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Premium Member Voice in My Head


let me be a wanderlust vixen in the vortex ~ 
a voltage liquified to the upbeat vibrato,
versing vehemently in venom-glazed grief, 
and rehearsing your criminalism 
like a serial liar ~
because I am too voiceless 
to command the Monarch of mercury 
to vindict the sojourners 
that lure me to their blind holes,
and vandalise the chromatic criticisms 
that clench me in their cyanide claws,
through the cracks 
branching in the demonised billboard …

Oh scorching serpent,  
slithering with velvet-tongued torment,
never leave me tethered
between the lips of loneliness ~
like a leaflet tucked on
the seaglass screen, 
screaming for those stygian seashells 
to lock my secrets behind 
the bars of misplaced passwords,
because, this pulse of paranoia 
is too pure to palpitate 
in the pixels of poisoned prayers ~
and there is no anecdote 
that annihilates the anxious 
acronyms of abandonment, 
streaming through the realms 
of disposed dimensions.
There are no strings attached 
that hum in hexed hoaxes 
through the violin vendetta 
strumming an acapella ~ 
through the lusty noise 
of monsters longing for 
the loss of my sacred insanity …

perhaps, the voice in my head
is an ode to the orchestrating shadows,
too mindless to manipulate ~ 
          scripted in secluse 
          replaying the ruins,
          paused in the prison 
                  
    a sketch of sleep in splitting senses … 

as bipolar ballads 
tame their schizophrenic strokes ~
when the Maestro of moon 
mediates a megalomaniac 
sonnet of venting slaves,
in the muted matriarchy of mantras 
that keep repenting rage,
in the impulsive incandescence 
of my icy azure ink ~ 
refusing the warmth 
of vulnerable sagas 
that ache to heal me 
and release the 
insomniac coldness ~ 
blanketed with the sparks 
of murky mermaid stars …

I own this label ~
the name of a lunar lunatic, 
and this is a war,
between the sphinx of sabotage 
and the never-ending nocturns ,
as, I remain weapon-less 
like a cardinal iris,
rewriting the rules 
of unshakable madness 
in your maniac meanderings,
        ineffable ~  invisible ~ incurable 
                                   an impostrous
                                                  i n v a d e r …

Premium Member The Calling Gull Of Aquinnah

The calling gull leaves her nest
her wild magic cleaves the nimbus.
An avian aerialist suspended aloft 
she sails on tapered feathers of cirrus silk,
ruffled sea breeze ironed ‘neath her lustrous wings.

A wind witch, she defies and defines the  w-i-n-d…
a weaver of worlds, knotting strings of stories as one wampum belt
in union with the sea’s connection to land and air.

She steals the sough from the surf and the sigh from my sinew;
my guide to a mindful haven. This nurture-maven 
glides among bouquets of pink-peony-cumulus.
She; my blue-sky-muse in celebration!
She; my compass rose, mediates my meditation.

I unfurl fresh wings, a night-to-day tern, and claim my turn with the wind
no longer a granite stone asleep on sand. I soar
from the glacial-age strand and lift through fog.. brief my tryst
with mist. Eyes blessed by the crest of a humpback’s breach.

I distill myself, my will; a droplet, tear, a sphere free of guise.
An ascendant of moon-magnet tides yet a descendant
from stratus to stratum, I settle upon the cliffs along the coast
in union with my soul’s connection to body and breath.

In the cup of my hands I hold the sun and drink its yolk,
white-cap breakers below chant a soluble sonnet.
From my inner dark, a flint-spark flares as I find what I lost.
My heart, a wild cranberry, reborn from the womb of dawn.

I inhale the moment. Red clay cliffs, lifeblood, fire-skies merge.
Windswept pitch pines croon as I grow roots for my tabernacle,
cosmic beams stream through stained-glass-eyes.
The calling gull rests. A distant, silent witness to my quest.

My pulse a psalm as I emerge; a cathedral lit by sunrise.

Premium Member Oceans Apart

gravity craves in the sky

weightless surrender -

comet reaches rock bottom


tides foam a lullaby

crested lengths wave -

ripples focus underneath


horizon lingers abreast

pain drenched capture -

currents expose lost hope


a life buoy tied to an anchor

flare soaked in life’s blood -

cess pool seizes cessation


atlantis meet nirvana

tranquility draws in the sand-

jetsam leads the way


the saviour dies dried tears

an offering’s nail to the cross -

hobgoblin mocks the journey


drift wood walks on water

parts with seven wild seas -

beach hut shelters new dreams


a lonely star fish grants company

octopus offers eight fold path -

tentacles points to serenity


shooting star recovers attraction

wings hardship and meaning -

levitation mediates sorrow


earth-wind meets fire

mermaid shares fins -

life life rescues calm voyage


07th February 2020


Premium Member Forgiveness

In flash of lightning on clouds' darkest tide
Christ gave light to the world -He gave His life
to forgive all our sins, He suffered…died
Exemplifying His loving deeds  for
we’re His children, in Him we must unite.
His sacrifice gave Him unrivalled sore
to make His Love reign in this world, not grudge
Hatred inflicts pains of body, mind...heart--
Spoiling one's relationship, soul is smudged.
No sadness  follows or unending war
if our contrite heart will swallow its pride
and His Holy Spirit mediates and guide.
Jettison our heart’s  hurts through forgiveness
and sail on life’s light flow with happiness.


©2015Leonora Galinta
     All Rights Reserved



Sept. 30, 2015         11.15 pm

Also inspired by a bible verse:
Ephesians 4:32
© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.

The Third Eye...

The subjective mind,
mindly eye,center point
between our physical eye's,
objective of the subjective,is to
determine the difference between
...truth and error,
trial and tribulation period 
in accordance with what's aright...
as the soul mediates the body and mind,
expanding consciousness in proper order...
object reality,is only the minds eye's interpretation,
whether developed or under developed,as
the object itself doesn't change,
it is what it is,as we learn it...

Premium Member When It Is Winter

When It Is Winter

Whence from shine the seasons to whom and to where

High on snow peaked mountains sits the Buddha under a fir tree

Exalted warm in the glow of change and stillness he mediates

Never ending contradictions assembles frost transcends right there


In the heat of the desert Northern lights shed their guidance

To similar truth’s complementation seek meaningful sense


In abandon vast perception’s years cycle from our point of views

Swift within and without riches and scrap heaps of dissimilar hues 


When periods swell and spell interchange across planets and orbit

In constant revolution vison blind folded deceptions and ruses

No one come high tides water or drought can simply absorb it

The winter is summer as spring turns to autumn and perspective

Emerges in harmony when my lights in the South levitate from

Reclusion where wise humans freeze sweat which is highly subjective


Madmen Make Millions

Poem of “M”
 
Madmen Make Millions
 
Madmen make millions
Money mills manage the most
Mind a moody man on the moon
Meek morons miss many moths
Music mediates with mental myths
My mother mixes milk and melons
Maria Marcus must be Mrs Martin
Maymays may maze by a map
Mocked man must mourn more
Mute mode meant to be minimum
Minorities meet most mornings
Malls mean mega markets
Madmen make millions

Premium Member Auslander

The Ausländer
David J Walker

We share the world with sinners
We share the world with saints

We elect ourselves the oft mistaken 
magistrates 

Who mediates 
The distribution of the various 
prison tattoo’s 

Branding with scarlet letters 
The cautions of crossed pathed 
		Possibilities

each emblem 
the feared
confession of Caine

The smokey glass window stained with 
		the flawed and 

overexposed soul 
of someone who knows
		he/she

will always be 
		an  Ausländer

Acrostic On My Sweet Daughter Sanmati 2

Sanmati is my angle’s name. She never
Analyses her problem without sure.
Neither does she answer anyone directly;
Mediates before speaking desperately. 
Amit is her uncle’s name. Smart is he
Though teaches him how to be.
I am proud father and Kavita her mother.
Savita is her grandmother who bother
Always for her betterment. We all
Negotiate for her better stroll
Knowing how the future world be.
Either ways are taught to be free
Truth and honesty being you see.
“Jai Jinendra” is the first word 
All we speak before tea or curd.
I am sure her grandpa Deshbhushan
Needs her help when he in tension.

Sidewalk Strutting

Sidewalk Strutting



She struts her stuff on salacious sidewalks
Where the midnight moon mediates her desires
With sensual strides in her high heel attire
Sleeping like a baby during the dusky day
And then she awakens with sore feet…




June.01.2018
She Walks 
Sponsored by: Julia Ward

Noises and Voices-2

NOISES AND VOICES
                       ( By  S.Jagathsimhan  Nair) 

In my hotel room
I  am abridged to a cube of light
I fold up into  silence
The room is now full of noises
I took nine months to notice its
Paint’s tint. Its off pink brazenness
Its saffron aloofness, its overall
Oneness with my mind’s divisions.
 Masons’  toil and owner’s order
And the combined craft  receives
Caparisoned flesh and fleshed souls
Flesh that knows not openness
Souls that know not oneness with space
Despite its fast format of flux
It’s but its very same sameness
Wound up histories live side by but
How are the living mere actors
This  strange physician with a stare
Prescribes a drug- god dichotomy
For cure. Another   inmate kills his
Cancer with liquor and cigar
A plain youth plays cards with his peers
Occasionally a bedlam
Keeps mum or an argument mediates
Meditate incurably or
Float dead-flat in a rock-hard cot
Caught in its vortex I am flying
To its fringe. Is this bruise
Showing out of the earth. Is it
A piece of news blessing the battered
Here now I’m once again abridged
To a cube of nonchalant light
I wake up from my  silence
The room is full of rare voices.

Premium Member Writing a Poem

A single stroke 
dispatches emptiness, 
in one ambitious line 
gives backbone to 
my limp attention. 
 
Rigid fingers tighten 
on the brush. 
The bristles slash again 
and incorruptible reality 
is neatly tailored 
to my artifice. 
 
Leaning on my arm, 
I glance behind me 
at the letters 
inching down the page. 
There's no return, 
no second chance. 
 
The brush no longer 
mediates between 
intention and accomplishment. 
It races on ahead of me, 
guided by the incidental 
pattern of its progress. 
 
Independent of endeavor, 
indifferent to what I am 
or what I hoped to be, 
it brushes my design aside 
and draws its own conclusions.


First version published in Poet, India

Premium Member Pondering On Nirvana

Pondering on Nirvana

The meditator mediates her thoughts meanders through
               confusion and the onslaught overkilled by oscillating storms

Nothingness emptiness detachment as she does not wish to 
               be fragmented any longer but the Lotus flower seems

Appears to have departed the mantras has deserted her and her visions 
               are merely a picture of Guernica in which rotten demise remains

Her poetry resounds blank sentences a piece of paper fountain pain 
               pricked pen idle dried ink and empty hollow words craving expression

Her begging bowl scrambles for what is or is not meant to be seeks
               the truth darkens memories of a blotchy future so far untold

Seeds are waiting to flourish agonise antagonise before the 
               waiting game is over and reality settles on her tired restless mind

The moment bargains like a Faustian pact entices temptations 
               doubts resolve capitulation yet fails once more the sweet surrender

When evening falls again she levitates on the putrid stench of 
               humanity while smells  of roses have succumbed to thorns alone

Reflecting moons however guide shooting stars alleviate the scorching sun
               so she resolves to try in hope once more when new tomorrow beckons

Am I Not To Blame?

Had I known life would be this full of despair, I would not have lived.
Yet since I was not given a choice, why not find the good?
Why should I allow work to overrun me?
Why should I wallow in my self-pity?
Why should my life change without my consent?

The fickle feelings of love and lost love drive me mad.
Could I not choose to pursue someone?
Would not that upset my life's ideals?
Would not that end this strife?
Do I not stand for anything save sloth?

Inaction plagues my very thoughts as comfort controls my life.
How do I justify my injustice?
Is not every human life valuable?
Could not war be as anti-human as possible?
Is not greed the general of conquest?

America mediates middle-class, middle-age, middle-ground.
Is not the ruling class the upper-class?
Are not the middle-aged in charge of me?
Does not the middle-ground appear closer to both sides?
Should not America stand for equality and fairness?

Killing millions of people regardless of culpability is wrong.
Could not America stand for liberty instead of safety?
Could not America stand for freedom instead of entertainment?
Could not America stand for living instead of killing?
Am I not to blame?

Premium Member Puncture Kit

at  the  entrance   to   the  drive-in church   the road  divides   deceptively

the  sign  signals  divisive  directions  but  mediates  midway  at  midnight

Saviour salvation spirit		                    Satan superstition sacrilege 

God giving guidance 			                        gluttony greed gyrations

resurrection    rejuvenation    revelations   agnostics   atheism   antitheses

righteousness   roadside  assistance  available  ‘enter  at  your  own   peril’

prayers   pious   power  soda pop  popcorn   psychedelics  putrid  paranoia 

temple tables terra-firma		                  trivia temptation tribulations

selfless sacred sustenance		                       slivering snake salivating

the  slow-motion picture  posits  poignant  perusal  but it’s a  silent  movie

apart from back seats groaning settling for sex  sperm and  splits  sheaths

scripted sanguine suggestions                            sighs salubrious screams 

sanctimony shelter serenity		           suffering secrets sneakiness

spare me  serpent and ravaging rod please hit me with your  rhythm  stick

appease  the  apple  anchor my  appetite  avert my  agonizing  aspirations

Eve  enters the epic  production while  Mary Magdalene  marries  measure

suddenly  the  speaker  system sounds  in  supersonic  spectacle’s squeals

sheep and shepherd apparition or angels dreams or duped delirious dance

purity pinnacles pentacles                 punishment penetration perspiration

chaste cinematic celebrations 	              cradling caresses X rated cross

on  the  way  home  the bubble  and the tyres burst into  almighty  shreds

but the spare  rubber  went  missing  and God works in  mysterious  ways


29th August 2020

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