A secondhand corner
Bookstore – I wonder what book will
Choose to make itself known to me today.
Dust or dialogue,
Extraction or echo,
Full-page or fiction? As I enter the
Gateway of the fixation of words – I wonder…
How many homes, people, miles you have been
Introduced to,
Jaunted, or come across? How your
Kindred-ness has inspired so many –
Living through pages, with your tree spirit still alive.
Mediator through human madness,
Navigation through understanding,
Openness through touch. With every
Page turned, how it nourishes a single soul –
Quantifying. Though each
Reader finds different meaning with a new word –
Side note. Though my trip
To the bookstore is coming an end – You are truly the spitting image of what
Universal unification exudes – of what humans allow, that is.
Verso, ending where another can begin again. To find new meaning
Worldwide to create their own place.
Xeric plant from the seed planted – Foundation. As I walk outside,
Yellow birds flying together, and how
Zen harmonizes the day.
DEWFRESH MORN
Poem written for “Vibrations from a Verso” Poetry Contest, Nette Onclaud, sponsor, July 26, 2025
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birdsong, sweet serenade
songs of wonder
branches sway, leafy shade
scent softly wafts
tears from night softly prayed
fields of umber
no longer am I frayed
Visit here quite oft!
Sponsor's name: Nette Onclaud
Contest title: VIBRATIONS FROM A VERSO Poetry Contest Date: July 26, 2025
A sky like a pressed coal
Stars like embers
Shadows unforgiving
Absence of light
Dust-laden silent air
Faint warmth enters
The dark brushes the skin
Scream of the night!
Contest : Vibrations From A Verso
Sponsor : Nette Onclaud
Date : July 26, 2025
Sparkle of unfurled dawn
Dances on dew
Diamond lattice entwines
Grass with crown worn
Sapphire stillness glistens
Braces world new
Bright hues of sanguine sky
Hail dewfresh morn!
Vibrations from a Verso 7-25-25 Sponsor: Nette Onclaud Theme Chosen: Dark Coal of Night
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Dark Coal of Night
Moonbeams, morning’s prophet,
Chase coal of night
Into wombs of white fire
As flames imbue
Dreams with clarity’s gems
Facets of light,
Glittering stars of dawn ~
Diamonds of dew.
An ombré of coal black
zinnia red
across stygian sky
metamorphose
the stelliferous night
when sunrays tread
the dewy morn awakes
red as a rose!
Placed fifth
VIBRATIONS FROM A VERSO Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Nette Onclaud
25th July,2025
Praise this renewed daybreak
Grace of sunlight
Pouring into my home
Blessings unfold
To grant me well with peace
That work be bright
In times of restlessness
My strength I hold !
Variations From A Verso
Contest of Nette Onclaud
Jul 23, 2025
For: VIBRATIONS FROM A VERSO Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
July 24, 2025
*****
in the dark coal of night
the light the light
is hidden from our sight
each one is blind
and silent deaf and dumb
without the right
to question why oh why
can't You be kind!
Contest: vibrations from a verso
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Date: 24th July, 2025
Placement: third
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A dark cloak wraps the sky
Draped in deep gloom
Blind to starlight's bright glare
Fear grips each ghost
Running helter skelter
Their time of doom
Lies ahead in the night
Fear at each post!
Colorful the garb
a perfection
of lovelyness
a bite at resto verso
find a place to dance
ooh you
got me going
aint shame to say
keep on with
the way you're going
Woman you know
how to
get your way
full respect to your
situation
I have something to say
I wanna be
with you tonight
I gotta and need to
make it right
got me feeling a way for you
tryna keep it
honest tween me
and you
L'Alpage Fendant
a wine they drank in Grone
in the canion of Valais
"We were on tour in Europe
we went out on night
and " El Whorio el Brazilia"
meet my date and took him
from me. I was her understudy
at work, and this Scram took
wind of us and rootia Married with him.
the Oboist and and the flutist
had to pull apart> Txomin and Dynomoss
sent Whoretense back to
Godbout where she
lived: I got
the job and the man!"
By
Lambada Pagode
the UnderStudy
SAMBA MAQUIAGEM DE CARNAVAL
Verso 1: Prepare TUDO,
Hoje é Carnaval, é hora de brilhar;
pinte seu rosto,
deixe sua
beleza interior
ganhar vida
Com cores
vibrantes
e brilho em abundância [...]
Refrão: Maquiagem, maquiagem,
vamos sambar a noite toda
De batom ousado
a olhos esfumados
mostre a diva
que você é [...]
Verso 2: Hoje é Carnaval,
é hora de brilhar;
pinte seu rosto,
faça a sombra
deixe sua
confiança crescer
deixe a maquiagem
contar a história [...]
Refrão: Maquiagem, maquiagem,
vamos sambar a noite toda
De batom ousado
a olhos esfumados
mostre a diva
que você é [...]
Bridge: Perca-se no ritmo,
sinta a batida
Dance a noite toda,
Com a maquiagem
feroz e ousada
então vamos lá,
vamos sambar,
vamos dançar [...]
Refrão: Maquiagem, maquiagem,
vamos sambar a noite toda
De batom ousado
a olhos esfumados
mostre a diva
que você é [...]
A wood stove takes some work
to keep it lit
and is in fact a job
for younger men
With wood to chop and haul
and then to split
and just as you sit down
it's time again!
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This one is called a Verso-Rhyme,
8 lines, 6:4:6:4:6:4:6:4 syllables,
and xaxbxaxb rhyme scheme,
as per poet's collective dot org
The hills that once were gold and red
Are now a deep gray and barren instead,
Awaiting the first drape of winter’s white
Snow, or ice crystals sparkling in the light,
When they become a fairyland of fantasy
A sleigh ride through the bowered canopy,
Headlining the holiday season’s pageantry
Like on Christmas cards a frequent sight
A walk in the frosty hills is such a delight
Or bundled tight for a ride on a bobsled,
Steaming chocolate, and a warm cozy bed.
Written November 10, 2022
[Verso Rhyme Scheme
a/a/b/b/c/c/c/b/b/a/a]
TENTH PLACE WINNER
submitted to "2022 Marathon Lap 20" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Mark Toney
I could lie twas Salma
Who made I edit my note
A love note it was a rem1
Reminder with a Coordinate
Coordinates do come home
I pleaded heard turning into ice
Starlet breezing without a care
Re-ignited the flames of drama
Mtanga an African love story..
At the stadium of heroes Gee Tanga
Led you the way in a Month of love
Kaayan did I utter your name the 4thM
Kensoul you make trainers dreams of No
Of Mo love M1 when all are beautiful Wooo
Aromas of well cooked Warriors of colour
#aKFS peace day
All K's Forces are Special
NGO Na Ngao ya kidavida
Volt and Coat of Arms..
Isn't a Verso genxermais pillar
Not to be found at Kemets Border..
Champe for a cause..
Cast aside were you
TanaTeru Glory of Sion..
#RiuKeyLifeBirthings
An eruption magmation
A living machine eyes all around
Who saw The Lord of Host
Twas You MyKinsman Isaiah son Of Amoz
Who will help us but US
Inspire with a punch held high
As them kids cover up in Bibs
Am a GJDeon Arma Water Bird..
#Staring at the scorching Sun
#UshakaBayete2022 codeZed 254
Your father is neither dead nor is he sleeping.
He has traversed the thin line of demarcation
Into a marvelous dimension of safe-keeping,
Consider it a marvelous realm of preparation
For what we earthlings refer to as eternity,
An exciting adventure into the vast unknown
Frightening, our limited concepts of infinity,
Where true being-ness in never outgrown,
The gracious Almighty sits on the throne.
No end to the delights of the ultimate reality
To this place your father has quickly flown
Where he shall experience no law of gravity,
Beyond all fantasies of human expectation
Where no longer is one exposed to weeping,
We might think of it as an awesome vacation
Your father is neither dead nor is he sleeping.
Written June 18, 2022
[utilizing my own verso-rhyme]
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