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Warm Winter

I was anxious to dwell at the door of your dreams. My desire too weak to serve as a continence to your needs. If my love be unrequainted then how can I rise above the hopelessness of my solitude within your embrace.

Premium Member His Guardian Angel

an ethereal presence slid into the corners of a melancholy day
she uplifted the protagonist as she knew she could
for he was her golden boy; she had loved him since beyond time

his gloomy continence took a rather sharp turn
he felt uplifted, as if positivity had been injected into his brains
hark, who is there? he wondered

his grandmother was the first spirit he considered
she had always been his champion
why should she be anything else but his heroine post death?

he listened for her words
they came not from her voice
but from her heart directly into his heart

he knew he was not alone; she was here
his blessed grandmother, one of his favorite people
of this realm, and now of the heavenly realm

her words resounded into the recesses of his soul
no one else knew him as well
or could uplift him this quickly

he felt refreshed and invigorated.
“she would be lucky to have you,” his guardian angel whispered.
not his grandmother’s voice, but her spirit.

He ran off to ask Dorothy to be his bride.
No one in the world reminded him more of his grandmother.
With her soft brown eyes and her wonderful listening ways.

Not My Home

My continence is sad because of the things we go through;
         Seems no one understands, not a soul to talk to;
              As we wrestle to cope with life every day;
            We pause and wonder if we're here to stay;
            We are content when things are going fine;
          But when we get into trouble we want to resign;
              No matter how often we want to give up;
          We sometimes still  feel in this life we're stuck;
        I understand the feeling seems the pain never ends;
          But it's just temporary and a new life begins;
         So try not to worry because you're never alone;
       The world where we live is surely not our home.


Premium Member Intoxicating Poison

Lost in garnet glow, within crimson shadows,
eyes in you see continence, bold, unerring;
where, in truth, ingenuous virtue harbors.
I see you sleeping.

Yet, unbidden innocent thoughts turn rancid,
craving hunger, withering dreams of honor.
Cold in lust are fantasies born from sorrow,
driveling sorrow.

Ice envelops spurious hearts when love wilts.
Passion's roses, petalless, lie infertile,
endless waiting, hopelessly, always waiting 
love to now answer.

Dream in gentle slumber of sweetened ardor;
for, in you is virtuous faithful rapture.
Sentimental visions of love remains, as
virginal hearts throb.


06/28/2020


Intoxicating Poison
Host: Edward Ibeh 
Pick-A-Title, Vol 19 - 4 Sapphic Stanzas - Poetry Contest

Regurgitation

Amongst the freshness of silence my thoughts are brightly amplified. scaring  my mind with tracks of syllables and vowels. Which manipulated in the write sequence needed, fit precisely together to map out plays of events long since discarded into the void of a fragile matrix. Extracting long harboured and self restrained emotions of repressed doubt and fear. Splattering my continence with tall tell signs, of a carefully painted self portrait of hurt and anger, on display amongst a facade  of revolving galleries, in motion apon Mr. and Mrs. Patter. Stripping away and abandoning so carefully the cradled and protected inihibitions. Leaving behind a colourful residue building up a foundation of falsely represented pride. 
By Desi E.Sherman

The Inner-Torture of Love

It is true, I’ve been so delusional
Straying away from reality
Desperation clouds my mind, and so does the lust
It is evident I refuse to let go
My attraction for you will not let it
I need to search for the words and try again
To free my tainted heart
To escape the void of love that is aching
If possible can I be given something new
I’m tired of standing motionless
Being caught in a parade of devoted inner-torture
Why can’t I see out of this tunnel vison
I want her, please her
I’m thinking too much
I’m fantasying too much
I’m hurting too much
All because I want to gaze at her beauty
Hold her
Be with her
This must burn, let the ashes of this love scatter
So I may leave with a clear continence


Ethos

XIII. Ethos

Despite that of which is rise.

In the face of what has fallen rise.

Despite those that are rise.

Celebrate that you have risen.

Despite the incongruous rise.

Now that you have believe that you will.

Dream not for they are fleeting.

Upon thy continence be joy.

© veritatem voluntatem 2015

Vector of Love

Soul travels the abyss
On its continence visible is
Supernatural bliss
As beautiful as midnight kiss

The neural flame form base is far
More distant than from earth to any star
When base is the soul results are bizarre 
It grows in wisdom and power like an avatar

The end of the rise is collapse of time
And collapse of every echo of time
What makes it sublime?
It is stressing omega at that time 

Watching her I enjoy
When she cries tears of joy
This I build for me but after all
I can share it with hers’ blissful soul

The vector never changing and absolute
It is the measure of love’s magnitude 
The omega point is the centerpiece
And like it her body, mind, spirit are masterpiece

Love's Innocence

Love’s Innocence

If eyes could only look one time on love’s clear continence
By humble brook of babbles waters
By moss covered morning rocks
To watch you seated on the moist surface
And pass your hand across the moving water’s grain   
To see you and all your purity designed by God
And as for me with my precious luck
Enough to pass this spot by chance
To witness such beauty to exist like this
And with all of nature to explore the glory of such innocence
A moment captured in eternal bliss
Love’s mystery

Created on 5/11/15 for “When Love Was Innocent”- Poetry Contest - Sponsored by: Justin Bordner

Song of Midnight Echoes

Young girl runs to the pond shaped like a heart
Her own heart
Is hit with passion as if by a dart
Her soul with love is painted like work of art

The wind blows through her hair that smell sublime
Same wind blows through willow whose boughs are twisted like essence of time
The beauty of the lake in morning light is in its prime
Day goes by fast and soon moon to the zenith will climb

The moon drops light like tears to the heart shaped lake
For her lovers presence girl’s spirit will ache 
Her eyes are reflected in depths of the lake
The awesome visage of the eerily beautiful moon shines above that lake

The depth of girls’ eyes
 Resembles the continence of the moon in midnight skies
As girl tears fall to the heart shaped lake that below lies
The moon’s light beams like tears on their own adorn those skies

The waterfall on the lake caresses girls’ soul like warm embrace
It is the vision of the consciousness positioned in last fundamental place
Their view of magic and philosophy are two of many elements with greatest element in high space
And greatest element mesmerizing visage is reflected on girls face

Puzzled

Building your space,
you were dying daily
invading the acoustics.

How the continence
was going to help-
living with scars of explosions ?

Mutating into a full-fledged
saintliners, an inner conflict
becomes a profile.

Crawling to a stone
a crayon draws a cell
without incendiary rhetoric ?

Decoding an icon
becomes a daily ritual. From
where will come the write ?


Satish Verma

Religion

Asphyxiated by curled hands.
Punishment for tainted moon,
it has floated down to
darker side of continence.

You push the body in wall,
Coal burns in the eyes.
The shadow at last, leaves the body.

The high priest, goes for the copyright
and nerves explode in the books for
annular bulge of pride.

A simile was needed for a grain of sand
by cutting your wrists
and pouring the blood on the knives.


SATISH VERMA

Religion

Asphyxiated by curled hands.
Punishment for tainted moon,
it has floated down to
darker side of continence.

You push the body in wall,
Coal burns in the eyes.
The shadow at last, leaves the body.

The high priest, goes for the copyright
and nerves explode in the books for
annular bulge of pride.

A simile was needed for a grain of sand
by cutting your wrists
and pouring the blood on the knives.


SATISH VERMA

Va Worker Night Shift

in the hospitals white
 walled memory
   many stories are placed
  drawn and sewn in 

 stories of healing and pain
 tears of birth and death
 whispers in the ear 
 with medicine under the tongue

 but all are blanketed
 in the silence of the walls
 white continence
 or is it black

 no one can see in another
 persons heart

  when all the beaded rosaries
 have been counted 
 and all the saints candles
 lie in wax on the floor
 there is nothing left
 but for the janitor to
 mop up.

Count Dracula

far beneath the steeples of cobble stoned london, 
he moves without the parting of a shadows grace.
 from morning to morning he carries no longing.

  under the heavy hymns of the luthern organs
 he breaths amongst centuries of dead and 
  thoughtful saints

  he can see thier forms in the darkened hour, 
their drawn out robes crested and wrinkled. 
the emblems of holy words dust covered and faded.

  now once again he must part the letters 
   in tombs of mortered regret. 

  resurrection of the coffin figure to wander and speak 
 to whom he may, walking through  herb gardens, 
carried by tombstone... gravestone  october winds. 

 which blow hollowly causing his morbid child to flee 
 all those memories of her.

 now he must refrain from the glow of the brass
 lanterns and pale jugulars his clavicle redemption. 

 as through the arterial streets of london the 
bloodless form of his opaque continence 
mourns and is drained of all mineral colums.

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