Long Pendulum Poems

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Premium Member Unglue To Renew

As happenings in the external recede
Though all needed doing is yet done
Subtle blockages we still gently weed
Slowly but surely ego comes undone 

Fears & desires now faint shadows
Yet haunt urgings of noblesse oblige
Void in our heart the blissful meadow
But demons of past in dreams arise

Recognition clear that guilt an illusion
But recognition not quite the becoming
Whilst meditation a flowing orientation 
The nemesis is of attention oscillating 

Moment to moment and layer by layer
We empty out all baggage of our past 
Continuum of stillness in silent prayer
Frees us of fetters leaving ego aghast

It is the constant mindful watchfulness
Steered into quietude with stoic resolve
Pendulum slowing down to gentleness
Bliss mist into the divine does dissolve

08-August-2020
Form: Rhyme


When the Pendulum Gravity Shall Fail

Every thought 
                    I had fought 
Is like each single 
                    I've ever mingle
As each cough
                   has been so tough
To cope 
                with when thinking of hope 

But it is true, 
               no one wish for blue
Yet in the end, 
              everyone becomes your friend 
When the plans 
              elongate your spans 
That you sing
               for joy like a king 

No one will see
            to the drowning sea
You had sailed 
             through lonely veiled 
In coils 
            of trouble projecting foils 
Which beautify 
             what memories testify

No one shingles 
                my thought in reggae with jingles 
Like Deborah 
               whose voice is auroral 
And can make florals oral 
                 when in quarrel 
With the breeze 
                to seize atmospheric freeze 

To ease 
        humans of an appealing sneeze 
And set all free 
            with her divine decree
But be it as it may
On this soil, I am still enjoying each day

Though it is certain 
No one can hold forever detained 
On this soil with his oil
Beyond liquidation of its spoil

One day, I will travel 
To the land of gold to unravel 
Eon; ever new Jerusalem 
And stopped the earthly pendulum 

So do everyone 
Be prepared 
Like a soldier without gun
That never have the loss declared
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Great American Political Pendulum

Numbers are great bearers of truth.                                                                                                                         They expose and reveal; but do not lie.
For 56 years, the pendulum has swung both ways.                                                                                                Back and forth without delay, for more than 20,000 days.
Both parties' politicians have led an equal number of years                                                                                    Let the numbers report how long they brought joys or tears.

John F. Kennedy        Dem                                                                                                                                           Lyndon B. Johnson     Dem           8 Years  * * * * * * * *
Richard M. Nixon        Rep                                                                                                                                            Gerald Ford                Rep            8 Years * * * * * * * *
Jimmy Carter              Dem          4 Years * * * *
Ronald Reagan            Rep                                                                                                                                              George H. W. Bush      Rep         12 Years * * * * * * * * * * * *
Bill Clinton                  Dem         8 Years * * * * * * * *
George W. Bush          Rep          8 Years * * * * * * * *
Barack Obama            Dem         8 Years * * * * * * * *
Dem  Totals                             28 Years
Rep   Totals                           +28 Years
----------------------------------------------
Note: For the past 56 years, the Democratic and the Republican
Parties have seated 5 presidents each.
Dem and Rep                                                                                                                                                                  Total Years in Office                   56 Years
Donald Trump             Rep          0
05162017 PS Contest, Pendulum of Time And Place, Kai Michael Neumann Dem=Democratic; Rep=Republican
Form: Prose

Premium Member Free Hong Kong

Air-ball, foul, listen to the referee 
No free throw from the key 
Sit in this corner for time out
Check by your names and throw a pout

Hopscotch, Tik Tok
Social media around the clock
For freedom of press
For freedom to express
but there is a distress
And we both are in need
Yell and shout for liberty
But here currently
The support is for the company
From bailouts to sell outs
So “shut up and dribble”
Give me something to nibble
Like on gold or money
The pooh bear honey
Intake, half baked
From the land of quake 
-“Injustice Anywhere
 Is A Threat To Justice Everywhere” -MLK
But Lebron don’t care 
Hurry up before it is gone
Where do I belong

The pendulum swings
Walk this line
Pass the breath 
The test of time
The honey pot
There the spot
Spring of Beijing
Wall street likes
As profits hikes
With a little luck 
Won’t get stuck
So where do I belong?

There could be a storm
All is torn
Do you see the vision?
What team are you on?
Make an active decision
A voice
A choice?
But wallets need to get fatter
Once 70 million lives matter 
How? Moa
Ban or switch 
Twitter or twitch
Live stream
Where is the dream team?
What side am I on?

The east meets the west
Trapped in a nest 
Treated as a pest
From a queen
In this game of chess
Gone to a pawn
The regime is wrong 
Can I get in a word?
Freedom for Hong Kong 

We need a superman
Or do we just need to be an NBA fan
Or rather stick our heads into the sand
Do we declare war on plastic straws? 
Yet it is getting to hard to breath
Too much traffic in the yellow sea
Support Hong Kong democracy

And Taiwan too. 

And and and.... all of china becoming democracy
© G. Jay  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

Premium Member Best Titles: Flying High

Flying high,
I am a poet
stepping through time;
captured
into the light.

Come find me... 
come dance with me 
full circle
on horizon's edge; 
above and below
here and beyond
into the blue.

Like parallel dimensions...
a grand design.
See, feel and embrace 
gems of reality:
metamorphosis 
heavenly symphony
cosmic tune.

Where are you earth?
Just a thin blue ribbon.
Element of earth,
pendulum, of time and space;
night sky
galactic soup
nothingness.

But oh, my fear,
we rulers of the earth,
as we look to the sky;
the relativity of beyond,
flying high.


Sandra M. Haight

~1st Place~
Contest: Best Titles
Sponsor: Laura Loo
Judged 06/19/2017

Poem composed with each line being 
   the title of another poem I wrote.
Form: Verse


Premium Member Sankofa In Safranbolu

‘Sankofa’ In 'Safranbolu'

This bird from Ghana’s legends flies forward looking backward
                      In the Twi language twinned with indigenous souls and wisdom
the feathered friend suggests to go back and get it and I suppose
                     some fly backwards while looking ahead but then life is not only
Chronos but 'Kairos' with the meter entwined and composed

At this precise moment not alone in this moving instant it waves
                     and oscillates conjoining what was and will be when the present
is the past in a flash and one cannot step into the same river again
              yet the future is shaped by the past the here and now a 'Kairometer'
transcending artefacts and boundaries into ‘truths’ and reality
	
The bird flies and time flows back and beyond near and far
                                            further on wings and pinions with roots at heart

In ‘Safranbolu’ the ancient Ottoman town on the Black Sea Coast
                              and thus close to Ghana in real time place and connection
the old man had been tending the clock in the tower both man and
                                   the turret free standing and wise still present and one
‘Seventy years’ as he explained pendulum hands and the wheels

What memories pride mechanics precision preserved aspiration and
                   dignity flying into the face of the clock and the distortions of time

Mustafa had climbed those steps so often had rung the bell
                             oiled the time keeper had not forgotten a day of his duties
had become one with the time piece and stood still many times
                                 in awe of monument and pacing the sleepy old town yet
he flew forward so peacefully looking back in retrospect and respect

He has watched birds history duration impermanence imprinting the
                   meaning of a life worthy of living in honour of what is the present

20th November in all past and future revisited

Premium Member Whine Producer

Whine Producer
Miracle Man
7/23/2024

Constantly ticking is our grandfather clock,
and with each night’s chime it puts me shock.

My ears are weary of this uninterrupted talker,
it’s hard to escape this loud mouthed stalker.

Often, with disgust, I watch the pendulum swing,
other than it’s beauty I find nothing that’s soothing.

Always near day’s end someone continues to rewind,
and at each suggestion seems I’ve always whined.

I suppose I could find something entertaining to do,
because hearing it’s chime always makes me spew.

The options I see at hand are to continue to blister,
Or load this sucker up, and deliver it to my sister.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Couplet

Verse of Burgess

Sprawling, against a backlit Sun.   Magenta

 the Clockwork of Time

and its infinite antinominies

..................of timeless aimlessness

and Void of Time

 fades as a memory

the pulse and rhythm of each staccato stroke



against the clockwork springs

 and fine-tuned apparatus

    the pendulum swing

and weighted balance strokes



Masses of Fixed, orbital constructs

and circadian heartbeat pulses

conforming to some Final End

of Morbid Alarm

or Eternal Awakening



 the surreal bending of metronome reflection

    twists the Absolute structure of melody

(notwithstanding it's momentary cadence,

and sequence of endless notes



Cascading

backwards in patch-work puzzlement,

  like Shostakovich having a break before the

Symphony begins

and lets out Piano-Forte brash

as if in dissonant protest

 to the scandal of patterned, and ordered

Tablature
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Thank You All

The soul is such a complicated thing
It can be filled with joy and laughter one moment
And filled with a feeling of utter despair the next
It's the most mysterious of human traits
It can take the smallest thing to make the pendulum swing
Some happenings can effect our moods more than others
But we are strong enough to overcome them
I'm afraid I don't fall into the that category
My ups and downs can be quite extreme at times
Very extreme highs and very extreme lows
I try my hardest not to be too sensitive
But for people like me, it's nearly impossible
It's inherent in who I am
Perhaps this is what allows me to write
To express my feelings
I often disguise the true inner me with humour
It's my way of coping
But my life would be missing a major part
Without my friends to share my poetry
Thank you all!

Ivor's Haiku

Aching
aching deep within
reaching out beyond the veil
never forgotten

All Aboard
body and soul combine
for the ride of a lifetime –
no return tickets

Am I me
I think I am me
I think, therefore, I am me
I am me I think

Astral Womb
astral absorption
blends life continually -
soul's evolution

Bloodless Bond
born not of Mother
parent of necessity
destiny fulfilled

Coming up Trumps
sharing true friendship
noisily expelling gas
no inhibitions

Conception
blending of spirits
natures nectar decanted
life's vessel refilled

Deep Silence
deep silence roars out -
in straining to catch whispers
no one can hear it

Destiny
deep thunder rumbling
silence envelopes the land
destiny draws near

Empty Noise
dry branches snapping
summer glory now faded
still tries to impress

Eternal Moments 
past, future, present
moments form eternity
time stays forever

Eternity Beckons
body discarded
spirit struggling upwards -
too late to grow wings

Eternity
union of birth
individualism
union of death

Free Spirit
thundering of hoofs
freedom’s stampede of delight -
spirit unbroken

Insight
foggy perception
clarity of direction
avenues open

Night Fright
cloud creeps across moon
night whispers it's mysteries
concealed in darkness

Pendulum of Life
living in boredom
soul screams for activity
turmoil requires rest

Pendulum’s Swing
regularity
exist in cloud cuckoo land
life's pendulum swings

Pendulum’s Ride
enjoy all the ups
enjoy the extremities
enjoy all the downs

Post Mortem
Going through the veil -
Once life’s journey is a tale
Did your faith prevail

Self Pity
beyond human sight
loved ones find eternal joy
why does my soul ache

Time for Time
life's pathways beckon
moments joined into ages
cloaked by time's mantle

Time’s Call
friends not forgotten
re-union approaches
time's pathway beckons

True Vision
though vision is clear
perception can be blinded –
truth is in the soul

Senyru:

Perception
perception
is reality
apparent

Poets Write
poets write
spilling blood as ink
makes one think

Ivor G Davies  ©
Form: Haiku

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