Electoral vision
New nation every 3-6 years.
Short term vision
30% action, 70% corruption.
Long term vision
From reach to reef.
Political will
From trash to cash.
Leaders should be exemplars
Not exempted.
Categories:
exemplars, leadership, political, prejudice, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Treasury of candles
imagined reawakening the exemplars who campaigns
their coalescing.
Prayer resurrecting
unkept promises that fault mistiness veils of affections
deeply confessed.
Sweetly progressed
a sinless tinkering of ifs and or buts, realizing an
overdue quietus.
Deja vu changes us,
with sweeping preparations from make-ups to do-overs and cuts to
that's a wrap.
Formats gap
of not to be awry and to prefer an alternate perspective as the
dreamer awakes.
Ducks and drakes
in the ability for the agile to skim and glide the distance o'er the calm and become a
better person.
Go-getter version
had manifested itself as what should have been astir than wallowing in a
festering hole.
Measuring goal
as proclivities satisfy a wandering wonder discerning remote hopes dwelt in the sun's
resplendent beacon.
Transcendent reason
a Q & A session obliging the past and the present on a road less traveled amidst
outright amnesty.
Torchlight family,
emblem of enlightenment and hope for generations--encores,
Messiah of Handel's.
Categories:
exemplars, allusion, blessing, destiny, dream,
Form: Other
Scented Leaves
Flowery fragrance sorts divisive airflow and cooperates amidst plethoric aubergines that bathe breathlessly, brushing raised exemplars of strewn unfurled chartreuse fronds, lain in the wake of humble pattered feet enthralled in its tangy betrothed crisp path,
Ingratiating themselves against engaging tickles of countless laddered leaves being crushed, bursting citrus piquant squirts that flavors a blessed orangey tawny forest of verdurous lime greens and lemony leaflets of carpeted existence essences,
Autumn gifts a luminous prism of extraordinary combinations touching rainbow eyes to favor, and unimaginable pleasure of incalculable noses to savor, as per crowning Heaven, immerse its creation re sun-drenched over-shades lathered in a pool of multiple redolences.
2019 November 12
*1st Place*
SCENTED LEAVES
~~Kim Rodrigues
Categories:
exemplars, autumn, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Narrative
We commend you, beloved women*... grateful to God for your roles
Enabled as life-builders by His grace and love
Blessed to help shape grand future with His might
Privileged to lead toward enlightenment by His wisdom
Upheld to aid family needs thru His guidance!
We salute you, honourable Mrs./Miss ... deserving to receive
“Happy Women’s Day” tokens as Moms, sisters, teachers, friends
Midst family members with their satisfaction-approval
Of your community involvement causing development-ripple
In a crowd of men with jubilant mirth for your work well done!
We appreciate you, dear ladies: our mothers and lady mentors
Exemplars of genuine servant-leadership
Role-models beyond reproach by your fervent faith and testimony
Paragons of excellence in terms of sacrifice and contentment
Who walk your talk leaving a legacy, worthy of acknowledgment.
*Proverbs 31:30 “Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.”
February 16, 2019
2nd place, International Women's Day Poem for "March Poems...Part 3 of Easter Series" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Carolyn Devonshire; judged on 2/19/2019.
Categories:
exemplars, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Ode
Pouring drops tumble as Sin shares her final sensual treasured embrace prior the sanctified storm
Once the Crowning Rays threshold is now the traverse shadow, tattered and tangled amidst destiny’s yarn
Warn decree, reminisced jeweled land plateau accuse is now stone-cold alleyways aging in silence
Damned light, the heart forever shattered, yet the flesh remains unbroke, never
to be unsaid it was love
The crystallized vastness of stars anesthetized the vagabond vampire within the valley of death
Breath of beauty wins by retrofire corresponded aura humanized exemplars on atlas skies
Yesteryears memories are the futures joys for no weeping words or heroic deeds will redeem
Updated 5/14/2019
Categories:
exemplars, dark, lost love, pain,
Form: I do not know?
I- Inspiring
D- Divine
E- Exemplars
A- Asserting
L- Life's
S- Significance
(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
10 August 2016
Categories:
exemplars, life, meaningful, men,
Form: Acrostic
As the day ends,as the light fades
Alone on the shore,I'll sit counting stars
Watching the evening sky, as the night masquerades,
Through ebb tide to high tide exemplars.
Seeking questions of life,.. sometimes lofty,
And replaying the first cut of my scars.
As I fall into a dream state ever softly
contest Titles
9/18/15
As the light fades
I'll sit counting stars
Through ebb tide to high tide
Seeking questions of life
Softly
Categories:
exemplars, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
There are so many different kinds of heroes.
There are those who watch over us at home –
the police, the firemen, the paramedics and doctors;
any who help their fellow man,
try to keep them from harm.
Look up to them as heroes.
There are those who serve –
the soldiers, the marines, the sailors and pilots;
any who would lay down their lives,
whether at home, or more frequently abroad.
It is so that others might live,
and might do so free.
Those who all too often watch their charges,
their friends, fall -
we live because of their sacrifice,
and they due to their friends'.
Heroes above the dead.
There are those who support the former -
the therapists, the counselors, the shoulders and ears;
any who give relief or assistance,
break down the walls to what others truly need.
Heroes in their own right.
Being one such is a tremendous torch,
one that all too often burns the bearer.
Their friends and families all watch and worry,
proud yet perturbed; appreciative yet apprehensive.
Heroes hurt and saviors stumble;
this life, these trials, none can abide alone.
Categories:
exemplars, hero, stress, tribute,
Form: Free verse