PURITY OF FORM-:-
achieving
complementary
verifiable
experimental
approaches
true TO PHENOMENA
autonomous
representational
synthesis
personal
perspectives
to CLOTHE IDEAS
sensitively
subordinated
elaborate
allusive
adornments
viridescent wrench
adventitious
sparks prompt
yet
cloned camouflage
for psyche
rue’d quandary
withered wisps
nebulous
blind sweep
to bolster
plangent paean
of
helium hinged
extraneous
life sojourn
brazen folly
as
crimson cordon
ushers blurred
mystic squall
quirky quilt
engulfing
behemoth blemish
post sequence
encrypted kismet
punctual launchpad
to
wizard woo
violin mesmerizing
allusive pluck
sun-dried spiccato
bouncing bow
on
ear adorned
murmuration
intaglio instant
pregnant alms
luxuriant
gazillion gust
oe’r
hint endowed
sky syndicate’s
phantom limb
an
opulent cascade
ubiquitous umbra
bequeathing
lush serendipity
propitious prism
shadow conjuror
of
lilac lavishness
tangibly material
as
cerebral chakra
intuits rapt
sublime sublimation
Viridescent wrench
adventitious
sparks prompt
yet
cloned camouflage
for psyche’s
rue’d quandary
withered wisps
nebulous
blind sweep
to bolster
plangent paean
of
helium hinged
extraneous
life sojourn
brazen folly
as
crimson cordon
ushers blurred
mystic squall
quirky quilt
engulfing
behemoth blemish
post sequence
encrypted kismet
punctual launchpad
to
wizard woo
violin mesmerizing
allusive pluck
sun-dried spiccato
bouncing bow
on
ear adorned
murmuration
intaglio instant
pregnant alms
luxuriant
gazillion gust
oe’r
hint endowed
sky syndicate’s
phantom limb
an
opulent cascade
ubiquitous umbra
bequeathing
lush serendipity
propitious prism
shadow conjuror
of
lilac lavishness
tangibly material
as
cerebral chakra
intuits rapt
sublime sublimation
IDEAL HARMONY
allusive
signs
manifest
exhort
&compensate
uniting
a
synthesis
of
tangible
egalitarian
phenomena
communing
alongside
subsidiary
pursuit
in
decorative
aesthetic
spectrums
See that girl
The one with pink
Flitting about
With careless wonder
We must keep her
At a distance
I know she's a child
She looks harmless
Look at her dance
When there's no music
Strange, allusive
Even at a distance
Don't talk to her
She'll invite herself
To the party
Then put you under
A witch's spell
Nearly at any distance
Mama, NO!
Don't make me meet her
I don't like her
She's naked
I need to spank her
For being sexual
In the distance
As she stands
Face to face
In my faltering presence
I see her for who she is
She is the me
I left in the distance
Written by Trudy Schrader on 01-16-2026
Lost in my thoughts
Oh how time flies
Once I was young
Now I am old
I've been though hell and back
Had heaven right there
Now I am searching again
Allusive love why do you hide
Do I scare you away
Do you feel I am not ready
Or has time run out on me
Into the great unknown
Seems so strange
To embark further down an undiscovered path
A memory an expansion of what has become
The truth only lies away
Where is the calm
Where is the passion
When will it all align
Can it be within my reach
Everything I desire
Not without reality
Not without imagination
It should all make sense soon
In the eyes of my existence.
RECAPITULATIONS
dynamics
in flux
highlights
apparent
in silent
expression
frozen
perceptions
evocative
allusive
sightlines
in
suspended
animation
perspective
foreshortened
boundary
close off
in
parallel
energy
absorbed
concentration
thoughtful
unbending
motif
in movement
unconcerned
unresponsivd
unyielding
quiet
&
static
Why is accountability so allusive to mankind?
I think that many of us forget, that God is not blind.
There is always an excuse, an easier path to take.
Will our deception anger God, or make his heart break?
Can’t all be forgiven, why must we show disdain?
Practice what you preach, so your work is not in vain.
In unconsciousness, where shadows prance,
An elusive dream, a furtive trance,
Weaves its tendrils through my mind,
Lingering with longing I cannot find.
Evasive visions, forever out of reach,
Dreams like tomorrows never breach
Their resolve to never come into being,
Never see daylight, but do lie-in within, unseeing.
For when you chase and lure a dream,
To become reality, it fades and loses its gleam.
The closer you get, the more it alludes you,
Like a shadow, its only stuck on to you, with glue.
So cherish your dream as an allusive desire,
An elusive enigma, a destiny, to which you can aspire.
life
purposeful planned
exciting moving learning
hearth home heaven hereafter
reposing resting resigning
anticipated allusive
death
AWAKENING SLUMBERS
reflect
stark constraints
highlight
the
stillness
a contemplation
a synthesis
evolving
silhouetted
vaguely
transcending
experience
of reality
a repetitive rhythm
to emphasis
the options
in a poetic
dimension
scintillating
giving
stark relief
saturated
& allusive
oblique in
transition
to influence
the ascendant
impetuous
interplay
devolved by the
organic
slight& aslant
THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma so derived
Can it not be, are we all destined to err?
Must it occur from time to time?
Is life written out like a poem?
by some tormented, demented
dark lust to find that allusive rhyme
in the recesses of your mind
from time to time to err or not to err
is human but to find the rhyme is more divine.
Lights and glitter, everything that is gold
Awaits the naive and daring alike
Seeking a dream to slippery to hold
Vanishing coin; your finances all on strike
Eccentric beings, I politely call
Guests who have lingered and made these streets home
Accepting of vice, the big and the small
Such candor quite absent where e'er I roam
Diamonds may turn to glass come morning
Revelations can wait, just one last slot
Excitement builds and ebbs without warning
Allusive dreams cannot catch what was sought
Mythic, this city would have you believe
Secrets sealed in glitter best to deceive
Wheels within wheels, am locked in a maze
Myriad of floating images block my gaze
The path is clear yet the truth elusive
I seek direct wisdom, not symbols allusive
01-August-2020
But life in this garb of death
remains fleeting
And I
the man so pitiful to be
consumed by dead
this life by ending
destroys my grasp upon it
I starve in savage
the postmortem of my faith
yet humbled not
turn this perfidious belief
against the works of God
By life
in this attire of dead
always the fugitive
shall save me
from the urgency of despair
and so in my defense
make such acquittals of my payments
to allusive debt
has given me some meaning to this breath
Sent by a curse
this golem
touches neither living
nor a moment
between its dying
I do not believe
I cannot conceive
and by my arrogance
seethes
I cannot accept
this life remains
cloaked in a garb of death
No
I see the end
this fearful flesh
my refusal to pretend
I have no faith
yet humbled not
turn this perfidious belief
against the works of God
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