New Classic Poems – Contemporary Verse That Rhymes

New Classic Poems
Everyday Pleasures
Inspiration
Angela Burns
Detection, perception, reflection alone
Inflection, connection, allusion unknown
Decision, precision, conception sublime
Attention, expansion, revision betimes
Progression, submission, presumption inferred
Rejection, dejection, placation unheard
Distraction, libation, compunction restart
Duration, distinction, repletion of heart
Sylvan Song
Anya Corke
A savage sunset robed the silent wood
and sheathed each tree in raging folds of gleam,
igniting lichened stones that long have stood
near pools asleep in deep, eternal dream.
The pines began to whisper ageless calls
to rousing voices veiled within my soul,
my footsteps lured toward the sunlit halls
of woods where pealing bells of Elfland toll.
The glens resound as Zephyr strings his bow
through slender boughs of ancient poplar trees;
his lilt stirs logs where pale wildflowers flow
in dryad haunts of dreams and reveries.
The wood has locked sweet Nature’s legacy
and loving worship is my only key.
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