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“I cross my heart and promise to
Give all I've got to give to make all your dreams come true
In all the world you'll never find
A love as true as mine”
(Quoted lines from I cross my heart by George Strait)
When my enticed eyes look at you
My heart pulsates with the cadence new
My soul absorbs your essence completely
Suffusing my senses with the feeling of glee.
“As I stand alone on this moon full night
For the first time I feel alone in life”
(Quoted lines from I’m ready for love by Martha Reeves)
Your alluring footprints I long to follow
To embrace you all the way I’ll go
When I feel empty and alone, I stand
At the edge of dark horizon in wasteland
You raise for me the silver moon high
Forever my love shines in night’s jeweled sky.
“I told you everything
Opened up and let you in
You made me feel alright for once in my life”
(Quoted lines from Behind those hazel eyes by Kelly Clarkson)
In the scorched existence, listless and inert
When I turn into a dry lake in the desert
You bring the soothing rains of bliss
Make within me a sparkling oasis.
“All alone am I ever since your goodbye
All alone with just the beat of my heart”
(Quoted lines from All alone am I by Brenda Lee)
Wandering lost in the vale of desolation
I search for the missing passion
In the abandoned channel meandering
You flow the torrent of your yearning
Make a cascading river of desire in me surge
Flowing joyfully to the rapturous sea.
“It was hard for me to see when
When your love was blindin' me
But now, I know I have to let you go your separate way”
(Quoted lines from Learn the hard way by Brandy Norwood)
In the burnt garden in summer of despair
When I appear as a wilting bud I feel you’d care
Bring rains and drench me again in love shower
Make me blossom for you as a radiant flower.
(The lines from the mentioned songs of the named singers
are within quotation.)
Lady of the Lake ! dualism incarnate
I await your keen Sword of Truth
to pointedly give life to mine deflate
Powers alpha to omega you shine
a full moon gazes, opening floodgates
self-sufficient you rise expanded
from depths unknown impersonal
my portals are unfastened
Lady of the Lake ! fertile and clear
I hear your echoes eerily dear
call flawlessly circling like bait
silvery skin scintillating prepared
I sit on my throne casting away
shadows, warriors waiting instructions
as enemies encroach our land
Lady of the Lake ! balanced and stable
tresses of black beauty no fable
flow into waters protective, no fear
darkened in cobalt blue charming
in visions profound alarming lies
sought answers to my kingship
threatened, your flowing rhythm
a magnetic prism for field schisms
Lady of the Lake ! logic and reason
galaxies glitter gloriously in your season
upon your crown intellect sparkles
as mists of Avalon surround ethereal
framed by cypresses devout
my eyes aflame imperial to
but be tamed by yours arterial
Lady of the Lake ! epitome of
self-sufficient confidence
I cannot govern this kingdom
of mine without your guiding Grace
and Sword of Ace ~
my own Excalibur lies inert
awaiting your minute magical touch
a hush of lake lush, Love spiritualised
activating my solar spleen sweet
from your sacral springs I glean
Lady of the Lake ! my mythical
extension ! send your nuanced
breath with ripples of midnight
frequencies that it may light my
spurs with ease, legacies of
Arthurian courage to conquer
once more with ease
Leave me not forlorn to compromise
bereft of your naked waters wise
I wait your one pointed steady steel
my portals unfastened ________
Her cremated ashes scattered to all the four winds
White, powdery and chalk like material
Devoid of any vestigial semblance
To her once living and vibrant self
That unique persona pulverized and vaporized
(Housed former svelte and tall Arthur Murray
Ballroom dance teacher
A half-century plus prior to demise
Which beauty, charm and grace
Quickly caught the attention of my father,
Who courted and eventually proposed
To this young flirt and ingenue tease of a gal)
Inert organic matter now represents
Sole residual embodiment
Reduced to dust and near nothingness
Former corporeal being of blood, bone and flesh
Weighing no more than
A dozen hatch marks on the scale
Absence still bears down heavy
Like some millstone round the neck
Per the black hole void
Created by defeat with Grim Reaper
Toward this woman
Who helped birth and nurse me into manhood
Momma’s only grown son
Still feel ripples of grievous sadness
No matter the years of suppressed anger and rage
In addition to emotional conflicts between us
Which invariably wrought unpleasant relationship
And a legacy of discord writ large
Across the tapestry of my life.
QUOTE ME RUMI
I am always aggressive and outspoken
As you know me as a transparent person
Being hit or hurt I instantly react
My mirror like face will reflect that
But when my belief gets shattered
My love be deceived or betrayed
Thunder strike my heart
Settling temporarily inert
Ready to blast with a timer
I become speechless, My Dear.
'When I am silent
I have thunder hidden inside' - RUMI
01/12/15
For Contest Third Placement
Sponsor Silent One
Sleeping volcano
Volcano in slumber state, now at rest seems inert inactive,
but can erupt at any moment becoming reactive,
even may act instantaneous, spontaneous.
Sleeping volcano may be furious like Vesuvius
that showed last days of Pompei.
Walked along the charcoal blended rim of burnt ashes
on boundary of crater formed as bye-product pf last explosion.
Felt heat of molten lava as if still oozing.
Here and there scattered pieces of porous pumice rock.
I sat on the brim of a tarn full of clean clear water.
The day was chilled in late December.
Yet, I sensed hot fumes to visualize nightmare of catastrophe.
Presently comatose volcano may be benign,
whether in deep sleep or apparent stop gap,
or slowly initiating volcanic convulsion in deep chasm, not sure.
Current status static, all quiet,tranquil.
Sudden outburst may cause devastation.
I will just vanish with my muse and imagery.
Sleeping Volcano may wake up next nanosecond
to exhibit its vigorous violence.
01/12/19
Third Place
'Sleeping Volcano' Contest by Eve Roper.
Late JAN 2019 Contest by Brian Strand
A naïve life possessed by the power of desire
turns into an object inanimate and utterly inert.
Existence untainted and vibrant if captured
by the cruel clutch of unrepressing lust,
rolls like fallen gems, the string ruptured.
The senses drenched in acidic insolence
don’t for a moment repent the presence
in dismal heart the perennial obsession
of fostering the desire in shades of grey ,
decimating the spirit of its possession.
For the body and mind ravaged by vile craving,
living is no longer an animated concept, it’s futile.
The sunken piteous heart breaks asunder to pile
at the threshold of disgrace in debris of disdain.
Where has sanity gone, times don’t have the answer.
The perception called life adored and fostered,
a precious treasure to be preserved with pride.
When it crumbles as an object used and discarded,
the heart pines to get unshackled in prison of hatred
to find solace for the shamed soul in oblivion.
August 31, 2020
Contest : Woman In Chains
Sponsor : John Hamilton
December rains have dragged last, lingering leaves
down into litter. Sodden almond-casks
that once bore kernels, strewn discarded masks,
repose redundant. Thoughts are threadbare sleeves
devoid of comfort. Like a lonely cello,
the wind whips fitfully about its tasks.
A chaffinch flicks a fruitless shell, and asks:
the year must disappear to sere, to yellow?
Expecting legible patterns in dispersal,
she wishes worldwide winter worked for her,
have secret feelings yield the universal.
The nutshell, now inert, helps her infer
that life must die, but strangely, must prevail.
December’s just the belly of the whale.
The Forge
by Michael R. Burch
To at last be indestructible, a poem
must first glow, almost flammable, upon
a thing inert, as gray, as dull as stone,
then bend this way and that, and slowly cool
at arms-length, something irreducible
drawn out with caution, toughened in a pool
of water so contrary just a hiss
escapes it—water instantly a mist.
It writhes, a thing of senseless shapelessness ...
And then the driven hammer falls and falls.
The horses prick their ears in nearby stalls.
A soldier on his cot leans back and smiles.
A sound of ancient import, with the ring
of honest labor, sings of fashioning.
Originally published by The Chariton Review
Human ingenuity leapfrogs beyond ordinary
Buoying upon wings of intellectual curiosity
Sustaining innovation, creative imagination,
Breaking barriers once thought impenetrable,
Daring to conquer the arduous, unknown~
Resistant to understanding, inert to inquiry.
Unfathomable is force of scientific curiosity
That opened doors to discoveries, inventions:
Telescopes that explore the origin of universe,
Space flights landing on Moon and Mars,
Defying gravity, exceeding the speed of sound;
Telephones, electricity, computers, automobiles,
Untold preventive medicines, therapeutics,
Vaccines holding in check reign of pandemics,
Treatments for diseases, cure for hepatitis,
Nuclear fusion searching new source of energy
Reducing emissions to sustain life on earth.
Curiosity is the flame of wisdom, inspiration,
Lifeline for mortality pursuing life and liberty;
Promise of yesterday, today, and tomorrow,
For explicating phenomena less understood,
For guiding aspirations of cognitive intellect,
For directing journey on roads not traversed.
January 8, 2023
Placed 1st: This or That, Vol 15 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh
Written: January 08, 2025 for contest Sponsored by: Di11y Da11y
1. Newton's Laws of Motion:
Third Law: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
4. Quantum Superposition:
A particle can exist in multiple states or places simultaneously until measured.
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Oliveros accordion's honeyed
drone flows over chimes
with a soft whistle buoyantly fluting
In between breathes of characters.
We loiter, extraneous,
entangled lives in a state of limbo
Dreams flicker as Schrödinger cat.
Every interaction sends a wave,
and feelings clash within~
The force of love rivalry
is restricted by intangible powers~
As we sink into quiet depths,
Entropy seeps into aged patterns. . .
Instantaneous movements fester,
and longing is frozen in clarity.
Thermodynamics set heat gain or loss,
divided by warmth yields entropy~
Word pulse changes color.
Sound travels across time and space.
Redshifted craves blur instantly.
We hunt memory cobwebs,
navigating over this light-and-dark maze,
constantly seeking the quickest path.
Dreamt corridors bend toward us,
perception distorts the fastest trip home.
All actions have consequences~
We are moved by inert forces,
as time-etched Newton laws.
Rebounding moments shape kismet.
Choices teeter on fate.
Body rhythms align with,
physics quiet concerto.
Schrödinger hoped for our serenity.
Life's diverse quantum spectrums,
each unseen wave or particle is strong,
each minute, a heart Doppler echo,
becomes clearer as entropy slows.
Each action balances the other.