Long Gravid Poems

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Premium Member Beneath Waltzing Clouds

             winter
with it's fangs retracted
s l i t h e r s away.
see you next year!
spring is here
           gravid 
with infinite possibilities
mother earth aging
in reverse; clothed
 in her sunday best.

I shall make the most of
this glorious day!

             l i l a c s
         breath honey 
into my nostrils.
i hear early birds tweeting.
i see flowers blooming.
in the infancy of spring,
pollinating bees 
buzz with excitement
gleeful blades of grass 
sway in the breeze.

I shall make the most of
this glorious day!

with blessings of rain,
bare trees quench their thirst.
           starlings
against the lapis lazuli sky
dazzle me so.
a shy sun peeks out,
brightly beaming
down my head as I walk, 
frequently whistling
beneath waltzing clouds.

I shall make the most of 
of this glorious day!


Premium Member A Cold Day

I am flung against the drab ashen phonon sky, weighted with ghostly iron clad jaws of bitter winter's grip, biting the feather-flared Doves gravid with fatigue from the ill-laden onerous air.  The rough-coated dog with ice-tipped ears had surrendered to the corridor of gutters in the toilsome cold, a fugitive of neglect of his own demise.  In this empiric city, a shrine of humankind, vespers of frozen conflict rose up from its bowels, like sweat from otherworldly gargoyle watchmen of stone and mortar atop the surrounding spires of fortune.  Beneath the steeples of holy crosses and frozen muted lights, faceless, heavily cloaked phantom transients trudged through half stacked drifts of dirty snow moving farther away from hazard, blinded in their apathy.  The grimy yellow cab bedraggled on its mucky, viscous boulevard strained and bellowed as a labored oxen.  Desperate, surreal sirens blaring from a distant byway echoed and purged from the back alley resort of homeless, despondent souls, laying like pale-blue corpses in garbage bins that sheltered their weakness - interred in their obscure tombs chasing their fate in a bottle of booze. And I stood frozen in the moment, displaced with the cold reality in my icebound, paralytic soul, shuddering with hurt.

ice laments silence
cloaked in bitter winter's grip
trapped in bitter spires

December 17, 2019
December or January Haibun Poetry Contest

Moments of Reflection - Haibun Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Malabika Ray Choudhury
Form: Haibun

Premium Member Behold Beatrice, Pitcairn

Behold Beatrice, Pitcairn
the paradise sunsets lie in Tahiti
sunrise, the folly of Easter
islands, sanitoriums, deluded, denuded
limbos and purgatories, the never evermore
Polynesian metaphors transmigrate my mind
O to graze with the deer, dear
the tree never falls silently
lizards scatter, birds scurry to flight
i could never buy into falling silence
let alone fate of Galileo's descending weights
church theologians preferring an atheist Aristhrottle
forgive me for being sententious dear
no pity for Cyrano
the hidden Darcy 
in another failed Benedick in port
without Dante's delusions
love with no embrace
Service, woman, a slightly tainted saint
Tennyson's wound that never heals
Petrarch, Augustine, it grows insane
ah the vicissitudes, where was i
yes, leaving metaphors and literate men

your laughter starts in those ignescent eyes
ignition, brush fires of rippling ballerinas
facial muscles lost in abandonment
to some elfish music i see, never hear
lips widening, bursting rubaiyat pandemonium
i adore your infectious risibility
it is your amatory smile i love most
demure, candles gamboling in the moonlight
i am a moth lost in the flames
of your demanding timidity
it is then i see in your eyes
the dove gracing your hands
the beast who serves your lust
this is why the Norsemen
fear nothing but women
swords once ready, berserkers, Odin
now lie silent volcanoes in my heart, Freya
the seas are without headstones
and i am wondering again terricolous
all of this are the clouds overhead
it is the heavens i see in your eyes
not the red dawn i fear
we see the jungle, its' song, inevitable war
the struggle to stand in the light

possibly besotted, erratum
the seas have long not cared
with you, i learn, heal
we are undeniably humanity
we are paradise lost
the hells of yesterday
need not rule the heavens of today
your arms gravid with red sunsets
fill my deepest hopes of all morrows  
its' ultimate price is gladly paid

   Miramar   94   The Patient Stones
   Revised   5/22   OKC
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Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 Is Not What It Seems
there are certain words in here common in 19th Century literature that always remind me....besotted with Jane Austen

Premium Member A Monday Morning

Yet another Monday rolls around
                  And I rise with the sun
                    Summer is still here
                       Still hanging on
                   An infinitely busy day
                 Gravid with possibilities
        And various shades of opportunities
          Summer Marguerites are swaying 
          Obediently in the morning breeze
        Yet another day to get my hustle on
         To be that thunderbolt in the bottle
                 Operating at full-throttle
Running from pillar to post like a headless chicken
             'Tis a manic Monday, for sure
               But there is magic in the air
             There's excitement in facing
               New challenges, exploring
     And discovering sublime to ridiculous things
            The morning sun shines above
             In this chaotic yet blessed day


Mondays Poetry Contest 
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin 
Date written and posted: 08/05/2018
day

Premium Member To My Future Self

Edward, remember this.
            Just like you were a caterpillar
            Before you became a butterfly;
     A bud before you blossomed one spring,
       You'll continue to evolve and flourish
                   In this vale of tears.
    You've got a lot of living to do, my friend.
    Life is what you make it! Embrace it fully!
        Make lemonade out of your lemons,
             Take time to smell the roses!

 Treasure quality time with friends and family.
     Celebrate even the smallest of victories.
          You're traveling through this life
     On the right trajectory; stay the course.
               Let nothing veer you off it!
       You're the sea captain of your destiny;
                  Sail on straight ahead!
         I needn't remind you just how cruel
        This life can be. As you're well aware,
         It isn't done knocking you down flat.

       You'll feel it's punch again and again,
        And you'll fall like timber each time,
         But you won't stay down, Edward.
   You'll get up, dust off, and carry on living!
            You woke up today, didn't you?
            You rose with the morning sun
           Grateful to be alive another day
             To see it set over the horizon.
      Yes sir, you'll rise again like the Phoenix
       Whenever life floors you with it's hook...

      And float along with hope in the clouds!
     Whenever the blue sky turns ashen gray
              And warm sunny days grow
       Unforgivingly cold; from bright to dark,
         Never lose faith, for you'll continue 
              To feel the presence of God
        At your darkest hours, I promise you.
     Keep on living life the best you know how!
    Keep on growing, personally and spiritually.
        May your future continue to be bright
         And gravid with infinite possibilities!


Letter To Your Future Self Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Silent One
Date written: 09/19/2021


Premium Member The Lost Flight of Hope

A spaceship called Hope... made from the future's grand mist, 
is perched upon a launch pad of manic chemicals and loss.
With stun-gun emotion, Mother Earth regurgitates.  
5-4-3-2-1
Her metal finger meets the button...
She releases her ballast...
Blast off! 
My brain engulfing G forces.
Soon to become a mustard seed
in a speed-of-light garden.
Filled with gravid redheaded planets,
giving birth to fat-headed moons.
The stars are cheering, like starving mad islanders.

Light years have passed. 
Ground control has lost contact.
(by choice or by accident).
The rations are depleting,
but I'm serene in a starry tranquility...

I've blown by a million past lives.
Apologized half-heartedly to an alien God.
Who wished me well, pointed toward a giant black hole.
Then disappeared into the vapor trail
of lost potential and cachexic hope.

It's eerily over.
There's no more virgin oxygen.
Only the stale argon of saints and tyrants,
casting shadows of black hallucinations
chanting:
"Little seed...little seed...Didn't you know this was a one-way flight?"

I gaze out a stained-glass window for the last time.
Church bells are ringing from the parched throat of time.
Four golden letters peel from the side of the star-dusted ship.
Satiating the madness of stars...
"Little seed...little seed."

Premium Member It Is That Look In Your Eyes

it is that look in your eyes
that commences mine closing
the world disappears
the aroma in your hand 
echoes the feel as your shoulder
guiding, powering the arm
the deliverance is in hand
all the senses wait for the touching
held at bay by a Percheron steadfast
angel wings whisper 
as your hand arrives on my cheek
my heart in a pyroclastic bursting
as enchantment grasps 
every atom within me
where time and space have no meaning
and in that instant when lips meet
the Percherons are in a full gallop 
in a universe gravid with an elucidation
that consumes my life
a plethora of galaxies i so adore
all of this from a social event
i had no intention of attending
where just one perchance look
from afar across the room
became the smile on Klotho's face

   OKC   4/23

Premium Member Abracadabra

“Abracadabra, brass candelabra”
Bright, white light, to dark succumb
Ring the ears, trip tongues to slur
Annul sight, dim cornea

Cast your magic, mayhem, havoc
Advance enigma, elude stigma
Danger-gravid, power-avid

“Astral blast, come” cast penumbra
Blunt sweet senses, dense and numb
Rot and blot, aurora blur
Addle brain with morphia


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for The A's Have It Poetry Contest
sponsored by Joseph May
written on 09/07/2022

key:
    Starting letters: abracadabra
    Ending letters: abracadabra
    “Alphabetic”
    Alliteration
    Rhyming
    Rhyming and alliteration may overlap
    Last word of 1st stanza rhymes/near-rhymes last word of 3rd stanza
© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

Premium Member I Never Wonder Why I Love You

i never wonder why i love you
why animals can migrate with no map 
why do some moths as well as butterflies
able to choose wings up or down
yet they never vary in their species 
the sun rises in the East
the full moon is gravid with romance
birds innately build nests without a blueprint
nary a lesson, born with their own song
all of these things point to a natural order
of what is and meant to be
that which is tried and true 
what has worked thru the ages
what most of all endures
when i am holding you
my arms feel filled beyond measure
everything in this world is where it belongs
i love you because i belong with you
as does the evening's song to the nightingale
come morning the lark's duty to sing dawns' glory
the roosters claim upon the rising sun
a mockingbird's mating call fills the darkness
i see the natural order that surrounds my life
i never feel a reason to wonder why
you belong with me and i with you
the Earth and Moon, lip to lip
in a celestial dance, lost in each others' gaze
insouciant to a surrounding universe
it is said that if you never had a question
you will never need an answer
and when i look into your eyes
i never see a why i see every reason
of why i love you 

   9/18   Kismet

There's a love that's divine
and it's yours and it's mine like the sun
And at the end of the day
we should give thanks and pray
to the One, to the One
Have I told you lately that I love you
Have I told you there is no one else above you

written by Van Morrison
from the song
Have I Told You Lately That I Love You

Broken Covenant

I made a covenant with my eyes,
Never to look lustfully at the thighs,
Not to look suggestively at a lady,
Not to admire her pulchritudinous body,
What has happened now..,
I find myself sinning in a row,
Am selling my eyes ooh,come buy them naah!

I assured myself not to utter,
Anything of romance as it would be bitter,
I promised to see all ladies as my sister,
Never to seduce,allure them, but sisterly utter,
Everything has changed,
Satan,his angels have my mind mingled,
Am selling my eyes ooh,come buy them naah!

Whenever I see a lady,I become hot,
My eyes see a beautiful lady,a sister not,
They conjoin the brain to admire,
I find myself salivating, and a phone number, I acquire,
I say I will text her bible verses,
But the conspiracy in me bring love advances,
Am selling my eyes ooh,come buy them naah!

At times,am sitted planless,
A lady passes,my eyes pop out in questness,
They make me call the damsel,
Witnessing as I prepare my journey to hell,
Instead of preventing me from sinning,
They always see every skirt stunning,
Am selling my eyes ooh,come buy them naah!

Enough is enough,am damn tired,
Females have nicknamed me a sex bud,
A womaniser is my new noun,
Leave alone seductor which is my pronoun,
Can't I not live in peace,
Or are they a necessity for being at ease,
Am selling my eyes ooh,come buy them naah!

Eyes have produced killer kings,
Made them sin with rings,
Are they not eyes that made king David,
see Bathsheba full with beauty gravid,
And conspirated to make her husband killed,
As he enjoys what his eyes reaped,
Am selling my eyes ooh,come buy them naah!

How I wish my eyes be lustfulless,
In every last they see,ugliness,
In every skirt around,tightless,
In every girl child creations, bootyless,
For every thighs seen,smoothless,
And for an engagement with my brain to sin,cordless,
Am selling my eyes ooh,come buy them naah!

Dear Lord, I know have sinned greatly,
Fallen short of your glory broadly,
I beg for another chance,
To revive and change for once,
Help me God,let me be prayerful,
As I train my eyes not be lustful,
Am selling my eyes ooh, come buy them naah!

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