Exceptions especially encouraged--
Every encounter emerges,
Eventually enveloping everyone
Eagle-eyed; ecstatic, energetic
Early earthlings enjoyed elegies
Effusively effected, each eloquent.
March 23, 2021
I love manly men.
I love men in tartan kilts
who wear them effusively.
What is under them?
Do they wear short pantaloons
that will not show under kilts?
Or just in the buff
that will allow air to flow
and cool what suspends beneath?
Regardless, I love
manly men in tartan kilts
who move with cool confidence.
I toast Scottish kilts,
and the bare-kneed manly men,
and Gael clans to which they’re bound.
May they never lose
their bold, cocksure demeanor
and ever display their plaids.
brook
babbling
unrevealed
deep secrets while...
in conversation with the setting sun;
exchanging pleasantries effusively
in the gloaming.
their final...
goodbyes;
friends.
Double Tetractys 3 Poetry Contest Winner: 3rd Place)
Sponsored by Eve Roper
Photo chosen: 1
Syllables checked at howmanysyllables.com
Date written: 09/23/2030
Cascade Serenade
Surrounded by a forest of trees
As a bastion from the outer realm
An invisible glade that hides from man
But fauna hear the distant sound
Of water flowing effusively
And from the acme, sanguined rocks
A cascade streaming echoed chords
Of music in the liquidly air
Then to the nadir it descends
Into a torrential waters rage
To inundate the florid grass
The moon creeps in and all is still
Except the sound of crickets words
Extolling nature with their praise
(August 29, 2017)
Your favorite poem from August 2017
Sponsored by Julia Ward
August 2, 2018
Cascade Serenade
Surrounded by a forest of trees
As a bastion from the outer realm
An invisible glade that hides from man
But fauna hear the distant sound
Of water flowing effusively
And from the acme, sanguined rocks
A cascade streaming echoed chords
Of music in the liquidly air
Then to the nadir it descends
Into a torrential waters rage
To inundate the florid grass
The moon creeps in and all is still
Except the sound of crickets words
Extolling Nature with their praise
Any poem that got NA’ed in June-July 2017 Contest
Sponsored by Janice Canerdy
August 31, 2017
Body cavity is as fine as [s]he can be.
[S]he walks with jealousy because [s]he is not me.
I wonder why I aggravate effusively.
Is it [my] swagger?
Is it how I enthrall with [my] poetry?
A supermodel has this kind of body who thinks I am an overweight nobody.
One day [s]he discovers I write poetry.
Respect is given as jealousy.
Am I desirous?
[S]he is possessiveness.
Why is [s]he resentful?
[S]he states that I am arrogant.
My swagger
I am not bragging.
[S]he sashays.
Why does [s]he want me to be a flounce?
I just write what is on my mind.
A heart that cries more than me
in my pain.
Whose congenial and benign teachings
make me sane.
A warm touch that dispels from me
the gales of worry.
Whose proximity ensures me that I'm
protected by her under furry.
A helping hand that always hold me
whenever I'm about to lose.
& my first teacher who makes me to
distinguish between donts' and dos'.
A voice and nothing more, an Angel
who is entirely mine just after my birth.
And she is none other but 'My Mother',
The God on Earth.
Although to define her in words is
beyond my skill.
Nevertheless I can say that her pace in
my life, none can fill.
She is the one who needs not a single
word of me to understand.
In my devastation, she is always there
to provide effusively her hand.
In the weariness of my life, with her,
I may lose to be in link.
But she ever remembers me whenever I
breathe or my eyes blink.
I can say that in search of heaven,
I needn't to go anywhere.
I would like to put my head in my
mother's lap, as its only there..
It was crazy how you spoke to me
As if you knew that you were close to me
Closed my eyes shut so I can see
Just what that noise is exactly telling me.
It was all new to me
Undressed my mind caught in Nudity
Leud obscenity
Your words came in ways that violated me so Incredibly.
Sensually
It felt as if your vocabulary was committing adultery
Uncensored; unexpectedly
Yet it was absolutely gravitating to me
Verbs that set me free
Architect-ed in senses of sentences effusively.
Which usually I'm more caught up physically
but today you captured me verbally
With a satisfaction guarantee...Thank fully
For granting me, access
To what you have stored confidentially
Having trust in me; Most definitely, am very honored to be...
The recipient of your emotional susceptibility.
sometimes they appear effusively ebullient
need curtailing, pruning
succinctness of clarity demands simple concepts
a fresh way to express tired vernacular
see contrasts that light and dark embody
simile is like a bridge, connecting this to that
ideas behind envisioned conditions
what is seen, what is known
cupid's arrow finding its mark
carefully selected properly place alliterations age
as fine wine, appreciating moments of the tongue
if cramped, forced to salute like a new recruit
become ill fitting as a six fingured glove
noticeable as a red light on easy street
onomatopoea telegraphs transparent thought
Ohhh, moment of culmination cry the lovers
adjust concepts, fit themes, clarify voice
say meaningful words of intuitive insight
gamble fearlessly, search for elusive quarries
loadstones of vocaulary
prized like adamantine crystals in kinberlite
you can have it all, heart's desire
etched tablets that tell of word's meaning
chisled till they're Rosetta stones