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Premium Member Our Cosmic Existence

Our Cosmic Existence

We think what we know but the key confusion is always there,
When we ponder situations or events that have such high import,
And what we're used to dealing with daily at times on a mere dare.

In this cosmic realm what we don’t know we must try to purport, 
Significant because of the infinite nature of deep dark outer space, 
Which points toward an existential dichotomy of a most special sort.
 
Our knowledge of what we don’t know is of such an infinite pace, 
Confounding whole the mortal complexity of a cosmic coldness,
And defying our very consciousness in the monotony of dark space.
 
We must confront our cosmic existence with such confident boldness,
While calculating what we know and don’t—without any hint of fear,
And seek a God-given azimuth beyond this aura of a fearful coldness. 

Our cosmic existence lies in God’s light beyond this darkness and fear,
Meaning we must reach out beyond our mortal state in an aura of grace,
With our thoughts, our hearts, and our feelings so God can make all clear.

We can pursue this ethereal challenge now living in our human race,
While realizing we must reach out with God’s help to find this light,
And prepare one day for our mortal transition beyond to God’s place.

Our cosmic existence then is the two-way effort that we must get right,
As we seek out and find our way to Him spiritually beyond our short life;
Confident in our trek through a pathless land toward eternity into the light.

Gary Bateman and Ingrid Krukenberg-Bateman – A Collaborated Poem,
Copyright © All Rights Reserved (May 1, 2015) (Terza Rima)
Categories: purport, creation, faith, god, heaven,
Form: Terza Rima

Premium Member Ah King Joseph Biden

Ah,  King Biden, thou dost lie to me!
When thou blamest Putin for everything from sea to sea!


             Dost my head look like it’s made of wood?
             Your thieving son, Hunter’s, probably could!


Why not tell our kingdom of the three houses in Delaware you own?
Of course, on CNN, these facts....shan’t ever be shown!


               It’s said you have much charm and charisma?
               Did you learn such grace, in the halls of Burisma?


Your progeny’s laptop, some purport has never been found?
It drowned, one moonlit night, I heard in Puget Sound.


                               4-1-2022
Categories: purport, america, humorous,
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Precipice

Rumi Quote "Doubt is a precipice on the way to God. Blessed is he who is freed from its bonds."
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Walking toward the edge, facing a gray sky,
Paradise magnificence is dazzling below.
Goals are shrouded amid dense, rimy snow,
Amid scarlet stones, serenading scary lullaby.

Mountain summits catch nascent sunbeams,
Time for either primal bitterness or delight.
Flagrantly feeling fearful of a factious fright,
Falls fully into the recess of sliced streams.
 
Positioned on the edge of annihilation,
I was looking into the distance of my mind.
I am seated and pensive, on muse behind,
Have I the resolve to move toward obligation?

Yeah, the road ahead is all thorny and broken,
So I'm trapped, admiring it from a distance.
However, I am unable to reverse my insistence,
for the route I've taken is empty and betoken.

I've no action as to dwell in confine of truth,
Observing dread and splendor of doubt. 
Skilled in leaving to safety despite flout,
Wish to dive into the dimness, still in my youth.  

Fear the ambiguous; it is nothing but dread,
If not brave enough to tackle a rough path. 
As I felt anxious at this point, unfit to lath.
Still, what path can I decide to sail ahead?

Should I return to weird safety or leave? 
Is the charm of the enigma alluring to me? 
What can I do?  not a clear path to foresee 
Yet, such ways will always be a lie to weave.
 
But I must purport to persist on this precipice. 
Hinders the impending gravity of genesis.
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: purport, analogy, bereavement, character, confidence,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

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Premium Member Oozing Thoughts

Darkness and radiance
frolicsome purport

and access of

visible world and 
inconspicuous world
heart to grace

spawn the shades of truth
redeemer

between
contest of awareness
and the depth of the ocean

concealed
beneath the shackles
of humankind

Written: September 30, 2022
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: purport, analogy, truth,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Grim Thrum Epiphany

Written: January 09, 2024
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Seen through a sepia scale
Drab grief, of hiemal cradle
mirthless, a desolate land
shrouded in frozen doldrums,
amid solemn ripples
on threnody and sizzle
akin to a gentle sway
with a oneiric, susurrous
tambourine wave of yore
rain whistles in tune
of doodles in gold and silver.

Swells of silk
of a hypnotic spell—origami
wispy petrichor wafts!
It was tender
ignominious mayhem
of withering earth
sadly surprised
amidst golden neon notes
and vermilion,
as stricken soil stirs.

And flushes in luscious tones
of singing and crystals
as daffodils and clover bloom
amidst webs of aurelian curls
a fairy's rhapsody,
let spring song rise!
each seed that is still alive
hope will sprout subtly,
to refuel the soul
from the cosmic womb.

Wars will hinder any way to harmony 
and allegiance to nations
Earth is our vast home
we purport as world healers 
send me a melody
smoother than embers 
we're rooted in clay
as melody with thawing knack
once I visualized piano tunes,  
each tone evoked anguish  
yet, our sonata is harmless 
paramount of my persona 
beyond brink of kismet
we ought to sigh and cry 
sultry concerto
In a garden labyrinth.
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: purport, adventure, analogy, bereavement, character,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Soul's Path Unfolds

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Will I descry my consort before I settle?
Always ecstatic  but never got a medal
Abide by the authentic route, even if slowly
I purport to originate, although closely 

No difference in inducing if I am late
As long as I reach my destination, sedate
I won't strain to delight everyone I meet
There's always someone who goes deceit. 

Instead, I contrive on my own fate
Leaving no whiff of evidence, a cold case
I strive to stay relevant, to clutch weight
Learning from past experiences as I retrace. 

No one has sustained anything from me
Nobody ever got out with it, do you foresee 
Justice won when my door was kicked in
Justice revealed the culprits were jailed within.  

 If you can't stand the heat, avoid the kitchen
Since the kitchen stove is waiting. 
My hand folds in awe with every sigh, God-given,
I grasp and cherish life's depth relating.
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: purport, analogy, appreciation, beauty, soulmate,
Form: Rhyme


When a Woman Is Just a Woman

She is
just a woman
when more than all the things
she can, she stands by her man...That's
God’s plan.


06 June 2015


NOTE: The above is not a categorical statement of the author. Surely there are some situations which make the above impossible, like the presence of abuse in any form, or  concubinage. I know people are in various situations...I do not purport to push my ideas without considering some exceptions at the risk of looking like someone talking from a moral high ground. There's a real world out there after all, the horrific realities of some can only be imagined by those of us who are fortunate enough. It is just my opinion that under normal condition,  a woman with that kind of conviction, together with her man, will have laid the foundation of a strong family unit.
© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: purport, woman,
Form: Cinquain

Unaware

Vouch uncloak tomes.
Tooth topcoat retro.
Parry purport perks sourf.
Categories: purport, mystery
Form: Iambic Pentameter

Premium Member Instruments Of Hope And Faith

Hands of the piety
Phalanges of work and charity
Driven to spearhead not stoop
Enliven and share not droop

Fingers we dip on stoupe
Churches of the holy in troop
Our faith we lathe with pride
Strongly we hold not stride

Images we fond and draw
Murals we touch like straw
Gentleness in open hands we pave
Roughness in helping hands we stave

Our works and thoughts are one
Over thorns and bouts of man
Skins and colors of faith
Fins and winged colors of the laith

You are a work of art
Embellished with paints of heart
Filled with a well of hope
Influx of worth in the hull of rope

Ropes are extensions of hope that purport
Strengthened by faith and hands of support
Categories: purport, environment, faith, giving, heart,
Form: Pastoral

Premium Member Leaf Briefs

Underwear used to be a fig leaf
Then somebody invented the brief
I think it’s absurd
To name it that word
I mean, what’s briefer than a leaf?

Was it named by a white collar thief?
Like a lawyer who longed to be chief?
I could see his purport
When he said in court
“Your Honor, I’ll make this brief, brief, brief.”

“First of all, I would not use a leaf
As our skivvies’ business motif.”
He then rests his brief case
And picks up his briefcase
That held leafs of briefs, and the chief’s briefs.
Categories: purport, clothes, funny,
Form: Limerick

Premium Member A Litany of Poetry Devices

The truthful liar mesmerized no one 
Even his most fervent followers fell short.
We watched his interchanges which seemed crazy,
And his bragging and grandiose plans abort.
His love seemed wrapped up in his loving buck,

Stealthy snake-like purport with enemies he would consort.
Boom! He was on the TV. Crash! He threw out a tweet.
Snorting, chortling, boredom ripe for a big red port.
We watched him boast and brag, some disgusted be.
Formative finance foreman finds a forever fort.

Political dissonance turning our country upside down.
Misogynist buffoon yelling fake news as a new sport.
Thy vileness and thy nastiness befouls thyself,
Thy fantasticalselfishness flamboyantly galantort,
Reinforces our mindfulness that being President is just a sport.



Lines 1 oxymoron 2 enjambment 3 homographs 4 inversion 5 homonyms
Lines 6 internal rhyme 7 onomatopoeia 8 consonance 9 hyperbaton 10 alliteration
Lines 11 metaphor 12 allusion 13 archaism 14 neologism 15 dissonance

Written 8-19-2018                                 Contest:  A Litany of Poetic Devices
                                                                   Sponsor: Line Gauthier
Categories: purport, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse

David Henson

David can often be seen hot on the trail, 
Of Richard Whitehead, sprinter, runner, 
And was reported in Rio de Janero’s mail, 
As the 200m bronze medalist, stunner.

He went to St George Catholic College, 
Located in Southhampton, that busy port, 
Attended Hertfordshire Uni on the page
Of mechanical engineering, to his purport. 

But having joined the Army, made officer, 
One day he stepped on a hidden IED, 
So both his legs were amputated, better, 
But he walked in no time, sports to see. 

During his rehab at MOD Headley Court, 
David found himself by sports enthused,
And got into swimming, basketball’s court, 
Also sitting volleyball did find him amused. 

After rehabilitation David did a Masters, 
In biomedical engineering, at Imperial, 
He inquired into an amputee’s masters -
Their prosthetics - he had opinions vocal.  

At the Invictus Games he did many sports,  
To win the gold in the 200 metres sprint,
And so made the 2015 IPC Euro consorts,
In Doha, Qatar, to bear the UK flag, flint. 

The next year in 2016, Euros in Grosseto,
He was clipped to the line by Whitehead,
And so ran in Rio to entertain with gusto,
When he almost fell, but recovered dead.
Categories: purport, courage, health, patriotic, race,
Form: Quatrain

At the Edge of the Precipice

I do not know how men many we were
or how we went, what we saw on the way 
nor do I know for what ungodly purport was ours
or what goaded us on into deeper uncharted territory 
despite our tortured souls and aching bodies protesting to refrain .

I vaguely recollect through my befogged mind 
some arcane words like Shoggoth and Mi- go and Dagon,
so much gibberish and blubbering babble of deranged minds
gone at once numb and addled with sights and sounds 
forbidden to man in his wildest dreams and thoughts.

Through crenellated valleys grey misted in their troughs
and crests and covered with slime or ooze as from some
white-wormed denizens from unnamed and should-not-be-named
lairs in regions in deep damp grottoes of infernal charnel mounds
did I and my ill-fated team wander wild-eyed and unkempt.

Do not ask me what we saw when we reached our goal
for what my skulled orbs beheld or what my brain deciphered
I know nor remember not all semblance of sense and sensibilities 
having fled with a volition not my own but driven by transfusions
of thought telepathically imposed from without from the miasma.

I know not whether to thank those who found me in the sorry state
that they did - a blathering caricature of the human form more ape,
nay, an ape has more intellect and dignity, than man- a creature more
fit to dwell in the mire and morass of a cess-pit than tread the same
hallowed soil or breathe the self-same vapors as civilized man.
It was far better still that the group of kindly souls, most rightfully,
had left me to my own contrivances and let me wander in my unknown
quest for unknown and mysterious things best known to myself once 
but now lost to me forever.

I find myself in these padded and strait-jacketedand dreary halls  of Arkham
standing at the edge of the precipice of an insurmountable mountain with
an abyss at the foot, both of interminable depth and dark as the devil's heart.

I have leaped from this vertiginous height perhaps a dozen times to end my misery
but having felt all the terror and thrill of finding absolution, I find myself here again,
and again.
Categories: purport, dark, fantasy, horror, imagination,
Form: Narrative

Criminalised By Colour

Freeze! Freeze! Cops here, put your hands in the air!
Get on your knees! Put your hands behind your head!
We had a report of a crime and came and found you here.
You’re under arrest; if you move; we will shoot you dead.
Officer, what is the charge for which I am under arrest?
Was I identified as the suspect in your alleged report?
 I’m on my knees; hands behind my head; I will not protest.
Why an intruder and a criminal, did the caller purport?
I am an employee and the owner of this business officer.
It is my legal right and prerogative to be situated here.
How can you infringe on my rights; but, take benefits I offer?
You disrespect my liberty and dignity the anthem holds dear;
You profiled, labelled, tried and convicted; without knowing me;
I am guilty, until my innocence is proven to be wholly true.
In a country whose constitution don’t benefit me, who’s free;
Then what relevance is the ‘virtue of the flag,’ if not ‘equal value’.
                                                       End
                                            By: Dion Penville
Categories: purport, color,
Form: Narrative

Luftmenschen Continuum

by Michaelw1two

 Thinking’s challenge is to weigh,
 all of one’s life substance;
 quandary thus, illogical fuss,
 which blinds the mind's acutance;
 adscititiously into thoughts bleed,
 vitiated indurate boastance;
 corrumpable sequella fortuity,
 each thought, is truth’s desistance.

 Retrospectively choices trial,
 stands outside an untidy purport;
 merycism seeps beneath one’s deep,
 questions mythical adhort;
 ex postfacto, pride’s precious précis,
 ideas from ideals besort;
 denouement cryptic episode,
 Sphinges contend, issue alamort.

 Sapience elusive rapture,
 most minds need bethink acology;
 humanity’s Id mulled,
 without reference to a doctor of alethiology;
 furgacious notions, become the norm,
 arguments chime atheology;
 Toison d’ or, parley prewar,
 else high angels deem eschatology!

 Medullary substance rare,
 within rabid beings Tour de force;
 coarctation, indeed strangulation,
 dire result for living's bourse;
 Nationalism's agenda, wiled racist theme,
 keeps élan’s cry hoarse;
 emasculation, Republican dream;
 equates rule of thumb perforce.

 Contemplative ideas abound,
 behind the veil of Arriere Pensee;
 insinuation to middle class,
 jokes on all, laity economic refugee;
 elucidation simplistic, vote for change,
 or be laissez-faire etouffee;
 sublevation, certifiable eminency,
 party GOP national expellee!

Jan 2010
Categories: purport, political,
Form: Free verse
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