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At morn I plucked a rose and gave it Thee,
  A rose of joy and happy love and peace,
    A rose with scarce a thorn:
    But in the chillness of a second morn
  My rose bush drooped, and all its gay increase
Was but one thorn that wounded me.

I plucked the thorn and offered it to Thee;
  And for my thorn Thou gavest love and peace,
    Not joy this mortal morn:
    If Thou hast given much treasure for a thorn,
  Wilt thou not give me for my rose increase
Of gladness, and all sweets to me?

My thorny rose, my love and pain, to Thee
  I offer; and I set my heart in peace,
    And rest upon my thorn:
    For verily I think to-morrow morn
  Shall bring me Paradise, my gift's increase,
Yea, give Thy very Self to me.
Shilpi Nov 2015
A dark cloud follows me, its chillness touching my bones.
Why am I sad?- I ask myself.
Wasn't it for today that I sacrificed my happiness yesterday?
and I continue to live it the same way.
We all worry about tomorrow, unknowingly depriving ourselves of the present. Gradually this becomes a habit and one day we realise we never lived our life.
Marshal Gebbie Apr 2013
Autumn in New Zealand is a masterpiece on canvas
Patternings of goldens and bright rose hips in their beds,
Copses of coniferous in deep and darkly avenues
To the brilliance of a country lane awash with leafy reds.
Chimney fires are smoking in the rural country cottages
The warming glow of lanterns in the windows as I pass,
A tantalising whiff of hot buttered scones is wafting
And somewhere in the distance I can hear a red deer bark.
Strolling by the lakeside in the early morning stillness
My breathing fogs before me in the chillness of the air,
Rowan trees glow scarlet and the naked ***** willow
Has shed her golden carpet on the emerald hillock there.
Rushes rattle softly in the mistyness of lowlands
Treeeferns in their glory of silver filagree,
Sparrows ruffle feathers to insulate the coolness
As wheeling flocks of starling mass to migrate to be free.
Gossamer as fairy dust the thistledown is floating
A harbinger of autumn leaves and freezing frost to come,
Those Coriollis forces are determining the changeling
Where the snowy days approaching means the Autumn tones are done.


Marshalg
27 April 2013
In rural Pukekohe.
New Zealand
The setting Sun  in the horizon yet
slowly readying to dip in deep waters
crimson sky with wonderful hallow
birds flying  fast to their abodes
Young boys and girls splashing  water  
Playing throw ball and jumping
and  tucking under high waves  
some swimming in the murky sea,
their loud laughter filling the beach
with joyful  abandonment.

Grand parents driving in  horse carts
youngsters riding fast on horse backs
Camels with  small families on their mounts
Guided by their owners with a whip in hand  
small children building sand castles  
parents overlooking  their activities
and clicking photos  in mobiles
yes,  a Sunday evening to beat the heat
I sat guarding the baggage of my family
Watching all the fun, enjoying  the sea breeze,
with  peanuts in hand, waiting for them  to return.

Suddenly there were shrieks of  people
Children  running  around  and
people  rushing to gather them
calling out their dear ones.
when rain drops fell on my head and face
soaking wet  my shoulders with chillness  
I realized what’s the commotion is all about.

The beach wore a special look all of a sudden  
with a veil of pouring rain …
The fading sunset painted the crimson horizon
With patches of dark clouds decorating the sky
Like ******* beads dangling with pearldrops  
jingling the arena with sounds of joyous music
The sudden downpour filled the air with
Innumerable smell s- stench of fish water
Scents from the crowd, smell from eatable shops
Stink of horse, camel dung, dog **** and trash!

I gathered the baggage trying to protect them
within my arms and covering with  my dress  
running towards a nearby shelter at a shop
turning to see if any one rushed to help me
But the first rain drops mesmerizing them
they forgot me  and their belongings
Dancing and hugging in the first rain,
They were in a joyful world of laughter!

Hands Nov 2012
Destinations.

empty roads filled with

the empty gazes of

hollowed out eyes,

framed by the bags and

the black circles

burrowed deep into their skins.

"Where

are we

going?"

you ask the chillness of the night,

the stillness of the bright,

blue cars rushing past--

dazed,

you swim in this world as

a goldfish with no memory and

no vision

of what's to come.

"Where,

oh,

where

are we going?"

you ask,

feet out the window as

the lustful wind runs its chilly fingers

through your hair.

"Nowhere."

he answers,

hands gripping the steering wheel,

knowing someday you shall float off,

up,

up,

and away

to a distant land

and a distant time--

we're on a road to

nowhere.
written from a prompt given by a stranger on Omegle.

as per my last few poems, he has me unravelled.
Cody Edwards Oct 2010
I stood in the water
which rose to my ankles
and I asked it to lower an inch.

But water is set from
the sea to the stagnant
and it paid no attention to me.

I stood to the chillness
which swallowed my stomach
and I begged it to give me some room.

Still the puddle was deaf
from loud years in the sky
and it reached its blue arms around me.

I stood in the last lights
with a collar of ice
and I prayed all might cover my head.

Then the water did drop
as a freak act of chance,
but my feet are still stuck in the earth.
© Cody Edwards 2010
muhammed shameel Aug 2017
Starts which released to sky
Swimming through the cloud sea
In the evening night
With dark asperity
Black sky twinkling
Without extinguished
While through the sky
Provide a chillness to resemblance of sky

Hey laughing star....
Who gave the elegance to you
Your dancing makes you white light
When I rise my tact to sky
You and firefly are same to me
poetryofdhiman Mar 2017
Blustery wind howling, whimpering
Creating the silence of the arctic
Wintery desolation sounds jingling
Breathing coziness, feeling mystic

Hazy sunlight relentlessly shimmering
Idyllic nature soothes the traveler
Zippy morning tremendously lingering
Rhythmic chillness of winter
Prathipa Nair Nov 2016
Sea water with its chillness of motherhood
Consoling the rocks lost in solitude
Burnt by the pricking day of the sun
Night moon's beam kissing the rocks
Putting them to sleep tight
Forgetting their fear of morning burn
Vikshipta Jun 2017
Bolted junkyard
and the absenteeism
flits me winding up..
Counting the preumbra of Columba livia
on those marmalade hue of maudlin chillness..
As it commixes up onto wafting airborne:
drifting over the scattered cumulonimbus.
Far flocking flappers .
80° collateral to peeking atomic number 10.
Oh crystalline form of pure carbon..
All mighty massif .
All parallel to 180°.
99 sometimes .
69 and 36 degree.
minus the 13, it sways...
the oscillating stripes.
And the vivid blazing heap of splitting cotton-***** ..
metamorphosing into some voodoo like
Magical. magnetic. amethyst horizon
Devouring the fading dodger wide blue .
Then restoration again.
The alter coequal to dreary cawing
And these paranoiac utterance...
The phantasm.
The illusion..
and
eye..
skidding off-track the reality.
Detaining every grasp of it.
Badshah Khan Apr 2019
Rubayiat Al Thurab (Verses of the Dust) – 83

BismillahIr RahmanIr Raheem

I am passively standing at the sea shore,
The sea waves willingly grasp my dainty feet.

With soothing and chillness
Everytime they voluntarily undergo
And dearly retreat my dear feet with tender touch.

Indeed, they bear the vast knowledge.
Under beneath themselves.
However, they tenderly caress,
My dear feet with sincere love.

How lucky am I, as your own creation,
Oh All Known Divine Creator!

Allah Khair….. Khairul Rabul Alameen Yah Arrahmanur Yah Raheem

Ummah Thurab – Badshah Khan.
©UT-BK 2019
Rubayiat Al Thurab (Verses of the Dust)
Sun refuses to wake
And the sky is coloured cloudy
Gentle breeze  dance and play
Caressing cheeks and hair as
Chillness comes along
Southwest direction in row…
And the earth seems ready
To quench thirst  
with the first droplet of
Heaven’s dew ……
As  the monsoon arrives
In style !!
#rain #keralarain #monsoon
Richard Shepherd Jul 2023
Four little boots
for my two little cutes
today we shall feed the birds

we'll run through the wind
as the chillness rescinds
reciting these four little words;

happiness, playfulness
innocence, youth
the most magical times of our lives

I watch as the cuties
splash puddles with their booties
then hand out a quick round of high fives
remembering when my son and his sister had fun with their new wellies
Chillness pierces  my skin
Through every cell it touches
Yet I move along the path
Pulled by the dreams to move...
As lights shimmer to music
Of playful autumn breeze
And darkness of  night ,
darker again....
Yet...I move along....
To unknown reach.....
A destination so uncertain
Still I need to reach!!
N MOHANARANGAM Sep 2020
Pensively promended I, as impetuous as a poet
To accumulate few jocund inkling about belladonna

For sure, not as a bard
But,as a novice to nature

Stalked I, bare-footed anigh lake
Jabbed some spines beneath my foot

Yon reconnoitred I, do any luminuous light clandestined in water?
Else, any celestial gem floats  in lake?

Nay! it's the waxing moon in the sky
That seemed to tread on water

Paddled I into the lake
To grab some pallied lillies

Hardly perceived I any bloomed one!
Had the lillies been sailed under false colour by moon?

I knew not their intrigue
Nor had I, prescient criteria

Chillness of water benumbed me
Retrieved I, as cool as a cucumber to the bank

Is this terra God's palette?
Obviously! nature is the art of God.

Dark grey was lake's scenario
Stood reeds augustly amidst the lake

Casuarina broke into tumult
When the west wind passed adriftting it

Glow worms scattered round the bushes
Heard I, croaking of frogs

I felt languished by chillness
That pierced my breast and nostrils

Homeward bound,strolled I
For I had been there behind my father's back.

As being benumbed by drastic cold
I was at the end of my tether

Soon felt I, in the arms of Morpheus
On the grass, supine anigh lake

By morning, I began to fly off at a tangents
When an highland lass harped on my shoulder

I began to know the ropes of that wintry night
For it cajoled me to sleep resembling lullaby

No human hardly be preponderate
Than a mother and nature.
This poem was written based on reminiscent of my childhood.
Marta Jun 2019
the moment you said hi to me
i got carried away by your chillness.
the moment you first held my hand
you got me thinking about our madness.
the moment you left me
you got me thinking about sadness.
and i never thought of anything else anymore...
I don't like writing about sadness and depression,all right? Well,at least all my poems about depression and suicidal thoughts are hidden,well buried in my library. So don't tell me I made a mistake. I don't know how thirteen year olds do this.
muhammed shameel Aug 2017
Clear and round
Emerge from cloud
And rise slowly to the sky
You give the splendour to the sky
In the moon light thee
Provide a chillness to me
You are saving the flag of
Solace, against the wrote sun
Same time different direction
You are wandering through the heaven
Moon is a part of nature's beauty.
The rising and seeing of moon is beautiful  to see....
Hans Peter Mar 2021
I'm up before the sun
up before everyone
I sit in the stillness
the morning's chillness
then I quiet my mind

like an energetic child
my mind is running wild
I bring it back to center
a calmness state to enter
and inner peace to find

Some use a mantra phrase
others at a dot they gaze
some invoke a Holy Being
for me it's you I'm seeing
and my world responds in kind
Dr Peter Lim Jun 2019
It's not
what I desire
that marks me
but what I don't
it's the difference
between earth and sky
two poles each
unto its own-

desires oh
how they imprison
caged is the heart
it weeps alone-

I had wished
to be made of stone
walled into bricks
I wouldn't have to moan-

but the harsh winds
of time had blown
and chillness had congealed
into my very bone

now as age rages
every desire I disown
my feelings have frozen
seeds of irreversible angst
I have sown.
* after Emily Dickinson
Violent waterfalls in the
wilderness of vast greenery
Showered on her the
chillness of heavenly drops..
In the taste of  her favourite strawberry....
With alluring scent of red roses..
Sending  vibes  of happiness..
Across her spines..
driving her into her own world..
of dreams and fantasies.....
And the waterfalls continued
It's magical silvery smile!!
Uma natarajan Dec 2018
Meadows are calling with cheers
Valleys are laden with flowers
Chillness of winter bring showers
New leaves sprout with bowers
Radiance of sunshine blushes
Crimson red of son flushes
Butterflies flutters
Petal of red rose opens its shutters
Green thorn pierces the face of roses
My thoughts alive arises
Gloom retires from the life
Happiness enters ending the strife
muyunliu Dec 2019
How many times I wish,
someone can hug me tightly whenever wind tears me apart:
How many times I fantasize ,
someone can wipe my tear off whenever desperation fills my heart up;
How many times I pray,
someone can hold my hands warmly whenever chill freezes my world.
...
But,
Lastly,
there was no one I loved waiting at the corner on the endless dark road;
But,
Lastly,
there was no one I trusted showing up in that depressed room;
But,
Lastly,
there was no one I rely on passing by at that lonely train.
So,
I hugged myself tightly,
I wiped tears off stubbornly ,
I endured that chillness lonely.
Where are you?
Heavy pour of rain just stop
With water at every step
The trees stand bathed
Waiting some to dry it, soothed

I look out of my window to view
The beauty of nature as a preview
He pulls me by my hand
Under a small tree makes me stand

I stand with my hand around me
To beat the chillness piercing me
Wonder stuck I look at him
Responds with a naughty mime

With all force he waved the branches of trees .
Getting me bathed in the waters falling off the trees. ..
I gave him an aghast look
But he and trees bore a cheerful look  

What more to ask for ...???
Than enjoy smile the tree and my dear wore...

but with a question ..
Does he love me or the tree more??
S I N Nov 2019
Walking in the freezing air,
Chillness crippling through my hair,
Goosebumps waddling on my spine,
But nonetheless something divine
Pervades the ever frosty world
When moon as yet may be behold
Soaring in the starry sky
But waning under lullaby
Of Phoebus, while with easy pace
He regains his rightful place;
And by the warble of the birds
Your heart from ennui emerges
Uma natarajan Apr 2021
Deserted and desperate heart often clings to old memories
That often intervenes in the short intervals as reveries
Melancholic expressions fail at exhibiting  an artificial smile
The pain experienced in the past moments lasts longer in the mind 's file
The disheartened soul aches with buried sentiments
Even the icy breeze fails to bring chillness to the heart' s burning sediments
Tears well up in the core of eyes preventing the sobs to come out from
Irony of time fails to heal the mental wound, still wet not getting dried by the present time's doldrums
Imran Islam Nov 2020
Open the door and see
the winter morning
stands at your doorway,
Show the cold respect
and take its chillness
with the warm shawl.

On your cold lips,
Take hot tea in sips
with lovely eyes
and you can imagine
your very shy lover
in the snowflakes.

You'll leave the morning
to enjoy your darling
in a glaring gaze.
If your sweetie smiles
with a happy face,
Then you'll wake up early.
BE
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Uma natarajan Jun 2020
I cruise to the station of my dreams
And halt at various places
Where morning breeze's chillness screams
And the vividness of atmosphere graces
Blue sky shrouds in my dreams anticipation
My mind travels in its varied imagination
Slipping into the crevices of thought's emanation
I stare at the royal mansions and slums
Both adjacent standing together as chums
Rich Relishing the red pulp of plums
Poor Munching filthy sundry leftovers
My sleep sinks in to sigh of fires
lonely also lonely
the nights without you
lonely also lonely
my heart tinged with blue

stars no more
flicker in the
skies
the moon has
lost its bright aura
since we said
our
goodbyes

in solitude I ponder
on my forlorn
shore
thinking of our
sun filled days
when we had
a complete
core

our rapport expired
to tattered
shreds
the unity we
once shared
frayed into
divided
threads  

dimness prevails being
denied love's
flare
deficient of its
charming torch
my soul fees
a chillness of
air

lonely also lonely
the nights without you
lonely also lonely
my heart tinged with blue
sandra wyllie Oct 2019
I've never seen you the way you were today.
All these years I've never experienced you this way.
There was something hanging off your face.
What have I done to one to so displace?
Your eyes, a strange sort of sadness they bore.
They hung so low they touched the floor.
And so into my heart they sank.
Your skin hung loose; your face was blank.
I turned and looked but you were gone.
There was nobody there, but your face hung on.
And in your face a silent, stillness, drudgery.
Oh mercy, a prelude of what's to be?
The eerie chillness that haunts deep within,
it's on your face, buried now beneath your skin.
I felt it so, the achiness, the weight of it in my bones.
And my heart was obstructed by these stones.
Your love is like a last whiff of a cigarette that leaves no trace.
Blown in the air, gone. What once was there had disappeared .....your face.

— The End —