Best Embellishment Poems
After a long time today
Blue throated bird I saw
Cuddling psychedelic sunlight
Dating for the first time this year
Embellishing the boughs with amber moments
October 2, 2017
For Let's do some Alphabet - Poetry Contest
Hosted by: Sara Kendrick
On black velvet sky
Srinkles of white gems sparkle
Embellished with shine
The oomph and zing of extra spin
adds razzmatazz to shot akin
to the standing ovation din
a hole in one gets for a win.
The cream screams to the top.
The razzle and dazzle of dance
shake, rattle and roll of romance
is enhanced by the oddball prance
of a jitterbug jive freelance.
Bebop is king of pop.
Jazz embodies the extra dash
of syncopated mish and mash
adding gems of splish, splosh and splash
improvisation in a flash.
Flip-flop until you stop.
Sometimes to make more interesting,
A story being told,
Some folks will try to enhance it,
To make it sound more bold.
Sometimes when we're relating,
An experience one's had,
Certain things are added,
To enhance the good or bad.
Often when retelling,
Some newsy bit of info,
A supposition can slip in.
The story changes, bingo.
Whether to make it exciting,
To help or hinder tried,
It isn't simple embellishment.
The truth is that you lied.
If you guessed early, I do not know anything
I would like to know, on a splendid moment,
A moment that would keep the hearts alive, beating for a soul
That we would still be believers,
No one would remind us that.
You would laugh with your body and smile, nothing offensive though
You would laugh at my naivety, you would laugh at my silence.
1947 divided the greater India exactly like a bloody meat
As we seek refuge in Qurbani for unspoken myth of lies.
Supposedly, I do not know anything
I would like to know, on a moment of virtue
Where a name would not puzzle me anymore
I would be able to see beyond the name, through the words.
Honestly, I do not know anything
All my unspoken words melt down
With melting rice in dense, boiled milk
My knowledge and my divinity melts down in that mix
Where you creep on to the darker souls,
Given and overwhelmed, unapologetically.
With your definition of a holy scripture
That defines impurity so perfectly in a prescribed way.
I would be knowledgeable that day,
When a neighbor need not announce
"Let me pray in my Christian faith",
And I would end up my fasting in a Hindu gathering
With their orange sherbet.
I would be wiser that day
When Melted dreams would plead
in hunger for redemption to the utmost divine.
With every grain of effort in humility, in purity.
That day, I would establish my soul in divinity
And I would establish my souls in purity
For every whiteness flowing through past.
After all, it is much easier a path, is it not?
K-indly
I-nterpret
M-y
B-irthday
E-xpression's
R-egards
L-etting
Y-early
A-crostic
S-tatement's
T-errific
E-mbellishment
J-ust
A-pply
D-ivine
A-dornment
Topic: Birthday of Kimberly F. Astejada (March 07)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic