Long Memorialized Poems

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Premium Member Great Left-Right Dialogue

Life is a work and play in progress
toward interdependent democratic
economic,
political,
social,
psychological,
biological,
and ecological investment choices

And/or lovely life is a too long and too short defaulting divestment
terminating in unwork and unplay dying process

Each day,
each life,
each story
like chapter and verse of sacred scripture
I can see and hear as perfectly wise and healthy
just as it is
already inviting me
with interdependent us
back together
for more and higher and deeper
outer and inner cooperative climate investments

And yet
I cannot feel or believe
we are yet together pre- and re-intending each day
each life
each sacred health chapter
to extend secular purpose
and sacred wealth meaning
toward co-invitation

Each left-brain economic and political life
becoming win/win intended progress,
And each right-brain ego death 
succumbing to curiously evolving/devolving process;
My memorialized grief 
predicting Earth future's contrasting gratitude,
our positive healthy attitude 
redacting grief's historic investments/divestments,
regenerations/degenerations

So life and death
are usually in-between
each compassioning dipolar Other.


Premium Member Perceived Vantage Point

This poem is inspired by Jeff Ripple's painting titled 'Stormy Weather'. You can find the link to the painting at the bottom of the page, and there is also an image of the painting uploaded with the poem. It is recommended you view the artwork while reading the poem for a better experience.

8th place brian contest winner    
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zephyr fluxes goose bumps jittering across my flesh
Tempestuous weather looms on the wide horizon
avaricious storm intends to embezzle this nautical day
jeopardizing ritual of sun worship, prompting a solemn orison

gloomy shades interweave, enclosing glittering white clouds
vibrant azure iridescence fades into opaque hue spawning dour sky
peerless panoramic plug, thunder rumbling from nirvana
impregnable dimness hurriedly eclipses the brightness

Persistent tremors induce serene waters to wiggle
unceasing wails of celestial hosts cascade from bleak air
Natural forces unleash tremendous terrifying turmoil
wielding imperium forces to ensure their obedient yielding

Imposing coniferous Emerald reigns over dimmed scenery
quaint dwellings foster an alluring air, drawing their audience
tumultuous weather indelibly etched in oil glaze on linen
'Stormy Weather' by Jeff Ripple; his unique insight memorialized

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium Member Homework

Moby Dick, geometry, physics.
Study every subject everyday.
Homework is an indicator of future success.
Success is not necessarily happiness but it helps.
Freedom is to formulate your own definition of success.
Happiness is an imaginary tree, its own reward, and a fact.
Facts and fiction may be memorialized in memos or found in dreams.
The story starts thus: Each summer the honeysuckles and the
      huckleberries . . .
The web is that extra brain we've all been dreaming of having.
Like jumping 4 meters or flying without a plane.
To fly like that must one first have homework?
Some say yes, some say don't. It depends on how you vote.
Happiness is what happens when everything that happens
Fits the time perfectly and it's all out of your hands.
Not exactly. You don't let go of the steering wheel while driving fast in
      the passing lane.
You look left and right and check your blind spots.
Homework is an introduction to everything you're not
And all you do not know. It's supposed to help you learn to know where
      you want to go before going where you have to go.
Otherwise you end up on Ulzana's raid
Bleeding, without a bandaid.
All the achievement in the world won't relieve your loneliness
Or satisfy your sexual longing. What girls are like behind their eyes.
Survival, procreation. That's all there is to love.
But the loved one is the one who can be trusted with your life.
Whether Christ or your wife. The Muslim moms.
On my walk in the woods I come to a sitting spot
Above a small gorge cut by a stream through hemlocks.
Here someone has left a statuette of the Buddha and the flags you see
Flapping in the wind at sky funerals.
This is a pretty good place to sit quietly and think about homework.
Form: Verse

Apollo Devotee Bathed Earthling Coppertone Fresco

Caution taken (lathering
     exposed epidermis with sun screen)
     against harmful innocuous
     rich (Times New Roman)

     12 font ask tick sun yet sen sate)
     refulgent radiant balm
unequivocal panacea medicinal luxuriant calm
     on par with a old

     sister wives tale remedy me late mom,
would magically construe
     to alleviate home sickness qualm
post pledge initiation invocation befriending
     Jason the Argonauts and Major Tom

dizzyingly zipping thru space
     in search of the golden fleece,
     (which acquisition
     ranked as a no brainer)
which recollection, sans above exploit flashed

     (at greased lightening speed) this peace
full May afternoon, a pitch perfect spring day,
     one adequately oxygenated
     air supply crowded house

     legendary fete of the rising son momentarily
     sol limb lee flared concluding with reverberating
     (though decades elapsed
     since fortuitous galactic heralded

     world wide web panegyric
     broadcast cosmos wide),
     then with just as quick
     memorialized recollection

     prominently recalled,
     said remembrance as things past
     vis a vis denouement across Universe
     with Poof! lifelong (black hole sun hopping)
     capping achievement did surcease.

Ah...such blinding realistic provocation sparked
     via pure imagination
     upon one earthly terrestrial beast

Sunkist soaking raiment sequestered
     within corner nook decreased
with onset of dusk, a mind bending
     dreamy experience least

expected while nonchalantly fantasies take flight
basking (with robins)
     in an angulated nook sky height
upon premises of Highland

     Manor Apartment out of sight
from the buzzer (I may as well be
     a million miles away),
     thus poetic justice end trite.

Stones

Stones 
 smooth and rounded pebbles now grown
 placed strategically by wind and rain
 washed clean, rough edges, 
 polished gloss reflections of time memorialized;
rocks
 once impaled upon mountains,
 long ago set free, released from earthen clay 
 sleek, lustrous serene entities transfixed
 by historic renderings forgotten;
sand
 gravel pounded down, crushed 
 strained by the source of life
 ocean waves, waterfalls, rivers, streams
 pushing, pulling, tugging along the centuries;
earth
 ground silt, sedimentary deposits
 renewed, refined, rebuilding, 
 returned to its origins
 ready, anxious, eager to renew itself.



for Anthony Biaanco's contest
Stones 8/7/21
© DM Babbit  Create an image from this poem.


Living and Leaving a Legacy

what will you be remembered for when you have passed away?
what do you think most people will probably have to say?
what things would you like to be most memorialized about?
what things about you would your friends and family shout out?
what have you accomplished in life? what good works and deeds have you done?
where you a devoted servant of God or a disobedient one?
what significant mark on this world do you hope to leave?
will there be anyone around who for you will mourn or grieve?
will you have touched any souls or enriched any minds?
what type of lasting and living legacy will you leave behind?
when it comes time to take that final ride in that black stretch limo
what of your life's accomplishments will you want people to know?
for as naked as the day that you first appeared on this earth
what bare facts do you wish people would remember about you first?

a lasting and living legacy, your entry in the book of eternal life
will it be a legacy as a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ
to have been a member of the family of the Most Holy Lord
to have been one who was called to come and get aboard
for you can't bargain, you can't scheme and to Him you cannot bribe
to have a place in God's heart where only truth and goodness reside
so as you travel your life's journey keep God always on your mind
don't sweat the small stuff not buy into the devil's lies

now turn to your sons, to your daughters, nieces and nephews
the future generation you need to reach out to
the children, the continuous legacy of our very lives
our children, the next generation of servants for Jesus Christ
introduce them to the Lord and leave a faith in them so strong
show them that your life was a living testimony to the Kingdom of which you belonged
let the children know that God has given them love, power and self-discipline
show them that there's nothing to fear but fear in the end
help them discover the gift to them that God did give
their true purpose, passion and destiny for which they should live
tell them that this faith has always been in your family
the inheritance of belief a lasting and living legacy
pass the baton of faith so your memory will keep on living
fan the flame of faith that which to you God has given
a strong belief system that you will  pass on down the line
by living and leaving a legacy that will be remembered for all time
Form: Epitaph

Net Neutrality

inalienable, inimitable,
     and inviolable sacrosanct
contentiously debated enshrined Constitution 
     ratified June 21, 1788

     preceding hallmark Bill of Rights 
     (adopted effective December 15, 1791) rank 
despite British Monarchy exerting, sans lanced 
     strong arm tactics in response to "FAKE prank

asserting original fledgling NON GMO, 
gluten and msg free 
     thirteen American colonies 
     (with a great hee hoe)

severely itching for 
     (and declared) autonomy 
     from Britain with mojo
memorialized On July 2, 1776, 

     when Second Continental Congress, 
     (with more yes votes then no)
met in Philadelphia voting 
     unanimously, where  this poe

whit notates historical 
     declaration of independence, 
yet since Information Technology Revolution 
     trumps Founding Fathers (well nigh
 
     almost two hundred 
     and fifty (CCL) year status quo
as into uncharted figurative waters 
     American Democracy doth row,

especially problematic to adapt 
     couched freedoms show
cased within storied 
     novel innovative though

now confounding, frustrating, 
     and immobilizing supposed call
ling on learned scholars 
     adept doctors at law,

     resistant to brickbats 
     heaved by protesters with gall 
or perhaps consulting 
     entertainers at Faneuil Hall,  

how in tarnation can the tenets, rubric, 
     and precepts, sans seven score
     and four plus orbitz ago
 before advent of tele

     communications companies 
     exhibited fiercely greedily 
     hungry indomitable up pall
ling monopolistic control, 
     via erecting a unscalable fire wall  

authorized with an A okay by the FCC
Federal Communications Committee to glee
fully relinquish control 
     (blood) letting "Big Cable", thus 

     allowing, enabling, and promoting key
purrs of the Internet remain 
     under jurisdiction me
ning all content and applications
     can willy nilly nee  

i.e. be deliberately blocked as well  
     particular products or websites pre
venting unfettered access to thus re
choir ring every man, woman and child even three
yar olds to voice objection, 
     and take prescient action NOW!

Premium Member Light a Candle

A discordant drumbeat from Washington comes
Lawmakers to senseless partisanship succumb
   Midst the darkness, light a candle
   Pave the way for the Savior to come  

From the Oval Office menacing texts and tweets
Leaving a sour taste behind holiday treats
   Midst the darkness, light a candle
   Thrill to the triumph of the Maccabees**

Social media's blasphemers, angry trolling mobs
Intimidating their victims, making them sob
   Midst the darkness, light a candle
   Send a signal to the bullies and snobs

Terrorism the world over rears its ugly head
So many innocents, injured or dead
   Midst the darkness, light a candle
   May the Flame of Goodness be spread




**The Maccabees restored and rededicated the Temple in Jerusalem,
    including the Menorah Lamp, their brave deeds memorialized in the 
    Holiday of Chanukah.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Someday Sunday

Someday Sunday

Someday came on Sunday
for little Billy Jones.
Born with such a sickness
that started in his bones.

He used to love to smile
as he watched his friends play.
He'd look up to his mommy
and say I'll walk someday.

Instead no matter where they went
he'd say “Look over there!”
The next place they would go
pushing Billy in his chair.

Life's not always easy
sometimes there's tears we cry.
But when someday came Last Sunday
Little Billy did not die.

Billy told his mom I love you
and I'll see you again.
Then Billy when to heaven
and he ran just like the wind.

In honor of his memory
and the courage he had shone.
The someday that was Sunday
is memorialized in stone.

Edwin C Hofert
Form: Rhyme

Respite From Mortality

Poetry knows no age, as thee Marcia
Abramsohn (the former ex lady friend
of my late father corresponded with me
some years back)
wrote (by hand nonetheless,
a long lost art) inlaid with ambidextrous
zealousness impossible to identify,
which hand crafted artistically colorful
epigrammatic ghostly hint emblematic
of former exuberance toward English

Language..., perhaps other once
vibrantly familiar tongues wagging 
less as tempus fugit slithers unseen
stealing most cherished, prized, savored...
commodity set to countdown immediately
post parturition, yet blessed for thee
to be gifted your then four score plus four
amazingly graceful journeys celebrating
your existence replete with handmaid's
tales chronicling quotidian trials and

tribulations, yet still adept, buoyant,
cogent, diligent, eloquent, fervent,
gallant, hellbent, intent, jimmying,
kindling, loving, mustering, nursing,
outlasting...Methuselah (ha...if only)
lucid moments nudging awake
memorialized occasions, where once
upon a time (seems bajillion years ago)
innocence concomitant with naivete
throve, wherein unfettered dalliances

found untrammeled lasses and lads 
absorbed with natural unbridled virgin 
love – gathering rosebuds while they may
whispering sweet nothings strictly 
for respective paramour, (this of course 
hearsay and speculation) promising each 
other moon and stars ah...dusty fading 
memories, yours truly can never recount,
(cuz mental illness co-opted, hijacked,
up-ended...adolescent maturation,

whereby agonizing crippling forfeiture jabs
silhouetted illusory oasis peopled with
all the golden opportunities left to wither
on the vine o'mine youth, which mirage
mocks escapist attempt into literary realm
invisible dead poets society regale an
existence bereft nope, no App could
ever even virtually duplicate (even
approximate) sidelined unrequited love,
and no this marriage yielded scanty

satisfaction, which fantasy life as
Norwegian bachelor farmer 
(within mine imagination) solved,
where living off the grid remedied
forever being pennilessness, day late
dollar short dime a dozen dirt poor
dude dulling dufus...that's the news from
my Lake Woebegone...where all the
women...and children above the law
never get reprimanded.

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