Capacious Poems

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Cool
Alchemist
Tender
Candid
Abbot
Tabby
Calm
Aboveboard 
Talent
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Therapeutic
Nostalgia
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Charming cheerful chemist chummy classic clement capacious
Aesthetic affable agile alchemist alert ambitious ascetic 
Terrific teacher thankful thoughtful tranquil trusty telepathic  
 


* I love cats :)
* Acrostic Agility Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Oliver Mckeithan.

BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS

there is a quickening in the forest
robins sing to us of universal sharing
as the earth calls us
to hear again the song of life
a thin brown layer of soil
is all we have
between ourselves and oblivion

a new language is needed
drums from Africa
echoing through termite mounds
to the savanna of a loving way

I made a choice
to be vegetarian, then vegan
clearing rivers from waste
and sky from methane
fear is contagious
but so is compassion
and it begins with me

how quickly it all goes by
in this moment of light and despair
I find what nourishes me indelibly:
the touch of a lover’s hand 
worlds within a plant 
tears as family members in silent movies 
embrace Shakespearean deaths

my poems stumble 
impatient to journey 
as ghosts march from the tunnel
looking to us for resurrection

I have treated life
as a problem in accuracy, balance and proportion
but my careful ordering
is not sufficiently capacious
I say these things at age 80
because I burst with things unsaid and undone

I ride the waves
but do not see the stars
until I am swept under
denial is no longer possible
as a warrior traces his exit 
from literal to mythic

Metamorphosis

The resemblance of the omnipotence imprinted
With rare colours and shades elegantly tinted
Cherubims and seraphs adorn my being's core.
Like the capacious cosmos, I am in candour.

Senses surpass the physique and touch the psyche.
Wisdom arises beyond my likes and dislikes.
Allure becomes affection. Lust turns into love.
Divine graces, like monsoon rains, fall from above.

Consciousness and unconsciousness seem to conflict.
Connections of clear conscience, yet, within, get flicked
Like the lustre of the sun, the moon, and the stars
Rays of virtue erase naiveté’s sombre scars.

I am on earth and in heaven at the same time.
Body and soul, like church bells, are in tuneful chime.
What's heaven and hell when divine presence pervades?
The grimness of death and grave becomes godly glades.

Epitome Of Existence

With empty capacious containers 
the living entities 
arrive arrogant 
and depart desolate,
in between turn into 
greed slaves to snatch
the unearned fortune,
getting sucked spellbound 
within abyss of temptation.

In the inferno of 
corporeal passion temporal,  
the frenetic flare 
laced by luring lust
debases the fervent feeling 
of platonic pining,
but in blooming love 
it can sparkle sublime
with the patina of penchant.

The chase of mirage 
in the deceptive ego desert 
etches the fragile footprints 
of delusive dominance
with sandstorm trajectory,
but the squall of strife 
over the dune of dwindled life
subsides in the inner space 
of latent love configured
in the conceded cauldron 
of self-less surrender.

In the blazing realm 
of connived conflict 
sane senses of sobriety 
turn into cinder,
flaming the fiber of prudence,
but the shower of sagacity,
spurting from love fountain 
with divine flamboyance
douses the fire of disdain
and
with the allayed ashes 
fabricates the framework 
of cordially congruent 
epitome of existence.

Weeping Willow

Written: January 03, 2024
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Wrenching writhing
of capacious weeping willows
In a dubious dream vault
I felt spurred to seek safety
from scorching sun
subsequently, in confusion,
I broke into a wide smile
that reverberated within
an inane, jumbled heartbeat,
venous thrombosis.

Imbue a pulse to svelte vessels
I didn't realize when it started
lacking friends and love
shattered heart, rotting core
halcyon recalls vanished
just dying is the goal
It's exhausting to suffer and cry.
 
Every sound in your name
whispered in the breeze
strengthened our bond
going toward dreams
amid fluttering twigs
I discovered serenity and solace
weeping willow's embrace
wind rustled its twigs as music
quiet fears of long-lost hopes
seeking refuge from the hot sun
I discovered this secret treasure
a vault for memories and dreams
It's a long way to hell alone
life isn't awful, but no one phones
I can stay here until earth scorns
stay with my weeping willow.

Odyssey Scope

Written: December 28, 2023

Beneath the shades
of velvet shadows
swarms of amber
luminance of daylight
and elusive flits
of faerie embers.
Veiled in jeweled which
rhymed with 
Calyx elixir tints
of moonlit hues,
wings of light fractals
of burnished baubles.

Serendipitous breeze
scribbling rimes 
of a runic serenade
in glints of jades
and emeralds.
wisps of wood smoke
soft mists of
Myrrh and Frankincense
fragrance of 
Amyris and Bergamot.

Life has been beckoned.
by the sun messenger.
In that aurifying light,
crisscrossing balmily 
and all at once.
With your shifting cloak,
snail
silver tree,
life is futile 
& vain as smoke. 
with your beshrews roads
case of curiosity 
devoted to 
the art of taxidermy, 
decorative, restorative
and anthropomorphic.
A canorous dream,
capacious
mellifluous
Hurry past me!

An Eventide

flowers shrubs plants trees birds beasts streams and rivers --- constant painting contest

the lenient sky
accommodating each shade ---
capacious canvas

Multicolor carpeted hills and vales invite each creature,
Seas and oceans and waterfalls enhance zestful feature;
Curls and furls of blooms and plumes narrate new nature stories,
Forms and shapes and folds and molds spread beyond territories...!!!


03 June 2023
A Monoku, Haiku and 4 lines of Rhyme - Same Theme Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin

Powerful Concepts

POWERFUL CONCEPTS
daring
to return
in
enthralling
  &
radiant
grandeur
bright emblems
 in freefall
of
nostalgiaa
  resembling
a
galaxy of
    frozen
spectacular
fragments
forever passing
as
drifting shadows
in an
astral accidentn

 explosions
of all kinds
painstakingly
  &
marvellously
 spread
out  greeting
the arrival
of the  deeply
 ambiguous
perhaps
 an allusion
 of  transformation
 something from
 nothing
  melted down
&
 refined
evocative of
minimalist
  tracery
in the
 abstract
of
 tangles
of
 vibrating  
clouds
through
the
 lens
of
beautiful
innocent
ignorance
potent
with
significance
 trying to speak
through
a  heap of
discarded matter
 subtle
& capacious
&
 drifting
a sense of a mind
unfolding
stretching
 adding
 words

NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood is inherently variable.
Copyright © Brian Strand

Desiring's Brood

Unguarded, from out that pit
For heart's place, capacious
Burn on up, Desiring's brood.
Winged vipers, rapacious.

There's luxury's diamond-backed
Skinned regeneration.
And lust, more horrid looking.
With reddish streaks thereon.

The Women I Love

I love many a woman, and some of them love me
each of them are lovely, in their own special way
like motley painted canvas, or effervescent sea
my capacious lady, is never dull a day

If I Were Famous

Oh what a dream…

None can blame us

Innocence wishing

If I were famous…



Spinning in circles for all to see

Hearing the audience cheering for me

Running, jumping and striking a pose

For I am famous and everyone knows.

The best performance they clap and woo

Beautiful ballerina in a pretty tutu

Angelically delicately bending my knee

Ending the dance of young and free…



If I were famous…



Through silver hair

Laughing lines now declare

Experience with my own story

Ownership of my own glory…

Falling in the dream capacious

Once again bring to greatness

Strength, grace and all courageous

Dance again for I am famous.

Solitude

Flocculent clouds suck the life from bel-esprit
She misses going out and warm springtime sun
She desires one verdant leaf upon a tree

Sharing feelings with the menagerie what fun
But this deafening silence lends to deep thought,
Deep relaxation, a need that's number one

Maybe our faith in God will again be sought
Like our founding fathers bowed knees in prayer  
Let our silence and solitude resound with praise

May thankfulness fill capacious waves of air
Not complaints and brooding that leads to despair

Contest: Heart Universes
Sponsor: Regina McIntosh
Date: 01/25/2021

Theme: "Like the silence that screams, cursing solitude....whispers of faith
sing patiently with prayers"

November Fall

 Here comes anew, November fall 
Beneath blankets I wish to crawl, 
On this shy and young, early morn
Bereft of leaves, a silent mourn
Comes with a cool and breezy wind
A blue, cloudless heaven is pinned. 

Here comes anew, November fall
Out of bed, myself I must haul
When winter in pajamas brings
New year, cracking open his wings
Soaring above capacious sky, 
The curtain to an end, he flies.



12/11/20
Lay November Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: William Kekaula
https://www.howmanysyllables.com/syllable_counter/
Rhymezone

Autumn Here

Autumn is now here
The land breathes clear
In shades of true blue
With summer bowing down
In a chilly frown

Whereas, yearning gently in illusion 
Nature moves with passion
With glorious determination
As the harvest moon launches 
Into incandescent flushes

Whilst, the capacious sky rests 
Stars twinkle through the darkness
At the very time, nonetheless
Autumn, dances and prances
In a colorful leafy, dress

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