Long Collude Poems

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Star On the Brink

The anorexia is not conspicuous,
being half-submerged - just
breaking through.
She’s a powdered mirage,
her skin a hyaline sheer
drawn over a necklace
of clavicle bones.

She knows her chest
is returning to childhood,
she wants to shelter there,
to be her own child.
Her small breasts
are burgundy nipples,
buds made more prominent,
anchored as they are
to shipwrecked ribs.

Designer bling distracts.
Cameras whir, she poses,
hand paused on a hip denuded;
not resting there,
but stealthily carrying
a pinch of flesh toward a spotlight.

We collude with her,
applaud the way
she decorates a condition.
We know her emaciated beauty
is a mutual hoodwink.
We know that the closer to death
sexuality becomes,
the more rapacious our appetite;
the more we will wail,
as she slips
through our hungry eyes.


Premium Member Wily Wind Whisperer

The unseen maestro, the wily whistling whisperer,
Cunningly twirls a sway in the bending trees,
Dabs, daubs and draws impasto clouds in the sky,
Lilts, entices, leaves to dance in tune, as it whistles on by.

The field of grass compliant, bends to lithe gusts sly.
Laughing to tickling tongue secrets, beholden in every sigh.
The wind teases waves, torments lakes to ripples.
Their surfaces combed and drawn to rugged stipples.

The wily whisperer winds its way into cracks and holes.
Creating drafts that shake the drapes like ghostly souls.
Defying all attempts to block their breathy intrusion.
You can feel it breathing in and out, expiring confusion.

Oh wily wind, your whispers collude and unwind,
The peaceful slumber of earth and heart entwined.
Form: Sonnet

Premium Member Jazz

His hand is strafing the castellation on his trumpet, the valves moving up down up down like deranged pistons under the random machine gun fire of his fingers. Each note is a projectile that concusses the air, chases the one before it, nudges it from behind, bleeds into it, and is itself tailgated by the next one, all the way down the line in unrelenting succession, until all the distinct notes fuse, compacted into a single, furious, careening soundscape that leaves the ear always half a beat behind, struggling to catch up, out of breath, high on an overdose of heard adrenalin.

sounds supersonic    
air graffitied with contrails of soaring notes
solo flight  
   
Still they come, the notes, jostling and pouring from the bell of the trumpet glinting in the small cone of spotlight, the man’s puffed cheeks like a magician’s hat from which all kinds of disparate, crazy things - playing cards, rabbits, ribbons, doves - appear and instantly cohere into a hyperventilating sonic dream. You’re caught off guard by every note: you never heard it coming, then you hear it, and you’re snatched by it and all its brethren, and carried into the kinetic night.

ears beguiled
vibrations collide, collude, segue
harmony
Form: Haibun

Premium Member Starry Skies Over Damascus

Starry skies over Damascus

Like a star chart for the
bomber pilots eating
Milky Ways and lives
Chocolate in the desert
for desert in consumption

The poem could stop here
its pretty clear not pretty

Petty lives perambulating
hiding hobbling around
on what was their feet
foundations souls and
is their ruin's wreckage now

The planes feature logos
“Just do it”
“Whiter than white”
“Put the tiger in the tank”
“Eat confectionary be happy”

What an advertising space
for the daily news rounded
up like the refugees
refusing to be refuse

“Powered by democracy”
“Fuelled by share holdings”
“Rocket launches for a better world”
in the weeping nights and days
lactating for another holiday
of some on sunny beaches
oozing oil wells wealth
and inequality

Milk where it needs not be
in luxury not infant powder
hungry breasts run dry by hunger
sapped empty in the face
of some lives counting
more than others where
camouflage is but
a distant varnish
in the pursuit of power

Soon their will be billboards
“Baghdad was not built
in a moment” “Invest in
Kabul” “Concrete for Allepo”
“Live the dream”

“Life liberty and the
pursuit of happy-mess”
“Constructing globality”

Munching away in my 
cushioned arm chair
built from greedy land mines
I collude

“You can have your milky ways”
if the bomber pilots did not
eat them all 

Whose wives implant their chests
with silicone from 
the valley of evil 
that forgot

Instead the artificial brain  
the heart transplant
Mindful disposition
of humanity 

Looking 
instead at the stars 
spangled banners
of Damascus

Milky ways
war

Cosmic Tapestry

They get tangled when crocheting.
Much like hair, they weave dreams.
It changes shape, changes form,
when touched with barehand, 
it crumbles, triggers a storm. 

They say, 2.537 million light-years away, 
is a galaxy like our own.
The tiny fiber, there too sway,
weaves supple fabric, alas it is 
made of stone. 

When I look up at the sky,
I swear I see. A slender yet,
long thread flying up high, 
inter-galaxies, it is free. 

They say, 2.537 million light-years away, 
is a world, neither young nor old.
From nebulae to supernovas vast,
these cotton strands, secrets hold. 

Connecting all from this world
to the other, the fortune changes.
Enlightenment is unfurled. 
Every fibre lives, every fibre
dies. Every stitch questions
Who am I?

They say, 2.537 million light-years away, 
there is a land so divine.
Where gods walk the earth, humans 
collude with the stars 
and disrupt the time. 

Prompt: Cotton Strands


Benediction Towards Anonymous Mindful Readers

Reverence affects yours
     truly with unmeasurable
     infinite jubilant zeal,
sans unbeknownst world wide
     (web stirred) fans enamored
     with me poetry induce
     cogs of mine
     noggin to wheel

write (thru the roof),
     thus I feel impelled
     to spell out
     appreciation to those
     die hard regular followers
     or one time cyber reader,
     who (minnie mull lee)
     move mouse or gingerly
 
     (collude) manipulate trackpad
     motioning qua thumbwheel
scrolling thru each
     rich text chord
     line figuratively aswarm
with multisyllabic words planted,
     cultivated and harvested,
     where eyes feast

     visually soaking up
     mine magic charm
(albeit wrought by
     this modest male),
     whose virtual crafted
     figurative humble Georgia based 
     Orwellian animal farm
revels with euphoria

     more precious then,
     (you guessed) bajillion
     banked bagged loot
     (of quartz without 
     taking for granite)
     die hard aficionados tub hoot,
these stalwart re:dears,
     asper scratchings

     of this ole coot
oft times curious what attracts
     dedicated trooping veterans
     (undoubtedly war re:)
     like avast horde of 
     buzzfeed ding flies to fruit,
or motivated students
     subjecting her/him self

     partial to mental taxation
     (without representation)
     i.e. (trying to make sense
     of confounding poetry authored
by Matthew Scott Harris)

     at the select particular institute,
the very same college (within Lake
     Woebegone) this alumni
made popular upon being
     recognized as a verb hose,
     re: noun sub bull
     ("FAKE" Norwegian bachelor) guy.

No Bowing Before This Queen-A Collaboration

There's one who acts like a righteous queen
Prattling peacock, she loves to pose and preen
She is surly and gruff
Heckling slurs with a huff
And denouncing the life-saving vaccine

The haughty queen is quite aloof
and sometimes she acts like a goof
Should she be on trial
For covid denial
Believe me, I’ve seen lots of proof

She's favored by one, her Prince Demonic
He bows to her highness, Queen Sardonic
Praising her fortitude
Conspiring to collude
Feeding her compliments that are moronic

Her majesty thinks she was perfect at birth
Pompously aggrandizing her self worth
It's tritely ironic
Her hubris is chronic
She's filled with bitterness but little mirth

Prince Dom is seeking attention 
Pining for the Queen’s affection 
Their words are debunked 
They both have been plunked
So much for the Queen’s perfection

The old Queen stood tall and haughty,
Gawking at me, judging me naughty.
Expected me to bow
And she called me a sow,
I refused, calling her throne a potty.
                          Anonymous PS poet


Our soups matriarch, started an almighty feud
By decreeing she's perfect, the queen of her brood
This flawless diamond
Reigns on Shutter Island
Even insane Leonardo's, pleading to be moved
                              Another anonymous ps poet

The queen poses behind a shadowy façade
Thinking she is perfect before Almighty God
Disgusting as a wicked witch
Cannot locate a worthy niche
Here among good poetry mortals of the sod.
                      Yet another anonymous ps poet 


Jan Allison and Mark Koplin have joined me in this limerick collaboration. We're not telling who wrote which verse, but you're welcome to guess.
If anyone wishes to join in this collaboration, please send me your addition through soup mail.
Form: Limerick

Attitude of Gratitude

Battered and bruised,

By the way I've abused,

This body that i used.

Feeling the effects of my mood,

Directly related to my attitude.

I'm losing altitude,

Calling out to you,

Knowing you come through,

I grab onto Gratitude.

Changing my latitude,

Thankful to collude,

Enhance my mental aptitude,

Rise above the solitude,

While in servitude to the multitude,

Of substances i have abused.

I'm becoming confused,

My mind unglued,

Clinging to gratitude,

I brighten my mood.

Thankful for lessons accrued,

Thankful for interests,

I was able to pursue,

Thankful for this journey,

I have renewed,

A new life viewed,

Through an Attitude of Gratitude.
Form: Rhyme

Moss Cowed Covenant I Keep Putin Off

Moss Cowed Covenant I Keep Putin Off...

For preservation, salvation,
and veneration, though with hold
ding temptation two mike
pence sieve lee clear,
to immoral majority mold
toot hoods, (those bajillion
Americans unanimously polled)
did want me to broadcast, communicate,

and declare, sans mock cut up fold
drawl migrant accent,
(no matter I'm getting old),
nonetheless Ivana trumpet from Taj Mahal
straight to Mar-A-Lago) all told,
plus thank commensurate Republicans
(past or present), who extolled,
an invisible grandiose fire walled

barricade (donning, enclosing,
and fortifying) against Carl mauled
din lookalike hackers,
despite one sporting "FAKE"
hook nosed, hunchbacked
donned with torn (Turin) shawled,
shrouded, and disguised vagrant, indigent,
double chinned agent – bald

(except for being bewigged),
viz flowing locks of "FAKE" gold
in toe with Amazon heavily funded
unbridled trailing retinue
chanting appellation Matthew
Scott Harris alias Oswald),
no matter said faux
renegade twittering lobbyists

flock (like lemmings) within his fold,
and will happily, laughably parody
any vigilantes spot on cold,
what with his bugs
bunny eyed (What's up Doc)
intent reader rabbit stare,
that doth playfully scold
any Bare Ladies scantily

linkedin, NOT nsync
with netiquette politesse mold
dinned communication, (asper
my pork chopped message
higglety pigglety divulged)
obeying tacit gold
din rule to hoodwink public, nonetheless
lemme exemplify, how

Democrats plan to hold
world web hostage
by secret Ransomware sold,
thru dark web bitcoin blockchain trolled
to collude with "crooked Hillary"
under Ponzi scheme auspices doled

courtesy, sans spongebobsquarepants
omnipotent NON GMO
gluten CRISPR rolled
oat sized INTEL nanobots,
no bigger than mold
spores heavily scrutinizing,
policing, monitoring and 
fortifying electronic Internet scaffold.

Premium Member Written In Drugs of Rain

WRITTEN IN DRUGS OF RAIN

Unscrupulous vulture-like officials standing inside skyscrapers;              
they croon softly, but wield their pretentious tongues like blades--
casting spells on a throng of marginalized heads
whose mouths and bellies were squeezed and dried.    

The promises they speak were written in a drugged rain   
blown by the wind and dispersed in grains of misconception.
Beguiled man bit the taste and was addicted without haste. 
(candle of hope was trampled --toppled down to fade..)

Secretly, these greedy, flesh -eating crocodiles of today
collude under wooden tables.   
Their lust for gold and silver screaming,          
they fill their jars of wickedness;		
voraciously they feed their minds-- harlots of desire.       

The big bellied ones whistle trying to clamp                          
leeches who don't only suck blood but also innocence; 
but when the cluster of eggs break-- hatches
as they run so fast and release a loud.... prrrrt!

The misuse of drugs and ignorance cause
bodies to be spread in dirty smelly gutters.
The users mutilated dignity comes from a constant craving for
shots and puffs from these drugs leading to 
gruesome miscarriage of suppose to be~~

--golden flowering dreams for tomorrow,
--transformers to a more unified earth,
--angels bearing an eye for justice and peace.

Manifold arrests for drugs affect the youth 
and all others who grasp the illusions of euphoria.
Concerned individuals' throat drying cries, a forlorn scourge of agony...
Oh God, what sight that will be!

And now,

Shall we, knowledgeable of the effects of drug addiction, let such things happen? 
Won't we drubbed such escalated catena of grief by doing something?
What can we impart? 
What can we do to care?
When will we start?

©O. E. Guillermo
8:44 pm; November 13, 2014
Sponsor	Debbie Guzzi
Contest Name	Global Poetry 
placed 3rd

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