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Premium Member Raspberry Ruins

In a world bejeweled 
with tainted trinkets,
and feigned flowers,
we follow the 
wailing waves below 
whirling wind,
like secluded silhouettes,
stranded on the
cusp of chaos,
unable to find the sparkling
streak of hyacinth hope-
between dusk and dawn. 

Perhaps there is a
reason why I stopped
rewriting runes with
cashmere conclusions, 
as I’ve long been 
dreaming of dahlias, 
on weathered willows,
oblivious to the 
dancing rays
of rising sun swiftly 
cascading like 
caramel confetti.

I am like the 
sleepless ocean,
letting the
fleeting phases
of bewitching moon 
lure floating sapphires;
pushing and pulling
my insomniac tides 
with turquoise triggers,
as the inner-child 
continues to sail
through tumultuous seas,
healing from
the trauma I’ve been fed,
concocted with 
raspberry ruins, 
from silver spoons,
on dulcet trays.

I’ve tasted poison 
in the fruitiest of cocktails,
although the flavors 
of life remain
a mystery within a fickle 
game of chess,
incomplete 
   and unattainable. 

I search for a sanctuary
where peace lilies sprout,
beneath the eclipsed horizon,
blindfolding my third eye,
as I waltz through astral
spheres to reach 
an elysian dimension. 
Amidst unanswered questions
hanging like 
unsolvable equations, 
for all that I’ve believed
was but a myth concealed
in illusory amulets, 
bruising my inner psyche, 
preventing me 
from seeing beyond. 

Yet the morning sky
convinces me to
reconsider and realign,
as the whimsical breeze
whispers in a soft cadence:
the Universe is infinite,
so am I. 
This pink granite 
heart is as vast as 
the spring-hills with
deepest of falls,
prevailing  traces of 
my silenced voice.  

And when mauve clouds
kissed my frail fingers,
I remembered how stars
do not need our touch,
to unravel fate laced in
citrine dust, 
Like how I breathe-
lavender love,
within me, 
leaving no blood
in my veins but poetry-
flowing as the poem
of pearlescent tomorrows,
through thin
sangria streams,
in daisy dialects. 

So who am I~
but a mere dot on a 
       faceless canvas,
an echo of your rosy rhymes,
an incomplete verse with 
complex metaphors,
weaving woes in 
    sunflower silence..
Categories: unsolvable, deep, life,
Form: Free verse

Revere the Founding Fathers, Part Ii

...And Alexander Hamilton,
though know for controversy,
served alongside Washington
in the war to make us free.
Helped build up our new armed forces,
set the stage for our economics,
the prosperity we still enjoy,
he had a lot to do with it.
The man stood against slavery
when many just chose to ignore
the problem as unsolvable,
unwilling to seize something more.
He rose up from bastardry
to shape a nation not formed yet,
I think we should remember more
then the sad method of his death.

Then there is His Excellency,
George Washington earned that in full,
the only American soul
who any dare call by that title.
Stuck with an untrained army,
often outnumbered and outclassed,
he wouldn’t fight by Europe’s rules,
and the British he would outlast.
Ill-supplied and often hungry,
he kept the militas going,
and though they would have made him King
he gave it up voluntarily!
Taught us how to be a president,
was not a known thing in those days,
then even left that so he could farm,
the depths of his honor amaze…

Last is the one who didn’t arrive
until three generations later,
Lincoln, the man who finished the job,
that Great Emancipator.
Some would say he wasn’t a founder,
but I must include him within,
the nation we know traces right back
to the great deed done by him.
An ordinary politician
in a nation torn all apart,
forced to grow into a hero,
enough to test any man’s heart.
Forced to fight a murderous war
admist voices calling out for peace,
knowing defeat meant more chaos,
and millions left in slavery…

Nowadays voices spurn these men,
choosing to recall only mistakes,
forgetting that their bold ideas
are what have made this country great.
Teachers prattle on like socialists,
killers of one hundred million souls,
all of our mistakes pale next to that,
it’s a direction none should go.
But the wisdom of the founders
transcends the confines of their day,
they took on the challenge of freedom,
that’s a challenge that don’t go away.
If we take the time to heed them
then we can continue on thriving,
we should revere the founding fathers,
in truth we owe them everything.
Categories: unsolvable, america, appreciation, freedom, history,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Tick Tock

Tick tock, tick tock, the sound of the clock
A constant reminder that time never stops
There must be something that can be done
To slow down the time, how quickly it runs
From seconds to minutes to hours then days
Calendars form an unsolvable maze

Tick tock tick tock,  I'm taking stock
How much is wasted, how much is forgot
I must contribute before it's too late
Do something beneficial and not hesitate
So much can be done in so little time
But I must get moving, hands starting to climb

Tick tock tick tock, There's no roadblock
I can't slow the time by watching the clock
I twiddle my thumbs and constantly *****
Waiting for others to flip their switch
Then criticize them without lending a hand
Sleepwalking in daylight just shuffling the sand

Tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock...
Categories: unsolvable, anxiety, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme

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The Color of Insanity.

Everywhere i look i see absence,
Even past barbed wire fences,
And it seems all life is past tense.
My whole body then tenses.

Is this a prison,
Because the sight is not by choice,
Life is becoming but a vision.
Random glimpses leaves me with no voice.

I cant speak about what i feel,
Even if urged,
I cant speak because that would make it too real.
Hate not dealt with but purged.

I don't really hate... not in that way,
Its an expression of emotion too deep to tell,
The deep cauldron of hope to untouchable to slay.
Anguish only matched by the fire in Hell.

Glasses half full leave me half empty,
White noise is the right metaphor to use,
Life that's too void to tempt me.
Existence is an unsolvable puzzle yet I'm searching for clues.

Dead Roses freshly picked and sold,
In deep soil that seems too fertile,
The use of life for gain shown so bold.
My mind only seems to see deep shades of purple.

The color of insanity.
Categories: unsolvable, depressionmetaphor, life, me,
Form: Rhyme

If Shoelaces Sang Little Rich Town Blues

Not in tea leaves, in shoelaces tie existence--their harsh and meshing material
bound, tethered, undone with a gentle pull. 
 
The bunny ears
and clumsy fingers bouncing along the faux-marble
hallways: the future politicians and CEO's and poets
wiping caked mucus on the white-washed brick foundations--
babbling babbling babbling babbling.
A blood-stone bed surge of tidal maturation,
soon to be lost in the variant eddies of life;
the finger-painted puzzle-box open and unsolvable.
Their parents, for they are honorable, as
picket-fences are honorable, as
tracksuits are honorable, as
Zoloft is honorable, sit ajar
on school streets of vibrant myriad cars quietly dilapidating
behind Armor-All dashes. Old ladies waving dutifully
at lifeless lawn ornaments like lifeless lawn ornaments soon themselves in front of homes because
the youth only want something old when it's time to marry,
Googling what the heart feels for the occasion.
 
Smokestack color windows of depreciating souls searching drunken
down the glossy oak
bar through bent light of whiskey glasses and broken values
they blame on Nietzsche and the price of condoms,
finding a sad reflection seated at this world's dampened end to spread
like ashen snow
again and again and again on sweat-stained futons,
after the lurch toward the water, sloppy with kisses
and lace.
Church bells sound off one and two
O! clock tower
marching Heaven to Hell but got lost in Devil's Lake. They do not hear
the beaten shopping cart radio wobbling like a tripodal Dog, 
telling us Jesus stayed inside because White is translucent in the rain.
 
But,
the wander-footed waywards, leaden eyed, tranced in droning hums of small town streetlights--
or red red copper hangers
or lucid jaundice confessions
or gangrenous light-slivered closets--
break half-empty
beer bottles on familial-faced slogans plastered to an under-bellied bridge and sway
like ebbing wind on the unsure-step shore banks, drooping wasp legs
over the ever-rising precipice
to vein-rush Hellgrammite powder
with their one remaining shoelace
and leave their shoes behind.
© Collin Lam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unsolvable, home, old, lost, lost,
Form: Free verse

Unpurged Sad Memories

I am but an unsolvable puzzle,
A strange enigma of shattered pieces,
Mute, voice restrained by an iron muzzle,
     Dreadful as despair slowly increases.
     Fragile feelings and thoughts,
     Scattered around like dots.
     My lost mind quickly rots.
                            What’s really true?
        At once I knew.
          Now, not a clue...
Now the unpurged sad memories tousle
With my life until my hope decreases,
And I am mute.  Try to speak, but cannot.
                            I’m colored blue.







For the "The Puzzle Of My Rhyme" Contest
Sponsored by Broken Wings (Constance)
5/29/2018
Categories: unsolvable, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Life and Death

LIFE and DEATH

                Those have passed away, where they might had been?
                But I believe in reincarnation
                 as delightful wishes for our dear kin.
                May be illogical expectation.
 
                I pay tribute honoring expiry,
                But I hope somewhere my loved one is born.
                What’s the end, if death be mandatory?
                If soul be immortal, how could be torn?
            
               After death body goes on cremation
               Is there any identity of soul?
               Unsolvable eternal equation.
               Life plays a mystic miraculous role.   
               
            Those have passed away, where they might had been?
              But I believe in reincarnation.

    07/20/19

 90th Heavenly Birthday The Most Beautiful Sonnet
  Contest by William Kekaula
Categories: unsolvable, death, life,
Form: Sonnet

Numbers

The stars both numb and inspire,
awe either enraptures or terrifies.
The word ‘infinite’ becomes a conjectural sum
to be defined by pundits in bow ties
and star-crazed, white coated messiahs.

Tilt your head back on a cloudless night
feel the cold mathematical anesthesia
of the infinitesimal, not anything fathomable,
not even a reckoning in an unsolvable puzzle;
a nonplus that breeds only more numbers
until like a train calculations runs out of rails
to travel upon.

Each mental abacus
must be pre-set for incomprehension
and that beyond the tyranny of numbers
we can, in the end, count only ourselves in
and that is by no-means certain.
Categories: unsolvable, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Enigma

Jueju 10-8-24 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Enigma

My baby has no grave
Slipping from my womb 
Upon a crimson wave
Too soon to feel your heartbeat

A son or a daughter
Your eyes blue or amber green
Your voice, a mystery
You - unsolvable puzzle – eternal enigma

Your laughter – never heard
Your smile unseen except by God
Unspoken your first words
Each birthday celebrated with angels

Yet, I believe you live, little saint,
Wrapped in Heaven’s embrace
Your first steps walked you into eternity
Where God revels in your perfect face
Categories: unsolvable, angst, baby, faith,
Form: Jueju

February

For better or worse...
Ever the thinker, ever the worrier
Brooding like the dark waters of the deep
Restless, wandering, tormented soul
Undying urge to answer the unanswered
A need to solve that which is unsolvable...
Return me to the seas where my answer lies
Yes, let me swim those dark waters...again

Birthdate: February 26, 1949
Contest finalized: 4/30/2016
Date written: 8/11/2015
Categories: unsolvable, birthday,
Form: Acrostic

Love Forever Fades Away

 LOVE FOREVER FADES AWAY!!!!   wrote by Mrs.Madhavi
Waving like the sea,
Your decision was bias.
You ought to give me wedding ring,
But set my dreams on fire.

Can you answer me for the single reason, what made you do this?
Was it the beauty? Was it the caste, or the complexion?

You said I am your love at first sight.
You were the one who took the initiative and intended to keep it up.
You were the one who delightedly filled my heart with zeal of love.
You were the one who elegantly filled the warmth of love in my soul.

Confronted with an unsolvable dilemma’s where there is no right answer, we always know the answer to everything.
But what you did? You just made false promises.
Still you define it as the love, true love?
Or the love that vanished with no reason.
Answer me, answer me, my thee??

Near the bandra reclamation,
Sitting at the amusement park,
You were the one who excitedly expressed your thirsty feelings.
You were the one who stared at me without closing your eyes for a single second.
But you were the one who set my dreams on fire.

You said you will ask your parent’s for lifetime commitment?
But I will ask you one thing, if you feel your parents will understand and decide your love,  then why you fell in love?
If you know that story wont line up with an happy ending, then what made you do this?
It’s just the pain you mounted on my heart. You just broke my heart.

When you blamed, that it’s the caste, it hurted me like hell.
Answer me my love, what made you do this?
I was happy being single.
Then, why you disturbed my life with no reason?
Then, why I got so much acquainted with you for all season?

It’s was so easy, that you picked up different slices of life but why Castism you did my almighty?
In the bruising darkness just left with ashes of memories, lying my face down in ignorance.
You broke my trust for all the life time in my way.
But still you left the happy prints, as a hope of ray.
It’s because of you, Love forever fades away.
But still left with the mementoes of yours, reminded me every day!!
© Maddy Sp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unsolvable, angel, anger, autumn, beauty,
Form: Light Verse

Premium Member 'twas the Month Before Christmas

'Twas the month before Christmas
When inside the house
The housewife was quiet
There's no sound, not even a grouse

When all of a sudden
There arose such a clatter
Even the Chihuahua came running 
With tail tucked and in a chatter

Our grandson came running faster then Santa
In his magical sleigh
We all converged in the hall with this to say
Was that my husband, PawPaw or ???
Dear 'ole Claus who arrived to stay

They sprang into action
Found the backdoor jammed
Ran out the front
Found PawPaw whammed!

He had crash landed
And not on the roof
Driving grandma's sleigh
He tried to enter the den
What was wrong with him?

Grandma's wheels now undrivable
PawPaw embarrassed with this feat unsolvable
Tail-tucked Chihuahua scared out of his wits
Don't any of them know what to think of this

Well, when it is all said and done
My car was towed away
The den's damage surveyed
All the cost we still can't say 
It has taken a toll on everyone
I think we need to go play

Nerves all jangled 
Heart beating fast
Sleep eludes me
Somehow soon
It will all be in the past

Thank you, God
For your protection
I could have been in the den
In the push-button recliner total relaxation

The car could have kept going
That would have been a horrible end, my friends!!! 

This happened this past Wednesday night at my home. That was on November 17, 2021. I have not been getting out much since the COVID outbreak and my husband went out to go to church then the next thing I knew the above was what happened. We are okay. No one hurt just scary, expensive and we still don't know what we are facing with all the repairs. Definitely not as bad as the picture. He said his foot slipped off the brake and hit the accelerator and he hit the house before he could get his foot back on the brake.
Categories: unsolvable, life,
Form: Free verse

What Is Love

What is love? Realizing people lie, disguising your true self to be more satisfying to one that is your so called purpose in life to hope one day you become husband and wife, But deep down your body is crying slowly dying refining fearing of what they’re are doing at any given time.
 	What is love? Sharing hugs having long walks talking till your mouth drops listening to please the one you oh so need. Buying gifts and then giving a warm kiss. But knowing one day it leaves you i the dust where you stay and rust.
    What is love? One day getting married to come to a realize one day one must be buried and sometimes we just remarry. Getting divorce weakening the others lively force.
 	What is love? A sexual lust, a must have, a crave a faster way to get laid Spending money on your honey Hoping to get lucky soon then  leave in heart beat. Coming to a realize you miss them come back begging on your knees pleading to take you back so they can be back-stabbed by the fact you are a monster who lacks the quality of being with one instead of of them all. 
What is love?  Beating your spouse to show who is man of the house leaving one day thinking the baby will be okay because maybe they are better off without you or they doubt you. Folks love is a hokes leaves are body in an ache making or souls disintegrate  with pain and torturing. I lost love for it is a distraction an unsolvable fraction of life in which it make us restless. We love  that we may fill the holes that make our hearts ache, but in reality love is dull and dull cannot heal souls.          What is love?
Categories: unsolvable, allusion, anger, confusion, fear,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Rubik Cube

rubik cube close by
unsolvable small puzzle
several years pass

thoughts turn to easy
solution~give up~ discard
divorce never right?

maybe a smooth round
one that would glide easier
marriage counseling?  

Written: January 11, 2021
Looked up this form. I hope it is correct..

1rubik cube close by 5
2unsolvable small puzzle 7
3several years pass 5
4 0
5thoughts turn to easy 5
6solution~give up~ discard 7
7divorce never right? 5
8maybe a smooth round 5
9one that would glide easier 7
10marriage counseling? 5
Categories: unsolvable, devotion, introspection, time,
Form: Choka

Necessity

Her parameters are more than just 
diameters that fit snuggly in jeans.
I mean, it's the circumference of her sun 
that sheds light on horizons, dreary days
I dare you to find em.
When it rains, like an anchor she stays,
though sea may turn and deck may sway
she whispers peace be still
and fear is casted away.
She's a once in two lifetimes experience 
Mathematically, it's evident,
Her body's dimensions are irrelevant 
The simplicity of how she loves 
is life's unsolvable mystery 
She'll always be 
my greatest complexity.
© Ts Lewis  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unsolvable, beautiful, love, math,
Form: Free verse
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