Prompt: Archangel
Form: Lai
Of average height,
The eyes blue and bright
With cheer,
You hide in plain light
All colors of white.
Sincere,
You find such delight
In guarding this sight
So clear.
Your stand by your fight
May old souls incite
To tear.
While dreaming of flight
My will do ignite
Sans fear:
With your breath inside,
The triumph, the plight -
Both dear.
So struggle despite,
My own precious sprite,
Stay near.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Prompt: To beguile with words
Prompt: To beguile with words
Form: Abcedarian
Abate blandishment capricious -
Desist! Elusive fancy,
Grant hopeful innocents just knowledge,
Let mind Narcissus overrule.
Praise quenches reason.
Seek truth under vaporous words -
Exploits yield zenith.
Form: Abcedarian
Abate blandishment capricious -
Desist! Elusive fancy,
Grant hopeful innocents just knowledge,
Let mind Narcissus overrule.
Praise quenches reason.
Seek truth under vaporous words -
Exploits yield zenith.
Prompt: I put a Spell on You
Prompt: I put a Spell on You
Form: Diatelle
Form: Diatelle
Deep
Sunshine
Intertwines
With streaming air,
Dust gleaming pools divine
Along the cascades of your hair.
Quench your eyes' thirst - soak up my molten stare.
Abrupt design sends my mind into frenzied leap -
Bewitch her heart with signs of fate to share
Together, rare and perfect pair.
The chorus of your shrine
I'll be and swear -
'I am thine!'
Be mine
Keep.
Prompt: Breathe
Prompt: Breathe
Form: Terza Rima
Moist existence chills to peaks of frost,
Silver lace explodes in streaks of stars,
Mountain ridges, pine woods run across,
Northern flurries feather from afar.
And beyond the painted icy sweep -
Lands of sun-kissed white are all but sparse.
Touch embroidered cold with finger tip,
Melt a minute window on the glass,
Into winter's kingdom take a leap -
Hear crunch of snow with every step, as
Fresh, crisp air bites cheeks and nose to red
While flawless crystal fields get marked, alas.
Shake the hats of flakes from tree crowns that
Blooming clouds caught with each naked branch.
Breathe deeply in again, lest you forget
Nature's invigorating sleep's happy range.
Form: Terza Rima
Moist existence chills to peaks of frost,
Silver lace explodes in streaks of stars,
Mountain ridges, pine woods run across,
Northern flurries feather from afar.
And beyond the painted icy sweep -
Lands of sun-kissed white are all but sparse.
Touch embroidered cold with finger tip,
Melt a minute window on the glass,
Into winter's kingdom take a leap -
Hear crunch of snow with every step, as
Fresh, crisp air bites cheeks and nose to red
While flawless crystal fields get marked, alas.
Shake the hats of flakes from tree crowns that
Blooming clouds caught with each naked branch.
Breathe deeply in again, lest you forget
Nature's invigorating sleep's happy range.
Prompt: Anger
Prompt: Anger
Form: Dorsimbra
Shards of rejection strike my throbbing veins...
A numbing fire spreads wide within my chest...
Unwittingly, again you've caused me pain.
Quite simply, there's another you trust best.
Aaargh! Unuttered wail
Shreds reason into ashes, brittle poise falls fractured unto crimson daffodils -
Can't I be irreplaceable for you,
Can't I be only?
Hope unhinged in mutiny, unready
To admit futility of endless
Chase unwanted. Shaking, dull aching - as
Shards of rejection strike my throbbing veins.
Form: Dorsimbra
Shards of rejection strike my throbbing veins...
A numbing fire spreads wide within my chest...
Unwittingly, again you've caused me pain.
Quite simply, there's another you trust best.
Aaargh! Unuttered wail
Shreds reason into ashes, brittle poise falls fractured unto crimson daffodils -
Can't I be irreplaceable for you,
Can't I be only?
Hope unhinged in mutiny, unready
To admit futility of endless
Chase unwanted. Shaking, dull aching - as
Shards of rejection strike my throbbing veins.
Prompt: Insubstantial
Prompt: Insubstantial
Form: Ethnographic Haiku
staccato splashes
on warm asphalt black rivers
run wild she dances
soft grasses tingling
bare toes brisk and moist
early morning dew
green curtain flutters
weeping willow welcomes
envelops gently
red stars on sky blue
blazing maple breathing in wind
ignites sight and heart
autumn steps across
saves barely crawling cold fly
brings to warmth inside
ant trail in kitchen
to balcony diverted
with shared bread crumbs
iris hugs small lake
in city all the people
her tiny haven
Form: Ethnographic Haiku
staccato splashes
on warm asphalt black rivers
run wild she dances
soft grasses tingling
bare toes brisk and moist
early morning dew
green curtain flutters
weeping willow welcomes
envelops gently
red stars on sky blue
blazing maple breathing in wind
ignites sight and heart
autumn steps across
saves barely crawling cold fly
brings to warmth inside
ant trail in kitchen
to balcony diverted
with shared bread crumbs
iris hugs small lake
in city all the people
her tiny haven
Prompt: Gone Fishing
Note: a lot of the poetry posted in this blog is a result of participating in various challenges on dA, and never finishing. It's all good fun, though.
Prompt: Gone Fishing
Form: Whitney
Version1:
Muddy boots,
Discarded hooks,
Rain stained brow,
A net of trout;
Greeted cold
By shattered gold -
Paper farewell: gone "fishing".
Version2:
Muddy boots,
Successful hooks,
Splendid catch
Luck let him snatch;
Greeted with
Discarded dreams
And inked adieu: gone "fishing".
Prompt: Gone Fishing
Form: Whitney
Version1:
Muddy boots,
Discarded hooks,
Rain stained brow,
A net of trout;
Greeted cold
By shattered gold -
Paper farewell: gone "fishing".
Version2:
Muddy boots,
Successful hooks,
Splendid catch
Luck let him snatch;
Greeted with
Discarded dreams
And inked adieu: gone "fishing".
Prompt: Osmosis
Prompt: Osmosis
Form: Epistle
At 12, your looking glass is pink and clear
Although the angle's off and blotched with blind spots...
You left me stranded.
I was at fault, I know that now
But still no guilt, and
No more trust in girls.
Hair of silk, a darling frown when deep in thought -
You took me cycling, only wanted love, tried to feel worthy...
I didn't help you, couldn't - saved yourself
You did, and now want another.
Such goodness, such whole heart, my dear friend
I'm never letting go.
I'd call us push & pull, but one side only both the actions undertakes -
Just mine. Our countless conversations, most you ended first,
Occasional exception - you, lying on the floor,
Grab my ankle: "See you soon?"
Those little drops of feeling keep me hooked.
Aloof, the only one I yearn to understand, but never could.
Exclusive, trusted, needed -
My want of past five years -
Unrequited.
My foreign summer - talented and fun,
Even as I led, I followed - did you notice?
You never needed people, yet they'd flock to you - replaceable,
Just as I.
Why are state lines impenetrable walls?
I miss our Slurpee trips.
My dear beloved, my inconsistent friend -
How to trust the one that hurts the most with unintended stabs?
You keep me safe enough to break me down.
With sweat and sighs we fix the mis-connections
And walking parallel try to cross our lines, or
At least, hold hands, graze fingertips, intentions.
Being 'us' is far from seamless,
But seeing how you make me smile,
I won't have any other to make me cry.
Form: Epistle
At 12, your looking glass is pink and clear
Although the angle's off and blotched with blind spots...
You left me stranded.
I was at fault, I know that now
But still no guilt, and
No more trust in girls.
Hair of silk, a darling frown when deep in thought -
You took me cycling, only wanted love, tried to feel worthy...
I didn't help you, couldn't - saved yourself
You did, and now want another.
Such goodness, such whole heart, my dear friend
I'm never letting go.
I'd call us push & pull, but one side only both the actions undertakes -
Just mine. Our countless conversations, most you ended first,
Occasional exception - you, lying on the floor,
Grab my ankle: "See you soon?"
Those little drops of feeling keep me hooked.
Aloof, the only one I yearn to understand, but never could.
Exclusive, trusted, needed -
My want of past five years -
Unrequited.
My foreign summer - talented and fun,
Even as I led, I followed - did you notice?
You never needed people, yet they'd flock to you - replaceable,
Just as I.
Why are state lines impenetrable walls?
I miss our Slurpee trips.
My dear beloved, my inconsistent friend -
How to trust the one that hurts the most with unintended stabs?
You keep me safe enough to break me down.
With sweat and sighs we fix the mis-connections
And walking parallel try to cross our lines, or
At least, hold hands, graze fingertips, intentions.
Being 'us' is far from seamless,
But seeing how you make me smile,
I won't have any other to make me cry.
Prompt: Celebrity
Prompt: Celebrity
Form: Lilibonelle
An expert vision of a large life,
Of our suburban space Red Giant,
Of every gathering the soul,
To constants barely compliant,
Even the falls I often braid -
All bonds persistently evade.
Of our suburban space Red Giant,
With voice of booming pasi gong
Tales gilded grand round simple hearts
You weave with sweet alluring song.
I wonder if in New York crowd
You still succeed in standing out.
Of every gathering the soul,
Your yearning mirrors common goal -
With something bigger to be whole.
You feed us laughter, heavy sighs,
Time flying past - your presence's price,
But gladly limits one denies on your high tides.
To constants barely compliant
And in defiance rarely mild;
The term shall slip from not one mind
Of home dyed shirts and jeans that click
In rainbow bursts you'd proudly pick
For every morning of the week.
Even the falls I often braid,
Chestnut cascades grace shoulders uncommitted,
Frame thin stretched face, all eyes.
Those eyes will capture in their gaze - you only, their whispered promise. Yet that
Through and at himself they look you easily forget
Time and again.
All bonds persistently evade,
Beyond blood never fully yielding
Attachment or affection. Thriving
Off us all, belonging to no one.
Restless spirit, will you settle
Ever within yourself, if only to catch breath?
Form: Lilibonelle
An expert vision of a large life,
Of our suburban space Red Giant,
Of every gathering the soul,
To constants barely compliant,
Even the falls I often braid -
All bonds persistently evade.
Of our suburban space Red Giant,
With voice of booming pasi gong
Tales gilded grand round simple hearts
You weave with sweet alluring song.
I wonder if in New York crowd
You still succeed in standing out.
Of every gathering the soul,
Your yearning mirrors common goal -
With something bigger to be whole.
You feed us laughter, heavy sighs,
Time flying past - your presence's price,
But gladly limits one denies on your high tides.
To constants barely compliant
And in defiance rarely mild;
The term shall slip from not one mind
Of home dyed shirts and jeans that click
In rainbow bursts you'd proudly pick
For every morning of the week.
Even the falls I often braid,
Chestnut cascades grace shoulders uncommitted,
Frame thin stretched face, all eyes.
Those eyes will capture in their gaze - you only, their whispered promise. Yet that
Through and at himself they look you easily forget
Time and again.
All bonds persistently evade,
Beyond blood never fully yielding
Attachment or affection. Thriving
Off us all, belonging to no one.
Restless spirit, will you settle
Ever within yourself, if only to catch breath?
Prompt: Insatiable
Prompt: Insatiable
Form: Alliterisen
Fluorescence flares in fleeting fog, flutters, flickers...
Aurora sea stains swaying hands with algae spectrum hues...
Booming bass basks greedy bodies, grips them whole,
Beats the hearts, blinds the ears, breathes the lungs, the pores, the soul.
Volume waves weave veins of vibrato webs...
Rhythm resonates throughout, rings and thrills and throbs...
Whether it hurts or heals, one prays it never stops.
Form: Alliterisen
Fluorescence flares in fleeting fog, flutters, flickers...
Aurora sea stains swaying hands with algae spectrum hues...
Booming bass basks greedy bodies, grips them whole,
Beats the hearts, blinds the ears, breathes the lungs, the pores, the soul.
Volume waves weave veins of vibrato webs...
Rhythm resonates throughout, rings and thrills and throbs...
Whether it hurts or heals, one prays it never stops.
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