Best Earthed Poems


On the Rocks

Whiskey on the rocks, advised by my doc
combats dementia, so bring on the blocks
no need for a glass;  I'll have me the bottle
with a big bowl of ice this baby I'll throttle

The whiskey's gone, now a brandy'd be fine
my inside's on fire, there's a hoop up my spine
swigging from the bot comes at a price
I'll temper the fire with whole blocks of ice

The flames have been doused;  rum, if you please?
my head's in a clamp;  ice will loosen the squeeze 
now, be a sport and pile on the ice
two bowls or more I think should suffice

Three bottlesh down, all on the rocksh
my tootshiesh are shtarting to curl in my shocksh
my shmile is chemented, my lipsh glued together
my fashe the feel and texture of leather

Twishe left, thrishe right my head ish shwinging
short, long, short, long my earsh are zinging
either I'm crosh-eyed or my brainsh have been fried
elsh why are my legsh by three multiplied?

I'm freefalling on shixh feet firmly earthed
alternating twixht lower and then upper berth
vocal chordsh tangled, shizhably crimped
I'm walking with a lishp and talking with a limp 

I'm teetering-tottering or tettering-tortering
I've no clue which ish which and given up wondering
the world ish a blur;  I musht be plarshtered
the liquor went down well;  ishe warsh the barshtard

On all foursh – nay, twelve, I reach the bed
now I'm pondering and shcratching my head:
am I waking up or about to retire?
I shimply topple over, my whole being on fire

In the Land of Nod I'm harnessed by tether
in comely dreams of cowboys and leather
when plagued by a swishy feel in my bladder
swelling as fast as a pregnant puffadder

Abruptly awakened when a stream emanated
unable to move, still intoxicated
stuck to my bed and severely drenched
nausea ensued in the encompassing stench

How my stomach reacted I'd best not relate
suffice to say it was a full freight
soiled and hung-over, a word of advice:
liquor's fantastic but steer clear of ice
Categories: earthed, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Dans Le Heure Bleue

“dans le heure bleue"



My skin feels alive
when you are 
next to me
blood pulsing
from the core
of me
Root Chakra Red
My throat exposed
the Wolf now
lies next to me
in my warm bed
savage and smiling 
he is seen, he
smells of 
fresh crushed green
pine leaves 
lemon 
basil 
bergamot 
a heart blooming
with jasmine
rose
carnation 
coriander 
patchouli
sandalwood 
and iris root, then
I’m on my knees
genuflecting
he says,
“Come here,"
He kisses me
and tastes 
like 
Star Anise


"sauvage
je reviens
vers vous
Rouge
dans le
heure bleue..."


(LadyLabyrinth/2019)
V.S.A.S.


 


"Scent of a Woman
rising from 
the Oceans blue
necklace of pearls
on a clam shell
salt and air
silver cut grass
then earthed
terra australis
Red"
Categories: earthed, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism

Open Skies

"Open Skies"



The Sky 
is now wide open
Good morning 
Sunshine, he says

She 
recalls 
a dream
in abstract

In clouds, not white
when hearts are darkest
Love arrives
unheralded

on a harsh cold
dark Winter's night
the Sun arrives 
promising benevolence

sounding sharp trumpets
a different kind of music
ants scatter under 
strange coloured lights

stunned 
and love frightened
hearts are opening
in common alliance

caught up 
in the open skies
now being earthed in
this epic romance

The dream is silent
egg shell blue
it is cracked wide open 
kyrie eleison

a Mass in 
Exodus
snow on tongues
burnt manna turns to ash

Rapture arrives
in different colours
In clouds, not white
when hearts are darkest

the 
unifying
colour 
is - 

Rust.

Love 
arrives
unheralded
nearly all but forgotten

Prophetic communion
All Souls seen holding hands
hidden in their vessels 
of different colours

The dream is silent
egg shell blue
it is cracked wide open 
kyrie eleison

Open, 
Blue Sky

arrives

(LadyLabyrinth  / 2020)




The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
https://youtu.be/8Ecdn5SGT1E




"The hero is one 
who kindles a great light
in the world, 
who sets up blazing torches 
in the dark streets of life 
for men to see by."



“Let's go." 
"We can't." 
"Why not?" 
"We're waiting for Godot.”



"Veni Sancte Spiritus".









The word Kyrie is used in the Septuagint, the earliest Greek translation of the Old Testament, to translate the Hebrew word Yahweh. In the New Testament, Kyrie is the title given to Christ, as in Philippians 2:11.

"Angelic Code Sound Healing"
https://youtu.be/8eFoJHjLmyU

"Veni Sancte Spiritus"
https://youtu.be/_m_6Fp9Va0w
Categories: earthed, dream, hero, humanity,
Form: Romanticism

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Premium Member Place of Respite

Jesus replied, “Foxes have holes
and birds of the air have nests,
but the Son of Man has no place
to lay his head.”  Matthew 8:20 NIV

PLACE OF RESPITE

Cheek-tinge of pink dawning in the murky skies.
Blandness of deep-earthed bark, stretching,
touched by birdsong…long overdue, it pries
the stirring of tinctures, heart-revival fetching.

The soft cooing of dove-white countenance
behind the adventurous arms of upright praise.
The milky colorant, the soothe of boundlessness,
heaven’s face — the wise eyes of Jesus’ blaze.

Crustose lichen of green, subtle stripes of peel,
signature branch-sketch, by God’s hand, varicose
leans into his every word — his glory-heel
at cross-times past, every blood path, bellicose.

Eureka! I once again, open my ears to golden notes.
Why is chirping so charming? …like an angelic shake,
the bell one or many…the beckon from furry coats,
unseen-existence b’neath the heaven’s silver lake.

The light brightens on the horizon, a New Year shines
through the I’m-glad-I’m-home-steal-my-heart blinds
Familiar bittersweets and blues, buttercup-yellows, signs
that love is close of hand and hearth, most oft’ kind.

1/4/2022
Categories: earthed, bird, christian, color, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Tree and Me

Everyday as i pass the old tree

        i compare myself to the limbs

            branches hanging lower now

                leaves dropping and bark scarred

                    the deep roots un-earthed

                        tree house fallen

                            glory days

                                lost in

                                    time...

Contest: The Old Age
Form: Nonet
Sponsored by:  Dr. Ram Mehta

Poems by Shar
Categories: earthed, age, journey,
Form: Nonet

Spring Is Here Once Again

Spring trees are full of tender
green buds, stretching into the air.
Fresh blackberries blooming white
flowers everywhere.
 
The smell of honeysuckle and it's bright
stare are full of honey bees with a hunger
to mature, with care.

A long walk on a dirt lain, back
road with no where to go.
Gentle fireflies cascade in the 
evening's glow.

In the distance a young whiperwhil
calls to another.
A peaceful sound that brings to me
a soft shutter.

Spring is here once again and the rebirth
of life begins again.
I live to see each year's wonder earthed
and to it, my attention lend.
Categories: earthed, april, beauty, celebration, earth,
Form: Rhyme


A Mother

"A Mother" 

An angel planted itself
in the womb of the world
for a short while 
a mother carries humanity
trying to heal her wounds
the chalice of her ocean earthed 
bleeds life for all it is worth
Gaia cries but she is so much stronger
vibrating dimensions higher 
uncut in the heart
solid and so much stronger 
than any god

a mother
ascending 
dimensions higher

(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)
gvlm




"Viðrar vel til loftárása" / Sigur  Ros
https://youtu.be/gwkcdRE6JEY





“I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing…. I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black.”

“The tulips along the border are redder than ever, opening, no longer wine cups but chalices; thrusting themselves up, to what end? They are, after all, empty. When they are old they turn themselves inside out, explode slowly, the petals thrown like shards.”

“Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.”

“Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. IT transits, pauses, continues on and passes out of sight, and I see despair coming towards me like famine. To feel that empty, again, again. I listen to my heart, wave upon wave, salty and red, continuing on and on, marking time.

“I think that this is what God must look like: an egg. The life of the moon may not be on the surface, but inside."

“I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will.”

“We have learned to see the world in gasps.”

“...like a pathway through a forest, like a carpet for royalty, it shows me the way”.

“And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light.”

(The Handmaid's Tale/Margaret Atwood)






Viðrar vel til loftárása (Alternative Ending)/ Sigur Ros 
https://youtu.be/re999Tgj3ns
Categories: earthed, love, muse, strength,
Form: Free verse

Anamorphosis

"anamorphosis" 



your eyes
like mundi’s orb
crystal Orion belted
mysterious black opals

Blue globed

opallios light veined,
a Star calls us

Home

some are blind, disinterested;
other windows once jaded
are jewels, like emeralds and 
sapphire skies, topaz earthed

Becoming 

portals to worlds of others,
wide and open minded

what they see
is not the holy see
anamorphosis
ripples truth

the hands and feet 
still bleed

of another soul
in hidden dimension
eventually the grains
are raised, revealed

the metamorph,
radical star seed

out of the woodwork
stone crumbles
and as heads turn
salt is tasted

tears,
pillars burn
 
drones take confessions
we isolate

da vinci 
corpus christi
solemnity on 
a June viral Thursday

starbursts by 3
on a Monday

we commence debating
coffin cities and Georgia stones
where we are guided to numbers
on a Sunday

the puzzle
seen eventually 

arriving in
The Cloud

we look for answers
all doors closed in a world
we are over rated in our vanity
internally, we are All 

I Am 

we are called
we learn about true Love
and why we are born 
when death whispers around us

in our dawn

Now,

translate
salvator mundi.

Souls stretch
in the end, we all
reach for what's seen 
in the Light

of an orb


(LadyLabyrinth / 2020)




“The Gospel of John Hurt” / Alt-J
https://youtu.be/LXkpWY5Y02Q



Lyrics/ “The Gospel of John Hurt”, Alt-J
https://genius.com/Alt-j-the-gospel-of-john-hurt-lyrics 



"Something Extraordinary in Da Vinci's Paintings"
https://youtu.be/JDSnlDeRoKc

"The Search for the Last Supper" 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pJD5HtlKwg

"The Messiah Before Jesus"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g13jQYOzYo







1. Salvator Mundi
2. Leonardo Da Vinci
3. Georgia Guidestones
4. The Feast of Corpus Christi
5. Maundy Thursday
6. Metamorph
7. anamorphosis
8. covid19
9. Revelations, Book of
10. The Cloud

11. The Star
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Star
Categories: earthed, humanity, i am, love,
Form: Free verse

Echo

ECHO

nymph of note
your mountain voice rebounds
as it resonates your vanity
enticing echo’s alluring invite
beguiling tantalizing tease
tempting Zeus


weaving your words
of sidetracking diversion
amusingly entertaining wives
freeing their spouses to ravish
 captivating seducing tease
tempting nymphs


detecting your tricks
Hera’s fierce retribution as
colorful conversations she muted
 replacing with foolish repetitions 
your only communication now 
irrational duplication

 
AN OBTUSE 

ECHO


In Greek mythology “Echo” was a mountain nymph who loved the sound of her own voice.
She used it to attract Greek gods and torment their wives… until the wife of Zeus,
Hera,
Un-earthed deception and sought retribution
 


© Kim van Breda—10 November 2014
Categories: earthed, betrayal, mythology,
Form: Light Verse

The Final Discussion

Two faced fox from beneath the shadows
Prepackaged blush the manipulative wallows
Irrational cupidity earthed in lies
Imminently causing fitting cries

Acute observations to every detail
Questions asked but to no avail
Reprehensible plight wears temperance thin
And convincingly accounts for the insurmountable win 

Clarity of worth is only there in the lack of
Contradictions and assumptions strikingly thereof
In effect attempts are marked as feeble
Noteworthy endeavors deemed as terrible

Given that honesty less jest were sought
If only beyond the bridge were given thought
Contexts beyond the cusp could have been prevented
The discussion ends when this poem has ended
Categories: earthed, angst, love
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Nature In Our Architecture

.
     Off
   Womb
  Earthed
 HumanS
In Worship 
Of   Nature
For Love of Nature
A shelter to be safe 
From Fury of Nature
 Place to 
 Explore
  Called    Own
   Home   Nature
              In its glory
              In its beauty
              In acceptance
              In accordance
              In its response
              In responsibility 
A shelter to look out from
A shelter to look into form
A shelter carved out  from
A shelter constructed from

Built Offerings to confirm
Innate Nature human will
 That refuses to conform
                       A mark 
                     The born
                  The evolved
                There created
               That left a form
              That drawn from  
              Collective Nature
 Cyclical Nature Impression
Creations Emerge Dissolve
              To the larger will
               Nature returns
                It is her field
                 In her fold
                   A recall
Categories: earthed, allegory, creation, nature,
Form: Concrete

My Play, Poverty's Play

And if poverty whips, 
largely, torments
In her barefaced snort of 
withering grievance.
I shall be the one, 
mannered by Earth's dog-
wetness, 
To garner my broken 
possession, murk and bins, 
Writhe, clamber steep nigh 
moister Earth

From foot of lazy deities, 
pick the sacred mound, 
Muzzle it deep against my 
leaking dereliction birthed
From a heightened 
helplessness of obligation
And speak the words of 
preserving ardour
From deities' bossom

As trambled Kola lobe and 
marooned salt
Earthed for no sprouting in 
rushing footfalls, 
Prickled, insatiate in the 
belly of oblivion
I shall be the praying yam 
wholly unearthed
To the feet of a roasting 
'adogan'

I shall be the racketeering 
prey, jostled
Endlessly in poverty's 
meaning play, 
Washed- out by riches' 
maze
I shall be the mocking 
haunt lack tugs
In steep eaves of perceived 
redemption.
Categories: earthed, angst
Form: ABC

That I May Rest In Peace

THAT I MAY REST IN PEACE

As I sat calmly under the tent
Even though we don't know who's next
But the deceased had left
But the memories are in our hearts in bold crest
Saw young and old dressed in black to mourn the dead. 

Without call the dead has brought under same canopy both friends and fiends 
Just to pay last respect to the life that hit untimely end
Everyone running errands the dead never sent them
Old friends reuniting while new enmity igniting
Friends and folks from far and wide
Here they are wining and dining . 

Lemme make a call to my friends and enemies
I've got a life now worth living
Even when I don't plan early exit but who knows when it will be time for leaving
Share no souvenirs after earthing me when you can gimme me gift in my happy days
Save the black wear for another, rather take a colourful pictures with me while still here
Call me out for drinks and never wait till my breath is on the brink

Call me to report me to me maybe we can trash our issues
Rather than lie to the world when I already know the truth in my grave
Temme you hate me to my face before you tell me to rest in peace after my demise
Bring milk to my seek bed before you fight for meat at my after internment party. 

Gimme me cake on my birthday before you fake your cry on my burial day
Make a party for me when I can join to dance and not when I'm earthed six feet below
I'd rather have you be late to my party than being an organizer when I'm called late
 Shower the love and praises on me while i am alive 
Not the encomiums heaped upon my grave 

Temme my errors now before I cross to the land of horrors 
Where your deeds are shown before me in a mirror
Let my picture grace your phone with kisses and not with hisses and disses when I'm  deceased 
Do these for me with you I plead 
All these I plead with my heart from thee
Just that I may rest in peace in my after life.

(CONCEPTUAL FM ???)
Categories: earthed, allusion, appreciation, death, death
Form: ABC

Premium Member Monoku Imagism

lightning earthed on paper
Categories: earthed, inspiration,
Form: Monoku

Obsessed Fathomless Hollowness

Un-----earthed 
my----self 
de--ci--sive--ly
Near-ly bust-ed
Lay-ing on rocks...
Weakened spiritually; Rejuvenation before long—
Tucked in that rock-bottom chasm, 
nevertheless kept dreaming—
Woking up— 
Surprisingly distant             from myself;
Although, woken to that seemly monotonus dream/thought... 
(As it is of you, my muse) 

     Some—how         stum——bled
;yadretsey emitemoS 
Plum-


-met-


-ed 


in 


regress, ------- ---------
However for today, I exist awakened; 
Hollowness had not been that Fathomless—
Dragging myself out from that somber chasm—
Effortlessly brushing rocks back 
into  

that 


Somber 



Chasm; 


Hearing—Hearing the—the echoing—echoing thuds—thuds as—as they—they hit—hit the—the bottom—botttom of—of that—that  
Fathomless somber chasm...
(Not owing to you, little girl)

I do not perceive...precede back to something else?
Trickery-sneakily-deceives Honesty into comfort;
Manipulation will 
befall. 
Treachery lies to my soul;
Revealing for all...mistook it for loyalty—
(As I had done with you, little girl)

True -3love -3consumed-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3my being
Desirably-embraced-blissful fantasies;
Appreciated that exhilarating exhaustion—
Had that venom... 
Driiippiiiing steeeaaadiiily frooom yooouuur liiips 
Since you spat that poison, blinding me...
Obsessed...Am I? 
Why argue with the likes of you...
What endeavor occurred was not with you, 
Snake.
(Owing to you, little girl) 

I do not recognize...proceed towards whatever else.
Had I known you no longer
Passionately prided yourself as my muse,
Intending instead to poisen my muse...
Never been allowed an experience to inspire...
Inspiration now obliterated...someday
(Owing to you, my muse)

Fake love provokes me,
Desperately-embracing-deceitful clarity,
Eagerly evoking what will never disintegrate me.
Anxiously anticipating what arrives after; 
Haste helps find my way back into hell.
You have disappeared from my existe---
(As I exist only for you, my muse)
Categories: earthed, addiction, anger, drug, hate,
Form: Free verse
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