Whispering word
Silent in sound
Hushed as a valley
Forest surrounds
Peculiarly present
Once realized
Emblazoning silence
Wandering by
Making a statement
Barely unheard
Leaves in the summer
Faintly astir
Softly it flutters
Gently it lures
“Come”, is the call
Of the whispering word
Categories:
emblazoning, nature, peace, silence, sound,
Form: Quatrain
At Stonehenge poised for morn in deepest darkness,
We beckon Lady Ceridwen, our Goddess Crone,
And mark Samhain’s quiet constant stillness,
To death in Yule we walk with magic to the stone.
Dark mother, wise one, heal us in the underworld,
Where the winter souls find rebirth in breaking sun.
It returns the fecund resplendence that it unfurled,
And warms the blood and bone with hope and passion.
We feast celebrating, slaughtering a spring-born animal,
And dwell where ancestral souls wait solar rebirth,
We call upon sun god Esus to offer light’s arrival,
Brightening, emblazoning the cold and frosted earth.
Ceased in longest night, we linger here in winter death,
That we trust again the power of light, our shibboleth.
Categories:
emblazoning, dark, december, england, mystery,
Form: Sonnet
Over upon an oasis where the cool wind blew
Bejeweled and as precious as the morning dew
Just as the pale light of the rising sun renew
Emblazoning as the day more beautiful grew
Could then the gods of yore, oh, rise up anew
To set this world right sadly gone askew.
I am a hapless wandering soul
Meandering along out of control
Pausing nowhere for some lofty goal
Eternally seeking my God-given role
Rejoicing for the gift of life as a whole.
Mourning the day I’ll give up this race
Assured, I can finally rest some place
Nigh Lord’s grand design and grace
Eternally holding my soul face to face
Notwithstanding all my shortcomings
Captivatingly idyllic with natural things
Empowered by the divine king of kings.
~Form: Rhyming Acrostic
~Sponsor: Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
emblazoning, loneliness, lost,
Form: Acrostic
The harvest specter
of Artemis levitates
in midnight sky
beyond a temple's frail bones.
Her aura imbues the marrow
as haunted zephyrs breathe imperial runes
culled from quarries
in the scintillating saffron
emblazoning Apollo's halcyon.
Atop graveyards of heroes
pillars weep dry pebbles to Aegean eminence,
from Alexander's subjugated Persians
to Agamemnon’s trickery
on the plains of Troy.
When marble shadows lengthen
and drift in her shifting light
the moon goddess
stills all whispers
as she mourns the spectacle of bravura
retreating to dust.
6/20/18
Categories:
emblazoning, moon, myth, night,
Form: Ekphrasis
Bewildering
Yet, astonishing
Is how the leaves are emblazoning
With such stunning
Coloring.
They are capturing
The essence of fall. As the wind is blowing
Through the trees it's whispering
To the leaves it's time to fall. The uncloaking
Begins in a swirling,
Twirling,
And floating
Dance which is denuding.
It shows the webbing
Of spindly long thin wooden extensions exposing
The interior making
It the exterior while comprehending
That when the tree awakens from sleeping
Which is impending.
It will be nurturing
Up new growth revealing
Again the resurrecting
Of something
Totally amazing.
Categories:
emblazoning, america, autumn, beautiful, dance,
Form: Rhyme
On your mark!
Thus day light becomes dark
And the ticking clock
Dances frighteningly away
Right behind my back
With burdens hanging loosely on the rack.
Set?!
Still unsettled while night sprints away
Along this track of red and white spray
With slumbering emblazoning ray
And the silent crack of the umpire’s stray
Lord! Please do bless this day I pray.
Go!
Yes I did take the leap
In cradling little sip
And upon sloppy steep
I watch as night away slip
Along the lane and far into the dip
And beyond the imagination of the watch I keep.
I see the day
But it never did stay
In hatred of the silence of the sidewalks
And in the perspiring diamonds that drips from the brow
I wish I had an arrow and a bow
With which to aim high and not low
Praying I’d see night again
Either through tomorrow’s insane
Or through moments of refrain
Or in the bliss of yet another rain
Ayinla Muyideen Adeleke
© 2016
Categories:
emblazoning, life, metaphor, time,
Form: Rhyme