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Premium Member Mankind's Greatest Mystery (Inspired By Chris Higgins)

If 2012 prophesies prove true
And Earth’s life cycles again renew
Mysteries of man will be more than a few

Challenges may await future life forms
With intellects far surpassing our norm
Created to live without doing harm

For if they decipher man’s history
What will they make of our great mystery
The one we refer to as bigotry

Black labs, gold retrievers live side by side
Wild stallions and mustangs on prairies ride
Both red ants and black, free to colonize

Man’s refusal to accept differences
To wiser beings may make no sense
What in man’s makeup can give it credence?

Earth’s subsequent creatures may reproduce
Not needing two sexes to call a truce
So mating rituals may be pursued

A single-sex species might not comprehend
Why women workers were paid less than men
And why “free speech” was not just a given

Questions would most certainly arise
How a believer in God denies
Rights to free worship without compromise

And how could so many wars be waged
Evoking God’s name in death-march crusades
With killing, torturing in every age

Indeed such mysteries in man’s history
Would leave a perplexing legacy
Sure to confound any new species

New cultures may thrive on diversity
Of religion and genealogy
And speak of our inferiority


Note:  This is dedicated to Christopher Higgins whose poems about prejudice inspire readers 
to do more than just think about one of the greatest ills in our society.

Inspired By Slim Shady

You can probably tell I've always been inspired by Slim Shady 
By the way I rhyme words and the fact my pen's crazy
I'm the equivalent to Jason Voorhees listening to the Marshall Mathers LP with a pen in his hand instead of a Machete 
This is a horror movie on paper and I don't think you're ready 
You want to dress it up, well I'll jump out of your fashion catalogue 
I'm happy to stand out, forget hiding I don't need camouflage 
I got in my own way too many times before and I used to self sabotage 
No more though, you may want to duck and hide when I let my pen's ammo discharge
I'm a one man army,bring your whole battle squad 
You should know by the way I put words together that I'm a scrabble god
Should I rhyme simpler and dumb it down because these days the dumbest people and ideas get the biggest views
This generation need things simple, and handed to them, they don't want to look for hidden jewels
These days people get everything Misconstrued 
Kids today seem to think the best rapper is the richest dude
I don't care about a Kardashian or an Amber Rose or who is kissing who
my dad left me with issues and fears of abandonment 
I just want to wake up to my dream girl wearing my shirt and making me sandwiches
Have her look at me like I'm the first drop of rain after a drought 
Forget the past and future, I'd rather just focus on the matters of now
tell Cupid if he shoots me again to make it Demi Lovato 
I wouldn't say it to his face but Brock Lesnar looks like Johnny Bravo
People throw shots these days and they're barely Vodka 
My pen is a magic wand that makes me poetry's Harry Potter
Some won't like that I'm bringing rap style punchlines to poetry 
but even when I'm writing for fun and joking I still speak openly
Unsure if I had writers block or if I've been lazy 
But I'm back now and my pen's crazy 
You can all probably tell by the way I rhyme that I've been inspired by Slim Shady
© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.

Inspired By Gaia

Rays of sunlight awaken and skies of sapphire inspire, when mother lies back with eyes veiled, breathing out life and breathing in spirit. She is the fertile earth and boundless sky. She glides through eternity, rising and falling. Her hair, once the color of midnight, now shines silver like beams from the full moon, and the stars encircling her, illuminate creation, igniting dreams and enchanting sleepless nights. As we, who no longer walk barefoot upon the earth, busy ourselves, forgetting to lift our eyes in witness to her majesty and her beauty and her grace. Our hearts still beat in unison with her essence. Beneath the stars, we walk upon the same dusty earth as our ancestors. The sky rumbles all around us with echoes of the past, and in stillness, she feels the knees of the forgotten pressed against her chest giving thanks for her nurturing breath. 


spirits veil her eyes -
drifting through sapphire sky
constellations align
 


*Haibun form inspired by Susan Seddon Boulet’s Gaia 
(for Debbie Guzzi’s Free Verse, Prose, Haibun Contest, 11/1/2014)


Premium Member The Mythical Fisher Woman - Inspired By Contest

I encountered her on a dark stormy night
Her huge trout like lips were a scary sight
Strands of white spittle formed on angry lips
huge folds of fat spilled over her wobbly hips
With scaly grey skin and blood red eyes
and legs so fat they chafed her thighs
Hair tangled and matted like limp seaweed
She reeked like a fish of an ancient breed
Reaching out for me with her claw like nails
Slime dripped from her hands like rancid snails
I tossed her a coin and hurried on my way
She’s not been seen since that stormy day

03-28~17

Premium Member Ten a day - inspired by Deb M's POTD

You woke at the stroke of midnight
Brain buzzing, "You simply MUST write!
You are filled with desire
Your muse is on fire
Creativity, you should never fight!

Each poem’s been penned by yourself
Not stolen off a high bookshelf
And you know PS rules
(Ignore all the blog fools)
And always be true to thyself

You’ve written ten poems ~ hooray!
In journals your work should not stay
So post ten poems on soup
It may inspire our group
Keep posting and do it YOUR way!"

Inspired By Philip Glass's Violin Concerto, Movement 1

Quiet, pensive, waiting, from out of nothing, a flash, dancing!
Back and fourth, faster, bolder, more beautiful, more radiant…
The sound envelops, and the beauty firmly wraps its hands around my ears…
Relevance and resounding, growing, pulsing, whipped into a fever!
And then easing back just a bit, like a rest to enjoy some perfect nectar of echoes.
Then back again to churn, not with blades, but with brushstrokes.
The pulsing art grabs my soul and I sway to the rhythm, the life, the light…
All around me, so necessary is this, something so pure and powerful.
Flex and twirl in the rays of sunshine, on coming the clouds and thunder!
Pounding out the feeling, the pace is relentless, but in my arms, pushing, harder!
Squeezing ever ounce of love from the air, the earth, the fire and then easing again.
Dripping with sweat, a deep breath, another, still moving but slower now.
More deliberate, but still full and open, slowly, gently, slightly and then quiet.


-inspired By Magestic Impowering Words

In lovely riddles you speak of Goddesses, 
those held above the world. 
For each of us I feel you would find a way,
to bring us back a star. 
Glowing bright, 
you would pass that orb into our gentle hands, 
to grow as children would 
above the falty of man. 
You speak in lovely riddles 
and forget to include yourself, 
for if we are such Goddesses, 
you must be a God yourself.

Deserved Rewards - Inspired By the Life and Poetry of Sylvia Plath

In ode to all who succumb
through wayward passages
lined of scribble notes
dripping ink’s savagery,
staining cursive patterns
in Sylvia-like depressions

Jarred bells ring
down lost tunnels
around each dark corner…clang
from steeples we chase
and beds we lie
draped in sadness
and shapes of
poetic happenstance

Tear drop vinaigrette
spiced of leftover lifetimes
drizzled on leafy desperation
bids a tired farewell
before time collects
the deserved rewards

Inspired by Raphaelesque Head Exploding by Salvador Dali

    emptying of the mind into the ether
contained reverberations
   sent suddenly skywards
            firmly rejected by gravity
      bounce back for the haunting 
         we live on with the fallout

        truth ruins the illusion of necessity
spittle ruins the illusion of beauty
 you can't rewrite ripples caused by history
    only bury the dead on loop
        then repeat the mantra of moving on

      there is beauty still
  in the bright light before nothing 
         that lingers on the retina
     becoming layers
          light that needs slivers of insanity
                    to fill the gaps
              but gaps to separate the insanity

         nothing is new
   as evidenced by what is etched in stone

coffee cup stains 
    create self made crowns 
 in those faraway hideouts
          the uncut planners 
 never lose a drop 
      or burn their tongue

               their hum murmurs on
          in the perfect world they build

    everyone else gives their all
        to fulfil whatever dream
  they need to be sold 

         in the inner workings of every dome
  rest the chorus of lives that built it
             silently watching on
      mouths agape

bridges shatter between downcast eyes
everything wriggles
         finds its way
   once again to a finish line
        for a fresh wave
 as inevitable as the first
          in this thirst for glory

          in every direction lay the fallen
      leaving spaces
for the glorious mourners 
        to preach their refrains
  eventually no fight or song will be left 
only moistened air descending
   kissing your cheek 

        light and sound fade
  atop mountains
     thoughts of mortality are shushed
        legacy leaving its mark
 to echo into a final slowed motion silence

Inspired by Sleeping Venus by Paul Delvaux

I dreamt it in stone
   whilst I softly slept
unhurried thoughts
      as others wept
exist as one
   that is the dream
            but the dream is undone

    kneeling and wretched
prostrate on the ground
          serene and believing 
    salvation found
by the light of the moon
   it's possible to see
the most favoured
           most becoming
        version of me

     I've taken up space
   fashioned as ornate
with no way to speak
  as a protected state
     but thoughts run rife 
        impossible to still
  what bodies can't encapsulate
within the shape that they fill

my bones tell a story
      my mind doesn't understand 
   I agreed wholeheartedly 
as horizons are scanned 
       let me be enveloped by the sandman
    lost in a faraway stare
just outside of time
          perhaps my purpose lies there

Inspired by Mystery and Melancholy of a Street by Giorgio de Chirico

shun the encroachment of the dark
    focus intently at the task at hand
blinded to peripheral vision 
  wriggle free of your silhouette 

 present beyond the corner
      circles encompass 
         captured by crescents 
      spinning in their circular hold

     neither freedom nor imprisonment will ride
  reality is just the ache of the dream
       the muddled yell & yawn

      every emotion a mere numbing agent

sometimes, I think I peeled away the relief
  but the block forms are pattern upon pattern
             and I'm a diminishing darkness
at the approach of dusk.

Inspired by A Mermaid - Waterhouse

mid song ~
    yet almost lost to longing
methods of the mundane 
            soothe no more

distance holds my gaze
  in ways that purge time
   but not infatuation
the intricacy of binding spells compels
  steals me back
    to last gasps
                    of ecstasy

     shimmers of tears clash 
  with murmurs still embedded in stone
     lapping waters draw me under
  until it is I that is too weak of will
        within your embrace
   I should expire
       entranced completely by desire

no lapsing thoughts
nor dread in swathes
a mystery scaled
in a myriad of ways
woken up and ushered in
retrieved from perpetuality of sin
by moving earth
and crashing wave
transfixed eternal
      by all the ways you save

Inspired by The Lugubrious Game by Dali

from the conch 
                whispers come
   dissect
      distract

  blow upon

         scintilla branch to intrinsic thought
weighed down
    consumed

             overwrought 

         mattering - so magnified
  that I can't turn away my eyes
               reach for able hand to soothe
    what dread could deed undo, disprove 

                kisses stolen 
     by long lost words
           explored lactic fallacies 
become absurd
                  til endings are not the body expired 
       but exposure of every cell and every wire

                   cathartic grip held in awe
                       control depletes as hem and haw
        til sadly swings 
              and bridges to shame
call time
        I must 
              on the lugubrious game

Premium Member Contests - Inspired By F J Thomas's Blog

Entering contests isn’t a race
First past the post may not get a place
Don’t make it a mission
To get first position …
Attacking sponsors is a disgrace

Written after reading F J Thomas's blog  AFTERAFFECTS OF HOSTING A CONTEST
30th May 2015

Premium Member Bawdy Titillating Titles - Inspired By But Not For Contest

Dirty old man
In the mood …
She's feelin hot hot hot
fancy a quickie?

Cross dressing
Lingerie
We should have seen the signs
What can go wrong when wearing a thong
Long and hard
What a whopper
Naked
Ecstasy

Wet dreams
moan moan moan
Hold on darling - I'm coming
This time YOU didn’t come second
Tell me why!


I was finding titles for Laura Loo’s contest and these are all original titles from some of my old poems…. I do worry about my muse!!

06-10-17

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