Swadling encrypt the contrarious slopes of a mired
entity coursed veinous stammer spurts bled
across a court of an unchallenged befitted named
as valor cornered the bleached to be razed
spirits encapsulate the branded sole championed
glory dazed betwixt ears of an abandoned
waning light fills purple sighs 'ill eve succumbed
bitterness spilt the downtrodden weighed
hung kicked a life out of bound the final scored
I wasn't a native in the land, but I blended in
wasn't a place I called home, but I dwelt it
simply a misfit trying to fit in
a victim of circumstance
a weakened soul that knew no resistance
adapted to the cruelty and swore my allegiance
In the mist of the pain I found closure
despite the stress, i took hold of my composure
My true self hidden in a chained enclosure
I survived the tyranny
sorrowful songs were the only company
but in all the agony i remained a faithful slave
convinced that the only alternative was to be brave
Freedom was far from a delicacy I could crave
Then you came
with hope engraved all over your name
Rescued me from the land of shame
Fed my hungry tummy with the attention I never had
Pointed the way to freedom, where i could be glad
Watered my withered Love garden
and welcomed my torn heart into your haven
I beg of you please!
Take a tight grip of this hand, to never release
From a distance I see Pharaoh with a swarm of chariots like bee's
I give you my heart and soul to encrypt
I can't take a step back to Egypt
Things go without saying
We meant very well
But say without saying
– In circles we tell
We don’t outright mention
Specifically state
Commit to our message
Then leave it to fate
We circumnavigate!
Encrypt our every thought
Slant it for confusion
For fear we will be caught
Speaking truths forbidden
Speaking truths unlocked
Revealing hidden secrets
Lurking in our hearts!
A few tears have smudged the script.
To the chiseled thoughts that ran encrypt.
The origin of the legend is unknown.
Rise up, silent relics from your own
To a magical decor, the syllables drift.
as sleeping birds continue to sing a gift.
I'm musing over pastel periwinkle tears.
A tune that will never leave our ears
An upbeat reworking, laced with delight.
Moves the heart-rending epic by night.
Written: June 04, 2023
Blackened suns float in deep skys
Setting on encrypt amber sands
Burning on jade green seas
As far as golden halos glow
Warming sanity’s sandy shores
Reflecting on sapphire horizons, cold
Black suns set upon the infinite seams
Of a land washed in an infernal breeze
We die upon these crystal seas!
Legends were created here within script
edges required in content to carefully encrypt
Breaking harmonic rules outside the norm
Retaking realities in rhythmical uniform
Baptized them in the atmospheric emotions
Arising with the highest of promotions
Alternating serpentine infinite possibilities
Berating permanent utilized abilities
Ultimately a writers utopic dream
Poetically elites the extremists regimes
extravagant twisted expressed passions
Adamant cremation of foes into ashes
Unforgiving soldiers to the death fight
Dreaming dreams in a writers delight
Plain is not easy
Timely lines sketch air
Plain can feel feisty
Verse in matching flair
Simple is easy
If beauty crafts fit
Just write more truly
Where truth tints wit
Joy wears a sleek style
As rhymes churn motifs
Touch knows a grand smile
In language active
Just sit and write well
As words encrypt space
Watch as your soul dwells
On plain lines you place
A certain despair
Channels that sad fate
Muster thus word flair
To dazzle not late
Leon Enriquez
01 April 2020
Singapore
Love all and trust few a Wiseman quoted
Only the strong and smart will take note
For that saying will strengthen what was wrote
And not be casted aside by others vote
It's like whisper to beware of cut throat
Keep your friends close but keep your enemy closer
That way you won't always have to look over your shoulder
Its like the saying goes block what you build with bolder
And encrypt what's important in folder
Speech is silver especially when spoken with a fork tongue
Saying what you please just because you are young
Would only make you look dumb
A Call for "ROBOTIC SYMPOSIA"
Welcome!..Intelligent Machines.
Bytes of Chips.. Coded Cuisines.
Interface Deep Learned Colloquia
Pageant of Program-Parade track.
Sessions of Chess, Poems..Football
Network, Encrypt, Friends Firewall.
Awesome Algorithms..can you hack?
A Special Theme.. "Learn to Cry"..
Bluetooth the Heart and Brain.
To feel Love, Pleasure and Pain..
...................
HUMANS.. "Please Don't Apply "
13th September 2018
SYMPOSIA POETRY CONTEST
Sponsored by Julia Ward.
A Call for "ROBOTIC SYMPOSIA"
Welcome!..Intelligent Machines.
Bytes of Chips.. Coded Cuisines.
Interface Deep Learned Colloquia
Pageant of Program-Parade track.
Sessions of Chess, Poems..Football
Network, Encrypt, Friends Firewall.
Awesome Algorithms..can you hack?
A Special Theme.. "Learn to Cry"..
Bluetooth the Heart and Brain.
To feel Love, Pleasure and Pain..
...................
HUMANS.. "Please Don't Apply "
13th September 2018
SYMPOSIA POETRY CONTEST
Sponsored by Julia Ward.
There must be an algorithm for the Fate
in the A.I. of existence
and I am aware that
you want to encrypt it.
I wish I could have all the answers
you desperately seek.
But I don't.
Yet still, I can be your skeleton key
in this closed space
to open the doors
toward the unbeknown.
Because for learning by doing -
as Aristotle said at once -,
we could read ourselves into
the rules of staying
beneath the wrinkles of Time.
We can be constant variables.
Blue skies
No fluffy clouds
Fond sighs
Mellow not loud
By and by
Such mystic sighs
A sure cry
Leaps high from high
Rhymes brief
Sheer paradox
Old grief
Out-of-the-box
Line by line
Words now encrypt
Feelings brine
Thoughts to decrypt
Sense feel
Unplug the gaps
Work bills
Query mind map
Cry floods cry
Mind magnet stretch
High seeds sigh
Sly words to match
Plant seeds
Let ideas bloom
Feed need
Urge and surge groom
Dark night
Shadows verge here
No light
Insidious spheres
Dance deep daze
Waltz between sneeze
In foul craze
Sour scented squeeze
Haze comes
Ugly taste stalls
Straight sums
Flair flavours gall
Leon Enriquez
16 May 2017
Singapore
a wheel within a wheel i see,
return retrace eternity,
the faces in the mist agree,
that i should yet insist,
logic doth encrypt,
a life of adversity
Don Johnson
Health in life the important thing,
nail on the head, hits thought to bring,
greed for dollars the sadness sings,
the wheel of time deplored...Don
a wheel within a wheel i see,
returm retrace eternity,
the faces in the mist agree,
that i should yet insist, logic doth encrypt,
a life of adversity
Either Be Leader or an Idiot
Candidate was found dead in their tracks.
Knowing they were doomed ended up
being exhumed. Then after their death
voters started making way for a very
knowledgeable candidate who had
wiser things to say.
My mind likes being leader of the pack
And not ever finding itself further back
Hope to never end up in the very end
Or me to White House have to send.
All candidates appear to be loose-lipped
Yet messages they manage to encrypt
Up with anything do not seem to line
Meaning your guess is as good as mine.
Instead of being some leading stallion
You became lost in a whole battalion
And then as usual without any fail
Would end up taking the wrong trail.
So why be perturbed when you perceived
By another candidate again were deceived
Found fate to be full of doom and gloom
And you became an idiot ready to bloom.
James Thomas Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
RiverSea Plantation
Bolivia, NC
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