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The Centre Point

 
 

I arrived breath away, stepping out of a journey waiting not for fellow passengers with tedious conversations about Hemingway, Trump or AI 
hot excitement dissolved into foreboding
pain, then shattered into peace ~ bliss on 
cards, an endless journey had end after all

age equalled superfluous suffering
red ticks on calculus examination page 
point of Excalibur deadly, yet where I 
belonged as spiral, lived a hundred lives 
or more of solitude, silence, secrecy 
dandelions oracled sacred

yin and yang exploded into nothingness 
white black entwined stillness containing 
all sound, shadows, twenty four strands 
when tabulating male and female
fire flashed into stardust figments
a millionth of a blinking second

whether charioteer voted redhead wily 
in a country of dollars or mid-life crisis 
cities were questions embedded in olive branches or fleas on poodles barking twirled with archaeologists, crooks, historians 
status mattered not here

altars in faraway wonderlands where writers recreated Alice whilst filmmakers negotiated budgets ignorant that movies were magical moments bound in akashic records  
here marigolds came before business 
Brahman footprints treading Truth tabled

Singularity contained every loop into Void embracing once upon time a leather jacket 
journey cracked its own codes crumbled fleshless, as eyes became saucer satellites 
explorers, tourists, passengers, all here ~
revelry was lived or meditation mastered 

centre point, brilliant or dull, crude or sharp equals zero-one sequences ~ music, sky, planets, charioteer or train passenger 
all gifted with a choice … return to Earth
or bathe forever in Centred Bliss


the illusion

The illusion 

In a small park ringed by gloomy trees near where the factories used to be, was the bust of a man on a splint 
made of bronze, a mesen, she liked to use words like 
that in a desperate world of poverty, tinned sardines
 in olive oil and mackerel in tomato sauce
The Mesen who owned the factories had created this 
park for his workers, where they could sit and relax on Saturday afternoons. 
The whole day on Sundays, otherwise the park shuts 
during weekdays; that made sense, one could not have workers there on days of work
A  boy climbed the fence and drowned in a dam of algae
The park, among damp factory walls, was eradicated.
The foul-smelling factories disappeared as well; the time 
had changed, people could buy cheaper tinned stuff from Portugal  
When pockets of oil deep under the North Sea
 A country was suddenly rich, and people built modern housing where the factories stood.
No one in a town like ours talks about the good old days.
© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Form: ABC

Icy Things

Written By:  D. Collins 6/12/24


Bling, bling icy things won't get us anywhere.
They're given to show someone we really care.
The bigger the bling is the love we get back.
The larger the things is how we show our grat.


They come in many flavors, both hard and soft.
From 20-karat diamonds to just getting off.
People will play any game for their icy things.
Stoop to any level, well outside the fringe.


Some of it may be pretty, bordering beautiful.
Sucking in good people like us country folk.
We have seen Blood Diamonds and what it brings.
A disregard for man above those icy things.

Premium Member The Horrors of War

(NB  The character in this poem does not belong to any country but is generic.)

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The sirens howl.
I can smell the fear
I sow in the city.
My super gun can tear 
Through buildings
Where innocent people 
Lie huddled in despair.
I do not gloat.
My heart is ice.  
I have a job to do.
 
I feel all powerful
like a god.
I lie flat on the roof
High on a building.
The sun is high,
Scorching unrelenting,
blinding like a furnace
grilling sweat out of me.
 
Yet I lie still 
And watch the streets 
For the hated enemy.
He'll come.
He never learns.
He too thinks
he's like a god.
One of us may be dead tonight.
Or both!
Who knows who?
 
Far away I see the hill tops,
where eagles dare to fly.
Below the happy pastures,
the luscious grasses tall and fine.
Sheep graze, and women watch.
I feel the desires of old.
 
I wake to the present.
I know my job.
Who can beat me?
They will not see me,
Nor flee from me, 
They'll die at my hand.
For I fight legitimacy.
war

Premium Member La Dolce Vita, Opus One

La Dolce Vita  Part One 

How sweet life is, indeed!
The air we breathe, our nightly rest.
Think back about your very first
steps.
You played games outdoors with
your nose not stuck to a screen.
You romped in the woods ever so
merrily.
Days of conviviality with no fear.
Just endless days and nights
with parents and friends, we held
so very dear.
Life was just beginning for us.

Most of us went to Church and
learned who created the Universe.
We learned the Ten Commandments 
that applied to men and women...
one and all.

Our countries stood tall and 
proud. We loved our countries
proud of its flag and song.
Leaders were respected not
humiliated or the butt of jokes.

Times horribly transformed..
When God was shown the door
and our country and leaders
we abhor.
The New Bible is the deceitful and
devilish fourth estate,
That has made us hate each other
without reason or debate.

The time has come my friends
To get a grip, return to reality.
Love all and create a new world,
That is ours and for those yet to be.


June 10, 2019
4:30pm PST
Form: Rhyme


What If I Say

What if I say 

I love my country but not sure about their culture it's like a suicide to be in that...... What is if a father says to you that I'm the one who is behind your life what is wrong if I say is you then atleast do fullfied our needs if he say I had beyond my limits then if a child ask what is your limits only that you have taken a loan for us not else did you giving the exam not then why the hell you soucld us....... I am shame to say that Indian poilciy is shame for everyone..... 
What if I say my father gave mentally torch to my sis and she gets suicide and he clearly put that on her teachers what's is means you only know..... Is a teacher bad for there students 

What if I say... 
These Indians just think about them self no need to tell about my father...... Be blessed by God what Modi will do a smile nothing because he is just conquer his battle first...... 


With love all 
Jagdish Bajantri
Form: Narrative

Premium Member We Are the Children

We are the Children

Bombs fall from the sky
The little children wonder why?
The night is mixed with blood and tears
Screams that deafen the little ones ears

In the name of what God or religion?
Is this killing seen to serve a mission?
In the name of what Tribe or Country?
We the children ask you humbly

We used to play and run all day
Now we hide fearing bombs come our way
The days we wander in search of foods
Hiding from soldiers intent on blood feuds

Bombs still falling from the sky
The pain and terror, when shall we die?
There is a gun on top a dead soldier there
I myself ended this pain that I could not bear

The bullet saved me from more despair

Premium Member Forts And Castles

                      Both the terms ‘ Forts ‘ and ‘Castles’
                     remind us Royalty or Nobility
                     always maintaining super quality 
                      representing glory and grace
                       of bygone days.

                       Castle is a fortified private residence
                       of King-Queen or Emperor - Empress
                       Fort is purely military fortification
                       built to house, a garrison
                       defending specific military territory.
                       
                        Castles carrying royal heritage 
                         through ages being the dead witness
                         of ups and downs of so many dynasty
                         May be nasty or golden revolutionary,
                          always holding the history to ruminate.
                          Tears and joys are embedded in hearts of Castles,
                           where as Forts cradling rise and fall of races.

                            Forts and Castles are the witnesses
                            of human progress country wise or race wise
                             always attracting curiosity of populace.
                              Both are honoured unimanius.

Teargas From the Sky

Some knew him,
Some knew him not,
We all knew him somehow;
Nobody knew what he had become,
What he had always been,
Digital platforms were closed
On towards evening
And in the next evening,
There was nothing but
Teargas from the sky;
It was time to go home,
That was the drone of the chopper;
So much about the democratic chameleon:
Some guys are sworn to wars without winning,
Others to winning without wars:
When a man shuts off a country
From themselves and the rest of the world,
That man has lost the war,
With or without winning.

Teargas from the sky,
Suddenly the air is toxic,
God sent the rains to clear it all off.

Don'T Give Up

Don't Give Up
 When friends forsake and promised love dies you still have purpose. 
 Who could leave the Summer and her moon drenched country stream,
 Where pilgrims bathe when tired in body and soul?
 Who could leave the splendor of the Sun's glorious might,
 That penetrates the darkness and enchants the earth with light?
 Who could leave the Winter and her sweet snow white grace
 That shelters every shrub and tree with clusters of glistening lace
 And is the motivator of Blue Ridge and Rocky Mountain sport,
 Persuading both friend and lover to coze 'round fires of blazing warmth?
 Who could leave the Autumn and her discarded crispy leaves,
 That afford the ear such pleasure 'til recalled by melancholy trees?
 Who could deny eyes her intoxicating colors or nose her rare perfume?
 Autumn banishes from the soul every bit of gloom.
 Who could leave the Springtime that births a tingling in the toes?
 And with her healing fragrances and gift of Gypsy Rose,
 Woos you deep into green forests and magic meadowland,
 Where flowers sway taking one's breath away,
 And inspire's the poets hand.

 By Joan May (Donnelly) Ellis
Form: Verse

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