Sea Glass From Mother Nature’s Jewel Box
She gives us…
Hummingbirds with wings aflutter, a symphony for cherry blossoms
Sunset, moonrise primordial orbs, magic looms
Shooting comets that grace every sky
Twinkling stars that wink on ebon nights
then wane and vanish in sunlight
She reciprocates …
Over the sands of time She forms and fashions troves of jewels
Refuse, shards of glass litter discarded and strewn
Sanded and polished by briny waves magically glazed frosty verglas
Trading trash and abuse with gifts
Sea glass gems washed ashore
Stones resembling emeralds, amethyst, ruby’s,
turquoise crystals displayed on the soft carpeted shores
Wishes to have seen this newfangled beauty
She once gifted us exquisitely
A rare sight as less litter evinces Her gifts scarce
I wonder was She by us coerced?
Ample reasons for us to quit littering
if not, there are more
Categories:
evinces, beauty, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
How elfin her beauty, sweet innocence on the face
of my grandchild who always runs into my embrace.
For a week while I visited, at the first rays of morn,
she tumbled into my bed as if a dandelion, airborne.
"Nana," she would softly whisper, "Are you awake?"
As if I wouldn't be by then, "Wanna play pattycake?"
"Yes, ma petite, but first I must have a great big hug."
She squeezed tight, this sprite I called my 'Ladybug.'
The time we spend together, much too quickly ends.
I fell in love with this child, who comes with dividends.
She made scones for me, served on tiny China plates.
Surely, you can see why I never refuse her playdates.
When she smiles at me and puts her hand in mine...
my maternal emotions take hold, by God's design.
I take pictures as Eloise reminds me to say, "Cheese."
Then she has to take one of me. "Can I, Nana. Please?"
I can't deny this fae child, even a star from the skies
And if you need a reason why, just look into her eyes
That puppy dog expression evinces innocence to me
To be a child of three again, when life was so carefree.
Categories:
evinces, granddaughter,
Form: Rhyme
Place not your trust in princes,
who may dump you in the muck,
where, as history oft evinces
you will be for ever stuck.
A cardinal this lesson learned,
Thomas Wolsey for to name.
All his fawning only earned
ill fortune and great shame:
"If I had served God half as well
as I have my noble sire,
I, now hearing my last knell
would honorably retire:
"Place not your trust in any man,"
Jan Hus said at the stake,
where ill winds the flames did fan,
all for the clergy's sake.
Earth's great leaders promise much.
They promise this and that;
they'll promise lots more such and such
as long as they stay fat.
Categories:
evinces, history, power, society,
Form: Didactic
My friend reluctant to
attend office, too afraid of
his boss's disproportionate love;
constantly meddle through
intrusive disruption thereof;
evinces what he can do.
Keeps juniors under watch;
tries to manage even smallest
details of each work in office;
impossible to dodge;
‘Work Freedom’ thought he'll abolish
if he can; None can match.
Categories:
evinces, character,
Form: Verse
Around my mind a linger of her existence plies, I'm evoked
An expression of joy my face accommodates, simply on this note
A thought of you causes my heart to skip a beat, beautiful like jazz
Not the voodoo though but I still feel locked up like I'm in Alcatraz
A good thing because it aids in appreciating your absence when I'm alone
Missing you hurts more than when I broke my clavicle bone
I love you too much to consciously inflict on you pain
Done it in the past but in His grace, never again
Maybe you the best thing that happened to me, maybe you not
Not to sound cheesy but to complete the rhyme, you are hot
Sometimes having you still seems kind of surreal
Want to experience with you the culture of Brazil
Like the sands of time, my love for you seems endless
Some of my dreams instigates we one day share address
You defined 'love' to me and redefined the essence of life
I'm convinced but I'd wait till time evinces you are my wife
Categories:
evinces, feelings, for her, girlfriend,
Form: Free verse
just the same ring
with a round of row zees
awash manicured lawns
with generic grass seed
that doth spring
to life with synthesized,
(yet deadly) chemicals meant
to guarantee wrest
ting control might and subdue
so nature forced
to become nsync from in vest
ment plot purchase
as proving grounds to test
a money bagged well paid
laborer at leisure time
sprawled asleep in comfy hammock
a much needed self deserved rest
whereat successful proof
evinces "American dream"
no matter quest
necessitates becoming linkedin
with fast paced lifestyle
attendant ulcer inducing "pest"
keeping up appearances,
where younglings nest
scolding woe begotten kith
if flawless grounds get messed
by clod hopping kids and/or smart pets
upsetting calculus figuring formula
determining trigonometric
landscaping tangential
to maintaining perfectly
squared off turf especially lest
the neighbors cease becoming hospitable
and stop offering gold plated invitations
to such honorable humble guest.
Categories:
evinces, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
This poem was inspired by a piece from the modern artist Mark Ruthko.
Grey ash evinces our long hot burn.
The blaze, suddenly extinguished,
leaves a blackened smoltering expanse
that uncouples
here and the horizon,
the beginning and the end,
you and me.
Separated, we burn
quietly sending the signal,
“I love you,”
through the devastation,
under the polluted purple sky.
Alone.
Categories:
evinces, break up, love, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Swish of withered leaves
In the depths of the forest
Evinces the tense calm
Before an approaching storm
Leashes its contained fury
For 5 line max New or Old Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Rick Parise
June 3, 2017
First Place
Categories:
evinces, nature,
Form: Tanka
Exalted by Vedas,
epitome: Ganesh;
exculpates us of sins.
Evidence of tameness,
Exhausted to our ends;
exploited as transport.
Evinces a paradox!
18/09/16
Pleiades E by Kim Merryman- PLACED 8
42 syllables, 6 in each line ( howmaysyllables.com)
(Ganesh is Lord Ganesha in Vedas)
Categories:
evinces, abuse, appreciation, perspective,
Form: Free verse
It's Obvious!
I drew a blank on why god exists,
Because his existence is unprovable,
And because he does not occasion,
The wise, the modest or poor visibly.
It’s not as if he’s a non-variable,
Non-affective or passive in any way,
Because just the mention of him,
Makes my emotions rise and well.
It gets my back up to point to him,
For validation when you’ve got none,
Since selection was your choice,
When you accepted the god meme.
There’s no foreign knowledge beam,
That drives other cultures to your inside,
There’s only a reframing of your own life,
When your set you raise to the ground.
In prayer you take your relationships,
To god, but it’s your brain that holds,
The repeated truth of patience, surprises,
In life’s cycles that shoe your values.
In the ebb and flow known and near,
Your character evinces kins’ declarations,
Shows that interaction attributed to god,
When it inspires your touch of care.
I’m sorry if you think me indifferent,
Or apathetic, unsure or uncertain,
About if god exists, ‘cos he does not,
As I know that two plus two is four.
Categories:
evinces, anger, angst, emotions, faith,
Form: Blank verse
They want the people to go away
To keep quiet
shhhh…. don’t say a word.
But…we’re not!
We the people elected them!
Why should we stay quiet?
This is our country!
We are the people!
We are the voters!
We own this country…not the elected officials!
So..why should we be quiet?
Why should we go away!
Who in the hell are those elected officials anyway!
Get out! Get out of my government! I don’t want you anymore!
“….when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same
object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it
is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their
future security.” [Declaration of Independence]
Written in response to the assertion by some officials in Washington and the media
that the citizens calling themselves Tea Partiers were a bunch of political radicals
and crackpots.
Categories:
evinces, politicalpeople, people,
Form: Free verse