Everyone loves everyone
loved no one
but the one looking back
on a moonlit shore,
ignominiously,
the sure clarity of introspective
waves hurried away
like muddied thoughts
squealing downhill.
There is no one looking
for anyone on that shore,
moonlit for naught,
smooth sand unbothered
by footsteps or footsteps
following after,
just shadows cast
for the unenthused moon’s
enigmatic arithmetic.
Always we are shadows
scampering, scampering
off to our delicate garden.
We are the dancing dandelions
by the devilish prospect
of profit death delivers, delighted.
At once we make everything a poem.
There is love underneath love.
There is this, an ocean above.
How are we outnumbered
when all alone? And why must
contempt never be shown?
Categories:
ignominiously, god, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Free verse
WHOSE MESSIAH: Happy Rosh Hashanah
Upon a tree, He was displayed ignominiously
Arms stretched from East to West for our Shabbat Rest
Body pulled along the North-South axis
That is the price of Love, the width of Shalom
You ask if the Creator erred in allowing the Fall
Or had He erred in permitting Eve to succumb
Yet He, Himself did atone, Messiah took the Cross & paid it all
Love paid it all to have my errant human heart
How wonderfully cruel, How powerfully glorious
Confounding: God upon a Cross, naked and pulled apart
Prodigal in Forgiveness, Wholeness, Scarred and Righteous.
(c)A.Deo, 9/21/2017
Categories:
ignominiously, bible, god, holiday, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Jealous Jaded Jackals
Decadent darkness placed upon the setaceous shrine
For the Angels wilfully weep and ignominiously entwine
The fermented fear sprouts jealous jaded jackals
As Love approaches with salivating slaving shackles
With vindictive vines that crushingly choke
And clasping claws that piercingly poke
Is it hallowed heaven or is it hollowed hell
For it is only Love in a sacrificial sacculated shell.
Oct.16.2016
Words Drowned In Tears Poetry - Contest
Sponsored by: Broken Wings
Categories:
ignominiously, abuse, dark, lonely, sad,
Form: Rhyme
9 11
Oh, the tall towers of Ilium, shining golden in the morning sun,
Are tumbled ignominiously, and a myriad
Souls are turned to dust:
And this sudden host
Of untold grief
Disappears.
Their tales
Legion.
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Categories:
ignominiously, america, death, history,
Form: Free verse
Traducent are we who speak with slivery truth
With silver fork tongues we malign the disclosure
Slanderous are we who act suasive and choose
The obduse of wealth, power, and fortune
In the overture of madness we play in absolute confusion
Vexing, beckoning with their temptations
Plausive are we to the eyes of the wicked
With frangible gists and terrible mindedlessness
Not a poor soul saved, not another guilt grasp
Ignominiously felt, and despodence lasts
All overawed with the overwhelming avarice
And lo the kings of the foul and the underlings
Categories:
ignominiously, angst, corruption, dark, hate,
Form: I do not know?
QUAIL ARMY SONG
I don’t know but I’ve been told
No quail born ever gets old
It’s plain that we gotta fight
For each and ev’ry God-given right
To be quails and not hors d’oeuvres
It’s simply what we all deserve
We want quail houses with double glazing
Is that so very amazing?
And quail babies and quail mortgages;
And not to end up as quail sausages;
To pick up our old-age quail pension,
And not even have to mention
Ignominiously turning up
In a French mustard dip,
Like uncle Bert who met an early death
As pate on a singing soldier’s breath :
“47 Chevy and a tankful of gas,*
Quail liver pate kinds tastes like grass”.
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*Plagiarised from HEARTBREAK RIDGE movie
(From my collection of Bird Poetry and Other Pretensious Crap"
Categories:
ignominiously, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Rigors of weary battle long abated
The haze and smoke linger; the
fallen obfuscated
Ignominiously deposited; in death's
unseemly clutches graded
Gradually emanating from the
debacles' debris taut, ghastly forms
emaciated
Battle's residual fodder on spent
ground masqueraded
With the accoutrement's of nature
and nurture now attenuated
Unrequited carcases posthumously
paraded
Only the malingering sun palls the
hulls now jaded
At dusk, dark shadows girdle the
remnants of slaughter dated
Anon, with the eery sounds of
bewitching night serenaded
Death's awning a patchwork of
gleaming stars cascaded
By bleary, mortal shadows in
quilted tents shaded
Waiting for morn's truce, their valor
with honor to be equated
Categories:
ignominiously, war
Form: Monorhyme
Winding up in the hospital is something nobody would need.
We can say all you fools were the victims of greed.
Captain Culpeper thought he could get away with the money.
You saw what happened after that. All of you suffered injury.
The captain threw away the pension he earned on the force.
His daughter changed her name, and his wife filed for divorce.
He will have the book thrown at him ignominiously,
while all you other guys will get off rather lightly.
That event on the ladder was such a humiliation.
You will spend time together here for rehabilitation.
Before Mrs. Marcus, Emiline, and Monica came through the door,
Bengie threw a banana peel into the middle of the floor.
Mrs. Marcus slipped on the peel, and down to the floor she went.
An unending stream of laughing came from each injured gent.
Never had anyone seen such an amount of merriment.
Is it true the best medicine for any ailment is laughter?
We might say each one of these guys lived happily ever after.
Based on the 1963 film "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World"
Categories:
ignominiously, funny,
Form: Rhyme
LAST LEAVES
Shriveled and dried and near death
The leaves depart the branches and spin to the ground,
In the the vortices of the autumn chills, to be swirled
And swept into piles ignominious
In shallow hollows windless
Of the bare garden, girding itself for the loneliness of winter.
An old man sits huddled on the bench,
Face pinched with the cold,
Smoothing and re-smoothing a photo
Of a lost wife who took her last leave
At the end of summer, departing ignominiously,
Fainting and injuring her head in the street :
And he prepares himself for the winter of his loneliness.
Categories:
ignominiously, people, autumn,
Form: Free verse
HE LEAVES FOR THE LEAVES
Leave work? Then I want to be dazzled by the crop
Of fall trees still in full leaf but about to drop
As if loaded with flames yellow,and russet
That ripple thru leaves , wind-fuelled, sunlit .
The little flames are thrown to the river glass,
A hard fall, a landing ungainly, crass.
Unlike their graceful selves when branch-borne,
They fall to the river, meet their reflections and mourn
And float ignominiously, and collect their fellows
In untidy piles at the slack water shallows
Among the faded reeds and river weeds
Where ducks scavenged, lunched
But there are no longer swallows bunched.
A fall from on high is filled with pathos
And seeming chaos.
End of beauty air-light , and the grief
I feel for each fallen golden leaf
Matches my joy for the tree. It now survives the all-
Too- soon-but-not-quite- yet winter
And its killing cold. And produces another
Dazzling flame-throwing show next fall.
Categories:
ignominiously, allegory, nature, river,
Form: Couplet