by Michelle Faulkner |
Categories:
death, lost love, memory,
"recently scenes of early life have stolen into my mind, like breezes blown" - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I walk the shore alone beside your voice
How alive it seems, chiming with the wind
Its chant as ancient as the sea
Here, the cliff where we first saw the sea
Here you proposed with a shake in your voice
My whispered 'Yes' snatched by the willful wind
Your last wish: your ashes, set free on the wind
The waves break sadly, forlorn from the sea
As I turn to the pull of yesterday's voice
Your voice on the wind lures me to the sea
10/18/22
Past Memories, 'T' Form contest
Sponsor: Constance La France
Form: Tritina
by Tracy Decker |
Categories:
confusion, introspection, love,
I wish I knew how, had ability to turn
away from you and not look back to see if it
affected you, my turning away, walking off.
I want you to miss this, and I fail to pass off
the distance as a gravely unfortunate turn
of events, see truth within desperation, it
blinds, consumes, and (I hate to, but) I admit it
impossible to justify the breaking off
of any contact to once again inward turn.
I want to reach within, find this, and turn it off.
by Silent One |
Categories:
analogy, angst, poetry,
My heart resembles the fragility of a petal.
Blossoming behind metaphors within poetry.
The beauty is in the grandeur of their silence.
I portray my words for you to study my silence,
but you seem blind to how I'm wilting like a petal.
You always seem to believe it's the art of poetry.
Would you still love me if I stopped writing poetry.
Could you comprehend my timid tongue's silence,
so I bloom in your garden as an evergreen petal.
Seek my petal soul in poetry, beyond the silence.
by Paul Callus |
Categories:
baby, joy,
The wait has been too long but now it’s time
To hold with love what she yearned for
No words for joy but grateful tears.
The radiant face aglow with sparkling tears
Cradling her child for the first time
She knows it’s been worth waiting for.
The fruit of mutual love she’s thankful for
She feels its breath and sheds warm tears
A lasting bond will grow in time.
A precious gift is born; it’s time for tears.
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1st line of each tercet & final line = pentameter
2nd & 3rd lines of each tercet = tetrameter
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19th July 2014
Contest: Tritina Challenge
Sponsor: Craig Cornish
by Vladislav Raven |
Categories:
dream, heart, joy, love,
(Valentine's Collection)
7.
Your heart, in its joy, forever shall sing,
the peace in my world, from your love, does come,
my Valentine, caress my gentle heart.
Oh, queen of my soul you do rule my heart,
we dance in the stars to the song you sing,
soon my beloved love's moment is come.
To the starlight stream, your beauty has come,
now my beloved step into my heart,
glory displayed as love's song we do sing.
I sing as love does come into my heart.
15/01/2019.
by M. L. Kiser |
Categories:
appreciation, muse, poems, poetry, poets, words, writing,
Oh how I love poetry!
Soul songs of life and love;
Natural beauty penned by poets.
Blissful songs of emotional poetry;
Penning through human hands, poets;
A vast gift, well-loved.
Poems of joy, sadness, horror and love;
Observations of many lifetimes lived by poets;
We are blessed to have poetry.
Poetry-in-motion is the sweat of muse poet's brow;
a hobby well-loved.
by Melani Udaeta |
Categories:
emotions, feelings, love,
Those eyes always appear fearless,
terrified of being called ‘beautiful’;
Walls turned her into a powerhouse;
Tired of building that powerhouse
forced to always be strong and fearless;
Neither appear to be wanted or beautiful;
Fragile couldn’t be more beautiful;
Love knocking down a powerhouse
no longer a need to be fearless;
Goodbye, fearless beautiful powerhouse.
by Debjani Mitra |
Categories:
poetry, poets,
a mystic poetess in her thought patterns
of iambic heartbeats, makes new rhythms
with a symphony...joy and pain in cadence.
in her confetti of stars moonbeams cadence
caressing love in ivory and ebony patterns
perforated feelings careen melodic rhythms
in her sonnets, words entice in rhythms
lovebird's lyrics drift in endless cadence
cratered lands embellish crystallic patterns
Catharsis traces passionate patterns of rhythms in cadence.
by Joyce Johnson |
Categories:
baby, daughter, , Lullaby,
We have waited so long for you, Darling,
Our precious, beloved, newly born daughter.
We have given you the name of Hannah.
Do you like your given name, sweet Hannah?
Your great-grandma wears it with pride, Darling.
She is longing to meet her granddaughter.
It is time now for sleep for our daughter.
We will sing a sweet lullaby, Hannah,
As welcome to our world for our darling.
Darling daughter, Hannah, we love you so.
7/21/14 For Tritina contest
by Dorian Petersen Potter |
Categories:
beauty, feelings, hope, love,
~I Love You Now Forever And Always~
(Tritina)
You know by now just how much I do love
You because you mean more than you
Will know and I'll always love you forever
Looking in your eyes I see love forever
And the stars in the sky sparkle with your love
‘Cause sometimes there's only me and you
You're the one that makes me strong and in you
I trust with all my heart and soul forever
There's nobody in the world like you my love
I know that I love you now and forever.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2015
February.28.2015
by M. L. Kiser |
Categories:
baseball, basketball, football, fun, games, softball, sports,
Oh, how I love a good game;
I anxiously await my turn,
And then I make my play.
I also love a good play;
Good scripts, for which I’m always game;
Stories with a good turn.
When the tides of stories turn,
It just makes the play
Afterwards, for coffee I’m game.
On weekends, I love a good poker game; it’s a game that can quickly turn on a wrong play.
by Dorian Petersen Potter |
Categories:
dream, love, romance,
(Tritina)
You know by now just how much I do love
You because you mean more than you
will know and I'll always love you forever
Looking in your eyes I see love forever
And the stars in the sky sparkle with your love
‘Cause sometimes there's only me and you
You're the one that makes me strong and in you
I trust with all my heart and soul forever
There's nobody in the world like you my love
I know that I'll love you now and forever.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2014
November,20,2014
(written alternating pentameters and tetrameters)
by Clifford Villalon |
Categories:
words, work,
People love to see beauty
Everybody around you, one surely admires
People with happy faces are full of kindness
People never tire of kindness
Everybody, in any way, appreciates beauty
Young or old, anyone undoubtedly admires
Big or small, short or tall, someone admires
Everyone has a lush story of kindness
As nothing comes close to beauty
Love yourself... beauty admires kindness!
by Clifford Villalon |
Categories:
creation, feelings, flower, garden, imagery, rose, seasons,
Petals of flowers at night so cold
Out in the garden shine, not fold
Enveloped by your caring, caressing to grow
Tons of love you shower to grow
Reams in dreams of clove roll in the cold
Your song in the garden echoes, not fold
Steaming with beams of love, not fold
Over the grasses that bloom and grow
Unveiling your harvest in gold, not cold
Pure and plushed hearts, not cold and do not fold,
in your soul that grow
by Carolyn Devonshire |
Categories:
baby,
Little one, heaven's blessings follow you
Each day more happiness and love you bring
A new expression or word bestows smiles
You need but clap your hands to spread the smiles
In a crowded room all eyes are on you
Few can resist the joy your giggles bring
But that will change, for growth the years will bring
Look around, try to remember these smiles
The center of attention now is you
Revel in this moment when you bring smiles
*Tritina written July 19, 2014 for Craig's contest
(I cannot return comments at this time)
by Sara Kendrick |
Categories:
dream,
Let's fall slowly asleep you and I
Sweet dreams flowing if we possibly can
Going only where there is a good dream
Once we were young with at least one dream
Can you go there or only can I
I believe in a dream, doing what we can
We can awake with renewed hopes, we can
For we all have in our youth had a dream
Have you had a dream, so many have I
Can you dream, Love, I know I can dream
Contest: A Tribute To Messina
Sponsor: Charles Messina
Date written: 02-18-2019
by Taylor Graham |
Categories:
animals, family, loss,
As I grew up you were hardly ever
there. I was lost in my own childhood’s Now,
all I wanted was to ride wild horses.
You were grown and gone away to other horses,
helping problem kids, the kind who never
cared for living creatures, find their Now
stroking a mare’s soft muzzle. And now,
too late, of course, I remember horses
were what you truly loved, would love forever.
Wherever you are now, there must be horses.
by Jan Allison |
Categories:
valentines day,
Would my guy propose on Valentine’s day
get down on bended knee with a red rose
I’d love to wear a sparkling diamond ring
I waited patiently all morning for him to ring
alas, there was no call from him that day
and knots of anguish in my heart rose
The bile in the pit of my stomach rose
as a policeman gave my doorbell a ring
my guy knocked down by a car on Valentine’s day
On Valentine’s day he died ... carrying a red rose and ring
FICTION POEM
Tritina Contest
Sponsored by Charles Messina
2/13/19
by Debjani Mitra |
Categories:
celebration, conflict, heart, love, mountains, river, water,
Wild and free,... pounds a torrent of water.
Turbulence hurtling hard, flows down the cliff,
a jagged rock journey... to a tranquil river.
Slow soft foams... kayak a serene river,
of cool,.. calm,.. crystal clear water.
Gentle splashing sound, loudly hugs the cliff.
Dashing in roars,.. slips off bouldered cliff,
Ebbing away ego,.. plunging the heart of river.
In placid harmony of peace, glistens crashing water.
Water falls?.cascading cliffs,.,perhaps falling in love with river?
22nd February 2019
A Tritina for Messina Contest
Sponsor Charles Messina
by Robert Lindley |
Categories:
angel, baby, beautiful, birthday, blessing, child, love,
Baby's Eyes Shine
Baby's sweet sky glows glitteringly blue.
Beautiful mirrors reflect in her eyes!
Such grace trumps any rainbow that may shine.
That newly born smile casts a rainbow shine,
reflection in those soft crystal clear eyes
decorates her hair and ribbon so blue!
Softest twinkles in her dazzling sweet eyes,
radiates heavenly love that casts shine
upon her birthday dress so very blue!
Love basks softly as those great blue eyes shine!
07/ 15/ 2014
craig cornish
Contest Name Tritina Challenge
1 original, poem on the theme of .............A Baby
Write a new poem about a newborn and take it where you
creatively will impress me
by Sotto Poet |
Categories:
analogy, appreciation, beauty, confidence, encouraging, inspirational,
Regard for everyone and, repugnance for none
The sound world will most certainly unite.
Each of the battles will be won, everybody smile.
Bliss has discovered mirth as all can now smile.
We won't utterly inspire our affection from none.
Be lovely and hopeful so we would all unite.
With mutual trust, the world will clump and unite.
Happiness, intense cognitive replay, and a smile.
Peace indeed portrays a minimal expense to none.
Enjoyment makes you sparkle, rise, and smile.
Written: October 20, 2021
by Melani Udaeta |
Categories:
emotions, feelings, love, romance,
Tonight I just need to hear those words;
Please calm me with your lyrical
arrangement that provides me solace;
A beautiful rhythm brings solace
within the tone you give your words;
Such an artist each phrase so lyrical;
Punctuated with a smile that’s lyrical
radiating sunshine and solace;
Whimsical warm composure of words;
Your words are my lyrical solace.
by Dr. Upma A. Sharma |
Categories:
blessing, child, love,
Adore you baby
Innocent face in memories adore,
First look my sweet angel settled at you,
Soft touch of cotton, my newborn baby,
When I was in bed, in cradle were you,
Then subtly closer a kangarooed baby,
A lifetime to cherish, I will adore,
Warm and content, lay my asleep baby,
Waking up with a precious smile to adore,
A blessing from heaven, my dear it's you!
Past or today, I adore you baby !
Written on 26/7/14
Contest- Tritina challenge
Sponsor- Craig Cornish
by Jeanne Mcgee |
Categories:
car, old,
For years I’ve had an old dodge pick-up truck
It sits in high grass in my far away backyard
She was a great prop for fun family style portraits
A very classic look for rustic type kids portraits
But now there’s no seat to sit in the truck
So she sits with the trees in the very far backyard
Kids and birds love to play in my wild backyard
Once an owl perched on the mirror for some portraits
And blended in with the peeling paint on the truck
That old truck still rusts in my backyard for great grungy portraits
7-11-2019
This Old Jalopy Contest
sponsor: Craig Cornish
by Patricia Sawyer |
Categories:
brother, family, life, love, sister
I have four brothers.
I have three sisters.
I share with them love.
It's not always easy to love.
Especially those "mean" brothers.
or those "Hootie~snooty" sisters
Those beautiful, caring sisters.
Those wonderfully funny brothers.
Each one easy to love.
Brothers, sisters, a family, filled with love.