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Gallery

in the public square
you are not to be questioned
just admired 
      for your dark demonstrations
of being

the hanging black spider waves its life at you
perhaps the arachnid lover is demoralized
by your hidden beauty
                                     hard to tell 
you cringe under its radiant otherness

in the public museum
        take the tour backwards
let the man with the megaphone mouth
spin his webs not from the center out
                 but outer to inner
inwardness opens windows in closed walls
be kind to the blank eyed watchers

here is a beautiful oil on canvas
there is a spider in the corner
that no one notices
                  for it has no frame
its eight legs tremble

The man in the bus-driver cap
extols her still not living attractions
the ugliness of the moment
is memorized by the whole gallery
only the Picasso remains free 
of the taint of paint

A fat woman sighs into my face
threads exude
multiple silky spinnerets
droop from sticky glands

I want out
the way I came in
but am now too endangered
to weave my way out of this
       carry out picture palace


Beauty of Spring

As winter leaves the stage and takes a bow
A gentle warmth rejuvenates the earth
And dormant spring awakens to endow
Creation with a glorious rebirth.

The sun-kissed touch of resurrection's sway
Excites all nature with its full embrace.
Proud tulips raise their heads in bright array
And spiders weave their threads of silken lace.

The dulcet sounds of birdsong fill the skies
As butterflies with stained glass wings take flight.
Fair, fragile chiffon poppies mesmerize
And cheery golden daffodils delight.

Each season brings its blessings from above
But spring extols the measure of God's love.


02.03.19


N/A MAY 2019 PREMIER 4,ANY FORM,ANY THEME,UPTO A MAX OF 14(F O U R T E E N )Lines

'Spring Sonnet Poetry Contest' sponsored by John Hamilton

10 syllables per line rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

Includes compulsory 4 words :
1.Dulcet  2. Chiffon 3. Lace 4. Resurrection


also entered into :Your Best Poem That Is Trophy (Premiere Contest) Worthy Contest 1 Poetry Contest - Tania Kitchin

I was happy to be included in any top ten judged by John Hamilton but would like to submit this as one which was quite a challenge with regard to the compulsory words and which I feel paints a pretty picture.
Form: Sonnet

Premium Member A Beauteous Day of Spring

Greet the sanguine dawn’s mauve sunrise,
A crimson pizzaz blushing opaline skies
Where eagle flies questing higher highs
Thrilling endearing vibes of enamored eyes
In sparrow’s glance, in cardinal’s dance
In the call of passion, in trill of romance.

Feel the gentle tease of buoyant breeze
And rhythms lilting on blossoming trees
As resplendence extols nature’s appeal~
White-blooms scintillating magnolia’s zeal,
Blazing red-peonies, flaming gold-daffodils,
Glint panorama glistening verdant foothills.

It’s the bubbling spirit of burbling stream
It’s budding impulse of meadow’s dream
It’s passionate horizon of magenta gleam
It’s the dawning aspiration of sunlit beam
It’s colorful ballet of splendiferous theme
It’s heavenly spring of earthly daydream.

Hear sweet songs of love strumming air,
Seductive melodies wafting everywhere
As birds hop, waltz, frolic, sing, and play
Serenading welcome to a beauteous day
Warbling verse of joy, trilling “cheer, cheer”
Oh! the spring is here, the spring’s here!

February 24, 2022
Placed 1st: A Brian Strand 1091
Placed 1st: A Lovely Day Poetry Contest
Sponsor: BJ Legros Kelley
Form: Rhyme

Monday, Monday

Sweetness Ordained

Can you remember
a smell
or only a fact

Can a bakery
in passing
free a memory lapsed

A sensory 
flashback
its sweetness ordained

Olfactory joy
surviving time
— and the flame

**

Breathing Closer

Death
I hear thee coming
but still see thee not
Death
your chilling shadow
Atropos casting lots
Death
 breathing closer
inhaling my soul
Death
by day silent
— the darkness extols

**

Dark Symbiosis

You heard me whisper
I heard you cry
You tracked my footsteps
which bade goodbye

A star crossed tandem
in shared release
Dark symbiosis
— of love’s retreat

**

A New Calling

Don’t ever let life
deprive you
of what only
death can claim

Each day of excuse
and diverted
dreams
will lock your hope in chains

Only when final
divinely
inspired
and stepping through the wind

Toward a new
calling
and fresh paradigm
— are we blessed to rebegin

**
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Essence of Soft Shadows

The Essence of Soft Shadows


The essence of soft shadows on the wall
   that shelters where we'll rest when we are gone,
      where light flows in to grace the marble hall
and seasons can be seen with each new dawn...

Will speak to us of earthly joys we knew...
   like sunny rays or raindrops on the glass;
      and essence of soft shadows will come through
with visions of blue sky, green trees, and grass.

The essence of soft shadows will sweep in
   to touch our names in gold there placed to see.
      And we will feel quintessence there within
of earthy warmth and sites that used to be.

The essence of soft shadows here on Earth
   do not exist when cast by Heaven's ray;
      where there, our souls, in process of rebirth,
will watch our borrowed shells slowly decay.

And there above, our love will glow once more.
   The essence of soft shadows on our souls
      will fade away to shine forevermore
replaced by endless light that death extols.


May 10, 2018

~1st Place
Contest: The Essence of Soft Shadows
Sponsor: John Lawless
Judged: 05/18/2018


Premium Member Wicked Lady

On our bed she sits
Laced, bare to her skin
Pouting lips excite me
Teasing begins

Her tongue tastes the air
In a lusting roll
Through the lace I see ripe
My heart extols

Each moment she moves
I capture a pertness so firm
My eyes in delight
As my body affirms

She bows her head
Turns and looks
As soon as I view
Entranced, I'm hooked

Towards her I walk
Slow steps at a time
Nearing her beauty
Admiring sublime

I stand before she
Man that I am
To my knees I fall
As I become her lamb

Hands meet skin
Touching with kissing
Eyes momentarily meet
Knowing their wishing

The lace I gently pull
Revealing tanned soft skin
Desiring now affects me
To love her from within

Our bodies gently meet
Side by side we face and kiss
Loving moments captured
It's time to grace our bliss

Silk sheets endorse our rhythm
As we release undulating waves
In unison we share
Our sensuous inner craves






http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/love-12.php
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Heart Speak

Tho' I am but the sparrow's twining strains
The palette and the pen of whisp'ring souls
I'm sweeter, still, if dashed upon the shoals
Or bleeding from the hem of day's remains
Tho' I may weep from all a scoundrel feigns
For what each soldier's dying breath extols
It's grander, even, morning's meadow rolls
As spindrift, tossed upon the grassy plains
Oh, I am found the coursing thru all things
As warm within your veins, as sunset's sky
My constancy, to love and swoon and hate
To stir in hopes or see what passion brings
So guard me, close, or open me and cry ...
I'll bound and thrum and patiently ... await.





~ 1st Place ~  in the "Open Me First" Poetry Contest, Craig Cornish, Judge & Sponsor.

Premium Member With Joyous Heart

Upheld steadfastly by sovereign brace

My existence extols divine grace.

Filled now with earnest gratitude

I ascend toward faith’s altitude

Propped by God’s unwavering might

Midst love-wrought service delight:

Fulfilling commitment from the start

Reaching-out along volunteerism rampart

Ministering well against selfishness’ dart

Pleasing Lord with joyous heart*.

*1Kings 8:66 ... Joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done...

March 30, 2019
3rd place "10 Lines, 5 Words: Rhyme III" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Lu Loo; judged on 4/7/2019.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Hope and Faith

Hope and Faith

With my body suffering from acute pains
After a fall on a slippery floor,
With the back hitting against the footsteps
And several ribs fractured at the core
Sleep becomes utterly vain,
Conflicting thoughts and clashing concepts
Invariably invade my mind,
The days seem to be dull, dreary and long,
Hardly inner peace I can find
And only wish my course not to prolong.

But the mind, after deliberations, 
Counsels me not to forsake hope,
Not to give way to emotions
Nor a dark despair to adopt
But to cherish and nurture hope
As it is the effulgent light
That keeps the spirit ever bright,
Spurs man to rise up if he falls,
To move ahead to reach his real goal
And mark his imprint in the human scroll.

Hope enshrines a positive attitude,
Helps to discern the bright side of life
Relieves man from obnoxious solitude,
Assuages his arduous daily strife
And lends a hand to restore one`s health,
The most precious gift in the world
Which no amount of treasures or wealth,
And not even the rarest of pearls,
Can retrieve for one striving for a last breath
And who maintains hope at arm`s length.

Yet a low voice deep from my inner self
Extols the the virtues of faith in the Lord
As faith in the Lord is faith in oneself
And not to think of the Lord we can`t afford;
He cares for us in ways we can`t believe,
Extends His hands to temper our downfall,
Works out wonders our pain to relieve
And showers His grace on us if we call 
On Him with wilful faith and devotion
And with resolute determination.

By Krishnanand Guptar
Form: Rhyme

More Than a Feeling

Love isn't just a single word 
or feeling
Said to tickle an ear and 
leave you reeling

Nor is love abstract and 
void of care
But what one envisions and 
does all year

We convey our love by 
things that we do
When a loved one is hurting 
we hurt too

Love is conveyed by deeds 
not merely said
And connects us all with a 
common thread

Love is single soul 
embedded in two separate 
bodies
That keeps the heart 
beating for many centuries

Love isn't a feeling for a 
short period
For Its care is countless and 
myriad 

Love is a word some find 
difficult to say
But it leaves an enormous 
price to pay

Love is feeling of endless 
sacrifice
That can never be bought 
with no price

Love is bond that binds two 
souls
Its a great gift that must be 
extols

Love is a shield that not 
only blinds our heart from 
hate
But distance our soul from 
all forms of irate

Love means when one 
hurts us, we forgive
Not five years later to bring 
up and relive

Love takes our soul to 
where it belong 
for it keeps no record of 
wrong

Love means to give without 
asking
For it makes living on earth 
basking

Love is boundless and 
priceless
Its limitation is endless

Love sometimes forces on 
us a ling wait
But love never delegates us 
power to dictate

Love is that master key to 
the door of happiness
Its the bricks that forms the 
mantle of success

We don't have to agree 
with each other to love
For God gave me what I 
was unworthy of

What's held in your heart 
your mouth will speak
So before speaking do a 
mental critique

love is never idle or to be 
cast in mothballs
I see love as a servant in 
coveralls

In short, Love is GODS 
nature in procreation
For it's the genesis of 
human creation
Form: ABC

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