abetterstart
Poem Published
15th Oct 2022 1:02pm
15th Oct 2022 1:02pm
serene (morning)
serene morning,
glorious
in your attitude,
even under
wrapped curtains
of mixed grays,
your kindness
is like
fresh kisses,
such pleasing
unsung landscapes,
no boasting,
just modesty
with each footstep,
i breathe you in
as you begin
to grow
within me.
glorious
in your attitude,
even under
wrapped curtains
of mixed grays,
your kindness
is like
fresh kisses,
such pleasing
unsung landscapes,
no boasting,
just modesty
with each footstep,
i breathe you in
as you begin
to grow
within me.
#sky
#clouds
#morning #nature
#morning #nature
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cabcool
Poem Published
7th Oct 2022 5:29pm
7th Oct 2022 5:29pm
cotton candy sky
Only from the heart can you
touch the sky.—Rumi
it is a cotton candy sky
i'll eat until i die;
of red and grey and orange hues—
there's nothing to refuse.
beneath my cotton candy sky,
soon i shall learn to fly;
i'll be a skylark, i suppose,
but not an albatross
sometimes, my cotton candy sky
breaks down and starts to cry;
i sing a rainsong, and the tears
withdraw their fretful jeers.
God made the cotton candy sky
for children such as i,
who have no bounty of our...
touch the sky.—Rumi
it is a cotton candy sky
i'll eat until i die;
of red and grey and orange hues—
there's nothing to refuse.
beneath my cotton candy sky,
soon i shall learn to fly;
i'll be a skylark, i suppose,
but not an albatross
sometimes, my cotton candy sky
breaks down and starts to cry;
i sing a rainsong, and the tears
withdraw their fretful jeers.
God made the cotton candy sky
for children such as i,
who have no bounty of our...
#childhood
#dreams
#sky #nature
#sky #nature
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2 Comments
abetterstart
Poem Published
3rd Oct 2022 8:59pm
3rd Oct 2022 8:59pm
goodbye to the blues
your warm
voice,
fragrant
and mild,
i'm feeling
every heartbeat,
your kisses
burn
our sheltered
pleasures,
now,
clinging together
and gazing
over
hours spent,
our
songs vanish
into
thin air,
chasing
parched wings,
with
a splendid guise
and
a quiet
ending,
i'm bracing
my thoughts
of losing you.
voice,
fragrant
and mild,
i'm feeling
every heartbeat,
your kisses
burn
our sheltered
pleasures,
now,
clinging together
and gazing
over
hours spent,
our
songs vanish
into
thin air,
chasing
parched wings,
with
a splendid guise
and
a quiet
ending,
i'm bracing
my thoughts
of losing you.
#sky
#summer
#winter #nature
#winter #nature
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2 Comments
abetterstart
Poem Published
16th Sep 2022 10:33am
16th Sep 2022 10:33am
colder weather
that sweet hum,
that whispering
song
of the soft
evening
evades my open
window,
such
a gentleness
derived
with pleasure,
cool
upon
my thoughts,
the quiet
reflection,
shorter days
willing
to give
themselves up
for sacrificial
passages,
now,
colder weather
dresses
earlier
in the mornings,
as strings
of
broken fires
haunt
the asylum
in each
hearth.
that whispering
song
of the soft
evening
evades my open
window,
such
a gentleness
derived
with pleasure,
cool
upon
my thoughts,
the quiet
reflection,
shorter days
willing
to give
themselves up
for sacrificial
passages,
now,
colder weather
dresses
earlier
in the mornings,
as strings
of
broken fires
haunt
the asylum
in each
hearth.
#sky
#fall
#morning #nature
#morning #nature
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9 Comments
asbr808
Anthony R
Anthony R
Poem Published
8th Sep 2022 9:17pm
8th Sep 2022 9:17pm
to Caelumos
Sunny above-the-clouds
Engines running in perpetual motion
Sailing across an endless sea
Of mist and rays and condensation
Tri-layered atmosphere perforation
Panels on either side
Fling the photons
I cannot ever remember us not moving
And occasionally we come down
To cities and towns on the coast
And then back up
With diamonds and gold-grained rice and wheat
Real jewels have less value,
With the interior of the earth so dry
They talk of the capital city
It has been a very long time since I’ve been back
My...
Engines running in perpetual motion
Sailing across an endless sea
Of mist and rays and condensation
Tri-layered atmosphere perforation
Panels on either side
Fling the photons
I cannot ever remember us not moving
And occasionally we come down
To cities and towns on the coast
And then back up
With diamonds and gold-grained rice and wheat
Real jewels have less value,
With the interior of the earth so dry
They talk of the capital city
It has been a very long time since I’ve been back
My...
#sky
#travel
#dawn
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1 Comment
abetterstart
Poem Published
8th Sep 2022 6:51am
8th Sep 2022 6:51am
as time drops
the high up
mountains
begin to feel
the firstness
of the change,
those
autumn days
flow downward,
leaves, trickling
slow at first,
beginning
to gather
momentum,
soon the tide
of dropped
leaves swell
into a beautiful
explosion,
none exempt
from
the cascading
overflow,
covering city
and countryside
the same,
golds, reds
and amber
wash pass,
the breeze
collects
it's toll,
the leaves
will stand, dance
like ...
mountains
begin to feel
the firstness
of the change,
those
autumn days
flow downward,
leaves, trickling
slow at first,
beginning
to gather
momentum,
soon the tide
of dropped
leaves swell
into a beautiful
explosion,
none exempt
from
the cascading
overflow,
covering city
and countryside
the same,
golds, reds
and amber
wash pass,
the breeze
collects
it's toll,
the leaves
will stand, dance
like ...
#trees
#sky
#fall
#wind
#mountains
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10 Comments
abetterstart
Poem Published
2nd Sep 2022 11:02am
2nd Sep 2022 11:02am
storm chaser
i waited patiently
under
the growling sky,
pacing until
the rain
began it's journey,
i chased and traced
the flight
of the raindrops,
tired and weary
i went on,
taking an occasional
break,
i devoured
some of the raindrops,
tasting their heart
on my tongue
before
i swallow
their souls
under
the growling sky,
pacing until
the rain
began it's journey,
i chased and traced
the flight
of the raindrops,
tired and weary
i went on,
taking an occasional
break,
i devoured
some of the raindrops,
tasting their heart
on my tongue
before
i swallow
their souls
#sky
#clouds
#rain
#storm
#nature
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4 Comments
Deathkitty_134
Khach0
Khach0
Poem Published
1st Sep 2022 8:44pm
1st Sep 2022 8:44pm
Uncharted
Vast, untamed, uncontrollable skies
cloud briefly breaks the blue
no border marks the countries of above
and no earthly king reigns supreme
Divisions of direction loom below
untouched, the domed firmament unconquered
that which cannot be grasped at or held
Here dwells complete freedom
the azure irides of akasa's view
fire, flood, storm--
observed from beyond the mountain's peak
Earth, wind, water and flame
descendants of space, children of ether
the sky knows not of man's law
nothing is owned
...
cloud briefly breaks the blue
no border marks the countries of above
and no earthly king reigns supreme
Divisions of direction loom below
untouched, the domed firmament unconquered
that which cannot be grasped at or held
Here dwells complete freedom
the azure irides of akasa's view
fire, flood, storm--
observed from beyond the mountain's peak
Earth, wind, water and flame
descendants of space, children of ether
the sky knows not of man's law
nothing is owned
...
#universe
#sky
#freedom
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2 Comments
13
Poem Published
31st Aug 2022 8:31pm
31st Aug 2022 8:31pm
Fall
Enflamed in orange
dark and bold
engulfed and smothered
the cries of crows
draws close a change
carried by the petrichor
senses ignite
a beautiful vein of light
speaks without judgment
the voice of the earth
the sigh of a heart
untouchable rain falls
will the leaves follow,
or just me?
dark and bold
engulfed and smothered
the cries of crows
draws close a change
carried by the petrichor
senses ignite
a beautiful vein of light
speaks without judgment
the voice of the earth
the sigh of a heart
untouchable rain falls
will the leaves follow,
or just me?
#sadness
#breakup
#sky
#rain
#fall
124 reads
3 Comments
MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
21st Aug 2022 9:29am
21st Aug 2022 9:29am
Dearest Luna,
I worry how your red crescent settles
Through the sooty skies of the west.
Might not you be colder in most kettles
Or on a board by iron pressed?
Is it too cold or way too hot
Upon the terminator's roving trace?
Is Earth the only moderate spot
In the vastidity of space?
What is the price of your extremes?
How many suitors have you lost
Within your lonely sea of dreams
When, with their orbits, you had crossed?
It's the swing in your librations
That has all the people peeping
Like those at their midnight stations
Who...
Through the sooty skies of the west.
Might not you be colder in most kettles
Or on a board by iron pressed?
Is it too cold or way too hot
Upon the terminator's roving trace?
Is Earth the only moderate spot
In the vastidity of space?
What is the price of your extremes?
How many suitors have you lost
Within your lonely sea of dreams
When, with their orbits, you had crossed?
It's the swing in your librations
That has all the people peeping
Like those at their midnight stations
Who...
#moon
#sky
#summer #fire
#summer #fire
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MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
19th Aug 2022 3:29am
19th Aug 2022 3:29am
Spanish Gold
Hot clouds swarmed a tropical moon
Shining like a piece of pirate eight
Or half a freshly minted doubloon
Issued to pay for heavenly freight
Hoisting high in the eastern sky
And drifting into the settling west;
A course whereby she must comply
Well above each ocean wavelet crest
Treasure twinkling in all her beams
And Neptune's lofty diaphanous mist
Zephyr borne into the jets and streams
From all the waves those breezes kissed;
Now reaching up to cool her face...
From the solar wind on her state of grace!
Shining like a piece of pirate eight
Or half a freshly minted doubloon
Issued to pay for heavenly freight
Hoisting high in the eastern sky
And drifting into the settling west;
A course whereby she must comply
Well above each ocean wavelet crest
Treasure twinkling in all her beams
And Neptune's lofty diaphanous mist
Zephyr borne into the jets and streams
From all the waves those breezes kissed;
Now reaching up to cool her face...
From the solar wind on her state of grace!
#sea
#moon
#sky
#clouds
#night
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MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
12th Aug 2022 9:14am
12th Aug 2022 9:14am
Weather Report
At first, I feared December would find the Muses on hiatus, particularly Urania, barred from her earthbound devotees due to the increased nimbostratus activity that the month is typically guilty of. But Quadrature Luna, she of gentler tides, has been a fetching sight these past few nights through gaps in the sportive clouds of Autumn's final weeks. Urania and Luna were often in cahoots. Luna in actinic skirmish with the playful mist as Urania inveigled Orion to rise theatrically in the east, as if the old boy were engaged in a boundless frolic with our coquettish satellite as she strove...
#sky
#clouds
#nature #mythology
#nature #mythology
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