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Premium Member Lest We Forget the Horses

Watching old newsreels sadness washes over me 

Highstepping horses, gentle eyes transformed in fear 
valiantly charging under men that could not yield

Amid the noise of cannons, over the death-filled  battle-field ,
sides flecked with foam,  so far from home,  
somehow they know how desperate is this final charge
hoofbeats pounding, hearts bursting, falling in their stride

Now the faded image shows a glory past and gone
Yet we must remember them and how their courage shone
Lest we forget the horses, or the majesty of them
In solemn re-enactment we must remember them
And grant a special place in paradise where they can roam.

Written for the Australian war  horses that went overseas
and never returned 


Some Paradise Where Horses Go Poetry Contest
Michelle Faulkner
Placed 4th.
Form: Ballade


Brain Cells

Written By:  D. Collins 12/3/21


Brain cells are the cause of the stuff we're in.
Where obvious individuals don't get treatment.
The true instigators are now on the run.
They enticed it to happen and got ghost on their son.



Looking at his parents, Youngblood has been jacked for life.
Two grimey individuals joined as husband and wife.
They're like serial killers, where son puts in the work.
An exact re-enactment of the "Chainsaw Massacre."



The youth didn't know what was being passed to him.
The genes of real monsters we call family and kin.
Brain cells are what causes a person to react.
But, parents are always supposed to have your back.
Form: Sonnet

Everyday Enlightenment

Your reaction to any moment in time
Is dependent on your true understanding and acceptance of oneself

Instinctively we react to our own perceptions proving that all variables
That have occurred, do occur and will occur
Are simply frivolous in nature…random or happen for a reason
What do you believe…

To respond to one’s perception will create a foundation
To categorize the positive and negative experiences in your life
These provoked moments also supply a true test to the laws of Karma…

What lies within your soul consciousness
The layers of inner peace
That have been etched in time
Running parallel to your personal growth…

The unprovoked moments
The stillness of time
The emptiness of your thoughts and physical space
An unprecedented inner strength

Within oneself there is a core of values that can be optimistically limitless…
A positive force of energy
If you believe…in virtues over vices 
And the concept of Nirvana does exist…

It is the anticipation of trepidation when seeking such a complex truth
Your spiritual upkeep must be consistent and cared for
Or you will simply lose your way
To the reactions of your own life passing by…

To view yourself before enactment is more powerful than a premonition…
Envision all moments and variables before they happen
To foresee your positive and negative reactions…
Is to sustain congruence and learn bountifully

This accomplished energy would be your EVERYDAY ENLIGHTENMENT…

Premium Member Black And White


For the schematic inducement of compulsive being,
the transmuting tenet of identity
changes in the self-devised palette of color mélange,
while the conjured chameleon 
paints the shifting façade of contrast.

In the ostensible enactment of life’s drama, 
the performance perfected by obsessed passion
of playing the multicolored roles,
the sly shift from one actor to another 
is an axiomatic design of innate drive. 

As the colors amalgamate in the limelight  
on the visage of the virtual makeup,
the chromatic face morphs into a mirror,  
reflects the illusory actuality in shades of gray
with the perplexing disposition of ambiguity.

The spasm of contrived perception splits the mirror, 
the shards of shattered pretence 
scatter as abandoned obscure debris. 
Metamorphosis creates the absolute entity, 
shaped by the distinct contours of black and white.

Scrabble

For years he had thought
that God belonged to a secret society
one he could never be part of,
notwithstanding, he imagined himself a mystic,

In the prime of life, as sometimes happens,
rats began to gnaw at anchor ropes,
he began to drift away from his true self.
He became that most deluded of all beings –
a follower and a seeker.

Fortunately for his sanity,
he became a weaver of words,
a thought painter, an image maker,
a sort of poet.

His work was to be this enactment
upon a Scrabble board
a stage where sacred symbols were wrought
from alphabet salads.

If he were speaking now
he would tell you
that though he picked the letters.
and arranged the words
he is certain sure that any concept of 
God-game game he played
always pointed back at himself,
and so, he found his truth again.>center>


Premium Member Deceptive Mask

On the wheels of time I’ve travelled for long
on the crafted pathway of synthetic stage, 
revolving my split mind, entrapped in polarity, 
under the spotlight of the contrived moments, 
enmeshing the confused me with paradoxes.

In the enactment of the drama of multifaceted life,
I see some bare faces displayed on plain mirror, 
really reflecting the radiance of convivial heart. 
I don’t perform with them by the prompt, 
but I present me truly, for I adore their purity. 

I face some veiled faces posing on warped mirror, 
disguising the contorted lines of rancid rancor, 
I dislike their fake facade, but I play a sagacious role,
my transformed face of spite, the actor in me, 
conceals behind the deceptive mask. 


July 24, 2020
Contest : 10-20 Lines On Mask
Sponsor : Mohan Chutani

Dance To Love - POTD - A Visual Art Poem Tribute

 POTD 23rd June 2019

Maria Williams 
Presents

Dance to Love

A tribute to my Dad, the late - Wilfred Forbes

She danced with wild abandon
she danced without a care
With sun kissed skin, her arms flung wide
Wild flowers everywhere

I chanced upon this secret glade
while walking early morn
A sacred aura surrounded it
a jewel in the dawn

A type of place where angels dwell
A place of Hopes and Dreams
A magic place of lush green plants 
And sparkling bubbling streams

I drew back lest she saw me, 
I dared not break the spell
Wild petals swirled around her
and to the ground they fell

Like homage to a Goddess
 that she must surely be
For Gods to but gaze on
 not mortals such as me

She twirled around so fast
I could barely see her feet 
And even though I stood afar 
I knew she gave off heat 

When her tempo slowed right down
 the air became quite chill 
The Elements were but her slaves 
she ordered them at will 
 
I could have watched forever
 so mesmerized was I
What would I give to dance with you?
 I murmured with a sigh

To dance with wild abandon
 with this Angel from above
A hundred birds would sing out loud
 to watch us Dance To Love

by Maria Williams


This tribute is an enactment of a vision as told to us by our late Dad, which he maintained he witnessed as a young man.
He was an extraordinary orchestral musician and teacher to 
some world greats.
He was accomplished in no less than 18 instruments, his favorites being the lead violin and xylophone (played with 8 hammers).

Thank you for listening and watching this video.

Copyright © June 2019 Maria Williams

Video arrangement, production, direction 
and compilation: 
Ron Williams

Video editing, sound mixing, graphics:
Jayne Hartanto


If you like my video please share
and subscribe on You Tube

 POTD 23rd June 2019
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Existence Enshrined


The rhapsody of rainbow 
melts in morose mélange,
the concoction of colors
bleeds bland in 
shattered silence,
sucked out 
of crumbled core 
of sensuous cloud,
soothing rain rinses 
the stains in broken hearts,
shades of grey paints 
the frayed linen of love,
redundant.

The requiem 
of longing patina
of repentant rose 
resonates melancholic medley
in the portals of petals, 
the faded gloss
turns into tears 
in pearls of mourning dew, 
desiccates uncared
under the summer sun 
of the desert mind,
the wilted flower falls
on weathered gravestone 
of spent passion,
departed.

The cacophony captured 
in the melody of forlorn music,
chaotic symphony floats
out of tune
on disharmonic wave,
strained smiles displayed  
with elusive enactment 
in ostentatious podium of life,
songs turn into echo
of convoluted noise 
in hollow souls,
pretentious.

The intriguing facet  
of listless life 
seen entranced 
through liquefied layers
of cynical stratum,
configures pessimism
in the sunken essence 
of living exaltation,
the apparent aspect
refracts defiled expression 	
of warped existence,
enshrined.

Premium Member Paradigm Of Shape Shift


For the maneuvered inducement 
of the compulsive being,
defined by the transmuting tenet of titular uniqueness,
configuring the personified convoluted identity,
changes in the self-devised palette of color mélange,
while the conjured chameleon furtively cocooned,
paints the shifting façade of disparaging deception.  

In the ostensible enactment 
of the prompted life’s incredible drama, 
performance perfected in illusory one-act play, 
and with the obsession of passion ostensible,
gilding the consequence crafted covertly
by metamorphic alchemic endeavor,
the surreptitious shift from one actor to another, 
is an axiomatic designed drive of ambiguity. 

Out of the limelight, the clandestine colors fade away  
on the visage of degenerating virtual makeup,
the pallid original face morphs mystically into 
the veracity mirror of fragile actuality, 
replicating the real rendering of the sublime shape, 
painted with the radiance of primal hue
of the unaltered distinctive disposition, 
it personified once in the reflected image.

The spasm of contrived perception splits the mirror, 
the shapeless shards of shattered reality
scatter as discarded debris blown away by wily air. 
Metamorphosis creates the deluding creature, 
an alien in its own transformed domain,
completes with the lattice of self-deceit 
the contrasting paradigm of illusive shape shift.

Premium Member Conjured Chameleon


For the contrived inducement 
of the fixated being, 
an aligned identity personified,
changes in self-devised palette 
of metamorphosed color mélange,
while the conjured chameleon, 
slyly cocooned,
paints surreptitiously 
the shape-shifted portrait
                                    d e c e p t i v e.

In ostensible enactment 
of life’s incredible drama, 
performance perfected in one-act play 
with obsessed passion parodied,
gilds the corollary crafted by alchemy,
an axiomatic designed drive
induces the wily shift 
from one actor to another 
                                    c o n t r i v e d.

Out of the limelight, 
the covert colors fade  
on virtually made-up visage,
the pallid original face 
morphs mystically into 
veracity mirror of actuality, 
reflects the real identity depiction, 
painted by primal hues of facade 
of distinctive disposition 
                                         e p i t o m i z e d.

The spasm of pragmatic perception 
splits the mirror, 
the shards of shattered pretence 
in the debris of demolished conceit
disappears in the crypt of obscurity
                                         d i s c a r d e d.

The transformation creates the eluding entity, 
an alien in its reinvented realm,
completes the illusory pattern
designed by the paradigm of contrast 
ingrained in symbolized persona
                                        d i v er g e n t.

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