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Queen bee

Eye's as pretty as Arabian Pearl's. 
 Eye's as shiny as Ghana's gold. 

 Skin as delicate as rose petals. 
 Skin smoother than Russia's steel. 

 Hair lengthier than China's thread.
 Hair as soft as Indian silk.

 Voice so glorious as angels rising.
 Voice sweeter than Ethiopian honey.

 Hand's mightier than Rome.
 Hand's sharper than Zeus's spear.

 Legs temping as Billion Dollar's mine.
 Leg's as gracious as Neptune's Chariots.

 Mind as cunning as a Fox.
 Mind as wicked as a phyton.

 Heart whiter  than snow.
 Heart  purer than a Dove's.

 I smell love in sea's.
 I smell love in the mountains.

 My heart races like a cheetah.
 My mind craves it like a hunter.

 So I await your entry into my heart.
 So I await your entry into my house.

 Thus, She truly is as "The Queen Bee".

I choose you

Of all the reasons why I love you 
Perfect is not one of them
My flaws that you accept so well ,maybe?
No thats not why I love you not at all.
My habits that annoy you sometimes and you still tell me you love me anyway, hmm hmm that's not it either.
I love you because even though I can live without you, I choose to not live without you. 
I love you because It's a decision I make everyday without fail.

Cessar-fogo

There, my home 
There, where good never comes within bull's roar of eer
There, where penurious rule the penury 
There, my home 
Where hazy are hopes and aspirations 
Extort common men for piles of gold. 

What a great leader! Please keep it up
Lo! Blotted copybook with corruption 
Oh! Lord of karma 
Shade is now on our beam ends! 

The earth has swallowed and digest the good 
Today, all heads above stinks
Indeed, they are pure
Words are more eloquent than silence!
For tomorrow holds cloudy sky
We need more voice to win! 

To pull up one's socks on damnation 
Our needs calls for strong constitution 
Which extinguish the fire of starvation 
And also stands as protection 
For us and them the future generation


Premium Member INTIMISTA Vermeer etc

Domestic interiors
falling pearls
 of  splendour
the everday
in
quiet,calm
  still snapshots
of life
hints of the unsaid
Indelible
   seared deep
in memory
 Unsolved enigmas
conjecture preserved
in paint
Silent sounds
echo
& stir
  with familiarity
the moments of interplay
 vivant
  intimate
intricate details
 begin  the beguine
  joys outflows
 perfection
  preserves the serene
 mirrors the sublime
with emphasis
 &     suggestion

stresses
       of the fanciful
&the significant
with
             implications
  &illusions

Premium Member IMPRESSIONISTA monet manet etc

moments
    of
     reflection

silhouettes &
                blurs
detail
disintegrates
  out
of
focus

        shapes
become
fusions
of

colour
      shimmering
impressions melt
into
    memory


 of

 veiled
        movement
              of leaves
whispers
    in

abstract
      illusions

      endless whole
yet
so alive
     facinations
        fixed   light
in
          contemporary
     with imagination
blended
      with
the exquisite
      wrought
     &
transcribed
       views
         naturalistic
 derived
from reality

       ...revealed

Sweet But Worries Me

The call to cut, dizzy came, the rib is off,
Now woe man!
Spiritual farm farmed by he
None another could carry;
Moisturized soil dried,
Sea wildlife fried,
Bush toil players, roared but are reared,
All other breeds feared.
At eve, He was hissed,
Ahhh, the devil dined!
This stew is rare; not many but few are real,
Thine rib made thee whole.
All these, many are the woes on he,
Beside the sin, sweet is she.


Roast and Wait

If lies are told to save,
Will sin be judged at the grave?
Smile darling! The winsome homely,
You never change; your hair needs no tatting,
So in penury, your short smile you gave.

The Reality of Life

Philip's aunt is  not flippant!
 But Adam's aunt is Adamant!
Comfort is on chair,
And she is comfortable,
How so when she is not Mensiah, Faso?
Oh wow! So Denis can be dentist,
Ahh... and Albert is here while others Advert,
Silly! Call me our Asian friend- Billy,
That to do, I should plea? 
My coach is my co, 
ouch! Another pinch,
No wonder, he hates to see me on the  couch.

Premium Member Double, Double, Toil and Etc, Etc, Etc

With a nod to Macbeth's three weird sisters...


Midst rats, black cats, and screeching bats,
Cackling crones in pointy hats
Add a rag, a bone, a hank of hair
To a bubbling pot in their witches' lair.
Next a drop of your blood to mix into the stew
As they mutter and moan o'er this most loathsome brew.

Harken well as the hags recite ancient verses
That invoke magic spells and malevolent curses.
An elixir for love, another for fame,
If fortune's your goal, play the witches' game.
If malice or spite for another's your bent,
They've special potions for ladies, and some just for gents.

But be wary, my friends, for I'm telling you true,
When the game is played out, and the bill has come due,
Don't try to renege, and don't be a griper,
If you dance to his music, you must pay the piper.
Pay promptly on time, don't default or denounce,
'cause witches are bit**es when checks start to bounce.

Your Call

The morning brings a moment 
frozen in time. Your heart is still within thee.
I can count a dozen one less or one more 
of angels that protect and surround me.
Given the time to ponder and weigh the atoms 
that bind me together. I’m left to wonder the
Marvels escape and I’m in for cold stormy 
weather. As for the questions that bereave and
lament, seldom do answers come calling. My
situation has me high on the fence, in a 
moment I’m hopelessly falling. Gone are the days 
we smiled to trick people into thinking we’re 
winning. I’ve got a mind and the matter is 
thick, as for good times they’re now just 
beginning.

M Path Etc

I want to write words that make tears stop

Corona Heroes

Covid19 Heroes

to all the health care providers
law enforcement workers
bus drivers
grocery clerks
and other essential workers
who are working 24/7
to keep us safe 
there are no words 
for us to express 
our heartfelt thanks
to the heroes
that are saving our lives
24/7 every day

Premium Member A Mother Earth Etc

In the whisper of a moonlight stream I heard her sigh or so I thought, 
in the rustle of a mottled deer in oak pine forests I heard her weep or thought I did,
or maybe laugh when flitting brightly over jagged rocks.
Upon the silver tides a figure fitting her description swam  or maybe drowned  or even vanished in the neon  haze.
Earth mother, birth mother, bosom to an infant chain, 
whose layered womb pulses to infinity,
whose foetal spark aches 
for her many sibling forms to coalesce or come to term.

Existence Has Ended

Nameless people pass me by,
Just shadows in a long lost world,
Where darkness fills the empty alleyways,
And only skeletal remains where humans once dwelled.

Ghosts of the past still whisper,
Secrets left untold,
Of life, of sorrow,
Of long forgotten happiness,
That could not escape the grasp of time.

I still wonder where they all went,
Why am I still in this void-less world?
Humanity is just a thing of the past,
And only the spirits still wander.

Did something befall humankind,
While I slept in a dreamless world?
Only visions of the past have kept,
My painless mind going.

Am I just a vessel to carry on this existence,
To be the only one left,
In a world of nothingness?
Or shall I find peace somewhere,
Beyond the stars,
In the boundlessness of infinity?

He Rests

Furrows End is where he rests,
Beneath the moonlight in his vest,
Eyes sewn shut so he never sees,
Mouth taped shut so no one can here his pleas.

Mumbling bag of bones is he,
Once lived by the raging sea,
A hermit of the oldish days,
Now lays in this coffin where he decays.

He once had a heart,
But it was so violently torn apart,
His soul long since taken away,
Leaving nothing inside on that cold Novemeber day.

He sleeps now beneath the dead moon,
Hoping to be awoken someday soon,
Awoken by the breath of life,
Before he loses his sanity,
To the reapers scythe.

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