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Noctuary II

...Echoes of summons ring on.
With them a sonorous clamour for painted lines.
The rim of night stretches and holds fast to
a colossal nocturne hung on furs-and-clouds walls,
and a concentric image o...
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Categories: whiffs, mystery, night, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Dirge of the Last Lap

...I

The loud, cruel laughter of dirge
besieges us so greatly in the face of
wanton humiliation.
It comes mightily, crashing our aged
city walls, unearthing the foundations of
churches,
tolling...
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Categories: whiffs, dark, death, sorrow,
Form: Free verse



Night At the Necropolis

...Night,
Ageless and porous,
Sang screeches of fireflies of
Crescendo-diminuendo sparks.
What hour?
In the midst of the hustles, I lost my hoursight
Different, tonight, is my eyesight, seeing eve...
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Categories: whiffs, dark, death,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHalf Past Summer, Two Months Till Fall

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                                Half past Summer, two months till Fall
                                A Monet image, relishing! 
                                Brisk sienna steppingstones spraw...
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Categories: whiffs, autumn, beauty,
Form: Triolet

Soul Rose Fulcrum

... my soul-rose has a fulcrum 
sometimes
veined petals spread a  c  R    o   Ss 

skies unknown
                           thorns ready 

for piercing when blood
too perfumed passionat...
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Categories: whiffs, allegory, allusion, change, character,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberFulcrum of a Rose

...Line of inquiry: track where lies the fulcrum of the fragrance of a rose, then likewise find within, your soul —Unseeking Seeker Contest

Fulcrum of a Rose

pinwheel spinning
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Categories: whiffs, flower, introspection, senses,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPages From Decrepit Seasons

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Before midnight ticks, I turn to my 
    interior world ,
One that cradles myrhh
of reminisces  and sagas,
Allowing breaths to inhale the agony
and radiance of loved ones' trails
now beyond...
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Categories: whiffs, memory, old,
Form: Imagism

Premium MemberLove

...Liquid kisses from licorice lips
Onyx lover with thick heavy hips
Vivid love language lavender whiffs
Ebony clouds of hair at finger tips...
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Categories: whiffs, africa, america, black love,
Form: Acrostic

The Fab Four is no more

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The fab four...not Scouse superstar serenaders..

Stellar constellations of cricketing fascinations...

Connoisseur christened, humdinger harbingers..
 
Listen…whispers of willow wizardry...
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Categories: whiffs, sports,
Form: Rhyme

PINK SCALLOP SHELL

...PINK SCALLOP SHELL 

Along my road to Freedom stood
showy blue-green sentinels with
white cloud whiffs representing Sky
starling decorated bushes joined 
Party of the Road to nowhere 
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Categories: whiffs, beach, character, color, environment,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWeird Weeds - Mar 2

...The witch of the woods watches from the window,
While willows’ webs weave wildly in the wind, 
And wicked whiffs of worm-water are wafting
From the whirling well of woe and wallow....
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Categories: whiffs, corruption, evil, fantasy, gothic,
Form: Alliteration

In Bloom soon

...Moon
Glowing
Full and bright
Luminescent,
The sun is close by,
There is a soothing breeze
My heart is beating wildly
Whiffs of fragrance pervade the night
My beloved is close by, she’s here
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Categories: whiffs, love, moon,
Form: Etheree

Sprung is Springing

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Fickle sunbeams tickle fluttering daydreams...…

Lyrical lapping lullaby encores...

Gingerly stroke sandy shell shattered shores..

Starlings spy…sky high murmurations...

Skimming stones....
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Categories: whiffs, poems,
Form: Rhyme

THREE ROCKS

...THREE ROCKS

Written for Competition :  A Magical Journey 
Sponsor : Constance La France

[ Prompt : I hold three magic rocks in my hand
   Rolling them over and over and over
   Leaving this ...
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Categories: whiffs, adventure, allegory, extended metaphor,
Form: Alliteration

A TALE OF A DECADE

...As I meander 'neath bougainvillea's resplendent flare,
A lachrymose tear descends, delicate and rare.
It glides o'er my visage, where memories dwell -
Nostalgia pirouettes in an ephemeral spell. 
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Categories: whiffs, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

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