by JAN ALLISON |
Categories:
nature, seasons,
I love all the changes the seasons bring
crisp autumn leaves or winter’s icy freeze
and in the summer sun I’ll be basking
Mother nature’s gifts
I can hear the dawn chorus sweetly sing
spiders spin threads like a shiny trapeze
and tiny fledgling chicks take to the wing
I adore the colors of stunning spring,
pale pink sakura blossoms adorn trees
bright xanthic daffodils look quite dazzling
Mother nature’s gifts
Writing Challenge, Feb 2019, Roundel Form
Sponsored by Dear Heart
2/10/19
by Nina Parmenter |
Categories:
love, magic,
I’m sure you could grow a rose on the moon,
turn every mountain valentine-red,
and bewitch the air to spin me a tune
from magic.
You colour my skies with words unsaid,
you seed enchantment deep in my dread-strewn
days - until they blossom with hope instead.
So float me to bliss in your wish-balloon,
and spirit your dream-spells into my head
‘til we dance through the stars like twin planets hewn
from magic.
25 Feb 2019
Inspired by Dear Heart’s Roundel Writing Challenge (not for contest)
by olusegun Arowolo |
Categories:
desire, love,
If I could fly,I would spread my strong wings
more than the birds that hover in the sky,
And take you on my wings to dine with kings,
If I could fly?
Our love will bloom,without sorrow or cry,
We will dance with the winds,as the gale sings,
And heavenly bliss lifts our souls up high,
Sweet vibes will engulf us,as wedding bell rings.
Yet,this restriction we have to comply,
Worst still;we must endure the sadness it brings,
If I could fly.
Olusegun Arowolo ;Date:8-5-2013
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by Claire de la Grange |
Categories:
history, lost love,
At Otter Lake, whilst welkin starry clear,
A ghostly wail bruits eerily despair,
And eyes appear alit like embers near,
At Otter Lake.
Avaunt, the trappers pray, bedim thy glare;
In sooth, thy mourning grieves a bygone year,
From earthly bourn, ascend to angels care.
Arose a zephyr, thick as bloodied air,
And shrieking withered every soul with fear,
To where a man durst lay his footsteps there,
At Otter Lake.
by Bernard Chan |
Categories:
day, how i feel, leaving, life, love, memory, time,
If I were a mayfly, living but for a day,
I’d still live each moment with no thought of goodbye,
Ever hopeful like summer in the month of May,
If I were a mayfly.
For though life would fleet, my love for you would abide,
And though time might flit, long would the memories stay
Of a sunrise and a sunset spent by your side.
I would be glad that with you I’ve grown old and gray,
That passion has waxed yet never waned with the tide,
And I’ve spent a life with you ere I fly away,
If I were a mayfly.
by Sara Kendrick |
Categories:
faith, religion,
In the Garden of Eden, all peace and tranquility
Until Satan in his prideful rebellious season
With his gimmickry introduced sin willingly
In the Garden of Eden
Oh! The separation between God and man_ depletion
The cross held one God/man whose love is affinity
This constant love draws man it's a life saving beacon
God had a plan to save man from his fallibility
There 'pon that cruel cross when it seemed Satan had beaten
Jesus saved man, He lives again_God now our total accessibility
In the Garden of Eden....
Sponsor: Suzette Crous
Contest: Roundel
Written: May 5th and 6th 2013
by GOODNESS LANRE |
Categories:
art,
SITTING BESIDE ME on the seat
swimming in the air
At the neon light wonders
beaming
I am glad you know that this is
my flair
SITTING BESIDE ME.
Oh! This moment the whisper of
love humming
Arm in arm we make a unique
pair
Your quiet love still my life once
stormy.
In your love I am not ashamed
to be bare!
As we go round, merrying I am
dreaming
That my joy is bright and clear
SITTING BESIDE ME.
Goodness Lanre
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10/08/2013
by Alfred Berggren |
Categories:
romance,
Her hair is the color of spun gold,
Her lips like the petals of a rose!
Her teeth like white pearls that the gods chose,
A visage of wonder to behold.
Her great beauty has not been half told
An intelligence is hers that shows;
Her hair is the color of spun gold,
Her lips like the petals of a rose.
She is mine and mine alone to hold,
Love light in her eyes see how it glows!
Given to me whom the fates well chose,
Determined by them in times of old.
Her hair is the color of spun gold.
Her lips like the petals of a rose.
by Jez Farmer |
Categories:
desire, love,
Give me your love, a man desires it all
Even though he is undeserving of
Your thought, it’s to your heart he makes his call
So, standing here I say – Give me your love
Or shall these words be lost, never heard of
His heart thus left into the pain and fall
Beneath the skies with only stars above
Your answer, then, can make him small or tall
His soul in your hands like a lost glove
As I say the words that give you my all
Give me your love!
© JG Farmer 2017
Form: Rondel
by Katherine Braithwaite |
Categories:
addiction, lost love,
I bought more cyclamen and recalled you
Wandering through wildflowers by my side
I don’t know where to put them, they might die
Then I would feel so sad and lonely blue
All we read of pain and love is true.
Yet we let our hearts stay open wide
I bought some cyclamen and recalled you
Wandering through wildflowers by my side
I have loved not widely but a few
I have touched on bliss and when it flies
I have touched the grief that truly lies
I bought cyclamen and recalled you
by Katherine Braithwaite |
Categories:
fate, flower, loneliness,
I bought more cyclamen and recalled you
Wandering through wildflowers by my side
I don’t know where to put them , they might die
Then I would feel so sad and lonely blue
All we read of pain and love is true.
Yet we let our hearts stay open wide
I bought some cyclamen and recalled you
Wandering through wildflowers by my side
I have loved not widely but a few
I have touched on bliss and when it flies
I have touched the grief that truly lies
I bought cyclamen and recalled you
by Katherine Braithwaite |
Categories:
allusion, appreciation, encouraging, inspiration,
The silence seems more friendly than before
It’s like a melody felt in my ear
This love has taken from me, my own fear
When silence was an omen with dark door
The flowers and all of nature, I adore
Gone are paranoia and its seers.
The silence seems more friendly than before
It’s like sweet silent music to my ear
I am drawn to love you more and more.
Hypnotic like the sun on Windermere
A misty air arising as we peer
The silence is more friendly than before
by Sandra Haight |
Categories:
beautiful, magic, winter,
I Love Nature
The blizzard piled the falling snow that day;
with temps in teens, hard-frozen it became.
The walks and roads were nowhere on display.
Winter's magic show.
The next day brought warm rain that did reclaim
some melted snow- but soon, night's frigid stay
had crystallized the surface as winds came.
Throughout the night, ice mirrored each moon ray.
Come morn, the sun brought gifts with its acclaim-
a glaze that glowed like satin applique.
Winter's magic show.
Sandra M. Haight
~2nd Place~
Contest: Writing Challenge, Roundel Form
Sponsor: Dear Heart
Judged: 03/06/2019
by CayCay Jennings |
Categories:
caregiving, devotion, father daughter, health, meaningful, memory, uplifting,
My bro and sis approached Dad by design
while staying in the background was my whim.
Dad drove me for care when sick at age nine.
Daddy carried me throughout hospital
When small I both loved my Dad and feared him.
At hospital, Dad passed the wheelchair line
and cradled me with love in his strong limbs.
Being ill made recall of Dad’s touch mine.
Toting me was his own wish, not just vim.
Reliving his hold makes my grown heart shine.
Daddy carried me throughout hospital
... CayCay
March 4, 2019
by Michelle Faulkner |
Categories:
flower, hope, seasons, spring,
Under ice-coated sky, bare trees brave
Cutting cold, to drink silver sunlight
For chance of tender spring leaves to save
Hope-April's birthright
Baby grass awakes thawing green night
Fragile blossoms of revival gave
Perfumed pastel petals, softly bright
A garden of pink and yellow waves
Visions to bloom beyond winter's sight
A picture of flower paths to pave
Hope-April's birthright
2/10/19
Writing Challenge Roundel contest
Sponsor: Dear Heart
by Debjani Mitra |
Categories:
anxiety, death, feelings, grief, remember, sad, silence,
Move on,... time will heal it all
Scab makes my wound look so hard.
Anguish gnaws my heart, tears crawl
My grief does not go away.
Stabs of pain, my soul scarred
Your love, I miss and recall.
Sleepless nights, go miles and yard.
Mourning death, I wake and fall.
Loneliness, ... crippled and marred,
Amputed life... moves in thrall.
My grief does not go away.
20 th February 2019
Writing Challenge Feb 3019 Roundel Contest
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by Bette Bavington |
Categories:
adventure, conflict, crazy, death, emotions, imagination, mystery,
Ghost
Sightings are hard to ignore
Especially since they cause such
An uproar
Along the sea coast.
Where old sailors start to boast
About how their beings with unfinished
Business as they're bringing up stories
Of forgotten captains, mates, and sea lore.
Ghost
Sightings are hard to ignore
Undermost
Normal circumstances throw in love,
Treasure, and gore
Naturally people will want to hear more.
They'll even go online and read every post.
Ghost
Sightings are hard to ignore.
by Emile Pinet |
Categories:
10th grade, devotion, emotions, feelings, i love you, imagery, love,
You brought love to my heart and a smile to my lips
only through you, have I known happiness and joy,
you're the sun shadows of depression can't eclipse;
you brought love to my heart.
You believe in me, molding a man from a boy
and you steady me whenever my courage slips,
I'm your Paris and you are my Helen of Troy.
Helen's innate beauty launched a thousand warships
like Her, you have the power to build or destroy,
with your angelic soul and hedonistic hips;
you brought love to my heart.
(Roundel)
05,30,2019
by Jo Daniel |
Categories:
grief, loss, love,
In a life that's not fair
When love bids adieu
Right when you care
Grief leaves you undone
When your love is true
And you're fully aware
Of what love can do
There's no time to prepare
No time to think through
In a time of deep despair
Grief leaves you undone
Your love is not chief
You're left to moan
Against all belief
Grief leaves you undone
You can sit and groan
And find no relief
In the light that's not shone
When faced with grief
You feel so alone
Love is like a thief
Grief leaves you undone
02/08/19
Writing challenge, Feb 2019, Roundel form
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by purbasha roy |
Categories:
lonely, lost love, love hurts, pain,
You have left but some part of you here stays
I drape my mind in your memories sheet
To silent wind your name I often say
Quilt of pain incorporates my heart beats
My soul freezes in dreadful feelings sleet
There's nothing new to think of you each day
Eternal grief found me passing by streets
As strewn papers broken heart goes astray
How can I drift with my unwinding feet
My new me has kept older self at bay
Quilt of pain incorporates my heart beats
14/02/2019
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by Kim Rodrigues |
Categories:
love,
An ice cube chin and sturdy feet,
Until you pierced my atmosphere.
The arrow’s twang made my heart heat.
What have you done?
This hard knock girl now filled with fear.
I’m miffed with Cupid’s charming-cheat.
These buckled knees — when you said “c’mere.”
Your armor buffed — a smooth athlete.
Thrust your confident smile - oh dear!
Diamonds sparkle on the street —
What have you done?
6/28/2019
by Emile Pinet |
Categories:
10th grade, 12th grade, baby, beautiful, emotions, feelings, love,
God chose you for me to raise; every step of every mile
I loved teaching you to walk, prompted by my loving gaze
you made all my worries and anxieties well worthwhile.
God chose you for me to raise.
It was so long ago, it's like a dream trapped in a maze
but when I'm lucky such memories come and stay awhile
although lately time has muddled my thoughts within a haze.
When you were born I was rendered speechless and immobile
and instantly knew I loved you; and would love you always
as my life comes to an end I can face death with a smile.
God chose you for me to raise.
(Roundel)
04,12,2019
by Dennis Spilchuk |
Categories:
bible, christian, christmas,
The Meaning of Christmas
Christmas is sacred for Christians!
A time to thank God for His gift
Of promise, love and joy blessed with
Our Savior Jesus Christ’s presence
And forgive us our transgressions
By searching our hearts may He sift
Christmas is sacred for Christians,
A time to thank God for His gift.
In remorse prayers of petition
Ask God through Christ to heal the rift
And release us from Satan’s grip
With pardon to enter heaven.
Christmas is sacred for Christians,
A time to thank God for His gift.
by Jeanne McGee |
Categories:
flower, heart, kiss,
"Only from the Heart you can touch the sky" Rumi
Whose heart beats entranced, as a thrumming sound
And seeks the honey of a silken kiss
In iridescent perfection he’s crowned
Whose heart beats entranced
Petals tremble cocooned in all their bliss
The nectar of love keeps us all spellbound
He flies to the sky to clouds' white abyss
As he skips to his sweethearts found around
His sweet flowers a lovers’ reminisce
Hummingbird, the whole world is your playground
Whose heart beats entranced
written 10-14-2019 copyrighted
Writing Challenge, October, 2019 -Bird-
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by Eve Roper |
Categories:
imagery, love,
Chill shadow fall covering gray
Spark ember glow in the distance
Field reverberate muffled bray
Soft cool silk silent ambience
Earthward lonesome darken path lay
Veil on penchant earth's fluorescence
Two romantical waltz their way
Full laughter and lost innocence
Whereas a billion stars astray
Soft cool silk silent ambience
3/29/2020