by Rhonda Johnson-Saunders |
Categories:
marriage, romance, travel, vacation,
A gondola floats o’er romantic tides
as you and I caress Venetian skies
laced deftly in exalted stars applied
by brushes dipped in hues of lover’s eyes.
A kiss beneath Rialto Bridge in spring
feels like our first so many years ago.
On every breeze, O Sole Mio sings
a serenade in city lights aglow.
This hope of love rekindled miles from home,
could be our chance to dream and reminisce.
Enlightened by a full moon’s wink, we’d roam
down Grand Canal in gleaming nights of bliss.
Our renaissance, a second honeymoon -
to Venice, we could not escape too soon.
Written 3/3/17 for Where I Want to Go Contest
by James Fraser |
Categories:
beauty, holiday, i miss you, love, passion, vacation
It's near midnight, whilst we moonlight walk
Palm tree lined fairway, Crickets singing
Hands clenched in loving vacationed talk
Hearts in wanting pound, Batangas is bringing
We, she and I, now amidst our intending lock
Serenity is the scene blessed by lunar watch
So late, but joyous we, soon our lips are speaking
Clouds now hover as we witness natures rain
Our apartment is distant, we welcome given
Through broken lunar light, stroking her mane
My hands in taken then, sensuously they're driven
Kiss me quiet is whispered, hearts now in reign
Walking, slowly walking, absorbing to us this night
Hearts in touching pound, Batangas has brought
.
by Elizabeth Wesley |
Categories:
lost love,
Blinded by a burning sun
Spellbound by the moon;
Beguiled by your tender kiss
Mesmerized too soon.
You looked at me and cast your spell
You took my breath away;
I thought that I could never live
If you didn't come each day.
In haste these moments come to be
In haste they soon will pass;
For passions then that filled my soul
Convert to splintered glass.
The flame that once burned in my heart
Is now a fading ember;
And when I look at you once more
That flame I can't remember.
Was on vacation, missed you all! :)
by Rhonda Johnson-Saunders |
Categories:
beach, romance, vacation,
Join me in paradise
jostled loose from my dreams.
Journey to barefoot sands.
Jewels of turquoise gleam,
jaunting free in warm waves.
Jacaranda-kissed breeze
jogs memories of love.
Written 3/6/17 for J Pleiades Contest
by Cherie Durbin |
Categories:
children
I am bored with math.
Two plus two always equals four.
Why can't it equal an ice cream cone
Or a trip to the candy store?
Four plus four always equals eight-
Never a video game,
Or a Disneyland vacation.
No, the answer's e'er the same!
One times one always equals one.
Where's the fun in that?
I'd love to see the answer be
A brand new baseball bat!
by Cherie Durbin
by Mahtab Bangalee |
Categories:
life,
I know I'm alive
when I find the sky is blue,
when I find the birds are flying over the sky,
when the spring wind touches me lovingly,
when the scorching sun of summer spreads the scent of ripen jackfruits,
when the umbrella comes with my beloved under the seasonal rain drops
I know I'm alive and fall in love
when you come back to me after Eid vacation
and make me wait on the bank of Buriganga river
- Tuesday, June 11, 2019 Chattogram
by Line Gauthier |
Categories:
fun, love, nonsense, silly, tree, vacation
Fell in love with a coconut
The tree stood tall outside my hut
Love sublime at first sight
I thought I‘d have a bite
Lost both front teeth right on the spot
AP: 3rd place 2020
Posted on January 17, 2019
by Carole Duet |
Categories:
lost love, youth,
Now I reach back into the past
to my first love
but not my last.
I hear his voice still in my brain.
So many fragments of the past remain.
I see the one I loved so true
on the highway in my rearview.
I'm on vacation,
a getaway,
from the sorrows of today.
We laughed and cried so much back then.
We shared smiles.
We kissed and lingered for a while.
He kissed my hand and looked into my eyes.
I felt his heartbeat.
He heard my sighs.
We were so young then and free.
He was himself and I was me.
By: Carole O'Terry Duet
Copyright: 2017
"All Rights Reserved"
by Francis Jacobs |
Categories:
lost love,
I want nothing more
Than to hear you speak
If not daily
Then once a week
On the phone
Or face to face
I just want
to hear you say
Hey how are you?
I've missed you so much!
What have you been up to?
Shall we grab lunch?
It would mean a great deal
As I have missed so much
And I tried to reach out
But I've not had much luck
I got so sad
About this whole situation
I'm taking myself
Off on a vacation
But I'd so much prefer
To be somewhere with you
Let's walk in the park
And go to the zoo
So if you're reading this
I hope you know
There's a you shaped whole
Left in my soul.
by Ms. Catherine |
Categories:
happiness, love, marriage, meaningful, river, romantic love
The vacation scenes were beautiful
sailing on the waters, looking at scenes
the two gathered together
looking at each other
as whispering winds, waives of waters
not to be bothered
Love is so genuine
the touching of arms
the smiles everlasting
eyes are so bright
as the night falls
entering into the daylight.
by Evelyn Judy Buehler |
Categories:
celebration, joy, moon, romance, summer, sunshine
Varicolored smoke bombs, at a three generation celebration,
Splendors, rest and excitement, on a sun drenched vacation,
A heart bursting with song, love following wherever you go;
And the return to raptures, beneath a multicolored rainbow!
Fragrant flowers opening wide, their petals to gold summer,
And a moonlit tango enchantment, on ebony edges of slumber.
Written on 6/5/2021
For: ALL YOURS (Jun 7) Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Brian Strand
by Tim Ryerson |
Categories:
nostalgia,
Slide-out Coke machines
Bubble gum baseball cards
Superman/Batman comics
Full service gas stations
25 cents a gallon
Dial phones
AM radio
Fats Domino
Black & white TV
Rabbit-ear antennae
Three channels
I Love Lucy
Drive-in movies
Double dating
Drive-in diners
10 cent hot dogs
Saddle Oxfords
Penny Loafers
Vacation bible school
Homemade playgrounds
Barefoot summers
A dollar was a fortune...
No cable
No Internet
No cell phones
No problem...
by John Freeman |
Categories:
love,
Last week featured poetic Drama
Like living at home with your momma
Poetic, inspiration
Perhaps taken vacation
So watch your P’s, your Q’s and comma
Jack’s Sprat had the nastiest critic
Mary said, “You just better quit it!”
Jack said, “I may as well split!”
Mary’s mad enough to spit
Soup is family, don’t you get it!!!!
So be kind to your critics
Often times they don’t get it
Write loving features
Appease mad creatures
Write of love or forget it
++++++++++++++++++++
For and in honor of Carol Brown
And contest: Write it for yourself
by Lin Lane |
Categories:
dance, love,
Summer vacation
romantic first love
Dirty Dancing to
great sixties music
The Time of My Life
Johnny Castle
Handsome dancer
These Arms of Mine
Baby's Love Man
Hungry Eyes
water lifts
Cry To Me
Yearning
for love
Sigh ~
January 3rd, 2016
Favorite Movie Contest
Sponsor: Nayda Ivette Negron
by Faye Gibson |
Categories:
funny, marriage, vacation,
Just a honeymoon beach vacation,
a fine nuptial love celebration;
we arrived a night early,
we would find hotel surely:
“No rooms” was the sad proclamation.
“An hour away you might find one.”
They were right for we only found…NONE!!
We got off beaten path.
too tired then to laugh,
looked for a place “mom and pop” run.
Well, it must have been close to midnight,
exhausted the lady and her knight;
we found Motel Warwick,
a guest house illicit,
and christened our honeymoon site.
Copyright, July 13, 2014
Faye Lanham Gibson
by Marty King |
Categories:
beach, how i feel, ocean, uplifting, vacation,
love the island life
treasuring the brief feeling
serene sensation....
by John Watt |
Categories:
first love, goodbye, love, summer, vacation,
Summer Camp
Summer camp's been a win-win, this week made me grin!
What great times we had, going like mad, never sad
met playing croquet the first day of our va-cay
you're the one I had fun with each day in the sun
played awesome sports in shorts, laughed through games of all sorts
what jokes we'd make sitting by the lake, sun would bake
we swam every day at the dam, then had to scram
off to canoe, whistle blew, I'd eat lunch with you
goodbye my sweetie pie, our time has just flown by
your kiss felt right late last night. Don't forget to write!
written 17 Aug 2020
by Martin Kloess |
Categories:
funny, humor, love, lust, sexy, vacation
I need a vacation she said
From all of this playing in bed
And she let him know
There’s more to love’s glow
By moving on sofa instead
by Mary Rotman |
Categories:
analogy, beach, my child, son, summer, vacation
He comes, a seaside golem,
walking like Frankenstein’s monster
because sand has filled the crack in his
behind, and his feet are shod in at least
two pounds of beach.
He carries his pail and shovel.
“Mommy, I have fun!” he chirps.
And I love him in spite of his sandy behind,
in spite of the leaden feet
and the grit in his hair,
in spite of the fact that I know who’ll be
removing the sand.
I love him because he’s my golem,
and, well, he had fun.
by Gary Wayne Hill |
Categories:
animal, funny,
My name is Peter the piglet
I love to lie in the sun
Basking in the sunshine
Is my idea of fun
I’m going on vacation soon
I need to top up my tan
To just laze around in the sun all day
That is my only plan
And what do I do at night,
When the sun has gone off to bed?
It really isn’t a problem
I just lay on my sunbed instead
And when I am all tanned and bronzed
Of me everybody will talk
Yes I will be the envy of the sty
Is it me, or can you smell roasting pork?
For the contest Show Me The Funny part two
by Joseph Sergi |
Categories:
beach, happiness, holiday, vacation,
I love to be down the shore.
The sound of the waves and so much more.
Gulls cry from above and somewhere someone's falling in love.
The boardwalk with its lights so bright.
The rides thrill us with delight.
And frozen custard what a treat!
Those curly fries can't be beat.
Down the shore where life is fun.
I'll see you there when the summer comes.
JSergi
by Evelyn Rose |
Categories:
appreciation, first love, journey, peace, relationship, vacation
i can see the limitations and the complications
of your fixation on forming the proper relations.
please don't let the temptations cloud your visions
or a better man.
translation, don't let lust be the causation
for this love's disintegration.
i never need your validation
or a clarification on this modification of love.
this is the purification vacation, baby,
just positive vibrations.
no altercations just relaxation.
this is the sanitation of love.
by Arthur Vaso |
Categories:
art, christian, hate, judgement, myth, philosophy
on fire
devout in terror
within the religious he hides
no rules does he abide
anger bubbles
he preaches
no love to expose
his vacation cabin
the island of Lesbos
by Arthur Vaso |
Categories:
international, muse, music, woman,
Visions of Europe
Alizee is dead to me
Indila can eat all of Paris
She can never have even an ounce of me
My heart belongs to France
Moi et France took a vacation to Austria
Where I met my new love, I call her Zoe!
We sing and we sing, and even more
Drunken recklessness
With mi amour, je suis, je suis
Notes: Zoe was the Austrian entry in Eurovsion 2016. singing a song in French. Alizee and Indila are French pop singers.
by Line Gauthier |
Categories:
husband, money, silly, vacation, wife,
There once was a gullible taxman
Who dated a rich lady named Ann
When the taxes were due
She declared I love you
Why don't we take a trip to Milan
AP: Honorable Mention 2021
Posted on December 31, 2018