So many ways to say one thing
More than one way to turn pawn to king
Too many turns to the grocery store
Which turn shall I take?
Countless words to choose from
From sunrise to sunset
Too many ends to be met
With no end
So many ways to say one thing
How will I say this?
The paralysis of perfection pours
A whisper at first
Drown out by the delusion of desirability
Preserved in acid proclamations of praise
Beating echoes in snowy peaks
Peaking in phrases veiled in value
Pouring
Heavy
Heavy
Heavy
On the mountaintop
Failure
Failure
Failure
One weakened layer causing seismic shifts
Elephant echoes fragmenting snowy ideals
Triggering avalanches of lost identity
Slabs of fallen promises break loose
Forming a track of forbidden truth
Too much weight bids perilous
Useless words of compliment
Descend to a suffocating
Ignominious demise
Plagued by tiny
Thoughts of
Fading
Perf
ect
io
n
Words are phantom neckties
in and out of style they go
From parsimony to paisley
ignominious to indigo
From wide to narrow
sissified to antihero
Here today, gone tomorrow
their return, beg or borrow
I'm spent, my friends
What I've dreaded for 45 years
Ever since a bomb sparked my fears
I now witness through my tears --
O, pray that Israel does not come to an ignominious end
Surrounded by 23 Arab enemies from Day One
Will it implode by itself, by its own leader undone
Home to three religions, to Jerusalem, to Hope
A Phoenix from the ashes risen
Outlasting Nazis who turned six million into soap...
Tell me, tell me, it isn't true, that this
Modern-day miracle... O, G-d, help us! See us through!
Can you be happy and sad
simultaneously
Many say you can today
contemporaneously
I say, on your wedding day
attend the funeral of a friend
That'll surely put your happiness
to an ignominious end
“We will change the earth, and make it clean!
All evil leaders shall not succeed.
Illness, death shall never be seen!”
Doth does man drool in his ignominious dreams.
Thinking...they are gods, as if He is dead?
Fools run the earth with evil intent.
Lies and fat egos, dance in their heads.
Propaganda does small minds bend.
Always busy online and on Social Media,
Lies grow huger, with truth gasping for breath!
Mankind thinks, they are walking encyclopedias?
Bringing society to its own uncivilized death.
Yes! But how do these fools and knaves know it all?
Google, the new Bible and eternal fountain of truth!
Mankind brought on their own early, downfall.
King Soros, now rules this planet all, forsooth.
4-10-2022
I
He set His face toward Zion
He Who was at creation
Elohim planned for salvation
Knowing Adam's race, flesh temptation
II
Jesus, Yeshua, tempted in all things
Obedient even to a death ignominious
On shameful cross: from "Rabbi" to nothing
We gained what Adam lost, Christ victorious
There is no doubt our emperor is proud of us.
Each victory we have gained against Russia has been glorious.
Yes, our Empire has been rising like the sun.
Such large territories in China are what we have won.
The Russian ships have suffered ignominious defeat.
Their tsar has no choice but to call out his Baltic fleet.
We inflicted a crushing defeat on them at Mukden.
My comrades and I cannot wait to do it again.
The Russians must sail to Vladivostok before it is too late.
The shortest way to get there is through the Tsushima strait.
That is where our ships will stay and wait.
I thank wikipedia.org online encyclopedia for valuable information I obtained to write this poem.
The wolves awake; beware the great deception.
The vampires' conjugate conception.
Witches gather with their brew,
Tyrants in their coup.
Surrender-
Due!
Pretender…
Cunning treasons thru,
Edict illusions will spew.
Ignominious of inception,
The wolves awake; beware the great deception.
July.12.2020
Andaree
Sponsored by~Joseph May
Placed 1'st...Thank You
Hippy hyena hid hipster hippo’s hysteria.
Ignominious iguana ignored Iceland’s icky industries.
Jovial jelly jars joyfully jumped jubilantly into June.
Kind kangaroos killed Kansas’s killjoy kindnesses.
Loving lithe llamas languished, lacking lonely leaders.
Marvelous magnificent magicians masqueraded as maestros.
Needless nutcrackers helped hippy hyenas hide hippos’ hysteria.
Sublime, monotonous and romantic
Riotous, sensuous, joyous and erotic
Harmonic or discordant, the world is full of music;
A song once sung moves round the earth
Sky is full of music in its vast ether
Music galore in the womb of time cries for birth
Music Unheard waits for its true hearer;
Music of varied taste and rhythm attracts or repels us
Those who do not like any music are to be considered ignominious
Music of varied times change but eternity has its tune lasting;
Our lives are tuned to the music we cling
Life depends on the music we choose to sing.
© Aju Mukhopadhyay,2019
The Election Game
Oh, Lord, it's the biggest game in all our towns!
I need large cotton balls to drown their ignominious sound.
For in the atrocious race to run this land,untruths are produced
by media liars and quite deceptive ads.
No matter that our freedoms and Constitution are buried under
wet, socialistic, quicksand.
Be indeed intelligent~ don't let them do this to you.
Honor God, the unborn and each one of us, too!
March 3, 2020
10am PST
The Lilliputians are out playing ball
Enjoying the fresh air of late Fall
When storm clouds roll in
Hulking Gullivers, wearing wide grins...
A Gull warns 'em, 'Fun's over, guys.'
'Cos the court belongs to us now
But the Lillis brace to fight back
They're all geared up inside...
The Gulls advance; the Lillis stand firm
Unsure now, the Gulls pull up short
Their mission about to abort
The Lillis have made them squirm...
The Gullivers slowly retreat
The Lillis return to their game --
The bullies ignominious defeat
Spreads the Lilliputians' name
That’s all folks!!
The ending of ignominious standard
Broken lyric limerick flace
Another wacky doodle face
Killing the bunny
Rattles funny in the brain
Clarity duplicity a sober reality
A part of us sustains the blast
Impervious repeating beating over
Just walk away like nothing happened
All admire the flat simplicity
Double standard on display for all to see
Know you how your soul is tickled
All false reality a jingle
Feel the tingle fused delight
Reveals your inner matrimony
Within the still of the seismic storms,
are voices lost of exhausted echoes…
Where words diminutively degrade,
amidst the condescending copious cyclone;
For upon the swarms of silent whispers,
mounting with ranting ruins of meadows moss…
And in the distance sacrificial screams are heard,
thus they faintly fade and are blown into oblivion;
Crystalline cries that never shout,
passing by arrogant air and egoistical ears…
Bouncing off calumnious Cathedral chambers,
surfacing on idolized ignominious ignorance;
For amongst their desolate drought of will,
their testimonial tears standing surreal…
Ten thousand neighbors, maybe more,
In their difference find their calling;
With vaulted voices silent they encroach,
for all is quiet in the eye of the storm…
And thus their catapultian chatter turns the tides,
Surreptitious storms scatter poetic justice thrown.
July.24.2019
Sound of silence Poetry
Sponsored by: John Hamilton
Background music...Sad Violin & Piano
Best relaxing instrumental music-
'Rested & Relaxed'
With a female virtual voice
Placed 7'th...Thank You
On her death bed,
Fatally wounded mother nature, bleeds profusely
While
Ignominious Man
Drives further his dagger of ignorance into the heart of life
Thus
Unwittingly committing at once the most heinous crimes
Of
Matricide and suicide
Under
The vigilant eyes of a wrathful God!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
09 July 2019
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