Skidding along the ice-covered ground
Traversing like a runaway hound
Eluding, hopping on series of mound
And lines of snowflakes over a thousand pound
Skiing from a snow peak so high
In my soul an eidetic heart that thrives
Your memory I keep alive not sigh
Your vim in me that cogently drives
With the dancing sun that shines on me not dries
Over and under frigid trees my skis and I flies
Hails and blizzards never bid you my byes
My feet on drifting snow, my heart never dies
The floating moon sends you my voice in verse
You, I adore, and pray for without haste
A boon in my life I hoist, not immerse
Up and down the snow-filled hills, my love I praise
Categories:
cogently, emotions, for her,
Form: Verse
Some of our finest literary writing
Is found in rebuttal and debate
Especially when it is logical, reasoned,
Well-written, or cogently spoken
Like writings of Madison and Paine
And speeches of Lincoln and Douglas
Too often, these days, anger prevails
Striking as if with a sharp cutlass
What, I wonder, is to be the gain?
Taking a position for a token …
To gain notice for a season …
I have especially noticed of late
That debate seems more like fighting.
written January 20, 2022
[poem is composed using my reverse
rhyme scheme abcdef/g/fedcba
Categories:
cogently, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Like sands
Through the hourglass
My thoughts percolate
Between instant gratification
And long-term resolution.
Like an unfaltering pool
Of sinking sand
My dissatisfaction agglutinates
With foolish gibberish
To obscure optimism.
Like a withering stalk
My shrivelling aspiration
Matches and clashes
With swelling inertia
Resulting in dispiriting
Deprivation of direction.
Like a valley of ash
My barren essence
Gasps for restitution -
For a preserving elixir
To cogently overturn
The demise of time.
Categories:
cogently, anxiety, conflict, confusion, depression,
Form: Free verse
beaten and broken
bruised and battered
brutalized and bare
bandaged and braised
bashed and butchered
bold and brave
Anguished
Slayed and silenced
slaughtered and seduced
strong-armed to surrender
squeezed and squashed
bleeding hearts
clad in elephant vestment
with an eternal spirit,
pugnacious against
the system from the walls of prison,
sentenced for a crime they didn’t commit
cogently grilling them to submit.
They have hearts of a lion,
Giving their own for a million
That is what it takes for freedom
To be in our hands.
Categories:
cogently, bereavement, bullying, change, courage,
Form: Alliteration
And so it begins with just a little tease,
Being her dear friend he invites her in.
Holding hands with a smile made of grin,
A fable of a boy and girl she imagines.
She likes the boy for his wit and smarts.
Spellbound he stays as she cogently talks
Being charmed by her lively blue eyes,
Eager for the hints of her subtle vibes.
Soon they know how to talk with eyes
Learning to decipher meaning of sighs.
Decoding as well when silence speaks
As fervent looks reveal contents of joy.
Exploring feelings, exchanging stories
Pleasure they find in secret messages,
Inventing excuses to be in private places--
Rejoicing pure love in stolen virgin kisses.
And so it begins innocently, unwittingly.
February 10, 2019
Placed first in February 2019 week 4 contest by Brian Strand
Placed 3rd:And so it begins poetry contest by Line Gauthier
Categories:
cogently, boy, girl, teen love,
Form: Verse
Have You
I’ve been around and about awhile
Seen pain cogently hidden by a smile
I’ve seen the concluding moments of the day
Saw clouds roll away as blue turned to grey
Have you?
Felt so dearly loved and loved in return
Saw joy and tears enough to fill an urn
Tasted bitterness incited by a bitter heart
Saw compassion enter and acrimony depart
Have you?
Been blissfully partnered, enough respect to atone
Until a parting of my better half, heart turned to stone
For a fleeting moment that feeling would remain
Felt that comforting sweet assurance, we’ll meet again
Have you?
Sojourned in Namibia this beautiful blessed land
Saw its majestic undulating dunes it’s faraway strand
Found in its people an abundance of caring and love
Healing virtue hovering over me like a snow white dove
Have you?
Ultimately my very soul momentously satisfied
Realised this was nothing else but grace personified
Finally I depart a downward glance till I lose the view
I am content we’ve made memories and good ones too
Have you?
Categories:
cogently, emotions,
Form: ABC
Death dug deep, satiated by the leave,
Clover leaf fell from its tree of normality,
Not touching it, I cogently allowed it to occupy,
That location it did choose for my morose dirge.
Related to, I gently stretched and bent down,
To feel that smoothness in my empty hand,
Of that four-leafed symmetry symbol, shaking,
Under the ravish of death’s recumbent hook.
Humdrum around, i did continue on with my script,
To undertake that process most universal and true,
Because nature did look upon me to neatly suggest,
That relationship, the assistance I’d given glut fine.
Categories:
cogently, autumn, bereavement, care, death,
Form: Blank verse
Coagulated cogitating
as the result of partying with Jim Beam
or was it my buddy Bud?
Moonshine mulligrumps
from a chianti hang over
the edge of a pledge.
Thinking drinking leads
to stinking thinking
someone cogently said
but, stinking thinking
is exactly whats in my head.
So a little bubbly
brings a smile for a while
and a blank slate
upon which to cogitate.
Categories:
cogently, funny, history,
Form: Free verse