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Premium Member Bone Beach

I walk along the shores of dead daffodils and daisies,
tangled in cursed roses and beach bones, in your absence~
reminiscing redolent sparks of skeletal silence,
while my heart aches to be within the arms of your midnight phrases.

But our love has stolen the moonbeams from the air,
    only to be cast amongst the demons that fare, 
fragmented fangs ready to inflict unearthly pain,
dancing in ritualistic reveries under the suffocating rain.

I still weave sequins of serenity into the tortured twilight,
to illuminate blazing bruises between blushing starlight.
For in this island of desolated shores,
   I dream of spider veins,
screaming for a release from the tides of toxic refrains,
mirroring the voodoo iris~
   within the somber soul of Medusa.

So let crimson remnants of our romance 
carpet seething shells grieving~
in the bioluminescent haven of fallen angels,
where whispers of woes and abandoned ink,
translate the aroma of decomposing pleasures. 

Remember I am thunder, singing the songs of the storm,
dressed in skin of sea and sorrow.
I wear the ocean like armor;
maybe one day, from the eerie sandcastles,
 left along the corpse corals and plankton,
you’ll find my bleeding pendulum ~
      buried in ivory stillness.


What Is Love

Love is a kiss
	A prelude to the dreams we hum
	A postlude of what has become
	
Love is a wine
	Intoxicating heart and soul
	Over the mind it gains control
		
Love is a song
	A melody to remember
	Forever a burning ember

Love is a light
	Dispelling darkness in the night
	Keeping hope of morning in sight
	
Love is an ointment
	Soothing discomfort through the years
	Healing our wounds, calming our fears

Love is a nourishment
	A meal giving comfort and strength
	Encouragement for the day’s length

Love is a refreshment
	An oasis along the way
	A cool drink at the end of day

Love is a Faith
	Bearing hope in the worst of times
	Always waiting to hear the chimes

Love is a Jewell
	A dangling necklace of fine gold
	Staying the same as it gets old

Love is a perfume
	A fragrance seeking our favor
	An aroma we can savor

Love is a curtain
	Protecting our secrets and pride
	A shadow where we can confide


Love is a banquet
	An emotion to celebrate
	A good reason to Decorate 

Love is a banner
	Appreciating our worth
	Expressing our value on earth

Love is a flower
	A lily growing from the pond
	Beauty that expresses our bond
	
Love is a voice
	A call to the places we roam
	An invitation to come home
	
Love is a guardian
	Protecting us from things that spoil
	Watching over the fruits of our toil

Love is a rock
	In whose cleft we obtain refuge
	Granting us strength for battles huge
		
Love is a covering
	A quilt hand pieced with perfection
	Stitched with peace, hope, and affection
	
Love is a garden
	A soil where our lives can take root
	A fertile place producing fruit
	
Love is a spice
	Amending the ordinary
	Bringing taste to the contrary

Love is a tree
	A gentle breeze providing shade
	A place for the stories we’ve made
	
Love is a seal
	A room that captures and confines
	A lock that holds us and refines

Love is a comfort
	A shelter from the wind and cold
	A blanket when sick and old
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Somewhere Exotic

The pungence of heartbreak swelters
in the tangled dreadlocks of love-lies-bleeding
Take me somewhere exotic
to breathe not the foul aroma
of disappointment and despair
Show me fields laced with frangipani and orchids
in colors sweet and light as daydreams
Find me seafoam fields poppied
with pomegranate and honey 
opium of jasmine lilting on a leeward drowse
delicious sift of sand drifting
warm and soft between my toes
as coral breezes court flamingo scapes
with pina colada suns
and I drift in and out of hibiscus euphoria
Let a mist of cockatoos flutter
in lapis skies puffed with fat feather clouds
parrots and toucans preening
like a rainbow shimmer
Tingle my pineapple senses
through the afterglow of mango afternoons 
Create visions of paradise
in the cerulean of hyacinth
and never bring me back

Premium Member Crushed

In my remote village a long time ago
From town came a man of twenty or so
Set up a smart machine called gristmill
Times have changed but it’s there still.

Every weekend I had to go there to share
A duty that for me became a routine affair
Take a bagful of fresh wheat grain to grind
In the mill that produced flour so refined.

The sound of the crusher was harsh incessant
The attitude of the man was equally indecent
For he made me wait a long while for my turn
The unseemly reason I could never discern.

Despite this touch of forced discomfort
My weekly tryst with the gristmill was of worth
For the floating aroma of freshly ground wheat
Dipped me in cool scent of corn field in summer heat.

When I’m crumbled now under the time’s wheel
I see me standing before the village gristmill
In the midst of cacophony and grinding strife
I can still smell the scent of the crushed life.

Posted : June 3, 2018
June 18, 2020
Contest : Crushed
Sponsor : Anthony Biaanco
Form: Rhyme

A Journey To Far America

The sleepy begonias undulating slightly so undisturbed
leaned forward to encourage and wish me good fortune,
while the apricot trees spread around their strong aroma,
a dazzling daylight was rising from the majestic mount;
a soft voice rose from the next room, it was mamma
calling me: I sprung from my bed in disorder without
feeling grumpy, the alarm playing Mozart's sonata failed:
pants and sweater were neatly ironed to enhance my figure!


Saddened neighbors waited outside with teary and sad eyes,
hugs were exchanged, my goodbye was intensely bitter and bleak;
Lucy, the  girl next door, came running and embraced me twice,
" When you arrive in America, write me. I nodded, unable to speak.
The Autmn's shadows persisted, fighting the invading light with clouds;
each face I stared at reflected the profound sadness that stirred inside!


I glanced at the calendar: September 11, 1966 the day of departure,
fate set that date with my approval embarking me on that journey
to far America: stripping me of childhood's joys with little reward. 
I departed from the house of my ancestors: a sturdy medieval castle
built for a price who rode horses through forests with echoing sound:
his name was never revealed, its a story dramatized with mystery.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Different Coffee Moment

Lazing on the porch to trace a morning breeze
Splash the clouds with  hues,  I reach
For my coffee: kohl-like, brewed, grounded
Sifted from Robusta beans: its aroma tingling
With a different flavor—less bitter, more sweet
Carrying me to the rise of dawn
As the heated fog
Entices  my throat to sip the cream stirred
By a riot of daffodils, grass---
The wet dew rolling on  my bare feet .
And I relish the cool
Steam soothing a mild ceremony of rituals
Without a door banging,
a newspaper flapping  by the table and mug…
I close my eyes
To hear the chirp of birdsong humming like
Whistles on the coffee pot: and a world
Passes by without me, absent from
The noise of a long city week, renewed…

Praising  a god that makes Sunday misty.



Contest: Brian's Choice N
Form: Imagism

Premium Member Red Rose

heart of 
a beautiful flower 
my eclipse 
of love complete 
red rose 
in all your splendor 
beats love 
the most beautiful 
heart 
of hearts 

you are 
a crowning glory 
passion flows 
in each petal 
light catching 
you blush 
cobwebs 
of silver pearls 
the morning 
dew upon you 

in fragrance 
you smell heavenly 
with all those petals 
upon your crown 
the sun 
all but kisses you 
smiling down 
among'st the thorns 

you are 
a blushing 
red beauty 
scarlet in heart's love 
the sun smiles 
upon you 
enchantingly beautiful 

magical 
in sweet fragrance 
your aroma 
upon the air 
blushing red 
you wear the crown 
upon your heart 

you are the fairest 
mirror,mirror 
upon the wall 
you are the fairest 
in all the land 
soft my scarlet passion 
in beauty 
your heart bare 
queen of passion

Aroma of Love

(it's like ) 

The sweet and scented waft of a delicate flower waltzing in thin air or like
Helium balloons at the fair. Often we equate it to cotton candy, or 
Electricity.  Why is it that we   

Abandon ourselves to another, giving it all away like the tabloids ask of us. As 
Renegades of loneliness we precipitate towards that rich garden enmeshed      
Only with our senses. Lost in a cornucopia of glossy hearts and wet kisses.    
Move over Devotion, move over Sacrifice, let us float on fumes of flattery 
Ah but wait, what above true Love? what does is feel like? Perhaps its like 

Oaring down the river with four paddles going the same direction (smile)   
Frankly, its like gliding towards the greatest scent on earth when it is real.   

Love is always patient and kind, and it makes heroes out of all of us.     
Oath it with every fiber of your being, its essence is like    
Velvet to the touch, as vital as the air we breathe, it vacillates and it is 
Eternal. It takes us to the highest heaven then lights every star for us.

(that is what love does)
Form: Acrostic

Breakfast.

The table is decked for two.
   only people eating, me and you.
    The coffee aroma fills the room,
     it wont be long its ready soon.
    The eggs are on the go,
    soft, not too hard I know.
   The toast is browning nice and slow,
 nice and crispy way to go.
  Butter and marmalade too,
  any thing else for you.
 We sit and eat just us two,
and talk about all things new
whats happend in the last three weeks,
  why we could not speak.
I will tell you things you want to know,
this and that and so and so,
 You can tell me all about you,
any thing I will listen too.
 I have waited long for this,
  its some thing I would not miss.

Nature

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”
                                                                                       ~John Burroughs
 
I stroll down the sun-dappled trail
under a tranquil canopy of trees 
where the light uplifts my spirit
and the shadows soothe my soul,
The aroma of blossoming flowers 
strives to set me free from
the restless nights and trying days
persuading my forlorn heart
to venture forth anew
on life’s long and wearisome ways;

Why then must I in anguish weep?
Why do I for heaven aspire?   


~03/22/23
~Contest: Writing challenge 'N' words
~Sponsor: Constance La France

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