Long Impacts Poems

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Hurricane Warning

One flower almost gray
but visibly not

Brushed by a breeze on
concrete wet

Emerged from a crevasse
along the corner

Forced to hold on to its
limited yellow

Open to suggestion 

More than several
shapes take hold

On a distant wall of
wind emerged tornadoes

Spun in favor of the
days rotation

Coming in from the west

At a 90 degree
declination

Turns to be determined
left or right

Angles perpendicular to
the east

The eye wall wobbling
uncertain to reason

As gray turns to black

Rises with barometric
pressure

Collapsed on the
moments fragile flight

Palm trees hang
suspended, then animate

Fall like paragraphs
pinned down by wind

News wires bent on
facts lean in to learn

There to understand it

Hurricane begins,
uproots humanity 

Removes them like tooth
decay 

Electric lines freak
out, burn on orange red desires

Dangle in the wind in
pain without a smile

Touch puddles as
children walk by

Inclement weather does
strange things

Impacts
the storm track still intact

Leaves nothing behind
or to the imagination

Including its name
which is forgotten

Roads clear and are not
there

Traffic, trees,
people... Poof!..all gone

Storm warnings move on,
hunger for warmth

Looking for a tropical
paradise to wrong


Thinking Outside the Box When It Comes To Pensions

Am I really the only one thinking outside the box,
When it comes to pension costs,
Regardless of whether people are able to work or not,
With some working til they drop.

Let me open my box and tell you how to stop the rot,
In my box is all the evidence that points to the life experience,
That those who are for a pension now due can bring to the table,
Along with the math's calculations that says how much they can give back,
If we ask their help,
To mentor the young and keep them out of jail,
To share a lifetime of knowledge that we may need if the internet breaks,
So, we don't end up back in the stone age.
To help on their good days or even good hours to reduce the rubbish pile,
That is costing us more every minute to manage,

Then there the hidden costs they can help us with,
When you start thinking out of the box,
Like, the longer we employ them when they are incapable,
Of doing their job there is a cost,
Or the fact that increasing their age of retirement,
We delay the intake of the young,
And if the age of retirement keeps going up,
The number of those unemployed for life goes up,
A cost that would burden us  for generations to come.

Then there are the facts about the health problems,
With older people in workplaces,
Bladder issues,
Skin that is less resistant to knocks,
To name but two which will leave businesses no choice,
But to raise prices.

Another thought I came up with while thinking out of the box,
Is that to get the best out of the old work wise,
We should be looking at retirement as a gradual process, 
With flexibility for gradually reducing a persons work hours,
And shifting them to light duties, including mentoring roles,
According to their individual health and abilities to do their job,
This should create opportunities for more young people to
Enter the workforce.

Then still thinking outside the box there is the mental wellbeing of 
The aged which effects their physical health which impacts,
The overall rate of spending on health.
The more useful and less anxious people of any age feel,
Is a win in terms of real dollars saved.

If we can get more people thinking out of the box on this issue,
We will find it is not an issue at all,
Once the number crunchers see the new evidence,
That was sitting outside their box,
Who knows they might be tempted to think outside the box themselves.
Form: Didactic

Tea With Crackers

Honor me with your company at tea
Outdoors where the air is always free
A table awaits us on the railroad tracks
Have a seat facing me my good old friend

The 10:00 am bullet train is coming fast
It should arrive on time this time
Would you like some jam with crackers?
Don’t worry.  Don’t look behind you
That sound you hear is your imagination

Thunder is normal this time of year
If you feel a draft just close your eyes
It will pass through you once upon a time
Impacts are funny like that

It is after ten.  I fear a crash is near 
Drink up while you can my friend 
I’m sorry.  Did I say crash?
Crackers is what I meant to say
Good day

Premium Member Gathering

Wave after wave
Siege upon siege
Trials greet the brave
League after league


Sign follows sign
Road after road
Symbols jog mind
Load gathers load


Day after day
Night after night
The air feels stay
In dark and light


Chime alters chime
Sense follows sense
Rhyme within rhyme
Tense confronts tense


Look beyond looks
Joy impacts joy
Put down your books
Ploy fashions ploy


Need within need
Surge after surge
Go beyond seed
Feed on sure urge


Thought after thought
Brief after brief
Discard vain plot
Grief attracts grief


Blind knows not blind
Find after find
Cruel can be kind
Just read the signs


Here mellows here
Sphere after sphere
Live with sure cheer
Purge all else near


Face follows face
Reach upon reach
Feel time and space
Know each to each


Fling after fling
Stretch upon stretch
Hear sparrows sing
Catch beyond catch





Leon Enriquez
20 November 2014
Singapore
Form: Quatrain

Endifferance

considered unsolvable and painfully stressful
she spoke of her togetherness with the man
she allowed him to speak her as with him .
the impacts of togetherness limits the field.
it discredits others who might seem more worthy
society wishes some to wed.
society wishes some to part
the impact of society on our togetherness
likens one to restart
it is meet with the resistance
 of those who favor us together.
might they profit from our longevity
 might we then do the same.
each perspective limits those who see difference
and in each difference
 might they speak from their own experiences
to draw thoughts to be against us  
or us being together.
the importance of togetherance, 
in the formation of a love togetherness
might cause others to speak us as unsolvable
 and they might stress them selves
to divide us.
they sought to divide us as we were formative.
they sought to divide us as we were  in maintenance.
they sought to divide us as we were strengthening our resolve.
yet we stand unsolvable and together.
might they speak us as unresolved
, can I answer
can I answer to tell them
that love speaks it's own language,
 and is translated to those that listens.
in these opportunities might those who shall
 have future be together
and those who are the past be apart"
might I answer to speak them wrong
might I anwser to speak them wrong?
Form: Bio


Premium Member Loves Promise

For Timothy Lee

The soulful whisper of love’s promise bore an
enthused mood when it softly clued me love assured.
In silent speech, an otherness air did somehow speak
soothing assurances I innocently absorbed as honest
but I was only nine when those promise words occurred. 

Decades hence, I have ridden attractions to passions 
that proved to be romantic cons dressed in love’s 
fashions.  Such snagged me in years of love commitment
stress battles that dysfunction ultimately throttled. I was
left with only brutal pains, numb dreams and traumatic
regrets as darkly grey stretched by threats of lonely. 

Then came your engaging grin and blue-eyed smile.
Any thought of charade vanished when you displayed
such a steadfast pursuit that my cynical came loose.
Our soul’s mirrored love has long shown soulmate impacts
as proof love’s whispered promise was truth, solidly exact.

In silent speech, an otherness air did somehow speak - 
'he will have a three-letter name' - I never forgot that share.

A Second Chance

Looking back down upon the world from magnificent twilight skies
Makes me wonder if more could have come forth from my life
What is taken for granted is what impacts most on already burdened souls
I’ll beg, I’ll plea, I’ll get down on my knees, to be gifted to return

A second chance is often too late to change what has been done
Fixing the past is an impossible feat when the present is already in ruin
Time feels so infinite when you’re living through it in bliss
But the whole world can topple in just a matter of moments

Dreams may always stay dreams if you stop moving forward
Becoming stagnant is the enemy of progress, the crippler of motivation
Compliance cannot be accepted, it must be pushed through by force
So that even the constellations above may be attained in time

What can be done when it is too late to tell your story?
When you can change nothing anymore, but must rely on legacy present
How there would be such an urge to scream, to cry out
As a ghost, forever tortured to see a past life incomplete

When all the memories of yourself have been forgotten
Is when death in this world is truly claimed final
For so long as you live in the hearts of those who remain
You are still alive in the world that never stops turning

Death may come at any time, without us having any foresight
The scariest thoughts that haunt our minds, brought forth to light
That we could be erased without a second chance to be gifted
And existence would cease, the timeline a string to be cut

Nothing we can fathom is forever, but blips in time
The never-ending clock that marches forward with or without
So we strive for meaning and legacy to be carried on
Before turning into stardust and returning to the void

In the Nights Sky

In the nights sky, The big round moon amplifies
Nocturnally a journey set in motion, as my minds eye opens
Through the shining stars I will find a way, to reach the Milky way
Hyperspace I will travel, this journey will not unravel
Exosphere has been reached its a convey, to the planets walkway
Nebula's fill the empty darkness, in the distance I can see Venus
Inferior she may be, but her light beautifully bright and full of love is what I see
Gliding by Mars in its state of unwillingness, a red hue glows in all its wickedness
Heading past the gas giant I flee, Jupiter holds his principles in a high degree
To Pluto filled with icy gracefulness, the dwarf planet that impacts toughness
So as I reach my apogee, the emptiness invaded by mystery was a site to see
Stratosphere is now where I will go, but I will say it was quite a show
Knowing the journey must come to an end, God I must commend
Youthfulness builds imagination for tomorrow, something we must never outgrow
5/2/2017
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member The Boundary of Time

Days, Months and Years all reach the end 
Time takes them away without suspend  
The rivers farewell the banks, head to the bay 
Our planet never repeats the old pathway 

Man survives by modifying the environments 
Glorifying and glooming eras of history events 
Beautiful stone cities have been demolished 
In the seabed where artful palaces abolished

Day by day we endure the different sufferings
Even wealthy people’s life hangs on the string 
Sickness and death shadow our life at anytime
Near dead body, the fresh flowers become dry

Since the breath allows us admiring blue sky
Let us recognize that Time rules our single life
Let us realize the boundary of good and bad acts
And be prepare to admit their inner impacts 

Xaysouvanh Phengphong
(laoampilotwriter.blogspot.com)
Form: Verse

Wems Henry Temmy Psalm 29



A loyal gist host itself into the cage of loneliness,
Beeping through the hole of truth as a reference...
An advice of heaven on Earth would come, it hopes¿
Holding to the deep coiled inner voice of belief
But getting better seems tough for the shared drive is strafe¡ 
Where luck roams in death's crescent,
Forlorn to the world pleasing torture... 

Time to shine in truth, here or gone?
Youths are yet strong enough undone.
Lies are once frankly shun!
It's now a delightful delivery dating fun...

A dislocated burden placed on wealth,
Cripples into Patriots' chests in order
To win struggles of days ahead at ease,
And overtake consistent affluence in a bit*
Enlivening illusions of breakthrough not born!
Yahweh is interestingly patient in time,
To serve each turn at worth to its prime.

Save each; save all in your name 
Whose power can't stand the game
All swapped for the sake of fame
To bury the dead light rejecting shame

Once upon a time, there lived a tree,
Whose fruits feed millions to comfort
And under its shade, all enjoys cool breeze
But a while after the summer had gone,
A stranger cut down the tree,
No one could challenge the stranger 
For his hands are heavy in the elders' own.
Billions made are for the quorum in the land,
With blunt ears open yet closed to others voice!
Little did care sparks its light on others
Provided that all is well with their own merry lives...

See love on tongues; see despairs in acts
Truly no one knows by eyes, workable facts 
Until chosen to rep peace impacts
To know how words quality detracts 

Spiders well patterned web stretches out each minutes
In its elastic limitless spiritual boundary
Awaiting Victims' cry in their raging plights
Without hesitation for freedom's lock 
Until wonder undo the night before dawn
Then will Willing manifestation cease to gear 
Oh divine hands, nature's atmospheric condition is Thou
Grace Innocent Victims' plights freedom and ache those true ones in their merry living

Days are of evil, go before us dear Father
Without You, we may be consumed in bother
Growing wings of no regulatory feather  
Traveling above into the thin air father 

When I am set on by grace
Human strength certainly, not my pace
Even my reasoning will have no trace
To light nights in ambush to deface 

Hallelujah!
Form: Rhyme

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