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Holocaustum I a Horror

OF THE NEW FLESH

A returned to open channels 
Open to the unknown the beyond 
Burning humming like angry hornets
Bottled in electric light and shadows 
The whispers come through the void
Humming in the open channel 
Of an ancient television set 
Like a cryptic monolith, alive

The noise to signals, burning voices 
Scream and chant arcane rights 
That pushes n pulls the soul of things 
Never dreamt of before, unseen 

There in the dark the halogen arc light, bright 
Blares its pure hot hollow holy light 
Laying before me was a stark image of chrome
Of gears springs and electric circuitry.

Gracing suicidal insight
wickedly sharp blade
Mad for flesh and bone, 
blood baptize in its righteous 
fury for the masses to cut the cancer, away

Of the new flesh
this covenant of mechanical arts
And malice
A calculus of angels and insane
The insane idle smiles hide the dark shame
covered in a thin facade of normalcy 

They hide lies that drip from those smiles
The hate so deep it blinds the eyes of tranquility 
The secret lives of the damned 
Burn, blares the new blade of silver
Bone n gears; the product of death

As the mechanical heart reimagined 
ruminates and redefines 
In heaven hollow facade 
Silence of the holy realm 
The static of Valhallas Halls
Sits a cathode ray tube 
Full of angry hornets, fiery angels…

Humming into the sacred night
a blade flickers in delicate light 
Dancing into shadows 
from burning sacraments 
A holocaustic humanity 
Mad for flesh and bone
Baptize in blood 

Born of righteous fury for the masses
To cut away the cancer 
voices whisper 
scream
call and demand:

“Long live the new flesh!”


Premium Member Tonight Is the Night

Oh! sweet verses of love, how gaily you recite tonight
Ballad of a pretty woman, lauding her knight tonight.

Rewarding entreaty, granting wish of love’s fantasy,
Tolling bells of glee, angels of bliss will alight tonight.

Thinking of romance beneath twinkles of euphoric stars,
Oh, I'm overjoyed, how quixotic feels moonlight tonight!

Pursuit of love endearing desires, anxiously inquires:
Will the blushing smile of beloved-eyes excite tonight?

On pillars of ardor, I built your castle of passions,
Will blossoms of your flowering longings delight tonight?

Voice of love that wrote our story, ruminates joyfully:
Embracing dreams of lovers, two souls will unite tonight.

Words of prophecy announce in epistle of romance:
Blazing fervor, spark of fervid hearts will ignite tonight.

Exulting in ardent kiss, as your name keeps calling me,
Existence of this prince vows to melt in your sight tonight.

Dazzling my zeal, seducing me in your sexy appeal;
Burning flame of my heart, your flirting eyes invite tonight.

Ah! our night shines in divine halo of Aphrodite,
Saluting love’s promise, epic fable we write tonight.

September 12, 2020
Placed 1st: Ghazal poetry contest by Silent One
Fourteen syllables per line (howmanysyllables.com)
Form: Ghazal

"net Lust"

You sit in your "man cave" lusting off the net..
Not bringing it up, because you know it makes me upset.

And yet, evil fingers invite me into your domain.
If I turned to the "dark side" I wouldn't be the same.

My heart is hurting but, who am I joking?
I know what you look up, and what you are enjoying.

You delete "my hurt" and cover your faces of lust.
Too late, you have crossed my boundaries of trust.

You peek into windows hoping for something new.
Then you click to close them after "you're through".

And yet, some would come to say...
At least he's not physically going astray.

My heart ruminates over this theory.
Yet mentally it leaves my thoughts feeling weary.

Society~Go join him in his wonderland of cyber fun!
But, my soul apprehends, this would be morally wrong.
Form: Rhyme

Reclusive Rhymester Ruminates

Alone within emotional wilderness
(mine) biding leisure time
January 19th, 2020
without reason nor rhyme,
yet woke with sublime

pained acute awareness,
how once prime
merrily rightful autochthonous occupants
their land stole equivalent value
not much more'n dime.

Simple man dwells admiring
mother nature's architrave
home of the free land of the brave
usurped with exacting vengeance
aboriginal happy hunting grounds,
yours truly cloistered within man cave
small medium at large eremite doth crave
indigenous tribes Europeans

did wantonly annihilate
and/or make deprave
viciously slaughtering Native Americans
nsync brutality wrecking
their idyllic enclave
foreigners forcibly corralling
subsequently did enslave
ruthlessly employing sacrilegious travesty

scattered smite stricken survivors
formidable invaders (countless
demoniacal explorers) rendered desolate
pristine unbroken woodland
deceit, guile, iniquitous
jawboning flavor flav,
whether or not ancestors (mine)
even tangentially linkedin

egregious mockery, travesty
yours truly never forgave
horrendous genocide early settlers
wrought onto indigenous peoples
hoodwinked, notoriously
thrashed "noble savage"
feigning burying hatchet until
last proud redman buried in his grave.

Similar saga countless instances played across
four corners of globe,
white man self anointed himself boss
subsequently slaying innocent lives
all in name of Christ crucified on cross
denying original rightful inhabitants
their preexisting misnamed

new found lands
invaders justified execrable massacres
on par with clearing away dross
trumpeting art of the deal (albeit) gross
and unfair, whereat decimated loss
lovely bones long since
covered over with moss.

Sickness

Sickness depresses my spirit
And shut down the doors of the sense organs
My soul recoils within the shell of my body
My heart retreats to a solemn feast.

There is within the flesh a great void of vanity
The spirit ruminates on bizarre planes
Seeking the verity of essence and elevation
To life is indifference, death becomes a handy foe.

Life and death are allies to trickery;
For we neither could sleep nor wake
At day overcome by a sleep-in-consciousness
And night, burdened by the waking-in-slumber.

The mind conjures up blurry images
Through grim eyes veers hallucination
The head goes a spiral in nocturnal planetary
As the body on a bed of limbo is confined.

Monotonous drone of air in empty jar whirred
Round and round the head dome
Whose sinew and vigor once thrive but now   
Whose nerve and wit have become vain.

In sickness the body and spirit convulsed
And brings heaven and hell to closer horizon:
The body’s nourishments are repulsed by it
The spirit retreats from life’s elevations.

The Supreme comes to the fore of reason
Above all ambitions and abundance, 
Which are subject to breath; when it runs afoul,
We shall again ponder its mystery, in sickness!
Form: Verse


Premium Member Christmas Celebration

CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION 

            Now to recollect Happy Christmas Days,
           While raising up daughters studying in school                     
           So enthusiastic, also in craze
          to decorate Christmas Tree! Kids cheerful.

          Going on preparation, children in glee.
          Candles to glow, shining stars to twinkle.    
          Putting Santa Claus beside Christmas Tree,
           Smiling face of Santa showing wrinkle.

         Me and my daughters to tie long strong string.
         Small brass-made golden jingle bells in knot,
         swinging swift with soft sound as they could bring
        to welcome guests big Christmas cake being brought.

        Reminiscence yields past Christmas story.
       Now lone life ruminates bygone glory.
Form: Sonnet

Premium Member A Quiet Day of Rest

A quiet Sunday, with its first sun rays and shadows,
Ceasing to be such by a whirring of implements.
The tools wielded by the day of rest sideshows.
Pushers and blowers of the bible’s antithesis.
Not
      To
         Be
             Judgmental
                               But
                                     Imagine

The birds tweeting under cloudy or flaming skies;
Oaks, maples, and pines in quiescent sublimity;
And the bees buzzing, honeys stirring at sunrise.
All doors open, air out busy week, neighbors in unanimity.
Just
      Imagine
                  The
                        Bee
                              Line
                                     For
                                          Church

The perfect didn’t wake up on the good side of the bed,
But they gather for Living Waters and the Bread of Life.
Down the street, in old-fashioned promenade, led
To listen to the Word of truth, praise God, let go of strife.
Gather
          Like
                The
                      Sons
                              Of
                                  God
                                         At
                                            Dawn

Imagine, the coming week begins with Sabbath rest.
The restless wanderer sits on the porch with lemonade,
Ruminates with kith and kin, weariness addressed.
What wonders of hope and joy, conquers the world, unafraid
With
       A
         Quiet
                  Day
                        Of
                            Rest
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Forlorn Hope

Sitting on the cusp of dusk and evening
Placidly he ruminates where life has been 
When she still believed in vibrant springs
And exulted dawning of purple mornings
Echoing exuberance of seasons’ calling
Fragile, yet colorful, as autumnal leaves
Delicate, aesthetic, as snowflakes falling--
Until she chose to surrender her dreams.

Oh! how fervently she cherished streams
Zigzagging ebulliently on their property
Digging lanes through prairies dark green,
Giggling, rushing, curving, on life-journey,
Pointing zealously, how to redirect destiny
Hosting daydreams of daffodils, milkweeds,
And tranquil bliss edifying lotus sanctuary.

Pity, neither did he feel her zestful appeal,
Nor could he allay those spaces left empty--
Between life as it is, and life that could be--
Saddled by incongruence defying harmony.

Lonesome he wailed tracing her footprints:
Cheered birds singing, doted stars twinkling,
Breathed-in her air scented with jasmines,
Buzzed in moth-passions of nocturnal winds,
Gazed deep woods where moon was rising,
And found her there, but not her meaning.

Yet, she came by, reminiscing through time,
Staying long enough, scanning the night skies--
But much as she tried, the Venus didn’t smile,
Alas! when she left, that was final goodbye.

April 28, 2021
Poem of the day on April 29, 2021 
Placed 1st: This or That, Vol 2 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh
Title chosen: Forlorn Hope
Form: Verse

Premium Member Memorabilia

In stillness of her spirit she sits there
with all her prowess she manipulates.
Her fingers’  ripples in coldest water
replenish  mind and soul that ruminates.
Playing in nocturne, she’s  being witnessed
by her governess . The simplicity...
Her portraits that adduce virtues she possessed -
laconic and clear view of chastity.
Oh, renaissance woman,  you shine on top,
as you incandesce in  mind  love of arts!
You’re a czar bringing our decorum up-
women’s pride… imbue modesty in heart.
In the silence of our heart, we listen
in these memorabilia… you remain.

Oct. 14, 2013  2.15pm
©2013by Leonora Galinta
All Rights Reserved






Second Place
Contest: Sofonisba Anguissola-A contemporary Sonnet for a Renaissance 
Woman-2nd in 
                the series
Judged: 2/4/2014
Sponsor: Poet Cyndi MacMillan
© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Sonnet

Premium Member Rising Moon

Radiant crystals illuminate thee, nocturnal mistress
in the wan dawn light where darkness drapes skies
Requiem aeternam bright halo, lies heaven’s portal 
Winters wispy cirrus refracting ring circling 
Mohawkin bespeaks of a Christmas cold moon

…December’s icy grip                         
Riffling ebb and tide, spawner of loon
Let rage and ruin Not be the end of me
Rubaiyat’s rhyme in thy honor 
Let the waters settle, quotes of Rumi 
Mercurial doomsday ruminates Mina Loy
Reigning ascendant masking impressions
Clouds envelop, shadow’s     born shorn
Ravishing stillness, stormy tasks pending…

                        bright white ring of light
                            rage and ruin’s calmly still ~
                                  not the end of me
© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haibun

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