Long Refraction Poems

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Premium Member Other Faiths

Some say you are lost
If you are not found
On their ground

Some think you are blind
If you do not find
What they find

I am an atheist who believes

The universe is a tapestry
Not a thread

The science to chart the stars
Is but a celestial church

That medicine and vaccines
Are answered prayers

That communities
Can save each other

That math and music
Language and learning
Rebuilding destruction
And regretting a wrong

Are inherent miracles

That to plant a tree
Water a garden
Kiss a scar
Soothe a bruise
Give a smile
Hug a sorrow
Cook a meal
Play a song
Clasp a hand
Bandage a cut
Wipe a tear
Hear a need -

Is divine

I believe the soul of nature
Is sacred

and a rainbow's refraction
Is all the more radiant
For the formula it contains

I believe the finitude of life
Makes a more precious day

And, to my friends of other faiths
I believe - we can meet halfway.

4/27/20

(this was inspired by a poem I read by Anil Deo called Any Athiests out there - thank you for your kind response to my novella-of-a-comment, Anil!)


Smoke Alarm

One in each bedroom. Where am I to sleep? 
Little listening devices, dot lime green light
Steadily gazing down at me all night
Surveillance recording my data to keep


Smoke alarms linking conspiracy 
Three roomed spies, tracking my actions
Informed by portion, a mirror refraction
Crackle of speaker tells me they're listening 


Walking beneath their sinister signal
Rubs a demure smoke stack 
Static sear of lightning attack
My frontal lobe, firey inflicted


Drills into my wobbled competence
Harboured horror of what's to come
I latch splinter of infiltration flung
Hazed head hampers responsiveness 


Piled with layers of quilts
Kitchen floor is in fact, quite comfortable 
Alarms are unconfrontable
-  I perceived the microphone tilt! 


Haphazard clothes cause me to stumble
In a cluttered closed door hallway
Could alarms be removable, - I have a way! 
Slid off plastic caps makes blaze redundant 



     1st August 2020

     Contest :    Be Inspired
     Sponsor:  Regina Mc Intosh

Premium Member Shamrock and Pink Raspberry

it took one glance into your emerald eyes’ kindest beams

for the focus to change and enlighten darkness and pain

to guide my broken refraction towards your olive skin


I felt all verglas thawing vision and join chartreuse blinks

of the moment as light sea foam pastels sprouted lush ferns

presented sage mint and lime moss to the harlequin waiting 

to be brushed by honeydew colour and cinnamon fragrance


my own wilted flowers struggled at first to blossom again

hibiscus cranberry and feverish scarlet had lain abandoned

hastened by drought colour blindness and glanced disrepair


the Little Prince at the time merely a frog awaiting the kiss

looked at the broken thorns presiding over crimson petals

of vulnerable hope shattered kindness lost evergreen shoots


I love you said the candy apple and plumed with the parakeet


24th October 2021

Our Shattered Glass

In your head to pass this time
Attributing the former to your lies
Remember our cycle. Oh! how we belonged
We herded great minds and looseth the wronged
This is your part in our shattered glass

Although we fenced these strong beliefs
It is insatiable lust we reprieved
just short a miracle in humming this chord
Their weaknesses sort was time reborn
This is my part in our shattered glass

Endless love stories with novelty rhymes
a  mist of colours, distractions and lies  
Lighter pages, suspense or crime?
Mirrors and doors, our refraction in time
This is my part in our shattered glass

Just as we lost faith, we tore apart these walls
thus we drifted and sailed to our downfall
Last I heard of thee, it was late in the fall
In love and in lust, at her new masters beck-and-call
This is our sorrow in my shattered glass
Form: Sonnet

Premium Member In a secret little chamber, among shadows and phantoms

In a secret little chamber, among shadows and phantoms,
A child of light crowned in thousands of flakes descends,
In longing for the clearing, in a grove of mystery, under thorns of stars,
I invite you to speak this eternity and not see it crumble.
When you prepared whispers with goodbye at the gate of silent days,
What guard stands at the threshold, how can you return in blue step?
From the threshold of longing, whispering carols to you in snowy horizons,
You extend to me hope and a corner of heaven from the height of refraction.
Don't seek yesterday's paths, they no longer lead to the sun,
And don't flinch eliminating the celebration, in heavy waiting,
Years have passed, but the echo of my steps in the carol night,
Resounds, perhaps unknown, but trembling in the frost that weaves.
Through the soul passes again that story from early beginning,
When magi through a thread of star deciphered the universe's silence,
And without fear they stepped, in winter's heart seeking the miracle,
In discreet shelter, where fodder and hay heralded a pure love.
Come alongside with fragrances and with gifts clasped in palms,
Once we too were disciples of tender love,
We carried white lilies, slipping through frozen branches,
But from fragile shoots, sometimes, harsh thorns are born.
Calm, oh, this blizzard that is my restlessness,
Sometimes I wonder if I abandoned you in the fog of thoughts,
If I didn't hide you under heavy waves of memories,
But through my heart I feel you always, and caroling in the stars.
© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.


Premium Member Symphony of The Sunrise


                          Clouds floating underneath caught my vision          
                           like torn pieces of white carded cotton.
                           I was flying in the sky crossing ocean.
                           Red Sun about to peep through horizon.

                         Charmed to see changing color-spectrum
                        on my flight, looking through the plane-window,   
                          overwhelmed, watching the sky-album,
                        amused to see me above, Sun below.

                       Sunbeams started to paint sky at random.
                        Refraction, reflection , diffraction dazzled.
                      Dawn-sky touching horizon turned awesome.
                       Gorgeous Sunrise made me just puzzled.

                      Once I chanced to glance amazing sunrise
                       resonating on rhythmic symphony
                       on splendorous view with grand surprise.     
                        Sky glowing on  sunshine in harmony.
Form: Quatrain

A Razor Reflects

Razored shards 
Sharp metal gleam white covered in silvery chrome

hard long mean a razor blade brilliant and keen

Reflexive in thought slashing through fresh 
It flashes a brilliant spark, 
tracing arcs through the nightmares air

A twist of flash, digging of marrow
blade slides home 
divides the meat from the bone 
bring the crimson to heat

A razor reflects in seconds of fate an image flash feeling the aftermath

A Great refraction 
Recollection is a collection of desolate images 
strewn across lost boulevards,
as homes burn 
discarded cars churn

the blade is cold hard long razored Keen 

Reaction retraction of sight 
the nano fire tracks the hard light
glancing off chrome brilliant, a spark

the division of flesh pouring 
of crimson heat awash all in red 

Razored shards of sharp metal 
sliver gleam covered in bright chrome keen

Premium Member On Stage Dreams

ON STAGE DREAMS

On rare nights, those bubbling dreams return.
My heart, thumps madly, tummy all achurn.
For I once again get to relive that joy, it’s so splendiferous.
To make an audience, happy, feeling I make a difference!


The stage lights blinded me from seeing the audience, like a 
thick San Francisco fog.
But I was able to make them laugh, never mind the smoky billowing smog.
It’s miraculous to create a relationship with people I could not really see.


Was I ever nervous~ surely, you must be kidding!
Every time I walked up the stairs to perform,I would have preferred 
to be on a mountaintop, skiing!
My back ran with water, it felt like Niagara falls, but that had to be 
ignored, because it was with them, I wanted to score.


The appreciation and love by an audience is the biggest gift ever.
Braver ones, came to me to express their friendship and appreciation, 
later.
If only, I could do it all over~ I can’t, the times on the clock cannot be 
rolled back.


Writing humor, for this poet, lacks the intense joy of immediate 
human joy and interaction.
I wish I could do so, but my brain finds writing it, dull  with
no stage light refraction.
I admire the poets who can pen funny poems with professional 
hilarity.


But for this poet, the lack of human laughter is such a great
disparity.
So, thank you poets who have this gift, write on, do~ it gives
this retired comedienne, a joyous lift!



Thank you, Fellow Poets
Panagiota

                        9/24/2022
Form: Rhyme

Puppet Associates

Hope was Burrow's substance, where he poured his time, 
Pedalling steadily.
Intended path made smooth for those in legacy line.
Sliced through wiry roots, 
Watchguard Wombat dug safety spaces.

Safety albeit empty, 
claw shortening scooping to prop up progeny.
Plodding stoically.
Muffled praise from mollycoddled recipients who forgot
to congratulate wombat. 


Chirps trill between ear orifices, a cheerful bell, 
twinkling creek,
Thrill of apparently sucidal bird ledge leap, 
harks updraught as capacity for flight. 
Her name is Rainbow, though only he calls her so. 


Optimism is Burrow's skeleton, firm fragile scaffold not broken
Bloodstream good Samaritan convinces him those closest know
that he would give everything
- devoid of return, satisfied in striving. 


Fallen from insipid clouds, risen to a wide arc -
Squadron Observation squawk when the sun reemerges.
Related inseparably, sweet candy stripes are strings,
Harnesses of translucent hues.
Rainbow holds a cauldron in her wings


Shivered salute feather plume pom poms, her support
Altitude albeit not born to
Chimes a celebratory chortle, rain's finishing touch
Firey refraction stacks medallions of precious metal.

Magnetism draws, claws refuse to dig, Burrow closes.
Academy of affluent fly close to burn point, 
- risk being scorched
Hypnotised by the increments his digits indicate. 


Prospective friends and followers fill up his hollow
Lucrative lure curates karma, demanded by lorikeet
Marionettes dance, tuned to bushland command
Pinnochios pulled by Burrow's Rainbow.
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Compendium of Spaces

spaces-SEPTEMBER I
empty slides in the park



chatter fills the school bus

spaces- SNUFFED OUT
Bad light stops play




The muscians retire


Note: Haydn's Farewell Symphony

spaces-CATARACT
The mist lifts slowly



A new vista is unveiled

spaces-CATCH-22
A window pane shatters



Nobody makes a home run



SPACES 2
HISPANIC REVERBERATIONS





Blue-bells

SPACES 1
SHADY LADIES





Hostas

spaces- REFRACTION
a rainbow on high



liquid to light

spaces-THEOPHANY
This is my beloved son


Hear Him?

spaces-PECKING ORDER
Sparrow on the bird table


the hawk has a feast

An Abstract spaces poem
Close your eyes


What did you see?
Form: Imagism

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