What yonder lies in distant sky,
and looks like lovely butterfly?
A cloud of gas that iodized
whose blazing beauty mesmerized.
Throughout the universe serene,
in Scorpius she can be seen,
this nebula of orange and green,
the stellar pride of heaven’s preen.
These particles that crystalized,
with nature’s beauty harmonized;
this bright celestial butterfly
that yonder lies in distant sky.
June 9, 2019
Categories:
iodized, beauty, nature, sky, stars,
Form: Rhyme
watch the crowd...faces
without looking at each other’s eyes,
as if iodized by the pang
of forlorn gasps…
nameless, alone, they grip
on the hand-rests
from a dreary night where roofs of anonymity
blind them all
empty, empty yet needing
any stranger to exchange
untold stories with:
And they alight from a station to wander
along damp alleys
as the city basement
of invisibility remains withheld.
Brian Strand's Early Summer Standard Contest
Categories:
iodized, loneliness, travel,
Form: Narrative
Today’s wind shifts too fast like a tangle
of invisible lint…perhaps dust, quivering
unto fissure of grass where my heart scrapes,
as if the air denies unanswered questions
so blatantly howling about
a litany's crushed promise. Wired thoughts
rip my tulip bouquet now strewn
on the wayside of angst: how mute hymns
from an aborted vow silences a decorated aisle
on this day, this fateful day.
I turn celibate much like a virgin nun,
in front of an altar… half-empty now,
that my pain grates the most benevolent
of flowers, chafed by a drooping night
that has no syllable for me…for on this day,
a deserted betrothal leaves me
hanging , hanging on a church loft.
i’ll never know the why of an insidious choice;
except in his runaway scheme,my eyes
grow blank…tweezed iodized entombed.
Somehow, it is freezing now; a candle in prayer
burns an espousal gown;
i have never heard a more immense cold than this.
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4/27/2016
Free Verse Contest for Charlotte Puddifoot
Categories:
iodized, betrayal, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Today’s wind shifts too fast like a muddle
of invisible lint…perhaps dust,as the air
resists this heart's unanswered questions
howling about this litany of a crushed promise:
Wired thoughts rip my lily bouquet now strewn
the ground of lament; an aborted vow
silencing chapel aisles on this day, this day.
I turn celibate much like a nun in front
of an altar… forsaken ,that my pain grates
a most benevolent night that has no syllable
for me…for on this day, a betrothal undone
leaves me hanging , hanging on a cross.
I’ll never know the why of a turnaround choice;
except in his runaway scheme ,my eyes
grow blank…nipped iodized entombed.
It is freezing now; a light bent in prayer
disappears with and lost in the winds.
John Hamilton's Contest: Lost Love
Free Verse or Rhyme
Resubmitted 5/12/2017
Categories:
iodized, betrayal, heart, recovery from,
Form: Free verse
chemical crane,
lithium albatross.
iodized magnetic zion
in my head.
i'll run for days,
inside a solar haze.
corrosive reduction
under the sun.
the old search for
the purified lithium.
metallic filter to drain
the silt.
empty the heart of all
its guilt.
so salt the cracker and
absolve the sin.
an alkaline base full
of wrinkled skin.
Categories:
iodized, allegory,
Form: Blank verse