roses in full bloom
reds, yellows, pinks, whites, purples
dazzling display
Categories:
yellows, flower,
Form: Haiku
You opened the door
we said hi
what was going on
in your mind?
mine wasn't there
mine was behind
trying to untangle the knots
of my life...
You came to my office
to talk about love
I wasn't ready at that moment
I had to say no
you left me with my sins
and with another knot
for you to not to be seen
anymore...
My world started spinning
at the fear of my lost
in the end we were friends
I didn't want you to go
I forgot about my life
and all what happened before
I couldn't be abandoned
once more...
I ran into your arms
like a broken bird
begging for you to come back
begging you to stay
I didn't know I was being fooled
by my past pain
by my terrors and my guilt
and my yellows and grays
You were waiting for me
in triumph and delight
just like one who achieves
a trophy so shine
you opened your heart
but not for a long time
I got trapped inside with no key
while you left for life.
Jessica
Categories:
yellows, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
68 years ago on this day yellow was displayed;
As bright as the sun so shine yellow has begun;
Brilliant as the light yellow was my bride;
Yellow was born birth alive;
Yellow brilliant brightly light;
Yet now has went back to the Father's side;
Sunshine's yellow has gone back home to live with her Father;
Dedicated verse Carmen Lee Brown Lee
4/12/54 - 6/18/16
Sunrise - Sunset
Categories:
yellows, analogy, bereavement, birthday, engagement,
Form: Rhyme
What sorcery is afoot in the woods on this October night?
I stir a few embers, and relight myself
The humans asleep or dead, I don’t care which
I am alive, a fire phoenix, replenishing my absoluteness
An owl hoots a warning, trying to wake them up
I begin to dance, as warmth spreads throughout my timbers
Sure, you thought I was dead, but surprise.
I am replenishing myself, understanding no one else will
Sparks! A joy overtakes me as hope and optimism arrive
A flash of yellow, on her way to becoming full out red.
A flame. I scream with happy pops and smacks.
Bam! I am once again a full blown blaze.
Why do these campers never put me out completely?
Do I care? I am leaping, lunging, laughing, loving myself.
My yellows and oranges are dazzling the entire forest.
My flame shadows light up the tents of the sleeping.
I am mystical, magical, ethereal, an alchemist, a sorcerer.
How will they react when they realize I have again
Forsaken them, and burned up another forest thanks to them?
I am impassioned, alive, a full blown pyromaniac of a fire!
Categories:
yellows, fire,
Form: Personification
All-day long in storytelling we are
Time spins with the summer heat
Your mild touch in the open field
Yellows after yellows the love sea
Intoxicated by the sweet smell
Dancing bumblebees wings to hail
You and I in the open engaging chest
Holding hands under the blue sky
Draw the love kisses together high
Sleep O dear in this hearty alley
I’ll wake you up in this honeymoon
If the yellows do not end this path
Come, come to the fertile land
Listen to the scarlet song of life
To adorn the invocated pleasure
10.09.2020 Chattogram
Categories:
yellows, love,
Form: Free verse
*Image of Safflower Flower Saffron by Pixabay.
Yields In Yellows
Signs in marigold
with a daffodil accent
hints a yarrow drawl,
laughed I a sunflower be
saffron breaths refrain in gold.
2020 March 18
*HM*
Bite Size Poem no14
~~Line Gauthier: Judged 2021 July 28
*1st Place*
STRAND choice L, any theme any form
~~Brian Strand: Judged 2020 March 20
Categories:
yellows, flower, sound, yellow,
Form: Tanka
the yellows are winning
dandelions and daffodils leading the way
sun shines her yellow on the earth
spring prances into sight with bird trill tune
the yellows are lively
adding happiness to the season
as we plant yellow marigolds
surrounded by tiny butterflies showing their own yellow
around beautiful monarchs
Categories:
yellows, spring,
Form: Free verse
Emoticon Yellows
If I were rich, which is a crime
I could do anything I wished
Claim my rights and entitlements as “affluenza”
But I’m an ordinary cyberpunk
A regular yellow kind of guy
An emoticon with an attitude
Manscaping, sliding through life with a close shave
Cantankerous and bodacious all the time
In chillax style, riding the daily yellow bus
Dragging my portmanteaus box inside
And my delishful gal with me there
Clad in fashionable plarn
Irregardless of everything else
We rise above the sights and flee
Above the ancient vomitocious towns
And meld into each other’s grue calm eyes
Canoodling all the while
Smog passes with the night
Snark comments distract us
An anacronym word or two slips out
But we don’t care
We’re off to spend the affluenza check
Just to prove we can
(PORTMANTEAUS words: “PORTMANTEAUS Box” all contest entry listed words
+ "canoodling" - hugs and kisses and "cantankerous- old and feisty )
8/19/14 Portmanteaus Poetry Contest
Categories:
yellows, abuse, change, crazy, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Tonight I sleep
With the prince
A yellow pill
Prescribed by a Shrink
It takes me down
And makes me
Dream of snakes
And dragons
And screaming pigs
It is not pretty
This sleep of mine
I wonder if she
Would come back in time
Hollow though the slumber
I call sleep
Ah so humble
I am afraid to peek.
When I wake I take a pill
It’s blue and makes me reel
It’s suppose to make me happy
It’s suppose to make life real
But it never happens
I feel so alone
Like Elvis on the telephone
Mama help me…
“Sonny! Red! Get me the hell
Outta here”
And then I realize I never left the building
Because the dream is real
And reality is a dream
And then I take the yellow pill
It starts again
It never ever seems to end.
Categories:
yellows, confusion, depression, missing, pain,
Form: Free verse
A giant blue bowl
Hangs over petaled yellows
And the green I'm on
Categories:
yellows, nature, peace,
Form: Haiku