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Premium Member Soul’s Cry

Another lost noon, 
engraved as unforgettable 
memoirs within my mind, 
I’m rethinking of rewriting
and rewinding revoked 
reflections of a love rekindled. 
My eager heart
is now hanging in the void,
yearning to swirl 
through desert dunes  
to exhale one more 
dandelion dream 
in the same air as you,
where quill and paper
were no longer needed.
For times that I 
was inking 
meaningless phrases,
were buried 
deep down under,
as you were softly 
scribbling dewy verses
of desires upon 
my desolated skin,
rescuing darkness 
with starving sincerity, 
illuminating and hydrating
my urges with 
prolific praising, 
moulding every 
imperfection of mine
into an abstract art,
naming them 
with prismatic gems
on the night of confession, 
beneath a sky full of stars
that were burning.

I’m now left with no 
adjectives to alliterate, 
how this sunflower 
soul’s cry bloomed
within your 
healing embrace, 
where hailing
emotions were eased;
I knew then,
that’s where 
I’ve for so long
wanted to belong. 

The whirling gusts of 
greedy gardenias
  may say 
roses  aren’t fragrant, 
but why am I yearning 
to be the Juliet rose
in your graceful garden, 
where petals glow
like rainbow-hued stardust, 

I’m on a virtual venture, 
wishing I had 
Aladdin’s vintage lamp;
to grant me my 
dose of you and I. 
If only I could ride 
above Arabian valleys;
on an amethyst 
magic carpet,
stitched with 
crystalline crescent sequins. 

If only you could feel,
I’ve been dreaming 
of daisy meadows
and dahlia lawns, 
where memories 
are fatal,
pushing me into a 
labyrinth of 
mourning magnolias,
searching for 
balanced brightness,
although you 
still wander
through a
foreign land~
faraway from “us”.

I hear your wings
adorned with
orchestric ornaments
ascending into
   the celestial fields,
leaving me in an
astral connection,
 with a jar of memories,
where I still keep 
falling for you,
time and time again,
as you are my 
beginning and ending,
the amorous poet 
that wouldn’t 
take love for granted~
like the pirates of 
this heart-shaped odyssey. 

And I shall forever be reliving
the fabulous February, 
spent in your golden presence;
although, days together
were somewhat short
and nights were long,
we will rephrase this romance
relentlessly
into an everlasting love story.
Categories: revoked, angst,
Form: Free verse

The Scent of Your Soul

The scent of your soul

a caramalized breeze of fruit odours

reverbrating softly through my memory

Throwing me right back in ninth grade 

where we sat side by side

Your right arm reaching slightly for my back

Your  name resonates gently with my spirit

as thoughts of you dwell in my mind

Carrying me back to the shade

of purple grape orchids in evergreen woods

Our first kiss perched upon last autumn's twig

still lingers in early morn's bone-china cup

wafting its pungent aroma of dark roast coffee beans

and so the smell of rubber tyres against  the wind

Such revoked moments of unknown danger and defiant fun

Other moments of beauty and snow angels

Of freedom and moonlights,sunrise and life

I can still recall the days,months,and years

till our footprints marked seperate paths

Ah,those days,those last hours,How can I forget?

Sweet as frosty vanilla and chocolate chips of an ice-cream parlour

Melting as spongy marshmallows and honey syrup

Fresh as the colour of every new dream which haunts me

llike an alluring glance of almond-shaped eyes

This afternoon,like other afternoons I walk to the library

which knows the musky sweat of your palm upon my own

That fragrance 's gone now,all that is left is the fading perfume

of forgotten petals between old books and dust

No one here except my silence ,and a rotten sliced apple

vacuum packed,lacking its cinnamon  and  even  its spice.

Back home the mildewed strings of a guitar 

await my fingertips to play once more

upon the worn out chords of my vacant heart

What will I play,what will I sing,a song which isn't ours?

Fermented wine I poured into a glass

Yearning to taste its purple grape for what it was

before all it was turned out bitter,acidic and sour

I wondered about where you might be,distant or not as far

Listening to my voice on once upon a record player

Or Wishing on a star ? 


A repost  (written : 10/15/2014
Categories: revoked, absence, love,
Form: Free verse

The Scent of Your Soul

The scent of your soul
a caramelized breeze of fruit odours
reverberating softly through my memory
Throwing me right back into ninth grade
where we sat side by side
Your right arm reaching slightly for my back
Your name resonates gently with my spirit
as thoughts of you dwell in my mind
Carrying me back to the shade
 of purple grape orchids in evergreen woods
Our first kiss perched upon last autumn's twig
still lingers in early morn's bone-china cup
wafting its pungent aroma of dark roast coffee beans
and so the smell of rubber tyres  against the wind
Such revoked moments of unknown danger and defiant fun
Other moments,of beauty and snow angels
Of freedom and moonlights,sunrise and life
I can still recall the days,months,and years
till our footprints marked separate paths
Ah,those days,those last hours,How can I forget?
Sweet as frosty vanilla and chocolate chips of an ice cream parlour
Melting as spongy marshmallows and honey syrup
Fresh as the colour of your soul, which haunts me
 like an alluring glance of  almond-shaped eyes
This afternoon , like other afternoons I walk to the library
which knows the musky sweat of your palm upon my own
That fragrance 's gone now.All that is left is the fading perfume
of forgotten petals between old books and dust
No one here except my silence,and a rotten sliced apple
vacuum packed ,lacking its cinnamon and even its spice.
Back home,the mildewed strings of a guitar
await my fingertips to play once more
 upon the worn out chords of my heart
What will I play,what will I sing ,a song which isn't ours ?
Fermented wine I poured into my glass
Yearning to taste its purple grape for what it was
before all it was turned bitter,acidic and sour
I wondered about where you might be ,distant or not as far
Listening to my voice  on once upon a record player
Wishing on a star ?



Not for the contest
But thanks for the inspiration

Contest name-The Scent Of Your Soul
Categories: revoked, absence, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry


The Scent of Your Soul

The scent of your soul

A caramelised breeze of fruit odours

reverberating  softly through my memory

Throwing me right back in ninth grade

where we sat side by side

Your right arm reaching slightly for my back.

Thoughts of you dwell in my mind

and your name resonates gently with my spirit

carrying me back to the shade

of purple orchids in evergreen woods.

Our first kiss perched upon last autumn's twig

still lingers in early morn's bone-china cup

wafting its pungent aroma of dark roast coffee-beans

and so the smell of rubber tyres against the wind.

Such revoked moments of unknown  danger 

Of fearless  dreams , and defiant  fun.

Other moments of beauty and snow angels

Of freedom and moonlights ,sunrise  and life.

I can still recall those weeks ,months ,years

till footprints marked separate  paths

and our shared candles became the past.

Ah those lazy siestas, those days...those nights...

Sweet as frosty vanilla and chocolate  chips of an ice -cream parlour

Melting as spongy marshmallows  and honey syrup 

Fresh as the linen of your shirt which haunts me 

like an alluring glance  of almond - shaped eyes.

This afternoon,  like other afternoons,  I walk to the library

that knows the musky sweat of your palm upon my own.

That fragrance  's gone now . All that is left is a fading perfume 

of forgotten  petals, between  old books  and dusty shelves.

Nobody  here, except my silence and a rotten sliced apple , 

Vacuum- packed ,lacking both cinnamon  and spice.

Back home, the mildewed strings of a guitar await my fingertips 

to play once more ,upon the worn out chords of my heart

What willI play , What will I sing , a song that isn't ours ?

Fermented wine I pour into an empty glass

Yearning to taste the grape for what it was

before all it was turned bitter, acidic and sour.

Alone , I wonder where you might be

So far or not so distant ,listening to the mood in  my voice

on once upon a record player, Wishing on a star ?
Categories: revoked, absence, memory,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Dogma Enigma

Dogma Enigma

When the pedophile is god
and genocide is good 
when caring for the other
is a never not a should
when race is a weapon
and gender is revoked
when science is blasphemy
and climate change a hoax

Resist the urge to reason
you will just be labelled woke
Categories: revoked, political, racism, religion, science,
Form: Rhyme

Half Mast

Can one count the pieces of a broken heart? 
Can a flag half staff proudly wave?
Will kites still rise in staccato weather,
or partial freedom be less than a slave?

Explain this measure of a hearts half beat
wind that blows yet never reaches the trees
the disfigured countenance of a dreamers disgrace
how half body dreams cry imbalance in between 

Tarnished stains of unpolished silver
 flyblown details of a life unabridged
groping for a fortress forged by slivers
unfit by the stages between and betwixt 

shifting weight from east to west
dodging shadows of intent and neglect
standing at the post where the middle never met
like a chromosome missing beholding whats left

Oh to be pregnant with hope 
then giving birth to a portion revoked
How does one survive the division 
of two halves opposing a whole

What brightness can a light once shining
affect through half of a soul?
and where is the joy in knowing
without two halves you'll never be whole? 

A heart scattered in fractions
equations refusing an algorithms find
These are the conundrums which riddle
and the factors left baffling the span of time
Categories: revoked, conflict, emotions, hope, math,
Form: Rhyme


False Imprisonment For Contest

She looked at his face as he raped her
Making sure she remembered all
When it was time to go to court
She watched as the jail sentence fell

He cried in court, I am innocent
No way would I do such a crime
But the court didn’t believe him
Put him away for a long time

Seems memories are a bad thing
In times when  you’r  not well
This man was innocent of the crime
Wasn’t him at all.

Mistakes are made quite innocently
Luckily he has forgiven her
For spending 11 years behind bars
When he knew that he shouldn’t be there

Said, one day I knew I would be rescued
From this life of pain
Knowing that you are innocent
Can drive a man insane.

“Live, forgive and keep moving on” are Ronalds motto
Not an easy task
When your back is against the wall
Justice is all you ask.

Now they speak out together
Public speaking about rape and distress
And the error of the eyewitness
When the victim’s life is a mess


Ronald Cotton  received  a life sentence which was revoked upon  DNA evidence, 11 years later.
Categories: revoked, faith, forgiveness, life, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member No Purpose Pulses

My flesh is flush with inadequacy each day
for no purpose pulses inspiration my way

No motivation shows to validate
	that my energy even palpitates -
I am a daytime deficiency breathing.
All things seem possible before I sleep
 	then night’s energy sun fades into lethargy:
I rise to flounder, flail and fail to move so never do I see the
me that my prayers and hopes wish new days would promote.
	Has karma woven my desires revoked
	or am I now a bad aging type of joke?
I cannot grope life’s enthusiasm
	nor can I fathom what has happened,
		but I am sad that my self-esteem’s armor
			has been pierced by darkness infused drama …

home clocks loud mock me
as moments find me unchanged
just aged within ticks
tocking my stopped impetus
in passion’s puddled blandness
Categories: revoked, anxiety, change, conflict, confusion,
Form: Free verse

Three Stooges

THE THREE STOOGES

With their lunatic style of slapstick
These old favourites made their mark
Bangs on head, eye pokes and **** kicks
Were transformed to works of art

But it's not of this trio I speak
Three more egregious, my aim
On these your attention I seek
They're REGRET, SHAME and BLAME

Undesirables of the emotions
With pretence that your life they will serve
If for living this life you've devotion
Treat them with the mistrust they deserve

                         .....................

SHAME - the one least deserving disdain
The one who gets head bashed and eyes poked
Only loons never feel guilty pain
Without wishing their sins be revoked

With no shame at our dastardly deed
We would surely be heartless and brazen
Not to wish to repent, fault concede
But don't drown in self immolation

                           .....................

REGRET is a stooge insidious
A crime with no victim but self
Curbing soul in a manner perfidious 
Life on hold, and you on the shelf

Have a few, perhaps 'too few to mention'
You mis-spoke? Well by all means retract words
But avoid a total suspension
And don't spend your life looking backwards

                           .....................

Then BLAME, there's the killer, life dumbing
Though it may give relief and brief feel-good
To beat up some rat who had it coming
But move on! Don't espouse victimhood

The problem with indulging in blame
It makes another the cause, you effected
Paint yourself in a victim's frame
Can you then be source for life corrected?

13 May 2018
Categories: revoked, humanity, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member My Aborted Baby

Crepuscular rays filtered through the trees:
Tall black cypresses around a dark shrine,
Evening grim bells toll as I feel the freeze,
Conscious the tomb covered with rambling vine,
While nocturnal butterflies just decline.
I could not help utter a maze of sighs, 
My desolate unborn baby just lies, 
Never forgotten, but always evoked
Except the woman who'll never get wise.
Cursed she'll be, an oath I never revoked.

Fiction
I am against abortion.  But I am in favour of forgiving.
Categories: revoked, abortion, abuse,
Form: Dizain

The Red Bucket

The red bucket in my bathroom 
suddenly one day broke. 
Day by day it deteriorated 
till it was revoked. 
I needed some plastic 
to melt for some work; 
the red bucket was chosen 
being already shirked. 
Little by little, in few days, 
the red bucket was cut. 
From being a proper bucket, 
it was not even its butt. 
It sits there in a corner 
waiting to die some more. 
Unwanted, rejected, 
it's not a bucket anymore.
Categories: revoked, abuse, angst, sad,
Form: Rhyme

Answering the Serpent's Call

The serpent called her

And as if swans carried her light airy behind
She ran through the cooling blue vines of the garden

Into a jungle that puffed magenta steam clouds 
Circumventing cawing crowds of warning green fowl

She wasn’t startled by the beast’s bright yellow face
Nor his elongated serpentine demeanor 

In fact she formed a one-woman army of souls
That would one day inhabit her entire planet 

She listened to his soft persuading elocute
And dreamed to appropriate her ghostly master

He entwined and penetrated her quiescent mind
Persuading and enticing with promised power 

She became the trained monkey of the tempter
The first of millions that would soon go after her

Like a hungry macaque she climbed the great tree
In search of her creator’s forbidden construct

Reaching the golden fruited orb with heated breath
She plucked it without hesitation or regret

Racing through a luscious sea of green and amethyst
She finds her sleeping mate beneath a giant mushroom

She awakens him with an erotic purring
Her tantalizing womanhood nude for his taste

Drunken from her enveloping draining pleasure
He accepts her offer of golden fruited prize
  
As they greedily dinned the garden slowly died
And the master revoked their immortality

Clothed with wilting turquoise leaves to cover new guilt
They fled their luscious home for the valley of death

Never to return
© Gary Jones  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: revoked, life, green, planet, ,
Form: Couplet

Ain'T **** Man

It has become customary for me to have someone laying in my bed ; to keep me warm when my covers can't
I guess its on set delusions in my head
That tricks me into believing this is what I need ,even if its from an ain't **** man,knowing what I know
Why do I allow him into my bed,to soak up my juices and eat of my bread
Receiving and deceiving 
Playing mind games with my head; and I never get a thing no comittment and no ring
Conversations about emotions are revoked when leaving my lips traveling to his ear
 Who am I to blame if I keep doing the same thing 
 That lands me right where I am
 Time after time
 I see potential and run with it
 Without checking his credentials 
 I hear struggle and pain 
Thinking he just need someone like me, cause I can change everything
Only to find out he was never a broken man but a breaker of hearts , have me wishing I knew this from the start
But maybe I did ,maybe my need to be needed or my desire to be wanted
Is the reason I find myself right back here again dealing with an ain't **** man
Categories: revoked, black african american, lost,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Sensationalism


A little voice inside keeps saying, “write something different”
Different to what may I ask?
I have surely written about every subject there is to write about
No no! I can't write about THAT!
I'd get censored and my lifetime membership would be revoked
Anyway, writing that stuff is only to get attention
It's called “sensationalism”
The world press is particularly guilty of it
I understand they're in the business to sell papers
And add mucho dollars to their respective bank accounts
BUT a little discretion at times would certainly be in order
I'm not referring to any one particular article or story
Just expressing my thinking
Perhaps if events weren't sensationalized as much
The lunatic fringe would be more concerned with other things
Such as what they have to be thankful for
Instead of complaining about what others have and they don't
Am I dreaming???
Categories: revoked, proposal,
Form: Free verse

Immigration Policy

All immigrants or persons migrating into Australia shall be extended no more courtesy that the average Australian unless unusual circumstances can be justified
 
No financial aid will be offered to any person migrating to Australia unless unusual circumstances can be justified
 
24 months after becoming an Australian citizen will be first time a migrant shall be allowed to claim for any financial assistance of any sort from the Australian government unless unusual circumstances can be justified
 
All Australian traditions, icons, beliefs, and religions shall not be defaced in any way; if they are then the person or persons responsible shall be required to leave Australia and citizenship and passport will be revoked unless unusual circumstances can be justified
 
All immigrants shall follow Australian law
 
No employer shall be allowed to pay a migrant a lower rate of pay than an ordinary Australian would receive in the same position in accordance to the award wage. If an employer is found guilty of underpaying workers they shall be shipped to PNG and passport revoked after reimbursing twice the amount of money owed unless unusual circumstances can be justified
Categories: revoked, political,
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