Explicating Poems | Examples


:::Thump:::

.

        i crossed thuh 
               um
             writer
       who'd uh thunk
               i'd
             shake
       squirm in mine
             what
    the ballast uv mine
   where mine rrrse 'tiz
            settled
giving mine duke's digits
           freeness
         explicating
        whilst sat in
          mine firm 
           cathedra 

        here you are
            "Fear"

        yourn wordy
           mistake

            Thump

             Rrrrr
               ;|



*For thuh poet who apologized
  to thuh one who iz lie'n 'neath
  mine feet
  never apologize to a lead balloon 
                      ')
Categories: explicating, anti bullying,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberAn Existential Curiosity

Human ingenuity leapfrogs beyond ordinary
Buoying upon wings of intellectual curiosity
Sustaining innovation, creative imagination,
Breaking barriers once thought impenetrable,
Daring to conquer the arduous, unknown~ 
Resistant to understanding, inert to inquiry.

Unfathomable is force of scientific curiosity
That opened doors to discoveries, inventions:

Telescopes that explore the origin of universe,
Space flights landing on Moon and Mars,
Defying gravity, exceeding the speed of sound;

Telephones, electricity, computers, automobiles,
Untold preventive medicines, therapeutics, 
Vaccines holding in check reign of pandemics,
Treatments for diseases, cure for hepatitis,
Nuclear fusion searching new source of energy
Reducing emissions to sustain life on earth.

Curiosity is the flame of wisdom, inspiration,
Lifeline for mortality pursuing life and liberty;

Promise of yesterday, today, and tomorrow,
For explicating phenomena less understood,
For guiding aspirations of cognitive intellect,
For directing journey on roads not traversed.

January 8, 2023
Placed 1st: This or That, Vol 15 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh
Categories: explicating, endurance, inspiration, science, technology,
Form: Free verse


Explicating a Quote

Who does not live to serve
   does not fit to be a life companion.
After all, what is unserviceable,
is not usable...
Categories: explicating, allusion, analogy, appreciation, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLike Violins In a Marching Band

I hear them on the television,
like I have a choice,
that's flat-out all they show these days:
Politicians
with their elucidations
tangled as Grandma's yarn.
Honest Joe, explicating why I'm beggared;
"It's your own fault, my good friends,
frankly, we need bold solutions"
they boom; 
then hike the price of gas.
And the voices of we, the people;
lost
like violins in a marching band.




Simile Poetry Contest placed 10th
Sponsored by: Hilo Poet  
Date wrote: 6th August 2022
Categories: explicating, political,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberStories Are Not Songs

But songs are a musical story.

I know a difference
between  telling a story
and voicing these same lyrics
of anxiety and ease,
of bearing and healing injustices,
medicine for well-earned peace.

I feel a difference
between progressive story telling,
between historically accurate autobiography,
and singing cultural passion narratives,
felt experiences,
perennial sensory moments
of nutrition and starvation, 
light and dark,
health and pathology,
resilience and fragility,
privilege and responsibility,
resonance and ongoing anxiety,
harmony and yet mystery,
acceptance and hidden avoidance,
integrity, yet irritating dissonant echoes
either empowering verbs
or neither un-nouned knowns
win/lose explicating with shy win/win implications

Why grateful Yes! 
suggests, more hesitantly Not Not Yet?

Being, yet still becoming
Left with indigenously 
endemically 
regeneratively curious Right
earned ease.
Categories: explicating, appreciation, caregiving, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse


Premium MemberExplicating 4d Resilient Systems

I suppose,
implicit in any explicating form of evolutioning theory-talk,
a revolutionary verbing thesis
progressively implies mindful intention
assuming ethologically growing function
deepening and/or widening what makes and feels sense,
spatial and/or temporal,
some health-explicating and/or pathology appositional implicating purpose
beneficial and/or harmful to anthropoids,
to all Earth's living-organic Tribes,
to all Ego/EcoSystemic Earth,
to all Animus/Anima Souls,
Yang/Yin
Left/Right Earth Holonic Nature/Spirit interdependence,
optimizing therapeutic
co-investing ZeroZones explicate/implicate
for secular/sacred nondual 
health-evolving 
yet unfinishable
and unspecifiable
natural-space 
for dynamically now-timed Vocations.
Categories: explicating, culture, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

Gracing Minuetto

Gracing minuetto in the castle of fortune
I gazed upon the chance of serendipity
I can perceive she is a sublime creature, that of which I marvel
The smell of infusing fragrants enchants my desires
Reeling me like kir poeticness
Grace, scent, feline lure of jaded ushered
Virile fantasies amid the gothic night
As we clung into a seductress tone
The swirl of sweet voices and opera come to form a stirring endeavor
With this discern mystique, the hourglass feels hastened
Fatigueness leads to an alluring slumber
The dawn of feverous romance enigma
Darkening a man’s intellect into mistress adoration
Consumed by gilded ravishment of rose elegance
She craves the caressment of balletic sway of a paramour
Craving the taste of rouge lips
Charming the fiery mortality to satisfy the appeasement
Candle lights burn the explicating flesh
Perspiring with a sobbing yearn
She is a vixen impacted by this occult night
Categories: explicating, romance,
Form: Abecedarian

Alluring Creatures

across this, the living walk
 on this day’s colourless rainbows
 all life thus returning, to this faux solace
 falling for eternity in the darkest night's skies
 as wind’s waves scream, over one’s possessions
 one intimate thought, held tight within their minds
 trailing death and Id’s angst in a swirl of echo' smoke
 this plummeting free fall feeds one's uncaring wilderness
 in rabid consciousness one’s natures, entice souls rush to eat
 greed, and carnal thirsts sauté, this faire of conscience consumed
 as hunger’s leaned, it’s missive imparts and infinity’s clock strikes twelve
 the chiming tones ring on, endlessly intoning across the nevermore
 explicating such grief, as all life bleeds, a vernal ponding dream
 seeped in immortality’s void, and a heart’s damning thesis
 in one’s dreams, and in reality’s stark admissions flay
 reality’s bliss, within each lifetime, as non-existent
 leaving US aghast, and wildly tripping over this
 your inconceivable, gutlessness, play at life
 struggling for parity, yet wanting tithes
 from all of your lifetimes efforts
 Ha! so you up and 'F'in die?
Categories: explicating, analogy, betrayal, culture, deep,
Form: Epigram

Tracking Down

White lotus at red feet:
we will start self-infliction
explicating
with regrets.

After a rough night
the day was weeping.
From where the bread will
come, when you were playing
with a golden spoon.

This morning I again
dig a hole in heart.
Was the Mayan calender right ?
Why the sun is playing slow music ?

I am coming nearer
to a locked god.


Satish Verma
Categories: explicating, art,
Form: ABC
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