drifting waters
abridging
drenched
pigments
of my memory
whimsically
scatter
homebound
the dyes
staining the
cold pressed
arches
of
my mind's
canvas
Published in my 24-page photo/anthology book ~THE MIND'S CANVAS~ 2023
AP: 2nd place 2020, Honorable Mention 2022
O Dear I read you as Love without knowing true
I refine you many times as my God in my thoughtful vow
Here I'm still alone in the path of rosy thorn
look- I've accomplished everything with my heart colors
the race of river with its concentration towards the ocean
the firing sunlight with the icy moonlight
the golden sunrise with the silver sunset
the tranquil dawn with the greasy dusk
the handcrafted noon with the embroidered afternoon
the dreamy night with the contemplated darkness
the yearning day with a lot of learning chapter of nature
the daily life making intimacy with the imaginative desire
the far flowery stars with the deep silence of the space
the endless galaxy paths with its greatest journey
O dear I embedded these everything for our unity
Our disheveled caravan on the path of almighty
O dear in me craziness
I'm still wayward trace
I find everything everyday within love sublime
I live with my loneliness, it's opined me fine
The decorated rainbow abridging to your line
In me life and death double sim card is activated
But still don't know who is love or God in my debate
13.04.2020 Chattogram
LANDING
Big Brother's eye
beyond the sky
Saw it not sneak nigh,
round valley and hill,
gripping necks at will;
No Global Hawk, Predator,
Brigadier, Mirador,
nor fortress and tower high
Could site it here or there,
abridging lives to spare.
And as providers
keep a busy head
on their insecure daily bread,
even as they watch
in dread for the toll
on the new day's scroll;
And as the white angels contend,
with the Reaper's octopus hand,
And as old earth has to brace
For the Reaper's hasty pace,
Behold the mighty potentates
Of every creed,
of all Palace and House,
of every rank and race
Now kneel before Great Leveller Covid
and, on their clayey knees, plead
with him to spare their crown or mace.
Mohamed Mansouri
Tunis (Tunisia), on 14 April 2020
I’m flatter by the system it’s not corporate it just ain’t witness
If every answer came out of the air or thin hair we could do what Moses did and part
The sea
Thoughts that come and thought that play around on time line
I never lost faith in the system the system never characterize a belief
All I ask is can I testify and take it to the streets
If I pledge the alliance does the star mean another
Hero has fallen
Thoughts that come and thought that play around on time line
If word fragments dawn and never waking how would I plead the fifth
Answer out of a page or history book let one judge
Thoughts that come and thought that play around on time line
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
In Nature's ordained sphere
No chalice, vial, or bioengineer
Earth's mantle only doting peer
Sun's warmth growth to cheer
Heaven's tap nutrients to steer
Only providence, stalk will shear
Covetous hands beauty, scent desire
Manufactured warmth to inspire
Coiffed petals sprout love's devotion
Fragrant oils drained into entrancing potion
Poached nutrients put limp bodies into motion
Lotions, balms salve weathered skin's erosion
Yet preening utility of man
Can never pure essence expand
Nor flower's value re-brand
Abridging time worth does countermand
Cunning artifice cannot pristine form command
Flower's true identity encrypted in the land
Sunbeams serenade my window pane
Imploring restful notes to disdain
Abridging curtain the bright melody doth strain
My top sheet covers the harmonious chain
Gilded streams strike heartier refrain
But dissonant chords cloud my brain
A glistening symphony of metric lines retrains
The cerebral rhythms course through my veins
A chorus of light waves entrancing crescendo maintains
From ingratiating pageant my body no longer abstains
Stephen Parker
August 14, 2012
A sprawling sun it's anchor plucks
Drifting anchorless, below the horizon ducks
A canopic relic storing spent day in timeless trust
Well-timed descent bearing the residual thrust
Borne with gilded shades of chardonnay shadowing Helios's lust
A lustful pinwheel of spent angel dust
On flaming angelic wings his smoldering ember doth swagger and sway
Swaying, burnished folds swiveling in neon crust
Swiveled caricature of fleeting, ruddy bust
Smoldering, fleeting climax appended to day's heated fray
Abridging shadows of gray pall the libidinous display
Displaying the deviant beams from Selene's hideaway
Selene casts a melancholy disk her tides to foam
Brokered tidings from Helios's now distant dome
Residual effect
Abridging prism
Iridescent droplets
Nuanced nature
Burnished buffer
Optical illusion
Water colors
Traveling through the jaded discourse
With bartered pen and little remorse
Brandishing sharpened scalpel; tour de force
Unabashedly seeking all texts from lexicon to divorce
Developing underlying themes to alter the broader context
Freely abridging each verse to establish the pretext
Isolating each stanza to create a subtext
Inferring connotations to establish a hypertext
Disassociating words to broker more inflection
Delinking phrases building new bridges for reflection
Deconstructing patterns to sculpt out a new direction
Decoding mores and values to foster introspection
Voiding punctuation; compressing verses to scuttle metric time
Extrapolating dominant motifs to devalue the inculcating paradigm
Decoupling dissonant accents to deflower the sublime
Erasing phonetic schemes; disbanding symetrical order; decelerating rhyme
Scintillating muse providing inspiration
Jettisoning convention for innovation
Scuttling old patterns without expiation
Countermanding discourse with new creation
Alternating rhythms for lofty oration
Imbuing myths with crafty animation
Ennobling verse with majestic simulation
Abridging meter with stimulating catechization
Utilizing parody to intensify gratification
Brandishing riddles with crafty illusion
Burnishing irony in stunning profusion
Instilling prose with deeper alliteration
Suddenly, faltering in my bridled station
Confronted by seamless repetition
Disrobed of all callous pretension
Jaundiced at my mindless ambition
Reconsidered sages merited position
Re-read Homer, Virgil with more appreciation
Studying Shakespeare became new avocation
Bequeathing to the ancient bards greater approbation
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