To Dream That Impossible Dream
It is nice to dream the impossible
To reach out and touch the stars
To win that big lottery
And own your favorite bar
To be rich and famous
And own that fancy car
To be married to a super attractive spouse
Who accedes to your every whim
And together you own a fabulous house
Somewhere in that distant dream
You hear your alarm clock begin to scream
As you come to and open you your eyes
And reality begins to set in
You realize that it is impossible to live
The impossible dream
Categories:
accedes, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Nietzsche declared that God is dead
Since thoughts of Him man’s heart has fled.
If it is true that God is dead
Let hearts of men be filled with dread.
Once God had died the race was on
among the gods man’s mind would spawn,
which one would fill the space God left?
Yea, who would occupy the cleft?
The no-God notion tried and failed
To fill the void man’s proud heart veiled
The need for one greater than man
Whose essence man’s mind cannot span.
Materialism also failed
As grift and greed man’s heart assailed.
Possessions could not fill his need
Once man from his God did secede.
Scientists tried God’s role to fill
Their efforts cannot fit the bill.
The inventions their knowledge yields
spawn hazards that are like minefields.
Marxism, and all the other isms
has left society mired in schisms.
Man sought freedom by declaring God dead,
The absence of God brought bondage instead.
God’s replacements have failed to quell
The yearnings that in man’s mind swell.
These cravings only God can fill
As man accedes unto His will.
Categories:
accedes, christian, god, humanity, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
The Key Is Love
"Humanity can regain its dignity if it accedes that love is the key to
attaining unity and redefining visions in achieving lasting harmony"
08/19/2023
10:59 a.m.
Aboard Vision of the Seas
Cruising towards Bermuda
Categories:
accedes, destiny,
Form: Monoku
The waves lap up against the shore,
A soothing sound that I adore.
I’ve heard this many times before
Yet always, it’s appealing.
Aside from sea gulls, there’s no sound.
Off-season, no one is around,
So when I hear the wavelets pound,
Relaxed is how I’m feeling.
My normal anxious state recedes.
The ocean rules; my mind accedes,
For this is what my body needs,
A little dose of healing.
Categories:
accedes, beach,
Form: Rhyme
Pawn enters into the checkered
rooms of the cylindrical tube
sips serpentine cocktails, two
colours in a mirrored glass cube
Red dragon rose petals litter the
azurite crystal bar, violet flame
star light adorns the altar. Pawn
reflects but can't recall his name
Upon asking, his faint voice echoes
as hooves rap upon the spiral stair
On each red step sits a demon
writing up a contract to ensnare
Pawn accedes and bursts out in wicked rage
disengages from his act upon life's stage
A lasting nightmare of terrors so malign
forever at war within his demented paradigm
Categories:
accedes, color, evil, fantasy, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Tapping into our neurons
where only brain cells should go
Past dreams mean nothing now
unconscious thoughts just flow
An abstract realm of reason
touchpad signals unbeknown
Fires up, post-human imagination
our intelligence genes regrown
And so it's all written in code
old commandments redrawn
Binary replaces ancient Latin
age of replicants has dawned
Interfaced with artificial reality
and engaged to usb clones
We marry terabyte processors
reproducing ten billion drones
Reprogrammed ancient scriptures
floods overwhelm our homes
Heaven and hell's using robots
I-God now accedes the throne
By
David Kavanagh
Categories:
accedes, allusion, computer, future,
Form: Rhyme
Two emerald coasts frame
the cape of the ancient pirates
Among its smooth greyish white rocks
cedar trees being grown faintly within the centuries
their volume curved exposing to exogenous powers
their lawless shadow, a shelter
under the strong Mediterranean sun.
North wind’s continuous touch
intercepts worries that being fired
shifts them far to the mountainous villages
until their thin structure accedes to the hasty clouds
becomes one with the view; thoughts, cliffs, sun and sky.
Hair disheveled, blown towards all directions
fragments of sand all over the skin.
Morning dreams lave in the water edge
dazzling crystal surface of the sea hurts the eyes
Aqua iridescences invite to be integrated
A deep breath, the playful buoyance and I caress
the wave’s ripples being embossed on the fine pearly sand
of the untrodden seabed, pure light and eternal time,
my underwater kingdom lasts as my longest breath.
* A poem inspired by the place "Mikri Vigla" in Naxos island, Cyclades Greece.
Categories:
accedes, beach, inspiration, nature, sea,
Form: Free verse
I ransack my mind…the blurred tale that cries
On hollow tracks scarcely finding life's way
The bleakest moans, the clearest views reprise--
A pounding shrill of angst which reels all day.
Though a prayerful night quietly drains,
Above, a communion with God remains.
From my confined walls, moonlight slowly bleeds
Ghastly this shadow grilling a leaked pen:
And yet, one flint from heaven’s star accedes
Endowing malaise its final amen.
Shall I grow weaker and perhaps forget
How double-edged illness comes with youth's rain?
Oh where I recline, next evening won't set
Dear moments when smiles are lucid again.
Here... tidal bowl with apples soon to fade
As breaths drop, pass through dusk’s advancing shade.
Contest of Craig Cornish:God Knows Where I Am
6/6/2017
Categories:
accedes, confusion, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Look up to the Heavens where the Angels doth soar,
To the cascading thunder and deafening roar;
To the loftiest crags of every mountain high.
Hovering far above in cerulean skies,
In our darkest hours, always hearing our cries.
Man but a speck in the infinite sands of time.
Alpha and Omega, finite, infinite sign,
God's most wondrous grace on Earth, His Glory Divine;
Only thru his deeds shall man to Heaven attain.
His cherubs proclaiming, this Heavenly refrain,
Winged Watches warmly wrapping our Earthly domain;
The Earth's one supreme test of man's ultimate faith.
Tween' the blessed, the pure, the vile and the chaste,
Man accedes to Heaven with only His embrace;
Reverence and kindness ne'er guarantee our fate.
Entrance denied or approved at St. Peter's Gate.
Look upward to the Heavens - the Angels won't wait;
Final decisions lay in the Grace of our Lord.
To the loftiest crags of every mountain high,
Man but a speck in the infinite sands of time;
Only thru his deeds shall man to Heaven attain;
The Earth's one supreme test of man's ultimate faith.
Reverence and kindness ne'er guarantee our fate;
Final decisions lay in the Grace of our Lord.
Categories:
accedes, angel, celebration, faith, inspirational,
Form: Couplet
Something in the way she stands there
Something she knows whilst serving serving all the customers sadly
But with temerity I approach whilst stumbling over words to say
Rehearse and another till open
But I wont and accede my place
Still stumbling in my mind a phrase perhaps
And then a small packet of tobacco and then some rizlas
She gracefully accedes knowing I have in truth no other here
Theres something in the way she smiles
When she gives me the packet
And touches my cold hand lightly.
Categories:
accedes, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Faith is often blind, and that seems tragic.
It drops to its knees, humble and devout.
Science’s problem is lack of magic.
It can’t accept the mystical throughout.
Each sees light stream
through a prism of glass.
The pious think of stained-glass
and God’s bliss, and all but simplicity they let pass.
They have no need for a hypothesis.
The logical need to know how light’s bent,
and measure photon wavelength to decide
if particle-waves end the argument
or there are more dimensions to divide.
The first has all the answers that it needs.
The other must seek before it accedes.
Categories:
accedes, philosophy, religion, science,
Form: Sonnet
In the dead of the night he attempts his surprise
Candlelight winks forming whispered pleas
The midnight moon casts a hint of light
Surreptitiously he beckons his love to his side
Tears glint in her starry eyes tonight
His hand brushes past her flushed cheeks
She coyly tilts her head to one side
The sigh that escapes her suggests consent
Carefully he frees her hair so soft
Relishing the moment both so dearly want
Shyly she accedes, yet hesitant at first
Until desire burns with longing and thirst
In the dead of the night he attempted his surprise
Candlelight winked forming whispered pleas . . .
Categories:
accedes, passion, night, longing, night,
Form: Blank verse
In my fancy, I sat upon yet unwashed stones,
surrounded by Tide's ebbing and rising flows.
Time comes and goes and
the stones wear, erode.
But still I return
to sanctuary,
my abode.
I return to silence broken by
free-flying gulls and
gentle lapping waves.
The sea, Great Lady, everchanging
but not,
calls
inspires
never tires.
When pull comes, she accedes
then on distant shore rises,
then to me returns,
returns
returns again.
Would that I could do but the same?
Something not to be.
So I sit,
I listen,
I wait
upon unwashed stones.
And instead,
I dream.
Categories:
accedes, nature, sea,
Form: Free verse