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As the winds breathe heavily darkened within fury
Moaning filled with clouds begins speaking 
Through stormy turbulent assaults with waves that kill

A ballad is blown away like feathers from angels wings
Rain falling heavily driven by natures unyielding force 
Trees bend to salute the host's almighty anger 

Hurricane's orchestra romancing chaos turns 
Striking tempest flashing lightening power of creation speaks 
Rumbling voices roaring echoes carried from the  heaven's  

The action and power of love both earthly and heavenly
Crackling forks sparking separating inside an air like music dawns
Floods flow down a neck chain around the mountain's face 

Rushing to an ocean's source where it's kissed by the salt of grace 
Washed in a seabed finding her resting place safe inside an oyster 
Enormous waves sad and monotonous, which eventually dies










A collaborated poem 
Anne-Lise Andresen and Liam Mc Daid 
14.09. 2017
tristich unrhymed 
Copyright © All Rights Reserved

Premium Member - Striking Fear Home -

As the winds breathe heavily darkened within fury
Moaning filled with clouds begins speaking 
Through stormy turbulent assaults with waves that kill

A ballad is blown away like feathers from angels wings
Rain falling heavily driven by natures unyielding force 
Trees bend to salute the host's almighty anger 

Hurricane's orchestra romancing chaos turns 
Striking tempest flashing lightening power of creation speaks 
Rumbling voices roaring echoes carried from the  heaven's  

The action and power of love both earthly and heavenly
Crackling forks sparking separating inside an air like music dawns
Floods flow down a neck chain around the mountain's face 

Rushing to an ocean's source where it's kissed by the salt of grace 
Washed in a seabed finding her resting place safe inside an oyster 
Enormous waves sad and monotonous, which eventually dies



A collaborated poem 
Anne-Lise Andresen and Liam Mc Daid 
14.09. 2017
tristich unrhymed 
Copyright © All Rights Reserved

Everyone Is Out Striking For Better Pay

Sorry your kids can't come into
school today

As all the teachers are out on strike
wanting better pay

So are the doctor's and nurses and
paramedics as well

If you are sadly unfortunately feeling
unwell or have any form or other of
medical emergency or have an untimely
fall

As they also want a fairer living wage
to take home at the end of the month

And even if you wanted to go anywhere
and don't have your own car

I am also sorry to inform you that both
the buses and trains are currently out
on strike as well

So it seems like nobody is going anywhere
at the present moment in time

Because you can't or may be unable
to go or get anywhere anyways

And chances are no one will be there
or is probably at and manning their 
work stations anyway

As everyone and everyone seems to
be currently out on strike

Seeking and searching for better pay
come what may

Only problem is nothing seems able
to be or is getting done for all and
sundry 

And the negotiations between both and
all parties concerned

Don't seem to getting or going nowhere
either 

Because and after COVID there
is hardly little or no money left in the
pot we are more so in debt since
world war II


I Will Soar

If I were a birdie,
I'd head up to the sky.
I'd spread my wings like sunshine.
I know I could fly mighty high!

If I were a birdie,
my feathers would be bright.
Every color would be striking.
I'd soar and reach new heights.

If I were a birdie,
I'd sing a lovely song.
Everyone would stop and listen;
they would begin to sing along.

If I were a birdie,
I'd follow all my dreams.
Small streams to vast oceans,
under golden bright sunbeams.

If I were a birdie,
I'd flit about from tree to tree,
with many different flocks of birdies.
We would be free to be free.

If I were a birdie,
I'd head up to the sky.
I'd spread my wings like sunshine.
I know I could fly mighty high!

A Striking Love Physics

3x+2(x^2/10)=20

From this, we have quadratic 
equations of two lovers entangled,
One is either twenty or five 

x^2+15x-100=0
X2+20x-5x-100=0
X(x+20)-5(x+20)=0
(X+20)(x-5)=0
X=-20 or 5

They were drunk  in love and 
became two numbers of themselves
I thought you forget your thought at home because my teacher do not teach us maths but poetry of two souls and body and spirit and spiritual guides
I broke my body into leaven bread
Scribbling these letters to your mere understanding, look between your nostrils  you could find the knitted lovers. 


Yours Poetically,
©John Chizoba Vincent

Premium Member Striking Steely Eyes

Steel – striking steel
Her eyes demure
With a stare
Stern – congruous
Strongly infiltrated
Harshly deviated
Not from heartache
But from necessity
Crazy tears flow
Not from the pain
That crosses paths
With the hard creases
But from the nature
Of steely eyes
Crashing into oblivion
Where she falters
I hone into one
Of those fierce eyes
To stare at the universe
And its infinity
Cold – drowned below
Oblivion crushes
The steel eyes
That she strikes
Closed – nothing invoked
More than the dissimilar
Beyond the chronicles
Of lies – mystic realms
The moon casts no shadow
Where its sliver
Of a crescent display
Dominating – steely position
Not striking as the eyes
Of a steel sword
Pierces…

My heart crushed
Underneath the pressure
Of seeing her eyes
Steel – silver striking
Steely eyes staring…

Russell Sivey


Striking Aces

I drop to speed like a falcon
I dominate the heavens like a typhoon
I complete the landscape like the sun
And heel my will like a stallion

Shining through time like a diamond
You’ll only find my spec if you rewind
When cave lions hunted and killed with fury
And cavemen had no place left so scurry

In a white suit and tie I stand
Poised, and the world I understand
Domination is the aim we can here for
This game none have played like this before

I launch back into space like a rocket
Striking aces like a tennis racket
To continue my mission to question
The 'why', the 'how' to the solution

Striking a Blow For Freedom:Confident, Courageous and Called

Women have been battered and abused 
Since day one
Systemic domestic violence
We are so done
A movement has started #me too
That has opened up the doors
To shine a light and give a voice to those
Who say "I ain't gonna take it no more"

No longer will women be silent
Not passive in their behavior
Dauntless and determined
Like Jesus The Christ our Saviour
It's time for all women to step up
To be bold and speak out loud
That freedom ain't free
Our lives do matter, no longer to be enshroud

Striking a blow for freedom
Against our oppression
Righteous indignation
We are so now stressing
Now focused on what we have
And not what we don't
Letting our faith empower us
Falling back we no longer won't

Faithful, fearless and fighting just to be free
No more abuse, no more battery
Destined for greatness we've always known
That one will always reap whatever one sows
Now as daring women of impact
Confident, courageous and called
Striking a blow for freedom
Our hands fisted and balled

For with God before us victory is guaranteed
Feisty and forceful yeah that's We
And like the mighty Alpine ibex goat 
We will climb and scale new heights
Up the rough side of the mountain
With only one goal in sight
To eradicate our abusers
By any means at all
Women of impact # not me too
Confident,courageous and called

Stepping out on faith
Trusting in the God we all love and know
And symbolically like Jael with hammer in hand
For freedom we'll strike a blow
Striking a blow for freedom
Decisive we now act
We are women liberators
We are women of impact

Premium Member Dining With Dysfunction

Mother asked her big brother to pass the sugar;

big brother ruined it by splashing on liquor;

father rued spilt liquor by throwing his jigger

that hit sister who lit an elbow hard slammer

straight into the hand of their rare guest and butcher;

butcher stood to secure a full-face slap on her;

slap missed, striking their napping, fat cat to a blurred

flying fur on shriek tour that dog crashed with claws bore;

clawed dog wailed and bailed, dragging tail out wee dog door

where he ran to distance pain until a looper

stopped his scooter – close by was one giant cougar;

too pooped to care, tired dog flopped right then and right there;

dog closed eyes, cougar cleared throat, then croaked, ‘Hey, Lassie,

are you insanely blind to cougar claw lugers?’;

dog moaned, ‘A quick cougar corker beats home murder.’

Striking It Rich

Never attempting of striking it rich,
whenever my cravings give me another itch,
I'm used to a quite and simple life:
enjoying good food and sharing a coldl glass of wine 
when relatives and friends drop by;
why be someone you weren't meant to be?
Any millionaire around the globe,
sipping champagne desiring what I love?



With my beach cap pulled down, 
so that my short hair doesn't sizzle and change color,
as my light skin turns to a golden tan;
yes, I thank God for a breeze cooler than a fan!
Whole afternoons are spend on this pristine beach,
with a waterfront that a Californian will envy,
to melt away that old cliche' of vanity;
come down here...the East Coast is a wonderful shore! 



Low class, middle class and the upper one,
all share this unquenchable feeling,
to lay on the salty sand and begin to dream;
Am I talking non-sense or tackling the zest for living...
that this society has been unawarely denying??
 


Striking it rich is a temporary fancy,
imagining the possessions money will buy,
and many untaught temptations will materialize;
some will die by snorting deadly coke,
others squandering it on mistresses and hookers...
God, how the human spirit is corrupt  and consumed by lurid
and unhealthy desires that once were out of reach!  
And hopefully someone will ponder this,
to wake up to this gruesome, and parlous reality
and spend his or her fortunes wisely! 



What good people will do for the betterment of the deprived ones?
First give them love from the heart, then help them financially...
that's the smart way caring, of planning to strike it rich;
what's the use of looking at your glittering gold,
and not giveit  away to help anyone whose thirst and hunger
show in the sunken eyes...waiting for someone to feed their bellies!



If I ever stroke it rich, I wouldn't be here enjoying this sunshine, 
but I'll get out there and search for the needy and helpless ones,
and stop the selfishness and madness that money provides;
if I share my good fortune with them, others will follow my example,
and a real change will take place...no poverty everywhere in our world!
Follow me, and search for everyone alive...to give them back their precious life!

 

Copyright 2009 by Andrew Crisci

Premium Member A Striking Llama

There once was a llama in my pocket,
as my eyes did expel from each socket.

          His snout stole my snack
                 in hunger attack.

Picket-eyes keep thieves out of my pocket.

Striking Out

The color of lemonade washing the sky—
Popsicle memories revive
Of  baseball connecting with ash wood, hit high
In an arcing, outfield drive.

Are summers forever?  Or only a day?
Moth-eaten , major-league hat…
December’s the umpire, miscalling the play,
And there’s ice on my Louisville bat.
© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member A Striking Clock

Big Ben is an enormous clock
That has a loud tick-tock
A young man fell off his bike
When he heard that clock strike
As he rode around the block

Premium Member Prairie Storm

“Prairie Storm”

The air turned
Deadly still,
The trees no 
Longer swayed,
The horses neighed, 
The church bells rang

Rabbits ran 
For their caves.
Old men rushed
To close their doors.

Storm on the Rise!
Storm on the Rise!
Twister but a mile!
Be here in a while!

Hurry, grab the kids  
To the cellar quick. 
We haven’t the time 
To worry.
It’s coming with a fury

The clouds grew deadly black
As deadly black can get. 
Whipping and churning,
Rumbling and growling, 
Twisting and swirling,
A tail was coming

With a vengeance it came:
Bolting and striking,
Snapping and crackling,
Exploding and blasting,
The tail kept churning.

The roof from the
Barn was thrown.
The windows in the
House were blown.
The trees ripped 
From their roots.
The horses ran.

The rain
Came pounding.  
The hail
Came battering.  
The wheat field 
Turned to straw.

Up from the cellar 
The family rose.
The mother poured tears.
The father fell to his knees.
The little ones clung 
To mother’s skirt.
There was little left.
His dreams disappeared.

The neighbors 
Came calling.
The storm unkind.
He lost his mind.
The church bells rang.

Striking

Your entrance 

was a javelin 

thrown in a stadium 

that could not measure the distance

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