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AmeriMav Dec 2018
Empty cold and dark
You now feel lost and alone
Tie your heart to mine
A haiku
AmeriMav Jan 2019
Slayed with complete awe at the sight
Early crisp morning at dayspring
Mind burning with desire to bring
Perfect sketch with word-craft as bright
Description of the sun's first light
Such angst thus paired with heart of glee
When thoughts and feelings can't run free
This poem's not about sun rays
You see! You set my soul ablaze
When your exquisite face I see
Decima form
AmeriMav May 2019
Intensely my thoughts they revolve around your presence

Senses fixed to spring at every reminder of your essence
My heart strings tune themselves to your siren song
In every fragrant flower I see your soft petaled skin
Sunrise is ushered in by your sultry smile
Sunset cued by your soul shading absence

Yearning always to hear your sweet chime
Overwhelmed by the dazzling cosmos of your eyes
Utterly yours
Acrostic form
AmeriMav Nov 2018
The sky is like slate, down falls the rain
Wetting the world with cool breaths of fall
The trees of rich color, leaves all in flame
Setting the contrast in the shades that I saw
The color more resplendent when set against gray
The beauty much more vibrant to me
It's true of the season, and more I would say
It's true of your features I see
Your white skin so bright, so pure, and so soft
Sets the colors of your body apart
Topaz eyes, pink ribbon lips, dark hair set aloft
You're splendid, a true work of art
All these delights, are for many to view
While jewels of your soul, are between me and you
AmeriMav Feb 2019
The sky is blue and clouds are soaring high
I daydream as they're softly floating bye
And sitting warm beside the window pane
The sun is rising high into the sky

The beauty from the window view is plain
But so much more than this could I attain
If I were standing in the breeze outside
To journey deep among the rich terrain

I'd touch the grass upon the green hillside
The wind its cool caress my senses ride
No end in sight to where my feet may go
No smell, no taste, no sound would be denied

I feel this feeling as our love does grow
The distance like the window pane aglow
Allows the beauty, but denies the taste
That everyday my heart desires to know

Until at last your body I've embraced
And my hands your outline I have traced
The fullness of your love I cannot sense
All time til then is simply a foretaste

So until then I'm stuck in this suspense
Desire for you grows ever more immense
But patient I will be until you come
The moment's pleasure bound to be intense
Interlocking Rubaiyat form
AmeriMav Jan 2019
Dripping
Cold and gray skies
Icy glaze of morning
Reflects the deaf frozen state of
My heart
Awakened suddenly your voice
Burst of sunshine on me
Melts my cold world
Shining
A butterfly cinquain
AmeriMav Mar 2019
The beauty of the winter would not be
If not a single flake of snow did fall
Its brilliant shine doth fill the heart with glee
And every childlike eye does it enthrall

So too the beach without the ocean wave
Deserts too are filled with golden sand
The roaring surf and salty wind we crave
We love the way the sea invades the land

And what if flowers did not come with spring
No rainbow colored show upon the ground
It'd be as if the world forgot to sing
What is the worldwide dance without the sound?

Your presence fills my life with brighter hue
My world would lose its "lovely" without you
Sonnet form
AmeriMav Jan 2019
Sunrise, sunset, both beautiful
Dawn and the dusk shine, fanciful
Unchanging at source
Just changed by the course
But the force, plentiful

And so goes the beauty of life
Some days come with gladness, some strife
Unchanging at source
Just changed by the course
Grace the force, in it rife
Clogyrnach form
AmeriMav Oct 2018
Missing you is a wonderfully awful feeling
So deep that words fail to shed any light
It cuts, and bites, and sends me reeling
And I am lost, turning left and right

But there is a beauty in such deep devotion
A tenderness that many have not known
There is such love found in this emotion
The memories of you are around me strewn

And this is the light in my darkness
AmeriMav Mar 2019
I long to spend my days with you
Like flowers long for spring
Bask in your sun
Til night's begun
To feel the warmth you bring

Just hold your hand and hear birds sing
Until the day is done
Sunlight will fade
All songs be played
And spider webs be spun

Then dance with you hearts beat as one
Moon lit upon a glade
Hair wet with dew
No love more true
We'd move with passion swayed

And soft to sleep all joy conveyed
With dreams of morning new
A wondrous thing
What songs we'll sing
Sunrise shall be our cue
The Roundabout form
AmeriMav Mar 2019
Her body is grace like soft petaled rose
Enchanting the bees in summer gardens
Her fragrance so rich that when the wind blows
Their engagement she knowingly pardens

She’s delicate true, but strong in her heart
Her body is grace like soft petaled rose
Elegant fine lines the brush strokes of art
Ever quite splendid in sunlight that glows

In her dark essence pure ecstasy flows
In the dusk dim she opens her flower
Her body is grace like soft petaled rose
Ever wondrous in the light of her power

Dropping her petals like silk evening gown
Dressed in the moonlight sweet music her pose
She’ll rest on my chest her head she’ll lay down
Her body is grace like soft petaled rose
Quaternary form
AmeriMav Dec 2018
My heart sinks as I say goodbye once again
Endless loop of loss and ecstasy repeats
You're so very far away and yet always near
I think I could not love you more
And yet your smile always makes more room
I'm at my peak and yet it's never enough

My heart is full, so fill it again

Everyday I seem to find more about you to love
Wondrous spiral of aroma and color
Dizzying display of your beautiful essence
With the clarity of perfectly cut diamonds
Is there ever an end to your facets?
Does this ocean have a depth that one can't descend?
Always finding ever higher summits
Never seeing enough of your golden valleys

My heart is full, so fill it again

Only one thing I know to do
Gaze upon you with my soul, and gaze again
Never stopping until my journey finds its end
Enough will never be enough when it comes to you
I must accept this truth I know
And be content to be always overwhelmed

My heart is full, so fill it again
This poetry form is called “The Bop”
Here is some info on it if your interested.  https://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/poetic-asides/personal-updates/poetic-form-the-bop
AmeriMav Jun 2019
One bright sunny day, my lover did say
Please tell me the height of your love
Looked I to the sky, clouds don't fly as high
Nor mountains, or wings of a dove

One morn rain suppressed, my love did request
Can you tell me sweet is your love deep?
Thought I of a cave, obscure dark enclave
It's deeper than creature dare creep

One dark winter night, she asked in twilight
Your love dear, how far will it go?
My love's measured best, where east meets the west
Never ending in sun, rain, or snow
AmeriMav Feb 2019
She is beauty in everything I see
She moves me like the wind blows through a tree
Changing seasons and all the starry host
Mountains, forests, and seas from coast-to-coast
All things lovely are her embracing me

Like the sunrise that's beaming bright and free
Or silver moonlight that shines in softer key
Her's the light that matters to me most
She is beauty

Her smell like flower fragrance to a bee
I run to her like deer to forest flee
With skin so pure like white capped mountains boast
And hue the glow of sun dropped westernmost
Everywhere I turn my heart filled with glee
She is beauty
Rondeau form
AmeriMav Jan 2019
My lungs feel empty
Like floating in outer space
You’re the air I breathe
Haiku
AmeriMav Apr 2019
I adore
The way you
Make me laugh

Moments that
Feel lighter
Than feathers

Bubbling
To the top
With a song

Butterflies
Or maybe
Fuzzy moths

You tickle
My very soul
With your love

I cannot
Contain joy
Found in you
Tricubes form
AmeriMav Apr 2019
Beauty of the moon
Lady of the star filled night
Sunlight does display
Though its true form and splendor
By its phase remains unchanged
Tanka form
AmeriMav Feb 2019
Each day I long to see your face
Like flowers chase the Sun’s embrace
The time flies fast, it's quickly past
I wish that I could slow the pace
AmeriMav Jan 2019
All my sweetest dreams are filled with you and I
Pouring it out every morning I find want
An ever growing desire and longing to go to
Lists mounting always higher of what I wish to do
To hold you in my arms, simply to be with
Journey every shadow just to find you
Hold your hand no matter what
Be it winter, summer, fall, or spring
Whatever the storm and sunshine does
As long as I know I shall be with
Topaz brown eyes, gaze of my love the
Smile, laughter, and your mouth of cherry
To kiss, embrace, sleep, and dream under the trees
Golden Shovel form
Taken from "Every Day You Play" by Pablo Neruda
AmeriMav Jan 2019
Cold hands
Bring to my mind
Such precious thoughts of you
You warm my heart with the same care
As hands
This is a Cinquian

https://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/cinquain-poetic-forms
AmeriMav Dec 2018
Glint, gleam, wink, and flash
Come shine with utmost delight
Red, blue, and yellow
Sparkle with stained glass essence
And scatter your emotion
Tanka
AmeriMav Jan 2019
Sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and star
What are the things that we share?
Ideas, questions, some things bizarre
Is there a place where the east meets the west?
Music, poetry, strums of the guitar
Does the breath of my mouth touch your lips?
Smiles, laughter, things not kept in a jar
Are our dreams and desires a pair?
I know love counts not matter how far
Magic 9 form
AmeriMav Feb 2019
Pink ribbon so sweet
Wave structure with heat
Your lips
Soft hand carved complete
Smooth shapely entreat
Your hips
Heart racing upbeat
Slow your dress discreet
Unzips
Lai form
AmeriMav Jun 2019
It grows more deep than one can count
And never can your wits surmount
True love's overwhelming, so bold, yet soft
as wool, and never cold

Describing it can be hard to tell
Like number's taste, or color's smell
It's sweet and it's crushing, fragrant as red
roses, but more brilliant
Byr a Thoddaid form
AmeriMav Jan 2019
What person would capture my love
Like hand in glove
Could hold me tight
In day or night

Beauty planted, visible, sure
Complex and pure
Lovely to see
Strikingly free

Epitome of all my dream
With star-like gleam
Constant and true
My darling, you
Minute Poem form
AmeriMav Oct 2018
Far away is strange
Relative yet relevant
Even so, nearness
AmeriMav Dec 2018
Tears, words, and thoughts fail
To give the whole of my soul
Only shadow like
I want to be so near you
That my own heart breaks with yours
A tanka
AmeriMav Jan 2019
My little soul spark
By you stoked and overwhelmed
Set me fast ablaze
Haiku
AmeriMav Apr 2019
When darkness threatens
Burning brilliance of your love
Never lets me go
Haiku form
AmeriMav Mar 2019
You must think love is blinding
Something of the sort
Repelling my attraction
My eyes do not work?
My dear you're wondrous
No mistake here has been made
You're simply gorgeous
Seguidilla form
AmeriMav May 2019
Oh come away my darling fair
Clasp hands with me and run
Make no delay
Let's fly away
To frolic in the sun

Oh come away my lovely one
On clouds we'll float and sway
In moonlit beams
Of lover's dreams
To midnight nymph's soirée

Oh come away my bright bouquet
Come hear my sweeter themes
This song I'll sing
With humming string
We'll dance by rushing streams

Oh come away my best daydreams
No treasure can compare
Please do not shun
You are my one
Life's stale if you're not there
The Roundabout form
AmeriMav May 2019
In my arms, can this be the day?
No more waiting, no more delay
For months we've waited, seemed so long
Yearning to hold my soul's heartsong
Now playing at a grand forte

Our smiles beam with brightest ray
In this moment, no sky of gray
Holding me, where you belong
In my arms

Silent starburst of love's display
Emotions roar like waves at play
Feel my chest, heart beating strong
Oh time stand still, this touch prolong
All I want is for you to stay
In my arms
Rondeau form
AmeriMav Feb 2019
The longing runs like river wide
Which flows to meet the boundless sea
It is not false, won't prove belied
It ever flows 'tween you and me

In downpour fragrant rains of grace
The longing runs like river wide
White foams and spins with rapid pace
Its current will not be denied

When freezing waters ice outside
Still undercurrent steady strong
The longing runs like river wide
So soft, but still it sings its song

And when the heats of summer bake
Mountain streams in time have died
Its goal the waters won't forsake
The longing runs like river wide
Quatern form
AmeriMav Feb 2019
Heart beating fast each time you draw nigh
No one would question, no one ask why
As birds should be free, we all plainly see
Your bright beauty belongs to the sky
Gwawdodyn form
AmeriMav Dec 2018
You say I’m your rock
Your hero, your champion
I think my cape tore
Haiku
AmeriMav Feb 2019
Each day at dawn
I rise and yawn
And look upon
What you've written

Then smile bright
To my delight
Beauteous sight
Of your love song

With many words
Your heart records
And spins onwards
So romantic

Ignites my heart
Like match head start
Strings like Mozart
In my heart ring

Then I reply
With simple "Hi"
Let out a sigh
As I'm thinking

How can this be?
Her love for me
What does she see
That compels her

Cause everyday
My heart you play
Each time you say
How you love me
Rhupunt form
AmeriMav Jun 2019
In the deepest dark
As just before the dawn breaks
Your light bids me see
Haiku form
AmeriMav May 2019
Crushing times when I feel lost
Battered and tossed, but then you bring
Your sweet love with glowing light
In dark night to you I'll cling
Awdl Gywydd form
AmeriMav Sep 2019
Seems I search your name
Like a deer returns to stream
Unquenchable thirst
AmeriMav Apr 2019
No one can see me quite as true
A single coin we two could be
One side is me the other you

Both set on separate sides to see
We're made of same material
A single coin we two could be

Sometimes it seems ethereal
The way we both seem to emote
We're made of same material

Now true sometimes on different note
I'm still consistently amazed
The way we both seem to emote

And when an argument is raised
The way we know the other one
I'm still consistently amazed

When all is said, and all is done
No one can see me quite as true
The way we know the other one
One side is me the other you
Terzanelle form
AmeriMav Jan 2019
Sometimes saying bye
Burns with such pain it feels like
Blisters on my heart
Haiku
AmeriMav Dec 2018
In moments like this
All my delight is in you
You make my heart sing
A Haiku
AmeriMav Jan 2019
Warm scarf swept around your soft neck so cute
Smile that could make shadows shine
Jeweled eyes glint like stardust
Kimo form
AmeriMav May 2019
My longing for you
Like howls to lunar skylight
Express without touch
Hiaku form
AmeriMav Jan 2019
Conversation must now subside
The day has been spent as before
Swirling dreams in my heart abide
And I know I'll return for more

Busy day spins, not much time now
We cannot in a barrel store
Wonder, laughter, or smiles somehow
So I know I'll return for more

Oh your voice rings with such brilliance
My heartbeat is going to war
Overwhelms me at this instance
But I know I'll return for more

In the quiet, in the stillness
When as if my heart hits the floor
Must find a cure for my illness
Oh I know I'll return for more
Kyrielle form
AmeriMav Dec 2018
Although spring be flowering
My heart will still be wishing
For your smile blossoming
And lips made full for kissing

Distance can seem burdensome
Difficult and oft lonely
Makes me sometimes quarrelsome
Hard edged and sometimes stony

Love is o'er us towering
Eyes and soul are still aglow
Patience it is powering
In this soft hope-lit meadow
This poem is a "ae freislighe". An  Irish poem form
AmeriMav Apr 2019
The lights of the cosmos are stored in her eyes
And I feel naked when I'm locked in her gaze
In their shine are no shadows, no secrets, no lies
The lights of the cosmos are stored in her eyes
Every starlight, and comet, and brightest sunrise
All that is dark or false is consumed in their blaze
The lights of the cosmos are stored in her eyes
And I feel naked when I'm locked in her gaze
Triolet form
AmeriMav May 2019
The light of love has chosen to reveal
What senses know and hearts can only grasp
There are no words that show you how I feel

No doubt we know affection's soft appeal
We hadn't know the limits bite like asp
The light of love has chosen to reveal

My joy in you is stronger now than steel
And yet each time I fail to raise the hasp
There are no words to show you how I feel

Visions of you are heated and surreal
But lack of warmth comes grating like a rasp
The light of love has chosen to reveal

I'm running endlessly upon this wheel
Stumbling with soul-tied, breathless, choking gasp
There are no words to show you how I feel

To music and to rhyme I will appeal
Perhaps with time and touch they will unclasp
The light of love has chosen to reveal
There are no words to show you how I feel
Villanelle form
AmeriMav Feb 2019
Time is a hard thing to crack
Can't steal back the smallest shard
Guard best with strongest barred rack
Still lack! You reap no reward


It will be lost while in sight
Trust not might it won't change cost
Frost cannot freeze its swift flight
Each bite to its track is tossed


So we will climb and take note
In rhythm float moment's rhyme
And mime love's light chime gloat
Each dote to stop ticking time
Rannaigheact Mhor form
AmeriMav Jan 2019
Memories entertained about you
Lovely, vivid, intensely they brew
And yet I should say, there is not a day
I am not overwhelmed by your view
Gwawdodyn form
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