by Tom Woody |
Categories:
death,
in hyacinth and heather my true love dwells
and in lush lavender her bones rest in peace
no mere human can project nor can foretell
when in this life one's vitality may cease
yet this I know and of this I can be sure
that her soul was white as snow and truly pure
thus in God's new world I know I'll see her soon
and together we'll chase rainbows on the moon
* Inspired by Chris Bowring's wonderful rispetto as well as others
by Brenda Meier-Hans |
Categories:
love, relationship, thank you,
You could never be mad at me
Wise old man whom my heart could see
You were there when I needed you
Just a young child so full of life
Causing many an adult strife
If I lied you could see right through
You could never be mad at me
Wise old man whom my heart could see
Because of you I changed my ways
Have respect till my dying days
You were there when I needed you
If I lied you could see right through
You could never be mad at me
Wise old man whom my heart could see
Written by Brenda Meier-Hans
10.05.2014
Dr. Mehta Contest: Sonnetina Rispetto
3rd
by Christina Bowring |
Categories:
lost love, rose,
When love blossoms, in full bloom, the rose of bright
scarlet dances with sculptured petalled passion
as alluring fragrance enchants to ignite
senses and heart aplenty with no ration.
When love wilts dripping blood red petals that fall
and piercing thorns linger with deaths silent call
the rose fades, withers, decaying at its core
and once of beauty before is now no more.
by Silent One |
Categories:
heaven, love,
Meet in Eden's garden, where life first gave birth.
A beautiful paradise, pure and serene.
Amidst verdant petals, not seen on this Earth,
flowing in rainbow hues on lush lawns of green.
Like Adam and Eve, we'll roam in jasmine air,
adrift in nature's splendour without a care.
Sing lullabies with angels, as we hold hands.
Watch fluorescent sunsets in eternal lands.
by Silent One |
Categories:
absence, love hurts,
In the midst of celebration,
I care not for confetti dreams.
In fireworks there's no elation,
so I ignore new year day memes.
Only your lips can bring delight,
so let me sleep before midnight.
My soul is tired, my heart is worn.
Without you what's the point of dawn?
by Susan Ashley |
Categories:
romantic love, senses, sensual, soulmate, summer, woman,
An escapade sweet as a marshmallow day
when tangerine dreams fed our evergreen stream.
Our magnet attraction neath radiant ray
did butter the air where the breezes did teem
and whirlwinds of roses anointed the brae.
Their scent, my surrender, romantic the scheme,
exotic the fever and dance with a flame —
ah, rapture of capture! The wooer’s end game.
by Brenda Meier-Hans |
Categories:
celebration, family, forgiveness, love, thanksgiving, thanksgiving day,
Time to foster your relations
With thanksgiving celebrations.
With family reminisce past,
All our love now remembering
Come together watch our hearts sing.
Nothing earthly will ever last,
Time to foster your relations
With thanksgiving celebrations.
If stumbling stones stand in your way
Remove them this Thanksgiving Day.
With family reminisce past,
Nothing earthly will ever last.
Time to foster your relations
With thanksgiving celebrations.
10.06.2014
Sonnetina Rispetto
by Russell Sivey |
Categories:
heart, innocence, love, passion,
She’s wild, a passionate heart of love inspired
Playing a violin, masterful and free
So fast and fierce, her every lust is desired
Violin sparks aflame burning intensely
She screams with pleasure of the fire’s indulgence
Peak of passion has reached beyond innocence
Her mouth open with flames entering inside
She loves her tremendous trek, her awesome ride
Russell Sivey
Happy Valentines Day
by Gregory Richard Barden |
Categories:
age, analogy, heartbreak, lost love, memory, soulmate, time,
The summer sand beneath my feet,
Now cooling with the twilight blush,
Is time's reminder, rough and sweet,
Of when we found our tender crush ...
This lonesome beach where, long ago,
We loved 'neath towels, raw and slow,
And pledged that one, we'd always be ...
Now swept, with years ... far out to sea.
~ 2nd Place ~ in the "For Your Poetry Journal" Poetry Contest, Dear Heart aka Broken Wings, Judge & Sponsor.
by Dale Gregory Cozart |
Categories:
flower, metaphor,
Amaranthus weeps in Summer's first burning.
Tears hang suspended from a fracturing heart.
Lost vermillion dreams leave memories churning,
scarlet seeping from the wound of Cupid's dart.
Mourning can heal and be a time of learning,
to once again partake of love's crimson art.
And yet he cannot for from Spring's first seeding
he is destined to live as Love Lies Bleeding.
7/5/17
by Constance La France |
Categories:
dedication, grief, kiss, sensual,
Draw near in the dark of floating, misty dreams,
appear to me, my love, as you used to be,
from cold bitter death, leave your Paradise stream,
open the gate and drift silently to me,
and kiss me, kiss me, my love, within this dream.
Inspiration from the poem, Echo, it seems.
Christina Rossetti wrote of seclusion,
of dreams and lost love with sensual passion.
_________________________
January 8, 2013
Poetry/Rispetto/In Dreams
Copyright Protected, ID 01-447-992-08
All Rights Reserved, 2013, Constance La France
Written for the Standard contest, Poetry About Poetry
sponsor, Russel Sivey, Judged 01/20/2013
Second Place
by Hgarvey Daniel Esquire |
Categories:
girlfriend-boyfriend, love, thank youlove,
Good day , I have been dormant for many years
Maybe some of YOU can remember my words
I spoke in my Host’s stead, through oceans of tears
I come to YOU, singing ; Flutter with the birds
Humming Hymns : a crescendo of “ Forever “
Barbara Jean Gorelick : my Hosts’ “FOREVER”
I’m beating for her : the Gift of God : to Man
I see the Light again : LOVE I Understand
To be Continued
Inspired By Dr. Ram Mehta For His POEM : "Life a flowing river - Rispetto "
Dedicated to My LOVE " BARBARA JEAN GORELICK "
by Mike Gentile |
Categories:
love, strength, success,
For anything that is built in life’s domain
Love is actually the sweet foundation
Though finding it, often a tricky campaign
It’s the basic blueprint for our salvation
While not brick and mortar or earthly terrain
Such strength it provides without hesitation
It’s all that I am and forever will be
Love is actually everything to me
8/7/17
by Winged Warrior |
Categories:
god, love,
Creation in bloom His eternal essence
From the whom, Love a marvelous inception
In a sonic boom, His omniscient presence
As we consume His Love from births conception
His Love in loom, a brilliant luminescence
Angels groom in His Love, for our reception
Let’s assume, that Love is God and God is all
He will make room, with His Love in Heaven's ball.
The form required is Rispetto, which is an Italian form of poetry with 8 lines, consisting of two rhymed quatrains, or an octave (8-line stanza), with a strict meter. There should be 11 syllables per line with the rhyming pattern of abababcc.
Aug.07.2017
Love is Actually...
Sponsored by: John Anderson
by Abdul Malik |
Categories:
nature,
Above all, let's respect Nature,
It's God's gift, a divine structure;
The heavens declare His glory,
In His wisdom founded the earth
And wrought the miracle of birth,
His creation tells his story;
Above all, let's respect nature,
It's God's gift, a divine structure.
With faith His love we understand,
In need if we but seek His hand,
The heavens declare His glory,
His creation tells His story;
Above all, let's respect nature,
It's God's gift, a divine structure.
Contest Theme: 'Respect' by Dr. Ram Mehta.
Form: Sonnetina Rispetto
by Jan Allison |
Categories:
betrayal, divorce, lost love, relationship, sad love, , cute,
At first they were in love, but soon he preferred
those sexy curves of his cute blonde employer
The divorce rate’s soaring I recently heard -
see forlorn people stand in the court foyer.
Love is actually a four-letter word,
the real winner of it all is their lawyer!
I think it’s so sad when a romance is dead…
He shouldn’t have slept in another girl’s bed!
Love is actually contest
Sponsored by John Anderson
07-31-17
by Frederic Parker |
Categories:
desire, feelings, love,
Love is actually a dreamer's dream that's found
When hungry eyes find a warm emotional rush
And voices come to join and produce soft sound
So love's sweet breath can rest in a solemn hush
When tender hands hold tightly on sacred ground
As lips and tongues meld in their dance so lush
To feel love for someone it can overwhelm
Who yearns so unafraid in a fiery realm
8/8/17 contest Love is actually
by Jack Horne |
Categories:
longing,
Close your eyes and see a loch, the spot I go:
icy waters swirl beneath my wooden boat,
tall surrounding hills are blanketed in snow,
lashed by hail, I button up my winter coat,
Nessie glides and fishes in her world below.
Will she choose today to surface, maybe float?
If she's friend or foe, I long to see her face!
Visits only in my head, I love this place...
for Carolyn's My Place contest
by Constance La France |
Categories:
lost love,
"This love never dies because it is immortal and eternal, it
exists in my heart until that day he takes my hand again."
Quote by _Constance
The snow covers your cold tomb my one true love,
your life short- but our love is forever;
I will not forget when you left for above,
your face, kisses and voice will not leave ever.
I see you in the morning and in the park,
in each moon and the stars that glow on nights dark;
I see my true love in all beautiful things,
and in each lovely bird song that soars on wings !
by Unseeking Seeker |
Categories:
spiritual,
“We’re not the body, we’re not this ~
Who we are, is love, light and bliss”
~ quote by poet
If asked what’s the name of our soul,
which lives on after body dies,
what definition would console
ego, that thrives on blatant lies?
Made in God’s image, we are light,
which is seen by spherical sight
but since we have with ego slept,
truth of our soul, we don’t accept.
by Unseeking Seeker |
Categories:
spiritual,
If we be spirit and this form a vessel,
affirming that we are boundless like vast space,
thus resting thought flow, in our heart we nestle
with pulsations of love, inpouring by grace.
A rebel, a nerd, we follow not the herd,
choosing to rest ego cravings untoward,
knowing that if God is, He must be within
the cave of our heart, so we go in therein.
by Linda-Marie Sweetheart |
Categories:
death,
"Thriller"
upon eerie coverlet of faint moonlight
midnight creeps to touch tombstones of cursed undead
haunting entities delight in spooking night
zombies open coffins to ravish with dread
feasting upon flesh and bone in vampy style
tasting blood from jugular...victim defile
staring motionless submissive to witch chant
enticed by love ... death charms innocence to pant.
by Linda-Marie Sweetheart |
Categories:
passion, love, passion,
"Passion Pit"
moonglow shone beneath sheer veil, love ignited,
starry skies canopy shadowed lovers flesh
in perfumed atmosphere, passion excited,
warm kisses navigate silk skin, melting mesh.
sweet passion pit of love burns fiery embers
memories of romance essence remembers.
touching tenderness as flames of love impart
delicate embrace sharing love heart to heart.
by Rhonda Johnson-Saunders |
Categories:
absence,
I carried my heart far from home on a quest
for love. Feeling like a well gone dry, I yearned
to fill an emptiness and rambled to find rest.
I sought solace in strangers, all my love spurned.
For years, I searched faces and hopeless city
streets, lonely sidewalks rolling out before me.
After wasted time far behind and miles roamed,
I learned my heart ached for who waited back home.
by Russell Sivey |
Categories:
break up, heart, lost love, sea,
Like the heart that got washed away by the sea
Like the blessings shown on us flying away
Lost love crumbles before us which cannot be
The need outweighs the displeasure of each day
But life ceased the unified heartbeat within
Time made these broken links, knocking off our grin
We were once inseparable, but now moved
Like stars in the sky falling, they’re disapproved
Russell Sivey
Based on an old relationship.