to feed on abrasions of ghastly pang...alone,
isolated from new moonlight's lodging
my solitude, my invisible frame starts to sigh
behind the roughest of rain's marbled stone---
How can fresh mornings be so darn bleak?
Categories:
unwraps, bereavement, death,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The sky unwraps a silver veil,
Each drop a hymn, so soft, so pale,
As rain begins its tender play.
It drapes the earth in crystal lace,
With every bead, a sweet embrace,
A gentle calm on Christmas Day.
The lights reflect in puddled grace,
Like stars descended, face to face,
In every splash, a dream will stay.
Oh, how I love the rain's refrain,
Its hush more pure than caroled strain,
A holy hush where hearts can pray.
Categories:
unwraps, happiness, imagery, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Poetry unravels and unwraps my soul in a way
My senses are wildly awake to absorb the sights
and mellifluous sounds of the world reigning my spirit,
My heart opens to the sublime vermillion sky,
To the melody of sapphire waves lapping on the shore,
To the magical harmony of acoustic bird-songs!
My senses are entranced with the chimes of temple-bells,
I am spell-bound, beauty of the Universe becomes mine!
Categories:
unwraps, bird, ocean, poetry, sky,
Form: Free verse
Two friends had emerged as fellows would,
And shook swore they ought not under oath
Be they two travelers, long time stood
They both looked at one pass par as good
The other went next to an outgrowth
And he took the one, twas just as near,
Yet trolling unwraps a likely stain,
As he was darkened amidst despair
He hoped and prayed his blessings is there
Not torn in shame but in truth remain
That two shared talking about that day
Reprieve steps taken accused of lack
So he held faith for another day
Still knowing all this from day to day
He know he will never stab his back
He'll face him and say, free for eyes see
In future time as his mind digest
Two souls emerged but one stood, twas he
He while one less friend, and lethal be
His absence made him like Icarus.
Categories:
unwraps, analogy, parody, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Melody from flute
Unwraps my immersed feelings
Senses touched divine
Innermost emotions surge
Cadence fills the air sublime
Categories:
unwraps, feelings, music,
Form: Tanka
You try to make them civilized and grown-up,
but the words are infants,
they want to crawl around and yell for a bit.
You know that an eye is upon you.
watching you in that whelping room
where creation rearranges molecules
into a planetary system of speech
made of matchsticks and glue.
A poem is about to be splashed,
onto a speeding window of light.
Logic and reason must first
bash their bulbous heads together,
until their mechanical, self-winding brains
fall out.
The collective humming of incubators,
begins to lipread your silence.
A process similar to hand washing.
Eventually a swaddled indigenous form,
unwraps itself,
it begins to walk upright.
Matchsticks and glue
form readable fragments.
You begin to hope,
that someone inside that watching eye
will name what you have done -
even attempt,
to explain it to you.
Categories:
unwraps, poetry,
Form: Free verse
"You're born to write", my soul says…
Do I believe her, or doubt!
Writing unwraps deepest thoughts,
Layers of my heart!
Categories:
unwraps, writing,
Form: Dodoitsu
The under urge of your undressed drama
delays the days of reckoning damage,
seeking to seethe longer
in the silence of a shuttered subconscious,
then, without waste
a sublimity of humming humility
enters your electric ego,
through eardrums of lavander longing
Himmalayan horns engulf your heart,
the sound of ancient new sublimation
scintillates on the soul's skin,
regeneration from renegade repression
unwraps itself lusterous and loving
upon the warmth of your teething truth,
the truth that beckons
for the beauty of your erupting integrity...
J.A.B. 2023
Categories:
unwraps, love, mental health,
Form: Epic
I am a Nightingale…
singing a song of lavender dreams and hopes, under an ultramarine canvas blending turquoise sky and sapphire ocean,
twilight moon flickering ribbons of love,
my audience - the pearlescent clouds, gleaming stars, souls with a poetic heart!
Taken from my Poem " Writing Unwraps My Soul"
A Brian Strand Shortie Poetry Contest
Categories:
unwraps, bird, poets,
Form: Free verse
An old lady from Bristol,
Walks around with a bag of menthol,
She unwraps and licks,
Every time she an answer seeks,
An old lady with a heart like a ball.
Categories:
unwraps, funny, giggle, humorous,
Form: Limerick
In college, my sorority
Required us to learn
The alphabet in Greek,
Which we recited in our turn.
Since then, I’ve used it rarely –
In a crossword clue, perhaps –
As my brain recites those letters
That my memory unwraps.
Lately, though, with Covid’s Delta
And now Omicron’s new streak,
There’ve been many more occasions
To recall my long-lost Greek.
Categories:
unwraps, memory,
Form: Rhyme
rain unwraps feelings
exchange of fervent glances
falling in abyss of love?
crimson hued twilight
breeze oozes lemon fragrance
is love ever-lasting? Yes
July 11, 2021
Bite-size Poem No. 17 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
Categories:
unwraps, love, memory,
Form: Haiku
rain unwraps feelings
of eyes filled with deep passions,
am I wrong? love doesn’t deceive ~
drenched and shivering,
chartreuse waterfalls descends,
kindles love? back where began ~
July 11, 2021
For " Bite-size Poem" No. 13 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
Categories:
unwraps, love, rain,
Form: Verse
Broad reach branches, dark scarred where limbs emit
Bounce shade places, host seat of friendship
Parasitic Mistletoe grows yellow finger medicinal cure
Administered in tinctures mixed by druid pure
Ailing then prevaing, seas writhe with full school fish
Activated magic captured unwraps each wish
Ordained as safe keepers for an original environment
Aeromancy conjurs storms, thus alter climate
Warriors tosseling with authority implement petitions
Praised psychic saints deploy predestination
Sigil symbols fester desire for securing forest density
Hydrophants, flaminica consult power of Siri
Circle hospitable to village folk, sitting without seam
Cherishing nature draws them in daos creed
Respectful ring around mother, wizened mighty Oak
Nature maintained deity, optimal aim evoked
17th December
- Celtic champions -
Categories:
unwraps, age, appreciation, environment, international,
Form: Couplet
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