Long Expressiveness Poems

Everyone has the freedom of choice 
Everyone has an expressiveness to save their own voice
Who are you who am I to judge this choice 
You don't know me
You don't know me
 I may have ...

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We’re (my roommates and I) at a specific time of youth - a time I’ll call “close.” We aren’t fully adults but we’re close, we’re not completely out and independent, but we’re close. And once...

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Coplas on Wine

( here, the famous AntiPoetic Chilean Poet Nicanor Parra, b. 1914, uses the more popular form of the « copla » genre that he contains in quatrains of 8 to 10 syllables with...

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"A Poet's Gift" you wrote three years ago -
the arc of your poetic heart to tell.
You spoke of deep emotions in the soul
invoking tears to well and hearts to swell.
You had a gift. You were...

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6.  Incompleteness of the education curricula/ In-availability of areas-subjects-courses
that will enable others possessing other intelligences discover themselves-excel.

Other factors affecting intelligence are:

Language comprehension and expressiveness, Self reasoning and ability to generate
solutions, Sense of timing-Rhythmic accuracy...

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The beauty of water

Water, one of nature's great pleasures.
Do you find the sound of water calming, soothing and serene?
Whenever I hear water and am outside, it instantly calms me. If I’m feeling angry I’m calmed,...

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age, birth, birthday, childhood, friendship, teenage, together,

Twin Unlimited   ballad


Twinned at birth I shared a moment
Not too much room in the womb remained
Closeted together holding hands we laid
We were birthed apart three minutes in-between
She...

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A poet writes to share a secret depth 
Of feelings within their soulful breast.
They write to grasp onto immortality,
To be remembered beyond their death.

8-16-19


ARBITRIUM DIVISA Contest
Sponsor Gregory Barden
Taken from my poem titled "A Poet's Gift

A...

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In ghostly white and crystal blue
Like sun spiked diamonds on a chain,
So gently dripping down upon
Your silhouette within the rain,
And where you stood, the shadows bowed
In homage and in wonderment,
As unseen beauty shone abroad
In such...

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How do I know when I have made someone happy?
Cause I sure can tell when I have not
How can I bite my tongue when I have so much to say?
Biting your tongue can cause unnecessary...

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A Poet's Gift

A poet writes to share a secret depth 
Of feelings within their soulful breast.
They write to grasp onto immortality,
To be remembered beyond their death.

A poet shares emotions inked upon the
Page that cannot verbally...

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SUBLIMITY
eerie
   empty
&the bizarre
sublime
resemblance
 now apparent

the
idiosyncratic
& experimental
& intense
expressiveness
anticipating
the hidden
poetic
 possible
dwarfed
in the
 abyss

a place
of  mystery
swallowed
by an
oblivious
 translates
the pleasures
of the joyous
 surrounding
the sublime
so full
of
meaning

a
memento mori
of
stilled
life
a missing
 link
hints at
 reality
 layered

 in
our
  yesterdays

NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making...

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Sat I engaged and talking
You’d not listen, you are not listening
While I pondered, my voice quivering telling and mocking
While I voiced myself, expressiveness and flocking
Spit out those wet words
You refuse to hear
You’d not listen, you...

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CULTURAL CANONS
sophisticated wit
expressiveness
  & tricks of the eye
illusions
    out of the blue
  shadows in the sky
a paradox
this sense of irony
      naivete
observed
made manifest
decorative &agreeable

 influential
hierarchies
  artistically distinct
 mainstream
but
separately identified
    in formative influence
inherent vagaries
          of taste
subtle&telling
in
  perspectives
      .of pictorial space
 &
receding
  lines of audacity
in heavenly light
emergency
   to revere

THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two...

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I pause and witness words of beauty
Taking me up to the mountain top
A simple gift of serenity

I stand still looking over the drop
Held in the grasp of expressiveness 
Taking me to the mountain top

I take...

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Low Self-Esteem states of affairs differing impressions 

            religiously surround us/me?  Uncovered at an inopportune time

       ...

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IDIOSYNCRACY
a childlike
relish
   playful&dramatic
hopes
remarkable&
 revealing
deliberate
in tone
  recalling a refuge
containing
matterings
  of embellishments
 as
expressiveness
is sealed

a
respectable
bright
&sparkling
reminder
 a processs
 so very crucial
 evesdropping
 on
 posterity



NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making...

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And moistened lips I softly kissed
Beguiling as the dusk's embrace,
That framed with such expressiveness
The perfect smile upon your face,
Which reached out so uncertainly
Although I glimpsed with mild surprise,
The tethered velvet fluttering
Of shadows living in your...

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RENAISSANCE
phrases radiate
feeling
 the breeze
a shiver
of
contemplation
attentive
images
arrive
enthralling
& magnificent
recurrent
to show
 an inspiration
in an
enveloping
embrace

encounters
of
the
 open-hearted
 receiving
the
reverberating
light
so mysterious
& forcefully
present
invisible within
yet
seemingly
 entirely elsewhere
 remarkable
thus
missing the moment
  altogether

perception
expressiveness
a blessing
displayed
astounds
in
 close up
then
 & fades
to evoke
the past...

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