Best Defiles Poems


My Torment

A fleeting still small voice tries to warn me
A sudden overwhelming desire to run
The tell tale taste of metallic flakes
Means my nightmare has begun

Everything around takes on a ghostly pallor
A landscape of anguish and corrosion
A moment of silence before the violence
The flash of light, the brilliant explosion

The sound of the Sun fills my ears
Fear, my throat, though none escapes me
And paralyzed I clench my eyes
As my tormentor prepares to rape me

And it's endeavor is absolute
Consumption is its ultimate goal
It exists to chase me so it can erase me
Whilst feasting on my soul

And then that familiar salty smell 
The sudden rush of warmth so stings
Engaging me relentlessly
In vile unspeakable things

Over and over and over again
My limbs stretched and wrought
As it's teeth tear my bones bare
It's mind defiles my thoughts

And still wounds beget wounds beget wounds
As in the mouth of madness I suffer
And with every injury he just seems to be
Rougher and rougher and rougher

Then just as suddenly as it began it ceases
And for a moment I am clearer
And then the true horror of it all
Is revealed in a darkly lit mirror

There in front of me stands my destroyer
Face flush with it's fill of my pain
And I find that it's eyes and mine
My God, they’re one in the same

Words Are Like Weapons

Words are like weapons with bullets of lead
That pierce through your soul when angry and said.

When someone shoots his mouth off like a loose cannon,
You can’t help but get hurt as the mortar is landin’.

The thing about these wounds to the soul,
There’s no bleeding to stop from invisible holes.
Though, on the surface, there are no wounds to tend,
The damage is often deeper and harder to mend.

Masked by pride, courage or good old denial,
Make no mistake, this pain maims and defiles,
Reducing the toughest man’s heart to that of a child's.

So the next time you’re angry, don’t be absurd.
Lay down your weapons of hollow point words.
There is a better way to accomplish your goals
Without doing battle and wounding other's souls.
© Susan Berg  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Forgive the Rose

Oh, God, spare me the bloodied, thorny, rose
call it naught by the color of its shame
promises of loves unending future
masking the silent scent of love’s demise.

Glory not the crimson of its passing
nor weep as crying petals hit the floor
hold tight to thorn stung stem -  a bloodied lust
at rest upon the stillness of her breast.

Oh, God, spare me the sodden, teardrop rose
too late the touch of kindness comes again
to kiss the dwindled cheek – a faded passion
a coldness that defiles the touch of death.

Oh God, forgive the rose its indiscretions
for beauty is the bauble of the weak.


©8/6/2018

for Brian Strand - August 2018 Premiere poetry contest


The Most-Wanted Height and Most-Needed Heart

THE MOST-WANTED HEIGHT & MOST-NEEDED HEART

Do women miss out on a good man
because of height & forget God's plan? 

Most definitely yes, of course,
and shamelessly so without remorse.
I feel for such women & their plight
of not setting their priorities RIGHT. 
On a norm, everyone set priorities,
but not all set them right, bar minorities.
This high man, with a great thing to pursue, 
Dies 'ere his manly character without rescue. 
That low man goes on adding one to one
and making many more mouth cheer on. 

Do women miss out on a good man
because of height & forget God's plan? 

They ignore the man who can meet despair 
and face defeat with a cheer, 
without venting, suffocating yet not losing.
Inadvertently, that's the man of God's choosing; 
The man whose low gravity defiles the laws of gravity,
One who achieves with brevity & unambiguity,
The man who can fight to Heaven's height
on his knees and diffuse all your fright.
Gushing for the big man & feelings on the loose;
What a size says the size of his shoes 

but crumbling down the rose at her height,
So with her dream man who lacks a heart,
his power & beauty forever take flight. 

What you WANT rivals what you NEED.
Uneasy as it is, let your desires concede
to the needs that are required for life to proceed.
What most women WANT is a good height 
but what they mostly NEED is a good heart.


VICK  MANUEL  POETRY {VMP}
Form: Rhymes
Copyright ©? 22nd July 2023.

Anger's Betrayal

My vile tongue betrays me, rage defiles words.
A dragon’s flamed breath scorches far less.
From buried heartache, my ill soul’s duress 
festers in mourning, locked tight and unheard.
Skies of ash smolder and silence the birds.
Their lyrics once earnest are lies professed.
Oh, dawn vengeful dawn, my foe to confess!
I’ll die with my rage, alone, I’m assured.

I wonder if death shall be my relief
from hours overwrought by lies and deceit.
My inner-rage boils, calloused is my soul;
a soul void of love and cloaked in its grief.
As chill of death comes to snuff rage's heat,
I pray for the love and peace, anger stole.    
  

written 11/20/15 for John's Mad As A Hornet Contest
*Italian Sonnet - rhyme scheme abbaabba cdecde

Premium Member I Don'T Want To Leave My Home - 2

I breathe the beginning of new life in the spring
I feel the gentle gift of life giving rain
I see the newborn Fawn standing on her own
I plant the seeds of my hunger, hues of Flowers, easy on the Eyes
 
The warmth of the Summer Sun, heats my heart and Soul
The soft summer rain splashes in the Gardens
The vegetables grow while Flowers rainbow the scenery
The gentle wind whispers with the melody of the songbirds
 
As the Hues of the leaves sparkle along the Landscape
As fall's sunsets rainbow the colorful sights below
As the Northwind slowly begins to show it's rage
As nature's creatures scurry to fill for winter's wrath
 
When the winter wind begins to howl barren trees stand tall
When the angery snow defiles Mother Nature's Beauty 
When the Ice shimmers upon the frozen lakes
When I look  I see the beauty of my life, my Home


The Puppet Master

Middays muse; with tinseled fingers and what is this, but a mockeries dust amid the wind....

Lost laxus, in its own schematics malignful maze everwinding unto inevitables end within

A self-fulfillings twisted prophecy spelling this enigmas day of irony, that shall be!?

Finding but a paradox in bittersweets truth clinging to these ivy genuises walls

Scaling both reason and purpose; this mingling of night with day and laughters illusions

Soon to fade into what was no less than a sifting breeze passing by as it lingered upon

This bed of thornful roses which pierced their eyes while tears gathered in shadows blind....

Unto where is the irony to be found in this tangerine testament aneath times carnival tents?!

In quantums theories these porcelain dolls with their charcoal smiles; defiles dangling 

Upon strings of pain to be broken inside; a chorus line of deceit and lies kept in a bios box

As daydreaming within this mirages muse amid a maze which they once believed, their truth.... 

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....“The Puppet Master” *

Maintenance Culture

Maintenance  culture 
People and culture 
Like bee and honey 
Too much energy spent 
In portraying a culture 
Well believed as a way of life
In places

Maintenance culture 
A culture far from humanity 
Is a failed culture 
A culture that promote humanity 
Is worth an everlasting try and try again

Maintenance culture 
We need to preserve our history 
We need to preserve our Hero's past gone oh Africa 
We need to preserve and maintain 
All values of our accessors 
They never laboured in vain
So we are to adore and keep 
Their legacy a honour 

Maintenance culture 
Africans now I write to you all
Where is the maintenance culture 
We once value
Now people don't care 
So many don't even know their root 
As an African 
Our school don't even teach us 
How important is to maintain 
And preserve our resources
Is like we are just supporters
Looking so confuse and so scard
A lot we believe we can't Do   
Oh African why have  thou fallen
For babylon is and must always 
Come after us

Maintenance culture 
With out Africa I just wonder 
What will be of the world 
Before and now 
Every one are friends to Africa 
That makes me wonder 
Who is an enemy as it is not 
Written but the scars now we 
Bear speaks a lot 

Maintenance culture 
Oh African we need to boast our 
Ways 
We need not change to other ways 
That defiles our dignity
A lot we have
 a lot we got to maintain 
For already a lot we lost 
So where is our maintenance culture 
We once showed the world back 
Then the days of our ancestors
Now why do we don't care 
Destroying our selves 
Fight and devaluing each other 
Was not our culture 
So now all you and I can see 
Is a down fall that invite hunters 
To devour all we got to maintain 

Maintenance culture 
If you are an African 
I pledge  you help maintain our worth
If you are not an African I pledge 
Do Africa no harm 
For already is enough all this 
Evil shower around my continent 
From out and with in 
So as we all see we need a lot 
Hands together oh brethren to successfully 
Bring back our 
Maintenance culture

Premium Member Carnivore's Dilemma

Bare, it’s clean, does love exist?
Scraped clean, who deserves such confused?

Death row veggies , marrow delight?
Slaughtered for our feast?

Bacon cheese- burger
Defiles humanity

Ask me now
Does love exist?

Does
               Love

                              Exist?


11/010/11

Opencast

They tore up the landscape
And scarred it with craters,
They tore up the landscape
And turned it all black,
Like some kind of hell
Had raised up to hate us,
The trees are all gone
And the grass won’t grow back.

They chewed up the green belt
With heavy machinery,
They chewed up the green belt
And clawed it to shreds,
As though the four horsemen
Had ripped through the scenery,
Waged war on the earth
And then left it for dead.

What’s left to be proud of
From pillage and raping?
What’s left to be proud of
From greed that defiles?
A smouldering landfill
Sucked dry and misshapen,
And nothing but coal dust
For a good ten square miles...
© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Migrations

The calls of the flocks          to this years migration
a roving community       of birds in each nation
rising and diving       above         mists in the rocks
the drawing together         for birthing         new flocks
 
The coo of the crane      in     a wetland bog
the bob of its head       when       its nabbed a frog
opened winged geese     in            passages  soar
north back to south     or        a western shore
 
Above our earth        the traversing vast miles
into the snowfall                 or            cliffside defiles
a race upon water       to         lure this years mate
or share  in the catch          a        dance woven like date
 
Such grace of movement    their wings on the breeze
like rhythms beating       to ascend     above trees
how can one       capture     such beauty       so grand
of a creatures          decent       upon sky        upon land
 
Motion so elegant       their  journey's   in sky
mankinds observations      our own desire       to fly
the form of their       pinions       upon outstreched wings
to follow freedom         this kind of life       dreams
 
Lowlands or Highlands        the wild fowl    domains
in deserts   or plateaus       aviary   terrains
on pole ice       or islands   you'll find their rests
every year you'll find them       their community     nests
 
COPYRIGHT © 2012 C Michael Miller
via Duboff Law Group LLC

Premium Member Dubious

I beheld your frame in my doubting eyes
there was no way for me to 
explain this to by brain.
How could my trembling hands want to
follow the trail,and explore your definition.

If I know you are taboo.
What damage could be done in my adoration.
Not put here I think, for my souls appreciation
I cannot humble myself enough to walk away 

If my lust defiles you -I am certain 
I cannot look away,
captured in the gleam of my eye,
It's not for me to decide
God our creator already 
has said that lust is a sin 
that starts in the minds eye. 

I behold a sight that draws 
me like a magnet to metal.
Shall I blame this on the devil?
Are my feelings evil?
My resources are feeble. 
Signals received under complicated
conditions. 
Waiting for your response to free me.

If I lose my soul -I will be lost forever 
if there is such a thing
as the great beyond -- I will be doomed. 
If I be true to my now,
as natural as it may seem.
Who will call the foul ?
I am waiting on your response to free me.

The virus of the unrighteous 
has spread to the future..
We have become what we once hated
infuriated, that what's inside me is despised.
I have never supt of your essence.
Though I be penalized-God 
who knows the score-When he
indicts me with this crime...
God who controls my emotions
my thoughts-Leaves this one to my charge.
fraught I am in this conflict-Shall I remain lost.?
Waiting on your response.

If we kiss now, 
I cannot touch you in the future-
One day it won't matter about
Color age or respective gender.
We can love completely
without guilt or shame-
without the threat of 
torture in a treacherous flame
One day love and lust will be the same.
It will all be fine, until then 
I will wait with dubious mind.

Words of Advice

Absurd as it may sound
Appreciate life as it is found
Admirable thought and profound.

Cat on the wall
Caught in its caterwaul
Costly mistake of wrong choice

Emits a purr and a mew
Engineer  scraps design for new
Excellent cast of the dies.

Golden blessings from above
Generous dolings of love
Genial nature without lies.


Iris is the window of soul
Iota of envy is the mole
Irritable mind leads to guiles.

Kindly is the heart of compassion
Knock  down the doors of ostentation
Kink of the mind conscience defiles.

Orange and apple are unalike
Over these comparison don't strike
Order of creation differences implies.

Lastly, of my wisdom with words
Use your pens instead of swords
Hope all I've said is wise advice.

~07 Jul 2016~

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Absurd, appreicate, admirable
cat, caught, costly
emits, engineer, excellent
golden, generous, genial
iris, iota, irritable
kindly, knock, kink
orange, over, order

The Darkest of Hearts

The Darkest of Hearts


And you are...
   yesterday's pleasantries
today's impurities
   tomorrow's solace

And you are...
  what you want the world to see
    strength,
      beauty,
         power,
            soul

And you are...
   a fallacy,
a union of falsehood and indignation,
   an ambassador of dereliction and delusion

And you are...
   what you want the world to see
       compassionate,
          protector,
             infallible
               worshipper and lover of the most high

And you are...
   one who defiles
the most sacred of trusts
   a destroyer of inner peace
mocking the purest of hearts

And you are...
   what you want the world to see
       champion of causes
           treasurer of grace
              master of the ethereal
                  enchanting and desirable

And you are...
    the angel of deceit
pretentious and poisonous
    inebriated in repugnance
disheveled and insignificant

And you are....

Mad Enterprise

Having me a real hard time—freedom
out here where a stoned god
don’t speak my language
defiles the immaculate,
and I am going mad
in search of great enterprise.

In search of great enterprise,
I seek freedom
from the mad—
a stoned god
static in a sky, immaculate.
I listen for cosmic language.

I listen for cosmic language—
a holy enterprise.
Starless are the heavens, immaculate
in their freedom
from a stoned god
gone mad. 

Gone mad,
I lose language—
blame god
and his ego enterprise.
In his grasp, there is no freedom.
In me, I seek the immaculate.

In me, I seek the immaculate.
I embrace the mad—
my mad is freedom.
Language
is an enterprise.
I am my own god. 

I am my own god—
immaculate.
I am an enterprise.
Name me mad.
Speak my language.
I am freedom. 

Freedom, out here where a stoned god 
don’t speak my language defiles the immaculate.
Name me mad, for I am my own enterprise.

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