Long Centrepiece Poems

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Premium Member Children Enjoy Halloween

Eager children await sweet treats
And colourful bags that have been filled
As well as pumpkins lined up to greet

Their tricks make the treats increase
All of the kids are thrilled
Eager children await sweet eats

A Jack-o-lantern is the centrepiece
And a black cat has just appeared
Pumpkins flicker along the streets

In scary ghosts, there's no belief
Ghost hunters are thrilled
Reaching out their hands for treats

Singing to the beat
Of cupcakes colour-sprinkled
Pumpkins are chanting along the street

Tonight, there'll be a feast
As Halloweeners' wishes are fulfilled
Eager witches give kids sweet treats
As ghouls and goblins fly to drumbeats!


Premium Member A Leaf in the Woods

It earns its place under the sun in May -
A tiny speck against the evergreen. 
Nourished by raindrops poised for its display, 
Slim but what Glory! In grand Nature’s scene. 

In summer lush the flowers take the lead, 
They have it all - a beauty and such scent. 
Leaf in the woods, reluctant  to concede, 
Assumes supporting role in full consent. 
 
In Autumn flash the leaf - a centrepiece, 
Its pulsing palette wins and takes it all…
All Nature bends to seasonal caprice, 
Leaf in the woods, from triumph to the fall. 

Succumbs to weather whims, weak and worn-out,  
It’s fleeting life leaves nothing but a doubt. 
 

August 11, 2026
Form: Sonnet

Premium Member Pieced Together Again

 One of those castoff items that we shove 
Promptly deemed ‘junk’ upon a second glance. 
I hid you on the highest shelves above 
With a slim ‘someday’ of a second chance. 

In solitude you stoically withstood 
The cruel confinement you were sentenced to. 
With dogged demeanour of solid wood
You kept your composure as if you knew. 

Oft butting heads over your checked acts, 
My late dad and his dad battled so well. 
Though I delved not in your strategic tracts, 
My grandsons set you free from jail cell spell. 

That chessboard - centrepiece I now hold dear, 
Your pieces shine, each one is carved with love. 
When boys butt heads I smile in silent cheer, 
Imagine dads are smiling from above. 

Artifacts may lose temporary trend, 
Then triumph tenfold in the timely end.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member David Must Pay Less Attention In Class

And from the tree of knowledge, a serpent slid into view 
He’d seen it all before, our future he already knew 
Moses on some mountain, taking down the tablets god drew
Jesus climbing Calvary, being mocked by fellow Jews 

Later history repeats, Galileo scanned the sky 
Finds Earth isn’t the centrepiece, gets nailed for asking why 
Then Newton made his calculations, watching apples fly 
The serpent began nodding, he once gave apples a try

But the overall picture changed, when Einstein measured light 
Bending it around stars, real answers warped into sight 
His space predictions tied loose ends, causing a major fight 
Others found black holes in the theories, they seemed none too bright 

Wheelchair bound Hawking figured, but words wouldn’t roll his way 
The serpent still hissing, refused to give the game away 
Dawkins said god’s a delusion, so there’s no need to pray
Guth papered over cracks, his inflation holds out today 

But who is this strange serpent, slithering about the tree
A messenger from our future, or some demigod ET 
Charm from my imagination, man’s plain misogyny 
Well if you look hard enough earthlings, you may see it’s we!

So there you have my story, blueprints are sketchy indeed
Just like I left out Darwin, because of half truths he freed
What about god, what about god David, who plants our seed
Well like most people, I’ll go searching in my hour of need 

By
David Kavanagh
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Special Revelation Deuteronomy Detailed Pt6

el shaddai
                all sufficient
sends&
           raises up
speaks&calls
for
a response
                to His
revealed truth
&
providential care
for 
those spiritually
                           aware
confirmed
by oath&
              promise true
to
His people
               of the Book
demonstrates
implements
regenerates&
                        renews
a commitment
heart&soul
                  to the penitent
who
walk
with Him
             in love

our centrepiece
                    of worship
the treasure
               of His word
in the offer
of His grace
                     undeserved&unrequited
but
     what grace enables
              grace rewards
says
the mouth of the Lord
Form: Ekphrasis


Premium Member Conceptions

CONCEPTIONS
fashioned
originality
freely
 conceived
&
acclaimed

in
considered
 dimensions
the centrepiece
&
the
highlights
of

 a whole

  potential
&
 overtly
&casual
contradictory
 in a more
rounded way

a core focus
&lifelong
interest

beginning
 by encounters
sharpened
&embedding
a concern
to try
out
ideas
 a new impetus
to take
 risks
with
 with
 what
comes to hand

NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood is inherently variable.
Copyright © Brian Strand
Form: Other

Premium Member Caricatures

CARICATURES
typically
blaze
with light
a centrepiece
 shaped
silently
 swaddled
oftimes
 disquieting 
&
intriguing
  vivacious&
synthesised
with
much
 precise
elements

 so remarkably
 begins
a portrait
between
the
continuities
of  the  
 shape
 to
preserving
evocation
of the mania
of
passing fads
so
unsettling
&
aloof

NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood is inherently variable.
Copyright © Brian Strand
Form: Other

I Don'T Know Why Some Flowers Bother

I don't know why some flowers bother, 
To unfold their petals so late in the day,
At this time of year,
When there is such a nip in the air.


They might as well have stayed tucked up in their bed,
As come morning, I will only have to cut off,
What is left of their head,
With no chance of giving them even one peek,
In the hallway mirror,
To see themselves in full bloom,
Or to become the centrepiece on a well laid table,
For the guests to marvel at,
And comment on their rare beauty, 
As they gently fondle their delicate petals.

Oh, what a cruel fate awaits those flowers,
Who fail to show up at their appointed time,
Giving no thought to the weather,
Or for the one getting out of bed to cut off their head,
And replace them with ones from the corner shop, 
That will see themselves in the hall mirror,
And become a centrepiece at the table.

Premium Member Imperatives

IMPERATIVES
beset 
with
 real &
fictional &
  still  
becalmed
 with  
the traditional
seamlessly 
intertwined

the contemporary
 remains 
a
centrepiece
  the spectre 
of
today  its
 intensity
to the fore
&looks beguiling
& still 
so
inviting

the
constant
 tension  between
  similarity
 &application
  before vanishing
in
the chaos
 &
 unsettling effect
of
constant gestures
&
subtle
 crisis
of
 naturalistic
 beauty
in
  mercurial display
its reticence
 so roughly
construed
 in finery
so oddly bare
  impressive 
&
 resilient

&expressive
but remaining
opaque
&
ambiguous

NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood is inherently variable.
Copyright © Brian Strand
Form: Other

Premium Member Divine Rhapsody

Mint ripple spasm cool shrouds pulse my sprig fount 
I shriek at cusp of dawn cricket hymn sheet peep 
lambent cosmos vivid hues splash lilac wisps 
upon my psychic visual wellspring blind float 
golden petal yellow bird magnolia 
I hoard as eye floss gemstone centrepiece 
nirvana’s mauve lip step ladder an archway    
to ecstatic rush reed  clustered gateway’s hasp 
inner self kaleidoscopic cartwheel swerves 
sketch nightingale bone marrow spine chill belle chants 
Yet the honeysuckle pastel strewn mead I 
plod unveils ear worm madrigals of pure bliss.


Date submitted : 15th September 2020

Contest Title : Pick-A-Title, Vol 22- Lyric 2-

   NA Poem  :  Divine Rhapsody 

       Sponsor :  Edward Ibeh 

       Judged :  24/9/20



Poetry Contest : Second Chances for NA in Any contest during September 2020

Date submitted : 30/9/2020

        Sponsor   :  Chantelle Anne Cooke

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Form: Lyric

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