Long Morrow Poems

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Inordinate Amount of Leisure Time

Might help explain how fruit
full this harmless poetic brute,
(a Methacton School of hard knocks
grad), who sports astute
demeanor with ample
brew netted locks,
vaguely androgynously cute,

his trademark signature hirsute
unstyled wavy hair
tell tale characteristic,
not that I care if anyone
gives rats ass and/or hoot
bummer attire acceptable since
long unemployed and

recipient with meager loot
receiving social security
disability to boot,
nonetheless can while
away unlimited numbers
of wee hours into morning
yea ideally best time to sleep,

but also most optimal,
while the missus thrashes
in bed thankfully mute
unless ya don't count
flatulence she doth toot
disrupting and derailing
train of thought
courtesy trumpeting glute.

An unexpected whistling
unlike Christopher Robin
hi ho... hi ho exiting
their wooded den
(think Snow White and
her seven dwarf men)
off to work they go to earn cents

(unbeknownst conversion into) yen
boot just enough to undergo
gastric bypass surgery
to shrink abdomen,
plus grueling boot camp regimen
guaranteeing bullseye

hit courtesy artillerymen
nsync with honing
sharp eyed acumen
joining (rather leading) civilians
carrying out coup d’etat
putsch ching aside feeble,
inept and lame

president to step up
and augment pen
ultimate last ditch effort
to halt climate change
to stave turning planet Earth
into self destructive oven.

All joking aside horrific,
née apocalyptic crisis doth loom
perhaps even unleashing mushroom,
clouds (thrown in for good measure)
encompassing entire planet
assuredly spelling doom,
where liquidation and fire sale
at all brick and mortar
stores will bloom,

(just ash at the front desk)
charcoal burnt offering skeleton crew
pointing blackened decker
index finger boom
meringue literally every black
Friday, Saturday, Sunday...
until every tomb
morrow until end of time.


Premium Member Horse of the Highlands

Lost was I amidst the Scottish highlands
          The evening sky was blushing heaven-kissed
               Hilltops pierced the dusky fog like islands
     As soft a horse came swimming thru the mist

Pausing to consider its intentions
          I stood there hypnotized and still as death
               Thus its beauty quelled my apprehensions
     And naught there was but magic in its breath

Like the grand Bucephalus he gestured
          Nodding with his head for me to follow
               With the trails deep in the brume and vestured
     Held no greater hopes until the morrow

Building in my gut were pangs of hunger
          Outside the hopes of finding further aid
               Sixty and not getting any younger
     My future hinged on choices to be made

Little left to lose I started hiking
          Just steps behind the stallion as he led
               Even in the dark his hide was striking
     His color white as sheets and purely bred

On we walked for miles through the night, dim
          Until I spied some farm lights further on
               Stopping to remember him and thank him
     But searching through the darkness ... he was gone.






~ 1st Place ~  in the "Some Paradise Where Horses Go" Poetry Contest, Michelle Faulkner, Judge & Sponsor.

~ 4th Place ~  in the "Eight Words Challenge - 24 Lines Maximum" Poetry Contest, Robert Haigh, Judge & Sponsor.

( Ten syllables/line, counted at HowManySyllables.com, no cliche's, via cliche' tool at PoetrySoup.com )
Form: Rhyme

Connection Rejection

Coming out of my prison door
Accompanied by my companion
Not connected in any way
....but I knew him

Barren wasteland, behind
Freedom beckons my will
I do NOT stop for direction
But run headlong into the chill

Wrapped tightly in failed attempts
To connect to anyone with value
I struggled in the comfort
To rest in the battle

I came to myself....

I had traded lock down
For house arrest
No movement possible
In my shiny, white, vest
........of broken threads

"A little help, please"
My companion touched my white
The shredded hope fell at his feet
As he directed me to the right where I would find the light

Door after door
Window upon window
Always passing through
Never knowing the compass of victory
Til I have done all I can do"

....to stand

Stand moment after eternal moment
In nothingness....learning to trust
Calming down desire
Singing lullabies to lust

Silence is far worse than the stand
The incessant push to understand
.....something....anything..............nope, still NOTHING!!!

How can one connect to authority
Without yielding up self
Carrying out their desires and commands
And leaving yours to collect dust bunnies on a knick knack shelf
...........stupid knick knacks.......stop running.........you might break.........the pretties

Today....at this very moment
I understand things I didn't in my past
I see the dark laid out before me
Shall I stop my flow...to ponder
Or continue in my sorrow, believing I will know more in the 'morrow
Accepting that my yielded connections will have no more erections
..........to wonder......
...............................in the desert........

Written by Trudy Schrader on 03/30/2021

Premium Member In Memory of Charles

In Memory of Charles
In paralyzing penumbra, the blossoms are muddled as the reaper is at nigh        
Nightmare rag curtains descend on the waltzing garden's song with no chance to say goodbye  
 
Melting, cascading, as the spiral galaxy reflecting pools pour pleading prayers      
Emerald lyrics erased by the careless evils who stole the song's future life years       
Musically the beautified pearly cloud descended from the empyrean sun                 
Offing the beautified pearly cloud transformed to a lighthouse guiding diamond beacon      
Roses of flame, chrysanthemums of light are blanketed with dulcet waters freely
Yellow golden wings entrusted with thy grace passion giv'n to all the colors fairly  
  
Oh, Thursday thy curse be gone forever for today crafting the scars for the morrow    
For journeying to valley of the shadows acquiesce in the ashen death’s meadow    
  
Choking within the brooding caged til the candle fume sparks anew on my knees bawling       
Hallow spring's songs vaporize as the hollow autumn petals embark on the falling      
Auras of zillion constellations dazzling nebula's colors beckons the calling           
Radiantly the ethereal diamond cloud embraced the mortal's fragile crimson                     
Leaving the ethereal diamond cloud sanguinely accomplished his earthly mission           
Evermore the flames fade into the western horizon but his warmth shall here remain           
So that others might live for even his heart shall protect another flowers domain   

Updated 5/14/2019
© G. Jay  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

An Anthem To the Brave

I hear the captain’s shouted battle cries
on the bellow and stalked battlefield
But nether faith or death I'll yield
While for the dead I sympathize.

I hear faint echoes, their mournful sorrow
Swathed in honor my life’s dreadful dire
Death’s fix’d calm, amid the enemy’s fire
Passions rage, death dawns on the morrow

I hear the wild rushing winds of war ascending
Upward, consuming vapors; death's servile breath
The enemy’s bullets raged in irrepressible death!
And of this mortal tempest storm Marines are dying.

I hear the shattered voice of my father grieving
Which this war has wrecked and trampled on
Then went he, to look upon the brightness of his son
But the ruthless sting of death his grief un-denying.

I hear the pleas of mothers of valor.
Their sons and daughters looked upon the violence
As blasts of lightning strikes now they lay prone in silence
I hear their sighing moans ploughed deep in furrowed armor

I hear the anthem play, as widows stands with honor
While men bend to the tempest hollowed wind
And of the Star and Stripes that “stands” for all mankind
Spend not yourselves in prideful defiance and dishonor

I hear the wind “over the towering steep
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
On shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep.
Form: Narrative


The Bitterness of Honey

The day’s been impressively amazing
Because everything was entertaining
Birds sang sweetly in shrubs like Hellen
On blossoms lots of bees sought pollen  

Bumblebees have been busy like a hussy
Feeling how the day has been shambolic
Because on the path, I heard a heavy truck
That was rolling on the street slowly

Back to the hive, I was very exhausted
In the way that I was unmotivated 
Today has been restless and now
Miserable I feel for a quiet morrow

That fetches a sweet day full of hurdles
Thus, we will be cagily flying like turtles
That have no return hope but always dare
And that also I take up is neither truly fair

Life’s honeyed but it’s difficult full at lair 
We bear its cynicism to alteration pronto 
Sweetness to arise soon we dream on Pluto
Making the itches of bees turn into softness

Poem by Mugisho N Theophile
Form: ABC

Premium Member I Think I'Ll Write of Love

I think I’ll write of love
twinkling eyes and turtle doves
gazing into limpid space
‘THAT” look plastered on their face
babbling in soundless awe
elevating every flaw
hours spent in fawning glee
she loves me more than I love me
my eyes, my nose, my greasy hair
the very feelings that I share
although I cannot tell her so
I fear she’d just get up and go
her foot - it rubs up to my knee
oh gawd, please stop, I gotta pee
another problem to beset us
on her teeth….that piece of lettuce
and as we talk of reading Chaucer
he sips his tea….right from the saucer
they linger now – parting’s sweet sorrow
perhaps they’ll Facebook on the morrow


John G. Lawless
©11/14/2018
Form: Couplet

Premium Member A Sad Goodbye Under August Skies

¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦  in the garden, 
Under ¦¦¦ August skies; 
The moon had gone but ¦¦¦ stars shone on, -
¦¦¦¦¦ like your beautiful eyes.
Away from ¦¦¦ glitter and gaslight, 
 in the garden there, 
While ¦¦¦ mirth of the throng, in ¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ song, 
Floated ¦¦¦ on the air.

¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ through starlight, 
 I looked ¦¦¦ at you; 
And a feeling came ¦¦¦¦ I could not name, -
¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ starnge and new.
Friends ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦ only, -
Why should it give me pain
To know you ¦¦¦¦¦ go in the morrow, 
And ¦¦¦¦¦ not come again? 

¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦
What matter that we must part? 
But ¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦ with a ¦¦¦¦¦ surprise, 
¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦
We did not speak, but your breath on my cheek
Was like a breeze of the south: 
¦¦¦ your ¦¦¦¦ hair brushed my forehead
¦¦¦ your kiss fell on my mouth.

¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ -
¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ 
¦¦¦ we went in from the garden, 
Out of ¦¦¦ sweet starlight, 
Back to the ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ music, 
¦¦¦ we said 'Good-bye' ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦ 
¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦ 
¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ - ¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦

The river ¦¦¦¦ rolls between us
Can never be crossed, I know, 
¦¦¦ the waters are deep ¦¦¦ the shores ¦¦¦ steep, 
¦¦¦ a maelstrom whirls below; 
But I think we shall always remember, 
Though we ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ strive to forget, 
How you looked in my eyes, 'neath the August skies, 
After the moon had set; -

¦¦¦ you kissed my lips in the garden, 
¦¦¦ we stood in a trance of bliss, 
¦¦¦ our hearts seemed ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ together
In ¦¦¦¦ one thrilling kiss.


(Blackout of In The Garden by Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Night Angel: a Collaboration With Daniel Turner

This is presented in a series of three sonnets in a collaboration
between Daniel Turner and Lin Lane. 
They are based on the original sonnet of Daniel's "Night Angel."
Thank you, Danny, for the inspiration and for allowing me to 
give poetic voice to your Night Angel.


In deep slumber madness, she comforts me
Appearing, unencumbered, from the mist
Subconscious suspension our nightly tryst
Erasing my mind of bad memories
She mends and warms my soul so tenderly
Imbibing my thoughts and heart with her kiss
Lovingly fulfills a long ago wish
Thankfully restoring my sanity
Regularly she visits in silence
Enlightening my dreams with wholesomeness
Wiping my tears of angered betrayal
Exchanging her love for malevolence
I awaken with renewed happiness
Refreshed from the angelic portrayal

                  **********
Rest easy, dear one. Night Angel is here
To ease the worry from your furrowed brow
Kiss to the cheek, I lay upon you now
In your sweetest dream you will feel me near
Memories of your past no longer live
No need for tears to fall from pain or stress
Tender love I offer in my caress
Gift of my thoughts to you this night I give
Wake on the morrow, glad to greet the sun
Knowing night has me coming through the mist
To comfort once more when your cheek is kissed
As Night Angel hovers o're her loved one
Though I must wait till night sends its moonbeams
I shall never leave you lost in your dreams

                 **********
Undeserving am I, for such mercy 
A sinner and tormented vagabond 
Cavorting with strumpets in Babylon 
Rendering my soul hungry and thirsty 
Yet nightly, through the mist you come tersely 
Descending with your kindness from beyond 
Blessed with your kiss my memories abscond 
Overfilling my heart with love firstly 
Night Angel, I have prayed for forgiveness 
From the midst of my dreams, am again whole 
By the magnificence of your meekness 
My conscience is now bending from stiffness 
The morning sun brings new light to my soul 
Now no longer will ever go sleepless


* * * * * * * * * * 
February 22, 2016
© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Sonnet

Three Phases of My Life Episode Three

Banquet of people like wildflowers, shemales swaying thier county sides from left right, funky cat shoes, bikinis 
all that stuffs, some religious ones were odd though. 

Every male manning his Oars. Things seem clearer now .
 Some smiling in between pains, some laughing while
 the pain is under, some buying attitudes some selling .

They say "life is such a business," "buh what think u?"
Me!," "what u do with it today is what u get from it the 
Morrow & what u do away today is what u
 do without the Morrow."

Suddenly Nene came, but  Dada has just gone on a sudden journey 
never to return. Momma is lonely and I can't comfort her.
Lola is a bleeding heart and Junior has marked another sexy figure.
So I  roadbed my phases & titled it  " three phases of my life "
"experience is a name that men give to their mistakes"

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