Long Arcadian Poems

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Premium Member Watering the Garden of Dreams

taciturn springs rising
from within the quarry 
of deep earth's wisdom
urging lyrical waters to transpose
while held like singing seas of living reveries
of history and infinity
misting to meld with rainfall dreams
Falling like ancient messages
into the orchard of molecular landscapes
drawn to penetrate its legacy
embedded in the rockeries and rills
blanketing the groves of dirt and ferns
teeming in the arcadian oasis 
feeding feast or famine
flourishing the solicitude of springtime
in spider spun dreams
of longings in ancient oaks
merging with the ebb of shedding sycamores
in salted seas teeming and exalting
the rhetoric of existence 
in musing opaque vapors
mingling into pervasive clouds 
bleeding life
cached in the creche 
of pastoral beginnings 
of everlasting eddies
watering the garden of dreams


April 22, 2020
Rewritten:  October 3, 2020

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Premium Member Panagiota Cocktail

Panagiota Acrostic

A Panagiota Cocktail.
   
          INGREDIENTS
P~Phoebe, the moon goddess

A~Aphrodite the goddess of love                 
      and beauty

N~Nike, the goddess of victory

A~ Asteria, the goddess of the stars

G~Gaia, the Earth Mother and Moon goddess

I ~Iris, the goddess of the rainbow

O~ Oh, Panagiota, proud mother of a
       daughter who has Arcadian roots.

 T~ Theia, goddess of of sight and the 
        bright sky 

A~ Artemis~ goddess of nature and
       birth.

Mix all ingredients. Handle with love,
care and above all~mirth and enjoy.


 **Yia Mas to Peter who suggested this
poem~ means to your health..with
a glass of Retsina. Or whatever Greek
expression you choose or one I do not
know.

Disclaimer:I am no master of the the Greek 
language at all nor a Hellenic history major.

My heart beats Greek, if you listen quietly with love 
and no judgement. If you could see my heart~ it
is the colors of the Greek flag.

Thanks again Peter!

Panagiota Romios
2/25/2019
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Orpheus and Eurydice

Orpheus and Eurydice


Come by,allow me to rest my knees
on those sinewy thighs!
I do not feel like feeding my mortal
body!
Just want your love to flood my eternal,
starving soul.

In my loneliness~ thoughts of you
crash my thoughts, endlessly!
Like an empty seashore thirsting
for crests of cool water..you...
My musical love partner! 

Flood this immutable soul and then,
With tender love and with satiated souls, 
We will rise, immortally.
Fulfilled, free and blessed.
Orpheus and his Eurydice, to dance in
ancient and splendiferous Arcadian skies
....eternally!


Panagiota  Romios
4/1/2019

Premium Member Tears On My Pillow

As the brisk morning light illuminates my room, 
I feel overwhelmed by a foreboding air of doom.
Melancholy presence within every waking pore.
Is it I have been missing that someone I adore ?

Tears on my pillow were left there while I slept.
Wonderful memories of him so preciously kept.
Guarded by the night, for only dreams to recall.                                             
Then why in slumber did these moist drops fall ?

The night keeps my secret? I miss him so much.
By day all smiles, while I'm longing for his touch. 
Now this tearful tendency, I'm uncertain of why. 
Remembering arcadian times shouldn't make me cry.

Mendacious vibes are now quite pervasive this morn.
Is it missing him? Is that the reason I am so forlorn? 
Knowing him and his love, gives a euphoric feeling.
By day all smiles, loving him gives the affect of healing.

At midnight the clock chimes, twelve will be pealing.
The darkness of night, its my tears it will be stealing.
Deep in slumber and oblivious, I wouldn't even know,
If I didn't wake in the morn to find tears on my pillow.

Maybe in my sleep, I dreamed away all my fears.
Maybe "The darkened sky stole my tears"
Guarded by the night is it only then I cry?
Tears on my pillow, all that's left by the darkened sky.
Form: Rhyme

The World's streets are full of beats eats and treats A to C


Let’s go on the mother load road trip across continents skip

Even the hip can’t snip or pip the lip fillip of each sip or dip

A sybaritic not a critic’s tour to explore why more is more

Streets of beats galore & locavore treats an epicurean drip


In the Argentine bravado larder of course the empanada

From their mercado source with fine wine could try harder

Top of the poll Asado's charcoal soul to the song of cicada  


Austrian fold in the past caught for foodies some sort of sport

They’ve fought over which Sacher torte does bewitch hold court

Or flattered the dish that mattered plattered crumbed & battered

Viennese wheeze a subpoena tease for a leaner schnitzel wiener


Lazing ease & grazing please on amazing spice isles in pyjamas

Laid back smiles made crack conch rice & peas in the Bahamas


Don’t give a damn about Claude Van Dam give me real mussels 

Garlic specked not muscle flecked fraud whenever in Brussels

Snaffle waffles abroad should be crisp gooey as Belgians know 

Elite frites oh and their stonker bonkers Wonka flair cocoa show


Brazil’s fill me to the gills thrill is still & always will be Feijoada

Even those in a posh off roader chose this nosh meat's Pagoda 

Top of the steeple of food of the people a homegrown Skoda

Adore for any course a tour de Force encore honed toned Yoda


Canadian hardy foie gras machine a mardi gras that’s Arcadian

In the stirrup chirrup quaffing absurd maple syrup is Palladian

Nerds with their curds scoffing mean poutine almost Circadian 


For rookies ducks pluck shells shuck bones suck cookies for luck

Opiner cuisine not in history stuck a mean memory mystery miner

Hymn of whim cough overcome by swim in broth Szechuan numb

Yummy unctuous darlings scrumptious diddly umptious dim sum
 
Ho hum no scrum finer all day diner always did come from China
Form: Rhyme


Eutrophication of Golden Pond

February 28th, 1968 marked the date
Boyce Brandon Harris 
(my octogenarian widower father) 
purchased a small tract of land
Pooh would Winnie
  
constituting shadowed sliver 
once hailing, hallmarking, harkening, 
glorious vast "Glen Elm" estate,
which circa 1910 encompassed
 
a hundred plus acres of woodland
(including a pond frequented 
by migrating Canadian Geese)
eventually zoned for commercial,
  
industrial, and residential development
(all in the name of productive land use)
particularly put into motion 
courtesy Donald J. Neilson,

who transformed expansive woodland
rivaling shutterfly 
sprouting like mushrooms towed stools
booming explosively
 
after ample precipitation 
little houses on the hillside
little houses made of  ticky tacky...
popped up overnight 

transforming landscape
displacing flora and fauna with vinyl city
(minus spit of property papa bought)
manicured bumped uglies with wild wisp

reduced pristine niche leftover jot haven
squawking disoriented geese instincts
thwarted, where drained wetlands
a Arcadian past suburbanization

overlaying (palimpsest like) rural setting
trademark bucolic print Currier And Ives  
stock in trade signature prints
landscape sparse human population
  
country aire sprinkled with family farms
fresh dairy, produce, vegetables 
butchered animals free ranging 
without synthetic injections

nostalgia faintly recreated here
Highland Manor Apartments
Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
a slip of country revered

against a Paul Ling urbanization
nothing appears familiar
retracing roadways now major highways
frequent moments breeds alienation 
familiar ground confusing, frightening, and perplexing.

Premium Member An Assessment of the Fire's Immediate Aftermath

Three hours suppressed before breaching the tight-lipped 
container left neatly wrapped in homogenous foam 
and smoky demeanor. Its lid caved in, having been tapped.

Through misspoken holes sprung arcadian visions, 
lacking Peloponnese disposition, still semi-smoldering 
with the tinder touch of Hephaestus extracted from 

less subtle artistry attributed Zeus, high up on his steed, 
bare-chested. Arms crossed.
How he used to look down on we mortals, wee, buttressed 

by oxygen, in two-
parts hydrogen, one-part dioxide.
But this was real, not some Florescent church.

Outside the perimeter lay black stacks of texts I had gradually 
gathered through time’s non-existence, way back when time 
weighed as factual matter.  Of course they still mattered.

Yet, I chose them to lay there, bathed in the soot of three daughters
I failed to veil.  What do you say, Rita Dove?  to wear
my white-skinned daughters spun lesser as still lovelier silk?

Is there anything clumsier to misappropriate than weather-vane hate, 
with its gallant gait, with its augmented pigmentation,
when there’s no room in storage?

A grey-haired protestant behind me prayed;

“Oh, Thank God!  
 Oh! Thank God”

He praised through my bedroom window’s socket, shocked to shatter
by fire, fresh come splattered beard.  I had not known him prior, this man I would learn was a fair-weather friar.  So; I blew him a kiss.  

But in my eyes,
he saw an unwell wish, so;

                                                            It needs to be done with this.

Premium Member A Poetess's Heart Song

Cell in every cell of my body,

I sense your every heartbeat.

Dreaming always of your most intricate, dancing feet. 

Savoring our secret special liquor.

Seeing those dark loving,luminous olive eyes.

Desire, still alive under twinkling, magical skies.

Endless and deep as the Nile, those sensuous smiles.

And, yes, still decadently so utterly beguiled!

Into a poetess you have me transformed,

By your Arcadian charms~~groomed and warmed.

Into a poetess, by your love in truth, I was born.

You, the elixir of my life, that keeps my pen flowing!

The springtime of my life, even if it is snowing!


                

                   March 21, 2020
                     1:30pm PST
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Cosmic Charisma

You are the melody that echoes in my life!
With the atmospheric aroma of an angel.
How is it you broaden my horizons to magnificent heights?
I am christened with your cosmic charisma.
It dazzles on my forehead..see it glisten in golden-sunlight.

No matter how rough the turbulent seas of life get,
I know you are behind me on life's slippery deck.
Completely safe in your cherished company,
With only your arms and stars to guide us on stormy seas!

And even when our earhly lives do end,
To our star in the sky we will be sent and shine ever so bright!
I know our perfect eternal home is waiting for us.
A honeyed Arcadian home, grape filled and luscious, especially at 
a luscious, sparkling twilight cove!

        
   
                     10/17/2020
                        Opus#2
Form: Rhyme

Life of a Star

Born in a nebulae, a spiders web of gas,
coloured by temperature, weighted by mass.
Nuclear fusion keeps them shining bright 
just like on that first day when God created night.
So they don’t burn us He cast them way up high
to illuminate our world He lit up the sky.
The coldest stars are red, the hottest are blue 
our star is orange to sustain me and you.

A gazillion balls of light, Arcadian fire,
or could they be the angels of Gods holy choir?
Fifteen million degrees keeps them alight
no wonder the poor shepherds fell down in fright, 
their signs in the heavens are celestially awed
witness to life through a child still adored.
Astrologers use them to predict our days
while Astronomers study their galactic ways.

A billion years trip past, the mere blink of an eye,
their cores rapidly depleting our stars start to die.
Expanding shells that twist and morph
snuff out the light as they turn black dwarf,
as a swan song gesture, it’s almost over;
in a brilliant flash they turn supernova,
a nebulous cloud of gas is then formed;
the birthing place where stars are spawned.

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