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- Column: Variation on a sonnet at allpoetry
a variation on a sonnet form - thanks... at allpoetry
Sometimes it is the unseen hand
that makes the day of an angel - waves ... at allpoetry
Lightning cut black sky
and carapace clouds appeared as ghosts - Parable 23 at allpoetry
It was Tuesday
God and Satan sat down - room... at allpoetry
There was poetry in cool winter air
that settled from high ceilings to floors - Chivalry... at allpoetry
Red night
bends low before - Forgetting… at allpoetry
you came in late hours of the long day
when glare of sun had settled to gentler glow - Saturday Night America at allpoetry
A tyranny of small minds
reign impure, more - summer snow at allpoetry
confetti
- to dream at allpoetry
I reached out my hand
to lift a star from night - Catnip... at allpoetry
lion's roar,
glare in low tree limbs - pause... at allpoetry
high above ground
mews amuse - connections... at allpoetry
clouds
touch seas - Garden... at allpoetry
There was an appearance of ruin
a landscape littered with failure - passing moon at allpoetry
A vision brought red crested cardinal
in pitch night - MariCeli at allpoetry
Was she real
or a creation of a spirit of the world - bless 'em all at allpoetry
How do we see, a vision
deep water and blue seas - ... de' Ror at allpoetry
I watched the assembly of the painted face
matte then eyes, nose, and mouth, a garish - roar of greasepaint... at allpoetry
The mime fell down
and broke his crown - whirled on a string at allpoetry
Not since the haunted days of Donna Flor
had there been such a complete uproar - Anthem... at allpoetry
http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/5169-William-Wordsworth-Composed-Upon-Westminster-Bridge--September-3--1802 - ...and the String: a tail of sew at allpoetry
Tariza was a lovely woman
Carioca one hundred percent, plus one - precious... at allpoetry
Bronze skin
amber red stage lights, - heat... at allpoetry
Summer night in Biloxi
near home, or never-wanted-to-be Mississipi, - if... at allpoetry
Words that arc across vast emptiness
make moments of eons of nature's feast - restless... at allpoetry
Love became a fire in the coals
burning through the cold of day - Orfeu at allpoetry
there was broken music
on strangely warm wind - rhythmic... at allpoetry
Morning midnight
noonday twilight - untethered... at allpoetry
Revelation comes unto the dim vision
narrow and parochial, where feet are locked - searching stalks ... at allpoetry
A February rhythm
brought a certain warmth - today... at allpoetry
i learn to love today
a day not like any other - air... at allpoetry
A frame, a frozen fear,
a year, a lifetime; - heaven... at allpoetry
I was born clung to comet trails
plummeted through time - floor of stars at allpoetry
you make casual footsteps
on a floor of stars - shape at allpoetry
The sands above and below
a narrow trickle between - storm at allpoetry
I am lost in life
to the point of being mute - Puns and Roses [or Arriva Derche aroma] at allpoetry
She rose by any name
pungent air, to smell the same - Moon song at allpoetry
Moon weave your trance
as I walk on tops of hills - tickle of twine... at allpoetry
Spider spin your silk, make wings to fly
flies to lose wings, spider spin and walk on air - Spirit and breath... at allpoetry
Spirit and breath…
- Slight Romance at allpoetry
The air played tricks with the flavor of night
aromas of the sea descended in wispy clouds - from the stones... at allpoetry
Morning time for a dream
when the covers are undone, - brown cathedral at allpoetry
Faith is what comes by an empty bottle
used up, all done - A tail of horror at allpoetry
a stray dog licked the wet cement,
then off to the park he went, - the mo[u]rning after... at allpoetry
Now comes the hangover
and slow return of sight - Rails... at allpoetry
Freight train through the mountains
echoes trail thunders of steel wheels on rails - Turn away... at allpoetry
In bright image of creation, a dark shadow followed near
time cared not of weakness, nor dismayed their shallow tears - snow and light at allpoetry
I saw pink sunlight on the untouched snow
after so many cold days, untouched - Duality... at allpoetry
Nature bares herself
pale in naked night - I dreamed at allpoetry
...shifting shadows
cast by eternal thoughts - Glory... at allpoetry
in blue on the Avenue
Union troops that saved a country - remembered... at allpoetry
the seas know the ways of clouds
water drops have it to fall and gather - Spoon... at allpoetry
wet warm air
touched cool skin - Oranges, smoranges... at allpoetry
"Oranges, smoranges...who said
"there ain't no rhyme for oranges..."" - wings of joy at allpoetry
I imagine angels lifting wings
standing near pilot's chair - Gaza Sounds at allpoetry
Deserts echo unseen tears;
falling thunders of - snow moon at allpoetry
Golden moon filled night in sepia shades
and clouds made a gauzy haze - feathers at allpoetry
life finds tools to do the work of the emotions
to fix hearts to far horizon's deeper shades - Grand Bunny at allpoetry
Prayers and wishes poured into
a chalice of hope, as the journey - Liquid Moon at allpoetry
you were the golden moon in amber sky
bright and shadow low in the quivered trees - Tomorrow at allpoetry
Where will tomorrow turn
when I call across still night - March on at allpoetry
PK - songs... at allpoetry
I rest my burden beneath a cloudless night
listen to the songs of stars - Gifts... at allpoetry
The world became witness to vain ascensions
to ages of empty idols, wasted sacrifice - News at allpoetry
The new year came early
to the man filled with happiness - East... at allpoetry
Sunrise above the clouds
when gray rolled upon darker gray - nest at allpoetry
A peacock sat upon serpent's egg
and reaped the birth of calumny - Christmas Past at allpoetry
A life rewarded
by circumstance - Filled... at allpoetry
Reaching by thought
as if thought were fingers through darkness - Mary and Joseph at allpoetry
Joseph
- snowy day... at allpoetry
until the end of snow
life is like the day of a child - Evening tides at allpoetry
Sultry eyes, full red lips
hand tucked beneath a half smile - Happy holiday... at allpoetry
Winter's cold
brings global warming - soldier at allpoetry
Blue eyes, brown eyes something in between
blonde hair, dark curls time and nature made them all - to see... at allpoetry
Let me see your face
unveiled, lifted curtains - rings... at allpoetry
May we be the trees
of many rings - Serenade...[repost] at allpoetry
The Moon is brighter than we've seen
over houses across the street - dove... at allpoetry
Moon crossed the night
I saw her first through branches not bare - Sacrifice... at allpoetry
There was a sacrifice in the night
there was blood on the rock of the mountain - Sky... at allpoetry
He became part of the Sun
mountaintop and dawn light - heroes at allpoetry
cardboard boxes
beneath the bridge - Choose... at allpoetry
a dazzling chaos
confusion raised to worship - Within... at allpoetry
Warm light fills the darkness
like the glow of a kiss - Hey! at allpoetry
Hey Jon do me a Favreau
get a grip on your ego - sudden... at allpoetry
In a dream of unbending night
with eyes of all the earth pinned to skies - Woodpecker at allpoetry
I saw a brown bird on a cold gray day.
filled with wind and rain and it seemed he saw me too, - might be ... at allpoetry
They might be tears upon waterless moon
expressions of loneliness spread over ages - a difference at allpoetry
my eyes find a circling hawk
the hawk finds small prey - red asphalt at allpoetry
City night in winter
all the heat is close to the ground - Winter Planets at allpoetry
Bright stars and dark mystery
evening sky in winter brings - 11 words at allpoetry
Jupiter rose over Venus
moonlight - purpose at allpoetry
Count me backward
to amber warm womb; - past time at allpoetry
Yesterday closes curtains
its light is lost - Empty... at allpoetry
She was a little house of sadness
like the kind I saw in the cemetery - like mud... at allpoetry
Night became a haunting past
as hours slipped by and rustic features - May it be... at allpoetry
Sometimes a prayer
escapes us - Love and a train ride... at allpoetry
...found my earlier days when want
was lost in dreams; pride - bosom of the see at allpoetry
There I sat pondering where i'd seen the words
"bosoms" and it seemed fair, language like birds - little crab at allpoetry
There was a pimple on the elephant's butt
a tiny part of a great spectacle to be sure - split the pole... at allpoetry
I dont think she had any idea
of how she had moved through time - white trees and rooftops at allpoetry
No reserved spots beneath a great silver moon
when the glow spreads across evening into night - ... Fourty -four at allpoetry
Ooooh, that man! Starting another war?
doesn't he know what the word peace is for? - visionary... at allpoetry
a pastiche of dreams
when time folded night upon - Sun... at allpoetry
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946) - Autumn comes in three's at allpoetry
big leaves and a little face,
watching own small shoes - Sparks... at allpoetry
Spirits spark beneath burials of time
and memory does not gather them all - The eyes again... at allpoetry
salty rainfall upon tender skin
and in the eyes are storms without warning - pendant... at allpoetry
like a rich blue world or a whirlwind...unfinished
or a word falling in tender whispers - Eyes at allpoetry
Somewhere, there in the eyes,
a distance brought near - calling... at allpoetry
there would be a small mound, bare rise of ground
in the place we buried war; and there would be many - Obama Samba at allpoetry
Even a country with two right feet
could not resist drums or miss the beat - Change[d] at allpoetry
Bring my angels near,
let them hear soft whispers - Untitled at allpoetry
If the Sun goes away
then what of the moon - Stone face and Colibri at allpoetry
The deep gray corner top left photo
haze makes a shaded statue in rock wall - still there... at allpoetry
Looking for someone
to share this heavy load - Dawn... at allpoetry
Peace
- Still... at allpoetry
In a still night, a travelled wind is heard.
faint circles around a voice of the world - et femme noir at allpoetry
Black woman, dark moon
beauty shadowed within beauty - Star songs at allpoetry
pencil marks make playful
patterns - At Dawn... at allpoetry
Farm at dawn...
His eyes opened to sunrise, late already; - lasting tide at allpoetry
Let them wear black in the morning
- Strings of night at allpoetry
You will raise her skirts above bent knee
and thrust hip to pound stacatto beats into helpless boards - Two thousand twelve at allpoetry
As my hands write a story
told by thoughts not entirely mine - Afterthoughts ... at allpoetry
The stars reflected seas
white caps took form in clouds - Dream again... at allpoetry
It has been months since I set bleary eyes
on Mercy Street, - John... at allpoetry
as he took upon himself the hope of an age
and left days more buoyant upon the lifting tide - Connections at allpoetry
My words were cloaked in rhetorical Shadows
Shadows fall in the bright light of Day - ... living poem at allpoetry
look at this map the living poem
It is a cold that comes from inside. - faultless at allpoetry
The tiny beating heart within her womb
the rest of sands on an eternal shore. - So what... at allpoetry
So what, when the moon don't rise
so what, when birds dont fly, so what - "Just Believe" at allpoetry
That dream again, wind whistling
the face of the boy with dark hair - Poetry at allpoetry
But the poetry of this very moment
A time of absolute purity. - Beauty at allpoetry
Africa my beauty
stepped from robes of sky and cloud - not enough... at allpoetry
When love is not enough, although we try
tempt full white sails in this windless night - lifting all... at allpoetry
It falls like blessings from above
in generous God-given waves - A Stirring... at allpoetry
There were no praises to God, none had ever been heard there...not since Lucifer fell, there were no songs or hymns to greatness, as breath has no need to praise the air, there were no supplications for forgiveness for it was - Aspects of Noon at allpoetry
The rope was draped upon his shoulder, a thick ugly rope and the end had been cut and rewoven to make the circle around his neck. A busy man with warm blue eyes a meticulous manner and calm facial expression moved his feet i - Moon fall... at allpoetry
Emptiness in unfilled cups
a wine never tasted, harvest - Morning Prose at allpoetry
As she walked away, I thought of an Apple
something round and ripe…so inviting in a moment; - a view... at allpoetry
In the sky at night a string of light
bright spots dot the blank dark wall - a small question at allpoetry
Nowhere is not a new poular song
foot-tappin', rump shakin' all day long - color of ... at allpoetry
Flow like air
feelings rise and ebb - Garden... at allpoetry
There was care
before seeds began to grow, - enduring... at allpoetry
there is a faultless place
where nothing dies - Thoughts ... at allpoetry
The sands became the seas
white seas became clouds - memories at allpoetry
so close came autumn
lingered summers past - From the end of frost at allpoetry
Seven years, and within each circled surround
from end of frost to edge of winter - Once and forever... at allpoetry
My mother forgave me once and forever,
was something I had done, to someone - Sister… at allpoetry
And it happened whenever she sang
the sadness in her soul lifted into air - Dove at allpoetry
reserved - always meant at allpoetry
Perfection is in river mud
that sucks the toes down - life found at allpoetry
The wonderful and pure one
invention of spirit and form; - Blues for Louis... at allpoetry
http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/show/122898-Vinicius-de-Moraes-Blues-for-Emmett-Louis-Till
- There were… at allpoetry
An angel’s mistakes and sorrows
found in ashes of a lost day, - Me too at allpoetry
RES - A Wooden-elle at allpoetry
a MEtroNOME was SET to KEEP good TIME
soft PUSH beGAN its LILTing TILT and SWAY - he learns... at allpoetry
...as God might have seen
- Calling Angels at allpoetry
A perfect angel held
the all too human hand, - Photo at allpoetry
Through a lens
upon a canvas of the mind - crazy flies at allpoetry
Possessed they are
- weightless... at allpoetry
The brightest light needs nothing to bear it
- wind shadow at allpoetry
As a flight of song that will never end
closes its tunes in the air of the day - squinting... at allpoetry
lazy summer days
- happiness is... at allpoetry
kitchen scurry
flick switch splatter - August at allpoetry
When summer returned alone
shorn of company we'd rather keep - Lorca... at allpoetry
1*3, **1, **3, **1, **3, **13 (stars are non-repeating lines)
- Encounter... at allpoetry
She came
when the man’s spirit felt empty - Missing Meter... at allpoetry
Upon a shard as I teeter
mystified by feet and meter weighted - The Mira Celi at allpoetry
When spirit moved among nestled trees
and glows of miracles covered the ground - Meanings True [revised] at allpoetry
Meanings True
- eight o'clock shadow at allpoetry
cruelty forgot
ancient call gold fame power - Interpretation of September at allpoetry
She called upon her invisible Saints
to testify to the love in her heart, - City dirt at allpoetry
drew a ring
in soft brown dirt, - deep velvet at allpoetry
Crept from shadow
into verge of light - for keeps at allpoetry
I heard bellowed roars, edgy
toughness oozed from pores - waterless seas at allpoetry
Always at Two in the Morning,
when crossroads meet - Gutters [revised] at allpoetry
In so many ways
they simply held things of life - His Son... at allpoetry
Dark eyes reach from depths of a darker night
dimmed by tears, thunders and bright lightning sparks - sign [free verse] at allpoetry
We say good bye to ourselves
by each chance before a mirror - [ And it’s here that young swallows learn to fly ] at allpoetry
And it’s here that young swallows learn to fly
to sing songs taught by leaves and whistled winds - within... at allpoetry
There's wisdom in bones
- solemn night at allpoetry
I open eyes to hear moonlight again
solemn night, bared silence - Langston's Smile at allpoetry
Eyes glow summer night golden sunset burns - Cloudy… at allpoetry
in the heat near ground sun finds coffee brown; and salty sweat - Ashes... at allpoetry
Men in green raised brown clouds dusty brooms were tools of wisdom - Yes, Ms. Brooks [sonnet ballad] at allpoetry
we count life’s stay yesterdays, tomorrows sung in keys of war for profit, an endless refrain, - Yes, Ms. Brooks... at allpoetry
we count the days life in many ways, - Resrvation please at allpoetry
res - O Caminho o Belo Luar [ path of light ] at allpoetry
Soul searched questions in language of unspoken trust - together at allpoetry
Poetry rose within scenes of dreams - ...the dry thistle at allpoetry
[...the dry thistle] spat stones more filled of water's blue - Inhale… at allpoetry
In mystic mirrors destiny tried as love plied silver sides of clouds; - sight... at allpoetry
Some have gifts understanding, eyes to see - One... at allpoetry
Struggled in the length of night toll and width of dreamy seas - Impatient... at allpoetry
It simply held things we’d no longer own - Gritty sixties at allpoetry
Jackson Street got hotter at night shoo wop corner, young boys got it right - Sepia brown at allpoetry
Folded corners rust stained near the eye - New born at allpoetry
Nascent night bare darkness descended, - Flowing... at allpoetry
Long before manhood thrills of life, love and romance - fireflies dance at allpoetry
Close night upon small shoulders, eyes grow heavy like summer air
