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Premium Member ou l'Optimisme

The name 
mistakenly saintly, 
the other one 
a rite-of-life, 
a gauche passage 
for some, for most
the contract costly,
imprints its meaning 
post firey baptismal dive
to rise again somehow
from each our own
calamities, the personal
cataclysm we confront
or shun in a parallel life 
of optimism, there each one 
observes what was and lingers
to kiss the font of the child 
within every one, each their own
version of the meaning 
of catechism,
forgotten by most, 
yet a lingering malaise 
swims in their waking, 
a sense of de je vu,
these are the incorrigible
pushing the envelope,
the timestamp licked
and mailed off 
to other voices 
that do not speak,
that do not arrive
through lips, yet
open sleeping minds
and hold the eyelids
to peer directly into 
and through to meet
that thing that powers 
the brain within,
to shine its glistening 
luminescence, one 
senses that thing
which is forgotten within,
is commissioned
to win the race of life,
and lose and then, 
win again - 
the losses mailed off 
in worldly corrupted 
creative ways, didactic,
where one revisits
as a dark shadow, 
standing with all
those other 
dark shadows,
frankly contemplating 
conversion, and the
salt-strewn stinging
many paths of logic 
through those
illogical clues
breadcrumbed 
by all those 
other shadows,
the eternal puzzle 
of understanding
the life viewed standing
under lamplight;
in the disillusioned 
poetic world,
we must forever
cultivate our garden,
that never-ending dream;
all is for the best, romantic
cliches and adventures,
falls and risings;
for those who think
they are normal 
and above it all,
above the others - 
all is never normal,
all is as it should be,
all is for the best,
we stumble and we fall,
some stay where they are, 
others get up again and again;
all is as it should be,
all is for the best,
ou l'Optimisme, 
Candide
a muse
amused
Candide,
all is as it should be
all is for the best




Candide Diderot. ‘24


Intermission - Flutterby Reveille

"Intermission: Flutterby Reveille"




Impromptu like a moth
pale words flutter out of his 
psychodelic mind

curious funny flutterby…
for a second then, I didn't move, 
deadpan, I said, 

"... try again with some panache, some style" 
incredulously, I smiled,

he's tripping guitar leads 
counting long-tooth years
and numbers between drum beats

here no rest for the wicked, we...
hear pretty worded poets
walk on tip toe 

balancing wet bars 
on bipolar tightropes
shaking up and banging upside down

all the pretty snowglobes

In his land of silent muses
driving as he wrote
Singing “Every Little Breeze Seems to Whisper Louise's”

Pushing the envelope
aside, he writes,
retirement is a caged zoo

he gets high on cryptic puzzles 
and cracking her
Sudoku

(LadyLabyrinth/2019)




Breakfast Reveille:

The Angels, “Take a Long Line”
https://youtu.be/4LdZAK2Rfkg




The Angels, “Rhythm Rude Girl”
https://youtu.be/4bWsbCpCwOg

The Angels, “Rhythm Rude Girl”
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/angels/rhythmrudegirl.html

Amassing Hope

Pushing the envelope,
I envelope my world,
Moving toward a future,
I'm looking forward too,
My sword of truth,
Cuts right through,
Slicing my being in two,
Duality a new tool to use,
Fusing with my personality,
Immersed within reality,
I am really all I see,
This projection is me,
My eyes allow it to be,
A responsibility to be held,
Expelled from my inner being,
Agreeing to help whose needing,
Seeing if i can be of service,
Sewing seeds of purpose,
I purchased a timeline,
One that's mine to refine,
I am divinely intertwined,
My mind unwinding the reel,
I feel it deep inside my brain,
A chain of events taking place,
Erasing a past of mistakes,
Making a list to pass on,
Amassing only hope,
I push the envelope.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Thank You Censors

Must thank the censors here on the Soup
Been pushing the envelope lately
Writing some naughties about bums and farts
Allowing me to bend the rules slightly

Letting you know I appreciate your leniently
Like turning a blind eye so to speak
But I have an affinity for off colour stuff
Can leave me trembling and weak

Must take a break in the middle of my writing
To douse my head in cold water
Temperature can reach one hundred and twenty
That's when I'm glad for my walker

So I'm gonna try hard not to be naughty
For me that's really quite difficult
No more bad words like pee, poop and farts
In the future with you I'll consult

  

© Jack Ellison 2013
Form: Quatrain

Random Thoughts

Always thinking ahead,
as opportunity seldom knocks,
I'm still and always will be
pushing the envelope outside the box.
As what goes up must come down,
if I may have my way and say today,
airlines should sell seats by the pound,
the more you weigh, the more you pay.
History has shown (we've always known),
when American Indians he's among,
all the better to speak out of both sides of mouth,
white man speak with forked tongue.
As stress brings on distress,
employ mind over matter,
and dispense with the former,
to prevent the latter.
If God created mankind in his own image,
as some are straight and others gay,
was God therefore bisexual
or merely dabbling in shades of grey?
A well-balanced world would be bereft,
it can't be all right as nothing would be left,
and almost lost in obscurity,
its axial tilt of 23.44°,
is also known as 'obliquity'.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Pushing the Envelope

With the unlikely proposition that winter would end
	green tips took

form

             beneath the softening crust of snow around the

mail
	box, a

collage congealed by road salt and sand
               buried the early dream of spring in 

a
	granular mass 

My slippered feet sank muddying the soft 
           sheepskin leather. Joggers pushing the envelope
	as well

people the curb

cutting to the heart of the matter
	springing forward with a rabid desire to bloom.




*I printed out Charlotte's contest direction and cut out the first word
in each of these lines.

YouTube and Chris Hodge

YouTube and Chis Hodge 

It came as a surprise to me that Chris Hodge 
has been banned on YouTube, a man of knowledge 
worth listening to
He is an honest intellectual; as such, it is hard
not to be critical of the Jewish negative influence 
in the world we inhabit 
Of course, I see on Facebook that I have become
skeptical of, the wiseman Chomsky often appears 
his criticism of Israel doesn't plow a deep furrow 
The Iranian attack on Israel was a warning 
as they couldn't let the Israelis bomb their
embassy go unnoticed.
I fear, since the Jews are always righteous and hard
done by, will retaliate, thinking by pushing the envelope 
further, will get the USA involved
This will not be too difficult, as the Jewish lobby 
practically runs the US's foreign policy, and for us
who have a dim view of Israel and are not optimistic
© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.

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