Heat, like fog, engulfs the environment.
Flora and fauna burn in the sunbeams.
Clamminess-filled vapor goes virulent.
Mirages glimmer like unending streams.
Tempests brimming with dust and debris blow.
Unquenchably thirsty, the parched lands crack.
With abstract sky paintings, dry evenings glow.
Thunder peals, on and off, like an earthquake.
Days taunt. Nights haunt. We burn in the furnace.
Sleeplessness and nightmares pervade our nights.
Flies and reptiles perform a crude circus.
Heat climbs the atmosphere's immodest heights.
With the nomadic breeze, black clouds elope.
Timely drizzles, yet, try to bring some hope.
Categories:
immodest, seasons, summer,
Form: Sonnet
It might be an absurd idea
But we need to move on from here
Stalled in the darkness
With no moral compass
To guide us into the clear
It might be a ridiculous notion
But we can’t just float on this ocean
For the Scylla and Charybdis
With no light of forgiveness
To warn against the tide of commotion
Allow me to propose a thought
That each one do as one ought
Lest the sea level rises
With its schools of surprises
To infinitely rip us apart
If we sail forbidden seas
And land on barbarous coasts,
Who will avail us
When the great wave recedes
And we’re marooned on an island of ghosts?
Categories:
immodest, america, angst, conflict, death,
Form: Lyric
Falling Autumn leaves brashly wave goodbye to Summer
And strew the pathways with emeralds, rubies, and gold.
Radiant beauty engages the land in mummer
Encouraging Summer to relent and let loose its hold.
Watching with glum expression and immodest dress,
Eventually losing the tug-of-war with the chill cold.
Life and death become the drum to which She will bend
Leaving the breathless Wind time to nimbly mend.
Tomorrow She moves forward
Onward from time borrowed.
Sulking away with dried diamonds
Until Autumn’s auric sky explodes
Mindfully exposing Her horizons.
Memory of Summer implodes.
Efficacious efforts of Her victory,
Reign of Autumn’s golden glory.
Categories:
immodest, autumn, environment, nature, science,
Form: Acrostic
OVER-EXPOSURE
An immodest young fellow called Dan
Sunbathed nude for an all-over tan
The neighbours complained
So he was arraigned
And he spent the next year in the can
Categories:
immodest, summer, sun,
Form: Limerick
immodest face woman
she lives her natural true self
keeping vast secrets
back on her what-knot shelf
we can tell by her face
she has wizen wise ways
immodest face woman
lives many glorious days
Categories:
immodest, woman,
Form: Rhyme
(Inspired by ‘paranoir’ by Riz Mack)
Reckless Jack and fair Jill, youthful hearts aroused,
did scale that hill, less for water, than illicit thrills.
Atop that perilous height, they began a lover’s fight.
Stolen moments, once sweetly solaced, can prove brief.
Alas, the twisted tryst, turned awkward tumble swift,
with clothes askew and most immodest bruises blue.
Honest folk, share this lesson far and wide, by rhyme and tune -
beware young lovers, less passion's tide prove a bumpy slide to ruin.
07.0620
Categories:
immodest, fairy, humor, image, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Immodest elemental,
cloud of sin full vapor,
you stretch as a taffy,
bunched anti demure
Witch of the winds,
you -graph a pillow walk,
billboard drone of stalk
Joining peepshow in precarious ways,
your nefarious stay,
akin to shadows on the wall,
putting on a provocative play
In the depths of skyllines embrace,
where mind blows dance on silvery face,
woven by cottony lace
Is silver lining, your pockets,
as you sell your wares
of wet sprocket
Get a room!
Or a shade,
Or a pole, if you cannot refrain
from your billowing, soft, delicate,
supple, ways
Categories:
immodest, art,
Form: Other
Desert Carnival
Yoga Phenomenal
Camel Fair
Valor Prayer
Harvest Festivals
Sea Surfing Technicals…
?
Winter starts
With ice, fine arts
Sunshine days blaze
With atmospheric haze...
?
Rainbow-colors poured
On earth-sky canvas as an accord
All five elements glitter.
As though no counterfeiter
Hillocks in immodest green
Present an ecologically rich scene
?
Thrill fills the zeitgeist
In the earth-weather tryst
?
Xing
Xanadu
Categories:
immodest, november,
Form: Free verse
It comes boldly, like the winter’s cold
Immodest and smug, it can’t be told
It lives in the arrogant and the vain
Always dignified, never one to abstain
It is conceited, like the wind’s howl
Never smiling – leaves it’s dark scowl
It is egotistical beyond the belief
Not ashamed of its stolen relief
It feels so superior – a tear never falls
From its eyes, where it’s honor calls
It reminds the humble of its advantage
Without its haughtiness, can they manage?
It condescends and it says it always wins
But the believer knows it’s the biggest of sins!
Categories:
immodest, christian, pride,
Form: Couplet
Barcelona, immodest ramblas !
and a divine flamenco touch
exuberance of Paco de Lucia...
Categories:
immodest, allegory, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Light Verse
Cultured, refined, and polished gentlemen?
A thing
of the past.
Vulgar, brash, and shameless hooligans?
Welcome
to the modern cool.
Elegant, demure, and graceful women?
Controlled,
imprisoned, and confined.
Immodest, wanton, and uncouth ratchets?
Empowered,
free, and smart.
Who's hands are you
playing into?
It's funny
how
'feminisim'
and 'empowered women'
is a trick
to further please
male eyes.
Don't be
fooled.
Society is killing
itself.
Wake up,
before -
It's too late.
Categories:
immodest, beauty, family, silly, society,
Form: Free verse
Marches in the month of March,
Mud fertile; does water parch?
Grass green; moss grows immodest,
Spring harbingers great gladness august...!
Lustrous sun climbs zeniths high!
Modestly nude flowers shy!
Buds that shut questions beget,
Springing of Spring philosophies set...!
Winter's weights winningly gone,
Prickles of summer unknown;
Saint Patrick's Day now at hand,
We join hands with the march of Ireland...!
Plants, trees, flowers, fruits rejoice,
Each soul, in March, has its choice;
Before month May mar its joys,
Make March to march in with total poise...!
05 March 2022
Categories:
immodest, life, love, march,
Form: Verse
summer scent of roses loosens grips of gloom
floral cups of red charm capture healing,
melt defenses
she inhales a held bouquet
ensnared romantically,
one couple's free fall to love
in a fragrance courting worship
its aroma of lushness
immodest crimson flames, born on long stems
she bypasses thorns, the cutting traces of pain
cultivates blooms
the crisp red blush of summer
that soothes corrosive woe
to soften her restless sway, misgivings
what shimmers in a garden?
scents seductive
enticing her
stirringly brief
an atmospheric wonder
as secrets slide away
For Brian Strand Contest 1097
Poem written - June 20/21
Revised March 26, 2022
Categories:
immodest, absence, color, flower, garden,
Form: Free verse
leaves cover the buds
flowers close their eyes in shame
nude immodest sun
04 June 2021
Categories:
immodest, imagery, weather,
Form: Haiku
The sermons priests preach
Through speech,
The child instructors teach
With speech,
The business men their partners reach
Via speech,
The saving shouts at a child in pond with leech
And requests to recreate on a beach
In speech
All powerfully elevate speech,
Distinguishing this sensible sounds from a moved jaw.
But certainly not for the Law
We sometimes breach
With offensive speech:
The sick jokes we crack
That betray the morals we lack
And the seedy lies we tell
In voices louder than bell…
Man approbation receives for speech, ‘The Best’
The same man inescapably lampooned for the Immodest.
A speech-producing child
Is worth a carnival and thanks;
No frequenting by its parents their banks
For dumb issues, not a matter financially mild.
Categories:
immodest, appreciation, feelings, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
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