Best Infringe Poems
Remembering the days of yesteryear
when family ties were held most dear,
gas lamps flickered in the back street
while most of us danced a different beat.
Tragic alleyways of smog and smut
“Live over the brush”* branded a sl*t,
silhouettes infringe the darkest night
gullible back shift broke the morning light.
Adventurous nights at “Townhead Mill”
eight pints of beer the back porch thrill,
when no meant yes in rapturous skill
to fumigated music from “Nashville.”
Obnoxious libertine this bread man
bay curtain drawn delivery van,
the situation conspired indiscretion
clinical the world’s oldest profession.
Sporting gentlemen in summer bliss
caught first ball costly night on the piss,
pavilion home to moorside drover
many a chaste maiden bowled over.
Partial pilgrimage down “Bolton Road”
black and amber heroes round ball code,
liniment buoyant throughout the room
manly skills embroider the village groom.
Cardinal days steeped in “Rock ‘n’ Roll”
sire in fear of them out of control,
a colossal wedge between cultures
in shadows of decency vile vultures.
Repetitious days of school yard might
the bullies reduced one’s life to plight,
parents queried yet misunderstood
reasons for mayhem in the neighbourhood.
Lad and lasses lost in “Hide and seek”
games of “Stroke a back” every week,
by the old school grounds we all did laik**
now the street is naked for heaven sake.
Why on earth would a mind keep drifting back
this poetry constantly placing me on track,
when life was a role without fame or stars
only toil and trepidation and these scars?
© Harry J Horsman 2013
*Living in sin
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In black and white, I adore framing my inner thoughts, my worries, my wants and hopes… Words! a world of abiding renewal… a space of a bountiful solitude… a state of illusive freedom… a journey to the nowhere!
once nature bestirred
a smiling heart is echoed
great rapture bestowed
words! they have a world of their own! You build them, feed them on your feelings, your viewpoints and creed… As soon as they blossom and stand on their own feet, they escape your grip… They soar high and you just have to trace their wonders, listen to their fanning wings, gape at their outstanding performances while they are outgrowing your black and white frame and outshining your very thoughts.
Pounding of musings
awake is the wonder muse
the heart resonates.
Boundless power to free be
in trance, another soul be.
How dare you, words of mine, infringe the laws of the Haibun world?! Haven’t I told you?! I’m not responsible if a Haiku has expanded into a Tanka!
Do not encroach, infringe or invade
No trespassing sign made by Wade
For his brothers Maddox and Mead
Tiny problem, they are too young to read
Time endless and space infinity
I rise to the challenge
gifts from Spirit femininity
a treasure He did on me infringe
effortlessly moving along the shadows
so I may find the light
giving breath to the one who throws
spiritual beings in my sight
oh delight
Everywhere, in dark and light,
are always watching eyes.
Way out in space,
glowing orbs,
some of gold;
watch through celestial layers.
Sift through the layers,
to allow the light.
Expose the golden,
watching eyes.
Those burning orbs,
that hide in space.
We all need our private space.
Desperate, we dress in layers,
to escape the prying orbs.
But, when a light
reveals prying eyes,
our privacy’s no longer golden.
In dreams of gold,
we fly in space.
No nosey eyes
will peel our mortal layers.
Our hearts so light,
escape those nosey orbs.
Centrifugal orbs;
spinning gold,
upon a stage of pinwheel lights.
How they play in space,
among dark layers,
away from prying eyes.
Invasive eyes,
those peering orbs,
that hide in layers;
infringe upon our golden,
private space;
smother our inner light.
Prying eyes, hiding in etheric layers to spy.
My soul-orbs, watch them spying in space.
Their privacy’s just as golden; though they wear a disguise of star light.
In a perfect world, we belong to the same race, the human race.
Everyone tries to make a difference in life to improve themselves.
No one chooses a lifestyle of laziness at the expense of others.
In a perfect world, there is no fear of speaking out about what one believes.
People use their minds without prejudice, trying to figure out things in life.
Just because someone believes in something does not make them right.
In a perfect world, everyone has the right to be who they were meant to be.
There are no oppressor classes trying to mold regular people.
There is freedom of choice when it does not infringe on the rights of others.
In a perfect world, we remember that honor and integrity are important.
The journey in life matters so the end does not justify a means to an end.
People in life truly love and embrace one another for just who they are.
Edward J. Ebbs - February 12, 2016
Written for a Contest, In A Perfect World
Freeze! Freeze! Cops here, put your hands in the air!
Get on your knees! Put your hands behind your head!
We had a report of a crime and came and found you here.
You’re under arrest; if you move; we will shoot you dead.
Officer, what is the charge for which I am under arrest?
Was I identified as the suspect in your alleged report?
I’m on my knees; hands behind my head; I will not protest.
Why an intruder and a criminal, did the caller purport?
I am an employee and the owner of this business officer.
It is my legal right and prerogative to be situated here.
How can you infringe on my rights; but, take benefits I offer?
You disrespect my liberty and dignity the anthem holds dear;
You profiled, labelled, tried and convicted; without knowing me;
I am guilty, until my innocence is proven to be wholly true.
In a country whose constitution don’t benefit me, who’s free;
Then what relevance is the ‘virtue of the flag,’ if not ‘equal value’.
End
By: Dion Penville
we meld as roots twine
bark nor storm infringe on love
death, cold, raw, a pauper’s dream...
braid graceful passion
bend before heart’s storm...
engulf beginnings
honeyed breath kiss on
life dancing on, babies born
tagged in blissful wondering...
forever mine dear
a bed to begin and to end...
embrace of me
*A wedding verse in Sedoka Form
Hello. My name is Spring and I make an appearance every year.
People have often made comments of me like, 'Spring is in the air'.
For Daylight Saving Time, many will say 'Fall back and Spring forward'.
Well, they can say that, but sometimes I am early and other times late.
Sometimes, Old Man Winter hangs around too long, taking up my 'air space'.
And sometimes, I can't wait to 'Spring forward', attempting to push him aside.
That's right my friend, there is more going on up there than meets the eye.
And when cold clashes with heat, especially in my season, there's always
trouble in the sky. And usually, when there's trouble in the sky, it's not long before there's trouble on the ground. I might show up before I am officially
due or I may come after I'm due. It's another way of saying that I might be in the air but not on the ground in your neck of the woods. I may be in the air, but you do not see, hear, or even feel me. You take this winter of 2019 for example. I don't rightly know what's going on out here, and I don't know how long Mr. Winter is going to last, but things are definitely much different.
Anyway, I want to say that each of us seasons has to show up and do our job, and I'm hoping that, as you might be also, Mr. Winter does not overstay or infringe upon my responsibilities. I have to show up on time to restore life, create beauty, and get things growing again. I can't do that if Mr. Winter wears out his welcome, and it is absolutely unthinkable to try pushing him around because he's much stronger than I. So whereas I might be in the air, I might also be there cold and covered in snow, just waiting my turn.
03052019PoSoupContest, Spring Is In The Air, Emile Pinet
I won't be back down
I won't be goaded into a fight
I know what I want
And I always get it
Just watch
It's always meaningful when you are a part of it
Life is boring without me
Meaning
What meaning?
It's only when you make of it
True religion
The one within you
Don't take you to a church
if you don't have it within
I don't have to explain it to you
There's only one I worry
It's the One I can't explain
It's the One I answer to
Don't infringe me
And I won't infringe you
Take me at face value
as I don't play around
Why does everything have to be so hard?
It is not
Take it from me
If it's too hard
it is not for you
Run...
What is freedom if you are not willing to pay a price?
Too much explaining can drive one banana
Don't start now
The one who thinks he can is actually can
Does it make sense?
Haha
Hope not
because that is when you get it
Lol
That will take some time
Just kidding
Want to pull your leg
It's actually long
Don't wanna
Haha
Get your message somewhere else
'cause this chic is going to bed
ESTRANGED
estranged
changed
suspended
where angels
fear to tread
imposing
deep thoughts
noises infringe
from the outside
detonating all
within
© Kim van Breda—1 November 2015
twasn’t an absence of belief in
hexes or voodoo ****, black magic,
witches or warlocks,
which brought to mind the maddening
of the crickets, for
900 species of those sinister gryllidae
couldn’t be wrong &
they came anyway---
chirping their nocturnal nonsense &
forcing the writer to rack her brain,
as all she wanted was to keep the
mental
pedal
to the
metal &
yet, nature allows no rest for the
proverbial wicked---
with said writer being the type
who would stick it out to the last
moment of supposed sanity,
she finally snapped!
not being able to get a word down
because of those damn crickets,
not being able to get a sentence down
because of those goddamned crickets,
not being able to get a paragraph down
(with a deadline at hand) in the middle
of the goddamned morning,
amidst the noise pollution just outside
her window,
all because of those
god****ingdamned crickets!!!
so swiftly,
like the wing’s flap of the most
eloquent great bird which comes to
mind,
she jumped from her seat & went to the
gun cabinet---
there, she kept a bb gun, a fashionable
revolver that once having the CO2 capsule
popped in, looked menacing enough
(she felt) to fend off an intruder,
whilst at the same time, it didn’t really
infringe upon her stance on gun control.
with this, she went outside,
bb gun in hand &
started blazing away
without any real notion that what she
commenced
would put any dent in the insanity that these
goddamned crickets
had manifested upon her
&
as the chirping sounds did not &
would not cease,
she dropped to her knees after her
bb gun was empty,
weeping, sobbing &
slobbering tears & spit all over herself,
curled up in a fetal position right out
there in her back yard,
submitting herself to the servitude of
the insects at hand.
Pachyderm Extinction Party
Two American parties of politics each have a mascot,
Either choice as sensible as picking a sasquatch.
One a pachyderm the other a ass,
The former officially adopted by the party of impasse.
It is too bad this proboscis beast has been picked
By accident of history this party to depict;
One whose furtherance of business as usual
Will destroy this world by treating everything as a consumable.
Whether the logo represents Asian or African species is unclear;
Likely Republicans don’t know or seem not to give a tear.
Jumbos are killed every 15 seconds, extinction soon to be it’s fate,
All for powder and trinkets made from hacked off tusks sold at a high rate.
G.O.P. would not lift a finger to protect this mammoth animal
For this would infringe on rights to make capitol.
Preventing it from being hunted to the last individual
Would slow their campaign to make this world unlivable.
Contest - Giant Animals
Sponsor – Nathan D.
8/30/2015
I am going to write about
"renew acquaintance"
Have you ever thought of that?
Have you ever thought of how many people
we have known through the years?
What if we kept in touch with everyone?
Just think how many people we have known now
I am so bad at this
I don't keep contact with people
I'll let them go
And only when I want something
then I'll get in touch with them
Why is that?
Why don't we like to keep in contact with people?
Do they infringe on us?
Do they take something from us?
Energy, life?
It's the exact opposite
People give you life
They infuse energy into you
Do you ever see someone who lives in confinement?
I hope not
But you would see someone who would be drained, no life left
That is why they don't put one in confinement
for nothing
So what other reasons that you don't like to keep in contact with people?
Selfish - you have your life and they have yours
Did you know your life would be richer if they are in it?
When do you ever know one plus one equal three?
Only when you find somebody, right?
I am just kidding
Go - find someone
Make contact with them
And renew contacts
Life has so much meaning
when you include others in it
There - I got my preaching
Now I have to do it
Ahhhhhhhhhh
“I’ll Take America”
We have our faults and failings;
Our mistakes are quite a few.
Our demigods have disappointed us
And left society askew.
We’ve cleaned up some injustices
And created as many more
To found a sustainable independence
who many might deplore.
We’ve poked our nose in skirmishes
When innocents cried out in pain
Which sometimes found us more wrong than right,
Yet we’d do it all again.
We don’t stand idle to injustice,
At least not for very long
Especially when the battle
Is the weak against the strong.
You see, we are the doers -
Defending those with lesser fights,
So that they have the privilege of
protest as their God given right.
Our forefathers fought and died
For the privileges of a few,
So that they might enjoy the freedoms
That they persistently pursue.
There is no other nation under God
Who grants more liberties
And swings open its doors in welcome relief
To those who demand to be free.
So, we ask for an appreciation
Of where one man’s rights may end,
So as to not infringe on anothers
Where they may lawfully begin.
For you have choices, as do we,
To stay or go from these hallowed shores
And pursue the unfulfilled dreams
That you may wish to explore.
But I’ll take America with all her faults
And all she has yet to discern
Just because I know she is trying
To master the lessons she has yet to learn.
Jb pearce
08/19/17
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