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August 16, 2022
Poem of the day on August 18, 2022
Placed 1st: Poetry Soup Beyond Its Name Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Beata Agustin
Categories:
elucidations, inspiration, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Name
I hear them on the television,
like I have a choice,
that's flat-out all they show these days:
Politicians
with their elucidations
tangled as Grandma's yarn.
Honest Joe, explicating why I'm beggared;
"It's your own fault, my good friends,
frankly, we need bold solutions"
they boom;
then hike the price of gas.
And the voices of we, the people;
lost
like violins in a marching band.
Simile Poetry Contest placed 10th
Sponsored by: Hilo Poet
Date wrote: 6th August 2022
Categories:
elucidations, political,
Form: Free verse
Loitering
isn't idyllic imaginations
facilitating fastidious, fertile fellowship flings
evolving evidentiary elusive elucidations
safely securing surreal sterile sways.
Mysteries mismanaging mundane miracles
yield yes, you, your youthful yesterdays
slip, stir, select sagacious serendipitious sphericals
titillating time's turbulent today-tomorrow titrations
eagerly evoking efficacious emancipated equai euphonies
resurrected, reinvigorated remedial rhetoric rectifications
illuminating impartial improvised immunities,
ease earnestly, empathetic eloquent ejections
sanctifying succinct, suspended sanitifications.
A word take on Presidential ins and outs, the why and how of Life's Mysteries
in the mind of unnamed parties.
For LIFEs Mysteries Contest sponsored by John Hamilton
Categories:
elucidations, allusion, america,
Form: Acrostic
The blue waters of the North Atlantic,
deceptively calm, are shrouded in mystery
in the deadly Bermuda triangle,
delineated by many as a paranormal swathe,
where series of unexpected events, unexplained,
made many aircraft and ships to strangely disappear.
Despite the belief of manufactured mystery,
the Devil’s triangle attracted many elucidations…
the influence of the lost continent of Atlantis,
the magnetism of submerged Bimini Road formation,
the Gulf stream upwelling the marine gas hydrates,
but as yet no consensus has emerged.
The plausible explanation may well be the linked causal trinity,
synchronizing to define the enigmatic triangle.
October 2, 2020
Contest : The Unexplained
Sponsor : Carolyn Devonshire
Categories:
elucidations, mystery,
Form: Free verse
A Foreigner in a land of chicanery, can't see the forest nor
destiny aimlessly adrift tween dusky skylines searching
'pon comet-like nights, 'neath the shine of absurdity
mistaking stardust for certainty, there was an inkling
once upon a brief interlude 'tween misconceptions,
when the sun ravished moonbeams and earth split
its gravitational force wrenching an indubitable forfeiture,
examining life from otherwise similar sides of continuum's
unfathomable folds, careening beyond askew gradient elucidations
into abstruse significance 'midst hallelujah inferences weeping,
misleading each sway of deceptive constructs yielding complexities'
mid psychotic beliefs, invariably questioning timeless persuasions
Categories:
elucidations, allegory, analogy, confusion, hyperbole,
Form: Free verse
CANTOS I (Tract I)
The woods were stirring,and the stars twinkling,
the wind whispering a thousand new breezes;
....if a sound came, it came with smiles -----
and if it spoke it would call me friend....
and I would call it mother, or brother
or sister,
or God?
Dare I say 'God' for such a simple thing? ----
But what I feel is as real as any science....
something behind the green curtain;
.... Something, under the speck of flower shoots,
that bloom as ornate as any chic-portrait
or seem to thrust higher than man's great
skyscrapers, speckled anew each spring,
for mine eyes,
and yours
and the world's
Dare I say 'God?'
(Who Reveals)
Categories:
elucidations, god, nature, truth,
Form: Free verse
Opus Mysticus
Let us enter... and be silent.
My insanity hangs on the wall with all the other Van Goghs.
Sleeping snugly between semen stained sheets
and saliva creased pillow cases.
Inundations and vivid remembrances
of days dead and hours traumatized.
You and the skinny one behind the wheel.
Whistling depressing dirges in D minor.
Your vituperative Mein Kampf of the ages!
She lifted her skirt and unzipped my soul!
Young children bathing in the quagmire of Eden.
Bellerophone on Pegasus riding through Hell's Kitchen
in the upper east side.
My problems are but pinned butterflies
quasi-embalmed in glass cases
seeking in futile
the sweet revenge of past indignations.
Where are they now?
The artists of Transcript Necco?
Of Zoot Horn Rollo?
They're down on the dark city streets
off in dark scummy alleys
jamming till the lights go out.
Elucidations.
Proclivities.
Paragons.
Intense disaffections.
She lifted her skirt and unzipped my soul!
Categories:
elucidations, dark, dark, dark,
Form: Blank verse
Fractures of time…
Brandied words spoken…
Sweet ardor…
Flowing from her fingers
A master creating…
Elucidations…
That fiery love…
That still echoes within
Finitely endless moment…
Her enrapturing look…
Passions first touch…
The spark that was overlooked
Shards of past days…
Etched scars upon me…
Leaving your image eternal…
In the safety of my precious yesterdays
Categories:
elucidations, introspection, life, love, passion
Form: Free verse