by Jan Allison |
Categories:
beauty, flower, garden, nature,
Seeds
Planted
Then nurtured
See how they’ve grown
Into pretty pansies for my garden
How I love to see their smiling faces
In lovely shades
Of purple
Pink and
Red
They
Brighten
My borders
Bringing colour
Especially on wet dreary dull days
Triple Tetractys 2 Contest sponsored by Eve Roper
Checked with how many syllables
07~15~16
by Victor Buhagiar |
Categories:
lost love,
Mascara black tear fell as she looked on
the silent man
stretched lifeless
in a
cask
full
suit he
loved for years.
Pale lips smiling.
She will never feel those soft lips again.
4 November 2020
Double Tetractys 5
Sponsor: Eve Roper
by Susan Ashley |
Categories:
inspiration, life, light, love, nature, spiritual, sun,
Sol
conjures
the many
to lift in light
and reach for the peach for the greater good
golden the vast sea of black-eyed Susans
merging in shine
creating
a lone
soul
Susan Ashley
September 24, 2020
~ Third Place ~
Contest: Double Tetractys 3
Sponsor: Eve Roper
Picture # 2
*syllables checked on howmanysyllables.com:
1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 10, 4, 3, 2, 1*
by Hiya Sharma |
Categories:
angst, deep, emotions, longing, love, memory, metaphor,
What
is the
neon mauve
moon without trails
of twinkling twilight stars that swing in skies?
Perhaps, memories are just fluorescent
leaves that sing in
lifeline-ink
of the
past,
stained
with pearl-
pastels of
present seconds,
pulsating heartbeats without 'You and I'.
by Emile Pinet |
Categories:
10th grade, emotions, feelings, happiness, hope, how i feel, love,
Hope
ignites
passion's flame
with a promise
fanning the smouldering embers of love
fanning the smouldering embers of love
with a promise
passion's flame
ignites
Hope
Love
leads to
happiness
without question
it is the pinnacle of emotions
it is the pinnacle of emotions
without question
happiness
leads to
Love
by Ink Empress |
Categories:
dream, longing, love,
You
Were just
A poem
that i dreamt of
on a maple gold caviar smeared dawn
as darkness held my quill from bleeding ink
i found rare rouge
pink orchids
Sprout as
love
from
your soft
spoken words
that linger through
riveting riverscapes of moon diamonds.
by Cecil Hickman |
Categories:
feelings, hip hop, how i feel, romance, sin,
Wrong
Was I
To push love
So un-returned
At first though the love from you came later
I lost mine, rapt in imagination
So time forgot
Our passion
Mislaid
Sin
by Susan Ashley |
Categories:
heartbreak, longing, lost love, memory, metaphor, pain, solitude,
She
rides the
slow slide of
her guitar blues
knife ‘gainst fretted strings of pain and pleasure
with hours to kill on train of love in vain
fields of fireflies
find their groove -
songstress
burns
by Andrea Dietrich |
Categories:
love
"She"
Like
one of
these tears that
freed itself from
my misted eyes, you've slipped away from me.
Oh, that once again you'd caress my face
like this tear which
warmly slides
down my
cheek.
"He"
I
watch you,
sad lady,
from my table
and see myself that tear that trails your skin.
While you think of someone else, I'm dying
to be that tear
that lingers
on your
mouth.
For PD's Enter the romantic poems only. (old)Poetry Contest
by Wilma Neels |
Categories:
devotion, loveme,
He
Witness
My sadness
Tears rolling down
He wiped the tears away and held me close.
He never asked what brought them on, he just
let me be me
and loved me
with my
tears..
Contest: Anything Goes
14th Place
by Victor Buhagiar |
Categories:
lost love,
Black tinged tear dribble down in misery,
now heart broken
forever:
bereft
life.
Will
he turn
back for her?
Maybe relent?
Forlorn she sat on the sofa waiting.
3 November 2020
Picture 2
by Barbara Gorelick |
Categories:
life, love
Grief
Quiet
My thoughts wander
Feet walk the path
Trials of life fade beneath the canopy
by Vijay Pandit |
Categories:
girl, imagery, innocence,
Where
Blue sky
Meets vigor
Of azure lake,
Golden light frolics upon amber waves
While little girl sits, conversing with duck;
Endearingly
Whispering:
Feel my
Love.
August 16, 2020
Double Tetractys Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Eve Roper
Photo #1
by Emile Pinet |
Categories:
10th grade, angst, anxiety, emotions, feelings, hope, lost love,
Hope
is your
last resort
when love has left
your heart broken; and your dreams disappear.
But, you’re not a slave shackled to lost dreams,
for you believe
that there is
always
hope.
(Double Tetractys)
04,25,2019
Tetractys This Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Charles Messina
by Krish Radhakrishna |
Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, analogy, metaphor, mother, mother daughter,
white
clean shirts
drying in
sunlight on line
washed in detergent soap by mother’s hand!
our minds nurtured by mother’s love and care,
should last lifetime,
unspoilt by
time and
wear!
‘Double Tetractys 6’ Poetry contest
Eve Roper
Syllable count 1,2,3,4,10,10,4,3,2,1 (PS)
Written 22/11/2020
composed on Photo 1
by Victor Buhagiar |
Categories:
clothes, old,
Old
worn clothes,
same old love,
in solitude.
Time to go home for family supper.
Those days were joyful. never forgotten.
Time passes on,
same true love,
New car,
Clothes.
by Winged Warrior |
Categories:
dream, loneliness, lost love,
Oh,
My love…
Where hath thy,
Gone? In deeper,
Sorrows where slings, arrows, and swords are drawn…
For I will love thy ways forever still,
In foolish dreams…
Love doth spill,
Beyond…
Streams.
April.24.2019
Tetractys This Poetry
Sponsored by: Charles Messina
A Tetractys poem can be done a few different ways. It is a 5 line poem with the 1st line having one syllable, the 2nd line two syllables, the 3rd line three syllables, the 4th line four syllables and the 5th line 10 syllables (1,2,3,4, 10) You may also do this in reverse (10,4,3,2,1) or a double Tetractys (1,2,3,4,10, 10,4,3,2,1)...See Charles example ("So Precious Is Love")
Placed 1'st...Thank you
by Constance La France |
Categories:
cat, love,
He
was grey
and hungry
and so afraid.
Oh, little cat let me into your heart!
Oh, little cat let me into your heart!
I left him food
on the porch
water
too.
Then
one day
I touched him
we both stayed still.
Oh, little cat let me into your heart!
_____________________
August 20, 2017
Tetractys/Cat Love
Copyright Protected, ID 932236
Written for the contest, Let Me Into Your Heart
sponsor, Julie Rodeheave
Third Place
by Gershon Wolf |
Categories:
death, destiny, life, sleep,
Sleep
A Taste
In This Life
Of What Awaits
Streams of Consciousness Slowly Leaving Earth
Returning Whence We Came -- To Our Maker
Our Primal Source
Of Life and
Of Love
Death
April 24, 2019
Entry in 'Tectractys This Poetry' contest
Sponsor: Charles Messina
by Robert A. Dufresne |
Categories:
faith, friendship, love
. His
Mercy
Justly sought
Requires practice
By we who desire it- but give it not
Practice may entail even little things
Saying hello
Talking with
Lonely
Folks.
Math.Ch5 vs7.
" Blessed are the merciful
for they shall obtain Mercy."
by Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen |
Categories:
passion
Passion
Keen
feeling
powerful
potent fervor
delighting the soul immensely, with zeal.
Fascinatingly embracing the heart,
dreamy delight
exciting
wishes,
love.
© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 16, 2010
Poetic form: Double Tetractys
by Harry Horsman |
Categories:
love,
A deluge of love draws out a wry smile
As she walks by
In a world
Of her
Own,
Yet
Takes in
The moment
Of his embrace
Without contact just a wink from his eye
Cheeky bugger she thinks but oh so nice
Turning her head
As she stops
To say
Hi,
He’s
Gob smacked
Her perfume
Drifts on the wind
They move in and touch director says cut.
© Harry J Horsman 2021
by Charles Messina |
Categories:
love,
Love,
Hearts mend
Entwining...
For evermore
Matching beats, living, dying...together
So precious is life, with love existing
Sharing your heart...
With Someone...
Gives them...
Love
by Rasitha Ranasinghe |
Categories:
teacher,
We
got no,
such smart boards,
nor internet,
but love spills on teacher's eyes when teaching;
while sun and wind heal our souls like white sheets,
her sweet kind voice,
turns, to ink –
fills our,
books.
Picture 1
Syllable Count: 1, 2, 3, 4, 10 - 10, 4, 3, 2, 1 http://www.howmanysyllables.com,
Double Tetractys 6 Poetry Contest
Contest Sponsor: Eve Roper
Date: 2nd December 2020
Revised
by Beryl Edmonds |
Categories:
engagement, happiness, love,
Proposed
I
Recall
Each moment
When so in love
On that day you asked me to be your bride
I said "yes" with a smile wide as a mile
Happy romance
Hearts a-dance
Upon
Air.
24th August 2021