Best Personage Poems


Premium Member In My Brokenness

In My Brokenness

It is in my brokenness that I seek
Your face Lord as never before,
it is in my brokenness that I find You 
as I open every door in my life to You as never before.

It is through my pain that I see my God that
You allow things to happen in my life not to hurt me,
but You allow them in my life
to bring me to my knees.

And when I call upon You and Your answer comes
and You hold me now so close,
it’s in my brokenness my Wonderful Lord
that You reveal to me Your personage and love for me  the most.

Written by:  Marilyn S. Jennings
February 2, 2007

Premium Member There Winter Lonely Fallows Deeply Dream

There Winter Lonely Fallows Deeply Dream


Long after that ripe golden sunset gleam
Cool silvery tones, wavering light;
Then winter lonely fallows deeply dream
Into the grayish ghostliness of night.

Far off, yet looming bold and strangely near,
Within starry heavens they are aureoled,
Forested mountain-ranges far westward rear
Their high guardian towers as of old.

And lo! above their ancient stormy deeps, 
In pensive grandeur, icy frozen browed,
One glorious forest summit there keeps
Transcendent vigil alone, pure and proud.

And we who see that shining symbol turn
A moment's while from its lone transient mood;
From that brief moment we clearly discern
Our lost souls within Nature's solitude.

Robert J. Lindley

Poem Syllable Counter Results
Syllables Per Line: 10 10 10 10 0 10 10 10 10 0 10 10 10 10 0 10 10 10 10
Total # Syllables: 160 
Total # Lines: 19 (Including empty lines) 
Words with (syllables) counted programmatically: N/A
 Total # Words: 103


https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=fallows+meaning

fal·low1
'falo/
noun
plural noun: fallows
 1.
    a piece of fallow or uncultivated land.
verb
3rd person present: fallows

    1.
    leave (land) fallow.
Origin
Old English fealgian ‘to break up land for sowing,’ of Germanic origin; related to Low German falgen .
fal·low2
'falo/
noun
plural noun: fallows
 a pale brown or reddish yellow color.
Origin
Old English falu, fealu .
Translate fallows to
Use over time for: fallows

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aureole

Aureole
noun au·re·ole \'o?r-e-?ol\
Popularity: Bottom 40% of words
Definition of aureole

    1
    a :  a radiant light around the head or body of a representation of a sacred personage b :  something resembling an aureole  UNSUPPORTED CODE 

    2
    :  radiance, aura  UNSUPPORTED CODE 

    3
    :  the luminous area surrounding the sun or other bright light when seen through thin cloud or mist :  corona

    4
    :  a ring-shaped zone around an igneous intrusion
aureole transitive verb 
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Note- Sorry my friend- I know I promised you a sonnet on winter and Nature written today but my muse insisted on two more verses. 
I learned long ago. my muse is a very vindictive beast when disobeyed.

Premium Member When Love Takes Flight

Of all fond thoughts held deep within the heart			
Like strings lightly strummed fly with agile wings			
Take flight yet never from my mind depart				
Soar as wandering clouds where angels sing				
Thrilling depths unknown and conscious thriving
			
Meant for few who’ve neutered malice thinking			
Free of hate and void of carnal striving				
Loosed from the pull of gravity’s sinking				
Launched to heights reserved near omnipotence			
God is there, since love is His personage
				
Displayed, arrayed in great magnificence				
Building a home of divine parsonage					
Forever to reign in heaven’s glory					
Love is the wind and might of the story
© Tom Valles  Create an image from this poem.


An Awful Crime

The narrow lane led to an awful place
With its own page in the annals of history,
Where once was committed a murder most foul
It’s perpetrator to date still a mystery

Thirteen, Millers Court in Spitalfields
Was the abode of one Mary Jane Kelly
Where one November morn, eighteen eighty eight
She was found, slit from throat to her belly.

A victim was she of a man they called ‘Jack’
A murderer of most savage renown
Who spread fear through the streets of Whitechapel,
And whose identity has never been found

Because ‘Jacks’ alter ego was never confirmed
Speculation and theories are rife
Was he a personage of royal blood?
Was he a surgeon, skilled with a knife?

Was ‘Jack’ an American actor? 
Was he sane, was he mentally ill?
Were his only victims the ‘canonical’ five?
Just how many more did he kill?

Why did it all end and where did ‘Jack’ go
Is as mysterious as from whence he came,
But his legacy remains and for many a year
Life on London’s streets was never the same.

The Shadow Knows Too

Sparring with demons, and dragons and deadheads
It bobs and weaves like a drunken sailor.
Omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient
I'm quite attached to it - joined at the psyche.

Image of an incubus twirling as I do.
Patron Saint of agony, I curse it
And relegate it to a 2nd-class personage.
Out, damn spot, out - and take the blood with you.

When I am naked, it is clad (no projection),
No libido, no tumescence, no consummation.
How's that for a declension?
When it ascends, I float in the ether.

This hermaphrodite queen is superior 
To all mono-sexual beings
And since I am bound and bounded
It supplies the rope, the pins and the Worchestshire Sauce

Third person singular with plural overtones.
No objection for this object of my affectation.
Alas, the narcissus cannot not spin like lilies,
But only vegetate with the legumes.

The coda, finale, epilog await
Looming like a sarcophagus awaiting its occupant
And alcohol cannot still the tooth
That nibbles at its soul.

Struggle To Write

prosaic prologues bewitch 
   feeble minded scribe doth undertakes 
tend toward lugubriousness ring tone 
   for goodness sake

echoing across, 
   a figurative lake woebegone, where quake
shutters latched storm windows, 
   clapped closed winter season didst make
physical environment lachrymose 

   analogous to imp pond durable dark lake
where sits inside secluded hut, 
   this fledgling author named Jake
a former cub (scout) at a loss 
   to string together an aria 
   tomb other nature and NOT FAKE, 

sepulchral paeon to divine Gaea, Mother Earth
especially incorporating 
   mutisyllabic (sesquipedalian) words, 
   which exertion 
   on par with giving birth 

(or so I guess), 
   a particularly heavily pregnant laden dearth
of help mates, doubling demonstrably 
   deadly duty devoid of mirth
totally tubular taxing toll, 

   an essentially unbearable 
   effort with bulging girth
whereat digestion consumes 
   latent mental ambition, 
   especially toasty warm near the hearth 

which hitherto unknown to any reader 
   twas Xmas fabrication and fiction
no crime committed, nor animals harmed 
   in the making of diction

aery necessary entrapping unsuspecting intellect 
   to comprehend somber benediction
unless perchance one lone wolf 
   bait Oven  English Major 
   with Westernization

topped off with a European   
 debunaire suave acculturation
even luckier if hypothetical personage 
   dips daintily into forays epicurean,

though careful, 
   and alert since church fathers 
  would frown on parsonage
whose natural born ardor, 
   a spiritual abduction
stealing austerity, complacency, and objection
toward forced irrational schemas 
   averse to abnegation
unfair imposition 

   to foist upon pruriant predilection
also impossible 
   to sequester arbitrary animal urges, 
   punishing call of the wild, 
   sowing seeds a beastial accusation
considered averse, 
   then imposition contrition!


On the Edges of Reason Wondering

What provides comedians the gift of speech 
 uncensored with lessons that teach?
Their  open mindedness  provoking ease
 undeterred to speak as they please.

How easily the comedic commentary flows
 to places  typical populace dare not go
 and those few who do
 too easily are declared hatred  spewed.

I cannot judge, it is not my place
  and it stares me in the face.
that history can be lost 
  at freedoms repeated cost.

Today there are so many points off limits
 words not to say in any scrimmage;
should they slip out no matter how you pretend
 they are deemed words none dare defend;
unless -
  race, gender or personage might use them
  it's understood, they are free to abuse them.

I'm not prejudiced, no, really I'm not
 but every now and then I have to question saying 
WHAT? - 
 some random thought  emerges
 with a hint of deceptive questioning surges
Can't I reason and ponder
 without  fear I am on the brink
 of vocalizing what I might think.

Comedic relief displays,
 the hidden prejudice revealed in wordplay;
 for blacks to say the N word is okay and accepted
 but for the whites it is hatred protected;
while LBGT communities seek unity
 others are not allowed displeasured scrutiny;
your religion is blind faith for Muslim and Jew
 should you practice in this state if it's not my view?
how often is it true
 that what we say is not what we always do.

Indeed, there are those
 who speak hatred in their prose
 but not everyone is afraid
 to say that freedom is a sharpened blade.

Freedom of speech, the right to bear arms,
Freedom of religion without harm;
 the Bill of Rights fought and well payed
 too easily fades away on the paper frayed.



George Carlin revealed it all so well
 surely those thoughts and images, could not send us all to hell.
  
  “If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, 
    then I’d have to say that the universe aimed rather low 
    and settled for very little.”
© DM Babbit  Create an image from this poem.

Robin Hood

Twas many long years past we know, that Robin ran through forests green
Robbing the rich to give to the poor, or that’s how it would seem
The Sheriff set out to trap the crook known as the Robin of the hood
But the Sheriff was a fool or Robin was just too good.

He laid a trap of many gold coins on the personage of a woman fair
Hoping Robin would steal them all and take them to his lair
But Robin spied the trap and knew the Sheriff was after him
He played him at his own game and approached the woman prim.

Fair maid may I lighten, your load of the golden coins that I see
They will help to feed the poor and one of whom is me.
The lady fair looked at Robin, she sighed at his handsome good looks
Pray take the gold dear Robin; it has not gone through the books

Sweet maid don’t worry the Sheriff’s men, I already see
Let me escort you back and of your load, you will soon be free
Oh Robin of the hood, my heart you have stolen may I say
Sweet maid hang on to it, you will need it another day

The Sheriff wants to catch us, and there begins our plights
His real aim you know is to discover where we buy our tights
We know the gold is just a trap, so desperate he is to know
Our tights he thinks we buy, but in fact Will Scarlet does sew

The Sheriff plays a bad man, but that is just his ploy
You will be safer with him, because he desires a boy
When I left the castle he said that I stole his favourite maid and gold
But it was really because I ran, and he found my bed was cold.

28/03/2014

Reading the Dictionary

while figuratively hunting
and pecking around me noggin
force hum theme to write about
lo and behold, the solution
stared me right in front
of my little knob nub nose with gentle clout

cuz, as an avid bookworm, the dictionary,
I enjoy expending hours
to drink up etymological history
relating to the origin and
historical development of words

and their meanings.
with no shadow of a doubt
and most times, this animatronic,
the technique of making and operating

lifelike robots, typically for use
in film or other entertainment
dogmatic, enigmatic fugee dooby
brother beastie boy
(actually a mwm) dislikes to flout
his abilities, hobbies, interests,

as aches hike kant imagine being treated for gout
a disease in which defective metabolism
of uric acid causes arthritis, especially
in smaller bones of the feet, deposition
of chalkstones, and episodes of acute pain.

Boot lemme return full circle
to thematic core curriculum aye started to aim
and express gratitude
to the ghost of Noah Webster,
who gets credit yet also blame

if some snide haughty guttersnipe,
some slovenly individual feels snubbed,
and hence, living personage, said descendent(s)
of oblivion, whatever unknown
man or woman to living persons

stake a valid claim
that his/her many generations removed 
heir (Harris), and or heiress ancestor (proven
with tangible researched reportage,
then cited with countless
prestigious explorers of English language),
that a daunting scrivener perhaps

even a courtesan or rich dame
rightfully ought to receive the fame,
thus such living relative might
upend the huck cult personality be game
to dare challenge secure historical niche

ambitiously held by Mark Roget (1779–1869),
British physician, natural theologian
and lexicographer. It was released
to the public on 29 April 1852.

The original edition had 15,000 words,
and each new matured edition
of the Thesaurus grew larger.

The Poet

Either in the form of verse or rhymes
The poet expresses himself through lines

Throughout the history of poetic literature
Writers have emphasized about its aesthetic venture

Penning our views on paper
Or using new technology like the computer

Liberating the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
To transmit the message of peaceful living

Exploring the mind in search of creativity
Thereby producing poems of unfading beauty

Focusing on nature as the source of inspiration
Different poets elaborate about it in their artistic creation

Through the writings of great personage
Poems contribute to embellish our cultural heritage

An August Personage

Long have I painted him in my memory
This great man who speaks volumes about faith.
Bishop John Scalabrini whose name rings now a bell,
Becoming God’s grace to be revered and called blessed.

Mirrored in the reality of migration experience
His on-going dialogue to a marginal existence 
That seeks salvation, liberation and integration
In expressing the gift of being with the poor.

In vivid and concrete ways, show many faces
The human sufferings linked with structures and cruelty
Disputed aspects worked out with care and thoroughness,
To identify them and be swept along our compassion.

Such a hard and complex life indeed,
That made Scalabrini unite his missionaries
To cross borders and be prepared to cope
With proper attitude, conversion, and hope.

Seeing how we today honour him
In the midst of indifference and scepticism
But we claim him with great pride and commitment
To spread his splendid meaning to the church.

Like other people who sowed the seeds of foundation
He transcended and lived in his vocabulary of service.
Beyond reason, gave himself totally to serve
This raison d’etre of concern to migrant people.

As a way to see more and more
A close relationship with God demands 
Maybe creative and largely consistent
To allow perfection sketched in human interactions.

While we define Scalabrini ever in the world
His singularity goes beyond private exaltation
His glory however is a church proclamation]
That stresses totality typified in redemption.

Angel

Poet:  Ken Jordan 
Story:  Angel
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written:  May/2015


      Forty cold December's have passed since 
the universe yielded me an Angel, a comforter, 
when my life was low.

      Essentially, before my life saving transformation, all windows to my 
happiness were closed, I had no direction, and I 
didn't know which way to turn.

       But, on that faithful frigid December 
day, beneath the frosty rays of the sun, my life 
changed forever.

       I know now, that God, works in mysterious 
ways, with wonders to perform.
 I didn't go looking for love, quite the contrary, 
an angel found me, and showed what love can be -

        The Most High,  sent her through
 the sun rays, of a cold, cold December,
It was surreal what my eyes had affirmed; 
a beautiful being standing in my presence 
from heaven, gifted to rescue me from
the woes in my life.  

        She was pure as an infant child, 
with eyes bright as stars.  She was beautiful, 
caring, knowledgeable, and understanding beyond 
earthly belief.

         When our eyes first met, she read 
my soul, and healed my deepest wounds. 

         At that moment, in a profound and spiritual 
way, something inside me knew, that she was not of this world.

          In my lifetime, I had never met 
anyone with such a Devine presence,her wisdom 
was of exalted personage.

          She possessed a peace that glowed like
 a halo, I wanted to stand in her spiritual light for 
all eternity.

          To this day, after forty cold December's,  
I surrender all praises to God, for answering my 
prayers.

          When I just "let go, and let God,"
an angel walked in my life, expecting nothing in 
return, she was pure, giving her love to me 
unconditionally. 

           Her name is Sparkle, my angel from 
the Universe.

            Although we've been together for forty 
earth years, I'm here to tell you, it seems like only 
yesterday that we met.

            As the earth turns we come and
we go, but, the Great Spirit, the Angel Sparkle, 
remains the same.

            She's a phenomenon that's unexplainable, 
what I know for certain is, she taught me that love 
conquers all -
© Ken Jordan  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Spartan Riches

Spartan Riches
                by Odin Roark

Creation asks not for center stage

How plentiful these quiet treasures
Demanding not a price
Void of glitter 
Gaff
And loud acclaim drowning
Senses
Reason

Imagination pursues instead
Honesty’s nod
The up and down gesture
Everyday patrons volunteer
On discovering virtuosity’s subtle essence

Just as a flower needs but sunshine and moisture
So too the Van Goghs of everyday living
Patiently await man’s simple willingness
To emote with the light of a smile
Perhaps even tears
Knowing as in nature
Creative efforts spawn
Reciprocal wavelengths of appreciation
Finding respite wherever 
An honest heart and mind’s tuning fork awaits

Often

Creation senses not the obvious
Artistry’s honorific slips
Obliging a personage quest
Unaware resultant luminary trappings
Often engender insecurities
Petrifying life’s inner sanctum
That place where inception seeds the unknown
Bestows lasting memories
Where both a mother’s caress
And the brush strokes of oiled color
Add to the canvas of expectancy’s
Freely shared gifts and rewards

Too late at times

Inspiration succumbs to notoriety’s demands
Obliging a servitude to fame
Risking enslavement
Either to gilded prisons
Or the bridled razor wire of power 
Needing to gallop down a home stretch
Willingly adding to the blood-laden turf
Determined the day’s finish line
Will provide yet another carrot
To satiate the bestial appetite for superiority

Fortunately

A meaningful number
Manage to avoid a system’s pandering
Obviating trophydom’s trap
Existing solely as creation’s flow
Appeasing those whose hearts and minds
Seek but revelation of impact
A seeding of possible enlightenment
Respecting the virtue of namelessness

So goes the Spartan riches
Accumulating with anonymous authenticity
Giving it’s own reciprocal nod
Back to that which inspires creativity

All without demands

Without price
© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.

Amazon Woman


Woman warrior invader
of my carefree, waking dreams
Smiting my heart with your charm arrows,
conquering my will so easily
You move stealthily with the grace of a leopard
in the daytime,
and growl, then pounce at night with panther ferocity
Amazon woman, 
I didn’t know whether 
you were gon be the life or death of me
I was the first to see your war ship coming
Emerging out of the thunderstorm,
raging upon the boisterous sea
As soon as your ship touched shore,
the calm came
You stepped from your war vessel,
onto the white sands,
dressed in full Valkyrian regalia
And I approached your deadly personage
bravely on deferential bent knees
With a raised sword, you spared my life ...
for you admired the courage displayed by me
A peaceful chieftain who was willing to sacrifice his own life,
in exchange for the life of his people,
without any blood being shed
Such an act of selfless bravery brought out 
the smouldering compassion buried deep
in the heart of this Amazon warrior woman
And she sheathed her glittering sword
for the sake of sparing me

Warrior woman,
Amazon queen
When you raise your sword,
men fall to their knees
Fierce warrior female,
Jungle born queen
When you swing your sword,
men fall down dead at your feet
Warrior woman,
Amazon queen
When you raise your sword,
men do as you please
Fierce warrior female,
Jungle born queen
When you lowered your sword,
you fell in love with me

Woman warrior interloper
of my carefree, waking dreams
Striking my heart with your harp bent bow,
you captured my love so easily
Now the tiger and the lion,
dwellers of the rainforest, 
live together harmoniously in peace

The Prime Directive Quiz ( P D Q) Or Prolix Drama Queen Part One

When You Really Discern… 
‘Why The Drama?’ Pattern
and Pending-Adoration,
 Pertains-Peroration
When You Perceive… 
Who Demands and Why?...  Proceed… 
… to Ply and Pry to Ascertain…
’ He Deserves This Portion-Acclaim’
  and Drumming-Heart, Soulful-Desire…
and Defer-Strength to Dry-Pyre
 and Humble-Pie, Donated-Data –
 in Your Plea-Bargain-Brain- Por-Nada
Disperse the Diaspora
Prefer Real-Deal and Retain Prerogative-Honor

 To, The Divine and Peerless… 
 Person of God – of Pure-Spirits
…  Whose Personage Positively… 
Remains Due-Homage and Dignity
…The Pinnacle… 
Of  The Direct-Pact - Empirical 
Drawn and Done, 
with His Precious DayStar-Son,
 Who Deigned to Come
by The Father’s Decree… 
 Was Dispatched with Poise-Prudently
as Probe and Provision… 
for Our Poverty and Pleurisy-Drain-Derision

He is The Pivot-Portrayal of Royal… 
and Portal-To-Pace-Immortal
This Diadem-Prince-Progeny… 
of Dazzling Famed-Piety and Propriety!
The Possessor and Presenter 
and The Permission-for-us-to Speak and Palace-Enter
The Premium-Derivative-Son,
 This Potentate Happy One...
 Proof-Explained and Patent-Won
Delving Mysteries; Described Memories; 
Drawing Forth Miracle-Draperies
and In Deference… 
As A Pro-Dative – Proconsul-Presence… 
He Maintains Preference
and Displays:  That, The Dynamic-Will… 
and Determined-Purpose Still,
Definitely,  is Top-Priority…
 One… and The Preeminent-Same… Pardon-Plea
He Is The Presiding – Deciding-Door-Key…
Precisely! -  Praise-Accordingly!

For We Are Wind-Swept, Droves of Dust… 
Dirt and Air-Gusts,  
Now, Plundered-Seeds… Still-Planted… 
Packed to Earth, Properly-Contained and Patted
 if We Continue to Divide… 
Disfigure, Pilfer and Hide 
From SonShine, then in Dirty-Prairie…
 We’ll be Permanent-Lain- and Perjury
If  ‘We Choose’ to Develop… 
Too Low-Down, to Peel-Hope
  or Plow-Perverted… 
The Preview, We’ll Not Regain…(We Deserted!)
Its Our Duty and Delight… 
to Reach Dawn-Heights
and Par-Policy:  Dump Rotted Produce…
and Pitch-Pit-Grain- Pro-Ruse

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