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Premium Member A Journey To the Pearly Gates and Back Again

Iris sun fades and so does the day
whispers the carried in the silence of night glowing
Wishes floating on silver trails faraway
The image of your face will forever bounded to this world
Angels Brought you to me made a lightening
sparkling diamonds in the misting treasures gems so bright

Ice roses turns into a steaming jungle of quivering glass
Flashing in the distance, in the moon light
and all of its stars, that's where the angels dancing
A beautiful adventure picture sparklers on a winter night

A cold moon dressed in dark velvet 
with a pearl milky white smile beams 
Sparkling jewel crystal lights up 
stars blinking silver awakening 
warm invading darkness your light 
My life has at last found its light and its hope

Soulful cries a wolf dressed in winter clothes 
faraway over ocean waves 
carries in a wind’s  whisper sweet music dances 
A magical night that will set the spirit free
Silently breathes out a puff of magic sweetly 
beauty enchants warmly etching strikes 
frosted fingers cracking ice deeply echoes 

Striking inside bells toll warmly skipping drumbeats 
bouncing of chamber walls loving tunes 
Believing in your love a dream 
Which enchants music of the butterflies dance 
howling clouds out steaming warm sighs fluttering warmly
I closed my eyes at the end of the road
and thought of the stars 
and the reason earth spins around the sun





  A co write written by Liam Mcdaid and 
  Anne- Lise Andresen :) - 28.12.2014 -
  Copyright © All Rights Reserved
Categories: drumbeats, beauty, heaven, love, miracle,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Penultimate Prefix of Passion

As the final glimpse 
of the sun leads into 
an everlasting spectacle 
of twinkling dreams, 
peeking through 
    turmeric traces 
of an amber aftermath, 
I listen to the 
nesting nightingales
    croon nostalgic lullabies, 
and search for a 
celestial ray 
that would illustrate,
the beginning  
of
   butterflies 
    within 
my glass heart.

When twilight is 
just a 
   mere mirage 
in the distance of 
my destitute mind,
and tune 
  of your
    laughter 
    reverberates 
  in rhapsodic refrain;
a raspy rhythm 
        ringing 
 through
  rustic breeze,
whilst the 
   whistling 
       wind waves 
    to the
dandelions 
      dancing
   to your 
delicate drumbeats, 
scintillating stars 
fall upon 
    our silhouettes, 
scattering pieces of 
who I once 
used to be-
within pulsating 
flesh and bones,
   before I felt the 
warmth of your 
     cosmic whispers. 

Now initials of 
your amethyst
song is the 
    penultimate prefix 
to my path 
        of   
           healing,
where  
  sentimental sighs 
between us,
unveil 
   wordless 
smiles electrifying
a classical crescendo;
awaiting beneath 
      instrumental wings.

I count the  
    flickering jewels,
splattered across 
nocturnal  
    night-skies,
questioning if this 
is  
another 
      start
of a 
   weary winter? 
or is this just 
a seasonal distraction,
intoxicating my 
   procrastinating pen, 
or is your voice a 
heaven-sent elixir,
to soothe the satanic
seas evaporating 
black salt-
drizzling toxic rain,
upon my  
     porcelain choir,
synchronizing  
      a symphony
of soulmates destined 
to 
   reunite and rewrite
a 
  roseate rendezvous. 

Maybe,  
  fate reignited
to align 
  the emerald
glow between
you and I,
Maybe, I’ve long 
been a wanderer,
on a quest to reach
the rainbow  
             swirls 
above your  
     musky garden,
where background  
          music is 
the poetry woven 
from your  
      cryptic ink.

You’ll always remain
the   
   last maestro
in my carnival  
        of chaos,
amidst the loudness 
of screeching demons
chattering within every
darkest sheet of 
dreary December.
Categories: drumbeats, deep, destiny, muse, music,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Drifting

different drumbeats, separate Lives

he inhales the wind song

a static cling to yesterday

held in his heart until his melody fades

life, love, hope circle the drain

aging realist at one with his pain

love’s last aria

melancholy oboe resigns with setting sun
     
when two are no longer one 

chasm widens between haunting roars

tribal drums on opposite shores
Categories: drumbeats, introspection, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse

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Premium Member Shikata Ga Nai

“This is love: to fly toward a secret Sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life.
Finally, to take a step without feet.” ~ Rumi  

Life can be a pilgrimage through rainless moors
and solemn seascapes draped
in mists of soundless mayhem,
where bleeding butterflies reflect
the fading stars etched with broken promises~
that time has abandoned.

I am a corpse of a firefly suspended
in a maroon mirage,
chained with petunias and pearls,
while my heart seeks a celestial chorus
to recite a harmonious hymn.
I yearn to write a compassionate chord,
ricocheting with empathetic embers,
silencing the fiendish
drumbeats of the devious leeches,
searing the fragile curves
of my cinnamon skin,
as I’ve long been a victim
of the vindictive voices of Satan
and his spellbound followers.

Yet nestled between temptation and torment,
a garden of miracles blooms
with lavender lakeshores,
its sweet scents of honey-rose petals
infusing the aching air,
unveiling a sky adorned with lily wings
and sapphire serenity.

O how I long to be the
silhouette of moon fairies
revising and rearranging
kismet melodies shaped in sorcery~
for I draw salt-kissed sunsets
in acrylic eloquence,
to eliminate black magic violations
still running beneath my trembling toes.
I will dance to the alliterative rhythm of
adjectives and assonance,
flowing in sync with the viking violin
within my soul.

So listen to the unlocked
tunes of restricted rhymes;
you’ll hear my name unchained from
the maleficent mantras~
weaving metaphors
screaming between resilient lines of
highlighted healing,
rephrasing the art of letting go
tattooed in raven jewels,
flipping porcelain pages of hope,
flowing within
the anthology of sprouting orchids.
Categories: drumbeats, devotion, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member A Journey To the Pearly Gates and Back Again

Iris sun fades and so does the day
whispers the carried in the silence of night glowing
Wishes floating on silver trails faraway
The image of your face will forever bounded to this world
Angels Brought you to me made a lightening
sparkling diamonds in the misting treasures gems so bright

Ice roses turns into a steaming jungle of quivering glass
Flashing in the distance, in the moon light
and all of its stars, that's where the angels dancing
A beautiful adventure picture sparklers on a winter night

A cold moon dressed in dark velvet 
with a pearl milky white smile beams 
Sparkling jewel crystal lights up 
stars blinking silver awakening 
warm invading darkness your light 
My life has at last found its light and its hope

Soulful cries a wolf dressed in winter clothes 
faraway over ocean waves 
carries in a wind’s  whisper sweet music dances 
A magical night that will set the spirit free
Silently breathes out a puff of magic sweetly 
beauty enchants warmly etching strikes 
frosted fingers cracking ice deeply echoes 

Striking inside bells toll warmly skipping drumbeats 
bouncing of chamber walls loving tunes 
Believing in your love a dream 
Which enchants music of the butterflies dance 
howling clouds out steaming warm sighs fluttering warmly
I closed my eyes at the end of the road
and thought of the stars 
and the reason earth spins around the sun





  A co write written by Liam Mcdaid and 
  Anne- Lise Andresen :) - 28.12.2014 -
Categories: drumbeats, angel, beauty, happy, heart,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Native Whisper of the Winds

Legends of  tribes roam across the  plains
Bold spirits guarding their own mighty land
They dance and offer songs to ease lost reign
And nourish life when soldiers flag on,
Encircling a bonfire with shaman’s praise.

The whisper of the winds gives them strength
An Indian terrain, they protect
Oh, hear drumbeats pound a mighty roar
As chieftain gathers the arrow’s quest
For the call of blood, for freedom’s dreams.

Legends passed from generations
Navajos marginalized,  tales unfold
When duskfall speaks of native wisdom
To recount strides in brave moccasins
Marking prints from whisper of the winds.



'In the Name of Love for Country -
 and Brian's Select 6
Categories: drumbeats, freedom, native american,
Form: Lyric


Beyond Poetry

This goes far beyond poetry

here I go...

snippets of thoughts
to words
to poetry 

to hearts
touching 
to smiles
reaching eyes

I am grateful,
I am blessed,
for the friendships formed

of chapbooks and poetry books
to reading books, watching movies

of eating to cooking
…of chocolate, truffles, tiramisu
of jellybeans and mushrooms…
of spam and eggs and mayo 
and of course, soup
hot or cold

of trips and falls,
and bumps and stares

and typos...
of it's and its
of i before e, 
and a instead of e

of Only Hopes 
and Dreams
to sleeping
and NOT sleeping

of music, and drumbeats
of art, and painting

of life, of love, of faith
of jokes and laughter,
of craziness and madness

of contests
and comments
swinging
back and forth
beyond crazy and fun

to body parts
aching, tickling
and of writing about them

of sharing and giving
of thoughts and ideas

of challenges and triumphs
of milestones

of prayers...

of life and of death

of ghosts and doppelgangers

of questions and answers
and answers with questions

of troubles and tears
of secrets and fears

of misunderstanding
and learning
to growing and reaping

of doors opening and closing
of the past and of the future

of the present

of sunshine and rain
darkness and light
of rainbows
and animals, in and out
our lives and our minds

beginnings and endings,
to endings beginning
to cycles, 
just going round and round

This is beyond poetry
and I am heartened,
I am blessed

so Thank You
for the poetry…
for the inspiration…
for the friendship.
Sounds so simple,
but it’s from my heart,
it's from my soul
just...Thank You.




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Categories: drumbeats, dedication, friendship, thank youpoetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Private Quarters

Faraway magic sparks inside distant dreams awaken tears
spells under a smiling moon casting shadows out howls lonely
within deep soft moving feelings lights all candles in four chambers bright

Silver whispers one lone wolf cries princess moonlighting ball faraway dance
flying on wings across many oceans sweet warmly beams kiss beat stop
Crystal reflections breaking thought vision shatter mirror apex
 
Over snow mountain under a white blanket hidden inside cold turkey trembles
howls deep chilling winds covered in grey cloud capped silver to gun barrel grey 
Striking hot air parting with a bolt lightening strikes the deepest cord

Gasping blows out in waves breathless crashing the highest notes holding 
the deepest key reality rippling currents sparking drumbeats skip faster sparks 
Growling grumbles to the Heaven's roar almighty bang ignite

Fading away into mountain echoes into a town called Sunday cross an honor 
Exquisite faraway beauty you stand out one flower among'st roses brightly
dazzle crowning blossoms stargazing lights up the dark Trawbega bay shore

Amazing colors adorable star spangling treasures gift pure to kiss holding hands
shading from the heart's desire misting dream of dreams promise wish 
rainbows sweeping within deep mysterious beauty in your eyes awestruck

Melt with me into the shadows of another world floating mystery
Jewels of the Nile drifting deeply over ocean sands warmly embraced 
in one treasure holding vision paradise queen swept away beautiful valentine  

unrhymed terset
Categories: drumbeats, angel, beautiful, beauty, metaphor,
Form: Terza Rima

Premium Member To Write Poetry

As midnight bursts  like stardust on a cobblestone
My raw  vision carries me beyond earth’s  floor,
Where marbles  with painted dots turn into  hallways
And  shamans  in long robes  on axis  roam:

Here I write of gothic myths  and  folklore

Releasing  secrets through  drumbeats of old  tribal songs
As dark mysteries lay  deep on hidden pools…
The  acid in my bones spreading  unknown lyrics
While stylus of  quill darts on  flamed parchment

Unraveling my  soul … coaxing  the young to dream.




A Brian Strand Contest: End March 18 Standard
Categories: drumbeats, adventure, mystery, writing,
Form: Imagism

Premium Member Shaman Mind

A Shaman's mind, 
shinning visions and resurrected petroglyphs
wild horses running on a plain of stars
stick figures bringing down a behemoth
sitting 'round a story pit, souls touching flame afar
searching chanting embers for drumbeats waning
a procession floating into lavender canyon.. dreaming
pinwheels dancing along the sky and sea.
Categories: drumbeats, art,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Ladies Who Write

Women of a certain age
Pour hearts out on the written page.
Tarnished by a tangled past
Now silence gained a voice at last.

Between raising kids and husbands too,
And survival, jobs, free moments few,
Recording life behind their eyes,
The chores got done and families thrived.

Beauty wanes, youth’s spark subsides,
But a women’s wisdom steadily abides.
She stares out from her quiet home,
May the drumbeats of her heart be known.

Her favorite pen is close at hand 
The fiercest sword within the land
For the woman who lived the fullest life,
Tells truth of human joy and strife.

Beware they say, she’s old and wise
No longer concerned with outward guise
She’s just as likely to boldly slay us,
To cut us down,and coldly play us.

Unshackled now from mediocrity,
Beware the woman who's been set free.
Categories: drumbeats, freedom, humanity, truth, women,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Dark Side of Cosmos Churning

A writhing viper, spat venom through the air.
Its toxic breath compelled the meek to despair.
The wild, thunderous decree, forced them to flee.
Into hiding, to scrub away threats to liberty.

Next a gilded map was etched in desert sand.
It ensnared the weary to invest in promised land.
But floods and droughts devoured the pilgrim’s trust.
Milk and honey promises, dissolved in choking dust.

Turn the wheel, turn it round.
Don’t let rusty spokes break ground.
Push the wheel, push it through.
Hope is rising; Dharma's shiny new.

Brothers slay brothers who once held hands.
Now blood runs red, across the kinship sands.
Drumbeats call the masses to howl and obey.
Fighting endless wars for lies that all betray.

Incense burns with pungent smoke in eyes.
The priests lure the masses with face paint dyes.
Hallucinations reek crazy in maddened crowd,
With ancient voodoo curses read out loud.

The wheel turns slowly, its spokes begin to grind,
The darkened void of Aquarius haunts the mind.
The dark sky itself, tolls urgent alarms with a chime,
Counting down the dwindling steps of mortal time.

Yet from the muddy slime, a silver sliver arose,
It lifts the wheel that rust and ruin had froze.
It scrapes and oils the hub and spokes on the ground.
It wrenches Dharma's wheel round, round, right around.

Turn the wheel, turn it ‘round.
Don’t let the spokes break ground.
Push the wheel, push it through,
Hope is waiting, shining new.

Lift the wheel, lift it high,
Silver hands will pierce the sky.
Turn the wheel, turn it round,
Spin the wheel of hope, unbound.
Categories: drumbeats, angst, anxiety, deep, song,
Form: Lyric

Iggurot Native Filipino Indian

teeming with pride,
humble and its peen.
sometimes only wearing underwear.
culture so rare.
dancing on there own line of drumbeats, 
minding there own a folk music.
so keen on their own particular heritage of kin,
made u of their own ideas and dreams.
Categories: drumbeats, imagination, inspirational, people,
Form: Rhyme

Nimisha

In her layette, she looked fair.
‘Nimisha’, the parents called her.
When aged five, the polio plucked
the strings that her legs moved.
As a stringless violin, her legs rest.
In the wheelchair, she grows up
along with her mother’s tension,
and father’s anxiety.

The rustic children wish her
but nobody takes her
to the festival
in a shrine rural.
She wears new dress
but as the butterflies in her frock,
she also cannot flit
to the shrine yard.

Cough waves, today also, 
shake her lungs so.
The distant drumbeats and the holy music
move her fingers in the wind rhythmic.
The clarion does resonate and ripple
the divine thoughts in her ears.
She never knew 
pneumonia packing her soul.

Serenity of the twilight collapses
as, again, the drum storm develops.
Few knew Nimisha swooned.
Later, the people intoned,
“Being holy, 
an apt day it is.”
In emptiness infinite,
her parents knew her truly.
Categories: drumbeats, death, loss, parents,
Form: Free verse

Indian Heritage Festival 2015

As we walked towards the festival 
We hear the drumbeats and the chanting 
Soon we were close enough to view the dancers
Fantastic costumes - red, blue, green, yellow 
All the dancers were wearing feathers and pieces of metal
which jangled at they danced 
Surrounded by onlookers the dancing 
reached a fever pitch 
The winners were announced 
Later, buffalo burgers and a look around 
at Native American crafts 
Great way to spend a warm Saturday in June
Categories: drumbeats, dance, native american,
Form: Ballad
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