An iridescent streak
bifurcates the obsidian
dome,
A incandescent voyager
accelerating through the
obscurity,
Relinquishing its grand,
celestial habitation,
To dissolve into a ephemeral,
luminous fragment.
Conflagrating magnificently
across the absolute infinity,
It manifests with fierce,
unadulterated dedication,
Exchanging its permanent,
prehistoric illumination,
To bestow an instantaneous
warmth upon our souls.
For what is preservation
within the remote cosmos,
Juxtaposed against this
singular encounter in your
presence?
I would joyfully witness the
ancient firmament
disintegrate,
To participate in this fleeting,
majestic trajectory.
Like that radiant anomaly, I
surrender my entirety,
Content to completely
dissipate, if our devotion
remains absolute.
noon’s furnace: asphalt shimmers; air—thick, slow—
cracks open. cicadas drill through stagnant gold.
a sprinkler’s hiccup-hiss: the pavement’s glow
un/curls in steam. the hydrant’s shout: uncontrolled.
children shriek!—a liquid burst of now,
popsicle rivers bleed; knuckles—sticky, green—
cling to handlebars. shadows stretch: thin, lean
across chain-link. each blade of grass—laid down—
bakes. but dusk? a match-strike: fireflies!—
the yard exhales jasmine; stars prick the bruised eaves—
porch swings gasp. the melted things—still writhing—
pool in gutters: chalk suns, lemon peels, dreams.
the silence hums. even time—soft, unspooled—
beads on your neck. and summer? stays. but cooled.
Inches of snow, soft as serentity and sound
Night glaze and day blaze and time in between
Chrysalis forming life’s beauty within
Amethyst healing and prompting release
Nightingale and Lark sing the same song apart
Echo and Narcissus, the love between heartbreak
Silence radiates peace louder than words
Chimes that signal the arrival of a friend
Ethereal voice lies grounded in a soft flutter
New beginnings that start with a touch of hands
Time moving slowly in a way that counts
-s.grace
Footprints in the snow or a ripple in the creek-
The wet cement of thoughts begin to harden into feelings.
Feelings on the sidewalk are flooded by words.
For some reason I have no hesitation.
Affirmation blooms like a rose.
Heat from a flame and the sound of rain.
Her hair blown in the infernal blast
As the train hurtles pass
hot are the rains rushing past
Falling on an ashen hued metropolis
her form is framed in Furious winds
lightning, as sight transcends this domain
Her hair fair as raven wings
Heat ripples in waves of engines thunder
Into this incandescent night.
Until now, the skies were only blue or gray.
But today, wrathful Cacus set the sky ablaze.
Today, the spectral smoke choked ochre sky mirrors
exploding wildfires unleashed below.
Today the tarnished jaundice sky measures
the crumbling Constitutional edifices,
the raging roving injustice burning
everywhere across the land.
Today as thousands are driven
from their homes, the pestilence
spreads across the land,
killing hundreds of thousands.
Today the sooted grimy sky
reflects the deceitful lawless tyrant,
all his crooked crony stagehands,
his white nationalist army of tormentors,
as their raw sewage floods the rivers and streams
of our theories.
Today this climate rampage
has nothing to do with climate change.
We bask instead in the political climate
of aberrant delusions.
Today this inferno in the sky,
this ceiling of hellfire,
suffocates our oxygen of dreams.
Below, the Constitution provides
kindling for the flames
ingulfing our democracy,
the fuel for our conspiracy wildfire,
our rite of passage
to the underworld.
Published: Dissident Voice 10/18/2020
How love takes ownership with
a single kiss,
a sigh, a movement into a world of sensuous bliss,
Your softness of skin speaks a language anew,
the warmth of your body wraps me as you pull me close to you,
and lips explore the contours with eyes closed,
like the mind is lost to lust and is with love overdosed,
Every moment is a slice of heaven as we explore,
deeper and deeper into our own depthless vision of love,
The flow of passion sweeps across like untempered forest fire,
In that dim lit corridor our bodies provide the only glow,
One may stop a seething ocean wave but none can stop this passion flow,
it is you and me our desires as the ocean winds roar,
Fluttering silky white curtains at our bodies to explore,
the absolute marvel of creation that is unhindered love,
a force of nature that cannot be subdued,
Shut the world out, its petty distractions no longer endured,
Let’s stay here and for ever make love!
Wrote for Lu lou’s poetry competition. But
Was late by a few hours, so missed it!
INCANDESCENT DARK
scintilla of light
in a sky sans moon and stars
a billowing flame
Kim Rodrigues (c) 2017
Intro
When there’s nothing to lose, but everything to gain
A journey moving forward, never the same again
To look beyond the shadows, towards a ray of light
Just embrace the midnight, the stars come out at night
Verse 1
There’s nothing to prove, follow authenticity
Surrender the complex, focus with simplicity
Keep that flame burning, resplendence of desire
There’s no better time, to keep on aiming higher
Chorus
A mighty momentous move, just stay in your lane
Be that inspiration, that incandescent flame
A call for boldness, times will ever test
Called and chosen, give your very best
Verse 2
A subtle reaction, rise against the fall
The true satisfaction, the giving of your all
Advancing in harmony, this moment truly yours
An opportune time, the opening of doors
Chorus
Bridge
No substance lost, endeavour to try
Seize every moment, remember the why
Towards the exceptional, no middle road
Be unforgettable, let victory unfold
Written by Geraldine Taylor ©
Her Peerless Immaculate Incandescent Eyes
I stare endlessly into her peerless immaculate incandescent eyes,
That caught me by surprise,
That set my heart
Very far apart,
I become phased, when I glaze,
Into them while they are ablaze,
Sometimes I wish I could
Surpassively gaze if I would
Into her peerless immaculate incandescent eyes
That caught me by surprise.
Travis “Ceijaeh” Klein
To touch I can only love not compromise
Such beauty demands utmost respect
Perfectly inculpable like particles of light
They cannot hesitate only move
Swiftly, gracefully, untremulous as destiny
Yet bending, change to vibrant hues
Are we not all particles?
Tiny flits of grandeur in a cosmic scheme
But be she particle or incandescent soul
There is no light like her, this I know.
She waved her veils as the night flew by,
A seductive dance woven above clouds so high.
Her northern flare spun bright to the south,
Shrouding Orion with the glow in herself.
I watched in wonder at this arctic dream,
A man at the mercy of her ghostly scheme.
Incandescent caresses tempted the hunter’s thigh,
Her silky streams flowing where I fly.
But the Muse’s touch could not Orion move,
He never shifted his gaze nor bid her to sooth.
I wished it was me floating in that universe,
To tease and pull me with her glowing curse.
Ten thousand times each generation views,
The fantasies radiated by her rainbow hues.
But can anyone really tell those starstruck why,
We’re stolen by her beauty as it lights up the sky?
Orion alone, stood and spiked the moon,
To catch Venus’ charms he’d be with her soon.
Why would he move into her dark embrace?
The Muse offered so much more heavenly a place.
Such a spherical near ball of delight,
Dispelling darkness with illuminating bright light.
It’s core made of red hot and burning filament,
An element clearing blackness, our eyes out of predicament.
If not for a discovery, by Thomas Alva Edison?
We’d still be in Hades, instead we’re in Heaven.
So thanks to the bulb, we don’t strain our sight,
Whether its day light or the darkest of night.
Imagine a life without incandescent light?
I shudder to think of such a terrible plight.
- Prince Freakasso (Painter & Poet)
Juliet: look to the east.
when eye am gone ewe
eye am the rising of the sun
mye flower is an edible color
someday is not so very far away
love is in me and eye am undone
HIS heart feeds all of us
eye am a dove Cooing at thy breast
for the Heart i never had but will not live
any longer without ewe
private memories burn holes in me
discovering love
has become me
Crystal breaks
across her floor
the shards are burning
bright,
in shafts that fall,
and through it all,
I see her dimming light.
Oh, incandescent angel
dark circumstance abides,
to snuff you out
of heaven
the horse you choose to ride
heads off to the
Appocallypse
with passion at the reins
the name you have
upon your lips
is driving you insane.
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