Summer
Sands
of time
churn beneath
our feet as we
clasp hands and boldly
run euphorically
half-naked down the beach on
a sunny day beside the sea
below blue skies, pursuing a dream
of mutual love and shared destiny.
***
The murmuration of my memories
fills the sky of my soul
with a beautiful pictoral show
of our long lost love
I watch, transfixed
Euphorically engrossed, I sigh
Oh, what display
of you and me and yesterday!
I relive the splendor
Transfixed
Emotions mixed
with certainty
you and me...and love
it will come again
But like birds, the memories fly away,
and I gaze at an empty sky
wondering why
reality always makes me cry
Eileen Manassian
Our earthly realm of wonder and beauty
Observing its glory is our living duty
The most exquisite sight I have ever seen
Was a paradise island I have never been
A tiny green dot in the mighty ocean blue
Unleash your dreams and you may visit too
Just close your eyes and raise your sail
You’ll be carried there by a windy gale
I came ashore to electric blue plankton glow
Greeted upon arrival to a bioluminescent show
Beach sand glinted with a hue so golden
A majestic visual treat that left me beholden
Birds of flamboyant colour stunned me aghast
Exotic green jungle so lush, dense, and vast
I discovered an abundance of tropical trees
Many splendrous species, quite keen to please
I decided to dwell there, in a cabin of bamboo
Cruising immaculate streams in my little dented canoe
At night, I marvelled, as the cosmos triumphantly danced
Sitting serenely by my campfire, euphorically entranced
I awoke that morning in blissful peace
For I conjured an idyllic place, never to cease
It exists within my beating heart and my musing mind
Every time I close my eyes and dream, paradise I find
If only creation conceived of her sooner
Another name for the Moon might not be lunar
Silken charcoal casts an image upon this sheet
Artistry, as this commission found, is so complete
An evolutionary masterpiece lacking nothing nor insipid
To touch beauty such as this is so euphorically intrepid
Were I given by a djinn wishes thrice
I would invest two in kissing she once, then twice
The third; if only for a moment, requesting in-kind
If somewhere within her; my Valentine, she'd find
Accidentally I stumbled on the hidden pool,
I saw her there among the sedge, so lovely and cool,
"Come swim with me," she smiled in an angelic way.
Euphorically my heart beat fast with radiant sway.
How fast I swam towards that heavenly vision,
Only to see her vanish in a colourful prism.
Despite the crisp chill
She wandered to the pebbled shore.
Cold water washed her tender feet.
At last, she sat beneath a pine tree
on a shaven log, shaped like a bench
A train of thoughts passed through her muddled mind.
She wondered if life was passing her by.
She shrugged. There was nothing she could do.
A grey gull screeched overhead. She laughed.
Ships, small or large, would go on their way,
Especially love boats on their route to exotic shores,
but she had to stay put,
Until he came back to her again.
Then she would be euphorically happy once more.
Thus she dreamed and fantasized,
moulding her life according to her standards.
But love cannot be forced
nor found on love boats.
They are created deep in the heart
or as was her case, lost at sea
in a terrible turbulent storm.
When the sun kisses each drop of rain,
spirited colors warm the heart...
like a wind wisped feather,
landing lightly on the soul.
Romance calls,
from a fresh faint whisper
mingled cleverly among the fallen.
A daydream smiles,
in a seductive voice.
Conjured memories evolve,
from indifference to fact,
plunging deep into fantasy,
erotically eager,
intoxicatingly anxious.
All is euphorically joyful.
05/16/2021<>
Newlyweds,
Ever hopeful,
With confidence loves.
Belonging,
Euphorically,
Giving joyfully.
Inspired,
Nuptial vows,
Newly committed.
Inspirit,
Now evermore,
Gratifyingly,
Surrenders.
I miss normalcy
or whatever she is calling herself these days
screams from the bedroom
painted pestiferous in pantomime
ripping chests open,
round and ripe
taking bullets to the throat
mouthed dialogue
indulging in delight
bloodlet and bountiful
night she looked away
I miss those echoes,
eruptions of elegance
howling euphorically, (ef)faced
dripping in yesterday's sin
naked in the eye of the Tyrrhenian sea
wave upon wave washing over, we
us, in throes of once
call out
in tongues of more
than just a humble servant
a savant unleashed in a realm of impossibility
the hymns hold it all
sing, sing, sing
the hymns hold it all
The balloons rise to their feet —
jamming figure-eights, skating
euphorically, confidently-hued,
sunny disposition of a marguerite.
The breathtaking discourse of song —
blooming a bouquet of memories, smile
stimulates his eyes and sparks my pulse,
plausible that the classroom’s where I belong.
The fairytale scene follows me outdoors
in chromatic color, scent of honeysuckle,
flittering of fairy wings and stardust, to my car.
I avoid red light, my intoxicated pedal to the floor.
6/3/2019
AN UPLIFTING FEELING Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
Suddenly Swans
White winsome swans swimming in
Unison across the linden laced lake,
Petals floating in water's wake as
Wild wings flutter and they soft speak
To each other in lover's lilting lyrics.
Sun shines in the glory of the morn as
Soft mist dissipates into azure atmosphere.
Poignant placid memories murmur as suddenly
Swans stir the heart in resonant reveries
As long necks embrace entwined euphorically.
4-4-19 rev. 4-29-19
Suddenly Swans Poetry contest N/A
Sponsored by: Maureen McGreavy
When divine’s grace, stroked hair and kissed forehead
Euphorically immersed in ecstasy
When humming breeze smoothed solitude
Weeping heart filled with orisons
When rays of hope percolated in being
Tears of pleasure coursed down on cheeks
When tied limbs broken twines
Suppressed desires floated on sky
When hymns of bliss reverberated in air
Canyons of mind filled with flowers
When feathers of love patted on back
Distorted being solaced in self
When last moment passed in hurry
Me......the light, drowned in ecstasy
Point Of No Return
Nor here or there we stand before creations
Stardust secretions with loving limitations
Heaven bounded in the lap of lachrymal lure
Multiverse in reverse as we euphorically endure
Immaculate infernal of soul’s conception
Divine destiny draws us to deaths deception
Holographic injections of celestial skies
Soothing stimuli of diffracted disguise
Fragile flowers falling into edacious eternity
Theatrically thrown upon mammoth mystery
Cosmic castrations of redundant rebirth
Sanctioned slaves of this emancipated earth.
Dec.05.2016
Point of No Return - Contest
Sponsored by: Nicola Byrne
M ystically making magical mountainess memories
Y outhful yielding yachting yawns younder
N ewborn Nightingales nesting nervously near
A mbient animals auditioning against the airwaves
T imorous trees that tirelessly tower throughout time
U niversal uplifting of uproarious undying unions
R ivers rhythmically running revitalizing romances
E arth elegantly euphorically evolving eternally.
Oops!...had to adjust..reread...poem must be minimum 8 lines maximum 24 lines
Aug.08.2016
Wordscapes - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: John Hamilton
A fragrant flower left by the glamorous gods
For me to praise and panoramically ponder
A monolithic maiden rising from the pods
As each day my hopes grow fanatically fonder
Within the day she is the shimmering summer sun
Within the night she is the mated magnetic moon
Oh the wishful web that I have spontaneously spun
So I may wakefully wallow in my candescent cocoon
A congenial carnivorous Venus fly trap
Feverously floating toward her fallacious fumes
Euphorically embracing as her wings begin to flap
As I find myself in one of her tenebrous tombs
Left to rootly rot as I rapturously retire
For I shall be known as a disciple of desire.
July.12.2016
Limerence - Poetry Contest
By Nayda Ivette Negron
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