Let’s celebrate our…
Ambivalent attitudes
Brave boldness
Creative curiosity
Desirable delightfulness
Enthusiastic expectations
Fabulific Ferociousness
Golden goals
Humanistic hopes
Intelligent imagination
Joyful jolliness
Kinesthetic kindness
Lovely laugh
Marvelous manners
Nonsensical nature
Outstanding optimism
Playful presence
Quintessential qualities
Radical reviews
Savvy sassiness
Terrific tones
Universal understanding
Valiant verbosity
Wonderful wildness
‘xceptional ‘xpectations
Yabba-dabba youthfulness
Zesty zaniness
How would you feel now? It's brutal to leave.
It's challenging to view tears bestow to the grieve.
Cogency has peculiarly drowned my life.
Peace and harmony are solved by vying and strife.
O, Love's Pathos! You sparkle akin to a jewel.
In the realm of angels, all spirits dwell.
A breeze blew over the garden of destiny.
O, Love's Pathos! There is yet any dainty.
I was the person who owned your inward mood.
I was the person who adjusted your cooed.
I had no goal of resisting your insight.
Before meeting me, life would be a plight.
Allow sadness to induce his happiness.
Until sadness no longer finds jolliness.
2nd Place Contest Winner
Written: September 25, 2021
''P'' Contest, New or Old Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Constance La France
Fireworks dance and flourish in the air
Like the pairs of lovers in the innocent sky
The nostalgic tune plays from the flute
Like the tormented smile of the little brave girl
When happiness and jolliness echos through town
When suddenly they vanish into vacuum in a BANG
Missing like the name of the little brave girl
What will the eagles do behind their wings?
Shirking from the absence of familiar tone
Reinviting the lover's dance to the night
Closing their eyes to sink into the tune
The eagles pack up their bags and leave
Departs their home and leave the present
Leaving that girl with a broken smile
When all the fests drown in the water
The audience shall open their ears in the silence
When all light extinguishes into thin air
The watchers shall open their eyes in the dark
Sacrificing the impossibles in our dream
The pairs of lovers in the innocent sky
The brave little girl with a tormented smile
It is the most humanly sacrifice one could make
Lost your tongue,
as you fumble to recall the right words to use.
I think of all the words that once flowed so freely,
and where there were no words to fit,
you simply made them up. Daft, silly, and fun.
Vast vocabulary resonating at every opportunity.
The scrabble board could even learn from you!
At times jibes rasped from your tongue
as sharp as a razor
On the flip side and more reflective of you,
Jolliness.
Words danced from your mouth
like Ginger Rogers or Rita Hayworth, swift and effortless.
Your songbird melody
as you sang songs of old
or chimed sweet childhood rhymes.
Now,
a blank page staring back awaiting its full stop.
Behind the smiles, are shattered mirrors
All broken as they could not bear the weight
Of the pain that the skies hold over me!
Behind the sparkling eyes, are wilted flowers
All still in their full youth bloom
All seeking to be assuaged by some water
But having not any desire to let go of their pots
And move to where river waters cajole each other!
Behind the unfeeling and uncaring face, are drops of venom
All seeping into my bones
Making me wish I could fall on my knees
And simply just let go of the force that inhabits me
The force that pushes me to be,
To act, to live, even if out of compulsion
The force over which I have not the slightest power!
Behind the mask of jolliness
Lies a broken doll, one compulsively digging up tunnels
Merely to try to find its purpose in this plane
So as to accept itself
So that the rest of Existence does accept it in return!
For Contest Depression
Sponsored by Lewis Raynes
as i reveal my secret,
you make Beauty Grow
i shake as you begin to see me
a New Love for me grows in
the clarity of your heart
as introverted as i usually am,
you begin to see me for the first
time within this period of ultimatum
a Renewed Permanence Inspires a
New Crystal Clear Foundation
the re-energized warmth of it all causes
our multiple exhalations to be deep....
influencing the return of the Essential
Jolliness
it is then that i pull out the BIG PRESENT
from my magic hat of imagination
i watch with bated breath as you
try to investigate my every look and
posture while excitedly ripping the paper
and the box at the same time
when you finally look down, i, with a
slight hint of emotion murmur Merry
Christmas, My Love
your reply....and later, your response....
is what makes Loving You all the more Worthwhile....
IT’S CHRISTMAS!
Jingle, jingle rings all the bells,
Sounding the season roping jolliness;
With gifts traveling to distant places,
And joy running the realm of existence.
There’s high celebration dancing ecstatically in the air;
Showers of goodly hilarity blessing our sphere.
On the whole, it’s nice to have great fun;
Not forgetting the One who gave His only son.
Merry Christmas everyone!
As I seize from greener pasture
Forgive me for taking away nature
lives have always been in vain
stopping them from breathing with pain
I toil never to hold my gun
with tears full of fun
The sleepless night became difficult
Because hunting was my cult
I regret taking away this joy of hunting
But not jolliness of killing
remembering the beautiful butterfly
and the choral singing of birds pass by
I never forget about the forest
even when I went to rest.
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