There once was a man who found sleep
Through enumeration of sheep.
Not those in his head,
But roaming instead,
He’d census the sheep in his keep.
Deep breath
And push
Face, stretch out, glide,
Noise diminished,
smooth as silk taking in the first.
Meditation moving forward.
Ever forward.
Pushing downhill.
Survival in the chill.
Survival in chill.
Enumeration in perfect timing.
No chore to attend,
no chores to attend to.
My survival in the chill.
My off switch.
Breathe, pull, pull, pull, breathe.
Silent, rhythmical, turn and push.
*Image of Freedom Pub
Freedom Pub
Marred fictions of emus, ostriches
dip their heads neath, were hailed
by Ancient Rome's false divination,
of individuals, whose conquest of
enshrining their implied role.
Emancipated exacters, whereto,
the subjugators of the unlearned
majority, daily context by untruths,
orientations hard-pressed, by
tainted thumbs of paperwork,
loads conveniently,
mache for obvious design.
Decaying precursors demonocracy,
aptitudes knotting promotes,
a panache promenade of quilted
quids, as characters clash with
reality quarrels, as a shoreline
of sculpted castled sands, drift to
its emptiness of their costly
noted, S.O.S.
The absence of freedom is a true
reinvention for the masses, to
rummage and further wander, its
lineage of class enumeration
liken to some zombie apocalypse,
clueless beginning.
Lo and behold, its keepers adrift,
salty surges hath rise o'er, the
fresh living waters.
2023 January 07
*HM*
Freedom Pub
~~Joe Maverick: Judged 2023 January 09
O the eternal bliss of peace!
Like a traitor to the cause of humanity,
you did not receive the impression of my dream
in peace, congealing into flesh, the enumeration of
my nightmare, giving evidence against your soul.
But, notwithstanding, have no delay;
you may yet effectuate this business of peace every day.
You may have slumbered here,
but the vision did not disappear.
The four-ways lurking around.
In the cloudless climes
Often without making a single sound.
The enumeration of certain qualities.
Strong careers, work, rest and pray.
Provides high-quality guides,
But Ethics paves the way.
By the healthy boundaries.
The education academy.
Vision evolved with contours.
Masking like invisibility
A world in confederate lies.
Adventure virtual and the reality
Ominous admission, risky silicon
Self-made, fate reincarnate.
The improvement you need to get done.
A Stretch of Land
When our mind is aware
Of a stretch of land
A map comes forth in
Many variations
Of measurement and
Enumeration..
Maps are masks which
We do not recognize
Until a nagging something
Asks what can be known
By removing the mask...
It's possible in life to become so astronomically busy, you miss enjoying the stars. Lately, I have been training my mind to embrace stillness--enjoy where I am instead of adding miles to life's circumferential journey. Whether I walk fast or slow, a more inward journey I must go. For the world is always in rotation, and you will always be brought to an opportunity to be better than before. That miltary road march mentality can only take you so far. Learning how to be happy with now. Breathing more deeply than I ever have before. Slowing my thoughts to coincide with an iambic pentameter. Daily tasks and cramming minutes into every hour give way to the purest second imaginable. Alas, I can not only see an enumeration of stars, but life has become a simpler endeavor. Everyday, a chance to be better.
Thoughts drown an innocuous man, found pondering about an empty tide pool.
And
Tad poles think about life above all else when thee light shows its radiant rays of ascertained enumeration.
3/18/16
Two-liner contest entry
I felt I was full of affection
'Till he started enumeration,
His ego inflation
My interpretation,
Had compounded that situation.
He'd better show appreciation
And maybe even some elation
If he wants gyration
Or any sensation,
And Brother, that is my summation.
Copyright © 2006 Jacquelyn Sturge
jay5
Love’s compounding
Enumeration
Of inner interest
The summation of our hearts
Affection
Is appreciation
Serving desire
Through our end…together
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