One plus one
does equal three,
the cumulative reward
Melodic syllables
form musical composition.
Word sings.
Letters' colour spectrum
against a white backdrop,
font promotes aim.
Sense of shared purpose
of the whole, by the whole.
Pride in communal achievement.
instantaneous
&cumulative
visuals
implied
choices
simple
useful
yet
mysterious
sensations
illustrated
preludes
to
fascinate
emotions
expressions
intensify
to
transform
imagings
I haven’t heard from you in a few days
My heart is certainly ablaze
And you’re probably acrazed
Somewhere.
My gosh, you haven’t changed your ways
My friend, frankly, I continue to be amazed
By the gawkiness of your recent stays.
It is blue moon again
Father Earth is moving like a fleeing felon
Who wishes to find a haven
Anywhere.
Bad habits control old folks
And some clouds are made of cumulative smokes
Yet, it’s blue moon again.
Copyright © September 2024, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved.
Hébert Logerie is the author of numerous books of poetry.
Let me leave the fabric spinning off "social lubricant."
Or the amino acid that alters brain attention
the alert, attentive, calm, cumulative jubilant
I attain at a cup of tea is beyond all mention.
There's a thrill when shades spill from black to brown to red hallow
Or in gold, silver, or copper amalgamation gleam
My heart, mind, and face become a melodious mallow.
Vigorous and victorious, indeed, is my day's dream.
Accommodativeness and trustworthiness all arrive.
Creative performance with divergent thinking does thrive.
Efforts of honesty and hard work spin into a hive.
Wherein cooption and collaboration are alive
Indian, Italian, or Iranian, tea is tea.
All that matters is, in each one's tea, what one wants to see.
Cool Fact: Elvis Presley holds the record for the most platinum certificates issued by the RIAA, with 70. Elvis Presley's records spent a cumulative total of 1,155 weeks on the UK singles chart since his first hit Heartbreak Hotel released on May 11, 1956.
Everything went crazy when Elvis came upon the scene.
Ladies loved his sexy style; with controversy, he made history.
'Viva Las Vegas', one of his many films, put him up on the big screen.
In all the world, an icon and the King of Rock was he,
Shaking his Elvis pelvis so provocatively!
Perpetually has Elvis Presley’s huge estate
Remained one of the richest of celebrities we prize.
Even now, he’s the singer that most folks impersonate.
So handsome was this star with jet black hair and ice blue eyes.
‘Love Me Tender’ easily could make
Each and every young girl swoon.
Yesterday till today, still idolized, he died much too soon.
May 13, 2023
for The Elvis Presley Inspiration Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Robert James Liguori
Is our love a dance macabre?
A dilly dallying with death?
Or a mystic encounter of unabated love?
Will it last? Will it end?
So many questions left unanswered,
So many uncertainties attested,
All cumulative in a death wish
As emotions run devilishly amok.
My soul screams with this unpredictability,
Its echoes rampage through my veins,
As bubbling blood courses through
Twisted arteries, through havoc and chaos.
Is it the folly of chained love?
The unearthly silence of togetherness?
My lips pronounce your name but no one answers.
I realize my questions will never be answered.
Our togetherness is but a charade,
Shadows dancing in a moonless night.
Your allure is just too much to bear,
I dare keep it no more
So let our ways head into different tracks.
Henceforth I'll dance alone.
A dance macabre.
I came to a meadow dressed in flowers
waving sprightly in the morning dawning.
Yellow buttercups, white Queen Anne’s towers,
purple asters, and red paintbrush spawning –
a showy resemblance to Jacob’s coat.
Unmoving, I watched the butterflies float
across them searching for the perfect throat.
Black-eyed Susan blinked her all-seeing eye.
In awe, I released a prodigious sigh,
felt a cumulative one-with-God nigh.
Humbled by divine display of powers,
I found myself in opulent fawning,
my perfect day ending on a high note.
My exuberant spirit flying high!
Bejeweled, in and out of the Gothic architecture,
Conceived by Abbot Suger, through a constant conjecture;
With perfect glasswork etched out of the then-time silica,
Found its place In Saint-Denis Cathedral Basilica...!
Modestly outsized splash-smeared gorgeous goblet casements,
Renaissance classic styled stone accent wall sacred basements;
Prettily pointed piercing cumulative curly curves,
Rib vaults great and small intertwining like the war of nerves...!
Soaring airborne ramparts; metaphysical adornments;
Perpendicular proportions; lopsided floral fronts;
Steady solemn designs that flounce upward in height and grace;
Domed arched ceilings that charms of times, ages, and eras embrace...!
With no shrinks and wrinkles like the perfection of pure youth,
Enticing grand elegance like the fullness of the truth;
Tracery is a treasury of architectural forms,
Within which dwell, fine ethereal elemental norms...!!!
26 January 2023
TRACERY Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Julia Ward
Your hoped for an aural jump
from commencement letters abroad
Your idealised viewpoint of the West
minus the 2.4 children,
and your multilingual approach
even German for extra flourish
inches in Deutschland for cumulative security,
I'm not interested in a Trans Asiatic Plains romance
Im a confirmed Bachelor
of 42 years standing,
I don't know how you got my email
But cease and desist
better concentrate on your own menfolk
EVALUATIONS
out
of sight
lapsed
into
obscurity
unfashionable
unremembered
still noble
belatedly
repurposed
so
sensitive
&compelling
thisss
persuasive
tension
presenting
impressions
in masterly
conformity
with
cumulative
&disruptive
force
steadily
enriching
&
deepening
understanding
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
Concentric constellations of cosmic
consciousness catapult cuneiform
cubi-calm charismatics, creating
crystalline coloured corridors
casually camouflaged, commanding
cyclic, cryptic compassion calling cards.
Center court connectives calculate
comparable crying conniptions calling
circus cellular cumulative consolidations.
CAUTION: CARING CONTENTS CONCEALED
Concentric constellations of cosmic
Consciousnesses catapult cuneiform
Cubi-calm charismatics, creating
Crystalline coloured corridors, casually
Camouflaged, commanding cyclic
Cryptic compassionate calling cards.
Center court conniptions calculate
Comparable crying connective
Cellular cumulative consolidations.
CAUTION!
CONTAINS CARING CONTENTS
Don't give a rat's ass if I die.
Don't give a damn if I die.
I dont care if I die.
I really don't care if I die.
You think I care if I die?
Well, it don't matter if I die.
Yeah, I might die.
So what if I die?
I'm pretty sure I can't die.
How can I die?
I guess I could die.
I might be capable of dying.
I should be able to not die.
I think I could die.
I think I might die.
I can possibly die.
I still might not die.
I dont think I'll have to die.
Maybe I really can die.
Maybe I have to die.
I really don't want to die.
I hope I dont have to die.
I feel like I will die.
I will try to not die.
I think I will have to die.
I cant help that I will die.
Oh God
I'm dying
rise,
upward, cumulative
ascending, climbing, levitating
surge, crescendo, nosedive, slump
plummeting, dropping, sinking
plunge, descent
fall
full,
total, whole
jam-packing, loading, extending
entirety, aggregate, cavity, nothingness
draining, unloading, purging
void, abyss
empty
Date written: 06/16/2021
Patrilinear
monotheistically monopolistic
CAPITALists
calculate potential endurance
of terrifyingly terrific human consumer time
Left for anxiously anticipating rhymes,
reasons for seasons long trusted truths
ego-coloring beauty
captured by
and yet beyond spiritual inspirations
rewarding
redeeming
competitively cooperative nurturing nature.
Matriarchal poly-enthusiastic multi-
bio-culturalists
also account for cumulative synergy
expanding territorial dictatorial time
Rewinding awesomely awful sacred rhymes
distrusting mistrusted false tongues
electing hooded lies
Disparately dispirited
desperate starving backward future
rhyming reason seasons
of nutritional communion
Not inviting
yet tolerating,
Not accepting
yet equilaterally esteeming
estimating patriarchal monopolistic economies
within brighter lights of polycultural value
No longer worth
resonant ecowomanist trust
empowering spiraling truths
of beauty duty,
health of wealthy safety,
Enlightening spirts
of empowering social nature
Empowering CAPITAL invested research
enlightening Earth's most heavenly design.
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