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Premium Member The Can-Can

“what inspires you to write
such indiscriminate indiscretions
like that?” he speaks to himself 
and thinks 

not long 
without thinking,
unnaturally he feels,
something, so
 
he promptly writes 
it all down 
without a further
doo-diddley-day

there you go 
a muse 

the muse amused
reads his take on it all
and up her mind goes,
the ride, like a pole 

flags, waving
checkered, 
black and white,
racing all the way

up and down
down and up 
the rollercoaster thrill
of it all

jack was planting seeds
for his bean stalking tour 
counting the footsteps 
along the imprinting way

she wasn't eating
her curds and whey

you have to be quick 
like you know, 
nimble
sometimes

she galumphs
naturally 
unnaturally
across the page 

burlesque,
headlights 
turned on, full beam, 
delivering the splits

smiling 
for laughs,
the laughs, 
always splitting the mix

can-can 
she thinks,
masked, yet best
in tap dance shoes

nakedly 
confronting
fingers tapping
minds pointing

un-a-mused
qué más se puede pedir
Spanish for those untouched 
uber tall flaming flamingoes

que puis-je dire
French kissed
all the way
for the les enfants terrible

a - mused
fearlessly venturing
forward
for more

let them go, 
the others
waltzing Old Time 
away, out the door

'tis better
elemental 
she feels
the win-win

can-can 
she thinks
and smiles
amused  

indiscreetly 
not 
turning
away

win-win
she smiles 
a full-wattage
salute

can-can 

She
thinks,
begin 
the beguine

indiscreetly 
not 
turning
away




Candide Diderot. ‘24


Premium Member Reacclimating

reacclimating after the climatic gavel falls
after sunrise and sunset and flamingoes
   after wood, Rembrandts and aluminum
after prodigy, prodigal and guitar strings
      and chatter. after all what matters
is chroma-splash, illumination and surrender
  a soundless cacophony of instruments
          and muses deliciously dancing
dripping from a litany of brushes

Y                    O                    R
 e                      r                     e
   l                       a                     d
     l                       n                     s
      o                       g
        w                      e

                   sea blues, teals, whales

swoosh…swoosh

   the presence of fame

        God is a fave…

time’s talent from only one of his fingers

   i  figure, in heaven’s palette -

won’t we forever be astonished

7/10/2022
Brian Strand’s Premiere Contest
art

Rain Dance Ii

May is warm, 
 energetic, enticing and embracing
 singing rhythmic rhyme, melancholic melodies of spring;
in a change of weather flowing on the wispy neck of winds
fall the rain drops, cold and heavy in their spin,
 petals loosen and release down to the earth below
 a hundred buds open wide to the chilling flow.

The rain dance waltzes and sweeps its playful tango ballet
in the spread of flowerings on the edges end displayed
 of cultivated hedges in a damp dove gray sky
 revealing the fall of colors in the garden on the fly;

perfumed lilac lavenders and magnolias scent each breath of air
roses bud gently, tenderly exposed, well loved and well cared;
 pinks peek out, deep, dark, delicate, intense flamingoes,
 reds bleed crimson burgundy, in spicy velvet, tomato throws;
lacey pale orchids hold steady in cherry blossom rush and blush
beneath a stage of starlight dust, faded white pale ivory tusks;

 colors of the rainbow slow dance, 
 a mix of colors given to whim and chance;
blue, green, yellow, orange and red
stretched in a row along the edges of the garden bed;
 scarlet claret burgundies, touch the light rays of the sun and shade
 with canary yellow saffron burning in amber mellow lemonade;

the hybrids rise taller, gangly stretching up overall in time
where olive cucumber mint, blends pine grass green, lemon and lime;
 and the colors fade like distant aerial gavottes
 grateful to the sun and rains for what the season caught.
It's the rain dancing in the end of May
 nothing keeps the garden more happy and gay.
© DM Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Little White House

Anybody on this road we're on
Ain't nobody wants to be alone
Everybody's trying to make it home
To somebody
Sunflower, we're not in Kansas now
It's a new life down in Alabama
God gave us a little white house

Baby be right, maybe be wrong
We'll make it up as we go along
Been three years stuck in the viaduct
But now, Baby somehow
We got a little white house

Fix the kitchen, paint it blue-gray sky
Place your pretties in your own design
Get some rockers, maybe we can spy
Hummingbirds stop by
Plant some flowers, decorate with stones
Pink flamingoes, a couple garden gnomes
Make your jewelry, I'll write some country songs
We'll make a happy home

Baby be right, maybe be wrong
We'll make it up as we go along
Been three years stuck in the viaduct
But now, Baby somehow
We got a little white house

Sun's shining, summer's coming on
Dogs barking, fat boys mowing lawns
All the kids out, they're all puddling on 
The corners
Sunflower, we're not in Kansas now
It's a new life down in Alabama
God gave us a little white house

Baby be right, maybe be wrong
We'll make it up as we go along
Been three years stuck in the viaduct
But now, Baby somehow
We got a little white house

©2019
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Think Pink

Flamingoes stand on one leg
If they are cold, it's said
They tuck one leg in their plume
Why not tuck both? there's room
If both legs were tucked in tight
The Flamingo would lose height
It would become a legless bird
One that's never been heard
Of, I know that the Flamingoes Pink
This comes from its diet, I think
Crustaceans in all shades of red
Is the food Flamingoes are fed
Algae and plant life too
Predators this bird has few
Toxicity and industrialisation
Will bring an end to this creation
It's a most spectacular bird
Standing quietly undeterred
Oblivious of what lays ahead
Holding on by a slender pink thread
It makes all sad to think
This endangered species will become extinct.
Form: Rhyme


The Desolated Greatness

The Desolated Greatness

                                                           ABAB


The brooding copse of archaic place,
where many stories lived  and died,
rapturous and dismal both interlace,
to charm all, as in thousand hearts it resides.

Where peacock fawn, to win the mate,
and nightingale sing surmised
and where brown-recluse spider wait,
and search its life disguised.

The echoed heaven, with multitude
of songs and cries,
of birds in solitude
or in group as they flies.

The squirrels jump and pop around,
and enjoy the april scene,
as all of them ecstatic found,
with all hearts eager, all eyes keen.

The fragrance was in the air
of full blown flowers and old
which drops here and there
cries, hopes and become cold.

The winnowing winds of adjacent field,
ruffles the hairs of indolent calves
which nothing now can yield,
but deplete the fodder to halves.

Pinkish flamingoes grace the lake
which dips and uplifts
its beak in serene water, and take
the required and drifts.

The trodden path midst this greatness
reminds us of its splendid past
and also of nature's creativeness,
which is only left at last.


                                                                                                                          -:AKASH SANGWAN

Premium Member Indian Pipe

INDIAN PIPE
(The Corpse Plant)


in the shadows
     in the shadows
          teardrop eyes

Like bagpipes they play, somber tunes of fear,
as doves do weep, as flamingoes bow down.
A ghost plant dirge, doth tremble dusty clouds.
The bells, they ring, intensely sing, slow-deep.

in the shadows
     in the shadows
          teardrop eyes

Like wax, their silhouettes a frozen mask.
A countenance, thus drained of chlorophyll.
The vampiric cold parasite craves night -
A leech, among the beech, with lovers scars.

in the shadows
     in the shadows
          teardrop eyes

A cold and clammy touch, doth turn a corpse
an inky black. A translucent pale ghost -
don’t touch, nor handle plant, nor creep too near
its eerie soil, nor step, upon its grave.

in the shadows
     in the shadows
          teardrop eyes

Original date : 5/11/2017

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Brian Strand: Sponsor 6/23/2019
Form: Verse

Premium Member How Long Did She Plan To Stay

I woke up to my mother-in-law’s snoring noises loud and clear.
Come! I said to my husband. I swear that your mother is near.
Outside on our front lawn we saw a parked Airstream with windows wide.
I knew for sure exactly whose big mama was sleeping loudly inside.

She had built a little fence and put out two plastic flamingoes, pink.
I was so consternated and confused, my mind would not let me think.
“Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!” my husband yelled, knocking on her door.
She did not wake at first, continuing with her horribly loud ugly snore.

The kids got up and began yelling “Grandma!” glad to see….
What had sort of kind of actually irritated me
Pink birdies! They yelled, thrilled with this woman from Ioway.
My only concern was, how long did she intend to stay?
Form: Rhyme

A Beautiful Place.

A place in the sun...bright and shining from early morn.
Ebony tones everywhere..colorful garments
lend an air of festivity....hustle and bustle everywhere.
Streets...bands of steel meander through the city
tall buildings ...cast grotesque shadows along the roads
 as trees bow in homage to the new day.

People rushing by...insects trapped in an invisible jar
laughing, singing....white teeth flashing.
Aromatic scents of herbs and spices
 emanate from side walk cafes to
tease the senses.

Side walk hawkers...fried fish, fried chicken, fried cassava
tittilate the senses... tempt the taste buds.
Taxis rush at a mad pace oblivious to potholes all the way.
 Wildlife a-plenty ....... from lions to giraffes
a colorful scene ....a feast to the eyes.

Flamingoes on the lake.. fiery pink compete with brilliant sunsets,
a world seen behind rose tinted shades.
Even the soil.....red as ochre, black as coal, white as the beaches
 a variety of colors throughout the land.
Tea and coffee plantations..a delightful view
in a beautiful land , I once knew
where suffering, hardship, joy and laughter
 embrace each other,

Pink Planet Fantasy


Come with a smile,  
come with a wink.  
Come to the land  
of pink, pink, pink.  

Imagine  
yourself  
as a pale pink fairy,  
wearing an earring  
that's a pink clip-on,  
and real pastel pink petals  
held in your pinkie,  
pointing to the pink chink  
glow upon the horizon  
at dawn.  
The garden's dye this July  
is floral pink blossoms.  

And at times I do  
have such pinkish dreams,  
where everything is hued  
in pink ice-creams.  

Where I own a fine  
posh pink cadillac,  
parked in a pink chateau  
festooned  
with fallen pink lilac.  

That,  
overlooking  
a pink sea  
ebbing on pink pebbles,  
where a pink moon  
looks like big bubbles.  

In pink colors,  
if I could customize  
'n'  
personalize  
my world:  
so pink cushions all about,  
and pink curtains unfurled!  

My birthdays always wish  
for pink balloons.  
Oh, I love to decorate  
and celebrate  
with pink festoons.  

And nature lovers could watch  
salmon pink flamingoes  
who stand upon one leg,  
hiding  
half their pink toes.  
Or even bunny rabbit eyes  
in bright pink glows.  

Ah, pink's so feminine.  
Think of pink hair pins,  
pink lips 'neath two pink  
blush cheeks,  
right above cute  
chinny chins,  
or as buds in a rosebush  
take pinkish peeks.  

I see as well baby pink  
frocks  
and frilled pink socks,  
and pink pom-pom caps  
upon golden locks,  
their pink sashes behind  
them upon the walks.  

Ah, I've always believed,  
and still I think,  
that pinkish is girlish and  
girlish is pink.
Form: Quatrain

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