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Best Poems Written by Manny Paras

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Endlessly

beyond forever
stars hang on your blue eyes
knowing not time's end


Creative Haiku, Charlotte Puddifoot
18 Sept 2014

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Pic Motifs Visual 3

I have crossed oceans
Tasted salt of discoveries;
Allowing strangers
To become families.

Now I am older, yet new allies
Beyond map's horizon 
Still rouses thirst
For unknown destiny.



29 words for Pic Motifs Contest
Sponsor: nette onclaud
Nov 16, 2017

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Gentle Rapids

The outpour
spouts gently. My lone thoughts
drain bitterly as pearly chutes ebb

Soft patter 
of rapids flushes night
from angst. Though barren stream dives endless

And pierced rocks
lash at my lost chances.
The twirl of water eases love's blow

While I dive
into an evening's pool
like a rapid swollen by gray spills.


For nette onclaud
Manny Paras dated 10 30 2014

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The Highest Treetop

the highest treetop--

is mirrored through the clear eyes

of a small firefly




Traditional Haiku  #2 Contest
 of Shadow Hamilton
7/1/2015

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Valentine Note

Verse settled down without fanfare
Three ladies made of roses bright,
Greeted me by showering   care
Which on first day, was pure delight.

And moving on after Autumn blew
I spilled letters down through the lane.
Now it’s my time to say thank you,
Flowers sent on your windowpanes!



Happy Valentine’s to Linda, Anne-Lise,
And Skat
A Special Valentine's Note Address 
to Linda (aka PD) Anne Lise A. And I –SKAT
from Manny Paras

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Daffodills

daffodils peep  from the backyard, a morning promise on time.



Monoku Form Contest
Dec 9, 2013

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Yesterday

Yesterday, time stirrred of reveries when
All of Summer brought colours bright;
My love's longing roamed this place, yet
Troubles whipped our days; in a rush it  
Seemed your tenderness withered fast.
So hasty for that promise of evermore, 
Far from flames that once led us to new stars
Away from a maze, until noons grew cold.

Now, despair widenened a river made,
It drained petals crowning your hair. But love 
Looks at us without a glimpse of eternity
As miles flew by, not one word for a heart yearned.
Though roots are tended  where gardens bloom
They're dried by sun's heat, unwatered and frail;
Here where our fingers dug into the sand
To memorize the glory of dew. I asked you to
Stay and wait for birds to name our songs.

Oh, those hours when wings of joy flew
I recall the way your smile rustled with the wind.
Believe me, I'm unable to bequeath this glow
In you I found the luster of dusk, more beaming than 
Yesterday, today or even tomorrow, still---



Yesterday's Acrostic Contest

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Stirred By Moments

Lately, summer nights growl louder
as ghastly images slither about,
wandering through mind's labyrinth
that my thoughts crawl upon the floor.
Who knows more than I
concerning all those memories
slowly dripping to accumulate
left to right of my eyelids,
just below sunken cheekbones
that rise up to dry away,
when reveries of her shadow bring
back a hazed mirage; when young love
replays its old tunes. Gradually, sparks
of imagination burst into minuscule lights;
phrases from shells on the beach, words
flooding through rear-view's mirror entice.
The sky grows more plump while each
cell in my body hungers for more pulses--
and while I need  to understand how
this special moment can stir a hundred
portraits, there are no answers
each time the bedroom lamp goes out.


Brian's 2 Contest

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Season's Bliss

Over the dewy crown of mountains, I lay
among grasses beneath a jeweled sky
Illuminating the mist, tickling my face --
A first thrill in spring.



Sapphic #3 of Craig Cornish

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Rocking Chair

From Grandpa's chair-- I sing a melody we love , gazing at heaven.


One, One Liner - Theme THE OLD ROCKING CHAIR