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Wraith, Geist, or Wrath of the Failure

Seems my handwriting will never improve,
Yearlong efforts, letters still oblong.
Not quite right, but we pretend it’s not all bad,
I fixate on each line, a prerequisite approach.
So next and then that line and its spacing, proper
striving for excellence, sentence, cursed to find
some semblance, a distant echo. Earshot.
Eardrum. POP!

Outward rang disdain, my reality indifferent,
Marks resembling a bell curve in chicken sketch,
It distorts my outlook, tarnishes self-image.
I try with practice sheets laid out,
Only to be reminded of the horrors I scrawl within.

Devastating, humiliating,
Suppressing nausea,
Sick of this, hating my own thoughts,
Ruining half-decent poems or ideas.
Regardless of merit or talent shown,
sent into the fire.
scribe on restroom walls
its contrived and
makes me writhe.

I discard writing tools,
My creative well runs dry, deceased,
Gone, past tense, already done in.
Progress slower than a snail,
with kidney failures

Skull soon exposed.
I’ll tear at my scalp,
Writing used to be fun.
You'll say, 'shut my trap'.

The torment I hold towards
every pen, pencil, or marker on any shelf.
Chasing after graphite,
specific utensils, lead grade, ink, acrylic,
I want them gone, obliterated,
Every trace, every hint.

EXTINGUISHED EVERY PEICE OF
. . .
Sorry, I get carried away...

This heretic! The disappointment,
Frail and brittle behind every attempt.
All result in zero, void, null, nil.

Here I sit, head in hands,
My task forever incomplete,
More setbacks, my drive
and desire to compete.

Now I understand why progress is elusive, unseen.
Hard-scoped when each step shown seems hopeless
rooted in the waste of regression.
I would be remiss if my speech lacked spirit.

Results: Inconclusive


Next topic: I digress,

I relinquish anima,
Lay to rest a thousand eyes’ constraints,
Seeking arrangements through attainment.
If there's space to graze, then seize the day.
Something bountiful in the invisible,
Nature's beauty in the winds of change,
Wrinkles on sheets of belief,
A moment for molecules deem insignificant,
Nested in the fabric of space-time,
An embarrassment that's all mine,
It is really all fine.
Signed, A construct for mortality.


Premium Member For Eternity

Pray, do not be confused over the essence of the soul
Pray, know that it lives for a time, oh so eternal
Know that life was in the past
And that even after death, to its consciousness it shall cling on fast

Why, I say so not because I have read about it in Holy Books
I say so not because I do not want to seem fake
But I say so because I have felt it
Yes, of the mystical, life did give me a treat

Yes, my secret, the reason why I have accepted life
Yes, the reason why I have chosen to walk my mile
Is merely because the skies did open up to me, to spark up my faith
See, previously, I was but a mere atheist, over life's sins did I drool

But then, it came to me and I got to know why my life does be such
Why, it is the same for each and everyone of us
Even if we are made of blinded vision and ignorance
Yes, for our time here shall come to an end

So, from an atheist I became one who does preach
Now, no more over life's petty issues do I fuss
Now, I enjoy life and take my miseries as boons given to me in abundance
For I have come to know that life does keep on being after death

Yes, I do affirm of such!  But then, my secret shall be carried with me to my grave
For this world does not be for those who do deem themselves brave
Instead, they are taken to be fools
Yes, fools too scared to live their lives fully

But I do calmer now, I do be sober now
In another realm, to live shall I be allowed
Indeed, life does go on
Even if Death does be the one with the crown

Of course, I shall remember my life
Of course, I shall cherish those memories
But then, I shall try my best to protect this Earth
Indeed, for it did allow me to live here for a few years

Pray, here, living shall be my memory
Elsewhere, living shall I be for eternity
Do not believe of such to be mere whimsical fancies
Do not, for the truth they do be, and certainly not made up stories!

Answer to Question:
Will your soul be conscious after you have left the Earth?
10 May 2016
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member An Apathetic Realm

To dwell in an apathetic realm between darkness and light,
not caring if people hear or listen to me, would be a plight.
Being stoical, taciturn and indifferent to pain or pleasure,
when emotions are unsung for there are none to measure.

Being aloof could never be my long-term objective.
I'm not passive about things, but it's a stoic's perspective,
that being neutral prevents them from becoming fraught
over things they deem inconsequential, and care naught.

They wear the blank expression of a cow ruminating cud.
Though thorns may stab their flesh, tears will never flood.
In silence they suffer pain as if their heart has been ablated,
accepting apathy as the destiny with which they were fated.

Let others bow and pray to stone images of gods they make.
Fools, who do not know sentiments can cause heartache.
Stoicism is a concept, the accepted philosophy of the mind.
They find tranquility when indifferent, but I am not that kind.

Apatheia is the goal, detachment from pleasured passion,
but I'd not be stoic if love is an emotion I'd have to ration.
Tears well in my eyes when whispered words of love I hear.
I'm not stoical by nature. There are too many things I revere.
© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Whispered Brightness

Written: May 06, 2026, for contest sponsored by Brian Strand

10th place contest winner

                                ****************
If you wish for 
               your joy to wander on— 
                     treasure it as a precious gem, 
                            a quiet secret,
                                   Cosmos cannot clone.

                                    Guard it  
                          akin to flame  
                  trembling in the wind,  
         an elfin, sacred brightness  
   that warms everything  
It touches.  

Hold it close  
        when the days grow loud;  
                 don’t expose it  
                        to careless hands  
                              or let routine  
                                    rub away its luster.  

                                 Don’t let it fade  
                      into the ordinary—  
           Love is not common 
unless we deem it so.

And if it tarnishes,  
              as all precious things do,  
                        polish it gently  
                                 with tenderness,  
                                      with patience,  
                                            with the soft persistence  
                                                   of someone who remembers  
                                                            Why did they pick this heart?  

                                                        It will gleam again,  
                                                bright as the first day  
                                         You held it—  
                                   brighter, even,  
                          for having survived the storm.  

      For love,  
              when cherished,  
                       does not merely endure—  
                                                 it deepens,  
                                                 it sweetens,  
                                                 its radiance swells
                                                 than the moment  
                                                 It began.
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.

Desire of all

Cover blown 
Your plan is now known
Deem dim your scheme 
But don’t forfeit your dream 

No man claims to deserve 
But all want to own and preserve 
To be lords in perpetuity 
With their kind, kindred and fraternity 

And so it’s a watchful game
Keenness and spying remains the same
The outcomes and trends are touted
And so is history routed

Propping up and talking down 
Marks the contest for the crown
To sway those who sway at speech
And thin the contest in pitch

The prize begins coveted and dear
Until being weary and in fear
Heightens the cost for plenty 
Heightening the stakes for a few and scanty

The mind plans and the eye takes glance
But both are slave to time and chance
All want privilege and privilege is to all
And to this, God extend His Call

K. Muitherero
Form: Rhyme


My Bad

Accept this rare and actual gesture I honestly mean,
My amends I direct towards the one who is unseen.
No more will my hatred be directed specifically at you,
I never offer this unless I deem it honest and true.
All I have to say is *I'm Sorry* no longer will I take it out on you.
I realize that it's not your fault that I finally got a clue. 
Never can I just live the hidden lie,
Ignor the strength of my words that some will deny.
You shouldn't hate this poetry, it's where my words excell,
Within this framework of artistry i cast and control the spell,
So if you cannot handle words that i write,
Then so mote it be I'll accept your smite.
Don't take it so personal the compositions I create,
Yours truly and forever in eternal blasphmate.
Form: Rhyme

Songs N Signatures

day dreaming 
beneath your ceiling
under your cracks of blue
on a cloudy Sunday
I was something
soothing you
Lying in the crescents
of a mystery
Am I spending
too much time with you

and we were a shoulder 
alive and highly 
candling the thoughts of two
oh, they say i was 
spending too much 
time with you
beneath your cracks of blue
day dreaming
in the streets of night
lights and colors
a shimmering absence
vacant promises

in these all night dreams
when day light seemed 
to wonder and deem
until 
the morning screamed 
and i was crazy
how you crazed me
the jewels you gave me
drove me daisies
into hours hazel
crowded and hazy

and we were children
beyond a rhythm
waltzing in a melody
alive and highly
beneath the splinters
flowers rekindled
but they say i was 
spending too much 
time with you
day dreaming 
in her cracks of blue

oh she loved you
she seldom left you
in the cracks of blue
across the avenue
it was nothing new
just day dreaming
souls were clinging
songs of signature
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Crumbling Matrix

What is this strange place we find ourselves in?
Trapped in the open- we are free within.
Somehow the norms we always saw as true-
have been displaced by those we're not used to.

Some rules we follow for our country's sake
no longer held as true, replaced as fake!
A new world order- now our leaders crave-
and yet, within we know we must stay brave.

Free speech, our Bill Of Rights, grants one and all
to speak our minds on all things large and small.
But now, we're punished to express known truth
as those in charge may deem as so uncouth.

The matrix we are asked to now uphold
defies our Constitution's clear-cut mold.
And so we find our ways to follow creeds
our Constitution verifies as needs.

The underground of free-speech websites grant
safe haven for we patriots who can't
express ourselves- the truths we still adhere
without the thought of being silenced-fear.

There, lives support for spreading freedom's spin-
trapped in the open- we are free within.
Form: Couplet

Winter

A soft whisper
a buzz like bumble

singing springs songs quietly
Her songs I shall mumble

Once I lay neatly my body
Please do not disinter 

for I shall sing loudly springs songs
Once I  make it out of winter

Flowers lead to sleep 
as sleeps fuels my pain

I seep into this darkness
with only winter to blame 

Sitting in silence 
Winter  on my mind

That  painful abyss
only a matter of time 

Before the land of the free lay riddled in depth 
Starting with spring 
Ending with death

Starting with love 
The seasons will change
the fall flowers will bloom 
that I know
today it shall rain
Tomorrow it will snow 

Today you will witness my glorious suicide
Tomorrow you shall act as if we were in love
Today springs showers deem me crucified 
Tomorrow winter shall lift me above

I’ve waited to long for springs farewell
So I shall push the seasons myself
I shall Push with my songs
pain
Pride 
& Heart
I shall push with my death.
Form: Rhyme

Though Nervous

Though Nervous...

Yours truly, quite dissimilar
to a woodlark,
nonetheless, this human
i(r)onically positively charged
to forge covalent bond,

hence this stranger
axon impulse to generate,
modulate, and spark...
assimilate virtual digital connection
with mine quark

key aura, charisma,
and karma acquired,
sans "FAKE" trumpeting
assertion tubby Ozark
Mountain Daredevil, I feign

boasting as true mark
Putin on Ritz storyteller wannabe,
incorporated with hallmark
card writer, and thus
feeble attempt to embark

upon eurythmic quest
to facilitate online journey,
wherever the whim
of reciprocity, spontaneity,
and transparency doth
deem reasonable benchmark.

Blatant camaraderie desire
explains rhyme and reason,
(and collusion) if such tactic appealed
within scrunched, highbrowed, and furrowed
forehead this whim congealed,

eyebrows raised with elan to field
said poetic laced metrical pursuit
(grammatically well healed)
unsure what outcome,
(perhaps duff feeted endeavor)
might be revealed!

At deux score away from
attaining Sant Henny yawl
whirl wide aging cobwebs
glom rusty cogs and wheels
of me noggin pine to flip

(the hands of time)
growing old steals
often playing back gauzy past,
where silently musty
Old Virginny hoary memory reels

squeakily turn, yet revisiting,
painful remembrance of things past
only reminds me how this Scottish Matt
got stepped on by many heels.

Numerous unpleasant vivid bro
kin recollections of doomed,
foregone smitten loves flit to and fro
many awkward boyhood infatuations never
broached to secret paramour,

asper this common Joe
forever embossed pretty thang,
penniless and dolorous 1959 minted
baby boomer lass ne'er did know,

probably snickered (out of mine earshot),
a painfully shy lad, who stood
(rather small) apart from status quo
sported nerdy skinny as toothpick physique
encompassing scared kid accumulating woe.

Even at this instant forlorn romantic
notions finds this papa craze
zilly wished courage existed to
whisper "hello" during prepubescent days
for one gull in particular engendered

unstoppable fervent gaze
especially within cat's whisker
visiting her hypnotic gaze
leaving suppressed, locked, and bottled
languishing testosterone
squelched in confusing maze.

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