Etched In Stone
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Written: January 17, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."Quote ...
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Categories:
wisping, analogy, fear, success,
Form: Rhyme
P-C Poems Numbers 25 and 26
...Challenge Poem # 24
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I 'll court the muse
Come, take my hand
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Categories:
wisping, appreciation, muse,
Form: Rhyme
The Halloween Tree
...In twilight's grasp, the whispers creep,
Through shadows where the old trees weep.
The Halloween tree, gnarled and bare,
With branches twisted, a spectral snare.
Under its limbs, the spirit ...
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Categories:
wisping, halloween, horror, scary, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Tonight I write of righting
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Not the wisping grasp against the parchment
That licking click of writer as he tpyes
The cold inanimates touch of skin on screen
Memories only shorter I eye aye the Scottish yes
Scrapes and s...
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Categories:
wisping, poems,
Form: Free verse
Tonight I write of righting
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Not the wisping grasp against the parchment
That licking click of writer as he tpyes
The cold inanimates touch of skin on screen
Memories only shorter I eye aye the Scottish yes
Scrapes and s...
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Categories:
wisping, poems,
Form: Free verse
Crows
...Sri Lal
Crows
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I come from nowhere,
and I have nowhere to go,
I tell the crow perched
on a low neem branch
beyond the Periyar River.
He agrees.
He and I are free.
We speak the sam...
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Categories:
wisping, bird, fire, prayer, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Wayward Son
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Wayward son
lost in the maze
of fleeting days
following a path
of wisping wind
and whipping flame,
a labyrinth
of choices lost
in shadows,
seeking destiny
on shifting sands.
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Categories:
wisping, life,
Form: Free verse
Desperate Hope
...For the contest "This or That" set by Edward Ibeh
These charming chimes of chaste memoirs
of "us" tinkle,
making me recall the moment
your river of periwinkle passion permeated
through...
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Categories:
wisping, abortion, devotion, feelings, inspirational
Form: Free verse
Moonlight Snow
...Dearly beloved moonlight snow, falling on fir trees
Dimly illuminated throughout the night, a beautiful sight to see
Arctic winds cause crystal to dance throughout the winter air
Hair blowing to a...
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Categories:
wisping, moon, snow,
Form: Rhyme
Dragonflies and Damselflies
...I’ve seen them many times before
just outside my back porch door,
dancing ‘round from high to low
‘round and ‘round and “Doe-See-Doe.”
On glittering, gossamer, ghost like wings
flickering like...
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Categories:
wisping, beauty, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Mystical Song of Trees
...PRELUDE.
When the sky and world are dark no sounds are heard in the woods. Perhaps the scrabbling of night creatures on the hunt fo food. But no sound of woodpeckers ra ta tatting, bird song is dimi...
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Categories:
wisping, animal, conflict, desire, environment,
Form: Free verse
One Last Dance
...Times goes unseen as it dances across the days
unheard It sings a happy song
unnoticed It soars above the sky
untouched It smiles pirouettes of joy
O...
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Categories:
wisping, absence, devotion, emotions, grief,
Form: Free verse
Everything I Need
...is off the ground
my thoughts would eat yours
Standing in silhouette
holding
a candle held a softness
to her curves
and shade
lanquished in her
deepest cuts
go back to line 2
and just diver...
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Categories:
wisping, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Drift Into
...In the stillness is where she found her peace
Sinking into the sheets
The silk covered pillow supporting
Her every woe
The unrehearsed melody of rushing water
As her eyelids get heavy
Catchi...
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Categories:
wisping, dream, feelings, freedom, moving
Form: Free verse
The Purple Inside a Rainbow
...I think I've always seen the world in color
Bright radiants wisping within
There was no realization discover
It's something that always been
Others around me paint in black and white
Expectati...
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Categories:
wisping, color, deep, feelings, growth,
Form: Rhyme
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