Long Encomium Poems

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Truths To Live By

Time of life,
Time of strife,
Time of purpose,
Time we suppose.

Nobody can tell what's behind the veil, 
We don’t want to see what’s pale,
Nobody can see what's behind the door,
We’re a far cry from the core.

Someone desires to wear our shoes,
They don't want any encomium to lose,
They desire flowery days,
Can they an edging turmoil face?

We can't escape life's midnight,
Even though our chamber is pervaded with light,
Every shooting star loses its radiance,
Nature’s music ends and halts our dance.

Time is not in our hands,
Time is beyond the sands,
Time brings and it takes,
Time placates, it also quakes.



October 15, 2022.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Hellboy Encomium

Son of a demon and a witch,
Fighting against harbingering the apocalypse.
The Right Hand of Doom against Heaven's sake...
Accompanies this young boy and his pancakes.

Born from Hell,
In which he will twice return;
A reputation of honor and respect,
Is one he would earn!

Goblins, ghosts, ghouls and golems;
Godly and ungodlike all to confront...
Now an honorary man and a Bureau,
Guarded by his giant punch!

His coat and belt would house items,
To balance off his fiends and occult.
And when they didn't work,
He would just go for the throat!

Ogdru-Jahad, Baba Yaga and Rasputin,
Are a few of the villains he would face,
This Anung Un Rama,
Our Hellboy, our fate.

August, 17th 2021

Premium Member Dreams Adrift on Silken Tides

Written: November 24, 2024 for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann
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In a calyx of ambivalent dreams,   
where shadows swirl as silken strands,   
I slip through the surface,  
a sailboat in a tide of thoughts,  
where colors speak in whispers,  
and sounds weave a tapestry  
of guffaw and sighs.

I am an astronaut,  
zipping into a cosmos of canorous clangor  
past comets with names such as chimera  
and planets blooming with a corpulent deluge  
simmering under layers of desultory dust,  
each a sun waiting  
to ignite an encomium spark.

Footfalls on the ledge of splendor,   
swirling in circles,  
a kaleidoscope of moments —  
jumping from the quicksilver  
of a fleeting glance,  
to the deep sinkhole of silence,  
where time slows to the pulse of heart.

Here, on this canvas of perception,  
the boundary of self dissolves,  
melting into the esoteric ocean   
and excruciatingly eviscerated thoughts
are squid jauntily joined by caring currents,   
amber-colored fires dancing on the horizon,  
unraveling secrets hidden in their stings.

I chase shadows,  
those swift-painting phantoms,  
a ghostly gap in gnarled grooves of life,   
seeking sincerity in a swirl of sights —  
the stillness of awareness,  
longing wrapped in vibrant coils,  
darkness stitched with fragile threads of light.

In stillness, I stroll.  
feeling every pulse evolve into a quilt of colors.  
tracing trails tracked by supple notions.   
as the clock spins dizzy tales —  
my pen touches the sky,  
gathering glimpses in gradients of glides.  
a jaunt laced with lingering layers.  
charting caverns of concealed aspirations.   
where wisdom blooms in wild gardens,  
Inviting all intrepid inclined to intrude 
the twinkling, tantalizing tones
of existence, endlessly entwining
every exhale an echoing essence.  
of something that yearns.  
to be liberated and let loose.
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.

Birthday Wishes

YOU ARE  A STAR, SHINING AND TWINKLING IN OUR LIVES.
YOUR BIRTH AND PRESENCE IS OUR DELIGHT.
NO GIFT CAN EVER EXPRESS THE VALUE YOU HOLD IN OUR LIVES. 
OUR PRAYERS AND WISHES WOULD SURELY CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR SUCCESS AND RISE.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 

Bestowing Wishes,
Be Blessed With;

Achievements Myriad, 
Accolades and Encomium,
Burgeoning wings,
Compassionate Benevolence,
Epigrammatic Wittiness,
Good Luck Galore,
Gracious Empathy,
Holidays Flamboyant,
Infallible Wisdom,
Indomitable Will,
Marked Contentment,
Memories Worth Savouring Rerun,
Prodigious Strength,
Pure Love,
Remarkable Resilience,
Scrupulous Focus,
Spirit Unshaken,
Tremendous Success,
Untrammelled Disposition,
Vivid Personality,
Youthful Exuberance,
Zealous Smile.
Form:

Premium Member If a Tree Should Fall

if a tree should fall and there is no one to hear it 
not even the merest susurrus for a poet to capture the moment 
the encomium will cease
	
with each slight 
each rejection of the light 
and acknowledgement withheld 
the all encompassing existence of all 
called into question 
the glacier crevasses gape 
to engulf 
the whole 

however 
frozen to the core 
we must 
remain undaunted 
on a steady bedrock of the conviction 
that all existence 
isn’t in vain 

if we can dream it we will not fade away 
like unalterable photographs from bygone eras 

we are the essence 
the stases 
holding 
reality of 
all life 
in the 
balance 


23rd April 2023
A Wisdom Download Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker
3rd Place
Title changed AFTER the judging of the contest.


Premium Member Indices of a Loon

GOODLUCK

Gutless muffled monarch wooed millions to the poll, 
Our feeble lord enforced by pathetic speech of poverty (I once had no shoes) 
On congruent grounds of pain we forced him, though we hated his coterie. 
Disappointed, we wail waiting surrogate to lead to unending journey of relief
Lackluster, jejune as pervading rot lingers
Unvaried captain rocks our boat, gagged around by plunderers.
Circles of death, twinge, pauperdom and miseries mocks the reign of naivety.
Kleptocrat adorn self in regalia, loved the honor. lacks duty

EBELE

Embezzlers of collective trust bequeathed in hope, 
Bandits as conniving ministers besmirched our obtuse scamp
Egregious, craven, shrieked at the sound of war (I am not a lion) 
Laggard lumper loon left fanatical murderers at our doorsteps 
Encumbrances from his delinquent clan divide the love for mother land

DAME

Damp squib's duchess of indecent tongue, never feels a vestige of restraint
Academic 'double misnomer' with licence to libel, 
Merriment and intrigue feigned as obligations, 
Edgy. encumbrance though ceaselessness forms their  amity. 

PATIENCE

Punk pretending and purloining to private vaults
Adventurous nerve for futile globe trot 
Twitchy at the affairs of state, though Unemployed by sensible Poll
Intoxicated by serendipity, shaming all with activity
Euphemistic drama Usurps Scrappy literacy on cultured observers
Crude verbiages to amuse myriad of eggheads (my Fellow widows) 
Encomium of Yesterday's approval turned sour and Tsar inept mode prevails

Jokers jostled in enthusiasm to rule, (politicking for 2015) 
Onslaught from 'Boko-Haram' drove sleep from wearied countrymen
Numbed as "hoipolloi" echoed NO to mistimed removal, 
Alas, the fraud, rapscallion looted the poor to a blindfold
Tyrannic cloaked his garb in power busted on the streets with the troop 
Higgledy-piggledy bugled the travesty of Democracy
Amidst the rubble of a crumbling amalgam
Nigerian Lords watched the drama secured among a troop we die helpless

The Unbroken Spirit of African Leaders' Legacy

Africa's land, shadows of colonialism still linger
Leaders rise, with hearts aflame, resisting the fetters
Of Western dominance, a legacy of dolor
Their courage, a luminary, in the dark of night's refrain
Kwame Nkrumah's vision, a guiding radiance
Pan-Africanism's fervor, burning bright
Unity and self-determination, his battle cry
Ghana's freedom, his legacy, forever exalted

Julius Nyerere's Ujamaa, a path less trod
Self-reliance's puissance, Tanzania's nod
Non-Aligned Movement, his noble quest
Distance from West, and do what's salubrious

Patrice Lumumba's heart, untold stories bear
Congo's freedom, his legacy, beyond compare
Assassinated young, his spirit remains
A symbol of resistance, against foreign chains

Thomas Sankara's fire, a revolutionary's conflagration
Burkina Faso's self-sufficiency, his people's encomium
Anti-imperialist, with a people's cry
Empowering Burkinabés, until his final valediction

Gamal Abdel Nasser's stand, Suez's mighty tumult
Nationalized the canal, with an iron hand, forever more
Arab nationalism, his passionate plea
Reducing Western influence, his legacy

Other leaders, with stories untold
Nelson Mandela's fight, apartheid's fold
Samora Machel's valor, Mozambique's beacon
Haile Selassie's legacy, Ethiopia's guiding luminescence

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's path, a trailblazer's stride
Liberia's economic growth, her careful guide
Navigating West, with a nation's pride
A female leader, with a story to abide

These African leaders, with hearts of aurum
Resisted West, with stories to be told
Their legacies live, in history's page
An evidence fortitude, in a continent's stage

Where have we gone awry? Who do we offend?
What are they searching for, in Africa's land, again and again?
Now, they pursue Traore, Burkina Faso's president true
May they not succeed, in their Machiavellian pursuit, anew

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