I might not dare to utter truth,
As my dreams might shatter.
All those fantasies I made up,
Begging me to conceal imperatives.
The earth asking rain not to drench,
The rose asking passersby not to kiss,
The ocean asking rivers not to drain—
How I wish I could find an escape.
Categories:
imperatives, africa, allusion, america, analogy,
Form: Free verse
GLAMOUR
mores
shown off
ae moral
imperatives
symbolic
to its core s
emblematic
&superficial
a potential
put together
the spectaculare
scrutinised
embroidered
& paraded
insights
of the
passive
barely
visible
idealised
faces
brightened
loved caressed
to an
inner
perfection
Categories:
imperatives, poetry,
Form: Free verse
IMPERATIVES
beset
with
real &
fictional &
still
becalmed
with
the traditional
seamlessly
intertwined
the contemporary
remains
a
centrepiece
the spectre
of
today its
intensity
to the fore
&looks beguiling
& still
so
inviting
the
constant
tension between
similarity
&application
before vanishing
in
the chaos
&
unsettling effect
of
constant gestures
&
subtle
crisis
of
naturalistic
beauty
in
mercurial display
its reticence
so roughly
construed
in finery
so oddly bare
impressive
&
resilient
&expressive
but remaining
opaque
&
ambiguous
NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood is inherently variable.
Copyright © Brian Strand
Categories:
imperatives, poetry,
Form: Other
Brilliant for sure
Perhaps an enigma
Monotony’s cure
Cultural stigma
Secure transactions
Visions of Mars
Free-speech imperatives,
Self-driving cars
Staunch libertarian
Doge crypto bump
But buying a Tesla?
That’s voting for Trump
Categories:
imperatives, culture, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Doi, Doi, Doi – Doiya, Babaa
Bai, Bai, Bai – Baiya, Babaa
Sleep, my darling – darling my baby
Has gone to moon – your Mom, my baby.
Doi, Doi, Doi – Doiya, Babaa
Bai, Bai, Bai – Baiya, Babaa
Moon when blooms – behold, Mom baby
You’ll see there – your Mom, my baby.
Your Mom, an angel – dwells in your dreams
A lovely nymph – she swims in streams
Doi, Doi, Doi – Doiya, Babaa
Bai, Bai, Bai – Baiya, Babaa.
Inspired by a Sri Lankan Sinhalese lullaby (Refrain is a copy of the original);
doi/doiya and bai/baiya mean ‘sleep’ (imperatives); / babaa is an equivalent to baby.
March 13, 2021
Nursery Rhyme Poetry Contest
Eve Roper
Categories:
imperatives, baby, mom, moon, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
Some say affection is a farce.
I’d surmise a soul who feels as such receives it in sparse parts.
Yet most will one day find themselves in amour.
As the Temptress ordains by coitus sustained, you will remain.
Not out of plight or by oath, but through providence.
For love is the ontological constant, so says the monogamous ominous.
That who created us oxytocin automatons with a volition so insidious, that both our spiritual and biological imperatives became synonymous.
If life were a game, than the deck is 51 cards; bearing one irrational inequivalence that's strikingly obvious.
The Ace of Hearts.
The fiercest and the kindest, as inconceivable as that may seem.
Yet if a boundless arithmetic exist in mathematics, than it will persist; to be the only quantity that realizes it’s infinite significance.
Categories:
imperatives, analogy, imagination, love, math,
Form: Free verse
THE STRANGE CASE OF THE PREPOSITION
The preposition is a peculiar case
No use on its own by itself with no function
It needs an attachment to have any place
Alone would decease, be due extreme unction
Now some words may act without others at hand
Such as Nouns as a labels and verbs as imperatives
E.g. LADIES or GENTLEMEN and Sit! or Stand!
Independent with neither associates nor relatives
But the preposition needs some things to relate
To connect the verb with a noun, phrase or clause
To bring them together unite and collate
In that it has a noble cause
In days of old when they spoke in tongues classical
The use of the preposition they would scorn
They had case endings for same purpose grammatical
So you could even say it need never have been born
But while you don't need 'to', 'of' or 'by' or 'with
When you've dative, genitive and ablative
Old prep does the job, should have respect accorded
And it brings words together so for that should be lauded
Categories:
imperatives, language,
Form: Rhyme
I recently have heard
from a people of growing remorse,
Perhaps we should add to Presidential prerequisites
some prior experience in public service.
While this has always been a personal requirement,
I had not thought we would need a legal restriction,
where logical and moral imperatives are so blatantly transparent
and mutually compatible.
If you need heart and brain surgery
and have a list of candidates to choose from,
And you instead choose your dentist
because you are uncertain about those distant names
but you know how your dentist smells and tastes,
then we should be alarmed
if you also propose
to lead our way on health care planning
and Earth climate therapies,
insurance,
assurance,
compassionate reassurance,
especially when early drafts specifically disinvest
of dental care,
and inside
and outside nutritional development
for public as extended family service.
Categories:
imperatives, caregiving, earth, environment, health,
Form: Political Verse
Tis the late June day
Which bring flocks
Their subconscious intentions
Obfuscated by the lingering dimensions
Flaccid ideals and breezes
Traversing gingerly through
The ancient elms
Seeded by the pulps of history
They pray, with each scrape
Of their prescient footsteps
For the sparkle, the brilliance
Those ghostly matters provide in perpetuity
The heat emanating from yearnings
Executed by minute's drive
From understandings siloed
In the labyrinth of mind's eye and virtue
Bless us, grand tome
Executor of fine minds and savages
Vanquish, release us into the
Banal confines heretofore begging
To improve and congeal
For the worlds remote
Need the godliness
The opaque permissive rain
Quenching thought to act
Towards probable endings
Splendid imperatives
Preserved for those
Who wish to partake.
(6/24/08)
Categories:
imperatives, appreciation, education, eulogy, inspiration,
Form: Free verse