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Andromedan Castle : Orion Fort

Andromedan castles

moat has little blue boats

servers are maidens joyed

white iris gardens 

                        deep canyons

                        radars aimed

                        soft cadence

                        magnet minds

                        love balanced 


Orion forts marbled

shining with platinum bands

armoured Galactics cruel

stone and steel makes head reel

                           bold barons

                           orlon vests

                           high pylons

                           canon shots

                           warring sons
                            
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Form: Verse


Premium Member Shadows

In the absence of sunlight, darkness reigns;
and ebony pools into shifting shapes.
Color's absorbed; till only black remains:
imprisoned by shadows, no light escapes.

Shadows scurry from the light of the sun:
never underestimating its might.
Yet, darkness devourers' Day, till there's none:
consuming shadows, tethered to its light.

Without light, shadows won't even exist:
they can't take form until light strikes a spark.
Light and dark are designed to coexist:
Dawn's light gets juxtaposed against Dusk's dark.

Stand in the light, and you will cast a shadow
that will follow you wherever you go.
Form: Sonnet

Sketch For Cordel

Every cordel tells something
          I don't count at that time
         because i haven't done it yet
          I did not learn how to rhyme ...

        It was because I look for a theme
        may be the moan of the emu
        or sing of the nightingale
         fish without hook for thew ...

        So as it’s not twine
        can i write the paper
        without fear of making mistakes
         without censoring me. yet ....

        What I did was sextile
        broken into seven feet
        I'm not much versed in it
        it's not cordel style ..

        I'm Full of thirsty
        I have heart pain,
       I don't wish to cry
      but of much distress I can die
       as bull of nowhere land
       nostalgia for my hinterland ...!


  PS
Cordel are leaflets containing popular poems, displayed for sale hanging from ropes or string, which gave rise to the name.
Cordel is also the dissemination of art, popular traditions and local authors and is invaluable in maintaining local identities and regional literary traditions, contributing to the perpetuation of Brazilian folklore.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Avoiding the Elitist Within

A strong cooperative offense
is our most competitive defense.

Avoiding RightRed fascism
totalitarianism
terrorism, dark secular raptures and/or terrified jihad,
fundamental Nature is sinful, negative yin repressed,
while Spirit is health invested love, positive yang,
long-term ego/eco-centric,
bilateral co-temporal,
evenly humored humanistic divinalism.

By choosing divining higher
and humanely deeper
GreenLeft/RedRight co-regenerativity
strengthening LeftBrain's historic secular case
for more cooperative climate cleansing
by divesting of RedRight's competing disassociating divestment
away from

Divine/Humane WinWin MultiCulturing Holy Spirit
cooperative matriarchal/patriarchal outflowing natural
ZeroZone soulful
bilateral 4-Dynamic Primal Seasons
PolyNomial-GreenLeft ecology
for PolyPathic multicultural RedMountain Yang
speaks YinSquared Divine NonViolent ValleyLeft
PolyPhonic

Red light of dawning memories
co-invite Earth's Green reforesting vocation
in 4D bilateral Left/Right positive energy
democratic-trusting frame
dynamically parallel bicamerality
with resilient fractal string-structures of humane DNA
and divine RNA theological Origin
and 4-ecological ZeroZone Seasons
with 4-theological nurturing Reasons
for romantic infatuation
with Eastern outside red dawns
of post-millennial inside climate warning
and
Western indigenous Earth and tree
and Sun and moon
and Extended sanctuary family
nature/spirit worshipers,
singers,
dancers,
historians,
improv and designing artists,
designing and implementing ecologists,
creation and degeneration processors,
deep learning ecotherapeutic theologians
story-tellers of legends
sweeping cooperative neighborhoods
greeting travelers,
sojourners,
fellow walking
and flying
and swimming
and crawling eco-pilgrims

Liberally green
and conservational red night lovers
cooperatively mentored delight
avoiding tomorrow's nationalistic 
ego-theistic
utterly narcissistic
BoogyMan
planting anti-historical flim/flam stories
hoping to fool all people
through all competing ZeroSum mythical time.

Premium Member He Will Lead Me

I'm standing by the mountain that reaches up so high. 
I'm looking toward the heavens and asking for a reason why?
In the shadow of that mountain, I can't see my way through...
but I'll start climbing for the summit because I know I walk with you.
He'll lead me to the highest, he'll lift me and I'll fly,
Father, Oh Father, You are the reason why. 

I'm wading through the waters that flow down, so deep. 
I'm searching for the answers, but in faith, I will leap...
into the deepest, darkest waters, I can't see my way through...
But I'll keep wading through the waters because I know I go with you.
He'll lead me across the waters, hold out His hand and I'll try,
Father, Oh Father, You are the reason why. 

I'm sitting In the garden that is withering each day. 
I'm waiting for my time and while I wait, I will pray...
That when the winter winds begin to blow and my breath is released;
I’ll recall the mountain and the valley,  with love and in perfect peace.
He'll lead me to the garden, He'll hold me as I pray and cry, 
Father, Oh Father, You are the reason why. 

I'm lying in the pasture that spreads out far and wide.
I'm looking for the Shepherd who is always so close by.
There now, in the distance, He waves and beckons me!
So I'll go now into that pasture that leads to my eternity.
He'll lead me through the pastures, He'll carry me home when I die. 
Father, Oh Father, You are the reason why.
Form: Lyric


For Walt Whitman

See in my poem
      the most common link
       simple elan
        that is not difficult
          understand...

      Feel in my thought
       how relative to deny
         or claim ...
         See in my
          point of view
           constancy and
             flexibility...
              the search for the truth,
                the pursuit of the ethereal
                  but with good reason ...

        Feel in my spirit
          the no stridency
            but the conscience
             and the humility of
              a street beggar ...

          Compare me like what
            there is more pure
             like perfume
              of recent roses ...
               Compare me with
                 the proximity
                   of heavenly bodies,
                    cosmic dust
                     that we don't see,
                       but happens...

                  Always read me,
                   (don't lose me)
                     on the slope
                      cosmopolitan
                        universality,
                          but telluric always ...
                           Don't read on me,
                            (may I preserve myself)
                              incitement to
                               violence,
                                 hate...

                   Throw me,
                     reduce me
                      to the common
                        thought...
                         Note that I keep
                          idealism:
                            I'm synthetic,
                              I'm superlative,
                                syncretic ...
                                 always human ...!

Premium Member The Well

As a child, I found a well,
In a large grassy meadow.
And I clambered up its rocky sides
So that its secrets I would know.
On that day, I had no thirst,
Merely a child-like curiosity.
Its walls were rough and very steep,
And its bottom I could not see.

Looking around, a stone I found,
And tossed it down the well.
Then I listened for a sound,
To judge how far it fell.
After what seemed a lengthy time, 
I heard a muted thud,
Which told me that either the well was dry
Or filled with thick dry mud.

People are dark deep wells
With depths you’ll never know,
And have thoughts you can’t perceive
When words at them you throw.
Form: Rhyme

Reflections on Poetry in Tanka

thought as poetry 
past present future surreal 
pure expressions cure 
deific communing in time
softly breath stitches rare rhymes 

stillness turns wheel feel
creating cosmic garlands
recognise lyrics 
emotions eclectic ebbs
awakens colourful dreams

mirror reflections
nouns verbs adjectives adverbs 
ether air worded 
fire water earth stanzas 
carries stories converses 

stimulates seconds 
fathoms then embraces faith 
promotes perfect peace 
forms galore eastern western 
feeding fertility flames

intrinsic to life
advances awareness awed
forge fraternity 
transmuting darkness to art
wisdom deepens liberty 


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PLACED 4Th : STANDARD CONTEST
ON TANKA STRINGS
Form: Tanka

Stillness in The Storm

Stillness in the Storm

It isn't too far from a conceivable image, 
To perceive the vast and forgotten knowledge;
What was and still is a, yet-lost tho recoverable innate and 
usable norm,
We have merely been tricked to stumble and to falter, 
To see only this, yet to live and just perish..there,
According to our physical form,
That they abuse & destroy upon an altar, 

Weather warfare, earthquakes and genocide, ultimately we do not care, 
For we reside here and so will yet survive,

All around us - here in this, our current metaphysical realm,
The imposed Chaos though surrounding every border, 
A precursor to ancient prewritten solution and clumsily enforced brutal order,
A metaphor for required need within ourselves to never fall, 
Do we not see an opening here at all?
Free our minds and our souls so then; by just remaining calm, all existential fear from harm, 
Calmness within, proceeding to calm without,
Our sitting and walking meditation,
Hereby dissolves the seeds of doubt,

For we are inherently spiritual of course, 
This we've always known, aside all attempts to quench and stifle, All adverse intent by decrepit obstinate deceptive force,

Nothing could delete the basic gnosis of what one really is,
So never give up your regenerative powers again,
To recall and never be reborn, 
Innate within us, dimmed and 
disabled, but never once forlorn,

Assume what was once stolen, Resume serenity once again, and for goodness' sake, 
Renounce their trickery, and false imprisoned slavery, Regaining whatever it was they thought they had to take;

So as to never ever slip from grasp,
From God the origin and Source,
Ascension to freedom from our past,
Where we are from, the spark of his Divinity,
To a mindfulness and a calmness, 
That our persistence then so gives us,
Rooted in our physically unforseen ability,
A steadfast grip on all around us,

Providing those of us with a remarkable and resounding..


Stillness in the Storm


Kurt Hubbard-Beale
19th February 2023
During mass consciousness awakening from this age old enslavement, culminating in their forced Disasters, Fabricated Food Scarcity, Earthquakes & 
a scripted, orchestrated WW3..

Ways of providence

There will surely be a guide ~
charting my path,
protecting, 
and leading me
to my destined destination in life. 
As if it were a promised payment
God made to me from heaven.

A visible hand
tucked out from an invisible tucker,
In a canoe on a river ~ 
gently rowing me along its flow.

Many near-deaths averted,
Many of life's debts miraculously paid,
many stale breaths,
yet never for a moment ceased.
All threats to my existence –
God canceled them,
sometimes with my sweat,
other times with just a little fret.

Yet still, I never got my feet wet or smelly,
even when I trudged through the sludge
left behind by life's avarice;
not a faint trace of the caprice 
that clouds my destined destination. 

There has to be only one explanation ~
providence,
not merely serendipity,
For I can see the hands of the I Am That I Am,
whispering their ubiquity,
through a tiny voice –
often feeble, yet ably affable,
I am cognisant of its presence,
especially when I disobey its warnings.
All these are never through kismet or fortuity ~
they are simply the ways of providence.
Case closed.

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