Best Purifying Poems


Premium Member Wabi-Sabi


Cars are the wind on the streets
semi-truck wheels shriek thunder,
rain shatters against stone and brick walls
on dusty roads, oak trees fence with twigs—
wushu wooden clatters.

Dreadful arrays of dryads
azure and amethyst gossamer haze,
sleek, silken strikes gist an opera of wisteria,
as they sway to silver breeze's sibilant rustles.
They chant lullabies in lyrical lilts of hued iridescence,
of hearth and opals back to my scarlet nest.

Angelus silver trills, the sylphic sways of pure rays,
Coral rosary—incense strands of aurulent rimes
hum, endless hymns echo as choral evensong
alleluias softly peal out—doves with wet eyes
that drift upward on whispery—ethereal wings.

Ocean's plea emerges from apothic abyss,
a voice conveys the core of faxed shores and stars,
with earth and wind in a solemn tone.

A cosmic biography—in loud squeals and sighs
sea vernacular hinges on nature's lasting awe.
Breath goes to fog—snow melts into puddles—rain returns,
a china-white grave—encases the deceased deer,
before thawing in the morning—icy skin lies frozen.
An eerie distance holds my hand in a purifying blizzard.
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Premium Member Palette of Picturesque Pigment

Her persona is like 
a portrait 
   of picturesque perfection,
embalmed in 
  bittersweet lavender, 
unseen within depths 
of tributaries of elixir.
If only they knew 
 the chaos that flows, 
constrained in 
a confined 
  gallery of grief.
Not everyone is 
  a master painter.
Some brush with brutal 
   bruised strokes, 
provoking timeless 
streams of 
  implicit secrets,
from crimson stains 
   on ivory satin, 
where scents of juniper 
evoke phases of 
  unpredicted phenomenons, 
oblivious to chronicles 
of forsaken tales,
which hide 
  beneath barriers,
many have struggled 
to venture within.
But there is an artist 
with a 
  pastel on his palette,
that can correct 
her disfigured pigment.
He holds cryptic 
  calligraphic engravings, 
veiled behind the inflamed 
chamber of her heart.
He understands that her 
spirit drowns when 
winds are forceful.
How her 
  delicateness has 
been sleeping 
  on withered roses,
wilted by 
  cruelest rays of a 
summer 
  mourning 
     morning star,
Where bedtime stories 
were puppeteered
    by hurricanes 
feeding on 
  fenceless vulnerabilities. 
yet when 
  sleepless silence sings, 
it can disturb 
in reverberating 
heavy metal screams.
So she echoes her trauma 
through hurtful hisses,
poisoning with 
  vicious venom.
Her aura alters in 
  acrimonious attitudes
from serene sunshine 
  to furious gales.
She remains without 
a grip on untamable 
seasons of 
  unholy torture,
Only he knows the poem
in her eyes is the 
   last train home, 
so he calms her 
  tempest temperament, 
enabling hidden rainbows 
in her mind to reappear.
He is a soothing 
  gemini night-flower,
even with outcries 
of midnight thunder, 
his patience resembles 
   raining jasmine water,
   purifying 
     her murky waters,
into a crystallised milky-way 
of kyanite desires,
guiding her 
   to swirl and swoon
into 
    whirlwinds of closure.

Premium Member Spontaneity

Line of inquiry:

"discarding narrow thought flow crutch
we learn directly by soft touch
and what we garner we relay
to the vast void in childlike play
entwined thus with the universe
we dance without need to rehearse"

In an erratic existence 
this ad hoc state of mind,
treads upon random paths,
to reach the doorsteps of my fate.

Those who find structure in scriptures,
let them be guided towards their remedy.
I hope they find what they seek,
but my spirit keeps spinning
like a whimsical roulette,
relying upon the universe
to weave rhythms of cosmic threads,
nourishing my soul in ethereal elixir.

I have read so many scripts of stone,
but my quill writes in impulsive ink,
rebelling against confined expression,
composing an unrehearsed sinfonia,
in an attempt to create and connect.

Unlike the moon,
we appear and disappear 
like impromptu stars.
Burning into life, but blameless, 
full of innocence, purifying eyes,
briefly guiding those who choose to gaze.

There is an art to being human.
Interpretation is an abstract perception.
Our hearts portray kaleidoscopic emotions,
so in my palette of unscripted intuition,
I shed the chains of conscience doubt.
In the essence of every brushstroke,
I breathe life to improvised affections.
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Premium Member Battles with silence

“Let me be strong, for to be anything else is to languish in the abyss of compromise and to descend to places of impoverishment so destitute that they will squelch my soul and crush my heart.”
Craig D Lounsbrough 

When left to languish in lament.
Metaphorical swords become tired
from words portrayed through bloodshed.

Misery is a master of manipulation,
pulling strings of sorrow,
personifying portraits of puppets in pain.
When dreams and desires disappear,
nonchalantly negating nocturnal nigrifying nightmares,
a heavy heart hoarding hurt is helpless,
crawling like a caterpillar without a cocoon.

In an anthology of anguish,
spirit withers in a lyrical language,
lost in lanes of latent lament,
so we search for signs to our secret sanctum,
to heal broken wings of bandaged butterflies.

When hope, like carnations of death, crumbles,
resembling crying chrysanthemums.
Tepid tears of tribulation,
trickle in trails of tired tinges of insecurities -
yet we still yearn for an expurgated Eden.

In the internal insanity of suffering,
sanity searches for a relief from repression,
as our existence can emanate into
a chalice full of missed challenges,
if we do not learn from life's lessons.
When trauma reverberates on repeat.
Words are as fragile as a beautiful ballerina,
without a ballad in a ballet of broken hearts.
Yet our pens crave to dance on virgin fibers.

Our souls are an essence of evanescent emotions.

There are no winners in battles with silence.
In the rationale of reason.
raging rutilant ink pleads to pour
puddles of purifying poetry,
gracefully releasing breaths of suppression -
A speechless saviour for timid tongues.
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Premium Member Showering 'Neath the Falls

Purifying drops
Cascade down the maiden's back
'Neath the falls she bathes

Premium Member The Tempest

The Tempest

Upon enchanted sands of shipbreached shores
Dethroned beggar of a borrowed callow mystery
Heaves a lightning staff into the waves -
Thunderous and raw clandestine secrecy
On luminous swirling ariels sheering the celestial –
Into the curfew of castaway souls as a hoary appeal
Where storm surges loot delirium in foreboding typhoons
As rioting angels brood in their search
For the orphaned heart in tattered rags of upheaval.

Hear the muted tempest of dark depths roar
As wintered tantrums rock the shores
Leasing waves with unseen spells and charms,
Harnessing the tidal astrals in purifying
Tsunamis of holy risk –
Storm watch night, for souls in cataclysmic squalls,
Reshape the shallow shoals infected by deceit
Refresh the tidal pools emptied by betrayal
Now calm the ruffled gales -the shattered glassy sea,
Return from shipwrecked isle to fury abandoned shores.

11/3/2020
Contest: 2022 Poetry Marathon Mile 6
Sponsor: Mark Toney
Inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest


Premium Member Desperate Hope


There is an illusion of dishonesty in darkness,
so we rejoice when spring sings saccharine serenades.
I've always been a soul yearning for summer scents,
but somewhere the seasons got lost in translation.
Not all honest hearts can remain evergreen,
when memories like wraiths of past demons,
echo in eerie vibrations of autumnal whispers.

The dark side of my mind is an oxymoron of fictional truth.
A harmony between her reality and my empathy.
I recall a lost childhood when the ghosts of winter besieged me,
as all the melted snow rotted my roots -

I pondered how do I regrow my frostbitten petals?

To determine the odyssey of my destiny,
I sowed a million seeds hoping you would
devour the nectar of my honeyed blossoms.

I finally found you awake like an insomniac,
in a sleeping wintery world of monsoon wickedness,
like a queen bee tangled in a cobweb of lies,
so I followed your scintillating silhouette
into a dark maze of silent shadows time had forgot.

I felt your pain through every window pane of your soul.
No one can heal all your hidden trauma,
but I can distract you from those unwelcome voices,
gathering all the shards of your cracked mirrors,
placing them into a purifying fountain of understanding.

I was artless within my garden,
until I swam in your artistic aquarium.

Oh my vintage rose,
you can be bronze, ivory or crimson,
I care not for the cover of your covert book,
for you remind me of my faith 
in the dilemma of desperate hope.

I know sometimes I make mistakes,
but every time you cry,
I wish you would take my sight,
so you can see the world in a positive light.
If I could gift you an eagle's spirit,
maybe you would fly into my arms,
so when we watch the dreaming stars -
I would show how they shimmer in your eyes.
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Premium Member Spiritual Illumination

satan

                                      vicious, ruthless

                               plotting, scheming, destroying

                                  enemy, sin, son, shepherd

                               sacrificing, atoning, purifying

                                        righteous, holy 

                                            Christ
















Written on 3/26/2015

Summer Evening

SUMMER EVENING
The summer sun
takes rest behind the hill
after getting tired,
And the boiled ocean 
breathes happily
after loosing his weight.

The mad storm
stops blowing & becomes silent
after loosing its temper,
And a company of confused parrots
returns to their nest
accelerating speed with top gear.

An undressed tree
awaiting near the bank of a river
for the  returns of his friend
who has gone for fishing,
The soul purifying echos 
coming from the nearest hill
ensure his joyous back
with a happy ending.

The naughty tides are enjoying
just by dancing, singing
and playing hide and seek
with the light of moon & force of air,
The sound of sacrosanct evening bell
coming out the nearest temple
convey the message of summer evening
To enjoy a lot with near and dear

Premium Member Eternal Fire

Also known as May Eve, May Day, and Walpurgis Night, happens at the beginning of May. It celebrates the height of Spring and the flowering of life.
Colors are the Rainbow spectrum. Beltane is a festival of flowers, fertility, sensuality, and delight. Selena Fox


In the cosmic blast, eternal fires create the cosmos.
An incensed mind is like a tarot deck close.
Awareness of human feelings' everlasting nature
soul-igniting, head-raising, flame-purifying feature

Beltane, a Pagan festival, goes by the name of May Day.
It occurs between the equinoxes of Ostara and Litha.
The festival commemorates spring in the best way.
An event tied firmly with fertility in the pagan era

It occurs three hours after the sun has set.
worn a wild beast to depict earth, fire, water, or air.
Toasting nature, life, and future by fire dance minuet.
A fairly grim festival that may aim out of a dare

Event held in 2020 during the COVID-19 shutdown.
Had put all who participated in the COVID threat.
I feel it is unfair, as holy sites are closed in each town.
It is not moral to leave others out of this event yet.

The keenness amid the eternal inner stillness
 Ignites God's everlasting flame upon reality.
I travel in the light of heavenly happiness.
which is the vowed road to the vivid hall of deity.

Written: March 04, 2023

Which fire is eternal Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Joe Maverick
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Do Not Cry While I Die

Once, we had unlimited fun
Until life’s duties had us on a run 
Memories consumed us old, 
yet, for new experiences we jump
Please, do not cry, while I die
I rather you not lie
Time so scarce, you never said goodbye

As you reminisce great times awake 
I take enjoyable moments in wake
Embrace belove new things you are yet to make
Back to Earth, my contribution to nature awakes
Helping trees grow, while purifying a lake

Turn up those popular music 
Dance in celebration of memories late
Be good, for goodness’ sake
For in this moment’s time, you hold the ingredients
to the cake you most desired to bake

Mines, many unfinished tasks laid aside
Yours, life’s journey you must decide
In eternal uncertainties, I go to reside 
Until we meet again on the sunny side

By: Steven E. Keller

Premium Member PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO IS SOVEREIGN OVER ANY HUMAN RULERS OF GLORIOUS KINGDOMS

May 27 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Esther 1-3

Key Verse – Esther 1:4 When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days.

PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO IS SOVEREIGN 
OVER ANY HUMAN RULER OF GLORIOUS KINGDOM	

Praise be to God Who is sovereign over any human ruler
of glorious kingdom since He alone can:
Redeem souls eternally
Rejuvenate service earnestly
Refresh spirituality enthusiastically
Replenish sustenance everyday
Respond to supplications eagerly

Esther 2:3 Praise be to the Lord 
for purifying us while we are:
Fighting for His godly cause
Following His governing call
Fulfilling His great charges
Focusing on His guiding commands
Feasting in His gracious compassion 

Esther 3:1 Praise be to the Saviour 
for promoting us toward:
Perfection of our behaviour
Protection along His Bible-brace 
Praise for His blessings
Power in building-up
Presentation of our best. Amen!

May 27, 2024

Premium Member Blessed Relationship With the Lord

How blessed are we to enjoy our relationship* with the Lord
     Since we’ve been bound to Him with His salvation-cord
          We can come to Him, yielding ourselves to the grace He does afford
               Thru the invitation He declares in His Word.

How blessed are we to commune with the Lord without hesitation
	Since we’ve become His children by virtue of His adoption
		We can talk to Him, expressing ourselves in earnest supplication
			Thru the answer He assures by His compassion.

How blessed are we to stay always in the Lord’s presence
	Since we’ve been forgiven by His purifying license
		We can worship Him, immersing ourselves in His holy magnificence
			Thru the cleansing He grants for our souls' effervescence.

How blessed are we to seek the Lord freely for our faith’s refining perfectly 
	Since we’ve become His heirs by His blood-priced sacrifice truly
		We can meet Him, humbling ourselves at His throne sincerely
			Thru the fellowship He initiates blissfully.  

How blessed are we to cling to the Lord with divine intimacy
	Since we’ve been redeemed by His tender mercy
		We can cleave to Him, submitting ourselves to His might's fervency
			Thru the help He offers midst turmoil of urgency. 

How blessed are we to be acquainted with the Lord’s ways
	Since we’ve become His new creation to give Him praise
		We can live for Him, delighting ourselves in His work all our days
			Thru the love He covers us, wrapped by His care’s embrace. 

How blessed are we to abide in the Lord to experience His glory 
	Since we’ve been rescued from hell’s damnation and sin’s misery
		We can serve Him, committing ourselves to share Gospel story
			Thru the blessings He provides along His promised victory.

*Psalm115:15 Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.

September 25, 2019
Edited on May 25, 2022

New Eyes

Before the rain came,
I did not understand the words.
They were simply beauty to me
     in a foreign language
     in a tempo perfect
that fit my mood.
     Rich and pretty ... and 
         a bit oblique.
     But the seed fell deeply 
when I looked away.
Sweet siren music I heard in ocean
        covered streams ... and
        salt water flowers.
I knew angels in waking sleep
        and watched my mind
        tell me lies.
I turned up the silence and grew still.
     Clarity sparkled in smog and mud puddles
and then I understood.  the words.
        and the rain.  
            stinging cold ... and
                 purifying.
x

Premium Member Dr Jeckyll-Mr Hyde

Betwixt two sides
protection from the devil
a blend of calm and chaos

separate the twins
and the iron doors appear
a prison of one’s making

Do you think we’re better off, if we let the devil roam free? The killer, once restrained, now is on the loose. Do you think the conscience of the good, gets off scott free? Do you mingle with your base side? Do you hide behind your good, but still entertain the fireball in your hands? Do you knock on doors with evil in your heart, but just enough of a mask to get by? I say let the Lord in; let his cross knock down your iron will, willingly; let Christ set you free! The fire you feel is purifying; the Spirit inside, comforting. The breath that fills your lungs, reborn; your heart in lovely form - its chambers freely flow with peace and love. 

1/23/2023

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