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Epitome Apotheosis

EPITOME APOTHEOSIS

Glory Glory
Does she answer to us to bring peace in our world?
You know men are now participants of a new recreation.
Gay sex is prone more than smoking marijuana in the sixties (60s).
They call it getting to know themselves through the quality or state of being sexual.
They say the old adage is for human sexuality to overwhelm homosexuals.
This manifests the most through... pro-sports.
The athlete does not mind being... horsed.

Growing up down South crafted her life.
In that the broken tumbleweeds leave the meadow in midair tolerating the wind until tumbleweeds no longer are there,
A Mississippi child’s insight manifests.

Twisting the mind, they want a woman to observe them.
Facial expression is that this is the newfangled way to intensify your sex drive…
Watching me turn him out makes your womanhood come alive.
Why lessen your pleasure by denying what you feel inside?

The exodus to the North found a fool’s game.
The world became a male’s domain.
As heterosexual women desire heterosexual men, they found all were doing other things.
Insight manifests as epitome apotheosis.
A Mississippi child begins to address this.
In that the broken tumbleweeds leave the meadow, the quintessence of accepting is not a bed pillow.
It is a head messed with.

Might it be loss of self-respect and principles?
Does this mean the world is changing the norms of a greater source?
Gay sex is the new recreation in which man states is the true mental sport. 
He is not the homosexual only rising his ******** to persuade the experience of sex.
Might he laugh aloud to say… “A woman will include her-self or she will wish she had".  
"This is a male’s domain and that is the truth as is”. 
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Written August 09, 2016!

Epitome of My Existence

I am the epitome of my existence
I do my own thing unlike others and thats what makes me different
If u dont like what u are hearing then close your ears
but if you do then listen
Because i may be spittin something that you are missing.
SOme are waiting to rise
while i have already risen
and i have dealt with the scars from your inflicted incisions
NOw i spit many bars and some say i spit prisons
My regurgitated
words are rated
far worse than curse words are stated
and if you dont like my verse' words then hate it
because my complex verbiage make the mind feel complicated
Complexly rated
Maliciously compensated
now my thoughts have congregated 
My knowledge grade A 100% concentrated
Poetry is my sixth sense and that what makes me different
And that is why i am the epitome of my existence!!!

Premium Member Epitome of Love and Romance-Win

Shahjahan built the Taj Mahal, a mausoleum
Situated on the bank of the River Yamuna,
In memory of his beloved wife Mumtaz
With whom he fell in love at first sight
Espying her in a fair, enraptured by her charms.

 The very sight of The Taj leaves one mesmerized.
The voluptuous curves of domes and arches,
The rhythm of birds in flight, secrets of flowers,
Vibrant colors of Nature never fading,
Like the everlasting love of Shah Jahan,
Immortalizing it as the epitome of undying love,
A lyric carved in luminous marble,
This monument of immeasurable beauty.

The Taj Mahal, one of the Seven Wonders of the World,
The crown palace, of love and romance derives its name
From Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal, the immortal lovers.
It’s promise kept to the dying wife in of a child birth.


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Shah Jahan was the emperor of India in 17th Century and Mumtaz Mahal was his third wife.
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Second Placement
Contest: Everyman's Ekphrasis by Brian Strand
The word Taj means crown and Mahal means palace-  The Taj Mahal is situated in Agra City of Uttar Pradesh state of India. Year of Construction: 1631-1653
Spread Over: 42 acres.

Yamuna: name of the river


The Epitome of Existence

A maiden glimmering in an aura of justified bereavement. Shadows lurking amidst 
the epitome of existence, a crystalline signet. Is this a search for dreams or death? 
This eternally overt void leaves traces, a scar left unseen. Blades dance in a 
plethora of pain that envelops cognizance as sanity applauds

Premium Member Epitome Of Afterglow


The smoky dust screen blows away far into the halcyon horizon,
the flotilla of cotton cloud sails in the concave depth of cobalt.
Bowed down slender blades of cinnamon grass sway
in the crisp air on the lap of meadow that has turned fawn. 

Lining the sun-burnt cinnabar garden path paved anew,  
the dry trunks of the tawny trees stand on the sepia ground. 
The setting sun ignites spectral inferno in seamless satin sky, 
makes surreal collage of vermillion embers blazing bright.

In scarlet sunset my heart is swathed by twilight’s tinsel drizzle,
suffused by its sparkle I see the stars sprout in pellucid autumn night.
For the freezing times of gloom in the winter of discontent I retain
the endearing warmth of the embrace of autumn’s remnant afterglow. 

 I see then the argentine aura of the mesmeric moon envelope you, 
where I float on the waves of stardust surge of your charisma. 
My vision is enmeshed with the lilting lattice of dreams, 
weaved by the enticing strands of your hued longing. 

The diadem of the diamond dew bejewels your dulcet dawn, 
the blades of malachite grass adorn your emerald meadow, 
where my yearning saunters sanguine to reach you,
following the new turquoise trail you trace only for me. 

The true essence of love I then perceive enthralled, 
configured with the glint of your sequins streaming within me.
The enchanting luster of your alluring shine I absorb 
in my heart’s horizon to radiate forever as your afterglow.

Premium Member Epitome of Love and Happiness

Children do ask us if Santa Claus exists
Most of us do reply, “yes, Certainly,dear”
Folklore have turned Santa into a toy
Who mans a sleigh led by eight reindeers.
How dreary our world would be if no Santa.
Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance
Can pull aside that curtain, view and
Picture the superb beauty and glory behind.
Is it real? and the answer is, it is real.
Nothing else is real and abiding in the world.
A real person, the Bishop of Myra in Turkey
After the death,canonized as patron saint of kids 
Santa is love, magic, hope and happiness.

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Date: 12-25-13
Dr. Ram Mehta
Third Place win
Contest: Christmas joy by P.D


Premium Member The Epitome of Spring

 The illuminate , ineffable
    Spring walks triumphantly 
   It's imbued with valiant,
    unwavering steps.
  It's bedecked with the boundless,
  unfailing Love and Truth
   
   Peaceful, euphoric butterflies
      radiate  from  the rainbow ,
     towering hills.
The fated spring of the hillock
 dwells in the realm of abiding Beauty,

Epitome of Love

Loving begins with a 
lover,a dishonarable 
person cannot love. Like 
hunting which cannot be 
done by just any 
hunter,loving requires 
ability,Like fruit for the 
fruit seeker,loving begins 
with a lover! So give the 
lover another option to 
love! Love requires 
intellect just like success 
requires intellect! Love 
with passion and not 
with illussion. When you 
love,guide your heart 
with deligience so that 
you won't be 
heartbroken. The hearts 
of many have been 
broken by love but the 
hearts of some have been 
made whole by love.Love 
me not to break my 
heart,but love me to build 
my heart. When you 
love,don't just love but 
love with care,love with 
love and love with faith; 
that your love be not 
abased.

Degas Dancers

** Degas Dancers **

Painted or drawn, 
Degas arrested time.
Truly
His dancers
— even those standing,
      watching the others —
Are caught in motion,
In poised postures such
That we think we can feel them
Breathing, alerting
Their limbs
To prepare for performance;
(On stage or in the studio) with
That tension,that anticipation, or
Waiting primed in stage wings
— The blue dancers,
The green ballerinas —
Always observing,
Always envisioning
What is to come,
Ever mindful
Of the goals:
To become the music,
Leaving self for the movements,
Hoping to realize that epitome:
To paint their bodies with grace
Into such danced, linked, perfectly
Sweeping lines, curves, and angles that
The music itself 
Will gasp…
The music, sounds fulfilled
Into flowing sights
As the dancers live 
The choreographed 
Combinations.

Then curtsies are
Done and flowers thrown.
In the endings, dancers become
Themselves again, like 
Degas drew them: sitting
Slumped, tired, side by side on benches
With their tutus flared and
Colorful; their pointe
Shoes off with ribbons strewn;
The music fading from thought…
But, the ballet remains,
The very meaning of
Their lives, in all
Dreams and imaginings,
Blessed to them 
First to last
Every motion
Becoming a
Joy in
Being.

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(c) Art & poem sally young eslinger
2/22/22

Premium Member Epitome of a Working Day's Drudge

The hours tick by before my eyes,
As I lay tucked up, in my bed.
Even Bo peeps sheep have now returned,
And still the lack of Zzz’s.

Pounding seconds tick away,
Seem to echo in my brain.
Back and forth and back and forth,
Reminiscent to coaches on a train.

Oh, what I hear myself reply,
As the shock begins to bite.
With blood shot eyes that settle down,
As the room now fills with light.

As a foot now stumbles on the floor,
Now lurching from my bed.
In a bleary haze that follows,
From that workman in my head.

A vow to become teetotal,
For at least that what was said.
From the dark roast coffee granules,
To raise me from the dead.

What a happy sounding chappie,
From the airway’s morning show.
Why should he be feeling cheerful?
With five days of drudge to go.

Now boldly going forward,
As through the door I trek.
Filled by last night’s antimatter,
From a star ship what the heck.

 © N Windle 2020.

Premium Member Epitome of Childhood

EPITOME OF CHILDHOOD

Why hide in a dark cave, underneath,
when you can be running the playground?

10/15/2017

Premium Member Epitome Of Elegance


          down 
the desiccated spine 
          of 
the sepia valley
                    scouring 
the serrated slopes 
of the jagged rocks
you disappeared 
like a swan
                   serenading 
on the last lap
        of 
furtive flight
with winsome wings 
       of 
raptured rhythm
                   harmonized 
      with
the summer breeze
                        rippling
through the still shadow 
of silence
                   sequestered 
in the thicket

mid-summer rains
        poured 
from cloudburst sky
        flowed 
in the vivacious valley
with the current 
of charismatic torrent
cascading dulcet
        down 
the sculpted face 
        of 
the rock cliff
                    reclined 
forming a lively lattice 
of animated 
                    waterfall
of designed figure
        where 
in an imagery
                    ingrained 
in fantasy       
I saw you return 
an angel
of fluid flair
                    framed 
as epitome
of elegance
                    ethereal

Premium Member The Epitome of Beauty

There is nothing lovelier, to me,
Than the verdant beauty of a tree
Dressed in spring and summer's finery.
Her charms grow languid and more lush
When fall's caresses make her blush.
And still I find her passing fair
When cruel winter frosts the air,
Winds his wanton fingers through her hair
And strips her leaves and leaves her bare.
She feels no shame or hides her face
And needs no poet to plead her case.
It's Nature's plan she must embrace
And wait for spring with dignity and grace.
And so remains the tree, to me,
Of beauty the epitome.

Premium Member Epitome Of Emptiness


the titular touch 
     of 
sunburst dawn
              chromatic
     and 
moon masked night
              argentine
     builds 
the bud 
layer on layer
the blooming design 
     of 
destined motif
opens the petals
     painted 
to perfection
     while              
the floral essence 
of enticement 
              unfurls
transient beauty 
of life’s elegance
              esoteric 
until the flower withers 
in vacuity          

the wilting flower 
doesn’t even know 
when the call 
               ordained
would come 
with the slashing silence 
     of
the freezing night
from the abyss 
of the gloomy ground 
     where 
it would fall
to disappear 
               drifting 
to obscurity 
in the tempest of time
               tormenting

I walk weary
in life’s senile path
               broken 
 with trudging moments
               depleted
    wafting 
like desiccated dust
    away
from the steps 
I trace 
in the last mile 
               meandering 
to disappear 
at the vanishing point
               indeterminate
     yet
embedded in 
amorphous reality        
               inexorable
the spectrum 
of the setting sun 
      tinges 
the fading fringe 
of time
in the twilight zone
turning into 
eternity specks
enclosed within 
the sated soul
      where
I float 
in timeless waves 
in the bay of bliss
                boundless
      wandering 
to the yonder shore
                configured 
as the epitome
of emptiness
                embracing

Premium Member Epitome Of Perennial Charisma


The splendor of blossoming flower lies
in the petals of the unfurling buds,
as the shower of spring’s spectrum of colors
saturates the latticed wings of butterflies.
Their charm surrounds the appealing frame,
inventing the captivating magnetism of woman.
The sensuous forces of enthralling attraction 
carry her time-transcending pristine beauty,
epitomizing the pragmatic perception
that nothing lies between the elegance of Eve and her. 

The sparkle of indigo lagoon reflects dormant dreams, 
portrayed in the entranced visage of ebullient eyes.
The lustrous lotus petals of the luscious lips, 
bloom in the gorgeous garden of fervent female face, 
carved intrinsically with narcissistic contours of pride. 

The winter spider of the setting sun weaves 
the spreading serrated webs of weary time 
within the facial furrows of fading charm.
The listless lips of wilted pallid petals hold  
the patina of passion, enticing till the end.
The smoky glazed eyes gaze into forlorn nothingness  
from the desiccated valley of sensual vacuity 
to the empty horizon of the twilight zone. 

The picture with the instilled aura of stilled time
doesn’t enclose the anguish of loss,
for it symbolizes the novel notion -  
what is a face if not a metaphor 
for the panorama of feminine penchant, 
the enduring snapshot of mesmeric moments,
captured within the eternal elegant frame 
of untarnished concealed perennial charisma.

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