I'll match that fire
...I'll match that fire.
I'll throw all this desire and allow you to inspire. Poof. Don't you want to go higher?
High above the clouds.
High above to the forever broken permanent place.
The place th...
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Categories:
vault of heaven, allegory, birth, universe,
Form: Free verse
Hermann Hesse translation of 'The Poet' and 'Without You'
...The Poet
by Hermann Hesse
translation by Michael R. Burch
Only upon me, the lonely one,
Do this endless night’s stars shine
As the fountain gurgles its faery song.
For me alone, the lonely ...
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Categories:
vault of heaven, hair, lonely, love, night,
Form: Free verse
Star of the Sea
...Star of the Sea, dolorous and Byzantine,
throw your royal blue cloak over me,
She who weeps, La Llorona in Kahlo’s Casa Azul, paint my heart
gold under a prehistoric cobalt blue vault of heaven,...
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Categories:
vault of heaven, appreciation, love, prayer, sea,
Form: Free verse
cumulonimbus
...they rose majestic and magnificent
and swirled before my eyes
they stole my breath my heart
transported floated in the sky
and to the count of seven
I stood suspended in the vault of heaven
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Categories:
vault of heaven, beauty, fantasy, heaven, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Raindrops 2
...
Lugubrious blue mood skies funereal and morose shed raindrops,
they unleash tableau vivant torrent’s wet tranche,
blessing, bane or boon from vault of heaven,
damp pearl blob bewitching...
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Categories:
vault of heaven, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, celebration,
Form: Grook
Upon silver tracks, in moments held in suspense
...Upon silver tracks, in moments held in suspense,
Gentle steps of angels are faintly heard, idly interlaced.
The vault of heaven quivers in translucent azure;
Through the eternities creeps a divine...
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Categories:
vault of heaven, christmas,
Form: Free verse
The Bliss of Solitude
...In life’s incessant din
As I search for peace within
Lone spaces I desire
And stillness I adore
Then silence is my mate
And noise is what I hate
Closing my eyes to the outer space
A window o...
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Categories:
vault of heaven, beauty, peace, silence, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
Exegesis Rhapsody
...A rainbow looms outside the window
however, she lingers quietly
for the slight strips to portray twilight
as her predominant shrewdness
strive exegesis in the vault of heaven
and the...
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Categories:
vault of heaven, analogy, rainbow,
Form: Free verse
Hope
... A rain cloud gliding like a dove
Between the vault of heaven above
And the parched land below
June.8.2022
Placed Tenth
A Brian Strand Premiere Choice Poetry Contest...
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Categories:
vault of heaven, hope, rain,
Form: Tristich
Ocean Dreams
...Deliver me into blue oh ocean blue and glide me through your waters blue
Sail me to the waves of calm waters in silence, motion me to your waters
as the foam gathers round the edges of the shore, ...
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Categories:
vault of heaven, appreciation, memory,
Form: Narrative
Heaven's Infinite Stage
...An amber moon rises...
Hanging at the Edge of the World.
Against that oily old black sky;
Heaven's Infinite Stage.
Its Grace is old and precise.
A curious, hue of Cyclopean pyres,
slicing the...
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Categories:
vault of heaven, allegory, allusion, analogy, angel,
Form: Free verse
Prophets of An Automatic Atomic Night
...Where a newborn star lights
the vault of heaven under the sky
sapphire, high!
You can find it there,
Not the product of a god or some such!
But, man in his madness brings annihilation
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Categories:
vault of heaven, abortion, abuse, addiction, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Shift
...I shift the car into drive
it slides into the vast
mystery of night
far down the road passes
A road less traveled by the masses
A dark vault of heaven encompasses
as sleep drifts
stars f...
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Categories:
vault of heaven, adventure, allegory, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Oculus Is
...OCULUS
Is…
…about the MOON, its power, its mystery, its simplicity?
Its light is soft a pail reflection
Of its son.
The one always on the run.
The moon is an oculus of cold white a...
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Categories:
vault of heaven, adventure, allusion, art, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
Gas Station Lights I
...Glowing gas station lights, bright
In the smooth endless night
The car rambles on
Down the desolate road
Many shadows have past
Where the indigo black sky is filled
Stars spangle the vault of ...
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Categories:
vault of heaven, adventure, age, allegory, angst,
Form: Free verse
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