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Premium Member Why I Write Poetry - What's the Use

I have to admit that I'm not quite sure
  Why I write poetry --Just what is the lure
But here's a stumbling stab at an explanation
  An attempt to plumb the fascination:

To capture a moment, a feeling, a scene
  In a magical form, pure and pristine
Be it a snowfall, a cloudburst or kiss
  The thrill of getting it right is one not to miss

So there it is: It's exciting!  It's a thrill!
  Comparable to that of an adventurer who will
Climb Mount Everest 'just because it's there'
  Or venture deep into the jungle on a friend's dare 

Because there's an adrenaline rush, a feeling quite giddy
  "Hurray! I've created something romantic, or uniquely witty."
So, is there something wrong with that? Something amiss?
  Au contraire! To deny oneself the pleasure would be a great pity!
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Quotidian Fever

I dream of magic lines but they  elude me.
Chapbook on acrylic tube  palette, janus-faced cave in 
at the crack of dawn,
crescent moonlight awnings turn to  circus of the  soul, 
images that colour dullard pages leave furrow on my 
hayrick haggard brow. 
Backwater sonnet form leaning  towards some meadow compost rot.
Ghost written silhouettes, shatter fragile eggs on 
loop pile Berber carpets,
yolk stain and pale brown chicken hash tags.
Tight rope knot escarpment found in tripod camera verse,
cliff edge heart-stop paen is just another
blue-sky canon over billed by birds of prey. 
Poetic licence pointer to a learner permit doggerel, 
aspiring metre patchwork but a tapered column 
lost in grey day whimper. 
Guangdong province text in lychee pink for window glaze.
Fleeting notions dangle at the sparrow hawk crossroads,
while grazing skinny red ballon formations overhead.
Mother of invention please shine your convex beam
upon this wellspring drought abandonment I swim in. 
Sudden brain cell drafts a Jack-o’-lantern of disjointed phases,
stretcher bear the legless phrases that leave me 
wheelchaired and infirmed in woolly states.
Timeline mainstream woofer whose lagging jacket hemline falls apart,
areole reduced branch slowly bleeds its cactus juice of inspiration.
A rush, a fever, quotidian fever,
no greater longing can us writers have.

Premium Member Kazakhstan By Mrs Yolanda Joy Nicholsen

The snow fell lightly facing Tehran the stars all seemed to glow over the Capsien Sea from a heated Indian Ocean beholder of the Black Sea we hadn't battled cold like this an yet a deeply covered warmth seemed to cradle us beneath the blanket of whiteness from the snow capped mountains I bathed within the darkness beckoning Turkish chants Kurdish findings began to swell as we approached Turzikistan border my mind emptied over the darkened rush a canvas of clarity balanced virtue wondering when the vessel will raise over uncharted waters I craved Almaty wholesome wonder of Silk Road while I even began to notice hope springing from a fountain of lush memories gathered so beneath me glaring the fondness of it all as we sank in silence flashing lights embraced the craft as the Voss shore moved closer the clocks from the Kremlin chimed my thoughts totally on the consecration of Mary mother of God balanced over the middle east watching lucifer gloat over crude oil untimely measures grew more needed as righteousness burned very slowly on the ice masters of faint hues pulled hidden treasure from hidden nooks faucets burst with crystal clear waters while tar and oil sprang up from beneath covered wells lessons sang loudly with greed no one noticed the hungry the unclothed nor the sick in need

Written 3-23 2024 by Mrs Yolanda Joy Nicholsen
Form: Naat

Oh To Wish

  Oh! To wish of a far-away land,
Where flowers of all colours bloom without fear,
The colours that our eyes can meet, 
Of all the dreams we left unseen. 

Oh! To wish of a serene icy lake, 
Where the ice sparkles at the morning rays,
The rays of sunshine we beseeched, 
Of all the people we left behind in memories.

Oh! To wish of a majestic forest, 
Where the canopies are taller than our hopes,
The leaves protecting our inner souls,
Of all the rumination we cannot forsee. 

Oh! To be so wishful in existence,
Where the whims of emotions rush a breeze,
The wind reminding us of our liveliness,
Of all in this world we can imagine and be.

Premium Member The Architecture of Ascent

It arrives not as a slow dawn, but a fracture—
A sudden, violent tearing of the gray,
Where neurotransmitters leap in manufactured rapture,
And logic bends to the blinding light of day.
It is a temporary kingdom built on air,
A frantic, soaring, breathless, desperate high,
Ignoring the foundation of despair,
To watch the mundane world dwindle and die.

The heart becomes a drum with an accelerated beat,
Distorting time until the seconds, stretch and bend,
A breathless rush, a sweet and sharp deceit,
That promises a joy without an end.
It is the apex where the self dissolves,
A chemical, ethereal, phantom grace,
Where gravity loses its hold, and ego solves,
Into a momentary, breathless, liminal space.

But at its peak, the architecture starts to lean,
For all ascension mandates a return,
The higher the flight, the deeper the machine
Must crash when the bright, burning engines turn.
Euphoria is a loan, a borrowed debt,
A fleeting, dazzling, brilliant, stolen breath,
That leaves the trembling, wakeful mind to fret,
In the quiet, cold, inevitable aftermath of death.
Form: Ode


Coronavirus

Rush,a big rush
Corner to corner why this rush?

Here and there Corona virus 

World’s where the most rush
Sea of heads like fire bush 
Noses put on bad shape hush,hush

Made in China
A new brand,Corona virus
Life guaranteed
But not user friendly 

Quick to attract,quick to attack

You made this Globe into a size of a ball
Why do you say no when it’s in roll?

Virus,
To see no scope yes,I hope 
In size a dot? no a dot of a dot of a dot!

Catching souls ever ready 
Everybody not in steady 
Sorry, still no remedy

Oh,Madam,Nadine Dorries,you too?

Who and who next in list?
WHO, what for you still awaits?

It ate UNO the peace 
You WHO now the ease 

Go,
Go,please!

Every stethoscope
Touches hearts
But not the witch stopping beats

These stethoscopes flying in half mast 
In the shape of a question mark 
Unable to go beyond their set marks

At school you learned health is wealth
How it’s true when wealth is dying for want of health?

In a cart bull what comes first
For God it’s cure sick next!

Whole World here,come quick
Pick up those stethoscopes you kicked 

Bring them all to God’s foot!

Know,that God survives
When there are no lives

Whole World please come to work with God
Believe me he is good of all very good!

Light House

I'll walk the shoreline with you,
  look behind to see, two footprints in the sand
  washed away by the incoming tides,
salted air and sea foam breezes
  rush a chill upon the stetched out land
  looking out upon the ocean from safe land;

here lay quiet and still renewed,
  buried deep within the marriage bands
  all the secrets that we hide,
cast deep and burrowed yet finally eases
  those memories we held within our hands
  where time and love linked firmer hands;

walk a little further in the evening hues,
  let dusk set the sun light where we stand
  bond us together in the sea where life abides,
stand brave and bold beneath as life seizes
  the light house and the harbor grand
  bow to the lives we live well planned.
© DM Babbit  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member A Teary Farewell

The high-pitched sound of steel on steel
screeches where the tracks meet the wheel.
The train station seems somewhat stark 
as shifting shadows stalk the dark.

The train rumbles in, and she tries
to be brave, yet she softly cries.
Taking my hand in hers, she smiles
and says love can stretch many miles.

We found love while on vacation,
but will it last past this station?
She clings to me like morning dew,
and yet, there's nothing we can do.

The conductor calls out, "last call,"
as the Night dons a misty shawl.
And we rush a teary farewell,
as the train whistles, time's death knell.

I see her wave a sad goodbye
that breaks my heart and makes me cry.
And as the train increases speed,
I pray that God will intercede.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Where Is the Gentleness?

When you speak to me don't shout. 
Don't force your opinion - 
there's no need. 

Hear the gentle persuasion of 
subtlety.  The lilting poetry 
of seduction. 

When you want me don't pounce! 
Don't force your masculinity - 
there's no need. 

Listen to the rhythm of sexual 
symmetry.  The sensual exchange 
of chemistry. 

Be gentle in this brutal world; 
Subtle tones not garish colours; 
sensitive handling of one another. 

Its all too loud, too cruel, 
too brash, too selfish. 
Jagged edges no smooth finish. 

Life's such a rush, a dash, contention. 
Road racing, no time for meandering. 
Turn down the volume. 

Freewheel, foot off the pedal. 
Power down ego and power up your heart. 
Discover sensitivity, 

you'll be surprised! 
So when you speak to me - don't shout! 
There's no need.  I can hear you

Premium Member Since We Were Young

I heard the quiet breaking of your heart
soft as rain against a darkened room
I stood in the doorway (cracked slightly) asking only
if there was space enough for me to come in and talk
You said you were alright through falling tears
but pain had made your voice too small to hide
So, I sat with you in the tender moment
and let the storm spend itself inside
We spoke until the night grew comfortable
until your sorrow loosened little by little
And when I told you I had cared for years
it was not to claim you, only to be truthful
For love, if it is worthy of its name
does not rush a wounded heart along
It waits beside your heart with open hands
and whispers, "I have loved you since we were young"

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