by Dale Gregory Cozart |
Categories:
fruit, imagery, lost love, metaphor,
I kissed July's hot tangerine lips
swam in cool aquamarine eyes
basked in blond and honey rays
dreamed in mango pomegranate sunsets
of lime hillsides and marmalade roses
Years of sweet citrus passed in golden hours
One day I woke
to find translucent eyes
in burnt sienna
as trees wept leaves
in burgundy and olive
Soon the eyes
were frozen in powder
Ashen shadows blew
across barren groves
of spindled spruce
and howled
with December's lonely moon
But from my fire lit window
I hold fast to memories
of daffodils and oranges
mingled with the burn
of lemon tears
7/16/17
by Evrod Samuel |
Categories:
love, lust, senses,
AROUSE ME
Enchant me
Serenade me
Touch me
Raise my temperature
Heighten my senses
Make me tingle all over
Apply your hands to my trembling body
Caress the heaving contours
Of my pliant body
Feel the rhythm of my passions
Boiling within
Explore all of what I have to give
Arouse me
Titillate me
Enhance my desire
Make me tingle with your soft kisses
Own me
Mould me
Control me
Free me of inhibitions
School me in desire
Pleasure me
It’s not all about me
But of you and I becoming we
by Paloma P |
Categories:
crazy, humorous, hyperbole,
There's a place whence children dwell amid
fairy stories, popcorn rainbows & candied unicorns,
which is fine & dandy except when
you're supposed to be a grown-*** adult,
some people live 'round La-La landscapes
without a hint of reality's woefulness,
unable to read skywriting on the cosmos
If you believe in miracles or
that nothing ever changes
and love lasts forever and a day
or just say,
you got a damn ticket because
your unicorn was inconveniently double-parked,
rest assured thine meter is delusional
by Dale Gregory Cozart |
Categories:
love, romance, seasons, summer,
As brief as summer you swept
across my heart's desert
like a Santa Ana wind's hot caress.
Now the eastern passes
are still as virgin rocks
unto a land whispering
of forgotten wildflowers.
In your absence marigolds bloom not
with the disappeared mockingbird.
Only as the last petals
of amaryllis wither do I ache.
You brought me a translucence
of amber for my burnished bouquet.
Love was an ebullience of golden wheat,
our laughter a resplendence of sunflowers.
5/17/17
by Vijay Pandit |
Categories:
life, metaphor,
Life is a smile of a newborn in mother's arms
Arts and crafts of stained glass from grains of sand
Freedom of a chick on its very first flight
Love of a mother scurrying beside a young fawn
Float on a lotus pond in style of white swans
Lyrics of nature scripted in nightingale's song
Painting in vermilion tints rising on meadows of fall
Rivers rushing down from spring mountaintops
Romance in lover's eyes watching a new dawn
Wonder in breath of a single-celled amoeba
September 14, 2019
HM: Strand special 5 by Brian Strand
Life poetry contest; Sponsor: Ironic Zink
by Gershon Wolf |
Categories:
love, rain, wind,
Outside the rain-splattered window
winds whipped
tearing still-moist leaves
from their moorings
hurled to the ground
dying, like our love
prematurely
without a proper goodbye
by Paloma P |
Categories:
allegory, analogy, drink, funny love, humorous, hyperbole, romance,
She was like Bordeaux,
a tall drink of spirit
He was more a hopped
pale lager like Pilsner,
both gorgeous and
super gingered flavors,
although clashing mid
respective savored aplomb,
one so refined the other
rowdy after hours,
yet they complimented
each other in the way
they blended their
drunken demeanors,
intoxicated by mere
existence of nature's
essential complexities
by Sean Kelly |
Categories:
love
You flashed that smile at me .
So , how was it for you ?? .
by Carolyn Devonshire |
Categories:
lost love
I wish I had told him
I drop a rose on his grave
For Brian's "Spaces" contest in which the middle line is blank and leaves its contents up to
the reader's imagination.
by Mirela Simic |
Categories:
devotion, dream, love, natural disasters, people, time,
I was thinking
of you touching my belly
in one moment in time,
and me kissing your shoulder
in another.
I was thinking
of talk
and whiskey,
the sound of bass
and shyness.
I have no wishes.
I was just thinking
how it could be
if the world stayed round
but got so much smaller,
for only one room to be,
for you and me.
by Paul Kennedy |
Categories:
devotion, lost love, love, mystery, nostalgia, passion, visionary,
Tonight I bathe
beneath your light
that's touched me
once again.
Where in your glow
I feel the flow
that runs inside
my veins.
So cloudless sky
please tell me why
my thoughts of you
come and go?
On a night like tonight
in the full moonlight
my howling love-
cry echoes.
by Manmath Dalei |
Categories:
emotions, love,
IN LOVE
-------------------------
Love is nectar.
Love is heaven.
Heaven like home, we always need
where soul ever smiles,
never feels tension.
In love,
you are my music,
I am your musician.
Love is trust.
Love is hope.
Hope hands success
after little failure
or without any flop.
In love,
Your are my ocean,
I am your raindrop.
Love is life.
Love is relation.
Relation can only be cemented
with mutual trust
and extreme affection.
In love,
You are my ink,
I am your pen.
Love is thought.
Love is brain.
With a sagacious brain
we can fly to our goal
without any pain.
In love,
You are my blood,
I am your vein.
========================
by Jslambert Mister Roboto |
Categories:
allegory, angst, death, dedication, depression, faith, forgiveness, health, introspection, life, loss, lost love, people, philosophy, recovery from..., religion, sad, socialmirror,
Looking dead at me in this smeared mirror...
a lost man
tormented
face red
brittle
and teared
stacking excuses
the longer I stare
this stress abuses
my conscience with a glare
a guilty reflection warns
my mind is the prison I fear
as I long to escape
from the hell I dwell in
right here
who have I become?
what have I done right?
crossroads appear suddenly
as fog fills the mirror tonight
darkness owning the room,
prefers I suffer slow
so I proceed with speed
because it’s the only way I know
tasteless stories
flood my life’s hard bound chapters
while this smeared mirror reflects tears
dripping from a face
which was once filled with laughter.
by Paloma P |
Categories:
age, dance, destiny, memory, nostalgia, poetry, silence,
Once agone moments in time
she was poetry in motion,
'til she pirouetted herself
onto dusty versed shelves
midst old clouded rhymes
& recollected love notes
yet, there lingered echoes
glistening 'tween strands
of web's interlacing design,
meshing her finessed
past within gossamer's
complexed entanglements
beyond labyrinths of
anciently grand symphonies
she dances, still ~
silently in her head
flirting with destiny
albeit, not quite as opulently
by Andrea Dietrich |
Categories:
tree,
Each spring when winter has trudged away,
I love to drive up to my house and see my trees in bloom.
The ornamental pear tree, so tall and dignified,
is like a bride in a gown adorned with white florets.
The ornamental plum tree stands stately too nearby,
her limbs bejeweled in a myriad of amethysts.
Behind them both, the cherry willow greets me
with leafy swaying arms arrayed in petals pink.
While her lower half hangs low, the top half of this tree
reaches for the sky wearing charms of white like snow!
March 7, 2022
For Form I - Imagism - New Poem Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Constance La France
March 23, 2022 for 'A BRIAN STRAND 1095' Poetry Contest
by Robert A. Dufresne |
Categories:
faith, love
Lord, please teach me how to listen for you.
.... Lord ? ...
by Sandra Byrd |
Categories:
childhood, confusion, death, life, loss, lost love, sad,
Another unwanted
passes through memories
down mundane streets
suburbs undaunted
available liquid pass
tempted nostril senses
youth invaded stolen by
unpure pretenses
soft like shreds of life
tears of laughter
preserve treads
to a childhood lost to
hereafter
by Vijay Pandit |
Categories:
love, religion, war,
Church bells were heard nearby
As minarets tall, made prayer calls
When they stood on war torn bridge
Parting with one last forbidden kiss.
Sirens of war were loud too,
But bombs much louder, blasted inferno.
Bridge collapsed, bodies shattered,
No voice dared to claim the silence.
June 18, 2019
Placed 2nd: Your choice (11) poetry contest by Brian Strand
by Caren Krutsinger |
Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade, 9th grade,
Cathartic pinkness on wings of angel’s feet
Bring a lightness to the lake
She has never before felt.
Peppermint magic
Soft purple touches
Spiritual awakening
Heaven’s magic
Sky floods the lake with pureness
Godly feeling
Reverence and awe
Delicate pink clouds gather softly
Sharing love with forest
Saturating nature
Soft cathartic feeling
Showing God’s love for nature
by Sandra Byrd |
Categories:
art, confusion, life, loss, lost love, nostalgia, philosophy, sad,
across rooms gust strong winds
emptiness without formed cracks
shook narrow confines
from the darkness within
indeff,rent,rent songs
nostalalqiques dreams
attentive inhumane screams
desire to belong
to accept dignity
speak sweet
accept defeat and
smile throu tormented peace.
by Jim Campbell |
Categories:
life, lost love, love,
I lay to waste
The sweetest lips
And drink to taste
The bitter sips
I close my eyes
To the beautiful face
And dream the lies
Away without a trace
I chose to stray
From the heart I hold
And put it away
Like the clothes we fold
I live with pain
From what I’ve done
And grasp in vain
Nothing under the sun….
by Sunlite Wanter |
Categories:
appreciation, imagery, summer,
I Love You, Friday
This is one of God’s exquisite days,
Like a spilled bag of twinkling pastel jewels,
A sweet breeze as if from a child blowing bubbles,
The songs of many birds trilling their wonder.
The fresh scent of summer grass newly mowed,
Flowers reaching, smiling at a winking sun.
Baby cotton clouds floating, drifting to and fro,
Sifting heaven’s perfumes upon His earth.
In the distance a cheerful canine's bark is heard,
As if thanking our Lord for his gifted bone,
And I, with my swelling heart of gratitude,
Enjoy a book – on my deck – at my home.
by Darlene De Beaulieu |
Categories:
cat, love, soulmate,
A cat looks outside
There are squirrels to see
Then she spots a cat
Sitting on the deck
He starts to meow
Louder to be heard
They paw each other
At the glass doorway
Then they start to chat
This happens often
The man opens door
The cat comes inside
Goes to the female
Near her he lays down
He never leaves here
She is contented
They found their soulmates
Happy together
by Brian Strand |
Categories:
imagery, love,
the sun
journeying
through
the heavens:
an early
appearance of the moon
at dusk:
a star
so bright,
birds
in flight,
the night..
the night..
love
poured
down...
...
to surround..
and
change
a world below
by Gershon Wolf |
Categories:
love, magic, snow,
a glimpse before shoveling
newly fallen snow crystals
dazzling sparkling magic
in the glare of back-alley lights
almost enough to make him
fall in love again
with snow
almost