I played the flute for a rampaging elephant
she hesitated then flashed a forlorn tusk
and rambled on...
She trampled a greed pocked society
gored its steel hook wielding keeper
and his forty-year reign of chained isolation.
Men with rifles arrived, expert at finalizing freedom.
It took 200 bullets, give or take, to bend her ancient knee.
She trumpeted to her kin, long ago marked for death...
profits cut away from their gray mountain heads.
I played an Ivory flute for an angel elephant
as she slid into the mist of a sunflower ascension.
Categories:
finalizing, absence,
Form: Free verse
Finalizing the date
Soon to come
Another move on the run.
From state to state
From one place to another place
Settling in
It is time
reminded moments
A long long journey.
The final move.
Categories:
finalizing, day, journey, leaving,
Form: Free verse
In my youth, girl students are always shy when speaking to boy students
The opposite condition was also true and lasts through my half period of life
Marriages between girls and boys were usually made possible by a person,
Who makes a careful and elegant comparison strictly based upon the boy's
Girl's personal and family's conditions, finalizing the evaluation of match or not,
If matched they will make serial things happen, such as sending off
A letter of appointment and giving money to the girl's family for an engagement
This was the real scenario remembered in my memory of making a Chinese family
Luckily though I experienced it in my youth but never ever be affected by it
Categories:
finalizing, culture, family, feelings, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Hidden in plain sight
For all the world to see
Is a soul bearing all
About love, life and destiny
Confessions, obsessions
Questions preclude
Laying it all out
Preponderances exude
A pen name reveals truths
More than the man
Reaching those it intends
Finalizing the plan
Categories:
finalizing, how i feel, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Fantasies
Flying thoughts in ether
Form a mirage in mind
Forgetting that sometimes
Falsehood presents as true
Fulfilling scarcities
Finalizing firmly
Fantasies orchestra
For Pleiades F Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Kim Merryman
Fourth Place
September 23, 2016
Categories:
finalizing, fantasy,
Form: Verse
STINGRAY
She took you for a ride on the wild side
Taking you through bushels and thorns
You endured the pain of the splinter and shrubs
Swerving through highways and by ways
U-turning to where disaster resides
She played foul
Destroyed all things beautiful
She’s unworthy and incapable of love
Her resolution was prostitution
Joy was her pain
Coddling crack…fondling cocaine
Stingray flowed through your urine
Foulness exhumed from her bob wired lips
Soiled and contaminated love endurance
Of this alleged relationship
Jaws of death clutching your humanity
Finalizing your mortality
Destruction ahead…your totality
You held on to the baggage
Of your broken heart and shattered dreams
And then to me you brought the excrement
Left over’s from your damaged relationship
This being why
I reside in this demise
You should have buried the bones
That destroyed your soul
Now you’ve compromised
The road less traveled of you and I
Categories:
finalizing, betrayal, break up, relationship,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Wandering through the memories, the old couple smiled
Observing fixedly the wedding album kept as a treasure
Naming the photographs that were taken for the leisure
Dwelling on the mind the years that were far in the time
Emerging a wish that will strength their lasting romance
Renewing their vows as a proof of a true love existence
Finalizing the commitment they pledged fifty years ago
Unveiling the devotion and admiration that did not go
Lasting forever until the last day of their existences
For Wonderful Acrostic Poetry Contest
Sponsored by John Hamilton
Sixth Place
1-3-2016
Categories:
finalizing, anniversary, wedding,
Form: Acrostic
As I watched your artistry in action
You designed images on cement walls
Leaving an intimate audience in awe
Carefully watching paint drip from your brush
Purposely blending colors providing depth through touch
Deep in thought bringing your canvas alive
Your image came to life through a vibration of colors
Colors put together beyond the primary
You are abstract far from ordinary
A pleasing scene of creativity
Finalizing with your signature stamp
Round of applause
Through strokes of color a blank canvas is enhanced
Categories:
finalizing, art, body, desire, image,
Form: I do not know?
2 am, its in the middle of the night,
Pen shaking, I want to write,
Scribble down something slight,
Bout love, bout me, bout tears I dislike.
Dear love, a time I remember,
Along the way being a loner,
Searching for a soul, a partner,
Someone, a family, an armor.
My words, I still recall,
"I love you with my innermost all"
Dear love, when for you I did fall,
Knew it, wasn't alone left to crawl.
Made pure, mine all intact,
Miles away, mine all back
Dear love, mine all loving,
To the end, mine all caring.
Dear love, for years scoulding,
Me a poet, for years neglecting,
No hating, such a darling,
God sent, to Him always praying.
My letter now finalizing,
Sincerely to you appreciating,
Faithfully for all seasons coming,
Promising to love you darling
Categories:
finalizing, appreciation, cheer up, cute
Form: Free verse
Grounding teeth against the wollywork
Memorization doesn't appetite and clause
Matching petulant crashing opposed
Language and its neighbor
Avenue of bark
Credible crock croaking a broken moat
Butcher a goat
Drowning why like castling a brook
Finalizing a product
Like escaping a hurricane queen
Dragging ten mutinies of throat
Trusting in a scratchboard to mimic an answer
What we don't know
That can television a torch
And repel rocket cocktails
Between the legs of market and street
To scream through a screen
And disrupt sunbelt of orange glo
Categories:
finalizing, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Goddess breasts
And King rage
Stood atop high mountain
Within fog-haze heaven fountain
Proclaimed animosity
Seduction she destruction he
Planned in intricate intimate detail
Spanned thoughts depths good to evil
Delve deeper death
Devolve life or rotting unto another
Devoid they’ll stumble crumble
Rubble stubble see the wonderful
Beautiful ending chaos of love
Passionate embracing commences
****** finalizing hatred
Defenses halt all faltering attraction
Poison words become self-preserving reaction
Pitiful pitiless human race
Crass species welcoming defeat
Relieve relent life strife
This wife is now beaten bloody
Barren dragon satan devil spawn
Celestial snow painted blood-red
We are dead
Time reduces marvelously
Flesh erodes bloated bones
Appear traveler near observes
Immortals on high crying softly
Falling Olympus’ shroud tainted dyed
Maroon amber streams
Skeleton’s romance remains
Defames other’s vows
Promised hours till reaper doth part
Wedding bands golden
These eyes have beholden
Affection surpassing eternal sleep
Redemption veiled with mystery.
Categories:
finalizing, allegory, death, love, life,
Form: Free verse