Best Elucidation Poems


Premium Member Poetry: Shadows Coming to Light

Garnering complete elucidation
  within the untrammeled confines
      of several exceptional poetic lines
         most certainly deserves validation

Does brevity confine poetic thought
  not if readers have a vivid imagination
     Comprehension is found where sought
        Three lines can be a brilliant summation

Poetry is shadows that come to light
  The tears trickling down from my eyes
     My emotions escaping in sorrowful sighs
         Easing burdens and healing scars as I write
© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.

Chaos Mathematics

can't even fart anymore
without kicking up a hurricane
halfway around the Earth
according to reports this has occurred
at a great loss of life and mind
within minutes of the methane
the dominoes began to rumble
and poor Flash who was
merely greeting the morning sun
became history's first flatomaniac
Flash was burly with hair
up and down his back like
a mink in a 5th Avenue perfumery
his girl Florence was in cartoons
playing the hope card
in a séance with the laboring masses
at the Union of Opposites hiring hall
I was giving the citizens 
an anatomy lesson your Honor
I should be given a stipend
for public elucidation
Flo was the key if not only witness
thought she saw the god Apollo
leaping out of a moving taxi
the effect was so dramatic
that she had to leap too 
and hasn't stopped since
her testimony was a monstrosity of detail
in conclusion my rebuttal established 
several seemingly salient selections
I am a dissector by trade your Worship
and a taxpaying asset to any community
Flash was sentenced with stern admonishment 
you will henceforth exercise your libido
within the confines of spherical propriety
to which Flash assented 
without the slightest ********
er objection
and somehow strangely unafraid
the Flasher of Costa del Mar
disappeared one night
sucked into the belly of an alien craft
over the cattle lip badlands of Montana
they commenced their hideous experiments
as Flash mused without anesthesia 
on the incalculable immensity
of the starry Universe
and watched a mobile home run amok
across 9 lanes of traffic


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Premium Member The Chromatic Christmas Conundrum

In antediluvian times, so pluviophilian
Red and gold adorned the grandiloquent pavilion.
With circumlocution's mellifluous elocution
Yellow frankincense sparked a yuletide revolution.

Colors of Christmas idiosyncratic and bright
Symptomatic of joy a quintessential sight!

Black's defenestration led to white's sequestration
Blue myrrh, an epiphenomenon of celestial creation.
The floccinaucinihilipilification of green
An obfuscation of nature's loquacious sheen!

Colors of Christmas idiosyncratic and bright
Symptomatic of joy a quintessential sight!

Orange juxtaposition a kakistocracy of hue
Violet and indigo a perspicacious view.
Silver's mellifluous tone, never superfluous
In this chromatic prolegomenon, so wondrous!

Colors of Christmas idiosyncratic and bright
Symptomatic of joy a quintessential sight!

Nonplussed by colors we're rediscussed
This verisimilitude leaves us all nonplussed.
Recalcitrant shades concomitant with glee
A serendipitous fortuitous Christmas spree!

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia aside.
(Fear not these long words let your aichmophobia subside!)
With tintinnabulation and confabulation
We revel in this spectrum's elucidation!

Colors of Christmas idiosyncratic and bright
Symptomatic of joy a quintessential sight!

From soliloquent red to audacious gold
Our multitude of colors both new and old.
This Christmas palette so efficacious
Renders our celebration truly vivacious.

Yet beyond these hues lies a gift profound
A child is born; in Him true light is found.

For unto us a child is born
Unto us a son is given
And his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor
Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

(Isaiah 9:6)


Premium Member Coming To Terms With Reality

He disappeared without a word.
There was no writing on the wall
to let her know what to expect.
Was she naïve and blind to all!

Her expectations drowned in tears.
A thousand thoughts her mind assailed. 
The world around her crumbled down
Was she to blame? Where had she failed?

Confused emotions left her nights 
in disarray consumed with guilt.
The pain within was hard to bear;
felt like a sword plunged to the hilt.

She searched for answers but in vain
looked deep inside her crystal sphere 
till her reflection laughed and said
she was a fool to persevere; 

And in that instant she saw light,
elucidation from above.
The loss was his. She would move on.
He was not worthy of her love!


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A Picture Prompt Contest
Sponsored by Brenda Chiri
Placed 1st
3rd March 2020

One Truth

Our present incapable to convey, 
beneath the heaven's sky, 
yet we share the evening elucidation, 
equivalent morning rise, 
my storm will rage your way, 
your gust flustering me one day, 
articulating thoughts of you...
and mystifies my life.
© Angie Mae  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Michellesque

A dedication by Joe:

 In one minute of expression!
In the hour of an age;
I saw the fruit of inspiration
A largesse from heaven’s mage.

So I reached out to its fire
My heart big as blue sky
Just a soul tugged by awareness;
such elucidation I’d descried.

These words could melt in my essence!
The very being of my breath….
I sensed delight could dance between us
true life rejoice o’er mortal death.

Maverick © 4/5/2012
Form: Celestial Verse


The Maverick

Dedication by Michelle:

Within silent chambers of darkened grottos
wandered displaced, my weary muse.
Until he jumped forth from a page of notion
this steadfast man of no recues.

Blue flames did stoke declining embers,
he gave the spark to matchstick thought.
Within a fiery blaze of blessed insight
his verse and rhyme my spirit caught.
                                                                                    .
Idle minds can’t spin on moving axis
though cognitive fire will sing and dance
Guided by captivating poetic precinct  
I affably admire his erudite stance.

© Joe Maverick.co.uk and
© Michelle Mac Donald. Canada Inc 
24/05/2012


My Delivery

I was born with this name 
A name that cannot be moved.
Through my struggles and through my pain
These shackles I shall remove.
Dignified in all my ways 
Eminent proven that can't be replaced.
I am a true man of virtue
That cannot be measured by time or space.

I'm a Star of my own 
Reflecting the rays of my thrown.
Magnificent and Majestic 
In the land of milk and honey, I am the backbone.
Often misunderstood, 
Confound and misconstrued.
Even in contempt of their judgement
My adulation infatuation will remain intact for my brood!

My love is undenying
Everlasting and undying.
Unreplaceable, indestructible
My fable inspires that transcends to be noble.
The King of my castle
A fraction define from a point of a decimal
Denoting in the tenth power 
That represents the commandments of my counsel.

In translation...
I'm a man unrecognized by his emotions
Yet his word's expression
Forms a principle which defines in connotation.
My concentration
Concerns to adjourn any iniquitous Interpretation. 
Adjudicated as if uneducated
Yet  their mind's unable to define the intonation of my elucidation. 

So therefore there's no question!
That I am...A son reflected by his own creation.
In his own reflection 
My third eye indicates the gift of this phenomenal articulation. 
So as my motivation
My delivery will continue to build in its meticulous manifestation.
A man that will man up
To whom, I will claim to recognize his own dejected aberration.

A Touch of Fog

The past, seems to be cloning itself inside my shadow.
Just a brush of air, as it feeds my shadow shape.

I'm hearing touches and feeling echoes.
Crying smiles and laughing tears.

Stirred and laid side by side on a see-saw.

Be it a dream glimpse or a fear?
Elucidation, depending on the weight of the day.

Standing by.
Aching to be a complete duet.
Lost somewhere outside, looking in.
Ears straining to speak to a beautiful "a cappella" heart.

It too, lost in a way?

Something Beautiful and Uplifting - Praise, Worship, and Prayer

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL & UPLIFTING – PRAISE, WORSHIP, & PRAYER
There is no reason to be down and out.
     The sun still shines in the sky when raindrops.
Smile now because this is your time to pop.
     We really want to hear your thoughts about…
Life love joy rapture pleasure thrills bliss blessed
     There is cause to be irrefutable.
You know the heights of life uplift others.
     Happiness esteems and solidifies.
Each time you strive, you find that the world thrives.
     Uplift life elevate mind and inspire…
There is purpose to take on; therefore,
     Give heart to another and cheer to the 
dishearten.  Raise spirits to encourage
     deification of our creator through praise.

Mother Earth is our celestial orbit.
     Peace seekers we are in spirit and truth.
Love and harmony is for all dwellers.
     Let us join on native topography.
Hold hands sing from the voice of the patriot
     Scale the endless strife of diversity
To meander in our conflicting journeys
     So that our life is a religious hub,
Which brings forth faith in the omnipotent.
     The crux of our essence edifies soul.
Elucidation is magnetic force
     Mesmerizing all the people involved.
We shout in our synagogues worship
     Via life force, which is cognizance.

Oration heard from the heights of trouble.
     Just a closer walk with God was words voiced.
A proclamation so great, tears came forth.
     I know the Lord exclaimed the choir from the 
balcony while others were praying in 
     the aisles.  Oh Lord have mercy on me.
There was no doubt that salvation was there. 
     The expression was that the Holy Ghost 
had entered. Utterance of faith is with 
     all.  An enduring completed through the 
works of God.  How were the burdens taken 
     to a place of repost?  The Lord keeps me
safe and warm.  Through veneration and
     extol, prayer; praise; and worship heartens all.
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PENNED JUNE 28, 2014!
Written for a those who seek a greater determination....

Master Puppeteer

Can you comprehend the surveillance?
Recognize the Cyclopean that is manipulation
Suffer as fingertips osculate the doll 
Your existence in cadence with its animation
Answers painted upon the walls of elucidation 
Yet enveloped within a sadistic façade 

If only mortification was your apparatus 
Feasible would be your liberation
To fracture your damnation of kismet
Your oblivious disposition maintains insurance
Of my authentic ipseity concealment 
Penetration of veracity remains abeyant 

You confine my chassis to a line
An unhindered, forward faced, entity 
Blasphemy, impudence, and your curse
 Liquescent, manumitted, and your marquis
Flashbacks of lifetimes past, occurred moments ago
Destiny of a soul, iota of my jest

Your obstinate and averse species
Enslaved to stigmas of my amusement 
My merited eponyms you endow to others
Fate, karma, spirit, soul mate, life and death
All components, all puppets in my phenomenon 
For I am the Master Puppeteer, I am Time

Brave

High up upon the sky she would gaze,
For she was in love with that winter blues
Into the woods and breeze she would race,
For she always went searching for the clues

About the places and the world she dwell
Life can be rough and tough, she was told
But for her, it was the story untold,
Where she lived each day to unfold
To live with excellence, was only she had heard,
But she lived with all the flaws in her heart

She could hear all the blames and criticism,
But incomparable was she in her elucidation
People said, confidence was her limitation
But she left people with no intimation

She carried her stride through miles and miles
With all the pains and struggle at every pace
Wearing her most beautiful smile
In her life which was full of haze

Premium Member curse of quiet -

if you can not speak, hear ...

I am no better than you -
we are turning inward en masse
light gleams from the mountaintops and steeples
warning us with dread, yet our swirling head is never fully fed
the beast, reticent as death, wastes breath on blame

it screams without a voice to shatter the mirror of truth
begs with keen intent to move our lips
to reach and grow and sing
the song matters not ...
it is the lilt music of elucidation that begs to tremble the air

and the sacred echos not our own ...
lies and cries ... moans-to-sighs
the pregnant replies that move in the womb of hope
cloaked in doom they grope for sound, sacred
but are born wan and still and cold ...

if but a heaven's thunder to rattle the starry veil
to coax the sun to wail its bright, athwart the darkening hem
to tear the dreams from our hearts, and cast them upon our fellows
to feel the weighty wonder of dire discourse and deliberation
to burn our iterations in the frozen flames of compromise

but first, to daub tender our lips with utterance
for if the air hangs deaf and dewy like the crimson morn
we will surely earn our sorry fate and folly
and cold curse ...
of silence ...

if you hear, speak.







~ 1st Place ~  in the "Sound Of Silence" Poetry Contest, John Hamilton, Judge & Sponsor.

My Lamplighter

She was in her early teens
She looked like a bouquet of morning
But twinkles were crumbling in her sheen
The flowers in her eyes looked deserted by the sun

From some source she had heard
I could reorient the windows of her thought
Could guide her to turn her shadows into sunshine
Making her eyebrows and smile free from many a remorse

In the ensuing psychoanalytic encounter
The old began to peep out in the daylight struggle
I tried to liberate her introverted unconscious conflicts
In an empathic elucidation of her secured subterranean world

Abruptly the eye to eye lamp went out one day
‘Today you are a lecturer, sir, not a sharer of my mind’
Taken a little aback at first though, I could then painfully feel
I had in my ardor brought out the midday sun instead of the cool stars

A teenager that day opened a new door for me
Like a poem of love, bread and flowers you have to be
Like many a soft murmur in the playful currents of the deep blue sea
If you are indeed in an empathy with a view to eliminating a deep seated injury
_______________________________________________________________
20/02/2017
For the poetry contest: Younger people who have inspired you
Sponsored by: Brenda Chiri-Carroll

Confounded

Confounded

                  -1-
When tension grips and the head reels
In its ever accelerated twirl
When two rays dangle from two flayed poles,
And the dumb loss of a moment’s truth
Looks so conspicuous and an eminently
Forgettable lapse of an inoffensive world
When the gentle genre to which the slamming 
Of an ever open door in the face of 
The rare perspicacity and purpose shown
By a soul, a land and a generation belongs
Looks so commonplace; when the benign
Visitor’s countenance does indeed despair
And crave a black visor above the originality
Of its expansiveness and the staggering degradation 
Of its vitality; I have this great ache’s abundance
Stirring in my cupped palms, held out in supplication,
Till it rests, for an ever lasting understanding
Ever in the vision, ever into its aftermath.
                                     -2-
And when an hour’s trial and a moment’s  judgement
Bide time in the halls of eternity
I get this call upon me to my concept’s elucidation
And this urge to its sound espousal
But in a brief and breathless pass upon a syllable
When I catch the trail left of a wayward home coming
I find eunuchs elucidating emancipation’s final flowering
In its lone path of glory.
And for once I lose my heart, I lose my sensibilities
The stupendous reversal of a progression of faith
Finally does catch up with me
Annulling this reckless gambler’s momentary wins
But who is now going to pay up its hefty price
And take home the horrid truth.



By: S.Jagathsimhan Nair
17 May 12
For: Elliott Bowe's" Drunken pen"

Luftmenschen Continuum

by Michaelw1two

 Thinking’s challenge is to weigh,
 all of one’s life substance;
 quandary thus, illogical fuss,
 which blinds the mind's acutance;
 adscititiously into thoughts bleed,
 vitiated indurate boastance;
 corrumpable sequella fortuity,
 each thought, is truth’s desistance.

 Retrospectively choices trial,
 stands outside an untidy purport;
 merycism seeps beneath one’s deep,
 questions mythical adhort;
 ex postfacto, pride’s precious précis,
 ideas from ideals besort;
 denouement cryptic episode,
 Sphinges contend, issue alamort.

 Sapience elusive rapture,
 most minds need bethink acology;
 humanity’s Id mulled,
 without reference to a doctor of alethiology;
 furgacious notions, become the norm,
 arguments chime atheology;
 Toison d’ or, parley prewar,
 else high angels deem eschatology!

 Medullary substance rare,
 within rabid beings Tour de force;
 coarctation, indeed strangulation,
 dire result for living's bourse;
 Nationalism's agenda, wiled racist theme,
 keeps élan’s cry hoarse;
 emasculation, Republican dream;
 equates rule of thumb perforce.

 Contemplative ideas abound,
 behind the veil of Arriere Pensee;
 insinuation to middle class,
 jokes on all, laity economic refugee;
 elucidation simplistic, vote for change,
 or be laissez-faire etouffee;
 sublevation, certifiable eminency,
 party GOP national expellee!

Jan 2010

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