GOOYCZ Form Contest, Round 3 Entries

Fresh off the press, here are the praiseworthy efforts of your fellow poets:

1 I Do (Palindrome)

Invitations closed,
Sealed words,
Exchanged vows,
Flying doves,
Forever,
I do.
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Do I?
Forever,
Doves flying,
Vows exchanged,
Words sealed,
Closed invitations.

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2 God's Gift of Life (Terza Rima)

Please wipe those tears away from your weary eyes,
for each tear drop that trickles down your sweet face
will burn your soul's flame, like his painful goodbyes.

Don't let the sorrow you're inhaling replace
the substance you should be receiving to live.
Each breath, a gift from God, fills the empty space

Find it in your heart to let go and forgive,
it will release your pain and you'll be set free
to be given a chance for you to relive

The future is yours though you may disagree.
I pray for happiness, your heart can't foresee.

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3 Forgotten Soldier (Kyrielle)

Static burns through classic music
a lonely soul tired and homesick
land soaked with blood of brothers slain
thought not given to one man's pain

Fifteen years past that hectic day
laying in the rain, flashbacks play
filth and lack of food, inhumane
thought not given to one man's pain

Now he rests at one-hundred three
empty bedside, no one to see
ticket punched for that long black train
thought not given to one man's pain

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4 Invisible me / Suspicion (Kyrielle)

Shadowed existence in my mind,
Is impossible to define.
Compound ideas that should not be.
Invisible me you don't see.

Accusations loudly berate,
Realization comes all to late.
Implausible hope will not flee,
Invisible me you don't see.

Suspicion soon grows then imparts,
Leaving behind a bleeding heart.
Contemptuous thoughts plant the seed.
Invisible me you don't see.

Distrust sprouts amid vines maligned,
Creating doubts that intertwine.
A romance end is guaranteed,
Invisible me you don't see.

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5 Sensuality (Palindrome)

Night after night
Lips seductive and red
Fingertips exploring curiously
Hands reaching below or above trembling skins
Kissing passionately and whispering
Cautiousness or bravery
love for satisfaction

satisfaction for love
Bravery or cautiousness
Whispering and passionately kissing
Skins trembling above or below reaching hands
Curiously exploring fingertips
Red and seductive lips
Night after night

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6 Could it be you? (Kyrielle)

Digging for a fraction of truth
among rustic hope lingering,
console my dreams and let them grow

For I have remained the savior
of a longing love left lonesome,
console my dreams and let them grow

I tangle with epiphany
as our souls repel, you can not
console my dreams and let them grow

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7 Garden of the Night (Terza Rima)

Darkness enfolds me within a beating breath
silently weaving memories upon time,
teetering upon edges of life and death

And as midnight's mournful moon travels in chime
vines of dreams entangle scarlet shadowed thorns
as bygone chains jangle of love's bitter climb

Yet my soul, in the stillness of the night mourns
the trusty bough that once branched with leaves of gold
now left to bleed a silence that whips and scorns

Yesterday may shiver leaves brittle with cold
yet tomorrow brings promise worthy to hold

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8 Timeless (Terza Rima)

Rain drizzled as tonight grew timeless; your scent
bloomed fierce in the corner of a candle shop
and I began to believe you never meant

to lose yourself amongst the lavender crops,
aphrodisiacs or clustered chaste berries
that flowered only upon midnight backdrops.

Tonight you were soy tea lights; winter cherry.
The fragrance of our last Christmas and hot air,
the taste of pumpkin pie and fresh raspberry,

the sound of galloping horses, anywhere,
somewhere, in a place never really there.

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9 Love, The Accident (Terza Rima)

Hearts, they race on through these forgotten highways;
Bumping and colliding in my lonely soul,
As they ignore each others luminous gaze.

Then my heart begins to lose all self control,
As it crashes me right into destruction.
Alas, this was an extremely costly toll.

She said "Lets skip this silly introduction",
As she started to commit the final crime.
Sadly, I could not stop this love abduction.

This story no longer has its fast pace rhyme;
Gasping for breathe I realize I'm out of time.

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10 Ignite The Flame (Kryielle)

Charming creature of mortal skin
Why deny the beauty within
Ordinary is not your name
Shed the doubt and ignite the flame

Don't ask mirrors to count your flaws
Imperfections are not faux pas
Your skin is not a shell of shame
Shed the doubt and ignite the flame

Become the butterfly not moth
Fitted in society's cloth
Falling prey to that twisted game
Shed the doubt and ignite the flame

Charming creature of mortal skin
Don't deny the beauty within
Ordinary is not your name
Shed the doubt and ignite the flame

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11 Lost And Found (Terza Rima)

I will aways dance with tigers and lions,
because I'm in love with the way you applaud;
how your laughter separates into ions.

I will always sail through oceans abroad,
I'm in love with the cadences of the sea;
your grin after an underwater maraud.

I will always find an error in beauty,
it seems wrong to love unless faults are there too.
But in your smile there's no mistakes, like in me.

Sometimes I look at you, you look right on through.
I will always lose coins, receipts, car keys, you.

*Some sources say 'smile' would be one syllable, some two. In my accent I read it as one, so I'm going with that.

Awesome poems guys!!!

I love the image of the diamond ring

If only it were real... lol

Wow!...that's all I can say....you have all left me speechless!!!

Very impressive poems and I truly am blown away with the results from this contest thus far and this round really is awesome!! :]

Good luck to the judges x

Larry - maybe you can do what you did last time and post any comments early :)

They are nice, however number 6 is not a Kryielle.

(A Kyrielle is a French form of Rhyming Poetry written in quatrains, a stanza consisting of 4 lines)

Sylvia is right.

That person must have been sipping some Raspberry Ice Nymph ;)

Lmao @ Blissful

great job everyone

Oh my, this is going to be tougher for the judges.
All the best!

and amazing job everyone.

Probably the hardest part is the waiting lol

I wonder how many comments have been sent in...

:D

I gave the judges until Wednesday to submit comments. That would be the fastest turnaround time yet for this contest. If they are not all in I will post what I have, sans scores.

Ohhh you mean tomorrow lol I keep thinking today because it is Wednesday in Australia :P

*Anticipation*