by Liam Mcdaid |
Categories:
beautiful, flower, heart, love, peace, sea, smile,
Smiling hotly you're the flame captured underneath
burning with a sunrise golden gleam frosted
Sparkling within dewdrops crystals crash
over oceans waves rise and fall to grace
At your feet adoring they kiss salt saluting promise
kneeling upon the sand footprints hold ground held
Those inside one thousand memories wrapped forever
perfect jewel you are the pearl of a deep sea always crowned
Lustre of one rainbow washed clean cut perfect flower
white lily from the heart of love you brought peace
by Susan Ashley |
Categories:
grief, heartbreak, lost love, music, pain, romantic love, sorrow,
Piano music plays.
Soft notes emote mid air,
like tear-stung doves they fly
in atmosphere of fog.
The clouds, they shroud the sky.
Piano music plays,
the keys, they seize my blues—
the depth of blue, so vast.
Poetic ivories
harassed… recite the past.
Piano music plays.
Dull echoes haunt the halls,
sonatas without soul.
Since wick and flame lost light
my space inside like coal.
Piano music plays,
the white noise like a ghost.
My fluid fingers mourn
in melodies of you —
my rose with thorns reborn.
by Karen Jones |
Categories:
appreciation, cute love, emotions, love,
My mind drifts back
To red times we've had
Healing happy lime laughs
Revealing shining over anything sad
Magical how one word from you
Colors me whatever you choose
From lamenting lemon to maroon
All based on love so true
You are my favorite song
I sing you all day night long
U write me pink passionate poems
Invite me to dream along
We don't have much in hand
But rich in heart with romance
By time design holding hand
Spirit so cheery we freelance
No bars no cars only white stars
Can showcase our love bizarre
We cruise like cotton clouds so vast
Upon our lovely lime lily pad
by Clifford Woodell |
Categories:
daughter, hope, love,
I planted a lily
A long time ago,
And was given the chance
To watch the plant grow.
I'm sorry to say,
That chance I refused.
A delicate flower
Should not be abused.
It needs to be nurtured
With plenty of sun.
Not shoved in the darkness
Where damage is done.
I planted a lily.
I hope you can see.
That without my presence
A flower's set free.
by Kim Rodrigues |
Categories:
love, moon,
Their eyes did set, foretaste the sweetest moon.
A chalice sip of mead, the lover’s moon.
Her reddest lips upon his lips in tune.
A chalice sip of mead, the lover’s moon.
The shuffling feet - a dance - the closest swoon.
A chalice sip of mead, the lover’s moon.
In brilliant light, betrothal by la lune.
A chalice sip of mead, the lover’s moon.
His vows arrest his heart — best bride of June.
A chalice sip of mead, the lover’s moon.
His Lily wife — la-la rose petals strewn.
A chalice sip of mead, the lover’s moon.
6/17/2019
*la lune - the moon
by David Mohn |
Categories:
love,
who can predict, which water lily blooms - her glance meets mine
18 Jan 2016
by Liam Mcdaid |
Categories:
baptism, beautiful, flower, heart, love, magic, star,
Thee sweetest lily and flower of Eden’s garden growing wild and free
held under this enchantment where the daises circles around gold
Flower of hearts where there shades of apple blossoms pink
dazzling the night under the teardrops of angels deeply unfold petals
Within a black satin velvet sky twinkling centre of stars your beauty outshines
with piercing diamond light inside a halo you are crowned perfectly regal
Princess of the starlight gaze faraway holding a dream enveloping an echo
enchanted by the magic you spell one in a thousand whispers
by Connie Marcum Wong |
Categories:
best friend, cat, devotion, grief, loss, love,
My Lily Cat
I miss my dear loving kitty,
You died so young, what a pitty!
I loved to stroke your softest fur,
To watch you play and hear you purr.
You gave such joy, though unaware
How your sweet spirit helped me bear
The many burdens on my mind,
You shared your loyal love so kind.
Your picture sits upon my shelf
Behind the glass, sunning yourself.
I cried for two months when you left,
Inconsolable and bereft.
My feline friend where are you now?
I pray you'll be reborn somehow.
8-7-18
Cat Poems Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin
by Rhonda Johnson-Saunders |
Categories:
christian, prayer, spiritual,
With living water,
You quench my thirst.
By still waters,
You lead my soul.
On my knees,
I ask you, Lord,
to open my eyes,
to open my heart.
Like a lily
of the valley,
I am reborn
in repentant tears.
My soul sings
your grace is enough.
You guide my steps
in unfailing light.
Written 4/1/17 for The Book of Love Contest
by Liam Mcdaid |
Categories:
beautiful, flower, kiss, love, miracle, music, sunshine,
You strike the deepest cord noted guest
warmly through heart pulsing words sigh
White is the lily from four chambers glowing gold
inwardly music echoes distant bells strike home
Murmurs dance fluttering upon dove wings whisper
to the soul captivating music upon oceans rises and falls
Kneeling only before your beauty captivating light
crowned divinely colours through the mist
Sweet salvation sings to the Spirit breathless
one miracle caught within a moment of sunshine
by Michael Perriatt |
Categories:
love, romance
No desperate lover wants a fleur
with one too many loves-me-nots.
Should ever such a fleur occur,
be everything but soft with her.
Be sure to tell her just how mad
you were with her result,
and how the extra loves-me-not
could not have been love's fault.
That flower was not just to you;
therefore, no plucking should you do
again. You should do this instead:
forget the fickle flowerbed!
I left the garden and its woes,
I left the lily and the rose,
and left the dreaded floral sun,
on which my desperate plucks were done!
No longer should you ask of them
if you are meant to be with him!
Discover for yourself what's true!
I did!--and he replied,
"I do."
by Lu Loo |
Categories:
beauty, flower,
I close my eyes and see shades of tangerine
with splashes of pink- sweetly serene.
Stargazer lilies bring ease;
sense them in the breeze
in mid-June-
starlit…
with the moon.
That Summer was mild
when the lilies grew so wild!
At her grave I leave one Stargazer...
so that in heaven my love will amaze her.
Sites used:
howmanysyllables.com
rhymezone.com
PS grammar checker
Date written: June 25, 2019
For the contest, Writing Challenge 2, June 2019- A Summer Flower
Sponsor, Dear Heart
by Suzette Richards |
Categories:
poetess,
Intense emotions surged when justice sought
if I defended wrongful witness brought.
Then I was saved through Daniel; nearly caught.
Accused of sins absurd, derogatory words
from people’s tongues not curbed, but gossip which they heard.
Cupidity the driving force behind
the false accusers’ spiteful state of mind.
So rarely friends could then be found in kind.
The tides will ebb and flow as inner doubts still grow;
for balm of ocean’s throw thus right so many lows.
If seen at daily tasks, I’m never fraught.
I won’t let memories my love to curdle.
Some kindness helped recover peaceful find,
depend’n whichever way the wind should blow.
by Malabika Ray Choudhury |
Categories:
love, love hurts,
The glamour of a prestigious school lured her far away..
two years would whizz past, of arduous work,
immersing in books, away from home,
away from her beloved...she assured him.
rushing to the station, he wished her all good luck,
holding a bouquet of Lily of the Nile...she admired !
petals shrivel, flowers wither, the moment does not.
July 27, 2022
Short Verse Inspired By Pictures Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Lisa YY
Picture B:https://www.pinterest.com/pin/578431145904762475/
SECOND PLACE
by Anne-Lise Andresen |
Categories:
beauty, nature,
~ The creation is as white marble for our soul -
holy and without blemish ~ quote by poet
Her lips hum an aged love song
a virgin glowing intensely
Golden arches of lily of the valley
drinking from the river of silver
Whose strings are touched by the heart's secret
- what divinity with a visionary magic
by Robert Marlow |
Categories:
desire, flower, longing, love,
When will I find my flower?
To what depths must I travel,
What heights must I overpower,
What mysteries must I unravel
To find my red rose,
My undying romance,
My longing ever grows
If only for a glance
At my white lily,
My pure princess,
My hearts achille.
Would that I could confess
My longing to my love.
But alas, her I can not find,
I cry to God above,
As tears down my face wind.
When will this sorrowful son of Adam
Find his Eve and ease his aching bosom?
by Linda Alice Fowler |
Categories:
creation, environment, flower, garden, god, nature,
Glossy, heart-shaped leaves of galax
ringed ‘round the lingering lilacs
that played across the garden gate,
bent now – bowed from foliage’ weight.
Wild roses replace Venus et fleur
having a sweet natural alure.
Chicory and Madonna lily
grow here and there, and willy-nilly.
Bachelor buttons and blue bonnets
clothe the field with unsung sonnets.
Coreopsis and black-eyed Susans
frolic with their rambunctious cousins.
Of all the flowers God has wrought
I love the ones that were last thought.
Haphazard flair of wild flowers
bestow joy with dewy showers.
by Gregory Richard Barden |
Categories:
lost love, love, memory,
then ...
I close my eyes
to find the forsaken
dancing like a gypsy in my skin
but unreachable
the prayer I breathe
lost to time, like weep to rain
yet ... it blooms
there - in the never-black
that smile ...
floating your face like a lily
tender lashes above
butterflies, waking the day
a call to worship
of the faultless bloom, white as lies
tempting as a truth
and sweet as ...
death.
by Karen Jones |
Categories:
appreciation, art, love,
Weeping willow creeping there
Amber light from melodic moon
Take a fuchsia flower for hair
Emerald embrace as love bloom
Romantic rose petals on blanket
Laid so beautifully
Indigo kiss touches silver soul passion strategically
Like lily floating in the lake
Your love does the same to me
by Kim Rodrigues |
Categories:
animal, cat, god, grandson,
EASTER BUNNY OF FLORIDA
God sends gifts to sensitive hearts.
My grandson left his pets behind
as we travelled from familiar parts
of Georgia to Florida. God is kind.
Muffin, given the first name of Stud
by my grand’s dad. A small bunny
in the tiny yard, was the color of mud.
God’s gifts, better than money.
The cottontail posed under the palm.
My grand wanted to take Muffin home.
The rabbit was his after Easter balm.
Then away he hopped as we drove home.
Grandson returns to his bunny, Buck,
and to his feral cat, Lily, who oft’ hides
under his parents quilt, surely awestruck
at the return of their family. Love abides.
by Madrigal Franch |
Categories:
deep, football, love, night, paradise, passion, writing,
I imagine you
always, for the first time
burgeoning like an
arum lily
Some exotic flower
falling off the back-end
of a truck, floating
with the breeze
into my hands
I imagine you
as I do, in certain dreams
statuesque in your movements,
so float towards me
as a dream,
I am a non-existent entity
propelled by your perfume
and midnight gardens light
When I imagine you
eternally, in the mirror
of my eyes.
by Nadia Shahwan |
Categories:
sea, seasonslove,
Pour love everywhere
Veer fairy lilies gently
Thrilling spring’s beauty
Plant white carnation
Daisies are chanting “Holy”
Freeing harmony
Pour love everywhere
Palm branches cuddle lily
Wine is spring’s honey
Plant dwarf gladiolus
A rosy crown is homey
Fairy’s sketch pretty.
By: Nadia Shahwan. This poem "Pour Love" won an honorable mention in June
2009, then became the winner in January 2010.
by Ernesto P. Santiago |
Categories:
family, life, love, nature, seasons, social, sympathy, me,
The majestic, strong-willed beauty I hardly know
Hued in perfection of limpid white, pink and yellow
Ever steady and loyal to the rich soil I’ve never sow
Rendering sweet bloom, even if, my summer waned
Alive always at the onset of rain…of sorrow and pain
At the lowest ebb of life, a smile, from you I truly gain
Nurturing in silence the swollen heart, again and again
Lovely charm of floral trumpet shaped lives, without me
In a tiny pot, but never raise a hue and cry, for me to see
Lonesome solitude, besetting her when cold winters pee
Yet, she keeps and maintains a rare elegance, just for me
by John Williams |
Categories:
animal, children, funny love, humorous,
A young green frog
Strumming on a log,
His warbling sounds
Singing words of love.
Strumming and a crooning
He warbled long,
About the moon and the stars,
In his lovebird song.
He also sung about
His wetlands home,
Singing and a plucking
On his swampy roam.
Taken in by the sounds
Of this sweet melody,
Another green frog,
Swaying in her tree.
Love arrows bounced
Between the two,
The pounding of their hearts
Just grew and grew.
Now they sit together
On a large lily pad,
He now sings songs,
About being a dad.
by Shanity Rain |
Categories:
animal, beautiful, dog, kids, howl, humor, love,
Who would have guessed/ the love carried for a beagle no less
Lily howling at the moon/ with ears long as her toes our ****
she gave birth to Bambi with no tail/ jack a be , 3 yrs later she is ours still
no describing the love for our girls / dressed in pink shirts and curly frills
the girls don't like when we leave home / they show us for leaving them alone
the pillows torn and howling non stop / we love our girly beagles until we drop