Long Phase Poems

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Premium Member Like a Mick Jagger

I got a problem, it’s with my son.
He seems so different, the odd one.

It’s not unusual with lads his age.
They’re going through so many emotions at that phase.

Nah this is different, he’s acting strange.
It’s like he’s playing a different game. It’s like he’s playing in a different field. It’s like he’s pushing to be someone!  It’s like he’s living under a different sun!

Don’t get so worked up, so what he’s not just like anyone! 

He’s walking like he’s found a new craze! He’s talking like he has age! He’s dancing and singing songs. It’s makes me uneasy to see this strange wildness in my son! 

Look so he’s different, perhaps not what you want to see. He’s different not like you and me! But perhaps he’s just a Mick Jagger and he knows his mind. Perhaps his difference doesn’t matter through his eyes. Perhaps his difference is what makes him strong. It’s only for you to make him feel like he belongs.

Like Mick Jagger! Yeah perhaps that’s true! Perhaps it’s natural that he’s not like me or you! Perhaps he needs to sing his songs. Perhaps I need to ensure that he belongs.

There’s nothing about his songs, there’s nothing about what he wants. There’s nothing here that says he doesn’t love you.
Perhaps you’ve just got to alter your field of view?


Premium Member Pale Day

A pale murky day at my place
I sit in my room with no view
Watching the spring in its autumnal phase
How strange does it feel without you
I’m like a stray dog here
Who came by chance to check out
What’s new in the depth of fear
Where I used to hang around
What an obvious lie that time heals
Sclerosis may do, or dementia
But if you are sane the pain feels
Deeper, and more essential
With each empty day I live through
I feel more and more distanced
From a person I was with you
Now it’s a different existence
You are closer, you live within
And there’s me, but I’m not the same
It’s a life backwards we bring
Into each other, to carry the flame
Where are you now, I’ll come to
If it’s called nowhere, there I’ll be
The only thing I need is you
And your recognition of me.
Form: Rhyme

Another phase

Another phase 
The Perfect picture of my soul 
Was placed before the lions den 
The remedy of my life was determine 
By my great ancestors 
The vision of my dreams lies on the 
Crown I wear
Shoes got sizes so I grow with time 
I can’t  toil all day to be in same position 
With time am getting better with my pains 
So be for good or leave me for life 
Am a moving train
Time never wait for nobody 
Today your are young tomorrow 
You suddenly get old 
Then you realise that time is the highest currency mankind could ever spend on earth 
You can’t eat your cake to have them back 
Am living my life am growing 
Life is beautiful cos 
it has brought me to 
Another phase.
Form: Epic

Premium Member Together

Together…it’s one of my favorite words…I believe it deserves some recognition
sometimes it’s the simplest words that give life its definition.

If you’re lucky enough to find someone to share your world with, 
your cares are few…you know there’s nothing you can’t weather
you hope for happiness, perhaps a home…a family…
and you have this shared dream of growing old together.

Then life comes at you with its responsibilities…its burdens…its restraints…
you secretly wonder how you’ll ever muddle through…
but together you do…
then one morning you wake up and realize your dreams have all come true.

You know life hasn’t always been easy…sometimes you’ve been at the mercy of the wind…like a feather…but you’re healthy, you’re happy…you’ve made it…you have grown old together.

Life has moved so quickly , however, you’re not sure when it happened…how…or even where…but with your children grown…your grandchildren growing…there is happiness in the air.

It’s a wonderful feeling knowing you were right…
when you said there is nothing you can’t weather…
and now you’re ready for the next phase of your life…
growing even older together.

There’s a funny thing about time…
as we’re building a life…a family…how often we admit…
no matter how much we try to budget our time…
there’s never enough of it.

Often time is our enemy…and we wonder if that feeling will ever end
then one day…as if my magic…time becomes our friend.

And when we have the time to look back…
we realize what has been the glue in our life…the bond…the tether…
What made our life worthwhile…was simply living it…together.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

What Happens If We'Re Wrong- Iii

III.
Some claim that your sex is all in your head,
that you can change it at any old time,
gender is not bound by our biology,
it’s nothing more than a sure state-of-mind,
and so we see them, dressing up all weird,
demanding that we go along with their claims,
trying to say this will make it all better,
but nothing ever seems to ease their pain.
And given that forty percent of such folk
will eventually attempt suicide,
does it make that much sense to enable them,
or are we just setting them up to die?
And given how often it fades away
is it wise to encourage a change,
to watch someone mutilate themselves
when there’s a good chance it’s a passing phase?
Plus messing with hormones is a big risk,
what know we of the long term effects?
And when they’re given to confused minors
who the hell knows what will happen next?
How can we even let our children decide
to forever bind themselves to this fate,
children are stupid, their minds not yet formed,
different people at six and at eight.
With no experience of the real world,
no understanding of what is to come,
to throw in hormones and harsh surgery
To such a mercurial mind sure is dumb.
What happens if the ‘girl’ at sixteen
grows out of it and sees that ‘she’s’ a man?
Can you undo the hormones, bring back his parts,
or to that confused state is he damned?
It all seems to be a dumpster fire,
obstinance when the truth is too strong,
and you nobody even wants to ask
what will happen if we’ve got it wrong?
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Liminal Space Surreality

Classical infusion, Beethoven’s “ode to joy”
playing on blaring audiophile speakers annoy 
purposely looped to destroy vagrants with electronic music
blends of subversive elements and anxious acoustic 
the solution to loitering the bodega doo dropping
spicy Shiitake broth smelling pissy store front, 
jaded daily stunt, at midnight wino corks popping
abruptly segway into a film from one music scene 
to a melting hallway, a lipstick alley with animate occupants  
disconnected unmoored, appearing eerie and dormant 
fluorescent lights unleashing a hum buzz in duress                       
hissing sizzling hornets’ nest of unsettling unrest 
illogical levels of unease, an iniquitous den
such madcap absurdity is beyond my ken
not a shack, mall, nor a Holiday Inn, 
a queasy Quasi-Moto mood which lies within
backrooms filled in with discarded filets 
of fishy maceral that have no place, 
frolicking pixella's in a glossy abyss of liminal space
plump puce brushed lips affixed
swollen browns and purple mixed
deep maroon and dusky rose,
make-up art is what they pose 

I wish I may I wish away what is unreal with blinky eyes
I pray not to awaken one more inky surreal surprise

Crescent shaped moon portions mounted in pseudo walls 
mounted upon the glare in unpleasing patterned halls
side by side quagmired half discs dawning a contorted face
in a half dazed-half-moon crest loon’s invisible phase 
not unconscious but in some in-between state
bored while in transition and abandoned as they await
whimsical moldings who see me try not to take a peek
an exit to this madness is what I and they seek
maybe re-evaluate my sleep number, for gravity defying rest
What insight imports this encounter and what test?
what it means for a doomed generation Xer or baby boomer,
tacked in stucco, Silly Putty it seems, in a warped sense of humor

I wish I may I wish away what is unreal with blinky eyes
I pray not to awaken one more inky surreal surprise
© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Figurative Fingertips

FIGURATIVE FINGERTIPS

a talent
to dabble
  with
  profligacy
in different styles

brilliant&
fluent
subtle&
muted palette
phase
of the
immediate
  liberated
in a
 suggestive
 genre

an attractive
template
 flitting between
subjects
never alighting
with a
tendency to
 marginalise
artistic
   encounters
&
to manipulate
scenery
  of substance


NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood is inherently variable.
Copyright © Brian Strand
Form: Other

Premium Member Missing Halloween

Oh, how I miss those happy days
   on Halloween when kids came 'round;
their twinkling eyes danced in the maze
   at our front door where treats were found.

With lifted bags held up to hold
   delicious sweets we put inside,
and with no care, if it was cold,
   from house to house they'd walk allied.

Oh, how I miss those happy days!
   None live in neighborhood...and too,
grandkids outgrew this childhood phase...
   to 'trick or treat' have said adieu.

So now we ride the streets to see
   huge spiders, witches, pumpkin lights,  
the kids costumed creatively...
   nice memories of past delights.

Yet, Moon above with eerie glow
   and ghost-like swaying trees reveal
a haunted feel which makes us know
   that Halloween remains so real.


Sandra M. Haight

~2nd Place~
Contest: Halloween
Sponsor: Eve Roper
Judged:11/01/2016
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Meeting New Year

        Meeting New Year

         In last phase of life
          New Year appears
           to remind
         " Your time is up !”
           Now to respond 
            last bell to ring
             at door step .
             But now seems
              life as meaningless.

              I'm to say
             ' Enjoyed life,
              completed duties.
              Met challenges
             being strong and bold .
              No attractions left.
             Detached myself
              from earthly ties.'
               And now seems
             life as purposeless.

              All achievements
              have turned obsolete 
            ‘If Death is
               ultimate end~then
              why are we blessed
               with  emotions !'
              Is Life meaningless ?
Form: Lyric

Bronze Diamond

Graze in your own maze, girl 

You can’t sugarcoat lies

I have seen you in a gaze swirl 

Wrapped up in lullabies

Honey, what goes around, goes back 'round

Heard your heart beating, wantin' to be found 



You will always be my gem

My bronze diamond too

You will always be my rock

My bronze diamond that is made from up above

You will always be like them

Who knew? Who knew?

My heart needs another lock

Where are the keys to your rather genuine love?



Your heart's a priceless, bronze diamond

You’re my bronze diamond

My bronze diamond

Please don’t tear apart our valuable bond

You’re my bronze diamond

My bronze diamond



My dear, graze in your own maze

My love, I need a tiny bit of praise

I still see you in a dreary and lonely daze

It’s just another ridiculously silly phase

You filled in all of my grays

Caught up in a wintery haze 



You will always be my gem

My bronze diamond too

You will always be my rock

My bronze diamond that is made from up above

You will always be like them

Who knew? Who knew?

My heart needs another lock

Where are the keys to your rather genuine love?



Your heart's a priceless, bronze diamond

You’re my bronze diamond

My bronze diamond

Please don’t tear apart our valuable bond

You’re my bronze diamond

My bronze diamond



Now, I can see black and white clearly

My heart will not beat tonight, baby, 

If you can’t love me back to life, alright?

I don’t wanna roam all over the place tonight

I gotta let you know that I care for you completely

GirI, I reckon you understand me wholeheartedly

You are my bronze diamond forevermore

You are always gonna be the one I adore
Form: Lyric

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