Long Curative Poems

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Premium Member Eucalyptus Elixir

If sky is a sea of 
fallen flowers
and dusty diamonds 
glazed in red,
I’ll unfurl the 
saffron sun within,
stretching sandalwood 
arms of serenity,
upon gardens of 
glistening grief,
with healing herbs 
and soothing spices,
from greener grass 
of life amidst sorrow.

For I can 
move mountains 
and secure trees, 
to a therapeutic realm 
where perfumed 
petals never wilt. 
While kindness I sow 
shall sprout in hues 
of warm honey and 
raspberry dreams.

I am an 
unshakable rose,
blooming from 
roots of ruins,
facing fiery fangs of 
the phasing tulip moon
above wildfires 
of whirling woes. 
This musky
spirit is timeless,
resembling the 
flaming heart of 
an untamable phoenix. 
My silence soars
beyond mourning wolves;
ice blue eyes 
of fleeting seasons.

And you, twin-star~
my sister I cannot 
breathe without,
will forever be the reason,
I’ll wear this amethyst 
sequined armor,
to sail through
   ripples of rage, 
like a floating candle
amidst eclipsed tides,
that shifts and sparkles,
while flickering eucalyptus elixir~
upon scentless tea lights.

So if tomorrow, clouds 
above your 
sleepless sanctuary 
swing with poisoned rain,
to drizzle splinters upon
your bed of melancholy,
remember, I’ll find my way
to your unrhymed spheres,
steal perfectly metered 
syllables of hope, 
from the elysian above,
that sprinkles
champagne lunar-beams,
and I’ll weave 
a curative poem
beneath the ink-less
canvas of acrylic dirt, 
to calm your 
midnight musings with
mellifluous metaphors.


Premium Member What Love Is This

Love is not a noun- it is a verb
For it is not an abstract idea

Love is not a feeling
or saying someone is nice when they are not

Love for an enemy
does not mean,not punishing their wrong

Love is not taught
rather it is caught

Love of the agape kind...
an affair of the will

agape
     the greatest gift
                      remains
clear sighted
 curative
      a treasure of the heart

love with no expectation
                      on seeing reality
continues
           to love
agape
    again&again
             
an act
       of the will
infused inspired
             by
                    grace
made manifold
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Framing the Pin-Up Girl

FRAMING THE PIN-UP GIRL

His hands, they frame and catch, the pin-up girl.
Tanned hands, they're hot - he drops his sweaty palms.

     Her lips - plum succulence. Hair’s suavely curl ~
     a brilliant cinnamon. He has some qualms.

Approaches beauty queen with plastered smile.
She feigns to look away ~ that’s just her way.

     Performance broken by his slipshod style.
     Turns out, they're moon and sun ~ like night and day.

The opposite attract of belle and nerd,
A curative for broken-hearted ~ bliss.

     A certain bit of trouble is assured.
     Before the final curtain falls ~ love’s kiss.

He’s coy and lovable and kind of dreamy.
She’s brash and pushy but she’s rather steamy.

9/28/2017
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Answer Me, O Silence, Answer Me

Why the deep, dark valleys in my life,
Why the high peaks of heavenly rife,
Why the unfertile and fruitless leas,
Answer me, O Silence, answer me?

Must I live and die in netherworld,
Frozen in a paralyzed curl,
In search of light beyond dark of night,
Believing life is incessant strife?

The highs that lift me upward to God,
The lows that bury me in foul sod,
Days cast out upon bellowing seas,
Answer me, O Silence, answer me? 

In the darkness I seek out and try,
To understand and mull over why,
There seems to be no curative balm,
To heal  a soul that’s, empty of calm. 

Are you so aloof that you don’t care,
Do you think my illness is too rare,
Are you fully clad in apathy,
Answer me, O Silence, answer me?

How long must I voice this fervent plea,
To be set free from this malady,
I grow tried playing this hide and seek,
O Silence, wake up and answer me?
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Tree at the Beginning and End of Time

In Eden’s primeval era,
in the Garden’s lush center,
what was the Tree of Life like
in all its mythic mystery?

Did its robust branches spread low and wide,
the perfect roost for birds and primates?
Did innocent birds sing joyously in their nests,
or was there a reverent hush within the leaves?
Were the countless emerald leaves long and broad,
ever blazing with brilliant phosphorescent glow?
Did its fruit radiate the color of crimson,
the juice oozing the nectar of redemption?
Was that everlasting Tree a divine gift
withdrawn from humanity for all time?

After Adam and Eve’s heartbreaking eviction
and humanity’s scattering to thistled lands,
what ensued in the enigmatic Garden,
after vanishing in first sin’s aftermath?
Did the Tree weep like a willow,
folding its branches in prayer
for some future redemption
and return to the Garden,
for them, for us,
for you, for me.

Is the tree weeping for us still,
like willows of Babylon wept
along with Jewish captives
who hung lyres in the branches,
while cruelly taunted by captors
during the long exile from Zion?

We too were exiled from Eden,
and exiled also from Zion,
exiled from one another,
exiled furthermore from God.
But lost exiles
can yet return.

In Revelation’s heavenly vision,
by the quiet river’s crystal water,
the Tree calmly awaits
the first couple’s return
to the renewed Garden
in its enhanced glory.
The eternal Tree beckons,
while waiting millennia,
for them, for us,
for you, for me.

The tree yields continuous, copious crops
of its shining, savory, succulent fruit,
and the soothing, curative leaves of the Tree
can heal hearts of humans who wish to come.

Will you come to the Tree,
behold its bright beauty,
inhale its fresh fragrance,
and savor its goodness?

Let’s climb that tree together,
resting on its wide branches,
to eat its unforbidden fruit
and use salvific leaves to wipe
sweet juices and salty tears
from our forgiven faces.


Long Night

He turned off the running water,
soaped his face not glancing at the mirror,
a long night ahead.

He had four shadows
on the four walls of this rental,
not a good sign.

When later he turned the bedside light on,
the glowing silhouette of his head on the pillow
burgeoned, swelling upwards until
it pancaked on the ceiling above.

Still groggy after the hashish
still psychoactive,
he got dressed.

Out walking the dark Luxor streets
he found a coffee shop still open.
The thick sweet brew was served to him,
a lime green dwarf
sporting a banana yellow fez.

Never again he thought,
patting his pockets hoping to find
some curative cancer sticks.

55 My 11th Leaf

55.

My 11th Leaf



Rended thee from herb

Released from thy curb

Curative floral

Sure medicinal

“Kalamantigue”!



Our neighbor nearest

Uncle for me best

Tatay's next brother

To me godfather

Nice Dudoy Etic



This night near nine, ten

This day – eleven

This month – eleven

This year - eleven

Brown-out, full moon bright



Dudoy Etic's fence

Outside adjacence

Rare luminescence

Utter silence

Almost front gate's door



Enroll I finish

MAT English

Salingsing polish

Begin fitness wish

Saw Iglot first last!



-11/11/2011

(Dumarao)

*My Toladas Collection
Form: Rhyme

The Monologue of the Survivor

A piece for those trying to smile 
While walking 
The longest of miles 

(A lone voice whispers)


I have loved my life
Called it a thousand names
As I fought through pain

All its gifts are mine
They all reside deep inside

For I'm illuminated

I feel everything around and within
Even when I’m defeated
I feel sacred

I bathe in the perpetual glow
Of a glorious sun

But no matter how far I wonder
No matter how far I run

My inner sun
Holds treasures for the soul

The more I give
The more I feel whole

Although I change
Physically
Every seven years

I'm indomitable

I study the splendour of my life
I celebrate the joys and pains

For my faith
Is formidable

Stranded to rhythms and
outrageous patterns of chaos
I materialize to create my own cosmos

With
Divine symmetry

Between my powers
Of inspiration and sensation
This wild life is simply my own seance

I desire the paths I walk

The side roads
Streets and byroads

Filled with newer experiences and faces
Thrill me

I offer compassionate and benevolence
To all in need

I control the Achilles' heels
Within my world

For its fears
Are irrelevant

I celebrate in the curative power of pleasure
I satisfy my hunger within its revered well

I initiate the deep free dive
To impenetrable depths
To find my blazing strength

Flowing from my crux to create new worlds
As my guardian angels wept

Love and Laughter 
Elevate me

I hail from paradise to create my sanctuary
To pay tribute to my true spirit

For its inner beauty is beyond compare

Writing
Poetry
Singing and smiling

For
I'm an original
Simply surviving

Copyright John Duffy
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Huntington's Disease

Huntington's chorea one horrible ill

There's no curative treatment or pill

Science does research all fails

Some to no avail

Man can't cure

Still

I'm sure

Of sunrise, boat's sails

A new day offers details

Of a treatment, not a living will

Huntington's chorea one horrible ill  

Written: November 25, 2018
Contest: The I Of The Storm Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Maureen McGreavy

Huntington's Disease is a brain disease caused by an abnormal protein that accumulates in the brain. This diseased protein interferes in the neurons making connection in the brain to carry out necessary thought process and movement. It can come on even in early childhood to late age and last from a few years to a very long time. The family who lives with this hanging over their head goes through the turmoil as well as the person who has the illness.

This is Andrea Dietrich's form but I can't remember the name of it.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Wounds Into Scars

Wounds Into Scars
                 by Odin Roark

It takes not a wise man to know
What we resist
Will persist

So goes the healing process
Just as a tree
With its heart and initial carvings
Carries its scars with little notice
So too might we carry our own
Those verbal
Physical
Spiritual
Lacerations
Often a suffering performance
As if they were for public view

The small child knows early
“Kiss the booboo”
And mothers are quick to reinforce
The child’s need

But as we grow
We forget the essence of a mother’s care
The mother’s empowering way
To repair with love

Instead

Many wear pain and sorrow on their lapels
Trusting a confused society
Often glorifying pain
Placing many an open wound
Before audience-sympathy
Unknowingly substituting exploitation
For the teachings of maternal empathy

How wanting one’s instincts can become
Innate reaction to hurt
Once serviced by natural response
Too often succumbs to ego pampering
Rather than seeking the axiom therein

That place where accepting the hurt
Seduces pain into questioning
Bringing to bear
The precarious courage
To learn the lesson
Of self-love’s curative

Might it be
Like mother nature’s engraved trees
At any age affliction reminds us
Growing is still the purpose
Injuries and scars inevitable

Like the tree
Perhaps it’s really a question
Of how we absorb
And treat ourselves
From within
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