Beaming eyeballs,
and orbs,
from first blush,
offspring frolicsome,
as they dot,
geosmin odoured pavement,
whilst shrieking impishly,
with infectious,
cuddly cheep,
parents shepherd,
yet they exude,
at bounce captured,
cordial conducive,
in electrifying,
picturesque swathe,
orange-scorched oriole,
with coal-black plume,
on urban shade tree,
townscape as hub,
endowed cosmopolitan,
brimful brio, ginger, dash,
kundalini wakened,
as sultry vault,
vigilant ambience,
ample alignment to,
ice tea mint gust,
aroma mediating,
splash of amber sun wash,
neath navy welkins,
that taunt and sketch,
wooing ambit,
extracts of,
aroha’s
indigo index
Why dwell on differences?
As the sun with the moon
Shares its light, we can be
Candles for one another --
Warmth is wax and a wick
Stupid, a scorching breeze
Nurturers of Forests they
Claim
While blazing all the trees!
Cat has dandruff I sneeze --
A sleepover with dogs
Risks fleas; getting honey will be
An encounter with bees --
Far more conducive than
Man – with a match for a
Soul, and a heart like a fan.
precursory predictor of storm
ethereal mysticism
secluded and secretive
elusive conducive
murky and unclear
hidden dangers
illusive
shadow
fog
The cat has your bone structure,
it also sashays and allures.
In an alcohol-fueled reverie
it turned up
as thin as a velvet spider.
However, it died
before our love did.
Pets are obtrusive, not conducive
to good or bad memories,
they play the field
demanding to be relevant
long after their passing.
Your cat considers me a villain,
it lingers on as some kind of
a stalking succubus,
the very model of your character
reminding me (as if necessary),
of your everlasting disapproval.
I overhear that damn cat,
positively purring when I am feeling sad,
and on a good day
its sexually vexatious yowling
warns me
never to take
a good cat for granted.
[Placed 2nd : Standard Contest
Sponsor : Tania Kitchin]
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hug
extracts
incense smoke
penetrate veins
woody breast opened
rooted solid
smiling leaves
waving
dance
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Poet’s Note : Cedar is an important Native American ceremonial tree, the bark used for incense and as a purifying herb. It is associated with prayer, healing, dreams & protection. Many consider the Cedar a symbol of sacredness & providence. Its bark, used in sweat lodge ceremonies has a sweet, strong smell ~ making it conducive to spiritual work. This tree symbolises purification & inner transformation.
In ancient Native American rituals, tribes danced around Cedars saluting their attributes. I start this Ninette with HUG & end it with DANCE as salute to the POWER OF ONE.
These bitter winter temps
freezing tundra
and my bones,
I need a break
from chilly,
and seasonality
of this cold.
Down south
I need to travel
and seek the warm relief,
the temps are more conducive
of what I can tolerate.
Of course it means
get moving
for my chance
at warming rays,
the problem is
I'm frozen,
with a fear
of changing ways!
Each thought and action has a consequence,
it's energy sent into the universe
that attracts more of the same.
Wouldn't it be fabulous if everyone generated
positive energy that was loving and
conducive to building a better society?
Have we not had enough of bickering
and toxic fighting amongst ourselves
that lead to chaos, war and endless devastation?
Create the peace you want to see around you
by nurturing thoughts of harmony and acts of kindness
~ and one day the world will become a better place.
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
The darkness of the empty room
Conducive with a somber tomb
The eeriness of silence falls
Along the lonely, ghostly halls
A sense of cold within the air
A shiver causes rising hair
The beckoning of light within
Calls me closer to the sin
Holds me here, where horror lives
Reckoning time; no one forgives
Shaken to the core
by a knock on the door
My mood’s not conducive
to visitors intrusive
Though what else am I here for
A World of many children
I read about people going to the dentist
getting shiny white teeth like Joe Biden
In Portugal, the white teeth craze is relaxed
The thought of an actress with perfect teeth
have to have them extracted because they
They were yellow and didn't have the odontology
of today
I remove my teeth at night and soak them in water
That is healthy, it surprises me that artificial teeth
but need to be healthy looking
Martha, the whore in our street, boasted when
She was old, no man had ever entered hers
to our fantasizing about her yellow teeth
Can we say the childlessness in our street
was caused by boys learned about sex
That was not conducive to pregnancy
A World of many children
I read about people going to the dentist
getting shiny white teeth like Joe Biden
In Portugal, the white teeth craze is relaxed
The thought of an actress with perfect teeth
have to have them extracted because they
They were yellow and didn't have the odontology
of today
I remove my teeth at night and soak them in water
That is healthy, it surprises me that artificial teeth
but need to be healthy looking
Martha, the whore in our street, boasted when
She was old, no man had ever entered hers
to our fantasizing about her yellow teeth
Can we say the childlessness in our street
was caused by boys learned about sex
That was not conducive to pregnancy
It’s pumping…
What’s pumping?
It feels like it’s exploding.
Why?
How?
Nothing galvanizes me anymore.
The atmosphere is calm,
conducive
but not in my mind,
where thoughts sprint like fugitives,
and I cage them behind a silent smile.
I hide under the pretense of joy,
while the weight crushes me slowly.
Night comes too fast,
and the day… it stops smiling.
I keep trying my best,
clinging to the fragile hope
that one day I’ll see the light
the light they swear waits
at the end of the tunnel.
But is there even a tunnel?
I’m not sure anymore.
Perhaps it’s just darkness
disguised as a promise.
Still… I’m hopeful.
If not today,
then maybe tomorrow will be better
for me,
and for you.
But sometimes I remember
it’s all in my mind.
Just thoughts…
spilling out,
loud enough to drown me.
Another drag... inhale, exhale, inhale, lungs fill with toxic smoke
another sip... fire glides down her aching throat
another croaking whisper to the one beside, although aloof and remote.
She laughs in the face of sorrow, trying in vain to hide behind her eyes
the sound is an open coffin, a high hysterical
plea filled cry
I imagine she has children, and the sweetness of love since nothing less can cause such hurt
For what we care for most, are the very things
we just can't desert
As much as we yearn to dislocate, hide and finally
push self~destruct
We are bound with soul ties that true love feverishly constructs
Unable to throw off these chains
connecting soul to soul
We walk about as Marley's ghost,
each link taking a toll.
For the ties are conducive to nightmares or dreams of lost loves
Imprinted on our hearts and minds, never fully leaving us.
Whether your Love is unrequited, or Love that stays true
You create the spirits that will forever haunt you.
I say
rhyme to go
esp abba
but a nay
to
wrap-a-round
it disrupts the flow
not visually conducive
to read
digitally
or otherwise!
&
..thus
another no-no
the 'syllablics
pantoum
acrostic,kyrielle
terzanelle & villanelle
as learning scales
are fine
but
in reality
a mathematical
mechanical line
So what to do
perhaps
shape emagi
or
imagist
Rhyme,alliteration,clerihew,
footle & hiku
better yet
an
& ekphrasis
just saying
to
help
all of you
Faded memories litter the walls, as anniversaries coincide together with zero regard for one another, the simple beginnings are barely visible and yet the complexity of wrong choice after wrong decision are very prevalent. Isn't that how it always ends up though, in the end anyways? Hastily cultivated 'wonderful' ideas are laid to ground, only to later discover the overlooked Great Wall, which ingenuity says there's a way around even provides a way, but ultimately ending in complete disarray. Then insanity's epitome is born...
Torn and broken we dust ourselves off and go right back to the drawing bored, or the supply store, either or, we're back at it wanting more. It's the gifted curse of persistence at it's finest, completely blinded to judgement that could barely be considered lucid, however still finding room for improvement, if only for the piece of mind that our actions are conducive to society's 'of the moment' movement. I know the evident truth. Do you?
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