Grandma’s ghost has taken up
knitting rattlesnakes in the drapes.
They hiss when someone lies.
Now, my mother only speaks
in noodle metaphors.
I ask her how she is, and she replies,
al dente, then goes back
to stirring the aquarium water
she'll later take a bath in.
My sister gives birth
to a daughter who levitates
during thunderstorms.
She answers to the name Unclaimed Bag.
In other words, we all gather once a year
to shed what’s left of politeness,
to laminate new rules:
No bleeding at the table.
Far less mirrors in the fruit salad.
All grudges must be gift-wrapped,
left at the door with the shoes,
with the husbands.
And when it’s over,
we nod like diplomats,
swap our favorite spells,
(that is to say recipes), pretend
we don't notice the fresh claw marks
on the floor.
It ends when we remember
our names again, who we are.
Then we leave—
each of us, in a different skin.
Categories:
levitates, age, allusion, women, word
Form: Free verse
The backyard fills with windy snow
For the whole weekend
Until the floor of the Earth
Fluffs itself
Levitates
And observably lifts its pedestal
A foot closer
To the sky
Reaches
And clutches
The feather
Of my busy wind chime
Hung
To the side of a Maple
Holds it still
By its tail
Brings
The music of the storm
To a stop
I hold my last-chance breath
For the piccolos of the chickadees
To take over
For the trees to slide away
The snowmen they have become
For my mother’s mind to come back to us.
Categories:
levitates, age, life, memory, mother,
Form: Free verse
Deeply enchanted by the things you call flaws
My spirit levitates at mere sight of you
Doing things you call normal.
Like when you rise and set,beaming like the sun though out the day.
Or when you slumber gracefully, and your face moonlights the world
Yes you get hit by meteorites, yet here you
Are, still spinning
Lost in the universe you call your life
Yet I find myself being guided on how
To love you by the maps you call scars
I find my self deeply invested in every
Fragment and detail of what makes you
Is it love? addiction? Or a mix of the two
Or am I just addicted to loving you?
Is this possession or devotion, or
Am I devoted to being possessed by you.
If iam to find my self vanishing into oblivion
May you be the world unknown
~for athieno
_apeede
Categories:
levitates, cute love, fantasy, for
Form: Free verse
From a centreless fulcrum, bliss beats rise,
drawn from deep within heart’s innermost core,
transmitted to mind before the rhythm dies,
reflected back to soul, for an encore,
which obliges us since love keeps no score.
Auto-writing thus, the poems we pen,
requires us not to count from one to ten,
for music of spheres that flows by itself,
elates and levitates heart, mood pure zen,
connecting presence to our higher self.
Categories:
levitates, poetry, spiritual,
Form: Dizain
I let go the moon, but keep it's mystic glow,
I let go the stars, but keep their pixie dust
I let go the day, but keep it's embraced night
I let go the sky, but keep it's sobbing clouds
I let go the breeze, but keep it's chilling bite
I let go the lake, but keep it's frozen dreams
I then let you go, and I keep your memories
deep in a rosebush guarded by it's thorns.
I let go the ache, but keep it's remnant tears.
ecliptic secrets of few lost emblazoned years
As love turned to forgotten hate and apathy
I let them all go again, but keep irrigating hope
Without you ,mi amor, my heart levitates
I let go being alive... but just keep existing.
Categories:
levitates, break up, depression,
Form: Free verse
Cherub's unfurled fingers faithfully extend to his fallow fringe
hung from a chest made firm by suede, sweat and rain.
Chernobyl blue irises mimic April '86 radiation,
dessimating her Cherokee's sense of societal decency.
Devoted to her capture, suede cape kidnapped,
kept protected.
Kernel lodges promise in her gut, cob of compassion sprouts
from yellow potential.
Shrewd Indian whisks his skin of citrine amber sap seraphim
away, to landscape blameless bare.
Motor mumbles underwater torture breathes through
chrome clothing.
Frothy stew swirling storm of snake flesh snow flakes.
Cherub's education quells emotion, pain never developed.
Teepee tall frame levitates in opaque of inequitable love.
Flimsy slim strands strong in Cherub's raised comprehension.
Fringe flown backwards flattens beneath her face,
bohemian bombastic.
Dislodged sand grains foretell
Grasp nestled naive fledgling
Prospered pillion flame
7th June 2022
Written for Contest:
Like A Child
Sponsor:
Regina McIntosh
Categories:
levitates, 5th grade, adventure, baptism,
Form: Haibun
she draws memories in melodies with her eyes.
she deceives the moon
with the stars,
backspace,
and the sun
back spaces
to lengthen her daylights of joy and shorten her nights of sadness.
the direction of her gravity is twisted,
she levitates when others fall.
she is my Great grandmother's grimoire
filled with magic and spells
there are explosions in her tongue
when she smiles
she laughs
the splendor of her grins teleports to thousands of souls on her palms
It's as if God is dancing in her bones.
She is not a glass
half full or
half empty.
She dreams in Numbers.
She is heaven and hell
cohabiting together in your chest.
She is the gaps between the stitches of wounds.
She's not what lies underneath your scabs.
She's a womxn,
not scorned.
Poetic Rea
Categories:
levitates, woman, women,
Form: Free verse
Cut open pomegranate Christmas lights aril
Syrup drips erupt bitter volcano alluvium ooze
Blackberry gall sullies crust creamy caramel
Chroma pervades pavlova cracks in lilac hues
North Pole prepared sugar sack, sans limit
Blizzard whip season removes several months
Egg fragile igloo glitters in shell smash grit
Featherboa snow stiletto cabaret flamboyance
Santa avalanches resume a ruby ice unity
Investing in fuel for rocket launching research
Sleigh's sky laughs at axle trapped gravity
Astronauts unconcious core to raunch dessert
13th March
Thirsty for Departure
Categories:
levitates, celebration, food,
Form: Rhyme
reflections condense in the mist of time
it is what it seems to be in prismatic recoil
and then another broken shard mirrors
illusions of self-centred sparkling confusion
when the lime light turns into a sour brew
of convictions denied their valid conclusion
where necessary and sufficient lacks clarity
an olive branch reaches out to impermanence
translucent and ephemeral certainty levitates
flies against tides and currents in stormy repose
a surrender to ignorant dogma gathers a glimpse
of what reality is and how to stoke change and reprieve
parabolic contention yields new paradigms and hope
the dialectic wheel turns ever faster and spins new yarns
squares a circle of never-ending angles and perspectives
dizzying heights wait for the patient purveyor of peace
25th November 2020
Categories:
levitates, change,
Form: Free verse
moist cinnamon bark
infused fragrance levitates -
monsoon descends time
rice fields lie flooded
draft windswept change into roots -
rise to the challenge
tea leaves take shelter
swell burgeoning impatience -
cusp spring’s prophesies
seasons scent chances
tease taste bud’s fluid advance -
crow scares wet footing
22th May 2020
Categories:
levitates, environment,
Form: Haiku
sandalwood
scented glimmer
essence
retains sweetness
for decades of hope
perfumed pause
darkness
infused light
fragrance
slow flicker
balm for soul
mind aroma
imbued oil levitates
lifts weary sadness
heals
12th May 2020
Contest: Yalto on theme of Slow Burn
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh
Categories:
levitates, appreciation,
Form: Verse
We are children of the central sun,
secular seclusiveness becoming none…
Fallen angels in a spiritual spun,
pious partitions of a secretive stun.
Sceptical segregational spores,
seductresses serving as hellion whores…
Innocence infuses pathosis pores,
derelict distemper the syndrome soars.
Evil evoking while delusions dispensing,
forlornness fields fixing finite fencing…
We awaken within solitudes sensing,
freedoms cascading and condensing.
Religions regulate the lesser creeds,
the lamb lies within withered weeds…
Inscrutable imperfections satanic seeds,
diabolical deceptions of demon deeds.
Beware the seditious semisynthetic slayers,
children of the sun banish their betrayers…
Only love levitates the lamenting layers,
upon our hearts amidst pensive prayers.
800,000 children go missing every year in the United States...
50,000 in Canada and many more thousands around the World...
Where is the "Fake News" for that?
April.11.2020
Children of a Lesser God
Sponsored by: Craig Cornish
N/A for Contest
Categories:
levitates, conflict, confusion, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
"The Moon and the Crow"
Legs of a journey open
along The Road
Black Crow
ruffles his feathers
Moon transforms
White Lily pearly luminescent
Unfurling milky legs and arms
Mata Hari dances naked
Cool emerald eyes
intent that beckons
piercing
heart that levitates
towards
the Other’s dimension
Witness
Lilith’s
Resurrection
(LadyLabyrinth/2019)
CocoRosie - The Moon asked the Crow ( with Lyrics)
https://youtu.be/D5C88GrQrsg
Lyrics:
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/cocorosie/themoonaskedthecrow.html
K.I.S.S.
Categories:
levitates, imagery, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
The moon rules the night
The sun governs the day
Shadows create illustrations
Night birds are in flight
Dusk to dawn, silence levitates
All is tranquil till morning rises,
Daybreak stirring, silhouettes liven
From which the sun illuminates.
Categories:
levitates, nature, time,
Form: Rhyme
The moon rules the night
The sun governs the day
Shadows create illustrations
Night birds in flight
Dusk to dawn, silence levitates
All is tranquil till morning rises,
Daybreak stirring, silhouettes liven
From which the sun illuminates.
Categories:
levitates, time,
Form: Rhyme
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