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Escaped The Breast

Who taught the Shakespeare of a prosody
Or a book of words comes and coalesced
In every verse of Shelley romance and tragedy
'To a lady,with a guitar'escaped the summit of breast
For every physicians why the feather decents
For the every poets how they flutters
Not a hedonist but prophetic soul of fancy presents
And humns and shored on their mossy cutters
Kings and folks,sailers and merchant
Brethren and sistren speaks of bard of Avon
Thracian Orpheus wept in Shelley's mastery of poetic ardent
Therein the sullen dorado scowl in river of Devon
Ever hoped to greet mine those pierian spring
The pen snug in because mine thumbs are ageing
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Form: Rhyme


Premium Member 6 Lines

6 Lines


Shored-up wooden boats standing in the mud, braced by boards to stand erect,
   
We vigilant men past sixty, retain our dignity, and point to heaven, with masts securely fixed to the deck.

Like a thinning forest of greying painted trees, we are picturesque in a sunset with cawing gulls flying by.


Though the tide is now low, the ebb will soon flow by the full of the moon.
 
And when tidewaters of the sound are high, we will drop our boards, raise our sails, real in our lines, and list with a tune.

Then we shall sail past break waters with bows toward God, carrying no passenger on our final, and long goodbye.


by Martin Braun
In remembrance of the late Jimmy Buffett, who wrote songs that captured my soul, and warmed my heart while driving midnight Friday evenings in the dead of an Ohio winter.  I sang "Mother, Mother Ocean" with windows rolled down to keep me awake during my business travels while dreaming of lost better times and for a future I still long for.
Form: Rhyme

Saving the Cathedral 4

He worked alone in cold, intensely black
peat water.  Had to feel his way.  Laid down
one hundred thousand concrete blocks, around
a million bricks, and carried on his back

uncounted thousands of the concrete bags
which shored the Minster up.  Six endless years
he toiled in tedium.  If bored to tears,
he never said so.  And if he hit snags,

he overcame them on his own.  Such men –
not loud, not proud, not looking for reward –
are just the type we really should applaud.
Perhaps there were more William Walkers then:

clear-eyed, unfussy, knowing what to do,
and quietly disposed to see it through.
Form: Sonnet

To Faith Assigned

The acting soul in the cosmic drama existence,
define place in personal defeat and excellence.
Accepting the authors entire purpose role,
superimposed receiving upon its own.
Character and conduct by choices shored,
in challenges and ultimate reward.
These actors with soul in peculiar dignity,
principle cosmos to adjust legitimately.
The appropriated environment of precise,
like tones in harmony become concise.
Utterance in determined capacity,
individual notes in appropriate audacity.
The voice towards the total harmony,
singing out life through it all be.
Resultant of all in one sound harmonic sphere,
lesser sounds in soul accept as clear.
Worth of whole in cosmic association,
the body in all as divine appreciation.
Love given in nature to affect the bond of union,
improvised soul to soul dominion.
Reformed character and feeble hope surprise,
the extended soul as loving conductor to emphasize.
Form: Ballade

Don't Forget What They've Taken From You - I

I.
It used to be a normal man
could work a factory
and make enough to buy a house,
see that his family eats.
But now the jobs are all off-shored,
there’s nothing much left here,
one man did try to bring them back,
they shot him in the ear.
The elites make too much cash off
cheap labor far away,
are in bed with politicos
(If not one and the same?)
No tariffs and high inflation
makes everything too hard,
young folks are renting, cannot own,
it’s all been pushed too far.
The globalists have made their choice,
they’ve sided with the few,
see their evil and don’t forget
what was taken from you.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Sea Sand Odyssey

Saturated with fish fry smells, Bar-B-Cue smoke,
rodeo dust and sounds of deep water blues,
with teasing frothing lace spread on the shore,
Gulf Coast birth breeze blew winds 
in sails to Caribbean Sea, Blue Mountain
berries, banana walk yam hills,

And coconut rain drops tapping reggae beats
on zinc roof tops on cool verandah nights,
in herb scented air, curling roast breadfruit smoke.

The tarrying there tested the soul,
matured the spirit, fulfilled long tried
attainments of deferred dreams; then
the sea recruited its journeyman again.

Pacific Coast pleaded an adopted native son home.  Home
to new sea shore sands dusted in smog self negation
of urbane destruction and self nullification of community,
caught in the veiled nightmare—lurking in the promise land.

Hence, lessons learned from a gospel tower that never knew a church,
yet gave life-lived sermons that put homiletics to shame, crucifying
pipe-dream pie-in-the-sky nuances on the crosses of realities.

Atlantic waves, undulating like rhythmic buttocks, frothed
a scent of magnetism greater than the tightening hold of gravity,
attracting an uneasy soul, searching spiritual solaced sands; only
to discover that the seas all share the same shored design:  Yes.
Same shared sorrowful savage slave story!  Different sea: same sand.
Now awaits Guinea Coast sunsets and Cape of Good Hope
cul-de-sac early morning sunrises; then on to the sands of heaven.
Regrets are for those who fail to chase their dreams to realities.

Biological Clock Patented Before Seth Thomas Design

fertilization upon ovule 
   via spermatozoa automatically 
   gearing linkedin anticipated birth 
especially upon confirmation conception 
   did sex seed 
   after numerous attempts dispelled dearth

as probable odds 
   finally wrought hardy sea men 
   to stoke the womb 
   spelling biological chances
 
   that, fecund female will evince swollen girth 
the longest time tested oven since humans 
   found warmth 
   amidst flint stoned sparked hearth

and fraught with utmost joy 
   at prospective parent hood 
which, (lemme here 
   collective soulful sigh of relief)
   that *****Sapiens 
   durability foretold tubby good

thenceforth extra mouth 
   to feed necessitated larder of food
which harvests 
   must be plenti full to appease gods, 
   and bank on siblings 
   to beget appreciable brood

hence existence extant for millennia 
   fastened tight like umbilical cord
sustaining potential life in utero 
   in due time dilating cervix will a ford
signal (predicated on natural bio rhythms), 
   whence that cub hoard will be a saving grace 

   (amazingly innate survival skills) noel lord
could ever conceive, 
   an instinctual attribute moored
within early forebears of modern mankind, 
   an explicit genetic haversack 

   microscopically pitch perfect (NON GMO, 
   gluten free trade) blend poured
with just the exact consistency, 
   flexibility, and resiliency 
   (in case a lion, tiger or bear roared)  
as adrenaline pumped woman within family way 
   to escape let incubating progeny shored
when time and tide informed clandestine 
   cherished, fortified, prized oh ward

whence healthy birth of baby feted, 
   festooned with garlands engineered ahead
reflecting golden halo 
   akin to a ring of bright waters 
   thence new born and maternal figure 
   ferreted nested in feathered bed
which, didst double up when dread
   locked spar ring human, 
   whence grim reaper got fed
another mortal, which body froze
   with rigor mortis heavier like a led
zeppelin versus when person alive in stead

no heroic measures extant 
   when grim reaper came quick
advent chore of early primates could not treat nor trick
the scythe lent hooded body snatcher 
   as candle box didst flickr 
   burning down tallowed wick.
Form: Imagism

Premium Member This All Could Be

This All Could Be
AtTractions of the urban surfer,
ExHibits at the shored enclaves,
AbIde the faithful their sole journey,
BaSking rays of summer's retreat,

CoAstal clutter of crowds roll on,
CeLebrities of the day made true,
LuLled breaks in surf even the tide,

NeCks swivels as eyes scouts the beach,
GoOd times are roaring inland,
MoUnting waves indulges the brave,
DeLving surfs stirs the underwater sands,
DaD's and mom's diligently relaxed a tad,

InBounds revitalize the distracted weary,
EvE set in submission of the day's exchange.

2019 September 04

*3rd Place*

Pick A Title, Vol 8 - Acrostic
~~Edward Ibeh
3. This All Could Be
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Weapon-incised

Weapons are worn..By street police passive-agressive placebo pieced.?
Planes are armed, expressly to kill
The messaging is, more overt cacophonic
Cause;  outcomes ill.' Tanks have cannons
Rockets too, ships the same its (what they)
Do..Who might you ask are the they i note?
Well quite supercillious slanted people with pockets gilt.' Innocous looking they project
Serious 
airs..Are benefactors of charities
(That proves they care) they do give some
Millions to the damaged souls caused by wars, that they demanded we hold.' They are also benificiarirs..After and before yet
( these ammounts are in billions ) that is quietly off-shored.' No pomp' no fanfare just those screams and shells, the distant
Soundtrack 'oh tony didn't you do well' you
Hold buisness seminars ( definatley not for free!) And after invading Iraq 'you invaded your own country' it 
all seems of a theme? like.? A
Pattern of sorts.' With one golden thread; also you accumulate many naughts.' Oh yes.? There is a lot (spoken of zero!) So it
Seems all to gel..Into a theatre of death and payments, bout near as i can tell.? And
The plan-demic musn't forget..I'll bet you were fully on board.? Along with gates and
The Bushes schwab obama scoros.' And did the drainstream media applaud? Yet I
Stand as just one witness, among so many
More that detest the application ( of death as an industry ) upon which you all set such store..You never weild a weapon yet
There are razors in your words.' 
To keep the privilege and funding.' They
 are quite
Useful in skinning, and preparing 
your verbal utterings; of turds.'

Sayonara Mother Thirteen Years Ago Back In Time Tear Drop Deux

devastatingly, grievously, inconsolably, 
     got hexed, issued jilted livingsocial, a less
son learned to late, how maddeningly mess
say yon nick lee infuriated, not accepting press

sing ill fate, nor countenancing fatal injustice, 
refusing to curtsy fiendish inxs did piss 
her off (poisoned scorpion sting) remiss
cheekily peppering psyche as if Swiss
 
cheese, a once spunky Arthur Murray shored 
dance instructor, who scored 
door prize in the guise of thee less torte sured 
near nonagenarian papa, where meanness poured

from grim mortal outlook parlayed moored
deadly reaper, quashed, ruined as lord
stole, sacred maternal tribal nurse, unfairly did hoard
final precious seconds unexpectedly meant un explored
positive rapport forever undergirded "door"

closed to resolve ambivalence with venerable bead 
did association between 
     kith and kin, unfairly 
     dead poet society lettered deed
wrested a vibrant life despite zest that freed
a vibrant gal to coast along dialed up esprit

     de corps spirit to live, yet greed
of metastatic cancer upended lead, 
where mind over matter, sans power 
     in positive thinking rubric and plead
ding didst kill last ditch homeopathic screed

ambitions trumped, thus giving up the ghost 
wracking sadness, sinking sorrow spilling most 
lee tears of loss, among family, fellow Unitarians 
of the Thomas Paine Fellowship 
     included with your obituary post.

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