Best Sensory Poems

Frame feel
Hope heals


Taste time
Rich rhymes


Smell stuff
Prize path


Heap health
Write wealth


Touch thrills
Warm will


Prize poise
Charm choice


Reach right
Sense sight


Glimpse gain
Prompt plain




Leon Enriquez
11 February 2018
Singapore...

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Written: October 21, 2023, For Mohan Chutani Minichu Dream Contest
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What’s left of my mind
when I open my mouth
is the part I could never say.

What’s left of my mind
when you open yours
is a place I...

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fragrance
overwhelming
olfactory assault
unexpected punch to the nose
bloodied...

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Her lavender essence daily presents 
It announces her iconic presence 
Hard high heels knocking past my office door 
Her fast feet fleeting over the flat...

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Windy chill
Skin feels cold;
Hint of rain

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Tropical sun
Cranky and hot;
Punishing heat

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Grand harvest here
Nature provides;
Gratitude grooms

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Busy street corner
People rush about;
Busy distractions

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Train ride detours
Rush hour ventures;
No time to...

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Dark silence I embrace

Dark silence slows the pace 

Dark silence cuts my frustration down to size

 

Dark silence quiets the chase

Dark silence relaxes my face

Dark...

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Tonight I smell musical notes in the air
as I taste babies breathe springlike smiles

and I feel the voice of reason
as I listen to velvet dark...

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Contradistinction
opposed quality and form
our eye's can fool us...

Contradiction speaks
opposed word choice inflection
our ear's can fool us...

Conventional truth
learned behavior mounts as,
our mind can fool us...

Indifference comes
vibratory...

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cut off
deprived

magnetized
sensitized

to crave
desire

ache
the longing

touching
caressing

skin tingling
reacting

sensations
heightened

devouring
sole passion



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on May 21, 2022...

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I mean,
seriously?

Talk about
boundary issues!

I get it, 
why the 7th multicultural value,
and most recent
to finally make it in
to sacred UniversalYang/UnitarianYintegral
iconology,
doxology,
eulogy,
ecotherapeutic theology,
green ecofeminist ecology,
declares our polypathic RESPECT
for...

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Sensory affirmations
fig perfume wrists
Howard’s violet candy
on our lips as we kiss
Evergreen sprigs
leave us green fingertips
as we pinch the pine oil
to breathe in the scent
Pickled ginger...

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Imprisoning textures
and routine lectures
in loneliness,

"your own fault"
"not Other's loss"

blame
shame
dipolar co-arising

Loneliness effacing
cognitive/affective reason
and denying access
to more social future seasons

Including primal memories
of self-appreciation
self-sufficiency
communication resource-fullness,

And yet,
  ...

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Be sure to stick that head out the windows of your life.
It's okay to bark but don't dare bite..
A roll in the mud brings a...

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Architecture of 4/4 music
left and right hand scored
harmonic balance

Four sacred spaces
of energy
surrounded by five
double-boundary lines

Staff mused structures
within bicameral
emotive harmonies
for sacred octave
enlightenment 
restorative safety help

And bilateral
cognitive...

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