Long Prelude Poems

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Premium Member Evening Lure Awhile Part Two

Sundown  creeps,
  across  adorned amber,
     sky whose welkin, 
     shades volte face, 
     as evening edges,
  into cosmic chakra,
of visual feasts,
orange, pink, purple,
prelude which emblazon,
point of day exodus,
 atrophied moon winking,
   mystic morph of,
     dwindling halo,
       to homeward bound,
         throngs thirsting, 
       for redress within,
    winter jasmine  enclave, 
 cabal, clique, cluster,
   in shrunken retreat,
    from  dreary toil,
nudge from nightfall,
   whose cryptic code,
  a dark art patois, 
 exemplified by,
 eastern screech owl,
    whose stocky medium,
and varied volume,
  that twilight tremolo,
    purring incognito,
     among other creatures,
    wet soil genus,
           brisk firefly flash,
         in town backyards,
      wing rubbing katydid,
          tree top rasp, 
        or  amid green bush,
          chirpy cricket,
       midget burrow dweller,
       allow oneself to wallow awhile,
          in evening habitat,
       in all its allure
Form: Verse


Premium Member Grace and Solitude

GRACE AND SOLITUDE
      
       Sparkling Sun on verdant valley of super silence.
       Symphony of dazzling rays of sizzling Sun in prelude.
        Dreamy dormant desires in dolor, deep and dense,
        suffusing in opulence blending in quietude.
       
      Dim sunlight on twilight pasting hues on sky-canvas
      Tranquil ambient runs on cadence of interlude.
      Blooming passion on confusion confined in mind-vase.
      Evening melody showers solace in plenitude.
     
      Sadness on starless somber turquoise sky
       resonating on aria of serene soul in postlude.
      Efflux of ethereal emotion oozing to fly,
      enjoying ecstasy in graceful sublime solitude. 
                       

   05/05 /20 
            
                                                                  Third Place

 'Grace and solitude' Contest by John Hamilton

                                                                First Place
  'All Yours ( Mar 29 )   Contest by Brian Strand
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Fall

That first lone leaf twirling slowly to the ground
The first casualty in the war of this season.

One  swallow does not a summer make
That one leaf shows what is to come.

Soon it will joined by so many of its comrades
Victims of the insidious sniper of the fall.

The scalpel of the East wind cuts through
The softness summer supplied.

Flowers fading, the absence of bird song
Both signalling the entombment  on the way.

Hills cleanly etched against a pale blue sky
Coldly carved in the brittle brightness

Sunlight with all the warmth of a stepmother's smile
Draining the goodness of the moment

The chill of decay portends death
In that illusory cheating  glint

Skeletal trees, bare fields, lowering skies
Icy frost and thick blankets of snow.

Some will not live to witness
The ritual of resurrection 

But come it will
The earth shaking off its shroud

Then there will peep out
The shy green shoots

Prelude to the  glories and   glamour  of summer
With its heady scents, rich colours and  bright song.

This yearly  drama plays out its  four acts
To let all know everything has its season.

Depending upon where you start
It can be comedy, tragedy or farce

Premium Member The Last Blizzard

Every year, at the scheduled arrival of March,
Mother Nature became seasonally enraged,
Like a lion, an unjustly imprisoned beast in a cage,
Like a cancer patient walking on the last stage
For the last time - the last baby is now aged;
Two seasons are about to rush, crush and crash.

Every thing started with the hauling and yelling winds
Slapping their huge feathers on all windows,
Mother Nature’s heavily breathing on different rows
Of the trees that refused to be scattered all over like the sands
Of the battered beaches, like the small adoring plants,
Which the deceased grandmothers left on the slants.

Every year, it is the same old thing, the same old rituals,
Yet the school children just love it, since all classes are canceled;
The teachers are understandably elated, because they were told
To stay home as well; the aborted duels
Are bound to take place another time, another day,
Where everyone will fall under a lighter tray, a better array.

The last winter storm was really a prelude to a cool spring,
Just like Valentine’s Day was the prelude to Mother’s day;
At dawn, don’t be surprised to hear the cries of a new offspring,
And hundred of little ones performing at the last school play.

Copyright © March 2009, Hebert Logerie, All Rights Reserved
Form: Rhyme

thoughts in the night

thoughts in the night

 

The wind is terrible, races around like a drunken

dervish hollering in the night, but when tired of

This needless validating of masculinity it became

quiet; to let my thoughts and worries take over

Simple things at first, should I put the chicken soup

in the fridge, although the soup was still tepid

Of course, the soup was a ruse to stop me thinking

of my declining health, nerve pains, and so on

My doctor, a lovely woman of 48, asks me about

drinking, I tell her I drink red wine between ten at

night to eleven, then I go to bed

She looks out of the window, tries not to smile

Clearly, she doesn't believe me, but it happens to

be true but I see she thinks I'm eccentric

all this is a prelude, to my thoughts about death

will it be painful struggling for air, or will it be

mild like going to sleep and not waking up again

Whatever happens, I will not be able to write or

Make a drama of my death
© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Form: ABC


Premium Member The Mercy

Have mercy on me,  O God, in Your Goodness; in the greatness of Your compassion wipe out my offense Psalm 51:3

There are severe penitential realms that was sung or spoken can give us much spiritual Help to express our penance. These seven unique psalms are highly recommended to pray during Lent. The fourth and most famous called “The Miserere”, was written by King David when we cried out to and begging for forgiveness after he had committed murder and adultery. Whatever our sins maybe, we can discover in these ancient expressions of sorrow divine forgiveness and healing consolation. Our sins maybe few or many. Yet, like King David, we can offer our sincere prayer to our God of goodness, whose great compassion wipe out any offense.
This Lent, the pleading prayer “Lord, have mercy” is prelude to Eucharistic liturgy and can lead us to conversion and a better life.
Form: Narrative

The Visionary

The simple illuminations of my contemplations
Hues my confuse and delude
While delusions are miss-construed
Images previewed and reviewed
As levels of altitude are determined by attitude
Only the prelude
Solitude, confinement
Far beyond heaven sent
My future residence
The higher my regiment
My body’s irrelevant
My soul’s the essence
Spirits presence
Determines my relevance
To my future ahead
Instead, of thinking
I dream, of my ambition
Making the transition am I
Preparing to fly
Soar, as I see myself
Above the rest
Reaching my goals,
Satan, my adversary
My God with me
For I AM - the visionary

Premium Member Poetry Was Her Best Lover- Adult Content

Poetry was her best lover
Like no other
He loved her
Without restraint
She could be herself
And explore
And discover
Secret pleasures and fantasies
Naked above the covers
He let her lie
Exposed
As he slowly caressed her imagination
Making her flow
With the sweet essence of her soul
In waves of delirium
Flying free
He let her be
Unfettered
Unashamed
Unworried of how to please
Or how to tease
Just simply to be
A woman in a prelude
To ecstacy

Poetry was her best lover
Her escape from reality
In clandestine intimacy
He ravished her mind
Again and again
For all he wanted
Was for her to come
To experience
To taste
Every pleasure
He had to offer
Her insatiable appetite
He fed
With firm truths
That burst forth with wisdom
He fed her desire
To reach supremacy
He never betrayed
Or delayed
In pleasing her
In giving her just what she wanted
In different ways and forms
His creativity endless

Poetry was her best lover
The only time in her day
When she had her way
And could be free
To be the woman she was mean to be
Sensual and sultry, sexy and savory 
Not having to hide
Behind the guise
The veil of culture
Or religion
Or misconstrued sexism
Or alibis
Being demure
And “sterile”
When she was fertile
Laden with passion


Poetry was her best lover
He adored her
For whom she was
And he gave and gave 
At times
Leading her in submission to his will
Taming her
Training her
To live in the confines
Of his rules
For perfection to be reached
She had to follow his lead
To the pinnacle of pleasure
Where all was in rhythmic union and rhyme
The sublime
Tasted and lived and then to descend
To warm after glow
Basking in the satisfaction
Of a fruitful union
For beauty has been conceived 
Waiting for delivery

Yes, Poetry was her best lover
And she
Came looking for him
Begging him 
To take her 
Again and again and again
To transport her to heaven from hell
Tasting eternity

Poetry was her best lover
And she
Had no need of another
To help her discover
Her own entity….
None other
But her best lover
Poetry....


Eileen Manassian Ghali

Premium Member Life Imitates Art

Prelude to a poem:
Yes 
Not the other way
You see,
What began as a game 
To hide behind eyes
Paranoid, 
Is now, what all the
Millennials call
"A Thing."

So frightened of
Fathers adopted 
And all their drunken noise,
I hid in the living room corner
Behind the easy chair, 
And made up people.
People to tell me
To not be afraid,
And people to tell me
It was ok.
And then there was that Halloween,
At age 11, when I drank a pint of
Blackberry brandy, 
Cuz that's what the men do.
And then there was the three day coma
From, surprise,  booze.
Then there was and was 
And was again and again
And again.
But now 
My back and brain hurt.
My eyes shift as fast as my 40
Personalities to be the funny one
Or the fat one or the drunk one
Or sarcastic one,(love him)
Or the sardonic one or the
Voice of reason or of Faith 
Or Hope
Or Charity, Love.

Poem:
Never sitting
Peaceful or light 
Just struggling 
Nay, strangling
The ones that ain't right.
I am a genius
And fool,
I rhyme  and
I drool.
I piss time
Away, worn
Out by this storm, 
Never hurricane strength, 
But forever in length, 
Voices and voices
And voices per tick,
Of the clock I can't wind,
Of the drugs I can't kick.
A minute in church
I'll pray that I tried. 
A lifetime on earth,
Per diem I died.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Thanksgiving

THANKSGIVING

      Song of Thanksgiving start with prelude
                                 to pay tribute
      to my Grandma for her affection and care.
         She was always a giver.
           I could not get any chance to repay her debt,
                    but only to admit.
                With grateful heart I bow to my parents.
                 I remember to thank all my playmates in childhood
                       with whom I had spent so many joyful moments.

       On interlude I must give thanks 
       to my teachers, research guide, my Dad to build
      my academic career.
      Thanks to my colleagues, friends, and associates
       for sharing my sorrow and happiness
        with compassion and kindness.
   
         Thanks to my sisters for showing mirror 
          casting my childhood.
       And to God for giving me opportunity to raise up
         two wonderful daughters up to my satisfaction.

       On postlude to conclude, I must thank
        to my cute Granddaughter, the little angel 
         for entertaining me on Skype once a week.
              
  11/15/20

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