Long Imagination Poems

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Premium Member Fog In the City

The vibrant colours of a Venice day
Are muted now, and drained to sombre grey,
As huddled shades of countless long past years,
Sharing their tears and ever constant fears,
Silent, intangible, diffused, now roam,
In tones of dank, primeval monochrome.

Sweet Melancholy breathes her mawkish air
As stony faces add their baleful stare,
Sightless, yet knowing well within their core
The days of pageant, and the grief, of yore.
These shifting nearly-souls of latter day
In sorrow, and against their will, they stay.

As pigeons bleakly view the scene below,
The church bells, softly stifled, peal, as though
In cotton wool. Canal sounds harmonise,
And gently rhythmic solace therein lies,
Easing the pain of those the city shuns,
Her unseen, phantom, long-forgotten sons.
© Peter Rees  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Bowels of the Pyramid

From the bowels of 
The Pyramids
Like the spinning drip of an
Atomic molecule
She rose above
Sizzled my soul
With sweet sensations of love
Ah, Isis, godess of magic and fertility
melted away my icicles
With flamed passion of fire
Satisfied those touching thoughts 
Once buried and lost as desires
Enlightened essence of fragrance
Such a mummy was I
Until she unwrapped my light 
Unleashed such sensationally 
Spectacular splitting sparkles
Now awakened!
Transformed from tomb to life
Aphrodite godess of love
Who send thoughts 
From a floating cloud
Motivated her to 
Passionately touch
As Apollo god of poetry and music
Released My mystical muse
Stimulated souls’ sensations 
Snow melted by fire
Needless, 
I articulate more…
But tonight, I will
Belly-up to the bar
Brightly blushing 
While whispering: 
 “Ein anderes Bier bitte!”

© Joseph S. Spence, Sr., (Epulaeryu Master) 6/15/2010
All Rights Reserved, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Senior Advisor, to Founder of Motivational Strips
Ambassador De Literature
Noble Star of Literature 2018
Living Legend of the 21st Century
Pentasiv B World Friendship Poetry Featured Poet 2019

Premium Member You Can'T

You Can’t 

Go home. 
You are not wanted, needed, thought about, or missed.
Why do you still want to go?

It is not the place on the map. It is a picture in my head. 
It is not even real. It is imagined. 

In my memory, which is not true at all…
In my imagination, which is made up and changed to be perfect.
There is a faultless house. 
It is not large or small, but the outside is always white, 
like snow. It is home.

Sometimes it is in the desert, sometimes a cabin in the woods. 
Today, it is on top of a great mountain where eagles come to breakfast…
everyday.

You can’t make people love you. Some just can’t. 
They have none to give. 

Home is heaven. 
We are passing through. 

Abba Father, 
Amen.
© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Big History

Big History

This exciting program
envisioned in the country down under
and with Bill Gates' enthusiastic resources
steps out boldly in the right direction..
We all remember our history lessons:
facts on a timeline taxing young memories..
The newness here is the integrative imagination
no event stands alone..but must be viewed from
a very wide integrative lens..
What are the drawbacks..?
Matter remains crowned as fundamental truth
despite the words of integration and wholeness..
Big History represents a flip underway
toward the recognition..not far away
that wholeness..consciousness..awareness 
these expressions of the Big Formula: I am..
must come first..
With the Formula's iterating colorations arriving 
with thinking and perceiving..as each of us are
engaged in this moment...

(for background see:  polarityinplay.blogspot.com

Premium Member Diy For a Carousel of Dreams

Covid 19 leaves restless kiddies with parents’ imagination at home

So why not create fantasy in the lounge for a resilient pleasure dome

Grannies’ chest of drawers comes alive as a goal with lace for a net

No offside rule here as she watches from above and hedges a bet

Please clear all those trinkets and porcelain figures from the top

Ronaldo needs safe play when beating isolation from the penalty spot

Magic carpets swirl kindly when Daddy turns on that powerful hoover

A broom for propulsion transforms into a practical boredom remover


Chandeliers are useful for swinging from when tedium starts to beckon

But they are intricate carousels and swirl pleasure round don’t you reckon

Hang on tight and beware of the hard floor made from antique floor tiles

If you land softly play hop scotch and twister to keep busy for a while

Monopoly puzzles and scrabble are more entertaining than news from TV

Planes crafted from newspaper are not only useful for that piddle or wee

The circus has come to town and first prize goes to Mom’s swivel chair

Stand two to a seat and close eyes for heightened senses if you so dare


Make you own Rubik cube from scrap and swirl the brain tease ad infinitum

Imagine you’re on a spell rollercoaster make new words like squanticotycon

Musical chairs come in handy to the sound of overt defiance over the virus

Compared to computer games ballet or dance on the piano are more desirous

With a tool kit and Mom’s motor bike craft crankshafts gears and bearing

The sky is the limit with spokes from wheels and hooter for emergency flaring

Suspension rods invite to navigate back paddle and circle from kitchen to loo

And please save paper rolls for teammates to wipe sweat from their brows too


22nd March 2020
Form: Rhyme


In the Corridors of Fantasy

Walking through doors
to a strange land,
the corridors ahead
spread out like hands


I went to the left
and found the dark,
creeping around 
some foreign part


Retracing my steps 
I went back to the light,
thinking which way
to get out of this plight


I found a corridor
lined in gold,
between the pages
and beneath the folds


Black Orchids are flowering
red poppies too,
bluebells in rainbows
and pink cockatoos


Faery’s are dancing
to a dragon track,
and elves are drunk
from drinking jack


Gnomes with cigars
and long white beards,
laughing so hard
the next county can hear


Giants with bats 
and balls,and mitts
a baseball game
even I cant miss


I made a bed
under the weeping tree,
and watched in awe
as fireworks set free
Form: Verse

Premium Member Frayed Baggage

Frayed Baggage
                 by Odin Roark

Dreamt fields
Where wall-less interiors boast stunning views
Personal vistas of imagination
Requiring only attachments be left behind
The resentful
The angry
The baggage labeled heavy

For just as everyone can’t be
Who or what they think they are
Revelation often becomes frayed baggage of the mind
Clutched with guilty claws
Self-loathing that refuses to heal

Narcissistic defenses
Deliver delusions of grandeur
Driving the moral compass further downward
Where an icy kingdom of vicarious reality
Becomes one’s personal abyss

Such is the plight of a luggage-laden life
One’s weighty attempt to always be part of something
Rejecting being one with the singular self as success

The fortunate abandon that which can’t be changed
Unshackling the drag-behind regrets and disappointments
And breathing in the oxygen of continuance

Discovering closure reveals the eternal opening
The paradoxical passage into meeting
One’s innate traveling companion of wager
The one who travels with toothbrush only
Sharing weightless wins in life
We know not of…

Yet
© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.

The Sharks and the Baracudas

One calm summer night
I visited the city aquarium and
I noticed the sharks and the barracudas
Playing a lovely game of tennis
Yeah, the sharks and
The Barracudas are just
Sitting around eating
Strawberries and drinking tea
How could this be?
The great white shark called out, "the surf is up!" and
The speedy barracuda replied, "fifteen Luv!"
How could this be?
Suddenly, the sharks and the barracudas
Noticed me standing there, and
Standing on the other side
Well, they all agreed,
If you want to learn how to swim with
The sharks and the barracudas,
First, you must learn how to play the game!
Oh, what a lovely sport it is!
Are you from Essex?
Well Its so lovely there, this time of year.
Form: Narrative

The Silence Between Then and Now

My younger self waits beneath the Mosikiri tree, barefoot,
pockets filled with Motsentsela and impossible dreams.

He smiles when he sees me,
until he notices how tired my eyes have learned to be.
"You made it," he says,
certain that the years have been kind.

I smile back,
the way broken things pretend they have never fallen.
He studies me
with the innocence only children possess.

"So...did we become the writer?"
"We did."
His face brightens like the first rain after a long drought.
"Then you must write every day."
"I don't."
The smile slips quietly from his face.
"Why?"
"Life happened."

He wrinkles his forehead, confused.
"I thought life was the reason we wanted to write."
I stay quiet!
"Do we still watch sunsets without checking the time?"
"No."
"Do we still jump in it rain?"
"No."
"Do we still believe people mean the promises they make?"

I take a long breath.
"Not always."
He lowers his head, drawing circles in the earth with his heel.
"You've learned so many things."
I nod.
"But you forgot so many too."

His words find every place my silence had been hiding.
He reaches into his pocket and pulls out one grain of Motsentsela
"Remember this?"
I do.
It was treasure before money taught me its own definition of value.
He rolls it into my hand.

"You used to think the smallest things were miracles."
I close my fingers around it, afraid it might disappear
like everything else I failed to hold on to.

He looks at me
one last time.
"I don't mind that you grew older."
He pauses.
"I just wish you hadn't grown so far away from yourself."


"What if I want to find you again?" i ask
He smiles, the same smile that once believed
every tomorrow was a gift.
"You don't have to find me.
I'm still here.

I'm waiting every time
for you remember who you were
before the world told you who to become."

Premium Member Compendium of Spaces

spaces-SEPTEMBER I
empty slides in the park



chatter fills the school bus

spaces- SNUFFED OUT
Bad light stops play




The muscians retire


Note: Haydn's Farewell Symphony

spaces-CATARACT
The mist lifts slowly



A new vista is unveiled

spaces-CATCH-22
A window pane shatters



Nobody makes a home run



SPACES 2
HISPANIC REVERBERATIONS





Blue-bells

SPACES 1
SHADY LADIES





Hostas

spaces- REFRACTION
a rainbow on high



liquid to light

spaces-THEOPHANY
This is my beloved son


Hear Him?

spaces-PECKING ORDER
Sparrow on the bird table


the hawk has a feast

An Abstract spaces poem
Close your eyes


What did you see?
Form: Imagism

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