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Premium Member Two Words

Two Words
 
Dream
Scheme

Beam
Team

Shout
Pout

Duel
Shot

Life
Death

Brain
Drain

Stupid
Cupid

Dumb
Numb

Rum
Thumb

Prosecute
Electrocute

Einstein
Infinity

Immigrant
Us

Atom
Bomb

Strength
Weakness

Love
Hurt 

Fate
Destiny

God
Cosmos

Lucifer
Lost

Passion
Torpid

Feelings
Flatline

Politician
Huckster

Glorious
Despicable

Moon
Mars

Space 
Race

Beguile
Style

Truth
Lie

Cake
Pie

Bicycle
Tricycle

Car
Jar

Balloon
Burst

First
Last

Lust
Like

Fist
Fight

Right
Write

Left
Deft

Genius
Idiot

Manners
Rude

Give
Take

Rate
Deflate 

Washington
Jefferson

Hamilton
Burr

Trump
Nixon

Hitler
Wotan

Karloff
Lugosi

Frankenstein
Dracula

Foot
Fall

Think
Blink

Popcorn
Unicorn

Coffin
Fly

Fish
Fry

Good
Bad

Think
Drink

Smile
Scowl

Teeth
Towel

Grimace
Ace

Lash
Bash

Date
Hate

Hurry
Wait

Freeze
Animate

Brave
Wave

Holocaust
Heydrich

Fool
Drool

Slob
Blob

Dead
Undead

Alive
Thrive

Evolution
Revolution

Vampire
Umpire

Wire
Dire

Flour
Flower

Alien
Robot

Klaatu
Gort

Tower
Power

Rush
Hour

Talk
Walk

Hysterical
Empirical

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved
July 8, 2018 (Short-Form Free Verse)


Premium Member Drawn Lines

Lines are drawn. fists are clenched. Behind word-armor, 
they stay entrenched.
Spit flies hot from either side,
Where grace and virtue no longer abide.

Signs hoisted higher still, 
suchlike words spewing from mouth
Tongues like serpents, 
like from the bible throughout.

With thunderous noise, no one hears;
Cries from the vile mistaken as cheers.
Tisn’t the words from their tongue that they choke.
But heavy taste of pepper, within the smoke.

Rocks depict the sky. Swarm like locusts.
Some declaring their mark, like words to poets.
Chaos and malice placed above devotion.
Running through their minds, is the serpents potion.

Skies crack open. Brilliance rendering them blind.
Panic sets in. The left and right entwined.
Then a sound; Not a sound, a choice.
In the silent and still thunders a voice.

“Narrow is the gate that most will not find”
“Honor your Father. Love all mankind.”
“Deflate your chest and lay down your gun”
“So saith the lamb. So saith the Son.”

And they, with open ears bow their heads.
They surrender their lines and head for their beds.
They bend the knee and ask forgiveness
Internal conviction, divinity, they’ve become witnessed.

Those who remain, their choice made clear
The word is there to those, who choose to hear.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Of Lives Past a Haibun Prose Envelope

OF LIVES PAST a haibun prose envelope
Perfection is an illusive pastime ,an unending quest that hides delusion in uncharted waters on life's path.Distractions,obstacles spring up unannouced, by chance,opportunities deflate in despair.Again,again,the siren's call. beckons innocent naivety,nothing is simple one is alive.

uniquely ourselves
littered by our obsessions-
loneliness cries out

One is alive ,each day, breathing,eating living, yet separate, alone but part of another,blood smeared by genes linked ,chain by chain in generations pattern.We wait and wait in line,repeating the same mistakes,treading the same circle.Imaging progress is reality,pretending we are wise and certain.Never to wonder why!

You may hear me recite this haibun and much of my PS anthology on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro.

Catch my short forms @strandpoet on twitter
Form: Haibun

Celebrate Our Souls

Celebrate our souls
By Michelle Morris
17/08/2022

Sleep doesn't help
When it's your soul that's tired
You feel like you've gone a million miles 
Away from your highest power

And in this Universe so vast
We feel so very small
We ask God to help us
When we stumble and we fall

We sometimes forget that
We are powerful too
For God made us from stardust
And gave us free will to choose

And the choices that we make
Can inspire or deflate our souls 
We can conquer anything
If we make the effort boldly 

The restlessness we experience
Is often when we're torn
When we are afraid to embrace our path
And become our best selves formed

And once we empower ourselves
Become all that we can be
We'll celebrate our souls
And make the most of our humanity

© Michelle Morris, 2022
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Seven Ate Nine

What's up miss popular? People know about your greed
Ya, got the text. The "Hey, dotard, don't talk to me freak,"
The average joe, and those silly electronics"
Please, Click Itch, labeling others as the smelly geek
So many countless hours cushioning in luxury
Preparing to feed your lust, her dinner platter                         
Feasting on periodic table and splitting bonding
Then misguided paparazzi ask what’s the matter?
Dr. Gluttony's remedy, a coke and Mentos
Pridefully smiling as other families shatter
Expecting everyone’s contributions to the plate
Because, you are the modern-day narcissistic (*sore)
The search engines have endless pages on the topic
Upon your illusion throne, craving and wanting more   
Deep down in the shadows, harbors your anger and wrath
Enviously fishing for a fresh party's primate
Yep, Scarlett, Megan and Kelly all have perfect cups
But don’t worry, over time your bim-bims will deflate
Sorry, Brittany and Jen both have the perfect butt
Though your horoscope says, “glutes are going to inflate”
Ma'am Trash Troll, you have not the cash flow of Uncle Sam
What A disgusting branded pathetic child you are 
Your future will be a shabby truck driver's pit stop
Slothfully dreaming of becoming a super star


*Word changed 

Updated 5/14/219 

-Urban Dictionary-
1.Click Itch  -  An everlasting feeling of need to start clicking, usually on social sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Google, Pinterest, etc.
2.Dotard - An aging individual who has long lost the ability to make rational sense.
3.Cushioning   -  A dating technique where along with your main piece you also have several 'cushions', other people you'll chat and flirt with to cushion the potential blow of your main break-up and not leave you alone.
© G. Jay  Create an image from this poem.
Form:


Premium Member Growing Old Ungracefully

Lord, have mercy! Who is that in the mirror I view?
That can't be me with the gray-haired hue!
Seems only yesterday I was a jaunty thirty-five,
Now, I'm reminded that I'm nearing seventy-five!

What are those brown spots on my hands and face?
On top of my pate, I observe a sizeable bald space.
To further deflate my ego, I wear a pair of specs.
Alas, I'm rapidly becoming one of those mortal wrecks!

My teeth grin at me from a glass on the table,
And I have a cane handy to keep me stable.
In the morning as I arise I detect a creak.
Is that the bed springs or my bones making that squeak?

In church I must occupy the very front pew.
From the rear the preacher's words are hard to construe.
It takes me more time to shuffle around the block.
After all, I'm no longer a twenty-five year old jock!

Sometimes I feel as if I'm falling apart,
But thankfully there are docs, their services to impart,
And if they can manage to keep me all patched up,
I'll get around, thank you, as well as any young pup!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired (© All Rights Reserved)
Form: Rhyme

Demon Already Loosed Out This Curmudgeon Beast

Ignominy hewed into comeuppance, 
where yours truly aggrieved state 
far worse fate  
than becoming deceased, though 
years gone by since meek kin 
grievously afflicted soundly did berate
  
deplorable marital indiscretion 
this mister (wordsmith) forced opaque  
double life undetected 
confession subsequently told mate, 
she (nor eldest daughter) 
riled, none to pleased, nonplussed

the latter (now living/working of late 
San Francisco, California), 
thus distance doth abate 
plus elapsed time buffer zone   
lessens lesson learned never to copulate 
(best if done early at any rate) 

still loathes (at least smolders) 
apt appellation liaison found papa 
caught with figurative pants down lil mandate 
formerly loosed upon Venus to excavate 
as no fallacy warm prickly didst deflate 
no stranger as expletive ingrate  

attests no more Casanova trait 
deservedly called him regarding 
extramarital tete a tete 
apology made forgiveness accepted, 
thou accept culpability I narrate 
wife high infidelity transgression, 

mine inferiority complex 
sex seeded to emasculate 
all throughout boyhood, 
adolescence, young manhood,  
veritable entire lifetime spate 
whereby fourscore and seven years ago 

minus seventeen orbitz hied dedicate 
mastermind pursuit didst facilitate 
matt's scott's getgo automatically 
begat self worthlessness 
dismal social withdrawal didst accentuate 
courtesy threatening taunts, 
name calling, bullying as master bait 

helped discredit any shred and underrate 
me yet, now vestigial self confidence
helps me to reevaluate 
within calmer metaphorical seas 
how to steer this wallowing,
lumbering, aging... frigate 
plus a brief plug for Colgate, 

nonetheless choppers rotted 
legacy courtesy dental quandary... 
subsequently oral crisis did abate 
quick lemme abbreviate 
courtesy periodontal disease 
dentures fitted hence concludes
tracked train of thought I freight.

Premium Member Chandra

A hawk, moments after dawn,
circling.
Somewhere,
somewhere at the edge of near;
a somewhere known to the pessimistic
as far,
as there,
as not,
not
Here.
Not near.

Occasionally, a flashed shadow
over the sun-bleached apricot sky.
Just to the West.
Where the yellower light spills now
over the half-new roof and well-appointed chimney
of farm/field/stone.
Into the valley of clinging green
and the stone wall edge of the Farm
where the trees have one and all
forgot the late date.
They’ve
steadfastly, triumphantly, unarguably
argued for their summer-earned greens.

The moon is so high as to be unknown.
There above the maple.
There above the shred-ragged, yellowing
banana leaves -
the makeshift windvane of wavily oversea kelp.
Unknown
to the crook of neck,
to the poor sleepers,
to the cheap pillow resters. 

It is such a slight sliver
that
it gives a cool shiver
to my flesh.
The momentary thought of,
a splinter of wood getting under skin.
The slight sharp sliver of dim silver moon
seems so sharp as to
threaten to deflate the dim blue,
the pale blue
October sky.

Premium Member A Tale of Cosmos - Part 1

etherial entities, Elsewhere and Elsewhen
  less than omnipotent but exceeding their parts
  abide in Netherverse, universal children
  intertwining potentials conceive child of their arts

  a difficult birth through a point of positions
  with a breath of inflation our Cosmos survives
  face lights up with symmetry breaking transitions
  a familiar fine face in the microwave skies

  expanding bubble within a where-when ocean
  two-way quantum cuddles along the interface
  to us, top and bottom, a confusing commotion
  to Cosmos, it's all around, warm parents embrace

  and Cosmos communicates with siblings and friends
  beyond overlapping membranes down massive black holes
  at centres of galaxies where light bends and bends
  re-meeting and greeting wild oceanic shoals

  an ocean of learning, an endless becoming
  made in the image of imagined potential
  and listen closely, Cosmos is faintly humming
  music symphonic with daring differential

  keeping a rhythm that fast-forwards down aeons
  then surfs the present and through time loops back
  fabulous instruments, incredible crayons
  sketch the past and future in one amazing track

  and our Cosmos is tuned to the beat of life
  empathy etched across a holographic mind
  sharing grief and joy, the world weary cries of strife
  the sheer delight of being, delirious and kind

  awareness arises and then consciousness awakes
  first galaxy focused on planets around stars
  life teems, dreams and dances as intelligence outbreaks
  escaping gravity's grip but leaving some scars

  for pain and exultation, they fly together
  space-timed, time-spaced, while smiling over horizons
  Cosmos listens, then learns, needs touch of a feather
  to fine tune core settings and cosmic liaisons

  the task is great, for the infant bubble may burst
  and then duly deflate to a point singular
  or forever speed out so flat-lined and cursed
  where, when, then... would learning be in story so far?
© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

Ask For Help

Ask for help
By Michelle Morris
10/11/2022

You're not sleeping, again
The anxiety has you beaten down
Coffee shops at 3am
Don't really help your cause

Life is a celebration
But even balloons deflate after the party
Things can't be upbeat all the time
And you aren't expected to smile about it 

Take a deep breath
The first step is to admit there's a problem
Allow yourself to be vulnerable
Ask for help and accept it with grace

Not everyone will stand by you
And not everyone will understand
But true friends will be there
And help you through troubled waters

Take time for the self-care you need
Be patient and let yourself heal
Those scars will feel ugly for a while
But they reflect the reality of wars waged

Release the rage and indecision
Release the ego and self-loathing
Take the steps each day where you can
And try to enjoy the journey and revelations

It may seem like you're lost in the reeds
Or that you're sinking into quicksand
But ultimately you'll realise
That you have strength and power within

And one day you'll look back on this
Whether a year or ten from now
You can overcome so much, my friend
If you allow your love and hope to prosper

© Michelle Morris, 2022

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