Best Stability Poems
Great tremors
Tectonic plates shift
--Upheaval
of course the moon cries...
there are green tangerines browned
and...the soup is mashed
Senryu on Mind Poetry Contest
1-28-2020
Judged 2-3-2020
VERTIGO
imbalance, dizzy
wobbling, swirling, unsettling
headache, ear bones, legs, kneecaps
balancing, steadying, walking
firmly, upright
STABILITY
stay inside your house
that would be my life.
let someone else become a lawyer
a teacher a doctor an artist a writer a
i am under a blanket.
i am inside a television.
i hide in your sugar and popcorn.
from the outside, we are simple.
laughter is not hard.
no one suspects a thing.
yet within, it is cool and quiet and
hollow.
utterly
empty.
the occasional drifting wandering thought
waves hello or
drags at your flesh.
no one will bother you.
you will sink, unperturbed
to the trenches, the
(dregs).
and if you are lucky,
the fish will come to knock on you
and listen.
it is dark down here.
i don’t mind.
i wish you did.
i wish you knew.
my ears pressure pop
and my heart adrenalin pumps
and my skin shakes, ice cold hot
and i can’t speak, but, oh well.
my pride will carry me.
i have heard
of lantern fish in the deep
and sharks that don’t bite.
and maybe
you don’t have gills after all.
maybe,
you’ll think,
maybe, i’ll go to college.
Challenges singe meninges sometimes
Painting dark clouds on the canvas in corridors
Where at times
I seem to coerce open doors
To weep
At the folly I engage
To sweep
Common sense and its stage
Aside as I create reality too stringent
I can’t accommodate
Ideas I consider pungent
During the numb nights
When my mind
Would demand I cut out fights
That could unbind
Confusion from the fortress
Where I vow never again to look back
Lest I should pity the mistress whose dress
Caught up in a salubrious snare can hack
The sanity I dare to preserve
In the midst of lack of clarity
On the direction and predilection my verve
Changes in its conception of the celerity at which one celebrity
Sinks beneath dignity
To a low ebb
Where impunity
In brick and mortar business and commerce on the Web
Suggest a change in paradigm
In the way I handle social issues of a sensitive nature
Which though worth more than a dime
Grow prone to a departure from the signature
I append to blend the best of spices
My exclusive taste demands
For the best possible prices
My approval commands
If I’m to listen to the plea
That signals the beginning of the end of the frivolity
Witnessed when midgets from reality flee
To seek refuge within the stability of humility.
Oh! What makes one`soul happy?
Is it thoughts, words or actions?
Let free your reasoning!
Do not withhold fear
Fear devours the inner self
Damages all the confidence
Destroys knowledge of raison de vivre!
Let go all the agony buried
So, remember! remember!
Thinking beneath capability is dump
Thinking beyond is deadly!
Great are those who speak truth!
Truth of hope, fantasies and that of love.
The clouds
are tinted red
as the sun sets,
I watch from
the shade
of an old oak tree.
The sky
looks like after
a nice savage attack,
stuffing from furniture,
scattered,
covered in blood.
My mind
has slowed to a crawl,
barely screaming
in its cell,
leaving me temporary peace,
hardly being pressured
by the thirst
for what
I do so well.
Its hard to believe
that I enjoy
anything
where the crimson fluid of life
isn't matting down my hair
and chunks of flesh
aren't flying about me,
but it doesn't last long
and as the sun
dies on the horizon
I feel the pull
of your unworthy souls
calling me
to separate them
from your bodies,
well I mustn't
keep them waiting.
I let the shadow swallow me,
traversing the darkness
like a footpad
on the rooftops
in a medieval city,
and as Slayer said
I quote
"In an unforeseen future
nestled somewhere in time,
unsuspecting victims,
no warnings,
no signs,........
before you see the light
you must die."
And so that
is the purpose
for me here,
without dark,
there can be no light.
So between
showing evil
to society
and doing my part
in population control
I'm quite a busy fellow,
doing my best
to make humans
grow as a whole,
if I get
to release
the vileness
that builds up
within me
like a volcano
spewing
blood
and chunks of flesh
into the air,
staining the sky
a dark brick color
so be it,
it doesn't
hurt everybody
and wasn't it said
"The sacrifice of a few
benefits the masses."
A winter comes
With nonstop rain and extreme coldness
Flood, flu and running nose
Besides the long fight of covid
Besides the long fight of political stability
Besides the long fight of bribery
A winter-like weather comes to my country
A country of equatorial climate and beauty
With no sympathy
But only as a test of faith in the nature
I believe
Doomsday will never come
As man makes up a part of the world
And His world
A lass who worked in Trump's stable
Got stuck between Cain and Abel
She started to cry
Trump didn't know why
It had to be just a fable
this king rulès by the people..By paliamentry decree'
Now the country for millenia, has been a Christian
Majority.. Defender of faiths.? Does he await a great
Change? And is Britain willing to endure untold pain?
Stuck, staring, stumbling
Time stood still in awe of lives, for
Better or worst, yet alive
So her story goes asunder
Silenced by storms with thunder
And through it all, she stood
Held to heart of hope, and belief
Solitude jolts
Because!
Beneath skylight, she was whisked to life renewed.
*
HOW TO EMBRACE LIFE
Life is up to you
Either a confused strife
Or rev up your life
What to choose?
It's all up to you.
If stumble upon an argument
Accompanies disagreement
Inner commotion creates ripples
Our weaken system cripples
Differences break us apart
This pave the way to depart
If ready for peace
Issues ready to cease
Stability within
Stillness set in
Clarity touches to the core
Solutions come to the fore
What to choose?
It's all up to you.
FIRST PLACE
ALL YOURS (May 27)
Contest Judged: 5/27/2021
Sponsored by: Brian Strand
My feelings I store on empty shelves of shoulders that don't hold much but selfish needs. Preserved in salt to heal wounds and burn at once so to not forget the labels that have tested time, Patience and strength. Throughout time ,
I have tested waters flavored with agony's pungent seasoning knowing it's not for me nor suits my palate but I don't know yet if I'm the rancid offering or if the additives are spoiled. Tasteless, dry, almost dust like texture dashed on an unfavorable dish will always turn stomachs and noses away from edible sources. Why would one turn down a feast of delicacy for a home cooked bland ass meal. I would but that's because I know the value of blood sweat and tears not just how to lick my plate clean, snap fingers and silver set before me. .
Though waves may break
Though mountains quake
I have a peace the wrong can’t know
In desert sands
In foreign lands
I have a joy where’er I go
In great alarm
In sudden harm
I shan’t be moved; He’ll strengthen me
When peoples melt
In dark that’s felt
My endless light He’ll ever be
When nations rage
When nations change
My King will never change at all
With every breath
In life or death
He’ll lift me up; He’ll hear my call
When days are dark
He’ll be my ark
He’ll save me from the raging sea
Like Noah, He
Will rescue me
Like then, right now He sets us free
He reads the heart
No end, nor start
Nor bounds of time or space has He
Since ancient days
His righteous ways
Have always been; they’ll always be
I know that He
Won’t turn on me
His Book won’t fade–not any page
His judgements stand
In any land
In any culture, any age
The past He knows
I know he goes
Before me, past what I can see
He stands by me
He’ll always be
My constant, my stability
Window the heart is
To seek peace roams like a monk
Love is puzzling bird
04.10.2020 Chattogram