Best Perpetuating Poems


Premium Member Intenstinal Gratitude

The “forthcoming” backtracks on dilly-dallied whispers.

They place verbal down payments on layaway,
Incomplete soul mates
Running on muted slow dances

Blanketing their pain

“Oh, how I always wished for your lips against my selfless animosity”, said Nobody.

Another decrepit smile
Pandering arrogant Bible verses,
They stroke heartbeats
Made of blood diamond fallacies

Reflecting upon misery with convex eyes,
Companionship denied,
“I’m so glad you stayed”, said Somebody.

Placating vehement touch,
They ache for petulant innocence
To rock them to sleep

Lullabies venture unto unknown certainties,
Lackadaisical clef sharpens ill-fated tomorrows

They make “love” to invisible yesterdays,
Feeding off strenuous caress
Torn, silky dress
Perpetuating restraining orders in duress

Bloodied retinas blink,
Vexed

©Drake J. Eszes

Trust the System

footsteps aimlessly
walking on their trails
beaten down and broken
shiny as the rails
the rails of the train
over used and rusted
crumbling ignored
the system that you trusted
the silence of conformity
the quiet crying song
of people lost in apathy
monotony so long
the old man remembered
the booming days of old
and tried to warn the youngster
with stories he had told
the young man in the t shirt
can hear no warning cries
television cataracts
covering his eyes
commoners injected
with complacent misdemeanors
fed intravenously
from mass media feeders
the heretics will scream
with no one to hear their call
the working slaves will perish
society will fall
in the pulpit yelling
mystifying lies
sweating like a demon
with fire in his eyes
passing round a dish
to collect the workers' wage
saving souls ain't easy
so he sets a stage
profiting from fear
preparing them for death
comfort is a business
says his liquor breath
on the front row fanning
the woman says amen
waiting for the bell
so she can live in sin
forgiveness is a blessing
that god will give to few
surely she'll be one
when her life is through
the child in the classroom
with the curious mind
will be beaten and conditioned
until she too is blind 
"trust in the system"
is the motto that they teach
"question nothing,
so higher you can reach"
the land of the free
the home of the brave
only for those of us
content with being slaves
some will stand on street corners
holding big white signs
telling of injustice
held beneath our sights
but those who throw the bombs
which burn society down
those will be the shakers
for true freedom to be found
but the sheep still continue
to justify their life
ignoring others torment
blind to their strife
perpetuating failure
selling bankers souls
to keep on consuming
to get the best remote control
to build themselves a shield
what kind of life is this
numbness is a virtue
and ignorance is bliss

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While We Stay Silent

While we stay silent
The fight is going on.
In Chicago, Los Angeles, New York
The West Indies
And the Lebanon
All over the world
There is a tale to tell
Of some living in paradise
Whilst others live in hell.

Its not a random stumble
Nor a twist of faith,But a master plan.
By those who seek power
Over those who plod along
Its not an illusion, but what is felt
When we are blessed with riches 
But cannot share the wealth

But what is ego without a plan?
What is salvation,
when we fail to understand?
Reparation of the soul is a must
If its redemption we seek 
And god we trust
When reality rears its ugly head
When babies are born 
And cannot be fed
When wars are started
And nothing is said
About the wounded, paralysed and the dead

Mothers lie down and plea.
Gun powder crying out in the atmospher,.
Tormenting my ear.
Some even bow down on bent knees.
They feel the pain and ask for mercy.
In the anguish and suffering , they bite the dust.
The TV the object
Perpetuating the fact
That humanity has taken a detour
On a roundabout
When we fail to act.

From the lack of knowledge
We fail to see
That when we are united
We end depravity.
To grow and prosper, in pastures green
That what was hidden is now seen
The truth for what it is.
When we exist, and fail to live.
When they are taking, and cannot give.
Of time and thinking.
Of mutual living, coexisting.
With love and hope
Not based off trickery and false hope.

Inscrutable Being

'Twas a timeless and starless era of dense obscurity.
But there! a self-perpetuating luminary--the deity:
Being of old, the first around.
No one knows his age... those numbers abound.
His name subdivides into many.
He can be called by any.
This entity subsisted when nothingness was.
Those infallible feet trod elsewhere made not of mass.
Thunderous lighting flashes he emitted amongst the black void--
the boundless space which was devoid
of the natural lamps now in the heavens--
That sky, base of his majestic havens.
This infinite Universe...his realm,
and it's inhabitants, for ever whelm.
The GOD nearest ministers--Angels, Seraphs, and Cherubim
execute his will verbatim.
These celestial citizens reflect the Omnipotent's refulgency
which allows their physiognomies to remain in juvenescence,
'cause they are the Patriarch's offspring--
Spawns of the King of Kings.
The Matrix of Life molded them and respired in those nostrils immortality.
Personal witnesses are they of his unique ability
as the Creator and Sovereign,
whom decievest not, nor feign.
Thier kindled eyes contemplates the magnificent Physique of Jewel--
The Source of Life which radiates life's fuel--
The Energy animating all living creatures
from since the moment he formed their features.
That Glory Supreme reverberates an elegant nimbus with spectrum,
thereof, the resemblance of his glow pierces the translucent city of gold and gems and 
electrum.
O' even earth and its plenitude are his monuments--
Planet rich with elemental ornaments.
'Tis him and he alone...the Genesis of all.
So praise and gratitude to the most colossal!

Premium Member At Thy Command

The grain of wheat 
dies 
at Thy command
unconscious
of Your living
in its shell
turning it to life 
giving bread 
perpetuating it 
ages 
without end
nursing it with rain 
and sunny smiles 
from seed to stalk
a golden social plant
bowing its seeded
hairy head
in breezy dance
with poppy skirts 
in red 
illumed by a ruby
sunset veil
with robin breasts
singing gratitude
before the night 
descends 
its blinding veil
to equalizes colors' 
vibrant hues
in noncompeting 
shades 
of resting black
switching lights 
of distant 
trembling lamps
luminous smile
of vagrant onion slice
to make of night 
a little less 
than death
before awaking
to splendor 
rosy rays
sparkling diamonds
on grassy 
finger hands
that mist to vanish
then return to play 
hanging water lamps
on leaves and branches
that drip into the throat 
of parched earth 
to feed the roots 
and soften seeds 
to sprout 
perennial cycle
feeding 
and being fed
and all creation 
obeying
seems content
except for man
to whom You gave will
to obey or to dissent
the pupil of Your eyes
You call friend
by interests 
daily affairs
being led astray
the banquet ready
for repentant heir
all set with such glorious
royal splendor
no eyes have ever seen
nor ears have heard
the marvel of a joy
without compare
beyond the imagined 
no pen can write
only faith can travel

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Premium Member Personal Faith

I think personal faith
is just that – between you 
and God alone; which makes
all personal universal – 

meaning, that which we share 
with God is part and parcel of
Divine Creation. 
                    For nothing exists
outside the existence.  He is a sea
of continuous motion.  A symphony
of eternal song – when in 
tune, we sing as the angels
sing; when in motion we conquer
as the waves, flowing over
and around all obstacles – 
perpetuating power that 
rearranges coastlines; captures
sun and moonlight, holding
their warmth of reflections as the body
of our days and light of our vivid
dreaming – 
                   to say we discern the breath
of Heavenly Bodies, is to share their paths
and awesome orbits – to chronicle our humble 
journeys from specks of clay to cosmic lords 
of universes...those we clearly see, as well as 
those, dim and distant...as yet – unknowable….
It may well be, that as we reach out
we reach in, exploring the past and destinies
of borderless
space and time.

Premium Member Robot Wars - POTD

Transistors fizz
Electrons bustle
As robots claim
The daily hustle

The hinges creak
The oil of words
Is missing from
The mindless herds

They oft parade
With heads bowed low
Quite frankly, 
Nowhere else to go

As hooked in tasks
In ruts with traction
Replace the normal 
Human faction

Robots make robots
Or so I'm told
They replicate
The lies they're sold

Perpetuating
All that manic
In ways that seem
Somewhat satanic

The robot wars
Are not to fear
Just realise that they
Are here

Dispense with screen
Release your mind
In un-robotic ways
You'll find

The beauty of
The world around
When eyes you lift
Will soon be found;

Through trees and rain
Bare feet on grass
A world machines
Can ne'er surpass

The pores of life
Should breathe it in
Beguiled no more
By wars of tin.
© Sam Scott  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member The Book According To St Lovejoy 1:3 - Part 1

"The Book According to St Lovejoy 1:3 (Part 1)"

1. 3’s the Number so here we’ll commence
I’ll start moving while the non-believers
sit on their fence
A very little known Chapter, part of a
most significant Book 
all the stories are written with 3 in mind
Locked in a cupboard 
that’s gone missing 
the big split in the spine
indicates it’s unique in it’s position
lost in fractured time
with stories spilling out between the many pages
hidden under a stockpile of 
thick dust somewhere
won’t be missed in antiquity, nowhere
but has travelled so far
through canals its words cerebral
all swimming down a tight viscous
river of blood tar
out to that Sea, the Ocean
Life
perpetuating life another chapter arrives
into the world screaming, 
it breathes
in this Book there are always 3
for reading, not pleasure, somehow the 
chapters have all gone missing from 
the Family Tree.

2. Another Peter became Simon 
fished the Sea for his mother
he had a story in his chapters
that required slow 
then swift delivery defied
the story of bittersweet childhood all 
bottled up with a note, he threw into her ocean
but she’d already stepped onto the boat
down the Styx River 
to meet God the Father, 
Son and Holy Ghost.
Or so she thought.
Two fathers missing, two mothers host
but 3 is the number that will impresses
us the most 
An unread story, 
stolen delivery the Peter-Simon Creed
Nicene said before sleep to transport him away,
the other the piano self-taught 
played his own keys
sang all the pain away
both abused not believed
seekers of retribution 
now lost off course by several degrees
drowning in misery
one was down on his knees
LUX VITAE he said, this is my shield
he walks through the Light, 
the Light is his Guide you see
the other looks for release
past his muster time, walks round and round
the sharp corners of his mind,
a small locked room
lying there supine
next to the sea, 
he edits his story vigorously 
before he signs his contract
by Her Majesty’s Final Decree.

(Lovejoy-Burton/2017 Dec)



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Premium Member Take Over

For weeks now the two young males had been watching,
waiting for their opportunity and now it was time.
They were now strong enough to take over the pride.
Signalling his intent to his brother Moto stood up
and started forward with Javier following behind.
As the reached the pride a battle royal ensued
The lionesses desperate to drive them off knowing
if they succeeded vast changes would occur.

Far in the distance Soto heard the roars and growls
as the take over ensued and rushed to protect them.
The fight was long and hard with some fatalities.
Soto received wounds that would take months to heal
as he was banished by the brothers, his life now as an outcast.
Luckily for him Zanidar joined him with her cubs of nearly a year old
She and they would  keep him fed as he slowly healed.

Back at the pride the brothers set about their gruesome task
all the cubs were hunted down and killed without mercy.
Now the lionesses would soon be ready to mate again 
and it would be their blood that the offspring would bear
perpetuating their line and increasing the size of the pride.

Life in the African Savannah was always cruel and hard
the brothers would face many challengers in their time.
Food always an issue once the migrating herds moved on.
Now a time of little the pride suffered and grew weaker.
The only saving grace was the buffalo not without their risks.
Valiant fighters who protected each other forming a ringed barrier
around the more vulnerable, ready to fight to the death.

With very young cubs the lionesses needed food to feed them
and desperation drove them on, finally they made a good kill
none would go hungry for a few days. In the distance the clouds
gathered rain falling far up country at last reaching them and
with the rain the vast herds once more returned and life teemed.

Now was a time of plenty and the pride recovered their health.
For seven years the brothers ruled supreme yet in the background
there were many waiting their own time. Two males in particular
Janto and Batso sons of Soto watched and waited eager to take over
until at last it was their time and turn to roust the pride males.
And so the never ending cycle started again until the next time.

Premium Member New York

Mesmerizing distances circumvent
skyscrapers magnificently manifested
to the utmost degree

Diverse people dance
through escapades delight.
Manhattan Island floats

amidst extreme chaos
beyond a preponderance
of serenity's turbulence

perpetuating dreams galore.
The center of the Globe -----
The capital of the Empire ---

It draws tourists
with a flow of languages
tantalizingly surreptitious

delving into psyche manifestos
bewildered by temperance
mimicking captivity

A unique Beauty
transports you to
imagination's diamonds.

Beauty From Inside-Out

Beauty from the Inside-Out

We have searched for unfading and true beauty in unsearchable places. 
It is unfortunately to most of us, we have ears but cannot hear-we have eyes but we cannot see
We have become nonentities due to ideas and influence that persuaded us that beauty is the outward appearance, short skirts, makeup’s, high heel shoes, hip stars and all that. 
We have been fooled and still perpetuating in outer of reality, 
But now I understand, that the creator of beauty, knows its purpose and he defines its source and function, This is the Beauty is from the inside-out.
You are beautiful-I see your beauty from inside–out, my African Queen, yes you are beautiful


I have searched for unfading and true beauty, from mountain to the highest mountain, from the sea to the deepest sea. The beauty that is premier and brighter to lighten my dark moments and my dark path, The beauty that can never be influenced by western cultures, civilization or globalization, the beauty of African Queen. - Original from its birth, its quality and value never diminish, It Can never be bought, neither can it be sold, it is priceless……And only attained by them that understand its source. This is the beauty from the inside-out
You are beautiful-I see your beauty from inside–out, my African Queen, yes you are beautiful

I have searched for unfading and true beauty for decades; Finally, I have arrived at its source,
You are beautiful; don’t let them lie to you, perfect as you beyond man, s imagination
Fearful and wonderfully made, divinely designed just to be you-as you are-on other   
How beautiful you are! My Darling, your pure heart spritz forth to the outside, 
Your heartbeat speaks the mystery language only known in the world of True Love, 
Your eyes behind your veil are as white as dove’s, bringing out the message from the inside. 
Your mouth speaks forth the words of healing from the inside to the broken hearted. Your lips drop sweetness and entice me to deep heavenly kisses. Milk and Honey are under your tongue; Your legs describe the pillars of joy to my soul. Your body is like polished Ivory-decorated with diamond and gold, Oh My love, Oh my love-you have the beauty from the inside-out.
You are beautiful-I see your beauty from inside–out, my African Queen, yes you are beautiful

The Gift of Love

THE GIFT OF LOVE

I know that life is agleam.
Incandescent is the word used.
You are from the time of little people.
You empower to keep the peace.
No one can define the world quite like you.
You are a universal guru.
Consequently, I want to contribute to your happiness.
Subsequently, I will give poetry.
This is the gift of love.
May be small but real
Not just something boxed to give.
This is a comforter when you down and out.
You asked me for something unique
Therefore, I will give meaningfulness.

Bringing in the New Year, a smile is worth seeing.
The roaring of joviality is a blessing to hear.
You had your confrontations and you resolved conflicts.
Today spirit is fulfilled.
Oh, merry bonhomie
A feeling so blistering - so intense
Your heart is full of joy friend.
As a result, your happiness must continue.
This is the year humongous
Pop the cava and let’s party.
Perpetuating things to come
Accordingly, exhilaration
Oh, merry sylph
This is going to be a life worth living.
|_____________________________|
 Penned on November 28, 2014!

Premium Member Each and Every Earth Day


Our cooperative DNA research
reveals a realistically positive attitude
and eco-founded optimism,
along with some acceptance of dissonance
as not merely dysfunctional.
with ego-learning 
re-extending sacred ecological merit
to help us accomplish great loves
in all integrity's polypaths 
of shared EarthTribe ReGenerative Daily Life.

What we still do not know,
yet hope is true and beautiful and healthy,
ecotherapeutic,
Why do our day-to-day decisions
co-determine how each Ego navigates through great and small transition points,
why identity co-evolves through and beyond
each EgoRelational Life?

What if DNA/RNA Solidarity
lives even another thousand years of Earth Days?
Reincarnating fresh mindbodies
possessing, owning, claiming,
proclaiming polyculturally re-ligioning memories
of this 1(0)-EgoMind/EcoBody we are collectively becoming,
back in this Trans-ReLigioning EarthNetwork Era

On back through 1/(0) 
co-arising win/win Ego/EcoCenter 
of BiLateral SpaceHere/NowTime, 
co-gravitating EarthTribal enlightenment,
1(0) 1Convex-Linear polarity/BlackConcave Hole

Not-Not TransParent BiNomial WinWin
dipolar apposition
ReGenerating, 
ReIterating
ReCycling
RePurposing
ReMembering
ReConnecting
ReLigioning 

Eternally copresent
in each Earth organic enlightened Day
and co-empowering Night,
and CoRevolving Fractal Year 
of EarthDay octaved co-passionate
positive
and not so much negative
gratitude attitude.

Earth Day,
emerging from red dawns
resonating through true blue dusk
wealthy moonlit Earth Nights
ruled by Bodhisattva PeaceWarriors.

To love each day 
as if 1(0)-eternal co-binary
anticipates this Self/Other perpetuating
EarthDay/Night co-emerging planet,
consulting and consorting 
with one's most delighted
non-zero healthy
cooperatively overflowing Ego
as self-other co-relational 
wealth of identity.

Any day that feels more confined by fear and anger
mind-neglect and/or body-abuse
than refined by love
as healthy desire 
for EarthTribe re-ligioning peace
for Ego as for each EcoCentered Other,
is another day invested
in learning what EarthDay integrally means
by resolving win/win love 
your win/lose enemies

To know and respect Ego's contentious boundaries,
pretentious boulders
along Earth's Tao River
of Yang/Yin co-gravitating
DayLight Space and NightPower Time.

Premium Member Refining Experiential Math

The economist's definition of enculturing math:
Counting and discounting cash,
multiplying and dividing tangible goods, 
nutritional seed capital diverse re-investment guilds
to solve problems of hoarding wealth values 
and dissonant greedy monopolistic disvalues.

The bicameral geo-mathematician's integral dilemma:
To get from 0 to 1, (nomial stasis)
one must also get from 0 to 2, (binomial diastasis)
and efficiently back again,
to simultaneously resolve,
to 1 median, septic and dipolar,
with 0 before and 2 implied after,
whether positive,
or double-negative,
or, co-arising nondually,
both LeftYang (+1) and Right reverse (exformative) recessive Yin (-,-)0

In consecutively imaged discontinuous linear sequence
and in naturally continuous equi-valent space/time 
body/mind 4-prime fractal dimensions
of Special Case InFormational Dialectical Systemic Group Dynamics,
(+) v (-)=((+)+(-(-))

Resonant BiCameral Resolutions:
Exchange Vertical-Universal deductive/inductive interdependence,
co-relation,
co-gravity,
co-arising
co-passion
with co-equivalent
Horizontal-BiLateral Left-Right
both +1 decontextualized, discontinuous independence, 
and not (-0)-sum interdependence,
cooperative Yang/Yin ego/ecopolitical co-redeeming resonance.

Reiteratively enthymeming 
cooperatively healthy binomial synergizing 
-(0)-sum WinWin Communication Intent
to extend 4Prime Basic EcoTherapeutic HealthWealth Fractals,
like our oh-so-regenerative DNA,
strings of bilateral polypathic hypostatic theory
dipolar co-arising
Gaian Integral Hypothetical
co-gravitating dualdark ZeroSum 
regenerating prime 4-Base
nurturing/strong reiterating root systems
of regenerating Positive/NotNotNegative
double-binding
self/other perpetuating
ego/ecosystems
echoing convex stems
of bilateral concave dipolar strings

In between
Crown/Root chakra
polyvagal neurosystemic
compassionate/pleasure
mind/body intercommunications,
polymathic/polypathic/polyamorous

Sacred/organic/tao
hypostatic communion.

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