you …
came to me today
(from anon)
wholly untold to your concerns
but real enough …
I was plodding the beach, tending wounds
when you tossed your smile at
me from a shrouded sun
off whitecaps, bursting into dazzle -
echoes, alit
each a memory, recaptured
brief as a blink …
but I was transfixed, as always
immersed in your burnt ochre irises
gold flecks like shiny confetti, fluttering
they hadn’t held me since …
forever, really
and as then, the brilliance within
was unsettling -
a piercingly perceptive acumen that
probed, unchallenged
though your countenance always
smoothed the edges -
a bubbly exuberance and gravity
an eager affability -
thawed everything around you
and … everyONE
effecting the grandest of illusions
that whatever you aimed your attentions at
was your dearest concern
and your one TRULY careful involvement …
when in all actuality
we -
the matter and matters about you -
were just a multitude of
merry moths …
to your flame.
Copyright © Gregory Richard Barden, June 8, 2023
Categories:
affability, analogy, imagery, lost love,
Form: Free verse
A-Affability
B-Blissfulness
C-Contendedness
Of course, there exists an extensive list,
Many beautiful words, I have
missed.
But I honor your time, and with
others poets to visit.
Just let me wish you a day full
of joy.
With many lovely people in it!
Hugs and thank you!
Panagiota
August 31, 2020
1pm PST
Categories:
affability, encouraging, joy,
Form: I do not know?
Wear no long face
When storms rage in your space
Flying and crying you out of place
If you do
Like a cow you’ll moo
Shooting and hooting at the crew
You claim to train
With foibles you can’t restrain
With lower standards you strain
In muscles, corpuscles and bustles
Indulging in hustles
Egging you to tussles
You hardly believe worthwhile
Embracing a foppish lifestyle
As you claim to care for the poor for a while
Sneaking a surprise or a dose of gloom
When for the sake of the lake of doom
You elevate and fete misfortune in the room
That denies you peace of mind
When pride drives you blind
To become and grow unkind
Until an invisible hand
Teaches you to take an accommodating stand
In circumstances denying your pride the grandstand
That sinks the last nail
To administer a master class manicure the fingernail
Shining and gliding far better than the snail
You’d rather blessed and caressed humility
Stretching and fetching from your life adaptability
As you strive to promote amiability and its agility.
Categories:
affability, poems,
Form: Free verse
Benevolence was sought and was found with delight,
amiability with kindness brings me to my gentle knees.
With each stroke of good will my sadness does cease
and in the wretched darkness altruism brings light.
Selfishness with mercy always bring me pure ease,
a warm heart cannot be cold when given out of care.
I seek only clemency when life’s problems are not fair
and the ability to see the pain no one else ever sees.
One may be silent yet speaks volumes in his affection,
for there is nothing as rare as a special connection.
I show gratitude for him bestowing such geniality
and in return I give to him a heart of tender affability.
Qualities You Admire in Friends
June 21, 2018
Categories:
affability, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Wounds drained, opened, ingrained, rained, sprained, trained
In the midst of a family loss
Recriminations canned, fanned, planned, tanned
To fight the brute boss
Dressed up as justice cause
Disguised as implementation of lopsided justice
Pursued to discredit the family rose
Oppressed in the sluice
Where survival sap flows
In a bid to catalyze vitality
Where Providence fluid blows
The breath of consolidation and maturity
Grown in decades
In a lubricated life
Ought to celebrate serenades
That from each member recognizes contributions made by the wife
As mother, family front fulcrum, the linchpin
Whose love the family unites
In her role as family queen
Whose care ignites, delights and invites
Family unity, amity, affability and agility
Family loft and love
Family stability, serenity and sagacity
In a family born, built and blessed from above
To bless dad, mom and children
With ever growing faith
Ever strengthening bonds with brethren
In a dearth
Of gangrene gifts and ribald rifts
The family veers away from
In twists and mists
The family considers unbidden and unwelcome.
Categories:
affability, poems,
Form: Free verse
On the edge of the wedge between hope and despair
Heightened and strengthened by determination and devotion
To clutch at the latch of the batch where love fell into disrepair
My last portion of caution urges no precaution to enliven my love lotion.
On the edge of the stage beneath the beat of my heart
Laminated, exonerated and venerated by a warmth wall
Under circumstances that sentenced the love art
To a deficit of explicit exaggeration, I advance affection accrual.
On the edge of the page where age agitated for affability
In love libations lapped by listless lips and slips
Engrossed and embossed with the imprint of amiability
In the course of temptation, I try hard the termination of tension trips.
On the edge of the sledge enraged by my outage outrage
Felt, dealt with and knelt at the altar of Cupid
Whose arrows assuage the page of the sage
Whose magic wand lands lovebirds on a reconciliation rapid.
Categories:
affability, poems,
Form: Free verse
Helping hands
When someone fallen
You lifted
When someone cried
You wiped
When someone asked
You’ve given possibly
That helping hands helped
But what for your
own helplessness....
Your helping hands
To carry candle light
To fight with inner
Darkness of soul and sin
Your helping hands
With such strength
To fight with
Own salvation
Your helping hands
To carry more power
To fight with
Own idleness
Your helping hands
To carry humanity
As religious
To fight with
Fanaticism
Your helping hands
With affability
To fight with
Selflessness
Those Helping hands
To help yours
Categories:
affability, growth, hope, i am,
Form: Light Verse
Dear diary!
One who bears the brunt of my adversity,
And my misery, you condone with affability.
There and back to make an affix,
Of an apparently gifted anomalies.
Night so long and yet so short
Threatening with its dreadful silence thought.
Providence, my heart sought,
From my "seems-unending strait",
Which hath made me desolate.
The day, I wish, ceases to break
Its torment, I could make a clean break.
For obscured I am in obviousness,
And lost I am in no one's guess,
'Cos my lovelessness hath made me less.
My seamy life, I shall lay to rest
For I need own a love nest.
Whence from forlornness, I will be harboured
And to its grace, I'll pledge my flesh and blood
But with my diary, I'll move abode.
Categories:
affability, absence, allusion, depression, lonely,
Form: Rhyme
searching for the existence
spring of the soul,
melting the mind with the
heat of passion
spread in the wilderness
the affability of the
agony in ecstasy flutter there like
a burning butterfly
the unending desires of desire
n the eternity of the lonely star
the solemn prayer of kindness
fulfilled the ever lasting passion
love floats like hollow wood
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Categories:
affability, love,
Form: I do not know?
Yearning your hands running through my body,
Exploring the map as its given to you.
Our destination is clear
But your intentions are a blur.
Frigid night that withholds the affability of your embrace,
While I sit under the dark skies awaiting consideration.
I look from side to side attempting to locate the inner you
But in the process I encounter my biggest mistake.
To look for something that is not in existence anymore;
Running through a maze with paths that lead to nowhere.
Idiotic of me to believe this was real;
Seeing through a mirage with aspiration as my weapon.
Categories:
affability, dark, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
In company,
Amidst friends cum acquaintances,
Conversations of barrenness,
Chattering lips uttering programmed responses,
Smiling faces concealing bitter hearts,
Prejudiced minds feigning solidarity,
Rancour concealed in laughter,
Grudges obscured by affability,
Sprained facial muscles,
From prolonged smiles of pretence,
Ensconced in mistrust,
I dialogue with dexterity.
In solitude,
Day dreams of grandeur,
Perfectly orated monologues,
Command performances in a one man theatrical,
Unedifying thoughts,
Instigating self gratification,
Memories of unconditional love,
Haunting visions of love’s lifeless form,
Tears shed in silence,
Muffled sighs of sorrow,
Heart mourns with every beat,
Soul grieves till ethereal reunion.
In slumber,
Dead to the world,
Spirit takes flight,
To dimensions of alternate realities,
On a voyage of discovery,
Passage to supernatural realms,
Moments of inexplicable clairvoyance,
Revelations of the future,
Nightmares from the past,
Intermittent bouts of cauchemar,
Evaded melange with a succubus,
Preserved by divine intervention.
Categories:
affability, sleep, voyage, prejudice,
Form: Prose Poetry