Like tan quicksand
I sink into your touch
Losing myself yet gaining
A new set of love wings
Flying me newly made
Into a private universe
When an apex predator behaves unnaturally
The balance of power becomes upsetting
The scale is not just immeasurable
It's behaving dysfunctionally
Reason is cast aside
When sides are paramount
Differences mounting to the sky
Becoming mountainous, unassailable
Forgetting we rose from the ooze
We didn't choose what was discarded
But it was nature made that choice for us
And not something lightly regarded
The borders crossed were nature's own
And no one owned what was provided
No one claimed as theirs alone
What only nature has decided
What's unbecoming to presume
Has become our nature to resume
Some think that challenging is treason
And choosing sides is tantamount to reason
Ignoring what has led us here
In willful ignorance compounded
Compounding what leads only to fear
And thoughts of our ascent unfounded
The Appex of Effervescence
A
Gleam
below,
a blade
of silent motion,
a ghost of shifting shadow,
a primal ancient, living spark,
we are the razor-sharp delight of the deep,
the silent power that moves the crystal flow,
a flash of cold, silver-plated effervescence,
a tremor in the soul of the fathoms' cold heart,
the apex of the abyss, a brilliant, living dart,
a rising, wordless song of all the ocean's grace.
Poem
Apex superior
Indeed the creator is perfect
Making men and women to be the heads
Making children to be the bodies
Generations, generations all know him
He speaks wonderfully of his images
And creatures
Created all without selfish pride
And made them to multiple
What a wonderful story
How did he do that?
Bees stinks all beautiful flowers
It still produces nice honey
Birds fly round the sky
But build their nest
No question can fetch
An answer to your deeds
For it is gloriously
A splendour.
Atop all things is the apex of life.
Perceive all impossible dreams are there
not to break us.
Enduring all aches and pains may cause us
along the way
Xylem of life will always be rewarding
at the end of each day.
Reaching for the stars
My enemies were tired of me winning
Now they can’t smile at me so
They try to keep me a mile away
They want to spin my life in another direction
But this is hilarious
Because I am victorious through all the deceit!
They counted me out of the equation
But with my mathematical skills
I multiplied and divided the real from the fake
I took the seal of precision and
Took the decision to stand against my enemies!
In secret, they were heartless with their words
But I have no time to mince my words
So I took the essence of poetry and rinsed myself off
Remembering that they counted me out but
With my black cap, I become the apex
Reaching for the stars going beyond the galaxy!
Mark Frank
Copyright 2022
To run from today
or hide from tomorrow,
the ultimate hunter,
time waiting downwind
Each day is a stalking,
your tracks to betray you,
escape out of season
—the wolf closing in
(Sacandaga Lake, New York: January, 2022)
Sun strike horizon white triangle
Erases deep turquoise in thin ice
Steady spiral turn winds triumph
Explores sea bed, drilled precise
Turned ground pleads for mercy
Surrenders dug out cry of agony
Tumble gems an ancient mason
Sought to swap for sovereignty
Miner compiles silica currency
Shells she's clenched fluoresce
Money funnelled subterranean
Spectrum rips open firey chests
Technique imagines same future
Strength set on bone, sure farrier
Temporary gold gallops to zenith
Sharp ocean glint disappears her
14th June
Foreshore soon!
Young and old, kindly recall
All humans are equal,
Only differentiated by gender
Let's all on this ponder.
Dream with all courage,
Think beyond the horizon of marriage.
No man rules with a pest
And freedom befriends not a parasite.
Marriage is not everything
See even the lioness preys with her king.
Success favors no sex
Through work, reach its apex.
C-limb
H-ighest
A-pex
I-f
I-t
K-eeps
I-tself
A-t
T-op
Topic: Birthday of Chaii Kiat (August 18)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
We
live on an
orb
in the
vastness
of the
void.
Here,
we
are the
apex
predator.
Humanity
has risen
to the
top
of the
heap.
We’ve
organized the
place as
we
see fit.
Our
intellect
is unmatched.
We
thought
we were
the center
of it all.
We,
are the
top dog
on a speck.
Perspective,
humility,
understanding
of our
true
insignificance
in existence.
An existence
we don’t
understand.
An existence
infinite in nature.
Humanity
is the
apex
of insignificance.
The
apex
of nothing!
S-un
A-scends
N-icely
I-nto
Y-our
A-pex
G-low
A-s
L-ight
E-ndorses
Y-our
E-xcellent
V-iew
A-gain
Topic: Poetess (Saniya Galeyeva)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Wet, calm, lush green stretch-
Is this some heart soaked in love?
Apex of beauty.
L-ight
I-s
Z-enith's
A-pex
C-learly
O-bliterating
D-ark
E-vening
S-hadows
Topic: Birthday of Liza Codes (May 3)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Silver dewdrops sparkle deeply under a footprint held
salted remains forever and always loving dearest
Through the living waters of life's rainbows kiss sweetly love
every colour shines uniquely precious under the mist
Golden beautiful your sunlight guides me home warmly beams
standing time adoring graciously your crown circles gems
A halo begins to turn waves around undercurrents
into the liquid oceans salt where you are born with wings
On the seventh crest drunken spirit of eternity
under the influence of your soul heartbeats jump over
And back moonshines softly breathless gently sighs out angel
whitewashed purity rolling a carpet before you
Kissing the soles of every step forward destiny calls
echoing within four chambers a song for you sings blue
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