Up they bubble ,demanding their day
Every appetite in disorderly competition
Blindly leading the body frenziedly
To let them rip and have their way
That is the narrative of the id.
Who am I? How do I look to others?
Some days I like to be on my own
Others regard me as the life and soul of the party
Until I am overpowered by my passions
When the id dictates to my ego.
I am the gatekeeper
Patrolling the boundaries
To maintain a healthy balance
Between narcissism and impulse
In today's world that is a rocky road
Where it is a free for all
To take all you can get
Without consideration for others' dignity
Boundaries no longer exist
It's a thankless task being the superego
Categories:
frenziedly, conflict,
Form: Free verse
If only you knew…if only you knew…
How a mother’s tears flooded her eyes;
How blood oozed from her aching nipples;
And how she quarrelled with a stubborn quarry,
Lashing the quarry with her shrunk trunk,
To save her drowning son.
She commoved herself,
Looking for her darling baby,
Running up - the rocky hill,
And tumbling down – the prickly valley,
Yet, no laugh, no groan, no mourn,
No whine…nothing did she hear.
She ran, wailing and mourning,
Frenziedly smelling his footprints,
Blowing the dust and oozing the blood.
With rocking, swaying and head bobbing,
She headed to a quarry.
She screamed like an angry wind,
Spinning, beating her heart,
When seeing her drowning baby,
Feebly groaning, “PaWooing”
In a mud-splashed, narrow quarry.
With flood-smothering eyes,
Oozing, aching blood from her nipples,
She lashed the quarry with her shrunk trunk,
To save her drowning son,
Her darling son, her life —
If only you knew how…if only you knew…
Oct. 24, 2020
If only you knew Poetry Contest
Contest Sponsor: Silent One
Categories:
frenziedly, humanity, love, mother, son,
Form: Free verse
People are hurrying, scurrying, worrying
Frenziedly squirreling clusters away.
Rumbling hypotheses riding on every breeze
Cast a malificent shadow our way.
Spreading pervasively, sneakily, rapidly,
Spanning the continents, changing its tack,
Causing uncertainty, splitting humanity
Interdependency starting to crack.
Tension is rising, it's hardly surprising that
Feverish tremors disquiet the land
Something's approaching, invading, encroaching,
An unwelcome visitor, wholly unplanned.
.........................
Panic diminishes, wariness finishes
Neighbourly kindliness starting to spread,
Care for the elderly, healthy mentality
Sense of engagement and friendship instead.
Atmosphere's changing, the ranting and raging
Uncertainty, death and disease have left town.
Nobler priorities flavour communities
Stage set for change as the curtain comes down.
13.03.20
Coronavirus Covid-19 Poetry Contest - sponsored by Team Poetrysoup N/A
Categories:
frenziedly, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Musical love
Our love forged on the Mount Fuji
Dining, wining and dancing to the beats of Garbage Fuji
Many times shot were we with the film Fuji…
We sit crooning to the songs of apala
Where the drummer frenziedly beats the apala
Our dance steps perfect to the beat weren’t palapala…
And we also saw the need to sing our own juju
Stringing beats of love, people wondered we used juju
Young, old danced, fell in love – unscared of the ojuju…
We are not musically like Fela
But our love for good makes us Fela
We are nothing but jolly good fellas
Who will gleefully dance like Rockefellers…
The power of love will make you sufe
Like the days when our parents danced taka-sufe
And we near-nakedly played, hopped in turns at suwe
And innocently called all Hausas Sule…
I won’t leave you beloved – hence this waka
The song of mothers birthed from love, sang despite shouts of waka!
From neighbours, far and near, as they rock us to sleep – shaking their baka
To their own sonorous voices, with no instrument – unlike the commercial waka!
© YTC… ‘019
Categories:
frenziedly, eulogy, love,
Form: Rhyme
Cicadas screeching
frenziedly to spread their genes...
seventeen-year wait
Sandra M. Haight
Categories:
frenziedly, insect, life, sexy, time,
Form: Haiku
She frenziedly smeared the rogue make-up about...
Her ivory malaise face; contorted seemed vanities glass
While breaking orange's gloss, laced lipstick as painting her
Cheshire cat's up turned smile currents of excitement and she rattling
Silver streaks in highlight's hair her favourite, champagne pink, stilettos
Tapping a memoir's mania beat upon, revamping's boudoir's floor peignoir, with
frills....
Palpable fanfare, held the essence be her creed ? Porcelain ballerina's dementia
and, dreams.
Categories:
frenziedly, angel, art, autumn, love,
Form: I do not know?
Childhood Brother
Me, a younger brother
Pulling each other’s leg
My temper was a bother:
A fuming powder keg.
Time has set the pace
For Us to adore another:
Mark of my own face
A cherished dear brother.
Tempers used to flare
With a Cold War fist fight
When we frenziedly dared
Both were pretty right.
Time is now all gone
Age has taken its toll
Each now strays alone
Sans mirth, sans thrall.
***
Take away a baby’s nappy
Leave an adult man unhappy:
Infancy has its own smile
And adulthood its own vile!
JM
21st Oct’ 2013
Categories:
frenziedly,
Form: Quatrain
She frenziedly smeared the rogue make-up about her ivory malaise face...
Contorted seemed vanities glass, while breaking oranges gloss laced lipstick
As painting her Cheshire cats up turned smile; currents of excitement and she
Ratting silver streaks in highlights hair her favourite of champagne pink, stiletto's
Tapping a memoirs mania beat upon, revampings boudoir's floor; peinoir with frills..
Palpable fanfare, held the essence her creed ? Porcelain, ballerina's dementia dreams.
Categories:
frenziedly, art,
Form: I do not know?
Flaming shperiods descend
As the clouds swirl frenziedly
Uprooting erections
The seas withdraw then rise
To swallow the earth
As death enters
The grounds depart
To sail the seas
As ember paints the skies
Categories:
frenziedly, adventure, death,
Form: Haiku
Into the jungle, the realm of all hazards
With love and a tucked-spear armed
The infatuated sphingid his way bravely wended
Heedless, the hostile beasts all around scuppered.
In shady corners their merciless fangs sharpening
The sphinx moth the orchid’s love shielding
All perils boldly daring, all around hovering
His sweetheart frenziedly for eons seeking
Never flinching, never faltering nor huddling
Breezes he rode whilst his love whetting
His sweet maiden’s scent to his senses wafting
His wing beats to her fabled nectar guiding.
Categories:
frenziedly, lovelove,
Form: I do not know?