Long Initiated Poems

7 am morning time. Damian was 
Awakened by his father's phone
Call. "Damian get out of bed, on
Your feet man. We have to attend 
A conference at 10 this morning."
Damian responded, "Right" and
Sprang to his feet....

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My receptive wide adoring eyes rested within the ambient light and bathed in The Shadoe and shade of the scene
Where before me a paragon of sublime refined  beauty 
So sensually seductively and arousingly delightful...

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Marcus marrow beaten into a coma after a gang initiation was allowed 17 gang members to visit him in the hospital past midnight crowd of gang members atleast 9 women 8 men or vice verse...

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PERSONIFIED LIGHTED CANDLE:

Come on, I'm strong and edified.
No one can hold me in detention for getting them defied.
Compared to Cassius Clay; fiercely bonified.
A firmly personified lighted candle on a lampad. 
In the corners of every...

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*last winter break*

I woke up abruptly, my chest gripped and tight. My face felt hot but my arms stung as if frostbitten. I gasped for air that wouldn’t come, as if I had a plastic...

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After Polly and Holly met most of
The children in the house they left for
Home. The sisters knew more about Holly, now.
Her full name was Holannya Harvey.
She and Polly were 2nd cousins on
Their father's side. They...

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I usually don't have the patience to read long novels, but this one                      ...

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Villanelle : Never political but spiritual the ancient Indo-Chinese pilgrim ties

       In Memory of the late pathologist (and amateur Astronomer) 
Associate Professor CHONG Siew Meng, National University of Singapore*


Never...

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TIME WILL TELL

A modest planet and quietly progressing
Troubling no other and fealty confessing
 Surviving well enough and paying its dues;
 Quiet corner of the galaxy. No foreseen surprise to bemuse

The ruling committee were in contented...

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When death had nestled, a lady overwhelmed by sleep,  
Between the chasms of my being, like a butterfly in a cocoon,  
I embraced her to my chest that whispered seraphic tales,  
And...

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When I was a youth the earth was our friend, as it was our means of escape.  We would run and chase each other across great distances, far away from the confines of home...

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Ogbuefi my great, great grandfather begat
Ifegwu, my great grand father and Pa Ifegwu
Begat Agwo, my grandfather whose sword slain many at the battle of the Mosanga.
And Agwo begat my father Ogbu- john
Who showed us common...

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I got a story 'bout a boy from the hood
Stayed out of trouble tried as hard as he could
Initiated when he was 12 years old  
They gave him a bandana and he did what...

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I rushed through the door  on electric impulse initiated,
for the sunlight within taunting sunlight without a test
feeling forceful inner cry with supreme  yen today especially though,
but of the joyful variety which is challenging...

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What are you prepared to give up to save our marriage?
What are you prepared to give up to save the planet?
What are you prepared to give up to save money?
What are you prepared to give...

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“Several Queens in  mythology, history, nature , games are recognised as special since  ancient Era and has become famous gaining popularity.” - Poet.


    QUEEN

     So many...

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If I am Syrian, what of it?
Stranger, we all dwell in one world, not its portals.
The same original Chaos gave birth to all mortals.
—Meleager translation by Michael R. Burch

Love, how can I call on you;
does...

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My idea of Hell 
is not that of demons with red-pokers, 
emerging from hot flames... 
as Dante's Inferno; this is the harshest punishment!


Shouldn't all persecuted people have initiated a crusade against
the Catholic Morarchs in Spain...

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I could not forget the day I left my old hometown of Saint Louis (San Luis, Baguio City). Every eye was staring at me like I stole their vital organs. My brother and mother were...

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On June 25, 1962 prayer was taken out of school
It was like losing a ring's precious jewel 
If you look into America's history 
You will find that it is no mystery
From that date on we...

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Dressed in my shaggy brown coat
I stand nearly six feet
at my shoulders
and weigh almost a ton
My brethren and I 
once roamed the prairies
in herds of millions
grazing on its grass
which fed and nourished us
for tens of...

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{"Hands reach out to my entire entity as in response I thrash against my restraints, the ambiance I sucked in suffocated my lungs, and the smoky brume in the enclosure made me convulse rearwards and...

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Mathematics - a measure that shows the interactions between parameters such as (numbers,
letters) figures, signs, symbols, vibrations etc. i.e. basic units of languages and
measurements. A way-method of measuring the relationship between quantities, qualities,
intensities, vibrations e.t.c....

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Bone-drained, there is no respite, no split second of peace.  The “sundowner”, a hyper-active toddler in a man’s vehicle, never sleeps nor sits.
When I succumb to that one precious moment of rest; I am...

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Prince Jargo
was on a mission to
slay the evil green dragon
of the kingdom of
Wondrous Land 
which consisted of people,
kindly dragons, dragonflies,
huffle-winks and the 
mean-spirited green dragon,
his father King Andro insisted 
it was time for young 
Prince...

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