ALONE

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Words fizzing in unceasing flow

Never lets me alone

Only once in a cool hillside

Those sticky foams were gone

Waves stilled

Inert mind was peace filled

World shone

In an unearthly light

Though for a few seconds that glow

Numbed the words and their might

 

Posed for the prompt Alone @ Poetry Jam

 

 I tried to follow the rhyme scheme of Robert Herrick Stanza

 

x x x x x x x a
x x x x x b
x x x x x x x c
x x x x x b
x d
x x x x x d
x c
x x x x x e
x x x x x x x a
x x x x x e 

THE BUDDHA

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When those feet tasted the first dust

A deep sorrow misted his heart

A violent storm choked blue flow

The lotus seemed to lost its glow

 

A deep sorrow misted his heart

All entangled in dream’s meshes

The lotus seemed to lost its glow

The lion’s out snapping the net

 

All entangled in dream’s meshes

Nettle-desire had broken sting

The lion’s out snapping the net

Paths carved for the brave to follow

 

Nettle-desire had broken sting

Luster found the old home once lost

Paths carved for the brave to follow

Golden lotus bloomed on His trail

 

Posted for Kerry’s hosting Play It Again Toads @ Real Toads: my chosen  prompt is Get  Famous by Fireblossom

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Shared with Poetry Pantry @ Poets United

WHEN FACEBOOK FAILS FOR HALF AN HOUR

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The Earth stopped spinning yester night

Ether’s heavy with hue and cry

Celebs and brands all lost their sight

The Earth stopped spinning yester night

Lesser mortals with all their might

Scurried virtually to pry

The Earth stopped spinning yester night

Ether’s heavy with hue and cry

 

Posted for d’Verse where repetition is the theme today

LIGHT AND DARK

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Spectacular seasons

Come and go

No unfulfilled promise

Do they show

 

There is joy in living

There is joy in dying

A death is a birth

They utter in mirth

 

They are words of the

Passage of time

In darkness and light

Do they chime

 

Posted for Susan’s Midweek Motif ~ Light and Dark @ Poets United

 

BRIDGE

(A Tanka)

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A poem is a bridge

Connecting two eager minds

 Spark of emotions

A grand vista opens up

Words are bonded forever

Posted for Laurie's prompt @ Poetry Jam

PLACES

Small space always interests me a lot

The world is infinite to the small me

So I nurture a me-space in my heart

 

Where tree-dreams blossom to take their wings

Baobabs beside the Zambezi beckon

The world is infinite to the small me

 

Those dewy eyes will never let me run

Seeing me her frail frame flutters in joy

Baobabs beside the Zambezi beckon

 

The night long journey to her makes my day

Dreamy Africa slowly disappears

Seeing me her frail frame flutters in joy

 

Even longest day sheds its light I fear

Yellow blooms on my doorsteps catch my eye

Dreamy Africa slowly disappears

 

I behold the sinking tangerine ray

Small space always interests me a lot

Yellow blooms on my doorsteps catch my eye

So I nurture a me-space in my heart

 

Posted for   dVerse Poets Pub,

  FATHER’S DAY

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Nothing can bring that loving voice

That is lost in the womb of Time

Only the memories still chime

Those sonorous words of great choice

“I want to see you”, he would say

Obligations tied up my feet

On two vacations we would meet

My grieving heart’s silent today

 

 

Posted for Sunday Form Challenge - Yeats' Octaves @ Real Toads

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Shared with Poetry Pantry @ Poets United