One Minute Till Sunset
Damned frangipani streams of misery
do ripple his heartstrings with injury.
Menagerie of scented memories
infuse his mood with lost love reveries.
Luscious sepals once had held his heart,
her early twilight darkness did impart,
mute mockingbirds in grief no longer sing,
sunset is bleeding last vermilion fling.
Ancestral home on blissful breeze he flies
pellucid prayers and soul ascend pearl skies.
Susan Ashley
January 7, 2018
~ Third Place ~
Contest: Best Rhyming Poem 2018
Sponsor: John Hamilton
~ First Place~
Contest: 10 Words and 10 Lines Challenge
Sponsor: Silent One
*Required words; menagerie, vermilion, infuse, mockingbirds, twilight,
frangipani, luscious, pellucid, ancestral, ripples*
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