Consummate Poems - Poems about Consummate

{Poet’s Note : I wrote this poem for the passing of my very dear friend & comrade, Cecyl Esau, Umkhonto we Sizwe Commander in 2021, as a contribution to his memorial service. Cecyl was given a full Provincial Military Official Funeral. Though the reading was filmed & recorded as part of the proceedings, I recently...

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CONSUMMATING THE WORD In the beginning was The Word Consummating it is becoming Wordless I fly them through windows onto tarred roads where tyres tread them into Earth’s crystal blue gem I consummate the word like planets swallow comets one gaping glance and books burn in a flounce I consummate the word by dissolving fine hair on your neck without a kiss, wet or red without a letter...

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This is absolutely out of this universe That a consummate kleptomaniac thinks That he has the right to steal any ranks Any rings, any votes, anybody in the hearse This is scurrilously crazy to try steal To commit murder on 5th. Ave. at midday What kind of world is that? Doomsday Must be around the corner, at the heal Of the hills. A...

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Here is 1 for Ring , Ding The phone goes Hello bud want to go out for a drink Meet you at your house at 6 Hello bud how's it going lot's to catch up on Now let's fast forward a little more and bit later A single step since entering the bar The 1 friend who phoned to invite his friend out for a drink Says...

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Metaphors and similes exude when scripting poetic verse. Across pale parchment, the poet's pen continues to traverse. Ink courses like life blood, rushing through his eddied veins as he ignores cramped fingers while writing echoing refrains. Each stanza arranged by sequence in the creation of a story. Sometimes his mysterious muse dances wildly with allegory. He reins her in when he...

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Upon poised to strike unsuspecting prey oft times myself she doth cannibal eyes everything her sight coalescing, whereby her occipital orbs gleam fiery poker hot embers ferocious roars of ear splitting hunger pangs deafen wolf, and/or any other unlucky fauna paralyzed with dreadfully locked fear petrified helplessly frozen as unsung hero(ine) twists and shouts out for Godzilla (lame rival) to rescue potential...

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scariness), which ill affords this unlucky husband to maximize tasting, savoring and relishing every sacred moment lest any given instantaneous moment find me in dire circumstantial straitjackets, I cannot stomach enduring another moment remaining, NOT blissfully married, yet acknowledge options limited tummy, whereby as soon as possible being abducted by aliens would be welcome respite, no...

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Nonetheless suicidal ideations severely whipsaw punctuate, lacerate, assassinate frescoed fiasco failure grimly livingsocial ah...that dull cutlery eyed with temptation one painful thrust hemorrhaging, whereby carpeting permanently stained blood red, (security deposit forsaken) cremation ought not outrageously expensive, I subsequently chickened out imposing eternity of fire and brimstone self condemnation, denunciation, excoriation gently tested as serrated knife made contact against flesh of left arm..., no strength prevails this...

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