Best Permeating Poems


My Perfect Lover

Five thousand years before the sky was introduced with the sea
It was at that time, that God wrote your name adjacent to me
Even before the stars were chosen to give the Light
It was at that time, that God choses your face to make my day bright

In the journey of love, we were two souls, searching for one another
Fate was against us, time was our enemy,yet God was the writer of our tale 
And one day I caught a glimpse of you, that lovely face hiding behind a veil
It was at that exact moment, that I became your secret lover

For it was the first time that I heard my heart beating
It was restless for you, and everyday for you I prayed
Permeating through the sunlight, gliding through shade
I met you in junction and the time stopped due to our meeting

Both of us were sitting on the station of fate
Totally unaware of our future and the hearts filled with dejected pains
we decided to alter our destiny by sitting on a mutual train
God is the witness that during the journey we fell in love and became desperate

For I was never a poet, neither was I ever good with words
It was the feeling of love that I started to notice the melody of the birds
It was your beauty which tempted me to write
Your angelic looking eyes and it were your hairs which kept me awake during nights


For In heaven, God made everyone perfect lovers
But we were lucky to find each other in this world
For Five thousand years before the sky was introduced with the sea
It was at that time that God wrote your name adjacent to me

22 December 2018
For the contest"Marathon Mile 2"
Sponsor" Mark Toney"
Categories: permeating, i love you, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member You Let the Moment Pass

Eternity within your grasp
My plea? To undo the clasp
Let Desire wash away
Tomorrow and yesterday
Every other thought and dream
Meaningless I make them seem
Had you let the floodgates go
Oh, what pleasure you would know
But you let the moment pass

Tranquility came softly by
Sweet promise with you to lie
A scent full of serenity
Permeating entity
It caressed your very skin
But you didn’t let it in
No, you let the moment pass

Passion demands obeisance
Set to conquer your essence
In fevered pitch of a storm
To tempt you in every form
Fantasies of every kind
Unleashed frenzy of the mind
Transformed into what is real
But you were afraid to feel
To be tossed around and worn
To be completely reborn
Pounded by a wanton need
Every craving to be freed
Coaxed to burst into flame
But fear made your wild heart tame
And you let the moment pass

Love came knocking at your door
To bequeath a kiss and more
Calling in angelic chime
Faithful pledge denying time
Bonding of a soul to soul
Golden chance to become…whole
Promise true to last and last
But you let the moment pass

Now you beg and kneel to pray
For Him to open the way
You cajole powers that be
Somehow to change destiny
Before that moment to stand
Hold it safely in your hand
To seize me, the source of these
Let passion and love to please
To capture that golden time
Where all could fall into rhyme

Oh, my love, it will not be
My broken heart cannot see
My way through the halls of time
When I begged to make you mine
And now, my love, alas, alas
I must let this moment pass
In tears I let this moment……..P A S S

Eileen Manassian Ghali
Categories: permeating, leaving, sad love,
Form: Rhyme

Promises and Wishes

Wishing Well by Juke55 @ Deviant Art



I circle from pale to shade,
countless steps
around the abandoned well.
Wasted wishes rest 
in dried-up depths, 
we perish
in its hollows. 
Promises break
but wishes will wait 
to be retrieved,
             granted,
                cherished. 

When you were the promise,
you washed over me,
permeating sacred spaces, 
shrouding my soul.
I searched your changing face 
for symmetry and solvency,
longing for stability. 
In wrung-out wrappings, 
I chilled in your deception
as I clung to the warmth
of our inception. 
I trusted you.  
It was easy.
You promised. I believed. 
I wished     the same wish     everyday
that love would last.  

Now, I reel in my resistance to love, 
an outcast of wreckage from your ravine.
Will I ever love again? 
I want to reach in to divulge a deluge 
of brokenness and betrayal. 
I retrace your words between
the yesterdays.
     They start as whispers 
then wail in echoes
     off impervious walls.      
Each sanguine syllable a lie,
projecting sound into a chasm of darkness. 
From the depths of the wishing well,
vows reverberate from my own lips, 
gently rumbling then rousing 
feelings of love turned to loneliness. 
    If one drop of water remains 
    to reflect only one recollected wish, 
    I may find my own eyes 
    not yours looking back,
    and in the end,
              I may learn to forgive.
                      Maybe I will love again.



written 6/2/20 for Silent One's
Promise Contest
Categories: permeating, betrayal, feelings, heartbroken, trust,
Form: Free verse

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Premium Member Red Is the Colour of Passion

Me a colored blind dreamer
My other senses honed
You ask
What can I know about color
I am told red is the color of passion
I feel the heat 
Between us
I smell the rose in your long black hair
The feel of the red silk nightie I remove from your body
Beneath is your browned skin 
smooth and luxurious
I see it with my hands
I travel to pink with my tongue
Separate your lips
Taste the essence of you
I see the blue of my eyes in your smile
As I swim in your ocean
You who knows every part of me
Yellow is the brightness of your soul
You light my spirit
Permeating all my dark corners
You are the color of all my dreams
My rainbow and pot of gold
I am satisfied
Yet I have no desire to leave your embrace
I see and feel all your colors
Satisfy me again
Let me hear the sound of our colors combined
Categories: permeating, love, lust, passion,
Form: Free verse

The Withdrawing Room

Unrhymed tercets

The Withdrawing Room

Huddled together in this abstemious grey chamber
no windows or means of escape walls closing in
trapped where the un-sanctified transactions are made 


Daunting without exit the silent screams go unheard 
ashen skin with darting eyes never looking up
forever too frightened of seeing the truth reflected back 

In the unholy grail in visions of comrades within this un-sacred act of ransom 
the collective voice of the masked chorus urging them on wards 
then the integrated tragedy of hidden fears and secrets

A living sacrifice under this bargain where no one wins or gains
without boundaries of mortal limits there exists in this gunmetal airless demise 
unfettered woefulness and vainglory vie for victory 

The innocent victim's now the pawn's forgotten as pride twists obscurities 
severing the umbilical cord drowning breaths of existence
the sterile smell of unfinished lives permeating into the coal and ice


Tiny little footprints always remain's inside the womb's silenced facts 
the living water of life breaks no longer flows through the natural cord
leaving a chorus of continuous phantom's chanting in mendacious unity  

Opening the door of perdition where the tactical glare of a butchers knife 
held under a ghostly specter of a child that might have been treasured 
a face imagined but never seen and names never uttered 

A tortured remembrance of a pardon held precious beauty once
soon the vapour of shame burns off in an emptiness that still remains
glazes over a ruby rare passion 

Where fear & the constant loathing cannot fathom the uncertainties 
this future brings forth in the immenseness of what might have been 
not touching the soul properly 

The unborn yet to speak?
silenced unadorned gone forever jewel's 
always held within prayers of the faithful loving grace


a co written piece by Liam Mcdaid & Donna Loughman
Categories: permeating, abortion, bereavement, courage, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse

The Return of the Dragon Lord

The Return of the Dragon Lord

Heart twisting in winter wind,
tripping through a water-colored dreamscape,
as if bewitched, she listlessly paces  
outside his dismal, dark cave.
Peering at the distant gray hilly horizon,
she anticipates her Dragon Lord’s return.
With his golden reptilian eyes flashing, 
and his mighty wings stretching across the sky,
she knows he's making his way back home to her.
Chilled to the bone, without her beloved  
to cloak her in his masterful embrace,
she yearns to feel the magical warmth
of his breath lingering on her lips,
permeating her body, awakening her senses.

Consumed by an intense inner hunger,
she has totally lost her mind;
and must be completely his once more,
to quench these tormenting flames of desire
that threaten to combust from deep within
her heart, body, and soul.
A prisoner of his magnetic charms,
she's captivated by his familiar musky scent,
forever a slave to his alien mystique.
Oh, to be one with him again, to let his blood 
run through her veins, transforming her. 
Heart over-flowing with love, she'll wander along
these cold shores waiting for that joyous day…
when her Dragon Lord returns.


10-22-2015

Contest:      Dragons
Sponsor:     Silent One
Placement:  4th
Categories: permeating, fantasy, love, romance,
Form: Romanticism


Premium Member Fading Photographs

Fading photographs are strewn across alabaster tabletops,  
drenched in moonlight streaming through rustling curtains.  
Snow owls call out to each other through the whistling wind,  
as flakes of snow dust 
frostbit grass outside crystallized windows.  
A roaring fireplace crackles in the corner,  
and I sit back upon an oaken rocking chair,  
tracing my fingertips over delicate memories,  
transported back to harmonious
 days and carefree nights.  

Your silhouette appears, drenched 
in glorious sunlight.  
Summer emerges like 
a breath of fresh air,  
as luscious ivy crawls up 
wrought iron fences,  
and onyx roses bloom within the gaps.  
Your golden voice calls out to me.  
A single teardrop slides down
 the warmth of my cheek.  
It’s been so many years since 
I heard that angelic sound,  
smelled the aromatic vanilla 
permeating from your silken skin,  
and fell into your tender embrace.  
My blood swelters under your touch.  
I whisper, “I’ve been so lost without you.”  
“Can I not stay here with you like this forever?”  
You whisper back,
One day, my love, for it’s not your time yet.”  

And within the blink of an eye, 
an icy chill races up my spine,  
snapping me back to harsh reality,  
to a world so frigid without you—  
forever tracing memories until
I can finally take my final breath.
© Sara Jama  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: permeating, bereavement, december, introspection, poems,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Beauty

Beauty

Beauty is all around me, in a million different things.
The silvery haired, wrinkled face of one that has impenetrable memories
She smiles and longs for someone, anyone to bust her out of her prison of silence.
It is in the wispy, snowy white, silk of a milkweed as it frees itself of its casing
It arrives in the sound of a beautiful well orchestrated piece of music that penetrates my soul.
In the simplicity of a simple clump of wildflowers that grows freely in the ditch.
As my dog Quincy runs freely with his friend Sawyer 
the beauty of their comradery and unbridled joy is unparalleled.
It is in the kindness of those who consider the feelings of others and gently encourage.
It emerges from the generosity at Christmas and unselfish acts all around from veritable strangers.
The lake on a late November afternoon with its shades of bluish greys 
And a backdrop of thick denseness but a silvery light reflecting on the water
and peeking through to show me one more surprise before covering up with its blanket of dark.
The tedious overnight work of a spider who sits in wait 
in the most radiant web with drops of dew sitting carefully on a strand.
In the spirit of one who never gives up 
and remains grateful even after unmentionable hardships and grief.
In the words of the poets claiming words as their own 
to create the most unique ways of speaking their truth.
In the love of a couple simply holding hands as they walk.
The joy of a child’s face as he sees his favourite grandpa has come to visit.
Of course, there are the generous sunsets 
and flowers of every colour that decorate my outside world
The seagulls that stand on one leg, 
The geese that fly to unknown destinations at the same time every day
The elaborate sandcastle built lovingly with a dad on the beach
The nest with chirping baby birds begging furiously to fill their emptiness
made lovingly with grasses and twigs and various treasures.
The smell of beautifully roasted coffee permeating my early morning
It is a beautifully crafted piece of art that is fresh from the soul’s expression of the artist’s brush
I have learned to see the beauty all around and build a life of gratefulness 
Beauty surprises and comes in simplest form
Which helps to drown the sorrow that inevitably must come to us all.

Grace Daub
December 1, 2021
© Grace Daub  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: permeating, beauty,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member An Exultant Reverie

 
Written: February: 06, 2024
             ___________________________________________

Peaceful solitude,
letting exit of daily routine,
surrender to peace,
deep breathing calms the spirit,
relax tight muscles,
exhaling painlessly,
away from extraneous impacts,
falling into happiness. 
 
Our palms are extended,
only a few inches away,
approach the
shrouded sanctum,
excitedly expecting,
the lavish outpour,
with the cherubs,
leap forward,
our contaminated chalice,
we shed transgressions,
slithering veneer,
digging for who we are,
out of the covetous quagmire.

Gradually into an ecstatic reverie,
where time and space are muffled,
mental symphony, being level and quiet,
quietness says volumes,
rich and calming,
controlling all noises,
who enters my head?
stillness grows inside,
permeating every bodily fiber,
magically interacting within,
so aged things may be rejuvenated,
a baffling land that hides delight,
swaying daisy petals and soft skin,
circles of cutlery.
 
Colorful smells scent them
pasted text paralysis,
capture lovely theaters,
subtle care cracks,
juxtaposed with colors and rich smells,
falling and reveling.
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: permeating, analogy, beauty, character, dream,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Spring Morning

Slowly the light comes into my eyes.
The morning is here and that's no surprise.

Thin lines of the sun's rays shine through.
An open curtain from across my bedroom.

My eyelids are heavy and feel so dry.
Trying to wipe the long sleep from my eye.

The tiniest particles of dust float softly from my bed.
Splatter across thin lines of light just above my head.

I wonder to myself, should I get up or just stay.
The covers so warm and wishing to remain this way.

The smell of fresh coffee is permeating the air.
Who could it be making hot coffee out there?

A bright new day has started for all of us, not just me.
Come into my dream with me and see how great it can be.
Categories: permeating, beautiful, inspirational, seasons, light,
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Takers Taken

The night takers come when the sun goes down
When there's no one around to hear the quiet loud
They are the shadowed clouds feared by the proud
Seeping in through ears with maddening clapping sound
Insane clowns with razor sharp teeth poking around
The mind pounds until it's fully unwound
Once it's  lost it can never be found

The brain twitches and seizes until it freezes
Epileptic diseases permeating the creases
Too late to call out or to cry to Jesus
Life never owned each one of us leases
Man thinks he can do whatever he pleases
Monkey like minds relating to rhesus 
Trying to pick up all the evolutionary pieces
**** disguised as treasure but it's still feces

Witness lowly ones described as meek
Traveling along a narrow path to seek
Listening to prophets from the past speak
People laughing and calling them Jesus Freaks
Thinking they're feeble minded and weak
Are the wise and powerful really so unique
Who will be left to listen to their critique
For the night takers came and took them in their sleep



We live in a world of wise people who feel Science
is our salvation. Yet each attempt man makes to improve
upon creation seems to destroy another part of it. 
Eventually we are the takers and the taken.
Categories: permeating, earth, environment, lost, men,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium Member Pleasure and Pain

Your love is my fragrant rose
Intoxicating senses
Permeating everything
I’m heady with want

These thorns cut deep in my flesh
Your beauty comes with a price
I press it close to my heart…
Your pleasure and pain

For Dr Ram's Dodoitsu Contest
February 16, 2015
Categories: permeating, love hurts,
Form: Dodoitsu

The Goodbye Goose

- The Goodbye Goose-               
Winter polishes at four o'clock, shining all the rocks aglaze.   
Reflection, stretching shadows.                     
Longer thinner men -  longer thinner still.     
Shadowy tall , feeling small.                          
Sunmangled window in a diamond quadrant.
                        
Keyhole orifice and creeping becomes nostalgia.                    
Why dont you just shut up and call?        
Home going  geese-slipstream in a vee.    
High honking traffic, trailing vapour leaves you exposing me.
        
Cascading spirits slipping down the walls, swirling eddies   
and smoky waterfalls, draping over furniture like  slimy octopi...                     
Drunken weekend metaphors , Monday morning remorse.         
Up and down the ladders of my memory, tinkly piano playing on my spiny vertebrae.
                    
Permeating lies of my story told not of voice or tongue or lips-no.                       
But of crafty bits that left unsaid, untold encyclopaedia of me.      
T'would be so simple to top you up, yet dark forces  warn me , 
to pimp me out to you is to forfeit martyrdom and victory crown,
 deprives the joy of shooting you down, shifting the blame.         
Denies the stature as abuser , distracts my winner into loser.         
Never be a frontal goose .
Categories: permeating, abuse, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Lovelore

What is love?

The North Star guiding
a lost seafarer home
or the Siren’s song luring
him to the rocky shores?
Is it frolicking in the moonlit 
nights in a field of flowers
or trudging across
an arid, scorching desert?
Is it a freeway to bliss and joy
or a meandering trail
through a rugged terrain
of grief and woe?
Is it a cup of hemlock
or a chalice of nectar?
Is it a snake pit
or a bridge over the chasm
of hatred and bigotry?
Is it an ever-elusive mirage
or the rock of Gibraltar?

Love is all that and more
and yet it’s nothing,
A mere emotion, a feeling,
At first blush, irrelevant 
and yet it’s an impetus, a catalyst--
An euphoria permeating our entire being.

It is here, it is there,
and it is everywhere...
Yet, it is nowhere!
It creates mayhem and chaos
if it turns and walks away.

Love knows no boundaries,
It follows no customs or creed;
It cares not for any
race or language.

Not unlike air and water
or the enlivening sunlight--
Vital in good measures
devastating in excess,
Vexing as a thorn but
as enticing as the fragrance.

Love is but love!

No one has seen it
Yet everyone is touched by it,
Its constant presence is overwhelming
Yet you’ll never find
if you go looking for it,
It traverses distant shores,
Yet it doggedly never
leaves your threshold.

You are born with it
but never can you own it,
Forever it hovers around you
but never can you rein it in.

“Love is a many-splendored thing”.
Yet none can explain its true meaning,
It would call through a bullhorn
and you may not hear it,
It merely whispers in your ears
and turns your life topsy-turvy,
More furious than the flowing lava
It would give you the chills if provoked.

He indeed is a poor soul
bereft of hopes and dreams
who befriendeth not love!



~05/02/16
~Free Verse on Love contest by Laura Loo

~"Love turns the world around"
contest by Nayda Ivette Negron
Categories: permeating, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member The Withdrawing Room

Huddled together in this abstemious grey chamber
no windows or means of escape walls closing in
trapped where the un-sanctified transactions are made 


Daunting without exit the silent screams go unheard 
ashen skin with darting eyes never looking up
forever too frightened of seeing the truth reflected back 

In the unholy grail in visions of comrades within this un-sacred act of ransom 
the collective voice of the masked chorus urging them on wards 
then the integrated tragedy of hidden fears and secrets

A living sacrifice under this bargain where no one wins or gains
without boundaries of mortal limits there exists in this gunmetal airless demise 
unfettered woefulness and vainglory vie for victory 

The innocent victim's now the pawn's forgotten as pride twists obscurities 
severing the umbilical cord drowning breaths of existence
the sterile smell of unfinished lives permeating into the coal and ice


Tiny little footprints always remain's inside the womb's silenced facts 
the living water of life breaks no longer flows through the natural cord
leaving a chorus of continuous phantom's chanting in mendacious unity  

Opening the door of perdition where the tactical glare of a butchers knife 
held under a ghostly specter of a child that might have been treasured 
a face imagined but never seen and names never uttered 

A tortured remembrance of a pardon held precious beauty once
soon the vapour of shame burns off in an emptiness that still remains
glazes over a ruby rare passion 

Where fear & the constant loathing cannot fathom the uncertainties 
this future brings forth in the immenseness of what might have been 
not touching the soul properly 

The unborn yet to speak?
silenced unadorned gone forever jewel's 
always held within prayers of the faithful loving grace


a co written piece by Donna Loughman and Liam McDaid
Categories: permeating, abortion, bereavement, child abuse,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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