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Premium Member Mudlarking The Memory


Sun-soaked
spectral topography
sculpts with lattice 
of longing
                luminescent, 
the veering valley 
of my lucent life
undulating briskly
in plains of passion
with the cadence 
of sensuous stream 
swirling sequined euphoria
                 contented, 
clung confident
with bond of sanguinity  
to the cluster 
of glimmering gold nuggets
carved out 
of precious life’s  
aureate moments
                  treasured.

Sediment of essence
                  ebullient
carried convivial by
ecstasy current, 
dazzles as dregs 
rolling with restive time
                  turbulent
in the torrent 
of cloud-burst fallen sky,
flows through reminiscence
                  fervent
to the flood plain 
of plaintive obscurity 
                  far.

In ceaseless search 
of transferred treasure trove 
                  eroded,
buried besieged  
within the strata
                  stagnant
of time past
                  stalled,
I wade wistfully
                  confounded
through engulfing marsh 
of quandary
in submerged existence,
excavate the layers
                  languished 
of petrified memory 
in twilight hour
                  tranquil.

In senile shine
of the setting sun 
fading fast,
each evanescent moment 
propelling surging tide  
of turmoil 
ebbs out of fleeting mind
                   ephemeral,
I exhume enthused
                   relentless
trinkets of remembrance 
from sands of time 
settled satiated
                   perpetually,
retrieve in rapture 
the gilded instants 
mudlarking the memory.


Premium Member Following The Faded Stars


The luminous lucent mind, 
a longingly mystique crystal,
shines sublimely 
with the transparent thoughts, 
glistened by soul-suffusing sensuous rays,
the innate emanation 
of efflorescent emotions. 

Clear of the cluttering clouds 
of surreptitious self-qualm, 
through the diaphanous psyche, 
resolute in the ordained orbit,
sometimes, I follow faded stars,
forecasting the fate of the extant galaxy.

The pale pearls of euphoria 
in the argentine night
of pining passion perception,
make morose motif of spent stars, 
convey in residual radiance the acuity notion 
that everything has a time 
to flourish and fade,
like the ephemeral instants 
of effervescent ecstasy.

The flow of my intrinsic instinct       
in the emotive space, 
trails the waned discernment sensitivity,  
propels the existential stellar essence 
across the cosmic emptiness
to where the stars disappear. 

I steer by the light of what has lost the gleam,
flickering like the forgotten promises,
navigating the final stretch of the secluded ink sea
with a compass calibrated to the last anchorage.

I am not lost, 
I am tracing the beauty of memory, 
glowing like the faded stars in the remains 
of everything that was once mine.

Protection But Provocation

Protection but provocation
Is unfair this attitude 
This provocative protection 
I wonder if is written on the forehead
That dark skin colours
Could steal you any time 
You come across them 

Is unfair this attitude 
Hiding your wallet 
Holding your pockets
Shifting afar
Just because you saw a dark person
Close to you 
Wonder if is written thief 
On our forehead
As same I wonder
Who thought you so

Is unfair this attitude 
I see out of Africa 
In the street bus trams
Shopping morns
This attitude is so not normal
What make dark people 
Thieves 
Must every dark soul you 
Come across steal from you
How is it possible this acts
Of yours 
So provocative 

Is unfair this attitude 
Anyone can steal anyone
And kindness is better 
Than perceive instants judgement
Protect yourself yes
But when necessary 
From an experience 
I pen this write 
Just to let know is so 
Unfair this attitude of
Protection but provocation
Form: Epic

Premium Member Gems of Happiness

"Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need."
Quote_ Mother Teresa


Happiness is dew drops glowing as the pearls of joy,
created by the cheerful dawn for the flower called mind.
As the sun travels over the desiccated mental landscape,
the dew drops dry and the flower wilts in sorrow.

On the hazy horizon darkness falls as the spent sun sets,
despair dunes undulate as distress waves on sea of sand. 
My parched life trailing toiled the mirage needs to try,
and walk hopefully to the oasis at the edge of ennui.

Happiness is the golden rays of the new sunrise,
makes bliss to glow within the dark feelings desolate,
conveys the notion everything has a time to come and go,
I need to hold on to the inspired instants of ecstasy.

Instilled by psychic vibe the journey continues in euphoria,
the gems of happiness on waves of hope shine in every heartbeat.
Exaltation wafts like stardust in the mind’s moonshine sky,
suffuses my being while I live satiated each moment of my life.


_____________
May 23, 2023
Quote Chosen : #1
Contest : Writing Challenge - B Quotes
Sponsored by : Constance La France

Premium Member Retrieving the Golden Moments

The sun-soaked shining valley of his lucent life
Drained the symphonic cadence of ecstatic rills
Swirling around the scattered glint of nuggets
Cascaded with the cadence of gilded instants.

Dislodged sentiments in stream of euphoria 
Floated unbound in turbulent tides of time
In the torrent of the cloud-burst fallen sky
Flowed in the flood to terminal obscurity. 

In search of transported treasure trove eroded
Buried beneath the strata of stagnant sludge
He was the first to wade in the sunk murky past
Mudlarked in the desolate bay in twilight hour. 

In the lilac light of the setting sun fading fast
Each time the surged tide of turmoil ebbed out
He scavenged the mud of memory layer by layer 
Retrieved the golden moments he lived to adore.

________________

July 23, 2022
Phrase used : #1
Contest : One In Five 2
Sponsored by : Joseph May


Premium Member Mudlarking In Bay of Twilight

The sun-soaked shining valley of my lucent life
Drains the symphonic cadence of ecstatic rills
Swirling around the scattered glint of nuggets
Carved out of the precious golden moments.

With sailing sediments of euphoria dislodged
They all roll in the turbulent cascade of time
In the torrent of the cloud-burst falling sky
Flow to the flood plain of terminal obscurity.

In search of transported treasure trove eroded
Buried beneath the strata of stagnant sludge
I wade through the marsh of submerged past
Mudlarking in the bare bay of tranquil twilight.

In the light of the setting sun fading so fast
Each time the surged tide of turmoil ebbs out
I scavenge the mud of memory layer by layer 
Retrieve the gilded instants I once lived to adore.

April 5, 2020
Brian Strand's Contest : Completely Your Choice (35)

Given Eyes To See and Truth To Feel

?*** Given Eyes to See and Truth to Feel ***

“Yes.  Yes, sweet, dear soul,”
    my promise speaks
Once again
Of agreements created, sent
Into the rippling, “Amen,” resonating
 Prayer’s progression
After a mid-night’s congress:
    the self poised ~ bowing down —
    the stillness  
    in heartfelt
      Journeying
Mirrors
           revealing the left-to-learn ~
    Visions
Needing capture.

My definitely determined resolutions
To think, to focus on motions 
    leading, braiding compassion
    end to end;
Alongside each and every one living other;

    instants to moments
Seeing the felt…
Aligned
       Voyaging Truth beyond the mists
           shrouding our lives. all
           — side by side.



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(c) sally young eslinger 3/3/2023
Thanks be to God…

Premium Member Bewildered Psychic Efflux


The disordered sands of entropy, 
churned by the wheel of chaotic time,
settle on the stratified shelf of the disorganized life.
In moments moving with perturbed dispersed dust,
the truth of trust oscillates in tumult 
on the ruffling ripples of mayhem. 

In the bewildered efflux of errant disarray,
everything rumpled changes in nonplussed instants, 
except for the notion of change.
The mystifying alchemy of metamorphosis
reveals the real façade fragile
of the perplexing psychic transformation.

In the baffling squall of divesting dismay,
my mind disheveled in befuddled moments 
into a dishabille state of confusion,
splinters the leitmotif of the embedded emotions.
The confounded cascade of consternation 
carries them away to the abyss of oblivion.

Yet, when my castle of sand on the shore of yearning
tumbles down in a clutter of dispersed debris,
in its disorientation I discover discombobulated 
the emotive flute of dormant feelings, 
play the tune of unfazed ecstasy, 
making the lucid music of mystique memory.

Premium Member Survival Instinct

Stuck in a burrow dug in fallow land of dismissal,
l don’t know what in notion foundation of thing
humans with insight think as art of living,
conspicuous within sanctuary of soul.

Survival fight throws sordid living into dark abyss,
rupturing frail scaffold of my transitory tomorrow,
shards thrown in ruins of dismal instants,
I can’t run away from sucking chasm.

Failing to find way of flight I try to light lamp of aim, 
and light up ambiguous last strip of dark path, 
survival instinct within gloomy nook of my mind        
prompts to crawl calmly to doorsill of coming days.

As vivacious today surmounts spasm of agony, 
turning living spirit into a flash in dark night,
and at dawn into chromatic rays of rising sun, 
limits of blissful soul surpass bounds of infinity.

_______________

January 14, 2023
Letter omitted : E
Contest : Lipogram
Sponsored by : Emile Pinet

Premium Member Futile Foray


The uphill climb, 
rigorously relentless
with ambling ambitions 
and schematic stratagem,
blueprinted blatantly
on the blank 
parchment of mind,
sketched skillfully
with chameleon color shift,
transiently transfixed.
The gripping gravity 
of transcendental time
of the loaded past
pulls back incessantly
the present instants,
fastens in retrospect
the incoherent network
of faltering footsteps
at the refurbished root
of existential essence.

The intent inertia  
of living force 
creates proactive
causal momentum 
of tumultuous time,
permeates the perception
of the fourth dimension.
The construed continuum 
of elusive eternity,
strives to unveil ineffectually
the shrouded acuity
at the summit of actuation,
emotionally evasive. 
The climb connotes
a futile foray
to nowhere.

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