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 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 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 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 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 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:
angel, heart, joy, life, love,
Floating in water, straight up and down she floats
An angel comes down from heaven to greet her
The angel gives the woman flying hearts, invokes
Powerful love comes from her soul I confer
She now sprouts some wings so she may fly again
Never did this much joy arrive to begin
She chokes with feelings of heartfelt love inside
Memories flood within, rising by her side
Russell Sivey
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.
by Curtis Moorman |
Categories:
love, magic,
God created wonderful magic in May
By creating our Sweetheart Linda-Marie
He worked lots of magic that beautiful day
And the world is a better place, don't you see
She is certainly a bright and shining star
With a glow like moonbeams captured in a jar
Those of us who know her love her very much
And pray that she will always stay in close touch
Curtis Moorman
19 April 2012
For your contest, but especially for your birthday
HAPPY BIRTHDAY 'SWEETHEART'
by Rhonda Johnson-Saunders |
Categories:
love, relationship,
Whispers of love before the dawn
then morning comes and he's long gone.
A fragile heart in affliction,
she reminisces - days gone by
when young love camouflaged each lie.
Once, his charms were her addiction.
Whispers of love before the dawn
then morning comes and he's long gone.
Moonlit smiles caress her with hope
'til day exposes fraying rope.
A fragile heart in affliction,
Once, his charms were her addiction.
Whispers of love before the dawn
then morning comes and he's long gone.
*for Dr. Ram's Sonnetina Rispetto Contest, 10/28/14
by Susan Ashley |
Categories:
appreciation, love,
Strands’ fluid strength; bliss, distress, routineness plait,
Tears multi-colored seeded, love's wisdom grows.
Esplanades calico edge Shangri-la’s gate,
Memoirs in motifs bittersweet and rainbows.
Thruway taken true.., not meandering fate.
Garden, Eden’s stroll sought, golden lit primrose,
‘I love You’ lives in amaranthine splendor;
We know love is actually... Surrender.
Susan Ashley
August 7, 2017
N/A
Contest: Love is Actually... Premiere
Sponsor: John Anderson
by Rick Parise |
Categories:
god,
I found a nest in God's Kingdom
A place of peace, rest and freedom
Where useless worry shall not invade
Of fleshly guise subdued in chains
A place where joyous love fulfills
And angels gently serenade
I found a nest in God's Kingdom
A place of peace, rest and freedom
And you my gracious Cornerstone
I say to you I AM your own
And now my spirit soul is bound
Agape' love, sweet and profound
In gratitude I bow to pray
And float entwined through love's doorway...
by Regina McIntosh |
Categories:
jesus,
He is hidden inside my heart
Where we will never be apart
I trust Him completely - fully
With all that I am or will be
He knows everything about me
And His love inspires real beauty
He is hidden inside my heart
Where we will never be apart
With Him living inside of me
My heart and my soul are so free
I trust Him completely - fully
And His love inspires real beauty
He is hidden inside my heart
Where we will never be apart
Sonnetina Rispetto - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Dr.Ram Mehta
by olusegun Arowolo |
Categories:
dedication, tribute,
She is gracious,skillful and filled with true love,
Dense weight on her shoulder to help those in need,
Utopian woman selected from above,
Malice absent, but poetry her daily feed,
Doesn`t compromise as regards perfection,
She`s voted as the VOICE without election,
Pride and oppression she detests to the core,
Her traits and values many damsels adore.
*Dedicated to Debbie Guzzi,Linda(PD) and Andrea, NOT forgetting Nette,Carol,Catie,Carrie,Gwen,Leonora,Suz,Anne-lise,Mandy,Sara,Constance,Skat,Gail etc.
by Russell Sivey |
Categories:
life, time,
I am under the sound of a ticking clock
An awesome sound that compiles over some time
I live under the noise of the clock’s tick tock
A noise only heard by the strange and sublime
Like two hands intertwined as one top unit
Feelings of love aligned, not a broken fit
Never do we hear the ticking of the clock
And think of chaos and a disruptive tock
Russell Sivey
by julie heckman |
Categories:
lost love,
Night silenced moon ascends as lonely dim art
while burnished tears bow from a silent gray tomb.
Songs of dreams belong among the red skylarks
as she clutches the lost arch of sorrow’s boon.
Time wades along wild rivers of salt-green dust,
within auburn hair lies are fragrance of musk,
the staid broken glass with dark sonnets of time.
She’s gone now alone with sapphires of rhyme.