Northern Hemisphere bound, up past the equator
Sun rising, blue skies and temperatures getting greater
Away from the stalemate of winter tide
Springing and scampering forth untied
Fresh exuberance in the air
Beautiful bodies moving everywhere
Blues and Reds just a flappin' and a chirpin'
Children laughing, playing, and slirpin'
Verdures greening with life
Man relinquishing all artificial strife
Beautiful butterflies, black and yellow
Sipping on lemonade and feeling quite mellow
Ahhhhhhh!
Chipmunks and squirrels sprightly moving in search of food
Energy, so much energy got me in a salubrious mood
*Image of Abstract, Yellow, Fireflies provided by Pixabay.
Aliferous Light
Fireflies glint yon verdures lush blades
in their trancelike swells midst farmlands
stilled beasts ... surreal stars charades
shadowy realm lone moon commands.
Zephyrs thrust e'er more, rousing whole
fireflies glint yon verdures lush blades
deign wrenched ... ethereal control
neath nascent twilight's hazy shades.
Winged beacons currents dusk evades
dreamlike bugs e'er so oft lithe frames,
fireflies glint yon verdures lush blades
where breeds unreal orphic claims.
Languor beetle's their temporal flights
... imaginary thoughts cascades
prompts a fond adieu, dimming lights,
fireflies glint yon verdures lush blades.
2021 May 30
*3rd Place*
Writing Prompt - Dreamlike
~~Constance La France: Judged 2021 June 02
Orphic consecration, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Dédicade d’Orphée by T. Wignesan
Here am I back from the other dubious bank
where Orpheus’s abandonned lyre laments
the wind down there fills my veins dizzy drunk
and my redoubled hangover numbs my senses.
After having used up my human resemblance
mauve moons of Hell have gotten me in a spin
My eyes ? two diamonds of winter or two fountains
which stare at an immutable sun and remain frozen.
Similar tree springing deep roots, blind to murmurs
shakes in its sleep nocturnal verdures
where defunct suns ripen forgotten :
Very same tree that by day the light violates
bereft of foliage, bereft of birds, clawing at clouds
curses summer with its huge arms anathème.
(from the collection Sodome, O.C. t. I, p. 253)
Note : Sonnet’s original rhyme scheme :
abab, abab ccb, ccb
© T. Wignesan – Paris, October 6, 2014
amazingly beautiful, colorful dazzling
eloquently flowered gems,harmony
irridescent, junebugs kissing lilies
milking natures opulent petunias
quenching roses, soaring through
ubiquitous verdures
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