Long Portending Poems

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Premium Member Peter Pan Lost to the Captain's Hook

I remember that I once called him Peter Pan
The man I loved, and yet a child at heart to me
A name that became vividly more portending
at pretending than I ever could've imagined.

A lost boy I found long ago, or did he find me?
No need for Tinkerbelle's pixie dust because
he flew with me as his Darling,* to quell his sadness
but in taking it from him, I began losing myself.

He tried to escape his nemesis, the Captain's hook,
but too many walks along the pirate ship's plank
proved to be a daunting task he kept undertaking.
I kept trying to rescue him but he wouldn't swim.

He was drifting far out to sea; drowning in the drink.
I called his name but no sight of him was I able to see.
Peter Pan was lost again, and this time also to me.
Never Never Land is a place I won't be visiting again.

*Wendy Darling
© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.


Premium Member Red Moon Rising

A blood moon's
                                         spiritual
                                    meaning
                               through history,
                          was a bad omen;
                     portending
              the death
          of a King
     through His
overthrow;
     and foretold
          of an uprising.
               And the Christian Bible
                     feared
                          an apocalypse.
                               Today, a
                         red moon rising
                    means a
               lunar eclipse.
          Yet superstitions,
     can often
prevail
     over facts.
          The Moon
               has always
                    influenced
                         our ancient beliefs.
                               Native Americans,
                                         thought
                                              the moon needed care.
Form: Verse

Premium Member Something about Poetry that Grips Me

There’s something about poetry that grips me
Like gravity does the moon, 
While I keep trying to let it go
It treats me like a loon.  

As if I can’t control myself 
And these urges in my veins,
To compose another line or two 
And extinguish all the flames.

Like a Phoenix that keeps rising 
From out of the deep dark blue,
And never allows my mind to rest,
No matter where or what I do.  

To alleviate these phantom-like flashes 
Of memories like comet tails,
Shooting across my mind and sky 
As if carrying the Holy Grail. 

Portending they have something important to say 
To the world, to you and me, 
And yet in the end it’s more like the wind
Whispering like Sirens of Titan, “Set us free.”

With notions of emotions 
Full of love, lust, hate and loss,
The circle of life through dark and light 
And Jesus on the Cross.

Let the words come forth right out of the source 
Of wherever thoughts are conceived, 
The Quantum Field, the “Plenum” revealed
The Great Maker of all we think and believe.

The vacuum of space where only a trace 
Of vibration quivers out there,
Sending the Muses to confound and confuse us
Poets who dutifully dare. 

As I do what I must to let go and trust 
These poetic thoughts that abound,
That the words will unfold like silver and gold 
And a treasure may someday be found.    


© Terrell Martin, 02/22/2025
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Antebellum Elegy

Prologue
 
Abandoned and in disrepair the mansion 
Is dark now; a story behind every stanchion.
An unwitting monument to a way of life,
Since foreclosed through bloody civil strife.

Antebellum

The hush of summer evenings cued the trilling
(Fiddled on hind legs accompanied by warty pouches)
Chorus; pierced only by the discordant creaking 
Of unseen stairs rising to the house slave's quarters
Portending the disquiet of antebellum martyrs.

Wittiness trees attest in angles and chains
To the master's grid and shade the lanes
For the surrey whose wheels rutted the gateway 
(Become artifacts) en route to soirées of gaiety.

The prairie land, violated by steel and condescension 
To the roots of its towering grasses and purple gentian,
Forced to nourish seeds of an alien flora for hempen
Riches, patiently awaits its day of redemption.

Bricks of fertile earth fired over an Osage hearth,
By chattel hands, in mortise and tenons, gave birth
To a mansion at the prelude of a moral sea-change
That would divide the nation and break its chains. 

Current Era

Their lives deprived of enslaved labor, the once-lived
Voices ebbed a little as each generation removed.
Shrouded in leaves of time they are a mute bequeath
Indelibly recorded upon the stories that lie beneath.

Dreamer boy speak for them now. Sing for bluestem that switched
Against the sky nourishing the thundering herds that provisioned
Native tribes. Rage for those hobbled to sow but never to reap,
Weep for a Nation gone mad and seeds planted too deep.


Reflections after touring an abandoned antebellum mansion.
Copyright Paul M Thomson September 2011.
Form: Elegy

CRIMSON SKY

A Crimson Sky breaks the distant shore
stargates opening veils upon veils
portals portending lyrical or so it seemed 
since senses were lost in labyrinth lots
angels pouring purple pearls into 
timeless space

I heard old lions roar below an empty nest
though ears gone ~ I who knew, GONE ! becoming observer-listener-knower
arteries slithering serpents  d a n c i ng  in  
S k y … fleshless, bloodless   
            
beyond Crimson Sky no grids, axis 
numbers or clocks, experiences points  
on  l u c i d  spirals  F L A S H I N G 
tiger lilies beckoned on another byway 
sensations spinning signatures along 
country alleys, R i v e r s  of  L i f e

L o v e  steppes alongside goals
I realised  S k y  lessons mystically taught 
facets were muddles for mind to 
untangle, create flower-of-life patterns
floating omniversal to a single destination 

Imperishable gifted His frequencies
“Keep facing forward”, a whisper I heard,
“the journey inward proliferates doubt 
confusion,  p l a y s  h i d e  and seek
narrow focus to single locus …

ignore demons or demi-gods with 
malachite earrings, poppy pendants 
or entreaties about historical distractions 
through all winters purpose is S p r i n g.”

            Crimson Sky collapsed
            distant shore dissolved
            a crescent moon landed 
            in my sunset  H e a r t  

I  c i r c l e d  a   g l  i t t e r i n g  moon in my

                                            CRIMSON  SKY


Premium Member The Peaceful Pacific

A road trip through  the Pacific West,
from Seattle along Sequim,
Ocean Shore, Seaside,
all the way to San Francisco.
The Pacific roared beside.

Frequent signs warned of Tsunami hazard.
While a warning at a trinket shop 
showed an evacuation route,
an ice cream ad promised a tsunami of delight.

People thronged the beaches en route,
least worried, all in mirth;
a gigantic tide was last on their list.

At Ocean Shore, a man and woman stood in tight embrace,
the lady sobbing without respite,
a personal tsunami on the heave,
wreaking havoc on their aching psyche.
The Pacific just looked on beside.

Humanity seemed a cluster of ants
on the rim of a tea cup left under a tap
savouring their last greedy grabs,
weeping over what is not.
The tap looks down upon.

Yet, away, unknown to them
two superpowers were locked
in an eye-ball confrontation
over things of least real concern
portending a nuclear conflagration.

Lo, the Pacific stands for peace
as her name really means,
while men portend  real nemesis,
their own apocalypse.

Premium Member Halloween 2020

‘Twas dark in the lane and into the drain
Glistening rivulets, crimson again
Feeble the lamplight as light the rain spits
Revealing the gore of a human in bits

Rising, the bile of a nightmarish shock
Spatter the ground as from the next block
A sound from the door of the eight till late shop
A howl and a screech and a chop, chop, CHOP!

Leaden the legs that refuse to advance
As ghostly the figures that from the shop dance
Gaining in substance and portending grief
Evil the grin that exposes the teeth

A ghoul and a demon, each wielding a chopper
Has to be said that each looks a copper
He paid with his blood for his evil resistance...
No mask and no hand gel and no Social distance
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Momentarily

Momentarily
          by Odin Roark

How elusive the quest
To place oneself in sync
Wavelength to wavelength
Response to reply

So many agendas beg ignoring
Those places where integrity remains suspect
Where job
Marriage
Relationships
Friends
Acquaintances
Eye contact
Undeserved pleasures
Even fantasized harmony
Portending confirmation of truth
Are often merely layered fears
Forged in distrust

For lest we forget
No one promised answers

Even as schemas know no boundaries
The road signs always offering direction
To the many of want
Facilitating few of need
They nevertheless remain available

Such goes this phenomenon of plans
Diagramable life
Representation of what might be
But rarely is
What is intrinsically longed for
Yet seemingly uncatchable
Like forever morphing mercury
 
Still

So desperate are most
Clutching to random connection
Often without reason 
That attention from others
Is embraced as self-realization

Perhaps a venture off the beaten path
A bushwhack through the untrammeled past
Might beg consideration

Where revisiting the child within
Will remind how infant outbursts
Conveyed rudimentary logic
When diaper rash urgency
Void of language 
Save scream and cry
Defined simple organics 
A voicing in search of form

So easy to ignore this
Time’s simplistic message
Reaching back toward the dawn of man
When primitive bone and stone
Drummed the truth of need
Food
Shelter
Cover
When duplicity hadn’t been invented
When progress was preserved by raw instinct

Today

Actuality is in questioned focus 
Our civilized regression
This guised-in-furtherance flight
Toward make-believe escape
Has jettisoned logic into the abyss of ignorance
Manipulating instead today’s lie of norm
Into modern truth

The hunt will continue
Beneath self-created imprisonment
To find that somewhere yet to objectify itself
That place where slumbers intrinsic reasoning  
Kept safe by nature’s heartbeat
Requires nothing but simple acceptance
Of that known simply as
Ever available
Truth

Searching minds continue
Trusting consciousness will prevail
Even allowing occasional laughter
Along the path where delusions entertain…

Momentarily
© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.

Soundbites 4-4-2026

Dark Raven

In the beginning
there was hope ...
there was hope
in the beginning

Soaring like an eagle shepherding the doves

Then man became
a king ...
became a king
in his portending

Soaring like a falcon preying on the doves

Until pride became
his lord ...
became his lord
in the undoing

Falling into darkness from salvation high above

In his self-inflicted 
fate ...
inflicted fate
his reign was ending

Falling a dark raven through the light of Heaven’s love

**

Finding Your Base

First
Last
And always
— pick your arena

**

Lost In The Throes

To me
it’s about imagery
damn the torpedoes ... 
damn the line structure
poems or prose

To me
it’s the metaphor
damning the simile ...
damning the grammar
— lost in the throes

**


Manus Ad Manus

The hand that opens widest
— rocks the cradle

**

Boomerang

Debating yourself
a losers folly
Debating yourself
— new spit in the wind

**

My Honor

You might be
my ally
But you’re not
on my side
A formal
arrangement
An unmarried 
bride

You say
you are loyal
In liege
to the same
But when push
comes to shove
My honor
— you’ll claim

**

 Right Always Right

Can anything get done
without being autocratic
Can anything happen
when subject to vote

Did Our Lord become savior
by being democratic
Right always right
— never crossing the moat

**

Playing The Odds

Dotting the I’s
all Hell freezes over
Crossing the T’s
tomorrow is gone

Hedging your bets
the wolf edges closer
Playing the odds
— the right and the wrong

**


By Its Grace

I always said
I’d know
when it was time
for my last poem

And choosing
perfect rhyme
I would leave
forever knowing

The world
a better place
a warm embrace
with letters showing

That time
has set me free
and by its grace
— my aura glowing

**


Heads In The Sand

Our country has become
a nation of cowards
Valuing safety
over what’s right

Festering blindly
foes are emboldened
Our heads in the sand
— embracing the night
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Dreamscape In Moon

From the edge of the ebon night sky,
under the engulfing clouds of gloom,
the promise of moon I’ve made to you,
I’ll keep before the eclipse starts.

The somber storm of smothering strife 
drifts me away across the slate horizon,
the clouds melt in the torrent of tears
as my sky falls with the marooned moon. 

The promise kept after the agonizing wait,
your fervent window opens on vista of hope,
ushers in the dislodged moon called heart,
rolling onto your satin bed long unslept

In the dark niche of your desolateness
glows the frozen moonbeam burst,
while the floating tinsels of silver dust
flutter like fairy over your silhouette face. 

Holding the magical moon turned crystal globe,
you look deep into the illumined fortune
in kaleidoscopic images portending the future,
where my yearning paints dreamscape for you.


Written : March 10, 2020
June 9, 2020
Contest : Strand No. 790
Sponsor : Brian Strand

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