Long Sagas Poems

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Premium Member Failure Can Never Be Part of Any Formulas

All problems on earth can be solved
Pause to think well and better than a smart machine
Take a deep breath to dissolve
The feelings of failing like a mean queen
Failure can never be part of any formulas
Tight your fists and be ready to tackle all doubts
Be resilient and determine to be on top of all sagas
Ignore the hypocrites and as often change routes
Never beg, be courteous
Be courageous and generous
Tomorrow always brings hope regardless
Of the challenges, the threats and the mess 
Don’t rush or haste to find the solution
As needed and as required take prompt action
Defeat or losing is not part of the formula
And success will not come after writing one stanza.

Copyright © November 2023, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved.
Hébert Logerie is the author of several books of poetry.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Fated as Couplets

The ignorant ones claim, 
I'm full of petty problems,
a slave to the darkness,
but if only they had seen 
how I've slaughtered 
malicious demonic sea creatures
that slithered along my spine, 
undisturbed nor provoked.

You are the singing sunrise 
to my sultry sunset,
weaving silver sonnets 
from beige ballads 
seducing my spirit 
into sweet slumber—
igniting nocturnal
Novembers with 
crimson showers 
upon sepia stems,
because It's no longer 
the climatic chaos I fear, 
it's the calm you've crafted, 
continuing to be 
my constant comfort.
Your devotion adds
color and clarity in my once
monochrome existence,
as you've polished
the dimmed stars in my eyes,
they now glitter like 
shimmering fireflies, 
a reincarnation
of the strength 
from Freyja's tears,
after you kissed them 
with your silken soft sagas.

When the days begin 
to dawn upon dreary dusks
you've aromatized my 
universe with summer scents.
Thor's thunder could 
not demolish our 
kind of spring as 
our celestial spirits 
float around the nine realms.

A part of you will 
forever rhyme as 
clusters of couplets
fated to be,
the rest of you flow 
like simple stanzas 
of empathic free verse.
As my story will make 
Odin ashamed, and 
Fenrir cry, so when all 
the beauty of butterflies 
congest my throat,
preventing me from 
pouring dreams of 
stardusts upon
your selfless quill…

always remember us 
for the times we swayed 
and enclasped into 
our own silhouette, 
running from the 
stormy disarray of society’s
serpentines,
swimming in Satanic 
sapphire seas.
Whilst the debt I owe 
for your generosity will drown
me in endless poetry,
floating on metaphors 
without blueprints,
keeping the vampires 
from Beelzebub's door,
releasing me from the 
chains of uncertainty …forevermore.

Upon Contemplating What To Write

Who decides what historical events adorn
textbooks students read,
     hence a starry notion born
grew up while

     this lumpenproletariat day dreaming,
     Asian aw shucks husky
     husbandry furrowed brow gritty farmer
     barnstorming across

     expansive fields of baby 
     (barely) barley corn
crib bed crop 'pon harvest time,
     (an maize zing genre), especially
     when enriched with humus

     laden loamy muck cob bra,
     then aye delightfully
     trumpet from dehorn
of good 'n plenti kernel Sanders gave me

     saluting rank and file fool's capped
     fecund fashioned earthborn
dunce sing tassels,
     versus growing seasons gone by,

     when draught of ideas forlorn
despite futilely blowing on my flugelhorn
high and dry reap peat head paltry yield,
     asper when this strapping chap

     a sweaty backed greenhorn
pondering why agrarian laborious life of toil
     omitted as part and parcel of "newsworthy"
     posterity sagas deeming

     shenanigans of highborn
and/or "FAKE" headlines crowd inborn
noble folks,
     who grease palms of industrialists,

whose quaking self importance
     thwarts aside rural cosseted
     krummhorn grounded bumpkin mor'n
     how kapellmeister coaches bourgeoisie

helping determine
     zero absolute value of newborn
fated to slave away
     till body electric outworn,

yet paradigm shift of
     (butter late then ever)
     jiffy popcorn version
sown by seeds of Jethro Tull,

whose bonhomie with brio didst reborn
agricultural revolution took root,
     whence before long some did scorn
and lamented machinations

     ordered simple existence ripped and torn,
where antithetical views suppressed
     and unto revolutionaries
     became legion and well-worn.

Aurora and Avalanche

When Iceland rose majestically,
  A volcanic isle, born of the sea.
  This land, that continents divide,
  A place where fire and ice reside
  And Norsemens sagas, too were born.
  Goddess Aurora, brings the dawn,
  Thor is thunder, God of war,
  Odin seeks wisdom it's folklore.
  A pagan faith forever blind,
  Nature is savage,sometimes kind.
  Those cold North winds began to blow,
  And wintertime delivers snow.
  An idyll village by a stream,
  Resplendent in a poet's dream.
  Aurora dances through the night,
  Fantastic bands of coloured light.
  A blizzard came, the snow lay deep,
  The mountain slope began to creep,
  With noise like thunder from a gun,
  An avalanche was on the run.
  A mighty force, it's rushing sound,
  Engulfing everything around.
  The village now is buried deep,
  For rescuers , no time to weep.
  Where do they search beneath the snow,
  No landmarks; so, how do they know?
  Nature has shown her savage face,
  This avalanche, her fall from grace.
  The year was nineteen ninety five,
  And twenty souls they did survive.
  For twenty more eternal peace,
  Oh! When will nature ever cease?
  Is this the price they had to pay?
  To live in fear another day.
  On land and sea, just as before,
  Mankind and nature, still at war.
  As ancient runes, inscriptions tell,
  This land where both can never dwell.
  As legends say in every tale,
  This constant struggle to prevail.
  When man holds out an olive branch,
  Nature, becomes an avalanche.

  
               2/ 21/ 2015.
Form: Couplet

Premium Member An Algorithm Had The Day

The ALGORITHM had its day
Causing mass confusion, disgust with foul play
The day a waste of time unless generously used 
As an activist for social change much more amused
The algorithm has its weekly picks
Causing alarm to its own members politics          
Pausing are moments of awareness of harm
Losing its confidence and poetry charm
Enabling cruelty upon its own community
Does not readily afford cavalier immunity 
The buzzing annoyance is seen only weekly when 
For a poem’s brilliance earning them an honor chosen 
Not sympatico to spare any feelings
On the contrary these are dirty dealings 
Unshared is what has been tossed in the soup
Manipulation meant for unsuspecting, driven by a coup
A group of troublesome lifers who cawk and complain 
Hurtful and shameless with nothing more to give or gain
It’s they who buzz around the clock in the broth bowl
Denial of words mirrored and who love-on as the troll
It’s what keeps them afloat and this for not long
Theirs's a sinking ship—prolonged
Let not the poet’s freedom of speech this be of
‘What’ the poetry site is willing to preach hereof 
Not a good look 
A possible hook?
Keep the sagas flowing
Fueling of hatred showing
Bringing to the spotlight what he/she dictates
Hiding ‘hind algorithms inhabited by humanoid hate
A poetry site's admin throws itself into the mix
Whether it be a lesson Or just for kicks
It shows mistrust, question, and doubt
Really this what it be, about
By its accidental-exacting choice 
This reality is the true voice
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Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Palindrome Poem

(A Palindrome poem is unique.
You can read the verse line 
from left to right. You can also 
read the verse line backwards 
from right to left. And the clear 
meaning will remain!)
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eye level eye
deed pop deed

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wow eve wow
gal did lag

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eye madam eye
gag sagas gag

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pop noon pop
mum civic mum

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wow tenet wow
not kayak ton

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pop time emit pop
refer level refer

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racecar refer racecar 
stats deified stats

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pop anna pop
wow deed wow

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stop level pots
dog madam god

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gag tenet gag
wow anna wow

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live madam evil
rats eye star

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Leon Enriquez
22 July 2018
Singapore

Premium Member Juniper Rain

k i n d n e s s
is the petrichor perfume
enveloping the sky,
between~
             you and I
as clouds splatter juniper sprinkles,
coalescing stubborn storms,
rinsing away stained foams
with raining roses,
serenading hymns of heaven,
calming the internal conflicts
like soft rays of morning stars…

Tonight, I follow the distant sirens,
echoing sagas of the soothing sun,
seeking c o m f o r t
through soft feathers,
unfurling love laced in lilac
   and lavender,
while candles and crystals
radiate radiant rubies,
elevating elegance,
enhancing z e s t.
For in the corners of my heart~
thrive twinkling tendrils
of tulip twilight,
wishing upon swirling sparks
of firefly wings;
 'let this world be a diamond haven,
        where compassion is the dialect
              that eases thunder-struck seas..'

So remember…
I’ll be there when curtains close.
Listen to the breeze
carrying my prose,
written with timeless glitters.

Tell me that I am the name,
the crooning tern that glides above
resilient ripples’ whispers.
Tell me that the mauve moon 
veiled  in mellow mists
 reminds you of me…
      as I still weave k i n d n e s s 
         in kaleidoscopic ink,
to erase the darkness
          that f a l l s upon your silken silhouette.

A Nook and a Story Book

Oh come with me ye boys and girls;
And what stops, I ask, the youth and the old?
Come ye of all  age and gender,
I'll lead you to magic, wonders untold.

I lead you deep into woods, dreary and dark,
And moss-laid meadows by a rill and a brook,
Where dragons and demons cast their fiery spell,
Great venturings into quests are undertook.

Did you summon up fairies, is that your wish?
Or perhaps sinewed heroes, comely maidens you'd like.
I'll give them all, and some more, if that's your wish,
Perhap's you'd like some Zen, linked with maintaining your bike.

Most splendorous are my realms, on Earth and afar,
From dark Styx to Elysium, Valhalla's Halls,
To Barsoom and beyond to Syrius, and Dog,
I'll take you through great deserts, through Poseidon's squalls.

Or perhaps you'd prefer to hear from wizened old sages,
Of wisdom, of life, of what awaits you in the pale,
Or some sagas of survival, of heroic strife,
Maybe you want the telling of whodunnit tales.

I'll get tired of the telling, leave plenty unsaid
But you're sure to be richer by the tales in my book
I ask of you nothing, neither fee nor a price, 
Just cosily curl with a tome in your favourite nook.


15 Apr 2016
Form: Quatrain

Wicked Web of Woes, Collaboration with Ink Empress

“Wicked Web of Woes” 

Is there a reason
to rhyme when 
lifeless fingers
breathe toxic agony,
whilst disgraced 
quill suffocates
from wildering 
riddles swerving to
the stillness 
of calcified air? 
As today, my heart 
keeps pacing,
searching for a 
symphony of serenity-
amid wayward clemency,
and when the first star 
of the evening sky,
fades and shatters 
upon a celestial canvas 
of colorless dreams.

I feel the sweeping 
wings of salvation, 
resting amidst
clipped faith, 
drifting swiftly towards 
abandoned clarity;
exiled into 
barren fields of
vast polarities, 
where hope collapses 
into an eternal demise, 
tangled within a 
wicked web 
of woeful sagas, 
trapped between 
heavy clouds
of unshed tears, 
beneath the 
crisp cusp of sanity. 

Yet I stand in 
sweltering silence, 
recollecting lost
chronicles of 
who I once was, 
whilst I’m drowning 
in waves of 
vexing numbness, 
screaming into 
the oblivious 
spheres cloaked
in smoky 
arctic haze,
questioning the 
captive chains 
of reality,
in dialects only 
the moon 
can comprehend.

Am I destined 
to be caged
in sinful darkness 
that the 
world fed me,
with sharpened 
knives at 
empty tables,
with faceless 
ghosts of yesterday? 

Perhaps there’s 
still a poem
that can unlock 
the mystery 
to a future that 
thrives with
fruitful orchards,
where rain that 
tastes succulent 
wouldn’t burn 
your flesh,
for even the 
milky-ways would
unravel a realm where 
everything should 
be as it seems.
Vanquishing the 
strings that bind—
daring me to breathe. 

Ink Empress 
Fading Star Silence

A Dove Waiting On Christmas

Gray overcast clouds cluttered the sky, leftovers of Saturday wind and rain and cold. I scanned the yard for the birds and squirrels, so often scavenging fallen flower seed and stale, dried bread.
In among the fallen gathered leaves and branches, where the night winds scattered autumn's remnants and their residue, she huddled, brown beige fluffed with piercing eyes, appearing beneath the holly,  nibbling on some fallen berries and sedum seeds, a dove sat, alone and soltary, eyeing her surroundings, quiet in December's cold.
Perhaps she sought a long-lost mate, succumb to the harshness of the season, or waited on the warmth of a rising sun, or just listened for the gatherings of other creatures here, in the safety and confines of the garden, now at rest or perhaps, she waited - on the joy and celebration of the season.

Was she recalling the stories of old, ancestral stories of the dove of peace?

Was she familiar with the prophecies, sagas told of a king to come?

Was she only one of God's many creatures, created and loved in their simplicity, images of his love, the pleasure of his countenance?

Patient, she settled in the embrace of the season, recalling all her mind knew. The encounters of food and mate, love and care provided throughout her life, the warmth of the winter sun, the shelter of the fallen leaves, the hope and promise of spring and new life to come. For now, as she sequestered herself in all of nature, she held out for the signs. 
The images of a slowly rising sun, a star-traveling east, the journey of a young husband and wife, expecting the old prophecy to be fulfilled. Waiting on Christmas arrival, she knew well, he would come, the innocent babe in a manger, in a war-ravaged city, where Hope would reign once again. In that quiet solitude, she prayed, she would take flight again and announce to the world, peace was coming, open your hearts, welcome him with your arms.
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Form: Narrative

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