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Dreams Coercing Memory

“Dreams Coercing Memory” 

You want cherries jubilee
with a little Krug champagne
but soft custard is just the same
when reality plays its game
by the spoonful
morphine comes 
to save the day

the light changes 
subtle refractions 
of dreams coercing
memory

long elegant fingers

poised painted apricots
those false '70s fingernails 
tremendous talons 
for Tchaikovsky takeoff 

gracefully shimmering

glamorously sparkling
eyes smiling, clicking keys
without fear, the notes become
a romantic Chopin mystery

pianola peddles 
next to her laughs 
and says with glee,  
a good exercise

back then, we didn't
have the time, says
the matriarch smiling
just like a mother 

come to collect 

on the other side 
her sister, hand on shoulders
sits next to her 
a Nightingale Linnet

the number 
at pianola
3

one number 
most 
profound

one number

devine aligned,
most hard to forget
or push aside

kept close
in Love and loved 
for all eternity

this one 
as 3 
should never hide

(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)
LM/HMM/LJM
17.9.23
mlb, klb, llb
Form: Elegy


Premium Member The Powers We Never See

The powers that be, undefined, ruthless, opaque authority 
Shapeless, bodiless, upstanding folk, coercing the majority 
Overseeing applications, supplications, ensuring conformity 
Specialists in quagmires, minefields, esoteric bureaucracy. 

The powers that be, model citizens, high ranking royalty 
Peerless above the law, protected from a droned society 
Scratching each other’s back, freeloaders, freemasonry 
Funny hand shakes, codes, wink wink nudge nudge faculty. 

The powers that be, puppet masters, answering to nobody 
Church going pagans, planted within god fearing laities 
Penchants for young hookers, high class swinging orgies
Masters of the universe, demigods, self serving deities. 

The powers that be, off the radar, shirking accountability
Magnates, judges, ministers, businessmen, your attorneys 
The A listed, elite, endemic, prevalent, shrouded in mystery
Wrong side of these people, you’ll disappear no conspiracy

The powers that be, yet another victim, where’s Khashoggi,
Are his killers really in prison, more likely given new identity 
Some ask too many questions, Maltese journalist Daphne,
Blown up in a car, getting too close, unsettling the fraternity 

The powers that be, its not possible I’m losing it completely 
Because I believe a certain ilk, walk amongst us with impunity 
Live behind walled estates, big donations for political parties 
In return, yes sir three bags full sir, here’s to your anonymity. 


By 
David kavanagh
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Butterfly Schooling

I could find my child, who's a butterfly lover,
Often bunking school granting many a reason;
Knowing her mad love, over the air to hover,
I allowed her to continue with no treason...
	
Having decided to find the reason from her
When, finally, persuaded her to open up;
Observing sage-like silence and eyes with no blur,
She blushed as though there's a tempest in her teacup...

Pleasing, easing, teasing, tiring, tempting, mocking,
Persuading, convincing, coercing, smooth-talking;
Silver-tongued sweet words on her slowly showering,
Ultimately, she spoke up as though rock-shocking...

Does schooling teach one to fly like a butterfly?
Does butterfly, in a school, ever long-time lie?


05 July 2021
Contemporary Sonnet Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Charlotte Puddifoot
Form: Sonnet

Kafkaeqsue

There’s a charge against you
Though we can’t say what it is 
In time, your list of crimes will be released

Pardon our procedures –
We consider grievances
We’ll clear your good name after you’re deceased

A labyrinth of halls and secret tunnels
In a bureaucratic lair
The ambiguity of nightmares
Is the only business there

This deviant behavior
Must be addressed at once 
Our agents will turn up who you really are

The whole investigation 
Could take a couple months 
Please be on-call, and don’t wander too far

A labyrinth of halls and secret tunnels
In a bureaucratic lair
The ambiguity of nightmares
Is the only business there

Nothing makes sense
When it’s Kafkaesque 

In a language spewing jargon,
Behind coercing eyes,
Our Grand Inquisitor will take his turn

One half-expects a pardon
When one’s past is scrutinized
Lest one is subjected to public shame and then burned
 
Nothing makes sense
When it’s Kafkaesque
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Got Those Old Winter Blahs

Those winter blahs, they're with us again

They can drag us down without doubt

It makes us feel like cursing bloody murder

Can't take it, I just want to shout

After all these years I still can't stand winter

Indoors for at least six months

As the years fly by, it gets harder to endure

As a kid I enjoyed winter once

Not a complainer, enjoy life to the fullest

But I wish they could cancel winter

Might even try coercing those weather gods

As I let out an audible whimper

I'll continue to try to lead an exemplary life

If winter could just be canceled

Never to complain about the wind and the rain

As long as our winter is annulled

This obviously sounds a bit selfish of me

There's many enjoying the cold

Skiing and tobogganing and having a great time

I'm not cut from that outdoorsy mould



© Jack Ellison 2015
Form: Narrative


Whats You Thinkin Baby B

I have come to the end of my tether today and although you think I’m adorable
Enough is enough put your camera away for what you are doing is deplorable

You promised to take only three or four pics that you want for a memory book
Enough is enough no more coercing, or a black eye you’ll get from my left hook

Hear what I say just look into my eyes; I could be a heavyweight champ
Move in too close you will get a surprise, losing my fuse I’ll kick and I’ll stamp

Inside I'm smiling, a sweet little lad, but if I’m provoked what else can I do
Must nurture a smile without further ado; this look could cause fights to ensue

Peaceful at last no cameras in view, just you and me cuddling like we always do
Cooing and smiling, nothing to fear; it’s all on my face Mum I’d never hurt you



9th January 2019
Competition: Baby Face what’s you THINKIN - Baby B
Sponsor: James Edward Lee Sr
3rd placement
Form: Couplet

Happy Birthday To Me

Birthdays.
What a dubious way to celebrate the imminent proximity of an epilogue.
A concept I have found myself familiar with, as I wait for its darkness to breathe my flesh into an eternity of condemn. 
It’s so monotonously profound, rousing my revulsion into a cavern of numbing ecstasy.
The hallucination of confetti blinds me in a disdain of joyous vibrancy I beseech for a defrauding.
A joyous vibrancy I elude in a hope of inevitable invasion.
A joyous vibrancy I hunt until the trail of its scorn boils with the distraught of my blood.
The mascara pours down my face; a river of infamy, coercing the heft of my obscenity. 
The lipstick smears down my chin; a sadistic endeavour to ravage the dereliction of my leeches.
The highlighter gleams; a grotesque jubilation of a fibbing mockery.
And the fundamental rigour of my perished rot derides in a soul prompting conjecture;
I hope this is my last birthday.

Premium Member Seduced By Poseidon's Daughter

As rippling horizon
douses fiery orb,
you are at your
most alluring.

Ethereal,
diaphanous limbs
stretch out,
reach for me,
beckon to me.
Barely audible murmurs,
laced with
forbidden promises,
cross the distance
between us.

Whispers become
more insistent,
more urgent,
more pressing.
Begging, cajoling,
pleading, coercing,
demanding that I come to you,
that I give myself to you.

Eventually,
inevitably,
relentless appeasement
erodes my resolve.

Heedless of the warnings,
heedless of the risks,
I succumb completely,
totally and willingly,
without compunction,
without restraint.

Wrapped in your embrace,
rapt in your presence,
I submit to your whims.
So implacable,
indefatigable,
I'm utterly entranced.

You draw me down,
encourage me,
guide me,
bid me explore you.
Probing your inner sanctum,
I crave you,
love you,
know you.

Your scent,
your taste,
your sounds
fill my every sense.
I inhale you, imbibe you,
devour you, as you -
in turn - devour me.
Your very essence engulfs
every inch of my body.

Breath snatched from lungs
as passion escalates,
threatens to consume me,
promises to consume me.
I thrash atop you,
beneath you,
within you;
borne aloft
on waves of ecstasy.

And finally,
finally,
when I have
no more to give,
you cast me aside.

Giddy,
exhausted,
totally spent,
I roll over and watch,
helpless,
as you pull away.

Trembling
outstretched hands
cruelly snubbed.
Desperate pleas
callously spurned.

And then you're gone.

Our time together
was so brief,
so fleeting,
so transitory.
I'll never forget
our impassioned tryst,
but you won't even
remember my name.

Jealousy's venomous barb
pierces my chest
at the thought of
you with another.

I have no wish to share you,
yet I lay no claim to the
Daughter of Poseidon.
You belong to nobody...
...but...
...you do belong to everybody...

--------------------------------

(C) May 2017

Bit of a departure for me... before you think I've gone all "Fifty Shades of Grey", the whole poem is metaphorical.

Premium Member 8 Pre97

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Close to a river
who babbles


Anticipation

I traverse a trail called Route 20
Stomach turns, heart is heavy
A chill in air, leaves turned brown
And she waits for me in silken gown
Hunger...  No
Have not ate... Tis not yet so
Could this be the one I’m waiting for
Long hair fair still can’t be sure


Tubes

Coercing milk like honey farming
Painting thoughts by pictures showing
In darkness flash like fire flies
Immorality opens heavy eyes




Seasons of Unrest

Sunrise on softly shaded snow
Chirping birds fly through trees

Atmosphere in a smoke filled room
Pool balls crack and spin

Cinder red harvest moon
Road traveled to control it


Day People

In the midst of darkness
 A light is sunk
  A hell to raise
Sight only defies a premonition of good?


Introduction to mathematics

Greatest mysteries
  seem to be
Differentiations
  between humans
Made by humans


TWO
Dig your own hole
 And if you find
  That, you just cannot do
There’s room enough in mine for two
  And all your worldly possessions too

__
don’t get busy
but live and die easy
inside
© Cs Parker  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Patience


Words unkept, promises broken churned my heart, 
like what the whirlwind does to the dunes. 
I couldn’t calm down my twirling turbulence
as pent-up anger shattered the shield of tolerance.
Defenseless and discounted I disintegrated, 
turned into discarded debris of indignity,	
arrogance decayed in intolerant abyss.

Sanguine awareness then found patience,
the candle of inner strength, 
ignited as the guiding light 
through the exigent intolerance web,
that had entangled the essence of my muddled mindset.  
Fortitude is now my stable thought mode, 
the space to step back to clearly assess situations, 
respond sensibly rather than react impulsively. 
 
Patience, the bedrock of resilience, 
the enduring poise in staggering setbacks, 
symbolizes time as a pivotal element 
in the process of healing and growth. 
I have discovered an inner strength 
that fortifies me in tempestuous life,  
builds the bridge that fosters discernment, 
allowing to appreciate the deviant thought perspectives, 
and construct connections durable,  

Amidst the commotion of turbulent life,  
patience an alchemic anchor of calmness, 
prevents me from being swept away 
by the coercing currents of compulsion, 
enabling me to approach life challenges 
with composed and collected attitude transforned. 

In the remaining phase of journey, 
I carry confidently the wisdom of stoicism, 
as a virtue that not only illumines my conscience,  
but radiates outward, 
influencing the quality of my interactions,
and fathoms the depth of my perceptive psyche 
with the enduring strength of patience.

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