Long Lacklustre Poems

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Flamingo

 With the classy curved beak
You nudge your mate's cheek
And you both give a romantic look
Oh! That's my favourite click

Those slender zig-zag legs float
on water like the beautiful boat
And amidst that seren lake
emerges my angel to ruin my ache

White gown, the normal angels don
On you, the pink and red hues drawn
Such a special archangel you are
And so shining like a pink star

Lacklustre lake it was; neglected
Until your graceful advent
You dipped the dull monochrome frame
in reddish hues, the place now, a fame

Oh my dear Flamingo
Your colors, flaming! Oh!
My pain you take and go
Oh my dear Flamingo 

Dedicated to my dream bird Flamingo.Yearning to see it atleast once in my lifetime...
Form: Rhyme


What's Her Name

I’ll never forget what’s her name;
That teacher who bored us to tears
Whose voice seemed to drone on and on
And lessons appeared to last years.

Her minuscule lacklustre eyes
Peered over a spectacled nose
No glimmer of passion in sight
No colourful facts to expose.

She reeled off the kings and the queens
The plight of Marie Antoinette,
Victorians, Tudors and wars
And all with a face firmly set.

I’ll never forget what’s her name
Oh how I was left uninspired.
It’s rumoured her smile first appeared
The day when at last she retired.

16.09.19

'I'll never forget what's her name contest' : sponsored by John Lawless
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Day In The Life Of A Donkey Part Three

The town which oozed the plain and lacklustre held them in a judo grip but by the same token itself seemed to become slyly going into step by step morph contraction.
“Donkeys are symbolic to a vast extent.
They exude such, indeed much ken.
Are they guffawing at us?
But just as you and I had our first encounter as children when on a short trip with our parents.
It was one of the few  forms of entertainment available in this mystery shroud of a spot.
Where disposable income might be too easily disposed of.”
Both Nigella and Nigel found that ever since they met  whilst nourishing the donkey, this donkey, its Mise en scene, its portentous presence had this uncanny knack of pursuit of both of them.
The strangest coincidences.
Idioms, expressions, the way people interacted, the synonyms for donkey in this town created a situation where the word donkey and a donkey’s environs, and other creatures in the habitat had this hypnotising invisible secretive yet insidious skulk.   
“Have you even sensed, Nigella,a disconcerting shift and shunt  this isolated district, the size, there has been a slow exit to boot. On boot.
Does it have its own booty?
We both smirk at that one.
Even as we interact  there is this intended or unintended prank simmering….somewhere. 
As if we might be shoehorned into a loosely scheduled drama.”
Nigel and nigella  often mused and bandied about  words  asinine and their variants.
But  devoid of concrete proposal or narrative  life pulse  in this strangeville of a town that was now a drift sand  physically and in terms of folks who no longer existed resembled an abstruse puzzle when it shouldn't
Form: Prose

Lack of Senses

Whence misty eye's are in the 
shortest of supply on tepid day's

Pop the cork on that vintage
finest magnum brut champagne
you we're saving for a special
occasion

And raise a toast to everyone and
everything you are going to miss

Every girl you wished you had
kissed and opportunity that
went aria for fear to tread

And put to bed all solom regret

Because the time has come
for one and all

To call upon said ticking clock
at hour half past six

And replace the carpets shed and
so threadbare

And stained roses that are but 
petal buds laden with despairing
apparition

On mantle such lacklustre ornaments
denoting spring is out of season

That no one but the clouds abide to

For when the funeral carriage
horse's return to hey laden stables

And their blinkered eye's once
covered up are opened wide

Do not a tide of leaves wish to 
leave in their wake

For fear they know and understand
the purpose of their daily commuting
of their charges

Followed by the weeping mourners
dressed in blackened amplitude

Know they are but one small step behind

And more poignant also now one step 
closer also

To seeing their cherished loved
one's once again

So lest us not come to recall
upon this day with dread and
sorrow

But rather as our parting shot
across the bow of earthly death
and tears

Safe and comfortable in the
knowledge

This is the beginning not the end

Nismo Is So Nimble

Bulky ute voyeur selects sleek sporty stalion
    Driving by, supersedes her oversized sedan
    Wide wheel arches have Porche comparison
    Voracious engine's enthuse easily enchants


     Large car cast dispelled by lacklustre Calais
     Original conjur 370Z parked beside boring
     Low leg swing exclusive slide in, magic valet
     Over revved start stabs adrenalin assuring 
     

     Our dear Dara, choice contacted in December
     Available last minute to test drive his beast
     Black gloss road boss, enlarged 'lungs' terror
     Capable crazy bitumen baby, tester pleased


     Ultimate Man concurs, the amenable outcome
     Keys in her hand a few days after, aura froze
     Couldn't imagine huge generosity from anyone
     Racing car reap, increase on what she sows

 
     Merry go round roads, another showoff slotted 
     Silver pole stabilised glides in Surfers cycle
     Crosslane carousel onlookers, briefly besotted
     By hot hoof nimble Nissan race horse style






         28th March
         Too Great of a Man
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Forget-Me-Nots

Forget-Me-Nots

Across the field, I trampled a path
When I held back and marveled to see,
Near the babbling brook beneath the trees,
A sea of blue of scorpion grass:
Tiny blooms asway in waves of glee,
Of forget-me-nots, and thirsty bees.

From end to end, as far as I could see,
In the serene lea, they spread their petals,
Exhibiting beautiful visuals
On the gentle slope, swaying in the breeze.
I looked back at the path and then ahead,
Enthralled as to where destiny had led.

The sun shone down with warmth unsurpassed
As the wind blew over cool, fresh air.
They fluttered about extraordinaire
Expressing their amour unabashed.
I was enamoured by their charisma
Under the sky of terra firma.

And when I’m dismayed to see storm clouds brew
And lacklustre negative thoughts prevail,
I reminisce their presence in the meadow,
Of powder blue amongst a greenery view.
Then, my eyelids succumb, and I envision
Fields of forget-me-nots abloom in heaven.
                          ***

Note:
   The Myosotis (meaning mouse’s ear due to the resemblance of the shape of their leaves), aka forget-me-not flower, is also known as scorpion grass because of its spiralling stem leading to its flower head, which looks like a scorpion tail.
   Forget-me-nots are biennial plants (i.e., they have a life span of two years) that emit no scent. They bloom from May to October and are associated with the birth month of September, along with the aster and morning glory. Forget-me-nots symbolize love, respect, and remembrance.
Form: Lyric

Premium Member At a Museless Wake

My muse is on fire, she burns at the stake 
  guilty of poetasting, and glaring mistakes
  Inferior rhymes with old Monoku outtakes 
  blaze all around her, as embers are raked 
   Badly blistered syllables, spark and flake
   Whilst lacklustre stories, continually bake 
  A bard fans the flames, but he too’s a fake 
  for mincing his own words, with juicy steak
  Making ado about nothing, soliloquy spake 
  Glory to the Efilist god, ha! give me a break 


                A dedication of respect 
              for rendering down a bard
                         #    #     #
                  However unpalatable 
           and repugnant the suet tastes 
                         #    #    #
        From March madness to April fool’s 
    digesting copious amounts of insipid tofu 
                         #    #     #
                    Only to wipe it off 
                 in an all encompassing 
              persistent vegetative state 
                

By
David Kavanagh IV
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Member Infant Spring Fervour

Dewdrops stream down boisterous 
children’s freckle-strewn mischievous dials,
as they dash in cartoon costume faux denim
apparel amidst the pale yellow sunlight glare.
Marble stone button twiddle on a blue
rinse wrinkle t-shirt,
Sumptuous  ice cream raspberry blobs
tantalise the cheeky taste bud imps
whose chocolate brown eyes swell with
every morsel glutinously gorged on.
Doting parents wantonly indulge 
their dawn glow
offspring’s shrieks of antic wonderment,
the honeysuckle fragrance that 
releases germ-stuffed
nostrils a portentous spring nectar booster
shot for folk and kin alike,
effervescent yodel from young  sibling and the 
young at heart zeal of golden realm guardians
elevated to this neon sign paradise,
purple sleeve lacquer layer hydrant, surreal  spirit  saviour
of  parched embryonic throats.
Picklock to that  universal  perfume 
cloud that hovers
over asphalt stain urn and 
stoic mint green
pristine luscious lawn,
playground  for the butterfly wing vernal innocent  shrouded by an orange peel citric soft fruit  haze.
Age span infant euphoric zoom on fountain spume,
where families in a Ferris wheel hubub rejuvenate the
lacklustre greyness of their far too often
monochrome existence.

Posted ; 4th May 2022
Form: Imagism

Premium Member A New Year of Despair

Life is grim, 
perpetually dim,
Don’t know what’s missing, 
It belongs within,
Everything I eat, 
tastes the same, 
Drinking no better, 
insipid and plain,

Can’t be bothered, 
to answer the door,
Lost all interest,
in peace and gore,
Walking upstairs, 
Brings me down,
Climb even higher,
I’m still underground, 

At my best, 
reach mediocre,
When worse wishing,
life was over,
Walking in quicksand, 
up to my waist, 
Encrusted with faeces,
Completely encased,

How come the sun, 
won’t shine any more,
perhaps it does,
oblivious I ignore,
Future is tomorrow,
Black with decay,
My past the same, 
Lacklustre yesterday,

Happiness a joke,
does it exist at all, 
Must be an illusion, 
from when I was small,
Try to hit lotto, 
down on my luck, 
What I deserve,
with this outlook,

My hero Cobain! swore,
“I don’t have a gun”
Best lyric ever, 
considering what he done, 
Push nails in my eyes,
helps numb the pain,
Stand naked in thunder,
Soaking up shame,

Life morphs one sleep,
into the next,
When I wake up,
a world of utter detest,
Is this a rhyme, 
or even a poem,
No your right!
Crawl back under my stone,

What can one do, 
when despairs all you’ve got,
Look forward to death,
I do quite a lot,
At least It’s a new year 
just piss off away,
Sorry! what you expect!  “Hip Hip Hooray.”



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Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Out of This World

Sipping her tea without  any visible relish,
Her crumpled bag of shopping at her tired feet,
Alone she sits in the cafe  and isolatedly apart
Stranded in her  sorrowful sea of sadness
Only to raise momentarily  her sightless eyes
At the sound of the peripheral  trivial vivacity
Portending the levity of another tomorrow
Before relapsing into her inward gaze 
To consider not the future but endless eternity.
That picture echoed in  her hollowed out cheeks
Her funereal clothes, lacklustre look and lifeless lethargy
Spelling  out a life no longer enjoyable
More of a sentence to be endured.
She drags herself out of her chair
Gathering her belongings together
For her unsteady exit
To enter  upon the remaining days
 Of her final moribund pilgrimage

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