Best Absorbed Poems
It has been quite a while
since inspired pen has met with paper
Minutes have dripped into days
inspiration has become a stranger
I have so many gorgeous pens
yellow, gold, blue, purple, black
My instruments perfectly lined
yet my thoughts I can't unpack
As I grasp for clear ideas
they slip slide so smooth and clean
Melted crystals poured on palms
they leave a reflective sheen
As I desperately seek out myself
within these patterns of liquid light
I'm absorbed into the desert
like my hands now cracked and white
Let me close these ancient eyes
Travel to a place beyond frustration
Within the land of my slumber
I will live within imagination
There colours will be brighter
nothing will slip through outstretched hand
I'll be the master of my dominion
my mind will flex as I command
Nothing will be impossible
Until night turns into day
That's when my eyes will surely open
and my dreams will slip away!
Categories:
absorbed, emotions, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
TELL me, dear, everything which occupies you
LAY each piece out, display your soul
SELL me utterly all components, oldest to new
SAY absolute etirety, without any toll
FEEL my hands reaching musty content gently
DRAWN out painlessly, your dark place
REVEAL shame and sins as though incidentally
TORN from humiliation without a trace
BEGIN to trust your ribcage, competent holder
Of HEART, outlandish desires wrapped
WITHIN terror of memory allowed to smoulder
DEPART from a prison, ribcage relaxed
IMMERSED in latitude, stream jumping joyous
FORGIVENESS view gifts expansion
TRAVEVERSED in unison, a vocalised voyage
DELIVERS cognition spun in tandem
BLUEST of blue moons we nurture, accessible
GIVING your mind renews our reward
TRUEST thoughts I massage make it possible
LIVING with wisdom, sharing one orb
13th November 2020
Written for Contest: In Rhymes Sublime
Sponsor: Joseph May
Categories:
absorbed, adventure, age, appreciation, courage,
Form:
Rhyme
Absorbed,
as sun strips slow
her gown of midnight blue,
caressing warm, the land and sea;
the tree.
01/13/15
Contest: An American Beauty: Write like Adelaide
Sponsor: Andrea Deitrich
Categories:
absorbed, nature, sun, tree,
Form:
Cinquain
Tree welcomes each drip
Rain hangs on leaf, awaits fate
Lucky ones absorbed
Categories:
absorbed, love, rain, tree,
Form:
Haiku
this looming life of solitude
left listening to your woes
a dark depressing melody doth it compose
I whisper words that wander wearily
my voice escapes thine ears
solitary without sympathy
dealing in your reprimand
my voice you hear
my meaning you do not understand
Categories:
absorbed, friendshipvoice, voice,
Form:
Alliteration
My feelings for today
Are some people just display
Total disregard for others
In a confined space
With many people in place
All you can think about is You
Aware only of yourself
Complete dismissal for anyone else
Where does such arrogance come from?
You feel superiority to the rest
No compassion do you possess
How did you become so self absorbed?
You selfishness causes confusion
Creating doubt and disillusion
Disappointment in mankind
Believing rules don’t apply to you
You just do what You intend to do
Is the utmost contempt
No spoken word will set you straight
Or will ever resonate
As for you…. You are all that matters!
Categories:
absorbed, humanity, self,
Form:
Rhyme
(Parody of "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love)
Come stay with me and be my maid
and once a month you will be paid.
("under the table" it will be;
no taxes taken out by ME!)
You’ll clean the toilets and make my bed,
and see the kids and pets get fed.
The benefit for you will be
in sending cash to family
you’ve left behind in Mexico,
while in the States you’re “laying low.”
Your being here will help me too.
I’ve so much work for you to do!
I’ll save a lot of my OWN dough
(We won’t let Immigration know).
Yes, come and stay with me and mine.
America’s “Dream” can be divine!
For Dr. Ram Mehta's Parody contest
Categories:
absorbed, parodyme, me,
Form:
The voice of love was melded by the screams unheard
And was abided by the iniquity that kept on saying,
The breaking away time was felt by the weeping unobserved
And was shammed by the smiles that kept on retelling,
The engulfed days of zests by the writings left isolated
And was mirrored by the images of hermit souls of bonding.
The eyeses of faiths was dismayed by the treason besieged
And was beset by the malady that breathed sinning,
The aroma of red roses was reeked by the blazes reddened
And was tinged by the eroses that revived on wounding,
The shed of blood by the stream that was left spouted
And was mirrored by the images of devotees of pledging.
The esthesis of bonheur was born-again by the esthesis disgraced
And was eluded by the span that panted abasing,
The savor of buoyancy was maneuvered by the griefs graveled
And was defamed by the sarcasm that haled on mewling,
The drops of tears by the eyes that was left dazzled
And was mirrored by the images absorbed so recalling.
Categories:
absorbed, depression, hope, life, lost
Form:
Rhyme Royal
Robins and sparrows and chickadees,
A hummingbird or two.
Their bird song puts my soul at ease
Dispelling mood of blue
As I listen and absorb the view.
25/06/2012
Categories:
absorbed, animals, happiness, nature,
Form:
Quintain (English)
Grassy green the poetry is
From the inks of the pen's bodies
As the velvet mat on the plain ground bliss
Tilting, oscillating hither to thither
Covering, swaying thru the swift air
Touching the dales gazing zigzag layer
Ants and grasshoppers are busy with works
Passing the roots without any barks
Stitching the relation threads in the verse ark
Poet and poetry are absorbed in the grass
With soothing thoughts writes world-class
Come to pen- grassy nature is a great nurse
March 21, 2023
In the Grass Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Anthony Biaanco
Categories:
absorbed, nature, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Talking. Talking. Talking. At first it is fun, maybe even entertaining.
You are not sure exactly sure when it turns, but it does.
Suddenly the monopolizer’s ramblings no longer seem charming.
Patience worn thin, you try a few times to interject a word.
There is no pause, no break. Constant talking. Inane talking. Nonsense talking.
You try blatant rudeness. Still no pause.
Suddenly you are annoyed, irritated, angry.
It is the same feeling you get as when you put your turn signal on and watch
Incredulously as six cars and a truck speed up, so you miss your turn off the freeway.
Rudeness personified. Self-centeredness to the inth degree. Magnificently selfish.
I walk away as she obtusely, self-absorbed, is still talking, talking, talking.
She yells after me in a way that indicates that I am the rude one.
I wave, resolving to forevermore avoid this non-listener
like the plaque that she is.
Categories:
absorbed, rude,
Form:
Free verse
To think is to feel
and my mind tells me now,
when my heart beats,
it's real.
Still, I don't know how
you can move from my body
to my heart, to my mind
with grace - endless passion
one's unlikely to find.
Absorbed in your mystery.
Consumed by your thoughts.
Discovering planes in which
I could never be brought
by anyone else in
this madness and pain.
Exist day to day
with almost nothing to gain.
But as the tides change
and the moon shifts it's pull,
my soul is awakened
and my think tank if full.
No longer in need,
No longer held back.
Desire's fulfillment.
There's nothing I lack.
From my
Aweless thought inducer.
From my
Tender soul seducer.
Your force has been tapped.
Recognition sneaks in.
The shackles have snapped.
Let the journey begin.
Categories:
absorbed, happiness, hope, love,
Form:
Romanticism
spotlights dim at plays end ... plot now absorbed so we must all walk away
Categories:
absorbed, new year,
Form:
Monoku
absorb my tears oh river of life
carry them to oceans by and by
to every sweet creature let them drink
and allow this weary soul to sink
my eyes grow ever anxious to pour
relief and reverie to your silent shore
may living waters carry forth my pain
streams rising in steams to bring forth rain
thunderous forces repel on the rivers
lightnings bear the earth that quivers
no shelter i need—no let me bleed
cut me open as tears willfully proceed
alas the eyes can bear no warmth
ripped open dry from the wanted storm
i needed them to be absorbed
i wanted them to dismember abhorred
dispel my ache oh treacherous death
let me lie inside your parched caress
to every fossil deprived of life
rub me dry in absorbed goodbye
Categories:
absorbed, angst, depression, me, me,
Form:
Rhyme
All of my dreams
All I have thought
All of my hopes
All I have sought
All of my prayers
All I have bought
All of my life
All I have fought
Categories:
absorbed, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme