We are life unto death sealed in its hold
when mortal limits fill a dateless urn,
a worldly spirit in a spirit world
for dust you are and to dust you return.
To do and unto my lost cause to teach -
did I not that nobility disgrace?
Yet still you sought to seek, to touch, to reach,
and to look upon the soul and its face.
It grieves me so in your deathly still vale
that cruel fate did your own fears forebode -
an honoured place far beyond this travail
waits you O’ teacher and last tributes owed.
Real was my discontent, my foolery,
yet you never failed or abandoned me.
Written: February 1994
*Wynnis Johnson 1939 ~ 1993 was my high
school math teacher at Rangitoto College
in New Zealand. May she Rest In Peace.
Categories:
dateless, death, dedication, farewell, teacher,
Form: Sonnet
Dear Life
I'm hanging on for that bare second when love enters emptiness.
Another world unfolds. Bold as God-breathed words: let there be -
disarticulating chaos, setting light abroad; hatching hope for humanity
hang on to dateless futurity
when past errors, tears, and scares are ash beneath canceled seas.
Pristine stars crown celestial plafonds.
Prosaic passages of time
waltz as poetic wit
Categories:
dateless, creation, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
What a poor dateless chap was young Chad.
Dumpster fires were the clothes that he had.
Pants that hung in the back
showed the world his azz-crack
and not one single shirt wasn’t plaid.
Categories:
dateless, humor,
Form: Limerick
Boundless love lets its own life stay
Everlasting day after day;
Remaining in its timeless way.
Never will it stop nor delay;
Always giving joy to the gray!
Dateless love lets its own heart beat
Infinitely in rhyme so sweet.
Zone of ageless care so complete
Offers embrace with warmth or heat;
Nullifying the cold conceit!
Note:
This form is called Pasion, a traditional short Filipino poem which is composed of 5 lines, having 8 syllables in each line with a 4-4 caesura. The rhyming scheme is aaaaa. It may have a maximum of 2 stanzas.
Categories:
dateless, love,
Form: Rhyme
The peeping birds
agape up my psyche
towards the dateless
flattery cascade that fluxes
from the celestial
mountains into the
serene emerald ocean
and gives a concise meaning
to the life of a woodland man
who is lost in the fire
of the furious selfish world .
Categories:
dateless, adventure, betrayal, color,
Form: Free verse
Though unlived ages defter poets shall bring,
And blur all rhymes woven in my barren span;
May young pupil-scribes with like relish savor
These yellowing tropes as sworn zealots can.
Despite the flurrying crop of many sharper wits,
Let new apprentices of fine art read these lines;
And gratefully gain inspiration from olden writs,
Fresh as dateless gems in death-hidden mines.
And should new vibes rather greatly outshine
This dusty craft and they still dissatisfied pine,
Abiding honor for founding feats will here keep
Future pliant eyes that for fallen warriors weep.
Not for incurable want of well-winding nuance
May youth disdain this tart ink ten eons hence.
Think of all gone generations' fluids of the vine:
Piling time betters stale rhyme like bottled wine!
Muse forbid that future versifiers should deem
These musings an exaggerated antique dream.
Categories:
dateless, allegory, art, first love,
Form: Elegy
Stop my heart on Valentine's
I won't go for the ride.
Tell me what to dream of.
I'm dateless without pride.
The stores are all commercial.
The candies sugar dyes.
They'll only rot your teeth
when they promise you a prize.
I'll find a love without them.
I'll search the world whole.
I'll even go without one
if they're not for my soul.
I'll try my luck with others
by dating wrong or right.
It's only my experience
that helps me in my plight.
When love has finely found me
and life is more complete,
I'll surely tell the world
and that would be my treat.
Categories:
dateless, valentines day,
Form: Quatrain
The new lips do not pride
The old philosophical sense, only the rosiness
Games, hysterically arouse,
For those who would keep the lips
Before they start to drink, the empty
Brain of a rider star.
The new lips do not care
Brings an ancient's mirth,
Now not even God on the beach,
The struggle by those invisible speakers
Before we can reach twenty and one.
Beneath this shame, the hungry for more nonsense
And pain the attempt to lamps us
As a pair of humans, worrying about sex
Warning you that you soon will be a Daddy
Or an old man but life is still on a bunch of fragrance and wine.
The new lips do not love
The perfect thing, dead or alive, cares less;
Hardest made for a past worker,
By the golden madness; the men who have done
It for us, the trouble aged leader.
Just as nobody care or worry less, dissolving himself
Into a dateless whirl
With trust and dust and death insurance,
You shall stand up your attention
For other who perhaps can go more farther than him.
Categories:
dateless, dream, mystery, old, old,
Form: Free verse
.
Dateless
One day, then date_
Twenty-four hours deadline
One formal needed, purchase cloth
Sewing
Contest:"Anything Handmade"
Sponsor:Nette Onclaud
Written by:Sara Kendrick
(When our oldest daughter was
in high school, she did not have a
date to the prom or military ball
so I did not make plans to get a
dress..She came in the day before
the event after school and said that
she had a date..That gave me twenty
four hours to come up with a dress..
I had only $20 left until next paycheck
and no credit card..I went to the
fabric store and got fabric and pattern.
The dress had 12 gores and it was floor
length..I stayed up until 2 am sewing up
a dress for her to wear the next eve..)
Categories:
dateless, daughter, devotion, history, life
Form: Cinquain
I don't want to spend the rest of my life without a soul mate. I don't want to be single
for the rest of my so-called "miserable life." There's no way that this special someone
could've been taken away by one of the random guys. When I look at every couple I see, it
makes me wish that I had a real girlfriend and a brand new social status. Being single is
like being held back a year in middle school or worse. Being single also stinks. Is there
something I should do to not just end my single life, but ease my pain, as well? I can't
stand being lonely, I can't stand being a dateless loser, and I can't bear to watch these
couples rubbing their love right in my face. It makes me sad and sick just to see it. so
if I don't save myself from a lot of misery and end my life as a single human being, I'm
going to lose it. I love my life, but my loneliness and my pain have got to stop.
Categories:
dateless, depressionlife, love, me, middle
Form: Epic
In their minds, im weird.
In my mind, im weird.
The teasing, the hurt, the laughs, the jokes.
Makes me want to disappear.
But why?
They are no better.
Im am no worse.
I am forever me.
I am what you see.
I am what you hear.
No more hurt no more sorrow.
What can they do, that hasnt been done?
Friendless i am.
Dateless of course.
But that is their choice.
I will live how i want!
I am forever me.
Ashamed no more!
Proud to be who i am.
No more denying the truth.
You either like me or you dont.
Why should i care?
take it or leave it.
You get what you see.
You take what you want.
I change for no one
I will change only for me.
I am forever me.
I will not try to please.
Time to be happy with who i am.
If it causes me to be alone.
Then thats what will happen.
Wouldnt be the first.
Wont be the last.
But to live a lie, for friends.
Will only hurt me more.
If no one can like or love me, for who i truly am.
They are not worth it.
And never will be either.
I am forever me.
Take it or leave it.
Categories:
dateless, inspirational, lifeme, change, me,
Form: Free verse