i lie here glad
happy with a smile
fireflies gad
Hearty for miles,
It is not ephemeral, it is the twin of long life -
This feeling that is within, plenary like rain drops
That fall for the cloud's cry
I have now seen my dream here in reality
It is a monument standing
etched With words that will give me eternity
When the young speak of me
far after i am hid beneath
Apollos have watered this seed
buried above the rim of the earth
far from aridness
From a gentle sprinkling
That keeps the garden fresh and green
To a raging summer storm
Where lightening cracks and thunder roars
From a tiny little stream
Right up to an awesome flood
Constant is the flow of our Lord’s love!
Some might pray the Lord to bless
The desert’s heat and aridness.
Looking for the Savior’s pow’r
Their heart and soul to bloom and flow’r.
Nourishing their tiny seed
So, it grows and bears much fruit
Slaking every thirst with grace and truth.
Do not fear the darkened clouds
Or the distant thunder’s sound.
Nor the rain that you might hear
For it shows that our Lord’s grace is near.
While we wait to be refreshed
And be cleansed of every stain
His love already falls on us like rain…
God’s grace is falling from heaven above.
A precipitation of infinite love.
A gift undeserved but, God, grant us more!
Some might say, Lord, let it rain…
I say, let it pour!
To the wild overgrown garden
of my age crammed mind
I keep returning, thirsting for
the nectar of neglected nights,
when moonlight shone in vain,
searching for scattered words
among the shadows of silence
urging myself to catch a whiff
of her fragrant sensual scent
where distant memories linger
dripping from dew laden boughs.
Clinging to false illusionary hope
I sift through densely mingled weeds
with wrinkled trembling hands…
frenzied feeble efforts, as aridness
suffocates the last breaths of existence.
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[Pub. PS: It’s Poetry: An anthology of contemporary poetry from around the world 2020]
Contest: Where Bumbles Bounce
Sponsor: Craig Cornish
Placed 3rd
© 15th September 2019
The sky turned into vast dark emptiness
The smell of nature replaced with odourless aridness
The winds got sucked into the ground
Quiescence was the loudest sound
Rivers so still without ripples
A tide and flow trapped in its own course
Sea waves and sand in a truce
Time stopped, mystery was let loose
Carnivores lost their bloodthirstiness
The birds became flightless
The flyers wondered nervously in the crawlers’ habitats
The food chain missed its end and lost its start
Shadows left the surfaces
And merged with their objects
There was no sound of nature’s forces
As the earth became oblivious of itself
A spell of timelessness was imminent
In the middle of nothingness, we are barely existent
Nature almost extinct
All because God Blinked
The new sun hath risen again and shone
O beauteous sun, its flawless perfection it hath shown.
Thus light from it wast of haven impeccably urged,
For the destiny of its evil deeds’ concomitant wast yet purged.
None hiatus in the mist of its smirk to bepaint its gross,
Nor that that it loved so dear, so soon in oddly loss;
To shine t’other side wast its splendour but nought its wish
Nor to scald so deep to clear mistemper’d waterfalls upon earthly dish;
And never to wither the grass in the rejoicing forest,
But to make it lucid of aridness in the brawl against the worst:
The sight of its rays hath misgiven yet some consequence of despise,
Which somewhat didst profane pilgrims all made to paradise.
God asked: ’Sun, would thou likest to pray and die or livest and eat pie?’
The sun smirked, portentous in its tyrannous chariot; and chose to die.
.
Desert
powdery waterless
withering drying unrefreshing
aridness thirst rain spring
living bubbling refreshing
deep well
water
Like the rain that pours in the arid backlands,
making blossom the most shriveled of branches
I will work my days!
I will cultivate friendships
And, with all willpower,
I will perpetuate peace!
I will defend nature!
I will delight my eyes with such beauty.
And, by greater force,
I will compose from the primest melody
Charms of sympathy.
I will profuse embraces,
I will cheer up souls.
I will walk together.
And even when I’m out of things to say,
I will bid cheers to silence!
And who knows, maybe one day,
Diligent,
And seeing life as celebration,
I will be rain pouring in aridness!
Remember…
So long as the summer blossoms flower
There will always be fields filled of grace
Innocent little girls to pluck them away
And the sweet aridness of August nights
Remember…
So long as the summer blossoms flower
The world will be dressed by a myriad of color
Filling the gardens of both mansion and hovel
Reminded that Gods blessings are for one and all
Remember…
The true beauty of the flowers of life
That everyday begins with the budding of hope
Blooming to an orchid never before held by the eye
So long as the summer blossoms flower
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