Another age passes unmeasured.
Giant calms; in placid time waking
guilted warmth irradiates. Unbroken
calm aether heralds the next age.
Past embers cooled in God’s eye,
forgiveness of imagined betrayal.
But the turning cycle weighs not
amassed sincerity; the matter of energy.
Unworthy, may be, the ruling Giant
ignoble reign birthed in fiery crucible,
ordained; inevitable is the beginning
Settled worlds worship, at last.
Seen, finally, upon the black vista
The Giant illuminated;
Burning passions turning close,
always facing God’s blazing glare.
Hopeful siblings stand centre, balanced
desperation or absence awaiting
calm waters. Vulnerable to the cycle.
Even distant wretched flock see warmth,
icy hearts melt; lingering love bequeathed
of their noble giant.
Their Mighty God.
Categories:
irradiates, destiny, hate, loneliness, planet,
Form: Free verse
The golden hope
Of brighter tomorrow
Slides into the salty ocean
No steam or bubbles
Just the crimson joy of the clouds
Escorting
With their shifting ochre tones
While fiery orange irradiates
The grateful atmosphere
Until slowly
Ever so slowly
Into the ripples of the horizon's haze
The queen of the daylight
Slinks
Then is gone
Her wispy train of colour
Vanishing
As the blue king of the night
Claims his place
And sits in the throne room
Of the speckled sky
Categories:
irradiates, love, sad love, senses,
Form: Free verse
Ecstatic light plays about
gasses and pigmentation like
kittens learning to wrestle.
values lend their whispers
to saturation in chromatic
celebration.
Purity of intensity
arises to greet the nimbus
and an aurora dances to nature’s tune.
Elation of incandescence
irradiates the eye
with a plethora of vibrancy as the
spectrum enfolds the harmonic soul;
chroma-bytes radiantly digitized by sun,
shake hands with the senses.
Effulgence greets the artists eye
with a loving caress;
color, the heart-strings that
light plucks...
and I dance.
4-23-2021
ALL YOURS (Apr 24) Poetry Contest
Brian Strand
Categories:
irradiates, color, nature, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
An atomic sun ignites;
in a flash of intense light.
And life's incinerated;
as ash turns day into night.
Under a blistering sky,
plastic toys melt into dreams.
And reality resounds;
with echoes of children's screams.
As heaven morphs into hell,
thunder responds with a roar.
And people huddle in fright;
scared of what Death has in store.
St. Elmo's fire lights the tombs;
in the city of the dead.
And muffled moans can be heard;
amidst the anguish and dread.
Helpless, the world turns to prayers,
as humanity cringes.
And misery enshrouds souls
surviving at life's fringes.
Nuclear fallout raining down;
irradiates humankind.
And Winter gets set to stay;
while Summer lags far behind.
Categories:
irradiates, angst, emotions, feelings, holocaust,
Form: Quatrain
The fingers explore new heights
As colors express the limbs
Blue irradiates the town
As true darkness falls
Hidden eyes escape the sight
Of the bell tower entrance
It rings with purposeful hand
Gone are the lost men
The trees linger, still around
Loving the strong mastered forms
The city escapes no one
The lack of light hates
The lighthouse near the ocean
Lights everywhere near the shore
Color doesn’t show itself
For the darkness reigns
Open is the city’s front gates
Blue is the darkest of night
Evening breaks concentration
The tree brings new hope
Russell Sivey
Categories:
irradiates, life,
Form: Dodoitsu
The rock has iris rainbow overtones
with pins and needles on our wandering feet
and irradiates flowers and trees that absorb
radio clear and light-dark energies
The hummingbird sucks them
the insect pricks them
the cow gulps them down in its grass factory
Insects don´t understand brainy birds…
Who are these giants that fly like them?
Multicolored birds land on cows…
Who are these quadrupeds that emanate milk?
Better to fly, to look at the world below
round and covered with pollen and pollution
The equine understands not , the knowledge of his master
Where to , does he take him riding and riding?
He trusts his affection, strong , warm and secure…
and at the end to rest placidly in the horse feed stable
Humans don´t understand being and thinking…
The All created life, who created the All?
Beyond the universe, rotates an infinite space…
What a pleasure to sleep and not exist !
Categories:
irradiates, animals, philosophy, universe,
Form: Imagism