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Madly In Love

Madly in love 
with a turbulent world 
in a swirling wayward bloom, 
till I froze, swept by your comely face.
So, the dreams I once doted on!

Beauty bubbles in your presence, 
blurred in my prime by a mirage, 
a blinding illusion. Who cares? 
Who dares steer off the broad way, 
pull over and trace the virgin country 

where nature nurtures beauty. 
Pure as a lily, you ray like a rose; 
and nod, a poppy in a delicate breeze. 
Blinking dew, you wake with the sun, 
splashing the canvas with seven colors. 

A glow at crown of noon, you smile 
like setting sun at the border, 
clothing clouds in gold. Stars wink
their joy; the moon steps out in style. 
Who wouldn't celebrate your beauty? 

Even the blind, the deaf, and the dumb; 
they see, hear, and shout your comeliness: 
a germ tucked away from passing peep 
until heart locks onto heart. 

Now I dream your beauty in others. 
Even in the filthy frenetic world,  
love gleams on faces racing down 
the superhighway hoping to meet 
with you in the jam. 

© 2016 Celestine S. Ikwuamaesi


Premium Member The Uncanny Stranger

The stranger is strange, pariah, leper sounds offbeat,
 Neither truculent, nor relevant, all destined to encounter the doomed relic;
The bizarre outlander, alien to stimulate the instant pulse-beats!
The uninvited hobnobber, one despises to welcome in routine frolic.
The stranger is unsolicited, the object of latent fear,
As strange may be the ways of the unbidden ones' intentional cares!
 The stranger is unfaithful: weird to tranquility, comfort and cheer,
For the sceptical one, we become anxious by a mere fateful encounter! 

 
The stanger lies in our conscience; in a distant land in paradoxical disguise.
Masquerade, the image generates an uncanny fear to sigh! 
Sounds delinquent to subjugate the wires of prudent conscience!
 Nonetheless, cogitates as usurper of peace; an ineffable parti pris. 
Self-centred, they are loquacious, spell bound like con stars;
Babbles from the masks, camouflages as the epitomes of pretenders.
Unknown, unfamiliar, stirs alarms not to mingle, to be away, to be cautious.
In disguise, comes the alleged stanger to ruin ones' peace to shudder and shatter.


But the most alarming of all preconceived archetypes, are the strangers:
Who lingers on, as routine friends and well wishers,
On whom we doted on, are the real dear strangers,
Who by feigning friends, acted quisling, an obvious stranger!
'Hold!' sometimes left us dumbfounded with their insensible fickle deeds;
Even when the unknown stanger might spare and stand by us in awful needs!
When our intimate ones deny to wink at the distress;
While busy in spilling the beans, our woes go unnoticed by the feigned well-wishers.
Indeed! They are the untagged apparent strangers, fugitives in our trials. 
Beware of those strangers, whom we adore as near and dear ones, 'bosom friends,'
the agnates and cognates, to entitle the crown, “an actual stranger" who elopes in tmes of miseries!

All Rights Reserved © Silpika Kalita
Form: Rhyme

The Strongest Woman, Part I

The strongest woman that I ever saw
was born thirty-four years ago,
to loving parents who doted on her,
told he of the great places she’d go.

She was popular all through high school,
never failed to pull down straight A’s,
was taught to be strong, and never take crap,
a path for women she would blaze.

She had not a head for the hard sciences,
but in business she quickly excelled,
got her MBA from the finest of schools,
a master of finance, and of what sells.

Moving to the city, she got a good job
and proclaimed one day she would be in charge,
she brought in accounts all through her twenties
and was rewarded with a salary large.

She shot up the ranks, quickly at first,
found herself in the office by my desk,
though we were in different departments
it was clear, she was one of our best.

But when she turned thirty she seemed to slow,
though she stood by her stated goals,
and every so often I’d find her staring
distractedly out of her office window.

All of it charged starting one fall day
when she went up for a big promotion,
but her numbers were down, and it went to
a workaholic named Danny Bagosian.

This spurred her on to work overtime,
by coincidence I was doing the same,
alone in the office we got to talking,
what she asked me nearly fried my brain.

She said,”I’m here sixty hours a week,
I’ve no time left for relationships,
and though this may sound inappropriate
I want to ask your opinion on this.

“I could use a friend-with-benefits
to relieve stress and have some fun,
you’re a handsome fellow and it has been
three years since I have had one.”

Now I suppose the right thing to do
would be to run down to H.R.
But a woman like this has a way with men,
and I said,”I’m game if you are.”

So began a secret and torrid affair
that no man could ever forget,
in hotel rooms and there in her office…
let’s just say that I have no regrets.

But as the months went on something did grow
as often happens with ‘benefits-friends,’
at some point we dropped the charade,
no longer willing to pretend.

And in her I sensed something new,
a sadness I’d not before seen,
it came out into the open late a night
when she woke me from a restless sleep...

CONCLUDES IN PART II.
Form: Narrative

Premium Member One of Ten Offsprings

Seventy-nine years old and counting

Got a whole bunch more years to come

Longevity is rampant in my family

I'm the youngest of ten children

Nine sisters and finally li'l ole me

Two died at birth... but

One sister managed to make it to ninety-four

Four lived into their eighties

And two lived into their late seventies

My mummy was eighty-two when she passed away

But my poor dear old daddy only lived to sixty-seven

Colon cancer got him

Usually when hearing about nine sisters

Most people say, “Wow! You must have been spoiled”

What does that mean... like meat that's gone bad?

I guess you could say I was doted on!

Loved it... I recommend it!



© Jack Ellison 2014
Form: Narrative

Dvorak's Living Hell, Part I

The new maid, Jo, walked out onto the deck,
Seeing the reclined form of Eric Dvorak.
He stretched out in the sun,
oblivious to everyone,
then leapt up quick, stiffness in his back.

Eric then stared up at a high window,
way up on the second floor did his gaze go.
Anger made his face a cloud,
he roared it all out loud,
screaming,”Cheating *****! I’ll lay you low!”

He tore up the mansion at a sprint,
she followed quickly when he did.
She didn’t see what Eric saw,
but she knew something was wrong.
When she caught up she was out of wind.

Eric stood in the door, onlooking,
anyone could see the fury in him cooking,
He cried,”I’ll show you both!”
Then into the room did go,
the maid walked up and she saw nothing...

Eric waited in the middle of a bedroom.
The rage was gone, but he wasn’t looking good.
From his face to his veins,
he was a pulsing mass of pain.
He slumped against the bed’s old hardwood.

Now the old maid Ellie came up near them,
and said to her,”Leave him alone now, friend.
None of this seems quite right,
But I’ll explain to you outside.”
So they went down to the backyard fence.

They settled in the shade near the fig,
and Ellie took a bit to puff an e-cig.
She turned and said to her,
“I trust you not to say a word.
Or the outside world will come and start to dig.”

Ellie looked nervous, but then continued on,
“Eric once has a wife he doted upon.
But once while sitting outside,
he saw two shadows in a window high,
and rushed upstairs, fearing something wrong....

CONCLUDES IN PART II.
Form: Narrative


Just Because An Impetus Arose 2

Rockwell) framed palette,
     (sans dystopian
     picture) outright
and despite whatever hardship,
     with curtain call on this
     November 11th, 2018 night,
a flickr ring, instagram, and
     kickstarter motive might

be fulfilling tummy,
     that ever so quickly
     the dimming light
(when the scythe lint
     covered grim reaper)
perhaps attired as
     21st century LGBT knight,
the latter once

     sip pawn a time...,
     now he iz a
     messenger simply bear
ring pleasant tidings,
     and also an effort
     to express, how
ye didst (aunt still do) care
(uncle Andy as well)

     for Shana Punim,
     who on a do able dare
to be doted upon, and offered
     to go here, there,
     and everywhere
experiencing a gamut of
     eye opening globe trotting
     (Watch out Harlem

     basketball Boyz to men) hair
reed tailored, and swiftly styled
     educational adventures
     adding learning and zest
to life, liberty, and purrs
     suit of feline doth wrest
good development
     of character to in vest

patterning herself after
     exemplary guardians
     sometimes you might
     be feeling beat,
     when embarking upon
     latest electric kool aid acid test,
nonetheless, this
     missive of gratitude,

     where thee darling daughter
     doth conquer one quest
after another (principally attributed
     to thee, who NEVER protest
obligations, but 
     launch with confidence,

     whether feathering 
     the Gadshill nest,
or...furthering education keeping
     body, mind, and spirit
     sharpened as best
Yukon Mount attain.

Premium Member Forlorn Hope

Sitting on the cusp of dusk and evening
Placidly he ruminates where life has been 
When she still believed in vibrant springs
And exulted dawning of purple mornings
Echoing exuberance of seasons’ calling
Fragile, yet colorful, as autumnal leaves
Delicate, aesthetic, as snowflakes falling--
Until she chose to surrender her dreams.

Oh! how fervently she cherished streams
Zigzagging ebulliently on their property
Digging lanes through prairies dark green,
Giggling, rushing, curving, on life-journey,
Pointing zealously, how to redirect destiny
Hosting daydreams of daffodils, milkweeds,
And tranquil bliss edifying lotus sanctuary.

Pity, neither did he feel her zestful appeal,
Nor could he allay those spaces left empty--
Between life as it is, and life that could be--
Saddled by incongruence defying harmony.

Lonesome he wailed tracing her footprints:
Cheered birds singing, doted stars twinkling,
Breathed-in her air scented with jasmines,
Buzzed in moth-passions of nocturnal winds,
Gazed deep woods where moon was rising,
And found her there, but not her meaning.

Yet, she came by, reminiscing through time,
Staying long enough, scanning the night skies--
But much as she tried, the Venus didn’t smile,
Alas! when she left, that was final goodbye.

April 28, 2021
Poem of the day on April 29, 2021 
Placed 1st: This or That, Vol 2 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh
Title chosen: Forlorn Hope
Form: Verse

Premium Member The Hero

The virtue was being wronged, depicted his woeful tale of prey and innocence. 
Gradually people gathered to listen to the poignant rhetoric. 
blown away by the felon's aching, awful narration;
pitied the miserable plight, lamented the dejected tales. 

There were babbling, the throng silently protested the unfairness, the injustice. 
In innuendo, the protagonist raised the pitch of the tragic tale, the foul play. 
one day, the aggrieved throng, broke the glasshouse of the pointed swindler of innocence to penalize, 
rejoiced, contended, the folk were prattling the nature's law of justice. 

The protagonist in awe, applauded the mob for the transgression, for the hold up. 
All of a sudden, the cynosure of their eyes,
 became bean ideal of rectitude and integrity, 
applauded for the moral fortitude, honoured, doted on. 
The proclaimed perceived upright hero was silently starring, astounded at the susceptibility of the mob, utterly blind,
 subtly entangled in his devious, fabricated, intrigued  plot! 

The protagonist of the moving tale, removed the mask at the end quietly, with a sardonic laugh;
in triumph to give a puff to the credulous absurdity. 
The machiavellian hero, was meticulously eavesdropping, peeping at the gross fooly. 
The irony! The demon in disguise, is glorified by mercy of ludicrous asinine.
Form: Burlesque

Sin filled Residence

Her sinful origins
Lavish countryside merchandise 
Sold as before therein 
Therein her father's cursive 
No escaping your mother's wives
Hours of gates in glass
Absconding measures hateful professors
Daliancing courtships of escaping slaves
Travel ignorant
Visit in spite where I succumbed too
Your mother's wisdoms I loved

Dedicated to Taryn Manning's Ancestors


kevin 11m
Sin Filled Residence
Sin filled Residence
Her sinful origins
Lavish countryside merchandise
Sold as before therein
Therein her father's cursive
No escaping your mother's wives
Hours of gates in glass
Absconding measures hateful professors
Daliancing courtships of escaping slaves
Travel ignorant
Visit in spite where I succumbed too
Your mother's wisdoms I loved

Dedicated to Taryn Manning's Ancestors
Copyright © kevin mathenia | Year Posted 2025

Taryn, the following piece of music captures New York friendship and that, I've got rent taken care of to that.

Un Doted Losses
Un Doted Losses
Huuhhg, huuhhg

Cried?! Call
Hallway
Ever cried
Call way

Rounded strings
Parent darings

Love you going
Eyes in minds spearing

To yell when it dries
A city inside

Rounded states
Hats tilting despair

Losing footing
In a hand worth turning

Parents darling
Missed the meaning of spent

Before you return
City squares I've made,
Steps upon all ponds
Travel days, nights as dawn

World's go to run
Having all dreams in done
Yet hearing the shore
Foreign and open latching boards

We waste under joy
Bereaved he'll stay a boy
Copyright © kevin mathenia | Year Posted 2025
Romance, jazz spent verses
#kendalljenner

Hoping won't pay for Linda Diaz
#tarynmanning #lindadiazmusic #blackpinkofficial

Premium Member Woman of God

braising thoughts arose as my lifeless 
body huddled in a fetal position i' d completed 
thirty hail mary's an yet my macerated flesh 
lay still as the sun began
to settle embedding itself almost oh how vain i was 
thinking merely of beauty 
my beauty taken in an instant on impact 
how selfish i was addressing the father how dare you 
why this isn't living an yet you promised
i shall die and live i doted on you believing every word 
like a faithful child twitching kicking the paramedics
oh what a bad patient scolding the rescue workers 
for saving my retched life
do they not see the father in view are they blinded 
by the light the sullen hue 
that consumed my being torn flesh from my face 
ah in my lowliness my wisdom edified 
as st anthony strolls by in a distant glare mending me 
this sereme endeavor captured 
my solace for peace although there was no peace 
in my living i'd wandered deeply from earthly realms 
a gentle peace in my dying bestowed me 
i glanced at the road that swallowed me whole
leaving no sign of life it was then st theresa whispered 
you are his child quickly i responded 
oh no ma'am i'm not with child thinking only of my figure 
she smiled a warm glow and whispered yet again
you are his child she gestured to another woman 
st cicelia quite childlike to my eyes 
she chanted you are woman you are child 
do you understand i responded amidst my sufferage
for the sake of his sorrowful passion  
i over stand his divine mercy

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