Best Eft Poems
"L o v e lives
in the archaic abyss of an
endless ocean, where wind and waves
rhyme with the blues in scented stillness"
As echoes of the silent shore reveal secrets~
buried in the deep-blue spine of the
creased, cold sea, I search for lyrical cues,
dreaming on the lurid lips of a salt-kissed
enigma, painted with bliss-strokes of sunset eyes.
For sometimes, when time tricks euphoric twilight with
greed, amidst the quiescence that hydrates this
healing soul, I find myself drifting to a mythical valley of
iridescent violets, floating like glistening
jewels seized from the warm arms of skylines. As,
kismet stars sprinkle golden tears upon pages that
left me comfortably rhymeless, breathing in
metaphors of memories lost in frozen mists,
nestling within hushed songs of the mourning bluebirds…
O beloved moon, swirl with me to a rosier phase~
perfumed with Aphrodite’s elegance,
quenched with spring allure of Ades’ petals;
reverie of timeless rivers
streaming with heartbeats of twin flames,
tied to an amethyst ambience,
unraveling a cosmic connection
veiled in vanilla orchids…and
when the music of the ocean ricochets into
xylophone chimes and nostalgic notes,
you’ll remember me as your ballad, forever sealed in,
zestful conch shells, until the sun no longer tastes my poetic pulse…
Categories:
eft, love, romance,
Form:
Abecedarian
Did not our summer fly by fast?
Eventually, we knew she'd go,
Forgetting to remake her blooms;
Green grasses dried to ashen glow.
How happy was the month of May,
Inviting hopes for summer fun.
Just in a blink her days went by
Kidnapped by June's much closer sun.
Left to the magic of June's spell,
More beautiful the season grew.
No other time of year compares...
Oasis of our year, so true.
Pastels of flowers, velvet greens
Quick to mature through July days;
Refining fullness, but alas,
Surrendering to August's phase.
Then soon, her days too quickly flew
Unveiling thoughts of autumn's glow
Vowed to progress to winter's gray.
Where did our short-lived summer go?
Sandra M. Haight
~2nd Place~
Contest: Alphabet Soup
Sponsor: Kim Merryman
Judged: 09/16/2016
Rules: 1 rhyming poem with a minimum of 16 lines and a max of 20 lines. Whatever letter that your first line starts with, the next line must start with the following letter of the alphabet, and continue in that pattern to the end of the poem.
Categories:
eft, farewell, summer,
Form:
Rhyme
A llegiance to no other VICE except a NEW YORK CITY ATTITUDE
B oroughs Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Staten island, take your pick
C ity that never sleeps
D isown your chewing gum on the sidewalk
E mpire state of mind is what you develop when living in NYC
F REAKS and freedom come out at night
G et the gusto and GO!
H arlem is where you need to be when converging in NEW YORK CITY
I n New York City manners are not usually common placed
J ust watch the closing DOORS, you'll be OK
K nowing an URBAN LEGEND is a prerequisite to NYC living
L eft FOOT losers lurk around EVERY other corner
M ost New Yorkers are always rushing off to work at rush hour then rushing back home
N ightlife, NEON lights and honking horns
O nly alliances are with other NYC loving metropolitans
P olice are there to assist (unless you need assistance)
Q uietness is not an option
R ising repeatedly to early morning blaring fire engines and loud radio playing
S taten Island ferry or would you rather the Statue of Liberty?
T imes Square New year eve testimonial, NYC for real!!
U nder no circumstances are you to ever AGITATE (piss off) a NYC police officer
V ery energized New Yorkers (metropolitans) visiting Broadway
W hy does NYC have a subway system? For tourists of course!
X marks the spot, you are HERE.
Y ou a New Yorker?
Z estfully going along for the ride. TAXI!!
This hype is NYC stereotype. ONLY IN NEW YORK. NYC IS a great place to visit and maybe you'd wanna live there. You GETTIN' in that TAXI?! New York City Baabee!!
THAT'S real. YOU GOTTA PROBLEM?!
Categories:
eft, abuse, adventure, anxiety, basketball,
Form:
Abecedarian
Seeking silence and fantasy
Only then am I set free
Love to float and find dreams
In sweet rhapsody
To drift deeply
Undisturbed
Detached
Eft
_______________________
October 10, 2015
Poetry/Acrostic/Solitude
Copyright Protected, ID 10-7159-72-10
All Rights Reserved, 2015, Constance La France
Note: Eft - adverb meaning again
Categories:
eft, dream, fantasy, silence,
Form:
Acrostic
A ll is well when in your arms I lie
R esting sweetly in this blessed place
M agical the time; my heart does sigh
S afe my soul; of pain there is no trace
O ffered up for pleasure are your arms
F antasies awake and ravish me
L eft outside this circle is what harms
O nly nestled here I want to be....
V oid is life without your arms of love
E ndless bliss that none but I know of
Eileen Manassian
Categories:
eft, love,
Form:
Acrostic
PARADISE LOST
P oisonous minds roamed in Valley of joy,
A nd their mission was to kill and destroy.
R uthless bullets pierced the innocent hearts,
A ngry devils tried to tear the Valley apart.
D eath danced every street, none could flee,
I struggled to breathe, as fear consumed me.
S ilently, world-watched attack on humanity,
E ven weather was merciless in Jan of 1990.
L eft my land to survive in unknown place,
O nly hope I carried, to march in life’s race.
S o many years gone, Valley still screams,
T oday Kashmir is safe only in my dreams.
Jan 17, 2017.
MESSAGE IN AN ACROSTIC - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Kim Rodrigues
Kashmir, God's own land on earth, is the motherland of Kashmiri Pandits. The year 1990, saw a mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from their own soil due to threat to their life and, brutal and barbaric killings by the separatists.
More than 400,000 Kashmiri Pandits were forced to abandon their homeland.
Even today after so many years of mass exodus, their ordeal continues....
Categories:
eft, lost, memory, sad,
Form:
Acrostic
W hen summer ends and a cool wind blows
I n the garden there is just one rose
L eft all alone in the cool of the day
T he last rose of summer slowly fades away
~
Categories:
eft, flower,
Form:
Acrostic
A-nticipating no one
Refusing to slow down
Still searching for a home
L-eft in the rain
Still moving on
Refusing to bow to the pain
O-nly I can help myself
I will ask no one
I continue with nobody else
N-ever going to stop
I would rather live in pain
Than ask for help
E-ven if I break myself
I will always move forward
I don't need anyone else
A.L.O.N.E.
Categories:
eft, power, pride,
Form:
Acrostic
S o soft the pillowed clouds bewail the rai n.
E nduring wind blows cold as long ag o
l ethargic thoughts in hollow timpan i
f oreshadowed songs to soothe my disconten t;
a nd, now awake, I sail upon this se a,
c reated strong, unlike the put z
t hat used to live inside of me. Now, I
u nhesitatingly take full contro l,
a s varied is the path I walk like plains of a' a
l eft worn and still on wind swept Oah u.
I n this, my soul, I contrive to acqui t
Z en like in my intent to remove the toxi c
a gony of self doubt invading my person a.
T empestuous feelings of certainty dispel the disbelie f.
I AM ME! Never more will I doubt my wil l
o r pander to social expectations of m e.
N ow I know my destiny, and it is without limit s...
11/11/16
Categories:
eft, self,
Form:
Acrostic
Make not a farce nor lessen my lament,
your weeping stains will hide my mask of dreams
for poison feeds your nocuous intent,
revealing naught of pain through silent screams.
Another victim broken lost and drained
gets left to cry with feelings stretched and strained.
I whispered coos to you my turtledove
left crushed beneath the words of ladylove.
Enough of sorrow's dim lit candle flamed
held close to flicker out as I but breathe
engulfed as if with magic, wild, untamed
as never more this love I will reprise.
Released I'll live again, my soul will soar
to know my fragile heart will break no more.
10/23/16
Categories:
eft, love hurts,
Form:
Acrostic
I STILL LOVE WHAT WAS MINE
I STILL LOVE WHAT I EFT BEHIND
I STILL LOVE WHAT I NEVER LOVED
I STILL LOVE WHAT I NEVER GAVE ME A CHANCE...
I STILL LOVE HER SMILE
I STILL LOVE HER EVEN THOUGH SHE IS A THOUSAND MILES FAR
I STILL LOVE THE WAY I MADE HER SAD
I STILL LOVE THE WAY SHE LOVED ME SO BAD
I STILL LOVE HOW SHE MADE ME JEALOUS
I STILL LOVE THE THINGS I DID TO HER
I STILL LOVE THE WAY I MADE HER CRY
I STILL LOVE THE WAY I MADE HER SMILE
I STILL LOVE THE WAY SHE MADE ME FEEL LIKE A MAN
I STILL LOVE THAT I TREATED HER LESSER TEN I
I STILL LOVE THE FACT THAT I LOVE HER
I STILL LOVE WHAT WAS MINE
Categories:
eft, lost love, me, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Loyalty, Small and hard
I took it like buck shot
lodged in my heart
He left you for O.K. Tulsa I believe
You said he didn't know you that well
he didn't know you have smoked weed
But he knew you in a way
no other should know I had to find out
from a message on your cell phone
Since that day, I realized
I lived a life of Sin
GOD tell me to forgive
for the bad deeds that you did
Every awakened moment
it haunts my every thought
knowing I pushed you
into another mans arms
I raised my right hand to many times
You resulted to telling lies
We both broke our VOWS
not long after newly Wed
I abandoned you in time of need
you laid in an others bed
Now I'm drunk as BLEEP
just trying to rhyme
not long after I awoke
from a nightmare in a cry
This reality haunts me
every moment of the day
I'm forever in search
of things to give me strength
before ICU I saw the light to heavens door
With jittering of teeth I felt the fiery floor
All in all I wouldn't change a thing
even though you removed you diamond ring
I seek only answers, Stop trying to save face
I'm beginning to think you are pocketing an Ace of Spades
to my demise I have to summarize
be both eft off and really goofed
I have told you my side
and in the end
All I seek is Truth
Categories:
eft, death, dedication, depression, imagination,
Form:
ABC
'Here-comes-The-She--riff'/'And-his-second-trusted-Deputy'
'They-chea-ted-and-were-shot-de--ead'/'By-the-new-Ma-yo--or'/ 'Bob-Mar-ley'
'If-their-left-foot-takes-an-in--nch'/'And-their-right-foot-takes-a-lengthier-mile'
'Hand-law-a-forty-fi--ive'/'And-make-that-bestnerd-hop-with-a-smile'
'Your-dancing-half-you-spun-le--eft'/'You-alone-with-Suave-south-for-a-drive'
'Not-as-Missing-Per--sons'/'Posters-as-being-Wan-ted-Dead-or-Alive'
'Your-thrones-King's-and-Que--een's'/'The-Court-Jester-made-his-sweet-sixteen'
'Queen-is-expec-ti--ing'/'King's-glad-Jester-fa-ces-le-Guil-lo-tine'
'Judges-and-Ju--dy's'/'This-here-courtroom-is-in-repossession'
'Gavels-get-rea--dy'/'And-assault-with-deadly-precision'
'Guilty-as-cha--arged'/'Throw-the-book-at-um-as-they-cry-out-ouch!'
'Innocent-is-set-fre--ee'/'After-those-they-accused-gouged-their-eyes-out!'
'Kamala-is-the-fel--la'/'Lady-Justice-like-the-blindfolders-spawn'
'The-Justices-all-wa--atched'/'As-U.-S.-Constitution-burned-on-the-lawn'
'Pu-tin's-confus--sion'/'Non-goes-front-or-back-of-fic--ti--on'
'Tales-from-Tsar's-wo--ods'/'Rasputin-Myname-front- or-back-a-muse'
'Biden-casta--Net's'/'And-Yahoo's-all-over-Is-ra-el'
'Joe-cuts-China-tea--time'/'Pekoe-dives-inside-Starbuck's-swimming-pool'
Categories:
eft, analogy, appreciation, humorous, irony,
Form:
Lyric
N-either ear will turn deaf
O-ctober third sunny day;
R-ighteousness is revealed,
A-fter you plead and pray.
L-et neither ear turn deaf,
E-ven if lies do deceive;
E-agerly listen to the voice of truth that man must receive.
G-ive full attention to God
A-s He teaches His word;
R-emember the mandate
S-o you shall please the Lord.
O-pen your either ear,
L-eft or right before the Father;
A-llow it not to turn deaf for His wisdom is a reminder.
S-ay yes to God's instruction,
A-s you prick up your ears;
N-either of them will turn deaf,
T-rying to accept what each hears.
I-t's now time to hearken,
L-etting both ears heed;
L-isten to the one who speaks
A-ll the words that you need.
N-ever say no to the lesson you learn as you have left;
A-ccept the best counsel, neither ear will turn deaf.
Categories:
eft, birthday,
Form:
Acrostic
A-fter the dusk passes by,
N-ight darkness follows suit;
A-nother new day has broken, to cheer, to warm, to soothe.
A-ll alone in the cold evening,
L-eft in the deepest shadow;
V-ivid verses make you feel
E-late far from
S-orrow.
E-arly morning fifth February
L-ets the chilling rain disappear;
I-nclement weather changes,
C-rimson sun offers fun
O-r cheer.
Categories:
eft, birthday,
Form:
Acrostic