“Oh that ship has sailed..”
Shaking his head, following her voice as it trailed
He smiles to himself, ’give it time’, he knew, rays of Joy crack through disdain
It was love at first sight, the surround greyed and paled
Spotting this electric eccentric, dancing in the rain
“Oh that ship has sailed..”
As time flowed by, he knew how they’d not failed
He is her best friend through all; hysterical laughter to anguish and pain
He smiles to himself, ‘give it time’, he knew, rays of Joy crack through disdain
She loves him wholehearted, though never been veiled
On the news of their daughter, he’d tried proposing, in vain
“Oh that ship has sailed..”
Now soo much older, their matured rich love haled
She is both bubbly and light, and a grumpy old pain
He smiles to himself, “give it time’, hew knew, rays of Joy crack through disdain
She turns to face him, happy laughter regaled
He takes her hand, “So about that sword cane…”
“Oh that ship has sailed..”
He smiles to himself, ‘give it time’, he knew, rays of Joy crack through disdain
Contest: Third-Person Villanelle Poetry Contest
Hosted by: L.Milton Hankins
Date: 23.11.2022
Categories:
haled, endurance, friendship, joy, love,
Form: Villanelle
Is it a cage closing in around me?
Am I enraged or am I lonely?
Do I love you or do you loathe me?
Flies low the slow plane who drones into those teeth
She’s gone
again
He fails
Many
tales
to be
said
of his
ailments
when he
read
too much
into
ev-
-erything
that she
said
that she
did
that he
ne-
-ver ex-
-haled
so she’s
gone
again
He makes
a friend
of his
coffin
again
Mind’s not his friend;
well mine isn’t either
He’s just lost it again;
please mind not his fever
09.16.2018
Categories:
haled, depression, divorce, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Alas, I stand atop this mountain crest,
and gaze upon the valley down below;
the graveyard where your body lays at rest,
sits in the center shadowed by plateau.
My sad heart aches with every breath I take;
I wonder why I’m made to bear this bane,
and live a life that’s cruel and opaque,
while trying hard my teardrops to restrain.
This awful illness claimed your life so soon,
while you and I were living in our prime;
the heavens haled you, leaving my life strewn
across this wasteland, sadly out of rhyme.
‘Tis but a step across this steep degree,
and I will join you in eternity.
July 20, 2018
Categories:
haled, death, lost love, sad
Form: Sonnet
***********
Restoration is hope
That their is a chance
For you and me
------
In the beginning their
Was this child called Jesus
The New Christ
Born out of Heavens'
To effect New Life
Up and in-to Eternity
------
Fore this is where
The Lord gained
His severity
Tis where Adam
Ate the Apple
From the Tree
And this was a curse
One sewn in and out
Of Parody....
------
He was born of this Earth
The child of a Mother
The Son of the living "God"
Sent by the be loving God
Only to live till the Second Birth
And to settle the curse...
------
The degradation of all man
Perpetration upon the people
Upon this Earth
--------
Fore it was Death
That could not even
Set us apart...
And that it was Sin
That which permeated
The Soul and the Heat
------
He traversed the World'
Forsaking all Evil
To bring about change
To restore the faith and truth
For the true believer
------
To restore His Holy Name
And to bring about a New Heaven
So Haled be Thy Name
GF
Categories:
haled, death, dedication, devotion, forgiveness,
Form: Pastoral
We come to recognize
Just one faith
And to honor one man
With wisdom and grace
------
To pay allegiance
To the Lord
Fore it is to He
For which we stand
------
We stand eternally
And to Thee
We must simly say
Amen
-------
The people are singing
There is music in the air
With so much emotion
So-much fanfare
-----
There is so much Glory
Their is Glory in the air
The people are singing
Some of them just stare
-----
They are clapping their hand's
Some are speaking in
Tongue
A language only the annointed
Even understand
And that is of The Father
And the Holy Son
------
Thy Will be done
As a tribute to man
-----
Then the call came
It was a call to be with
Jesus
I was at His command
-------
Haled be Thy Name
------
A man of the cloth
The man of the hour
He ensue' such a strength
He truly is Boss
------
He wheel's such awsome power
GF
Categories:
haled, dedication, devotion, faith, friendship,
Form: Pastoral
The voice of love was melded by the screams unheard
And was abided by the iniquity that kept on saying,
The breaking away time was felt by the weeping unobserved
And was shammed by the smiles that kept on retelling,
The engulfed days of zests by the writings left isolated
And was mirrored by the images of hermit souls of bonding.
The eyeses of faiths was dismayed by the treason besieged
And was beset by the malady that breathed sinning,
The aroma of red roses was reeked by the blazes reddened
And was tinged by the eroses that revived on wounding,
The shed of blood by the stream that was left spouted
And was mirrored by the images of devotees of pledging.
The esthesis of bonheur was born-again by the esthesis disgraced
And was eluded by the span that panted abasing,
The savor of buoyancy was maneuvered by the griefs graveled
And was defamed by the sarcasm that haled on mewling,
The drops of tears by the eyes that was left dazzled
And was mirrored by the images absorbed so recalling.
Categories:
haled, depression, hope, life, lost
Form: Rhyme Royal