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Premium Member Nd- Our Lady of Paris

Unbelievable- Paris stopped breathing and even the world,
the cathedral spire shuddered, clung, trembling;
then, plunged burning and the crowd and the world itself,
wept, for the beautiful Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

Construction of the cathedral began in 1160 to 1260,
a wonderful example of Romanesque French Gothic architecture;
I recall the vaulted ceiling and the awing flying buttresses,
the colorful rose windows and the medieval sculptured decorations.

I watched the news with the world as it burned for fifteen hours,
five hundred firefighters managed to save the facade and towers;
the buttresses, organ, and many precious relics and art works,
before the wooden ceiling gave way, falling in flames.

Oh yes, the whole world stopped spinning on its axis in shock,
every bird on earth fell silent and all the oceans went still;
and the world was left weeping and waiting and praying,
for the destruction of something so glorious is-  unbelievable.

____________________________
April 20, 2019


Poetry/Verse/Our Lady of Paris
Copyright Protected, ID 19- 1136-107-02
All Rights Reserved.  Written under Pseudonym.


Written for the contest, Notre Dame In The News
sponsor, Kim Rodrigues

First Place
Form: Verse


Premium Member The Farm House

Here I stand- 
in front of a forsaken farmhouse;
Reminiscing how it used to be
a once warm abode
Goats and chickens cheered in unison
When grandmom yelled for munchies
While lost at play grandchildren-
filled the now deserted haven;
                                               
Memories echo-  like a long lost melody
                        in the silent sanctuary;

Now, as I gaze upon the relics
of this forgotten farmland
I feel the warmth once again
Remembering my grandfather
how he labored...
To raise us~
what we are today.
                                               



Honouring my grandfather who raised me since I was 20 days old on this 
(Happy) Fathers' Day - June 2020. I am grateful.
© JC Brul  Create an image from this poem.

Honest

8/13/16



Just being honest
Following through on what I promise
I'm on it
In desert, snow, forest, and anything else including the tropics

Lifeforms some of which are aquatic
Living below occasional flying comets

So many topics and conflicts
Amid losses and profits

Be cautious around materials that are toxic
Don't be foolish and thoughtless

Is anything in this solar system flawless?
Considering that the size of it is colossus

How many relics and objects remain forgotten
Or unfound at the very bottom?

Many put their belief into prophets
Or a god and goddess

Houses and areas that are called haunted
Some events that occurred there were some of oddest
To this day who know's what many really wanted

Once a loved one is gone, is there ever any kind of true solace?
In any areas and quadrants

Be strong and solid
Use your knowledge
The way can be found by correctly using the mosses


I've always thought this (it)
You look beautiful like pocahontas

Now excuse me, while I pay my homage



By: Dalton Ogletree
Form: Rhyme

Yabba Dabba Doo at the Gabba


Our Nordic God run roughshod by the cynics

Mimics all those skeptics & pundits in pulpits

Sod odd bod critics clinics their unfair optics

Hysterics but Bazball clerics are not yet relics 

Despite batting lapse alright collapse specifics

The insult not horrific result of cult’s gimmicks

Got it wrong will still sing same mesmeric song lyrics


Twits witticisms & criticisms taken a toll…troll gits

Shaken has Bazball forsaken its soul..drole misfits

No more stealth or self control just abysmal skits

Dismal death roll rigmarole gambits whole Bazball in bits?

On the dole or run rate wealth in rude health call it quits

Flits their way to play their flair hits as prole media spits 

Grandstand Baz Ben stable fable big band brand label fits 

Aussies canned.. gawking Larrikin ti*s balking..its the pits


Goal corking victory at the Gabba hoodoo fortress venue

Folks blabber talking of Stokes blokes stalking voodoo

Oz jibber jabber fibber distress as we made history..phew 

Yes JuJu mystery temptress played express Yabba Dabba Doo!
Form:

Premium Member The Museum

In the museum, you will find amazing history regarding
the relics of our past. Gruesome and grim in their telling,
a dark prelude to everything seen by the moon. 

But hold it delightful that these days are behind. That the 
awful atrocities of times gone by, are not a monolith towering
and looming over our future. 

Know then, that we need not be frightened by the opening of 
the book and the turning of the page. Take pride in the light 
we shine on our darker moments, a reminding of who we should 
never be, the vicious and vindictive tyrants of yesteryear. 

Let history bare truth in its will to patronise us over prior mistakes. 
We are fortunate to have the opaque plaques of reference to the 
crimes of time, and what is lost to the wind. 

May we never travel the same road twice. Finding ourselves victorious 
only by being continuously retold in annoying fashion that this is where
we've come from. Looking on with oval, hope-filled eyes, believing we 
now have the light to overcome the dark.


~Make a poem *2 Contest~ Hosted by: Shadow Hamilton

make a poem about light vs dark using the following words:

Awful, amazing, annoying.

grim, gruesome, delightful.

frightened, fortunate, finding.

monolith, moon, museum.

oval, opaque, opening.

patronise, pride, prelude.

vicious, vindictive, victorious.


Premium Member Weathered Opportunities

Beyond the relics stance tainted feigned glory, 
the achievers had gifted us their puzzles,
speckled based best in their field of theory,
like Baia hot baths, can't stomach its guzzles,
aloft or cavernous, or in a quarry,
like those Pyramid guys fuss up their fuzzles, 
as rock piles escape while history depicts,
the bookshelves leave those green stains with those quick picks.

Millenniums, centuries, decades, plus years,
anthropologists helped by benefactors,
busy in their research before disasters,
like Baia downed in Naples Bay, off its shores,
letters for funding by their alma maters,
reach prosperous grads where old money outpours,
and achievers will have their dribblings published,
skilled wins the Nobel Prize as greatly cherished.

Gallons Per Minutes

Cornish pumps
were topic
they stayed on topic till
completion
the eyes of the world are
on me to perform
one spoke
it inspires me to be more
eager to sugceed
we have frustrated our needs
to the enviroment
those times are these times
and mans need to be
see's fit for us to
to look at those antiques not as
relics or obstacles
but as guides to
reconstruct now
that we must be
in these times
our time
we must succeed and
be coraters of the next
eternal beganning
frustration and doubt
must not enter
into these talks
as they are now 
a means to completion
our construction
shall be teacher
to our new tommorrow
these are the beganning of
that tommorrow
with the works of yesteryear
as our guide
6.30901964x 10-5 M5?s
Form: Bio

Premium Member INVENTORY OF HOPE

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The toolbox lid screeched~
a rusted complaint  
against my insistence.

Inside: not wrenches,
but sepia toned photos~  
Granny laughing in her kitchen, 1953;
a grocery list “milk, bread, forgiveness”  
a psalm fragment glued to bent tin—  
“though weeping tarries…”
words bleeding into rust.   

Underneath the tray, coiled like a promise~  
Uncle Frank’s fishing line, still knotted  
to a hook 
that snagged nothing  
but river ghosts 
for thirty years. 
 
Wedged in the corner—  
a lottery ticket, expired,  
numbers smudged
by thumbprints  
that pressed 
too hard.  

Uncle Frank never won.  
But every Tuesday, he’d unfold  
that flimsy paper at the diner counter,  
coffee steaming~  
“Hope’s a stubborn stain,” he’d rasp,  
tapping the numbers.  

Tonight, rain needles the roof.  
I lay the relics on his workbench~  
the brittle psalm, 
the lost fish,  
the ticket dreaming of jackpots  
in landfill silence. 
 
No miracles here~  
only the quiet hum  
of what endures:  
the unpegged certainty  
that dawns keep coming,  
that love stitches its repair  
in the dark,  
with thread unseen.

Premium Member Gershon, Pen Something Romantic, C'mon


       You’re supposed to be a poet, Gershon
           Pen something romantic for once, C’mon

        Where lovers pledge their troth 
           while villains stir the broth

        Where gallant knights in shining armor
           rescue fair maidens, born to farmers 

        Where kings and queens prance ‘cross the stage
           relics of a long-lost gilded age

        Where tragedy and comedy co-mingle
           and the audience’s collective spine tingles… 

         Alas, my dear friends, I need disappoint you
            Your anointment I must eschew

         Far greater things await me
            Escaping your cage ~ I now am free
Form: Couplet

Bitter Memories

The Hunter for PD

Yesterday, I visited 
the timeless monastery
where the Buddhist monks dwell,
the place a sublime testament 
to their simplicity, perception 
and peace.

With delight, 
I viewed the fragment of skull
and the skeletal fingers:
repellent to some,
yet exquisite to me, my fascination
with the enigma ravenous.
 
I listened to the monk’s story,
fantastical, but not filled
with excessive intensification.
He looked into my eyes,
his own moist,
steady but not defiant,
as he recounted the epic tale.
As the minutes ticked by,
I was filled with ecstasy:
this wasn’t a nefarious conman,
his story was not tainted
with planning and motives, 
and, as I thanked him for his time,
I believed he really had seen
Meh-Teh, the yeti,
 the abominable snowman –
call it what you will -
on a glacier, and, again,
in the snowy valley;
he had heard gunshots ricochet
and had later retrieved
the gruesome relics. 

I would never quit searching…
© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

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