The dahlias were once,
they bloomed once,
now they are churning earth,
in a faraway time
making a living by dying.
Dead, the flowers are dead,
yet the dirt is alive with their progeny.
Uncultivated buttercups
are seeding green pastures,
weeds are building trestle bridges.
Fertile bones are mating in a humming mud
Nothing is too faraway,
to be dead for long.
Soon the heart blooms also.
Categories:
deathless, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Like a gift unoffered, you've snatched my sweetheart!
Lifeless, aimless, like her ghost I drag on here!
Body cold! Bleached as washer-man thump!
Hair still growing! Nails getting sharpened!
White burial shroud; No wedding gown!
Flower dumped; Ruby necklace covered up!
Unknown smile! Farewell? Joyous to part?
Or already gained a glimpse of paradise?
Your hands seem to resist the mud fall!
As though not ready to be buried!
Yes, dear Death! You’ve determined to take her away!
Here she is; at your command; submissive; Silent!
You had tried this many times! Saved by money and science?
What all names you gave! Cancer! Hemorrhage! Cardiac arrest!
I think at the time of your impulse of calling someone,
You do not listen to God, leave alone the heavenly angels!
I have been praying for your death, but you have none!
Today she might be; tomorrow me; then sons and daughters...!
Or all before me, leaving me double-dead and none to care!
Bon, voyage to you, dear Death, till we meet again soon!
26 October, 2021
Let's Mix It Up Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Constance La France
Categories:
deathless, death, farewell, wife,
Form: Verse
Each life a spark
Of love that lasts;
Each leaves a mark
Beyond time past.
The soul lives on
For love knows all;
From once upon
As footsteps fall.
Be of good cheer
For love lives light
In endless spheres
In Eden bright.
Though love is brief
It never dies;
And in our grief
We hear fond sighs.
Here round and round
Fate fashions play;
For lost is found
In endless ways.
Death is a path
Where love finds shores;
Recall wise stuff
Where life spawns more.
Dare just to be
Happy to know;
For love you see
Now ever grows.
Leon Enriquez
29 April 2017
Singapore
Categories:
deathless, blessing,
Form: Quatrain
I will hold my hands with an air of grace.
I will walk with an essence that would shame death.
I will stone-heartily smile at the chaos that erupts
Around me.
My face sleek like the underworld
Will shine with the screams of mortal men.
I shall be proclaimed of Ruin.
The sister of The Dead.
The Mistress of Death
Categories:
deathless, cool, death,
Form: Free verse
Who kills a child and gets away,
Lives to kill more on another day.
The child he kills he fears so much,
He seeks her soul he cannot touch.
He takes down the life he only sees,
And grants her life no one can seize.
The death he caused this bird of peace
Shall dog his soul and end his lease.
He shall be damned in hell for this.
As this we know shall not him miss.
Categories:
deathless, baby, murder,
Form: Rhyme
It has gone on for far too long.
Lightning will smite me for my wrong.
On my honor, I gave all that I could,
Vicious fate will still get me; I knew that it would.
Even now, you gaze at me with shimmering eyes;
Yearning, I hide from those azure skies.
Open arms forced to stay at each side,
Unworthy Casanova, swallow love as pride!
Kindness that I never deserved, shall soon depart-
Run away! Run far from this fool’s heart.
Instead of your man, I could be your brother,
Somehow then fall as dumbly for another
Touch you, I will not; never as I am touched,
Ever in your hand a heart lays unclutched,
Nevermore to care, roaming directionless and hurt.
Only one can tell why I hold you close to me,
Bringer of my sorry end, a light I cannot see.
Raging passion held behind exhausted eyes,
In a prison so deep you cannot hear its cries.
Enchanting, your smile makes a pulse stop still.
Not even I could destroy my love, nothing ever will
Categories:
deathless, loveme,
Form: Rhyme
I never was able to see past this shadow that is my fantasy; instead I reveled in this blurred version of reality.
I'm held fast by the cutting chains of dependency, which have been forged by the vast void that gnaws at my heart endlessly.
It is from my knees that I scream for some mercy, I yearn for a solace that cannot be stolen from me.
My heart burns from the pain that ravages it relentlessly, the vicious wound inflicted by the jagged knife of insecurity.
My sunken eyes speak of scars etched deeply upon my heart; they silently sing the story of a frightened girl cowering in the dark.
Everything she was and everything she believed always seemed to be swallowed by the shadow of conformity.
She is lost amid the darkness and all that can be heard are her desperate pleas, her crying out for a savior, to lift this shroud of infirmity.
She's stumbling in the ashes of who she used to be, wandering in a field of countless faces trying to recover her identity.
This hollow person she's become, this shattered shell of her former beauty, searches endlessly for some ease, for someone to pierce the cloud of nameless conformity.
Categories:
deathless, angst, depression, loss, sadheart,
Form: I do not know?