Best Cognize Poems
Written: August 10, 2023
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In their silence, the mountains stand tall.
Guardians of secrets—protectors of all
Their peaks reach high, touching the sky.
A haven of serenity—where spirits can fly
Before I let this night slip into dawn's lap,
Let me embrace you, my love, with a tender clap.
For the mountains, in their majestic grace,
Nurture our spirits in their quiet space.
Oh, how they whisper tales untold,
Stories of ancient times, of warriors bold,
Of love and loss, of triumph and defeat,
The mountains hold secrets—so bittersweet.
Before I let this night slip away,
Let me hold you close; let our love sway.
For the mountains cognize a love so deep,
That even the stars envy and weep.
Let me love you more, my dear.
Than any poet who writes with cheer,
At random the moon and its lunar glow,
Our love, my love, outshines all the sonnets that may flow.
Mountains witness our passion embrace,
They view passion in every trace.
And understand the depth of our devotion.
And how it fuels our hearts' endless motion.
Before I let this night turn to dawn's light,
Let me cherish you, my love, with all my might.
For the mountains, in their silent ways,
Remind us of love's eternal blaze.
Whispers of the mountains, so gentle and kind,
Guide us through life with love intertwined.
Their wisdom—such ancient rivers, flows
Leading us to where our hearts can glow.
So, before I let this night slip away,
Let me love you a little more, I pray.
Mountains, in their silence, nurture the spirit.
And in their presence—love finds its merit.
Categories:
cognize, analogy, appreciation, beauty, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Written: September 26, 2023
Pick-A-Title, Vol 39 Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
“However authentic the feelings of love, the dalliance was only ever meant to be a beautiful fiction” - Esther Perel.
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Dot dabbles during dangerous dalliance
As souls are enticed by seductive affiance.
A narrative about forbidden temptation.
Shine smolders sway—a sensuous sensation.
A cynosure silver shimmer under the moon.
Flickers of fantastical fantasy foster flow foon.
Two spirits intertwined in a pointless game.
They are fettered by—an overwhelming tame
A vortex of enthusiasm is sparked at first sight.
They can't defy the diaphanous magnetic excite.
Akin to how moths are lured to a perilous flame.
Prance frolicking on the cusp of a lethal game.
Dalliance, desire, ecstasy, and temptation.
For flirtation as feuds on frame of foundation.
Consider consequences and clashes with zeal.
And yet—the flames are often fanned by feel
In the gloominess, they sneak a sparkling touch.
Nimble hearts are trapped in a harmful slouch.
Bootlegged, beleaguered blaze both breaths.
As they succumb to love's intoxicating depth.
Demure whispers of wariness swirl in the air.
But elixir zeal evolves with each stolen stare.
They cognize the danger—the risk they convey,
Yet they cannot resist the love they display.
Emollient hearts hid, akin to vines in the night.
Igniting an afire that smolders ever so bright
Their bodies entwined—they pranced in the gloom.
Strayed sprightliness that swaddles to assume
Realizing sequels and the agony they trigger
But they cannot outlast this forbidden rigor.
They breathe on the edge—with hearts ablaze.
In a world where forbidden temptation plays
But time is a lousy tutor—it can't be denied.
And soon their dalliance will no longer hide.
The world will decry their ephemeral affair.
And their felicity will be furtive, beyond repair.
Categories:
cognize, analogy, dance,
Form:
Rhyme
Written: August 18, 2023
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In the half-light of another realm,
A day without you—my heart overwhelmed.
I claim the stillness as my own sun.
Seeking solace until our souls are one
Time slides across the surface of a frozen river.
Echoing memories that bear my heart shiver.
I wander through the depths of my mind,
Searching for—the love I left behind.
Skirting the stars—I yearn to find the way.
To bestow back the light and bear your stay.
But I do not cognize when I became the night.
When darkness consumed me, I took flight.
I have lost my memory—my thoughts a haze,
But the feeling of your love is still ablaze.
My dear, all I remember is you.
And the way you made my heart pursue.
In the depths of my soul, your love lingers.
A flame that burns, my eternal muse, my singer
I do not remember when it all began.
When your love courts—my heart spans.
But I agnize that in the half-light embrace,
I found my purpose, and I found my grace.
With every persuasion of you, my dear,
I became a poet—free from fear.
Words flowed through me as a gentle breeze.
Painting pictures of our love with ease.
In the half-light of another realm,
I found solace—I found the helm.
Categories:
cognize, analogy, appreciation, character, emotions,
Form:
Rhyme
Written: August 05, 2023
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I alone agnize myself, a soul set free,
In the depths of my being, I truly foresee,
Asking for aid shows self-respect and awareness,
Strength in vulnerability is a testament to fairness.
Changing my opinion is not a sign of defeat
But a strength, a willingness to grow and meet,
My proven ability backs each choice I partake.
With confidence and conviction, no room for mistake.
I encourage others, as I do myself,
To embrace their dreams, to seek and delve,
For You can ask for what you wish and need,
For in unity and support, we shall succeed.
Allow me, oh world, to feel awe-inspiring,
To explore and soar, life's beauty aspiring,
My life can balance leisure and exertion,
In harmony and rhythm, an idyllic fusion.
Others support me because I'm whole,
A soul set free, a beacon of soul,
I alone cognize myself, my true essence,
And in that knowledge, I find my presence.
So let us all embrace our inner strength,
And show the world our true extent,
For in self-respect and awareness,
We can achieve greatness, beyond compare.
I alone agnize myself, my deepest desires,
And with each step, I bear passion inspires,
In the journey of self-discovery,
Lies are the key to unlocking our true identity.
Categories:
cognize, analogy, appreciation, change, character,
Form:
Rhyme
As I look out at the streets,
I feel the chains around doesn’t set me free
I don’t realize what is it burning inside,
But that’s something like a fire inside me.
I feel my adrenaline pumping, emotions pouring in
Can’t resist the suffocation around, want to flee;
Somewhere far away where I have fresh air to breathe,
Is this all because I have a fire inside me.
I decide to take some steps in the street,
Checking my skills to sceranate the perjurer, the deceive;
But then I realize, I’m lost in the crowd of chrematist,
And this sudden irritation fuels the fire inside me.
The end of the street brings me to a mall, I enter;
I feel the change of ambience is what I need,
But the sight of mates and spouses pricks me,
I cognize what I can’t share, the loneliness I live in;
Half of me is burning because of the fire inside me.
Slowly the tears of pain accumulate in the throat,
Which fails the pain of starvation to resurface,
Still I want to concentrate on my meal with certain,
But the dried up soul in me is like a furnace,
That has no control over the fire inside me.
I realize that I’m standing in the middle of nowhere,
Just wanna a take a path out of this misery;
I struggle, I suffer, I grave things on paper
Yet I find no peace, no salvation that can
Or has the power to extinguish the fire inside me.
After burning the lamp oil for the whole night,
My eyes open up to see the room filled with sunlight,
I can’t agnize when my suffering took the shape of consopition,
But in all an all I find a feeling of satisfaction has taken over me,
As if something has managed to control the fire inside me.
Now things where becoming clear for me,
As if someone has put me on a path to lead,
I gathered my dear ones and planned an outing in brief,
And left the rest on the situation to seed,
So finally I learnt the art of directing the fire inside me.
On a happy note when things were going on,
I felt the importance to appreciate the rage,
The anger, the suffocation, the demands,
Plus all the things breathing in me,
Which were nourished by patience and tolerance
Had finally taught me the lesson to control the fire inside me...
The fire inside me......... The fire inside me.........
Categories:
cognize, absence, break up, depression,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
As dawn it roosts, to the early lids of my opened eyes,
Never ever has been a happy feeling pleasant comprise.
Quinquennium back I can clearly remember,
The morning’s plea scalds my thoughts like burning ember.
My blanket festooned body, on the bed it stirs & moves,
The immensity of my drumming head, ever hopes it improves.
Rise as I to the early morn’s sunshine,
Try to smile and reminiscent, it’s surely futile to whine.
And so I sooth my dreary mind,
Impel the mind to elude dismal thoughts & unwind.
Alas! I’m timorous, those dull & dismal thoughts befall,
My mind ,now I know I need to overhaul.
To edify my mind I have to seek,
Muse must I, think ponder reflect every day of the week.
Tall happy positive thoughts I must now contemplate,
For these are those that will bring me peace and joy once they ruminate.
When I close my eyes to tardy nites,
Am gonna be happy at morn the thought itself excites.
A long dark shadow of doubt it always looms,
It’s foggy dawn and my dull thoughts they resume.
From dawn to dusk I carry on a low,
Pessimistic spirits, they make me slow.
Explicit thoughts are sought desired,
A sound body and mind are always admired.
Forlorn, behold it in my mind’s eyes,
Set tone the work ambience my passions cries,
Throttled are my dreams, dismayed are my desire,
And Brutus knife it’s uncouth edge stabs the back in holy attire.
In a Quinquennium span, and time it ran,
But my spirit at first light is like a weary man,
Now I cognize to him his destiny a bloom,
And to me my destiny untwined from his , so not to doom.
Must alter my retort to suit me fine,
And joyous days will transcend me to cloud nine.
Aghast I am for I have lost,
The crusade within me and am weary exhaust.
Forlorn I am to the day’s time,
Often mull are they my thoughts, that are all slime.
Forlorn I am to the nite’s time,
I know it’s time to clean up my heart’s grime.
Forlorn it will be till I inversely think,
From insanity, I’m now on its brink.
Forlorn ,I want to say good bye,
For many eons before I die.
Categories:
cognize, confusion, depression, fear, happy,
Form:
Rhyme
Multihued lights flash fervently,
On naked illusion draped eyes zealously,
All shut and secured to colored vision,
Egoist blurry brain images, these are all in an intangible prison.
Some call me quirk, some foible, but all refer me to a societal misfit,
It’s true they seem to tell, but my way of life and my thought process I will not quit.
I know and cognize I don’t see the world as others want me to see and be,
But am not sorry because that’s how it clearly appears to me.
It’s not because I am unconfined, undetermined or with rebellious mind,
But because I am color blind.
It‘s not because I am in hate or in love,
But because I am color blind and sooner or later the world will figure out why and how…………
I am color blind to cruel, callous, cunning, sly ways of expressing colors in the world,
I don’t reconcile to these colors with my ethos, morals and ethics curled and ruffled.
But till they have reconciled with me in unison they have opined,
I possess an unsound mind and am color blind.
No matter what I do or where I go,
Hues and colors of my thoughts they desire to know.
Inside me I ask myself what is the color of fear, dismay and dread?
Is fear yellow? Dismay and dread be red?
Who can tell me where it is defined?
I am content that all mankind thinks I am color blind.
Where is the orange of the sun?
Has it enveloped and corroded all dynamism and fun?
Then to all their mind,
I am content to be color blind.
Where is the blue from the sky?
Has it been slurped and sucked by calm, trust and loyalty all dry?
Then to all their mind,
I am content to be color blind.
Where is the green from the grass?
Has enveloped envy and jealousy and goodwill, generosity let a mass?
Then to all their mind,
I am content to be color blind.
If all of us of the human race,
Would toil not to make it bitter but a better place,
All walls and barriers raised to the ground,
Then I would be content to stay color blind
Categories:
cognize, inspirational, introspection, passion, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
cognize spring’s entrance
banqueting on new born buds...
warbling waves suffused
Bird Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin
Date: 16-03-2022
Syllable count : How Many Syllables
Placed: 2nd
Categories:
cognize, bird,
Form:
Haiku
Beyond the time I bethought thy ambiguity
With you I aspire the longanimity
Beyond the prophecy there crests thy conceivability
With you I cognize the viability.
Beyond thy persuasion I bechanced your propinquity
With you I behold the emotionality
Beyond the state of elated bliss there prehends thy fidelity
With you I summon the reality.
Beyond the beauty I got hold of your integrity
With you I propel morality
Beyond the smile there hazes over thy timidity
With you the shyness broke to chastity.
Beyond the journey I conformed to serenity
With you I got word that there exist eternality
Beyond the nature there fragrances a virtuality
With you I revered ideality.
Beyond a relation there dilates a compilation of esoteric affinity
With you I got hold thy spirituality
Beyond the secrecy there exists enshrouded duality
With You, me makes us evermore infallibility.
Categories:
cognize, dream, love, relationship, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
I see the raging fire in your
eyes,
the heart screams out loud the brain cells terpsichore
in the rhythm of life.
See the sparkle instead of haze that covers your being.
see the best in you
that takes your spirit out.
Never let yourself down
never let anyone in
your world of
emptiness cause that rupture's them
apart.
You are so strong like an iron
fist,
biff off the cosmos of niggler.
your energy scintillates
around
which astound the mortal.
I cognize, your essence of
happiness can awaken the dead
sanctify the bad soul's
enchanting everyone, that you
see around.
The seraph has sent you to
this blue
hoping you do something for
this crew
with a promise, the delusion of grandeur is
mere slave
you are the best version of yourself,
resonate with your inner strength.
push your limits,
expand your horizon
evaluate your perception
to find inner peace.
Mind you! you are the rex of
your kingdom,
hunt your dreams, drag
yourself out of the pit of darkness
that encompasses you.
enlight the spirit, lit the mind.
upon your death
bequeath your love, zeal, and joy
to conquer the hearts of the
mortals,
you remain immortal in their hearts.
Now you grow silently
close your eyes
envision the color
believe, focus, the rest resides
upon.
Categories:
cognize, blessing, confidence, dedication, encouraging,
Form:
Free verse
Than a ghostly whip touched my back, it was the head,
Which dragged me down here. Thinking nothing, I fled.
At least I tried, but was caught in it’s domain, it’s lair,
It was non other than Lucifer, in human form, but no hair,
Just the two horns on his bald head, with a whip in his hand
He pointed at me, but what he said, I couldn’t understand,
I just stood there, and if I wouldn’t have been dead, I would
Die over and over until the end of time, oh, if only I could.
His face as a monster’s, skin burned and rotten, his teeth
As a shark’s with his snake eyes pushing me down a cliff.
The falling sensation was so familiar, but what awaited me
Wasn’t a good sight for my eyes, and I still couldn’t flee.
A ring is where he brought me, to fight for some reason,
He said, if I would win, he’d grant me my freedom.
This I could understand, actually didn’t wonder why I
Couldn’t cognize him before. He kept staring with his eye,
That when light came down, and the dark sky opened.
The devil tried to cut off my head, but I found myself lifted
By the one angel sent to lure me. A gazed at her face, at
Her wings, at her grace, didn’t even feel the cut on my hand.
Speechless I remained while she raised me,
From the realm of the damned, and while we
Floated towards the light, I couldn’t really
Think about this being just dream or reality.
Approaching my room, her name I asked.
She smiled at me, and slowly she whispered.
Then suddenly I woke up relaxed and peaceful
As I always am, calm, composed, serene, cool.
Never thinking, that I could have been so far,
But then I looked at my hands…
- It was the devilish scar-
Categories:
cognize, death, philosophy, me, me,
Form:
Rhyme
My mind in pursuit of love,
Yearned to seek the truth;
Watched each star,
Seeking beacon from the sun;
She too joined me,
After a little bit gossip,
We straight way came to topic,
Is love not an attraction?
Then what is love?
She mildly watched my eyes,
With her girlish eyes;
Replied to both in my mind,
"Attraction is an invitation
And is not the love";
On my second point she said,
"Love is so vast above the sky,
Love is so deep beyond
The depth of ocean;
Rising emotion flows,
Through mind and soul;
Melts heart and wets eyes,
Can't explain, only we feel;
Love is an emotional comfort,
Drawn through the virtues;
Feel the oneness,
Feel lonely when,
Thou not around;
Souls so connected,
Thine presence is felt by heart;
It's not body,
Nor is it mental touch;
Both energies blend together,
Make us one;
You find flaw in me,
I find flaw in you;
Yet trust of caress,
Faith in each other,
That's the way reliance surges;
Each day and night,
We fight, argue,
Yet can't survive
Without the glimpse of either;
Love is energy field,
Built slowly - slowly over time,
Two energies cognize the similarity,
That builds the same wave length;
That is love, that is love...."
© Sadashivan Nair
Categories:
cognize, loneliness, love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
on hyaloid shade phylum
of zaffre azure
swish
soulful scrutinize
apodictic vinculum
magniloquent
wandering of wispy whooshes
wrapping wisps of weird warbles
shrivel olive trees
overflow no omen
drenched in sweat
summoned by chimera
once called passion
title assertion?
baud pace of rimless dreams
blurred bark
bare branches
fruitless leaves
unfetter'd
sky loose
mythic gem idol
purine as Myrsine
space rock fit
moon zappily
uncanny
azure drilled of ritzy rag doll
mesh shimmer blaze shackle
include
dare
desire
gaudy Sirius in darkened spell
mottled splendor
to cognize my path
as xanthic whispers
afresh
Written: August 06, 2022
A Brian Strand Premiere Choice Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand
NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood is inherently variable.
Categories:
cognize, analogy, bereavement, universe,
Form:
Other
An apt gift of presence empowers
as an unanticipated
unearned warning misfortune
enlightens apt rapt resilient fortune,
Delighted with discovering,
perhaps rediscovering?
healthy passions I would never have been wise enough
to look up for
nor hunt down.
Timing
is everything.
Time regenerates everywhere,
erupts every when
disrupts every what
corrupts every why
every how;
and merely every thing
somehow?
Nature trained
senses engrained
spirit deep and wide neuro-systemic brained
Transforming change in forbidding appearance
forms strange
grotesquely disempowering
transmogrified degenerative monocultures
Transubstantiating change of inside communion substance
elements
figments
as invisible as unpresented polyculturing presents
not light yet
not still
not quite actively accessible to sense-powered
cognize-able felt reception,
Unformed except for past internal images
body reimagined
rememories
not yet memed,
polyculturally represented
Polypathically etched,
but not yet iconically written
integral sacred secularizing social senses
nonsenses
unsenses
resenses
presensing
Apt presents empower
as yet unlearned warnings enlighten
coincidental apt light
empowering presence
enraptured bright.
Categories:
cognize, giving, integrity, light, love
Form:
Political Verse
It is but new,
It’s something we knew,
That you and we,
We would never be.
Preach a speech, a leech so sly;
Would play a tune, a stanza,` a cry.’
At which you’d grin; lie, deny,
Would grapple our hair and drag us a mile.
When you’d be home, to clasp our throats;
A katana so quick -unsheathed- you smote!
You’d curse and blame to elude your pain,
Upon ‘the others’ who’d loved you the same.
There comes a time when forces of life,
Must tear us apart, to be kept alive.
These days, those minutes, those seconds that flies,
A repulse to cognize; we art retched with flies.
Those seasons, those years, those phases we'd spent,
Bemoaning,` Won’t you come and repent?’
As we vindicate, you’d cantillate;
Life serves us a stale lemonade.
2-9-19
One Hundred and Thirty-Six Words Poetry Contest Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: John lawless
wordcounter.net
Categories:
cognize, absence, anxiety, bereavement, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme