Best Nonverbal Poems


Premium Member Let Me Translate

Let me translate
My love for you
From written.... to spoken....to touched
From syllable sensuality
To physical functionality
From verbal to nonverbal virtual reality

Or better yet
Let me translate them into YOUR language
Yes, I’m a polyglot glutton
craving your satiation
Interjection velocity 
Groan and grope physicality
Touch and tease and taste temerity 
Chaste words undulating into unchaste carnality

Let me translate
In meanings that you understand
Points of reference that you rant and pant
In my ear…say it in a chant….
Over and over...
I won't let you recant
your forbidden fantasty frolic…
Baby...I’ll grant

Let me translate
Into the language of YOU
I understand
Your savage need laced with greed….
concede....every one...
to me
This wave won't recede
till that passion is freed...
by my deliciously devilish deed...

My pleasure peaks uncontrollably
Rocked in your volatility
Word translation ecstasy
Come together finality
Verbal.......
non-verbal.....
G~R*A~T*F~I*E~D 
unity

So, just let me....
Let me translate
My love
For
You

Eileen Manassian

Premium Member The Language of Silence

We don't talk about it, I was mutely told,
Schooled in your nonverbal narcissism, I Attest
I became a linguist in the language of silence;

The tightened line of your mouth when a speck
of childhood play leaked through the Aperture 
of your wall of control; the Nuance of your slit eyes,
the stiffness of your shoulders when I disturbed.

The famine of your brevity, starkly juxtaposed with
the Proclivity of your friendly words for the neighbors;
Your perfunctory weak praise, more to lessen your guilt
than lift my esteem.

Even as I write this Saga under the weight of betrayal
nearly undone by our mutual oath of avoidance, and
after decades of delay, you have the Temerity to now
charge me with building the distance, keeping the barricade.

I am bluntly surprised, by your surprise; to accuse me of
this Barren contact, is to blame the clay for the cracks
in the hands that molded it.

And you dare say, why am I this way?
When I inherited the Marrow from you-

10/27/18

for John Hamilton's Eight Word Challenge contest
required words: Aperture, Attest, Barren, Temerity, Saga, Proclivity, Nuance, Marrow.

Unhappy Anniversary

Shaking in trembles, tremor within. 
A delicate pivot, shifts in separation.
Consolation comforts, the loss of win.
My first year of divorce, set in liberation. 

Bushwhacked, travelling back in time..
Reflections,... on dark night window.
Shredded heart, in melancholy chime.
Voice not so dulcet, in tears a wet pillow. 

I was once your only love, you ever knew.
nonverbal dreams in your eyes of allure.
Law settled rich, in favor of revenue.
In acrimony of hate, split ruins.. of poor.

Joining torn papers, pieces ripped off..
Crawling and dodging,  in slow boredom.
Healing cruel cracks of scorn and scoff,
hopes of Oasis in mirage of freedom.

Am I waiting for greetings and message?
Anniversary of an unhappy scar. 
Scrambling albums, photos in wreckage,
Yes, we celebrate free.... as prisoners of war.



PLACED FIRST IN THE CONTEST


23rd February 2019
Submitted to Eight Word Anniversary contest
Sponsor Michelle Faulkner 
Theme.. Describe any anniversary using given 8 words
mirage,dulcet,consolation, pivot,favor, nonverbal,
delicate,  allure


Premium Member Kaikoura Anniversary

The mirage of yesterday shimmers over today,
pearly, dulcet, raining over sunshine memory
with an allure of tones chanted as poetry.

Nonverbal cues, squawks, screams, cheeps, brush
my ears over the crash of waves and the stolen
whispers of conversation I share with you.

If I pivot toward today, six feet gained in earthquake,
large uplifted seashore, risen like spires at my feet,
has shaken all doubts of time travel sameness.

The birds, so delicate, flaring tail or hopping up limbs
flood in flocks of chattering house sparrows saying 
take up dream, favor yesterday’s search for birds

and make it sing with an allure of land, heart, mystery
spare consolation of the passing of days, spare 
reflection of weather changing, eroding, uplifting.

This is what I would remember, the whale bones,
the Kiwi Christmas tree, the hikes upward into Kanaka
woods, and the sun lifting heat and heart toward future.

Premium Member My 37th Anniversary

MY 37TH ANNIVERSARY

After years of inebriation
My life was just a mirage
My friends had lost all favor
Communication was all nonverbal

The smiles were no longer dulcet
My diligence to be a model employee
Had become a delicate affair

The allure of a promotion vanished
My life had become unmanageable
Then, I hit a pivot point
I finally came to my senses

Like the Prodigal Son of Scripture
Who returned home to his father
I returned to my Heavenly Father
And now live a life of serenity

On January eleventh 1982
I lost my desire for alcoholic brew
 I now have the consolation
Of living my life anew

23 February 2019
For the contest sponsored by Michelle Faulkner

Premium Member Delicate Anniversary Death

It will be the anniversary of my sisters death,
in a few days and I will turn back the pages of time.
The mirage comes back to my brain with all the pain,
her blood left a stain on the road until the rain;
it flowed down a drain-  a memory that will forever remain.

Mother screamed but I froze and became nonverbal,
the days that followed were a nightmare dream;
my sister had a lot of sweet allure and charm to appeal.
And she came to me at night in a gossamer light,
she held my hand tight and her smile was honey bright;
and all around us white dulcet birds were in flight. 

I will never forget the day of Suzanne's funeral,
she lay so ethereal, so fragile and delicate;
I stood very straight and still and held my tears,
many gave us the balm of consolation and solace.
Oh, how pale Suzanne looked, so dainty and frail,
I fell into a tale, and wispy wings were my veil;
on an ocean I sail-  until the scent of roses I inhale.

My birthday followed- got a doll gift favor I still savor,
I said- be braver and that was my pivot and saver.

_______________________________
January 25, 2019


Poetry/Rhyme/Delicate Anniversary Death
Copyright Protected, ID 19-1108-139-02
All Rights Reserved.  Written under Pseudonym.


Written for the contest, Eight Word Anniversary
sponsor, Michelle Faulkner

Fourth Place


Premium Member Anniversary Garden

January 24th
another delicate yellow rose bush I plant
next to 34 others, each a favor for Mom’s memory,
golden blooms of consolation
in the backyard garden, where her spirit dwells

“Has it been thirty-five years, Mom?”
decades of nonverbal communication leave an emptiness
I bend to sniff the roses’ dulcet fragrance
remembering the allure their scent had for her
on sunny days when she tended her plants

as I turn toward the back door of our old, family home
her voice I hear so clearly
“They’re beautiful, dear.”
quickly, I pivot, expecting to see her
but nothing, not even a mirage

“How many more years, Mom,
how many more roses till we reunite?”




*Written January 29, 2019
For Michelle Faulkner’s “Eight-Word Anniversary Contest”

Premium Member Poetry Anniversary

After a year, the Allure still grows
Delicate steps have become sure
Expressive through Nonverbal space
Blessed by the Favor of notice
From cloudy gray to Pivot into glorious sun
Comforting Consolation through lonely days
Dulcet words awake and sing
Bedrock steady beneath Mirage of glass
For those who share and give posts
Has inspired my muse the most.

1/24/19

Premium Member Prodigal Son Lessons

I said to my prodigal son
who stole from me,
it is not competitive economic strategies
that dominantly empower life;

Competitive ecologies and economies 
are dominantly decomposing monocultures,
just the opposite of regenerative synergetic praxis
and regenerative intent toward polycultures.

Monopolistic internal consumer-culture
develops into decomposing organic systems
dissonant cognitive 
and emotive 
and neural 
and digestive systems
diseased health and well-being
 
Socio-economic 
and politically dissociated systems,
all negatively trending toward closed-entropic,
swollen monolithic sad dismay 
replacing former therapeutic system 
glad array.

We need cooperatively dominant economies and ecologies
to reintegrate positive revolutions
that endo- and ecto-symbiotically evolve
dipolar co-arising life regenerating 
holistic healthy systems.

Competitive critical events,
like stealing from and stolen from,
struggling between painful suffering of ego-self consciousness
and "positive deviant" stress,
self co-arising right-brained redactive eco-precociousness

Contention 
seeking bicamerally balancing contentment,
joint cooperative ego-eco echoing
incoming/outgoing waves 
of double-binding comprehensive co-passioness.

Primal
and yet stealthy 
nonverbal structures
of cosmo-neuro-logical information
evolves bilateral-analogical exflowation,
cobinary
bicameral information co-redeems
transparently co-arising
EgoSelf+EcoOther resonant co-discernment.

"All money is a matter of belief"
said Adam Smith,
As all embodied wealth value 
is synergy 
for relief from self-isolating mind sorrow,
said Now MindTime to Here BodySpace.

Transparent matters 
of historic linear human progress belief
square-rooted in herstoric matriculture's transparent 
vulnerable co-communing energy
invites co-gravitational trauma relief 
from eco-political dissonating stress.

I love my prodigal self-infested son,
perhaps somewhat more than he yet has capacity
to love his wounded womb progenitor
speaking up and out
for restoring and restorying healthy
wealth of peace.

Epistle To Barack Obama

this epistle per mine choice of heir apparent presidential throne
composed from one liberal minded non-conformist rolling stone  

prompted awareness that one voice can affect which contestant will win
and occupy the white house after the votes get tallied from political spin

aware thy missive from an anonymous fellow  and a self anointed scribe
will be carefully screened no matter opinion already cast with nada bribe

personal opinion of this sole american male of two score and nine years
that barack obama possesses that je ne sais quois diplomatic state craft
   despite disparaging broadside starring paris hilton plus britney spears

the land of lincoln candidate exemplifies (to myself) a charismatic charm
in tandem with a relaxed persona and gait akin per a commoner on a farm

that nonchalant easy going affinity speaks nonverbal volumes to this chap
cringes when espying or hearing from opposing challenger whose lips flap
   meaning john mccain whose hidden motives and agenda include his trap
to plant seeds of doubt per un-decided electorate causing lead to get a zap

unknown how trials and tribulations rival democratic senator from  Illinois
will weather local nor global challenges and said solution he might employ
i opt for said captain to steer ship of state and exclaim to drop anchor ahoy

if via cosmic divine intercession the galloping newcomer in this horse race 
ushering biracial as nominal winner televisions would show a beaming face
the political ramifications analogous to betting square outcome on this ace

i gently beg, decry, fulminate counter attack advertisements fast and quick
against those subliminal sly messages that at first blush appear airily slick
and please reach deep in that magic bag resorting to retaliatory artful trick
lest burning from the madding crowd extinguished like jack’s candle wick!

Premium Member Foresting Divine Health

If you were a tree,
or even a revolving cultural tree of history,
SunGod would gift-forward
fore-give
ProGenerate your positive/negative perennial waves of energy,
nutrition, healthy midway 
between fear of freezing to death
and angry memories of wilting from thirst.

If we were EarthTribe's BiCameral Foresting Trees
we would celebrate together
SunGod TaoZen of YangSpacious Medicinal 4D-(0)-soul,
emerging WinWin EcoTherapeutic Peer2Peer PeaceWarrior
descending from PolyCultural Elder Communion Circles
worshiping GoddessGaia Earth of Queen Shabbat Yintegral
MeditationTime

Sun/Heaven penetrating receptive 
warm wet Earth/Soil
together feeding poly-empathic co-gravitational experience
evolving rich health moisturized
wealthy compost 
within our recycling forest of thirsty roots
and wilting crowns.

When I remember back through shared tree roots,
I recall before God could ever possibly become languaged as a Noun,
god must have been effectively nutritious nondual co-arising Nature's action,
growing polycultural differentiation 
and balancing panentheistic freedoms
within Time's dialectical infrastructure of
developmental seasons

Light's empowering natural/spiritual balance,
bicamerally decomposed, reviewed, reflected, reiterated 
sensexual experience
of healthy trusted
and pathological distrusted
renouned language meditation songs
and reinvested nonverbal medication dances.

Allah was Earth's medicinal panentheistic healthy verb
before becoming LeftBrain's monotheistic meditation 
wealthy reNoun.

To be fully human life's historic potential
is to become humane panentheistic EarthStory
revolving fully sacred-natural life's potential integrity
is to divine wealth trust our MeWe dipolar 
Tree Crown/RootSystem co-arising
bicamerally surprising 
EarthTribe selves.

Premium Member Where Sacred Meaning Fades

Where juicy historic purpose fades
and pre-historic
nonverbal
nonviolent sacred meaning
polyculturally creolizes
WholeOpen systemic shade
preserving future health intention

Is where we also find emergence,
consciousness of LeftHemisphere dominance
over RightHemisphere shrouded prominence
of co-relational health/wealth feelings,

Either Positive
Or Negative
and InBetween Non(Negative) 
bilateral both/and

Enthymematic co-passion cooperation
antithetically contrasted with violent anti-communication,
like NonZero potential toward quantitative fulfillment
up against Zero Sum closed static emptiness
of anthro-supremacist 
PatriarchalCapitalist 
monoculturalism against EcoFeminist 
polycultural regenerativity,
health positive proclivity

Win/Win bicameral 4Dimensional 
prime fractal moments conventional
in lightspeed revolving 
ubiquitous ergodic octave spirals
of space/time dynamic reconnecting
re-ligioning health in all

Ego/eco-systemic 
integral consciousness
benignly co-spandemic

Inside 
personal qualitative health memories
of integrity's vast resonance
with outside 
environmental quantitative wealth
of sunshine muse synergetic 
fractal cooperative resilience
passionately energetic

Where colonizing historic purpose fades
from pre-historic 
nonverbal creolization,
nonviolent sacred meanings
before dualistic desecrated voice 
reconsecrated embodied choice

To this day
polyculturally re-creolizing
within WholeOpen Systemic
ego/eco panentheistic
wealthy sacred purpose
LeftHemisphere expansive liberation
and healthy organic meaning
RightHemisphere deep-felt conservation
co-invention 

Bicamerally empowering
and enlightening 
bifocal fractal
re/pre/anti/un-conscious
creolizing re-ligious colonization,
mystery's historic re-connecting penetration.

Premium Member Cosmic Climax

It's much too close in here
for loneliness,
or companionship.

Either way,
I grow too small
non-existent
non-essential
undervalued domesticity with insufficient commodity,
just another over-populating parasite
underneath Earth's glamorous backside;

Suppressed incubator within a more integrating place
of nonverbal language
and full-octaned relationship toward outside 
somewhere, marginally surfing
flowing symbiotic omni-nutritional fluid
umbilical corded string
for receiving ever more formative function
energetic unction
massive combustion
rebirthing my new Elder synergetic IdEntity
through Ego-recession,
contracting unrhymed rhythm
of fear of fear of fear...

Double-Binding negative threshold
toward appositional Eco-Love prehension;
echoing across echo-developing hemispheres,
inter-wombed regenetic too slow and tight economy
creating EarthTribe's Beloved Ecology
of paradise boundaried with pain

Longing reconnected within universal agency,
being primally related through
RNA's coincidental Hollow Womb Presence,
Earth's self-optimizing cornucopian abundance
revolutioning joyful grace,
redemptive polycoloring place,
regenerate revolving Memory time
as love-drenched EarthMother's space.

Ambidextrous-ionic amniotic fluid,
Janus-faced dual destined 

to internally bring forth new life
by purge erupting each metamorphic fertile sac,

draining past generations
into future's new-born hope,

to emerge a womb with sufficient empathic communication
to compassion Earth's warm-wombed community;

reconnecting humane nature's transactional economics
with sacred nature's transcendent ecologics--

Great Transition deducing permacultured functions
inducing biological forms of regenetic polyculture.

We're much too close for racing loneliness,
at loooong sloooow last,
our time to become Beloved CoElational together.

Warm Soft Cuddles

Warm soft cuddles, on a cold dark night,
Warm soft cuddles, to help you see the light,
Warm soft cuddles,  to snuggle up with, to feel their cute pink nose,
And their soft white fur, they kiss you with their wet tongue,
If you are in a bad mood, they sense it and answer with a soft meow,
That's just their special way of saying, "are you ok"?

Soft warm cuddles, I wish I could have just one,
A animal is the best therapy ever, they love you unconditionally, no questions asked,
Soft warm cuddles,  a warm fury hug, that melts your heart,
That makes leaving the house so very hard.

Soft warm cuddles, shows you you are loved, 
Soft warm cuddles, are you ready for one now?
If you are lucky enough to have a loving warm soft kitten,
Count yourself lucky, for they will give you all the love and cuteness you ever would want,
Soft warm cuddles, are the best, so take off the work shoes, cuddle up on the couch,
Empty your mind of the days clutter, open up your lap, for you have an appointment,
With a soft cuddly fury kitten Suzanne, enjoy the break, let go of the stress, open up your heart,
Here comes your friend, a soft loveable kitten, who loves you soooooo much,
Nonverbal communication is the best, be still, let go, and hug away, but one more thing I have to say, "Say hi, and remember to smile, never know who may be in need of a soft warm furry cuddle".

Parable of All Parables

I, Oracle tool of eternal, placid in mental state. 
High-intellect mortal, dropping parables to educate. 
Special emotional properties, concepts of four elements. 
Fire; earth; wind; water, mind on matter transcendents. 

Fire akin to blood, therein lies real passion. 
Air present in yellow bile, links of wrathful emotion. 
Water manifest in phlegm, too much produce laziness. 
Earth found in black bile, associates of sadness. 

Telepathic capabilities, enhancement of perception. 
Supernatural abilities, sheer mind submission. 
Mixed cause and effect, experimental backward mask. 
Image shown to subject, tenth of a second the task. 

First picture displayed, ultrasensory perception. 
Second subliminal image, recalling jiffy forgotten. 
Utilize the enhanced, nothing but natural. 
Subconscious skill possessed, to absorb more subtle signal. 

Desire overriding reason, inner darkness of humanity. 
Nature and nurture function, sexually obsessed mentality. 
Attempts to explain marvels, visible through naked eyes. 
Ubiquitous superpower, shattering inquiring minds. 

Head and facial movements, most info' effective. 
Eminent emotions expressed, all but instinctive. 
Familial body language, few employ it consciously. 
Nonverbal communication, many exercise it subconsciously.

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