The sun affects so much of what we see
it pierces into these places so dark
without the sun, it remains hidden
it's been like that ever since the ark
These dark corners hidden away
we seem to miss that hidey-hole
except when that bright beam penetrates
it brings out what otherwise would have stole
Now your body also has dark places
that when the sun shines, it bright rays
it brings a rich glow upon your face
shows up God's hidden hand done with clay
The obvious darkness is in the night
out there, only the stars and the moon
brings light to the night out there
makes one wish for a bright high noon
There's an invisible darkness in our souls
which is worse than any other kind
for it will bring an eternal death
which only God's Son can everlastingly shine
Disconsolate obsidian waves crash over crumbling dunes,
Sweeping afflicted grains of sand back into the depths,
Dragging my paralysed soul with them.
Engulfed in despondent riptides,
I gasp for oxygen amongst rippling currents,
As a fiery moon hangs precariously overhead.
Blood-red reflections illuminate the stark waters,
While calls of the lost sing to me,
Like sirens beckoning sailors to their doom—
Louder and louder, until it becomes unbearable.
Flaring arms fill with cortisol,
Burning, tangled within suffocating seaweed.
Farther I get pulled from the shore;
The horizon is growing fainter now with every somber beat of my heart.
Isolation shrouds the thickening atmosphere.
Saline leaks into my mouth, drying my tongue as I frantically spit it out.
Hysterical laughter escapes through lips without realisation.
Dehydration overcomes.
Sanity slips with each sip of water.
My larynx sharply tightens—
Barely a noise can be uttered.
Yet the siren calls of the irretrievable continue to crescendo,
Pulling me into an empty expanse, everlastingly.
~ Our Coral Atoll ~
Like incense fills the valves of the chambers of my soul.
Love for life, like a gentle river, totally flooded me.
Once you came and remained, my sole bright, coral love atoll.
Everlastingly gleaming in God's sunlight and moonlight,
Ever lifting me to new insights,as a stunning velvet blue butterfly,
Resting on our quilt, on this siver, moon-blessed night
Your love, your hands, your deep Mediterranean eyes,gleaming.
As that eternal instant we met in our cafe, divine kismet!
My most precious darling, man, our love forever flowering?
11/29/2024
Written: September 09, 2023
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In the sphere of exuberance and delight.
Places where relationships provide insight.
There's a sweetness in the mellowness.
Emotion embellished without devilishness
Intoxication of perpetual bliss,
Unceasing happiness, a blessed kiss
Of goodness and joyfulness combined,
In connubial union, two souls entwined.
A love unending, forever blessed,
In the sacred vows, they have professed.
In this realm of unending delight,
Rapture and felicity bear flight.
Everlastingly, it shall be,
A nirvana of love for all to foresee.
Ageless and eternal, their love shall be,
A pleasantry of ecstasy and glee.
In the realm of geniality and cheer,
Their compatibility shines clear.
Exuberance and joy cram the air,
As their love blossoms beyond compare.
With evermore beatitude they reside,
In married bliss, they cannot hide.
Congeniality and blissfulness abound,
As they create their own paradise found.
In the realm of amenity and peace,
Their love shall never cease.
Eternal and heavenly, their bond will be,
Committed bliss for eternity.
BETWEEN FIRST LOVE & TRUE LOVE
They said FIRST LOVE never dies in real life
but TRUE LOVE will undoubtedly bury it alive.
Heart is thorn between Devil & the Deep Bluesea,
Cast out into reality from her world of fancy;
Broods in seclusion without the invitation of brain,
yet maintain status quo & sentiments she'll abstain.
Heart is the stage, platform for lovers & haters;
First love & True love are the debaters.
The later & former inquire about their deal breakers.
First love or True love, which is better & caters?
What is true can either come first or last,
cos true love blosom more than the blast of the past
despite being the initial, genesis, or first,
true love everlastingly quenches the past thirst.
First love will probably disflower you
and yet still end-up making you feel blue.
But true love will always stay real & true,
despite all the turbulence around you,
y'all will still definitely come through.
First love will never die, and that's true,
but True love will bury it alive regardless of who.
Vick Manuel Poetry {VMP}
FORM: Rhymes
Copyright ©?August 2023.
"if I had a choice"
if I had a choice of freedom experienced by wondrous experts
gliding with eagles way high within light from heaven or
floating with whales amongst the far and wide in mighty seas
or running with horses along open land facing wind and the world
impossible the choice as they are masters of their own universe
they know not highs and lows of life of human competitiveness
they live beautifully as intended without hesitation or rule
eagles shall fly whales will swim and horses relentlessly race
breathing freedom with wings alive and unchained as butterflies
let it be said without pause all three prevail if I had a choice
souls of peace they forever remain
everlastingly each flawlessly reign
SkyWatcher
07-01-23
Let’s agree that our words mean something;
words like Ma and Pa, all those proto-vowels,
but also ‘prestigious’ and ‘disambiguation’
they also are layered with insights
for the perceptive.
Words can be as layered as Damascus steel,
more so,
they many even have roots
as deep as earth-time itself.
All interesting words have a winding history,
their meanings are associated,
linked with many more meanings.
Such words are symbols for myriad realities.
This kind of inquiry is never ending.
interpretation cannot be superficial,
poetry demands a deeper seeing.
Some words have no inner-life of their own,
such words have a paucity, a dearth,
they are derivatives of a shallow concept
given unsustainable implications.
From the very start they were everlastingly
empty.
The astute choose words
that mean more than can be said.
Cry to the Lord with a real passion
make sure you mean it by heart
believe in prayer that God hears
for if you don't no point to start
Prayer is a spiritual mystery
how God hears you in heaven
no matter where you're on earth
oh Lord hear me before it's eleven
In one's heart feeling overwhelmed
making loud cries to our heavenly father
knowing the certainty of God's love
makes one assured to come and gather
The psalmist asks to be lead
to a mighty towering rock
where their safety is assured
this is for all of God's flock
Lord help me, answer my prayer
thanks and praise goes to you
for your knowledge that's so divine
blessed be your name everlastingly true
(Psalm 61:1-2 (NLT)
"O God listen to my cry! Hear my prayer! From the ends of the earth, I cry to you for help when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the towering rock of safety.")
Mine is a gift from God inherent,
To be born of goodly loving parents,
Who humbly spend their all,
To nurture as their call.
The way to happiness,
Is living in selflessness.
It begins with giving life,
And continues in spreading light.
Amongst each trial we bear,
Is a strength deeper than every care,
Which holds us all together,
For we are a family forever.
Now and for all eternity,
We are cherished by God as glory,
For we are His family,
Sons and daughters of His royalty.
As we live faithfully,
We will return someday,
To reunite everlastingly,
And progress after Deity.
We shall not falter nor fail,
For we are sent to prevail,
And after all we learn and do,
God always upholds all His faithful true.
With patience, we shall run the race,
Knowing that as we seek His face,
One day we'll be in His embrace.
This is what strengthens the family race.
Oh, eternal Poetry:
Divine language of the Gods
Soul of my soul
Thought of my thought
Breath of my breath
Heart of my heart.
On your enchanting chest
Let me forever linger
For
Your inspiring heartbeats
I yearn to hear
So as worthy verses for you
Everlastingly, to write!
© Dimitrios Tryfiatis
18 January 2022
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I dedicate the honor of POTD to all my good friends who, uninterruptedly, comment on my poems. I also thank the officials of PS who bestowed the honor! Blessings.
A memory or vision or a tale long ago
From a dream, my imagination or real
Entering my minds eye as a knowing
Faint, fleeting or a ripple of an echo
In a dream I felt it brush my cheek
Ever so lightly yet everlastingly
A truth but the source now forgotten
A reminder to my soul and being
1/13/2022
''Every respectable crown is, and on Earth will everlastingly be, a crown of thorns.'
y o u, the band-aid to my bleeding wound,
the life buoy in my ocean,
the answer to my prayers,
my shelter from the storm
the spark to my flame;
you fuel my fire
and passion!
my muse?
that's
y o u!.
what else
can I say?
I'd rather be
your willing captive
--everlastingly yours--
than the freest bird there is!
I wish to be at your mercy
my magnificent force of light, y o u.
Witch Bee was given one wish. Anything at all.
She pictured a haunted house, everlastingly tall.
A replica of herself, a gruesome, gritty pretty doll.
But would she rather own her own broomstick mall?
What about a wonderful shop with wands, wall to wall?
Would she be given a medal, because of her squall?
A wonderful dog and cat sanctuary might be her call.
Undecided, she asked the wish-maker to come back in the fall.
The night sea makes the stars ‘my private universe’
And yet, one feels the multitudes gazing the same way
Kneading thoughts of multiverses staring in reverse
Enchantment on daunting dimensions making headway
Inside the rarer paths of hardened real, the surreal
takes on the wild waves that once tore at mettle to fray
electronic virtuality’s so subpar
surpassed always by experiences neuronal
Everlastingly firing away, the near, now far
Atomic energy spin-drives all ~ elemental
(9/12/2020: '93 Sea Ray 330 DA; Sac Marina)
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