Long Recognitions Poems

Nelson Mandela, crossed my spirited mind today, a visionary legend of peace, love, equality, and unity of all people.

As a prevailer of great affliction, he was like a Greek God fighting for the—"Common man!”

I had...

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Let me give the facts straight
I didn't write this poem because I want to entertain you by my fascinating wordplays
I didn't write this poem to bring you to the deepest depth of my emotions
I didn't...

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My heart egos and my life drained from me
Simple life I live, I act as I know all
But I know not, no, not even a little
I earnestly seek for recognitions
But my life and my heart...

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I watched the water shuttering on the table.
I was stunned as this seemed out off sorts:
an earthquake exactly at twelve, high noon
on 12-12-2012 . This is the day, that the
Priapus Award finalist had to have
there...

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When wondering why
Earth is
as S/He are

Follow green capital wealth,
he monopolistically advised,
for playing more catastrophic
future win/lose games

And yet, remembered s/he,
also lead to future win/win learning
with full-spectral
deep mindful 
panentheistically organic
green vegetation nature,
and blue sky nurture,
and red skies...

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For Mystic Rose Rose
Bring me Home
Poetry Contest
Tuesday
28th September 2021

Bring Me Home

Today back when

What I'd like to give you is

A subtle heady mix of perfume and cologne

Before or just incase my mind and
recognitions fail me

Based purely...

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I can only be sad when you are not,
I can only miss you when you are not,
My heart can simply grunt in long deep sighs --
When you are not here. 

In those university days when...

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Words After New Year

The words are dwindling now
but they will come again
in time, towards this year
with the purity of silk strewn
through a ring.
I will wait for the words 
because unlike politics
these things have to be...

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Word Trio in D Minor

Who? Me?
Dude, I’m just a confused star-watcher like you.
The movie of life continually plays before us,
Here in the cinematic darkness of another dying day;
Celluloid memories dressed in black parade before us...

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Vincent Van Gogh
     By Dane Smith-Johnsen

Passion tormenting.
Acceptance?  Unholy flaw.
Vibrant colors capturing,
All alone he saw.
Beyond starry skies at night,
Honored by his vibrant brush.
Cypress glory, bright,
Embedded images hushed.
Country houses, peasants, cows,
Smitten. ...

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Being a mother is easily, the toughest job in the world -
Although it oscillates from "delightful", to "exhausting" to "thankless",
It is at most times, a demanding and overwhelming one.

Motherhood's main requirements are patience and love
Along...

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Islands in the Stream

Islands linked together like forged argent charms, 
In straights of silent, surging currents,
Where Watchtowers of Fresnel lens sound fog sirens
Where sacred shoals harbor shame forgiven;
Lightships built high on cribs and Keys of...

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He was born in Yonkers, just north of New York City.
This man grew up to be funny and witty.
While working in a luncheonette owned by his family,
with the art of patois, Sid displayed proficiency.

As a...

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Kim had funny hair when we were in second grade.
She made bad grades and sometimes got paddled
for being late to school too many times.

She wasn't good at jumprope
she was the last picked for any team.

She...

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For all that it is worth was contained in a single droplet of thought
in symbiotic deliverance
shall pass perhaps unnoticed by a billion suns
or find it’s way in chaotic course
discover the enchanted spells of Icarus

And in...

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Attention!! About Face!! Salute!! AT EASE!!
These are the commands the soldiers from
The Lord's military force hear when they make it 
To Heaven's gate after Judgment and recognitions
Have taken place and they have gotten their star...

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The image in my mirror,
(Some loving mother’s son), 
Has no identity,
No name from anyone.

Mottled thoughts surround me
Each one a treasure trove
Living there as episodes
My past has lived and wove.

A woman in my doorway
Asks: “How you...

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What Comes To Mind		

Busy work, not idle time,
no real thinking, blank and sublime.
Rake the grass, feel the breeze.
Sweep the walk of crispy leaves.
Washing dishes, pay no mind.
And soon the thoughts appear
I find.
Concepts flow poetically,
old ideas...

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The enchantment of the jasmine’s flickering candle doth burn,
On the broad, antique desk, poems she created in quick turns.
While her mind with brightness, filled with equanimty did churn.

Recalling recognitions with joy over happy centuries...

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Reward
To live in the misery of the past unable to let go 
of childhood’s unhappiness but let it fester and 
grow till adult life becomes unbearable, demands
of recognitions and compensations, because their
suffering must be taken...

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