Enamored by Her Waltz

The image is taken from Pixabay. 

Love 

Struck me

As you twirled

In abandon

Swaying in the breeze

On a sweet summer night

Your intoxicating scent

Filled my senses, luring my soul

To become a part of your presence

By letting go of the strings that bind me

In this world where our love had no place left

Among the choking fumes of venom

Seeping through vents of chimneys

Scattered all around our homes.

Let us waltz far away

Where flowers like you

Are worshiped by

Delicate

Souls like

Mine. 

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Note:
Day 5 for E
The style is Double Etheree where the syllables in each line increase from 1-10 and decrease from 10-1.

Dangerously Dainty Darlings

The image is taken from Pixabay. 

Dainty little flowers bloomed along the path 

Dazzling me with their coy smiles

Darker than blood, the tangled weeds crept all over

Demanding me to snatch a bloom to save my soul

Dazzling me with their coy smiles

Dreams of a land far away beckoned to me 

Demanding me to snatch a bloom to save my soul

Delusions of a happy ever after enveloped me

Dreams of a land far away beckoned to me 

Desperate to grab the bounty of love with both hands 

Delusions of a happy ever after enveloped me
Destroying the bitter truth with the taste of poppies

Desperate to grab the bounty of love with both hands
Darker than blood, the tangled weeds crept all over
Destroying the bitter truth with the taste of poppies
Dainty little flowers bloomed along the path 

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Note:

• Day 4 with D. 
• The style is called Pantoum in which 8 lines are repeated to form a 16 lines poem. 
• So that's 4*2 words with D, for 4*4 lines of 4 stanzas for day 4. :) 

Crown the Clouds

Far away, beyond my reach, you float

Fluffy as whipped cream, or 

Scary as the shadowy ghost

Where do you travel from here

Leaving me to stare at your silhouette

as I wonder if you carry the rain or the sun.

Too fast you swim through the azure sky 

Changing from a dragon to a cat to a flower

Even as the sinking sun paints you golden

What's so entrancing about a puff of dust

They ask me again and again 

Little do they know, the dust is magic.

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Note:

• Day 3 for C 
• Clouds have been my favorites since I was a child. I have hundreds of pictures of just clouds (yup, no joke). 
• The poetry form is Double Cherita (I invented it, lol). 
• Cherita is a small poem with 1, 2, and 3 line stanzas. The stanzas can be altered to a few combinations such as 1 2 3, 3 2 1, 2 1 3, etc. 
• And, viola you see what I did here. 

Black and White

The image is taken from Pixabay. 

Black and white, are they just colors

Looming in the vast sky

And

Creeping along the rocky shores

Knowing they have surrounded you from all sides?

Abandoned by the shades of the rainbow

Nudged to the corners of the universe

Doomed or dazzled are the colors of life?

What if the white merged with the black;

Have you ever wondered? 

Imagine! If the world was only gray

Terrible or tantalizing, twisted or timid would it be?

Eerily endless is the quest to drown in the spaces between the black and white. 

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Note:
The letter for today is B.
We are having a small poetry weekly fun contest in a FB writers' group. The contest had the theme of B&W which inspired me to write this poem.
The poem is written in Acrostic style. (one of my favorites).

Aparajita

Let the tears flow, darling

There is no weakness in emotions. 

So what  

If the world weighs you down

If the oceans sink you deep 

If the universe swallows you whole?

You are still here 

Breathing, fighting, surviving;

One day at a time, 

An hour a minute, 

A second a breath,

Pulsing around you, within you.

The fight isn't over yet;

You haven't given up, honey.

There it is-

The world to conquer,

The oceans to swim 

The space to float high 

The words to say, to repeat, to establish

That you wouldn't walk away defeated.

Not now, not ever

Not until you win, you stand tall

Not until the tears turn to smiles

Not until the thorns are flowers

For, you are Aparajita, the undefeatable. 

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Note: 

• This is the first poem for the A-Z Challenge. 
• I'm going to try and use the alphabet of the day as the theme of my poem. 
• Aparajita is a flower also known as Asain Pegionwings or Butterfly pea. It comes in two colors, blue and white. 
• The word Aparajita means undefeatable. 

BlogChatter A to Z Challenge 2019 Theme Reveal- Poetry

Gosh, I'm nervous!

No kidding. I literally stumbled upon the A-Z Blog Challenge when Shivani shared the link to her theme reveal post. Then it struck me, I came across this challenge last year a bit too late. Looks like I got lucky this year. 

Deciding a theme in a few minutes is never easy. But I've got poetry to rescue me. It is my go-to anytime and things will be no different for this challenge. 

I will be writing and sharing one poem per day (it's not as easy as it sounds) and why I chose a particular form (if I do) for that poem.
Hopefully, I will be able to complete the challenge successfully.
See you guys around.
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Edit:
 I've decided to add the links to all the poems in this post to make things easier.

Day 1: Aparajita

Day 2: Black and White

Day 3: Crown the Clouds

Day 4: Dangerously Dainty Darlings

Day 5: Enamored by Her Waltz

Day 6: Forgotten Memories

Day 7: Sunday Break

Day 8: Ghost from the Gothic

Day 9: Hell, Heaven, Home or Heart

Day 10: Intoxicating Incense

Day 11: Jumbled Emotions

Day 12: Kaleidoscope

Day 13: Lightning Strikes

Day 14: Sunday Break

Day 15: Melancholic Melody

Day 16: Narcissus

Day 17: Ode to the Owl

Day 18: Pandora Box

Day 19: Queen's Quest

Day 20: Rainbow Rules

Day 21: Sunday Break

Day 22: Swan Couple

Day 23: The Taurean Girl

Day 24: Under the Umbrella

Day 25: Valley of Vacuum

Day 26: Well of Wisdom

Day 27: Xanthophyll

Day 28: Sunday Break

Day 29: Yarn of the Sailors

Day 30: Zephyr's Gift