Flashpoint Poems | Examples


Premium Member Pray Without Ceasing 2

Pray Without Ceasing 2
Miracle Man
12/11/2024

Each person,
possesses a breaking point.

But this point,
is unknown until taking place.

Lately I’ve felt, 
I was near my flashpoint.     

Then I sought,
from God HIS helping of grace.

Flashpoint

The immediacy of time,
its reference untold

The beginning repeating,
not young—and not old

(The New Room: January, 2021)


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steady knocking of
  headboard conjuring up a
merciless flashpoint

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Flashpoint

Thoughts ignite,
  and words burn
 
As everything considered
  —turns to ash

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2016)

The Mirage of My Perfect Love

A searing headache this morning my head splits
In circumstances whose cause I can’t pinpoint
In twilights when I teeter and shamble on my stilts
As my head I wrack to diagnose the flashpoint

That turns my world topsy turvy
In the twinkling of an eye
A deluge of emotional scurvy
Debunks the lie

I nurtured in the illusion
Of the solid love I envision in my folly
Coupled with aggrandized delusion
I convince my mind wholly

The love I’ve found rings true
In substance and form
Until in the fullness of time grew
With stark clarity and celerity mere fabrications in my mind free did roam

But the love I thought I held in thin air vanished without a trace
Leaving holding the baby
Alongside a stream of stress I’m grappling to address
As friends and foes nickname me crybaby

Because rivers of tears 
I cry twenty four seven
Wondering why I allowed a heartbreaker at my expense into my heart to inject spears
Forever stealing the best of me from my Heaven.


Premium Member Haiku Path 3

Time stops
Zen garden glimpse;
Monkey mind silent

~~~~~~~~~


Falling leaves
Dead brown clusters;
Transitory brief

~~~~~~~~~


Walkway commotion
Naughty child screams;
Miniature dog barks

~~~~~~~~~


Limping old lady
Struggles with pain;
Wobbly knees bent

~~~~~~~~~


Coming and going
So much fanfare;
Traffic detour

~~~~~~~~~


Birdsong anthem
Morning interlude;
Timely dawn hymnal

~~~~~~~~~


Work on words
Craft conspires;
Printing business

~~~~~~~~~


Coffee escapade
Mocha or espresso;
Bitter addiction

~~~~~~~~~


Nicotine fix
Swirling smokescreen;
Carcinogen flashpoint

~~~~~~~~~


To be
And yet;
Unbecoming

~~~~~~~~~


Listen now
Outrage here;
Chaotic bankrupt

~~~~~~~~~


Knowing truth
Blindness cures;
Ignorance hides

~~~~~~~~~


Words empty
Try living;
No one cares

~~~~~~~~~


Holiday tryst
So much wonder;
Wander exploits sight

~~~~~~~~~


Another year older
Not much wiser;
Birthday party

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
22 December 2016
Singapore

Flashpoint

Thoughts ignite,
  and words burn
 
As everything considered,
—turns to ash

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2016)

Flashpoint

Thoughts ignite
And words burn 
As everything considered,
—turns to fire

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2016)

Hidden Heart Whispers

stop throbbing temple
blood pounded sight
dim daydreamt corneas
surround sharp morning light

hidden heart whispers
raging wan muffled souls
desire stoked embers
burn kiln shattered bowls

dermis flayed pilgrims
gnaw darkly smoked bones
slag dwelling convicts
flee coke crumbled clones

fly, fly away from
a wasteland of sorrows
as ash can yesterdays spill
into flashpoint tomorrows

is there only the now
present here in this spot
downshift stonebreak self speak
ungoverned egos run hot

blur sky, photochrome
squint into ink acid haze
peer at forever
as the danse macabre plays.

Mushin

Mushin Ajina
   Bojiojimi
   Eruobodo, ogongo baba eiye
   Ofigbogbo ara shogun bi olosha
   Gidigbalo dawa omowipe ebi npa omo enikankan
   Iluola ti ki nsekan labo afi kobuyari
   Iluoola baba Dimeji
   Eniyan ogoro nwo e goro
   Awon dobodi yes ma poshe
   Woni otigun igi re  koja ewe
   Igba  ti ba edun nile odi obo
   Igba ti ba enle odi irawe
   Agba de okuro lewe
   Won omowipe aiye ominira lonje
   Olaju totun lala
   Odiju otun riran
   Mawominiran baba Fatai         
   Ewo ketona
   Ena ketora
   Enibitin to fowo ola gbaniloju
   Arinja lojawa
   Ago, ago lona ni ti jalo
   Malu ja odi bolo oya mi
   Ashoromo
   Ashorowo
   Ashorokan
   Ajagungbade
   Fibeyenle jo!
{Mushin one of the flashpoint in Lagos Nigeria is the place i was born, full of miscreants and hoodlums who are ready to foment trouble. The language is Yoruba language of West Africa and spoken in the West indies and Brazil}

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