Augurs Poems | Examples

Augury

The earth got suddenly bereft of all life,
With a morose dullness so palpable and rife.
A tint of greyness crept over heaven’s vault. 
All movements came to a freezing halt.

The wall clock didn’t toll the midday hour.
The babies no more blabbered but did glower.
The hen didn’t cackle after laying the egg.
The earth for some benevolent mercy seemed to beg.

The birds on trees at noon didn’t twitter,
And the foliage of leaves didn’t flutter.
No music came out from the well strung fiddle.
The telephone sat silent on its cradle.
       
Nature seemed to have lost half its mirth. 
A mournful silence overpowered the earth.
Suddenly shattering the ominous silence,
Gun shots were heard from a distance.

The siren screamed many times, long and loud,
Announcing curfew on unsuspecting ears wild.
Behind the façade of a deceptive calm,
No one suspected the threat of a fierce storm.

The dumb presages of Nature, who can read?
A language mysterious, that only augurs heard.
What horrors in cosmic layers are concealed!
Through augur’s lens, future incidents are revealed.

Forecaster

Petrichor scent from a far off land

                               Pied cuckoo augurs the monsoon




Placed : 5th

A New Crystalline - Any Theme Poetry Contest
Crystalline poetry form only.
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin 
Syllable count: HS 
Date: 05-03-2023

Bringing Up the Rear

The only one along this road… 
riding shotgun through my mind
Tomorrow waits for someone else,
lost wanderings consigned
Forgetting what the moment augurs,
living in the past
Confirming what I’m most afraid of
—behind whoever’s last

(The New Room: January, 2022)

Lifes Mysteries

L—ife starts with universal creation 
I—n due course, producing humanity 
F—ighting our way, through civilizations
E—ach step we take, augurs calamity
S—till here we are, without reason, and why!

M—any believe religion, gives balance 
Y—et my search continues, pie in the sky 
S—eeking answers up here, quite a challenge 
T—odays biggest mystery, deals with death 
E—ternity’s, so difficult to grasp 
R—ight now this second, is all that we get
I—ncredibly already, it’s gone past 
E—asy way to figure out life, just don’t 
S—imply outrageous to think that, I won’t!

Lifes mysteries Poetry Contest
Sponsored by John Hamilton 
08/12/2020 syllable checked 10x14

When Weather Whispers Wedding

April
awesome arrival
await always avidly
as augurs amour

 
Betrothed
besotted belle beau
both blossom beautifully
beget baby boy

 
Cherish
crickets chirp constant
cockerel clarion call
can calm crying child

Written 27/07/2020
2nd placement
Let the pens flow -Alliteration poetry contest
Sponsor Jenish Somadas

Coming of Age

In the chapel wherein he laid
His final moments here on earth,
Mirrored image of one’s boyhood
Stands he to claim his scabbard blade,
The chance to prove his manhood.
His mother chides him of his birth
Begs her the need to prove his worth,
His load is heavy the mist swirls
With sword in hand a stab he hurls,
Choice of opponent augurs well
For his father’s champion fell.
Mortal flame in constant bedeck
Life’s been a tombstone round his neck,
Needs the journey for which to trek.
His thirst for blood flows from many
Greed for gold and silver penny,
His ships glide portly on the tide
Needs to be by his mother’s side.
A man he thinks he has become
Yet all the folk at home had fled,
No one listens to his humdrum
When he returns to find her dead!

 © Harry J Horsman 2020

Word Morph - From the Ground

Angel ascended from the ground,
To anger the humans of the world,
Flying around leaving aggers of dreadful sounds,
Using his auger to dig out dreamworlds,
Ancient augurs of Rome predicted his arrival,
But he only grew huger and so ended everyone's survival. 


Angel - anger - agger - auger - augur - huger

Shuffling Feet

Joys increase where hearts lie open
To the sun and reign,
Where Jack and Jill are King and Queen,
Diamonds or no.
Pharaoh and Caesar 
Must bow down
To the spade and to the plough.

Augurs of harvest utter
Words of life and words of death.
Black the gallows, red the wine.
Nimble or club-footed we glide, or shuffle,
To the dance.
Does Death sleeve every ace?
Not every race is to the strong.

Under the cold moon and stars
They sleep
Awaiting the coming sun,
Dreamers wrapped in many-coloured strands
Great pains did dye and card.

In Ancient Times

Roman priests practiced divination
as a means of prophesying the future
they'd plunge a dagger into a temple dove
and eviscerate the living bird.
Then they'd examine the entrails,
especially their livers, for omens,
believing that the Gods would reveal what was
going to occur in the immediate future through such signs.

These readings would both bewilder and fascinate the curious
onlookers, when the augurs would raise their scarlet hands
and announce their awaited predictions.
The remaining doves would get released in a whirling mass 
forming a vortex of flapping wings and feathers,
their direction of flight
also an indicator of divine communication.

Nobles would often bribe augurs for favorable predictions 
to inspire their soldiers before battle.
These divinations were taken very seriously in ancient times.
It's said that Julius Caesar's death was prophesied by augurs,
and Caesar's adversary, Senator Cato, committed suicide
after he received an unfavorable reading.


(Free Verse)


6/16/2018

What They'Ll Never Escape

People are afraid of what
  they can’t understand
  themselves most often assured

In the depths of their wandering
  a voice cries out
  a voice too close to ignore

People will bolt from that thing
  that pursues
  that thing that augurs to chase

With blinders on tight
   and running in vain
   —to flee what they’ll never escape

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2018)

Realness of Things

Not every eyes closed is asleep, 
Not every vast sea is as deep
Believe not everything your eyes see 
The realness of most things is not as it seems 

Not every beautiful thing is good
Not everything cooked is food
Attractive things may be a cloaked peril
And a delicious meal may be a poison to kill

Not every gathered cloud augurs a rainfall
And not every dark heaven augurs nightfall
Do not act holding unto what you see
A grass-carpeted land may actually be a deep 

Not every lie can kill,
Not every truth can heal
What you hear may be to save you
Lest you fall into a hot soup

A man could be a vampire 
A fiery mere could be a campfire 
Believe not all your eyes see 
The realness of most things is not as it seem

Black Roses

Black Roses bouquet
Augurs the broken tie bonds 
Preambling a rupture
Connoting unspoken words
And spureous promises












1-23-2016

Frost

White blanket coats the valley
                               Dusk augurs hibernation
                              Icicles hang in home roofs
                               Chilled air forecasts frost












11-5-2015

Brief History

Sing of smart finds, sing of clear poise;
Indulge that feel, indulge that thought;
Niche steady mind, niche clever choice;
Grace ever heals, grace designs lot;
Apply bold wit, apply firm face;
Peace of mind brings, peace of heart glows;
Opt for kind fit, opt for firm trace;
Risk a sure fling, risk a grand show;
Expose your fate, expose your time.
Feed a good score, feed a grand mood;
Invoke fine date, invoke bold rhyme;
Feed laughter more, feed senses good;
Taut posture tells, taut language bares;
Yes augurs well, yes describes fare.




Leon Enriquez
10 December 2014
Singapore

The Lilies Gave Me Nightmares

My Lover’s heartfelt tithing setting by my bedside looms.
For his comment undermining, gave a gift of Lily blooms,
but the bouquet ever blossoms off intoxicating fumes
and the blunder of my Lover unbeknownst becomes my doom….
What augurs well, perchance foretell! The Lilies shroud my tomb?

So drifting off through slumber soft my summer sloth descends
into the blue, the muddled hue before the black begins
and dreams supreme replaced by screams as Nightmare settles in.
For if I die before I wake, eternity to spend!
I pray my Love, my Soul, to take the lilies back again.

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