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Premium Member Finding Mr Stink

After a long period of time, there was an awful stench  in the garage.
After ceaseless investigations, we were clueless of  the origin of stink.

It smelt like dead mice, but there was no sign of any.
It smelt like gas, and we feared there might be a leak.

The Gas Utility came out; but found no sign of leakage.
Though we felt safer, I worried as the smell grew worse.

Some time ago, we discontinued using our second vehicle.
After some time, one day I pushed the vehicle into the driveway.

I do not remember the reason I moved it;
but it had nothing to do with the odor.

The vehicle was a very popular one;
The best selling  SUV at one time.

We also grew older and decided that one vehicle would suffice.
So we dropped the insurance,  ‘non-opted it’, and parked it in the garage.

Currently, it’s still a good and desirable vehicle.
But it was the choice of my wife; not mine

Notwithstanding, I was surprisingly pleased with it.
It became aged and began to wear with costly repairs.

One day I walked past the SUV as it sat in the driveway.
You guessed it. I smelt the same stink that was inside the garage.

The riddle was solved; the mystery was resolved; I found Mr. Stink.
He was in the radiator; I flushed and ran him out; he was forever gone.
09242016 PS Contest, Stink, Anthony Slausen
Form: Couplet


Christmas Rebels

Christmas Rebels
It was about a weak
After that night walk
The unknown dangers, 
Made known, turned me weak,
I was managing myself,
After my heart was pulled,
From where it sank,
I was yet in the oven,
Of my haven,
To dry up the coldness,
And the wetness, 
Of that fearful night loneliness,

Today is Christmas,
The whole mass,
Was joyous,
Every home, glorious,
Meat was plenteous, 
Rice and beans.
Was every homes means,
Children bouncing in,
New goat skin jackets,
Mother’s dressed in costly
Beads and all the way,
Father leads.
For Christmas had taking over,
Taking over the African Shrine,
It supplied a joyous sunshine.
Our pockets were full of cowries,
Like a goldmine,
Happiness was mine,
For the usual war seemed 
To be hidden, and our teethes where like, 
“Forever opened”.

Oh! Joyful, blissful, plentiful Christmas.
Providing joy each time it surface, 
But joy has a slender waist that breaks so soon.
Christmas night came, so we visited 
Our beds as night rang it’s bell,

(To be continued in the next, same Poem).
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Person

Is a person just man, woman or child?
Is not each person a costly treasure?
Should definition of person so mild?
Should not it exceed the common measure?
Person is living-human, could I say?
A precise character of life-drama,
With rise-fall amalgam fully alive,
Physique and psyche perform perfect play;
Soul enacts, sometimes, dull melodrama;
All-in-one cell, exuberantly thrive...!

Like molded pitcher is blend of the earth,
Person is a soul-mind-body mixture;
Through a magnanimously vibrant birth,
Divinity has made human fixture;
Oh! The persona form and appearance,
Entity with earth-ethereal mold,
Isn not each person an institution?
Pure self flowing in flawless coherence,
In thoughts and words perpetually bold,
Each person is - cosmic constitution...!

Person is an encyclopedia,
Composite of characteristics core;
Chameleon-like! Changes media!
Consciously, often, goodness does ignore;
Fierce, fiery, fervid, fervent, fertile, free,
Compassionate, care-filled, charismatic,
Person is heavenly! Angelical!
Divine dictum the person does agree,
Howsoever inwardly phlegmatic,
Wisdom and knowledge, within, helical...!!!



30 April 2022
Form O- Ode- New poems Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Constance La France
Theme: Person
Form: Ode

Premium Member Drought


Blue skies and sun
     blue skies and sun
         blue skies and sun
 constant, only a few              
thin wispy clouds
and heat    	       heat		 heat   
       sizzling, shimmering 
                    on pavement

mirage of water
        fooling the eye
pulsing, radiating  
                    
                          drought 

parched, dusty soil
    	thirsting for life-giving water
             plant roots shrivel unseen

stalks and leaves wilt
     costly irrigation failing
              to keep up
with the heat         the heat
          
         over-arching constant sun
                 scorching     burning 
crop yields shrinking
day by day, nothing to do
                          
                but pray.

True Solitude

True Solitude

Days disappear in never ending solitude
No rest for the wicked the night calls me
But I do not seek approval of the multitude

A few choice things have I always perused
Only ideals will be able to set my soul free
Days disappear in never ending solitude

A reckless course abandoned, now ensued
No it's not a cry for help, not even a plea
But I do not seek approval of the multitude

Looking now the words seem somewhat rude
Not the intention at all, but who will truly see
Days disappear in never ending solitude

Seeing my life now I have become quiet crude
A very costly price for that brief feeling of glee
But I do not seek approval of the multitude

Truths that I seek, my actions also delude
He believes in nothing they coldly decree
Days disappear in never ending solitude
But I do not seek approval of the multitude


Premium Member Animating innate vibrance

What lies between the ticks of time?
The pause between heart beats pulse?
The eye sight missed when you blink?
The still moments when you are breathing neither in nor out?
Our body's attempt to keep pace is flawed
by the mechanics we deploy to defeat entropy's cost
to defray the inevitable decay
of the material universe
to maximum disorder, randomness and uncertainty.
To keep up, to stay alive, 
to build and maintain
structure and order is costly,
as it defeats for a faction of time, 
the universe's purpose
which is inevitable continuous decay to disorder
without pause,
without hesitation
without disruption or interruption.
It is within the momentary pauses
that we, the incessant, get our way,
animating an innate vibrancy
to resist the decay all living things face,
and struggle against, 
to a totally disordered state,
lifeless and decayed, on doomsday.

Messages

When at dawn I find three stones at my
Doorstep, I smile at dawn
Prayers, in haste, come to my lips
My eyes rove wantonly and behold a
Poet caressing a naked virgin.

When at dawn I find three stones at my
Doorstep, messages rustle to my ears
I prepare a costly repast for a palmist
My smile is faint.
I am from Caesar’s age, believing my wife’s
Dreams and not her nightmares
I am African, black as soot, and revering
Soot’s commands with it.

When at dawn I hear my dog sneeze
I smile at dawn who had brought forth
The three stones which my dog in three
Sneezes wets.
I nod. My dog winks.
We await messages from the stones.

Premium Member Cougar and Young Meet

Captured by a young man with an old soul that's good to the 
  bone.
Her desires awaits patiently and yet fulfilled as he joins her at her 
  throne.
A mile away he can hear her voice whispering in his ears oh 
  soo Sofltly.
Saying, that her desires which are kept in secret need not come out, they ARE
  Costly.
Captured by a cougar with true beauty that has a predilection for young
  meat.
She quenches the thirst in his eyes by her presence, yet he gets sooo
  weak.
The right environment explodes to never ending imaginations and pure
  intimacy.
Constantly caressing, hugging, kissing and passion that turns into more
  creativity.
Their lips begin to speak a different language that's spoken oh sooo
  quietly.
She feels the muscles of his arms wrapped around her body sealed oh sooo
  tightly.
Unbreakable emotions results to stimulations that are non fictional, not planted, but up rooted, as she loves it Sooo Rightly.

Premium Member Doggie At Christmas Time

A wiggly  holiday bundle of energy
Snickers, my pup,   wears a Rudolf  outfit for fun--
Annoyed with long antlers,
she grinds around
ripping  an outlandish  costume, 
then fiercely bobbing  her tail;
while kids stick red bells  along a furred neck:
Our dachshund yelps 
and fumbles on  stacked presents,
as the camera rolls --- a keepsake of  eve’s laughter…
But  weenie  goes hysterical from the raucous
causing mayhem under the  ornate  lights—

A zoom, a wham,
Snickers  digs into wrapped tokens
unraveling boxes,
oh now tarnished from her hunt—
Till slashing that itchy reindeer crotch,
dear  doggie fetches an opened gift—
a  costly  vase     to fill up her pee!



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12/28/2018
Christmas Pets - Writing Challenge December 2018
Sponsor: Dear Heart

Premium Member Bernardo O'Higgins

Bernardo O’Higgins Riquelme
was born in Chillan in central Chile.
The bastard son of Ambrosio, Marquis de Orsorno,
his Irish-born father hailed from County Sligo.
Bernardo’s mother was Isabel Riquelme.
She was from a prominent South American family.
Bernardo was supported financially
after the father became a Peruvian viceroy.
Bernardo was sent to London while a young boy
where he was able to acquire a formal education.
He soon learned to despise Spanish domination.
Bernardo sought to fight for independence from Spain.
His homeland should not be a colonial domain.

He would share the same ideas as Francisco de Miranda.
This man hailed from the north in Venezuela.
Both men espoused the prospective idea
of a free and independent South America.

O’Higgins joined the Logia Lautaro in 1810.
He was helped by Argentine Jose de San Martin.
In 1814, the rebels suffered a costly defeat.
Into the Andes Mountains, the rebels had to retreat.
This loss came at the Chilean city of Rancagua
It started the period known as the “Reconquista”
In 1817, the rebels won a great victory.
The Battle of Chacabuco ended Spanish sovereignty.
Chile and Argentina were both declared independent.
Bernardo O’Higgins became Chile’s first president.

Thanks to wikipedia.org online encyclopedia for pertinent information I obtained to 
write this presentation.
Form: Rhyme

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