Best Ignition Poems
All around me
Cars driving forms entranced
Their glazed eyes suited for the waiting day
My own sequined senses, faithfully harnessed
Travel
Inside my car
35 miles to empty, 53 degrees
Press seek and jump from mindless chatter
To scars singing familiar melodies
Perfectly timed, shadows fill the parking lot
Moon still calls “capture me”
Challenge adorns windows that
Stare blankly down on rain splattered cars
22 miles to empty
4 Mondays to full
Words fall from mouths drawn on
Echoing in silent mile-long passages
I’ll step into the light
Wrap myself around a power line
Become a live wire
Shock me out of my casing, and
Friends can feed on the inspirations
Bursting from my feet
Categories:
ignition, retirement,
Form:
Free verse
"Ignition"
Magic sits with you
you wait and you listen
for messages from the other side
this is true
this addiction impressive
you write her your gift
you whisper words as you write,
she sees you, she listens
very close
always present
you can't see her, she's missing
you write him his riff
some ephemeral missive
he is in accord, in his truth, he is implicit
a ghost
sits with you
empathically diligent
you look at life
and wonder where it is
wiping away the tears
you cry
then you grieve
she sighs
phantom sighs
he looks over his shoulder
there is no one there
yet he smiles
passion fire reigns
in your hands
you hold it in close
to move all the wild horses
you whisper ever nearer
towards you
sentences,
corrals to be open
in all your fierce dreams,
you hold onto believe
wild creatures
can never be tamed
they must
of their own free will
come to you
they shall advance;
Love’s gift
always commands
picture this vision
the world lives inside you
asleep not yet risen
within you the dormant key
waits for its driver
it anxiously turns
like a fretting
child
in its sleep
woken
ignition
to drive off the plateau
no longer asleep
without fear of Love
into the
Deep
(LadyLabyrinth / 2021)
gvlm
kobi, moonie
“Love of Strings” / Moby
https://youtu.be/tdo7s16l04g
“This is what I believe:
That I am I.
That my soul is a dark forest.
That my known self
will never be more
than a little clearing in the forest.
That gods, strange gods,
come forth from the forest
into the clearing of my known self,
and then go back.
That I must have the courage
to let them come and go.
That I will never let mankind
put anything over me,
but that I will try always
to recognize and submit
to the gods in me
and the gods
in other men and women.
There is my creed.”
D.H. Lawrence
Categories:
ignition, dream, life, muse,
Form:
Free verse
A bowl of passion
a recipe of pure joy...
oven needs a light.
© Harry J Horsman 2013
Categories:
ignition, angst, love,
Form:
Senryu
The days pass slowly in cold repose
Futile as the frozen clock upon the wall
Without movement, there is no purpose
Without purpose, there is no reason
Without reason, there is cold repose
Shrouded in gauze beneath the world.
The day will come, the hour will strike
Comfort cast aside
Stairs descended in easy stride
Doors flung open, windows unhung
Breath alone will draw the clouds from the sun
Inhaling deep, the grey within
Emerging red, filled to the brim
With fire and love cast cross the skies
For no flame ever dies
Where a single spark survives.
Categories:
ignition, fire,
Form:
Free verse
I have broken through the membrane that held me within
and shaken loose the fluids that drowned me so
I have taken my first breath of fresh, free air
and now possess a liberty that is unequaled in this plane
I have been bathed in an effulgence that once blinded me
By prevailing through the abyss I saw, see, and have seen
All the former selves laid out before me and euthanized
I have put on the baggy pants of wisdom and will grow into them
Just like mom said, they'll look nice when I fill out
I have rolled up the sleeves of my understanding
and seen my heart naked and beating rhythmically
For my erstwhile destiny I shed no tears
My desiccated oculus I have removed and replaced
With an akoya pearl and a boulder opal
My blood has been poured out and has become astatine
I breathe only in the vacuum
I sense the breadth of it all
I grasp the width
I am its volume
Paramount motive,
Remain thus
Proceed not
Be in the all encompassing right now, eschew the past, circumvent the future
Categories:
ignition, analogy, birth, confidence, confusion,
Form:
Invite God to fill our being with joy
Growing gently, exhuming ego ploys
Night and day, gripping us in ecstasy
Infusing calm, tranquil serenity
Thirst for divine connect grows day by day
Ignorance ego borne, yet makes us sway
Oh hermit, in silence, simply align
Negating the lower, seek love divine
We look on as bliss invades us in swarms
Ignition rapture vivifying form
The Sushumna aglow, as nectar flows
Heightened ecstasy thus in stillness slow
Isness of being-ness in love parlance
Negating nothing, plays in innocence
19-December-2020
(Acrostic syllabic rhyme)
Categories:
ignition, spiritual,
Form:
Acrostic
the devils circle hinges on the souls ability to overcome
as the watchers shout through demons using serpent tongues
they encourage the mind to sketch out a play in hell using angels as actors
and a ticking heart owns the fuse to the bodies core reactor
as the fallen ignites the fuse many become martyred
but those that turn to the way of cain becomes his own fire starter
Categories:
ignition, life
Form:
If Only I
Don't you sometimes wonder
about what it is
They say you got it all
but there's something that you miss
That certain kind of sparkle
ignition to the flame
and whilest in sollitude
my days remain the same
How am i suppose to do
the things i said that i would do
If my head and heart collides
and lifes gear is in overdrive
No thoughts left unspoken
the night turns into day
Oh how i wish that i could meet
that stranger without a name
3x
if only I, if only I could dance amongst the stars
if only I could walk a million miles
to be right there where you are
For now that we don't talk
and i can't feel you
can't help but wonder
what it is you do
Now that we don't talk
and you're not around
i can't stand the silence
i'm out in the dark
....
Categories:
ignition, confusion, desire, emotions, lost
Form:
Lyric
IGNITION OF LOVE
The candles flicker to and fro,
our smiles are lit with its glow,
and as I touch your hand with grace,
your eyes reward your pleasant face,
my heart a rapid bounce explore,
and feel the warmth your spirit bear,
for only love transcends within the soul,
to share your heart and make us whole
a melody emotion bound,
commune in echoes with no sound
the music of your song I hear,
your voice in silence crystal clear.
Categories:
ignition, beauty, cute love, love,
Form:
Romanticism
The captivating moon light shows your smile
Here I sit with visions of you,
With great plans of our love growing in grand style
This feeling makes me brand new,
The imagery of your charm drives me so wild
Cements our souls with glue,
Walking hand in hand with you for just awhile
Closer we drew,
The style of your smile makes it all worthwhile
Let’s renew,
The love of life we hold so true without guile
Anew,
What was, is, and forever will be fertile
Two!
Comments: The “Ignition Style” consists of 14-lines with the following meters:
11-8, 11-7, 11-6, 11-4, 11-3, 11-2, and 11-1. The rhyme scheme is abab etc. It
begins with an eleven syllable long line and varied syllable short lines. If two
verses are desired, the second verse must be reversed.
Categories:
ignition, hope, imagination, life, love,
Form:
Free verse
I am open and ready to be filled up.
I have become the receptacle, the loving cup.
I am the outlet always there to receive the plug.
The cocoon transforming the butterfly from the slug.
I am the river bed through which deep water flows.
The channel bottomless as the frequency grows.
Having learned to no longer fear the dark,
shadows and phantoms have lost their spark.
All apparent monsters I recognize as my dearest friends.
After all, they are my greatest teachers in the end.
I confront my own intellectual process today;
I am ready to move into a higher, thoughtful way.
Categories:
ignition, faith, hope, introspection,
Form:
Couplet
Like a butterfly pinned
in a collage, fluttering.
Death makes a deal.
I was appalled
standing on the edge
watching the withering body.
The lake drowns me.
Seagulls were waiting
for a renaissance.
It is not even midsummer.
The planting of the kiss
remains incomplete.
No sex was involved
in baring midriff.
Moon ignites the legs.
Satish Verma
Categories:
ignition, art,
Form:
ABC
Ignition
An abandoned ember will cease to glow.
Its amber rays will fade to gray, while its
Warmth is stolen by the passage of time.
I was an ember extinguished, reduced
To ash which had forgotten the light,
Unconscious to the world which had birthed me.
You were born from an everlasting flame,
Your soul kept alight by the Vestal maids.
The threat of darkness was your urban myth.
What is burned once cannot catch fire again.
I had been reduced to my final form,
Fated to forever forget myself.
Your touch was dawn breaking infinite night.
Your gasoline love saturated my soul,
Filling me to the brim with flammable
Affection, so that I, too, could burn eternal.
Categories:
ignition, anger, death, family, fate,
Form:
Blank verse
I live in my heart although thoughts intrude
at times, which I dismiss from my presence
but they soon return because they are rude,
so I still my mind in blissful pleasance.
Caressed by bliss mists divine and sublime,
I remain for the most part in deep trance,
stirred breath by breath by love’s beauteous chime,
opting not to alter my circumstance.
There’s no effort that needs to be applied,
to become the flame of eternal bliss
so holding God’s hand, I thus wingless glide,
drenched in rapture as polarities kiss.
As light self-existent, throbbing within ~
I feel with each breath, ignition begin
27-May-2023
Categories:
ignition, i am, joy, light,
Form:
Sonnet
My ignition,
When we met I had only ashes
You ignite me
You calm my nerves
You’re an artist,
You know all the colors of my soul
My friend,
You are so special to me…
You put the pain behind me
You restored fire in me
I love you
My man,
You put life inside me
I want to live life beside you
My lover,
I’ll stand behind you
Categories:
ignition, appreciation, how i feel,
Form: