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Premium Member Christmas Blessings

(Dedication: For the PoetrySoup community.)
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Christmas brings magic with festive warm blends;
Hurl faith dynamic as love sparkles trends;
Rise to joy mystic with hope that attends.


Indulge your own heart with calm peace of mind;
See delight spring start as joy and grace align;
Touch sparks a fond art in beauty you find.


Make your soul lovely with cheer and grand zest;
Allow heart simply to caress wise jest;
Sense a love truly that brings you fine fest.


Be true to beauty that shows you the way;
Live and love warmly true colours that play;
Explore the story of Christ as truth stays.


Sight for the blind comes if you but believe;
See true feelings sum just what you conceive;
Intuit a deep calm that stillness achieves.


Now at Christmas time align mind and heart;
Grace inspires sure rhymes that expound fine art;
See blessings in chimes that forgiveness starts.


Nurture fond goodwill as grace inspires mood;
Open up and feel the touch of soul food;
Wishes now fulfilled as love ushers good.




Leon Enriquez
19 December 2014
Singapore
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Be Positive

Be positive then
Let good thoughts attend
Put right your grand trends


Be sure to see right
The path of good sight
Let happy thoughts light


Be friends with good cheer
Purge worry and fear
Joy funds well right here


Be beyond sad gate
Declare your sweet fate
Work then your full plate


Be who you can be
Seek rapture that frees
Live the best you see


Be by habit good
Indulge wise soul food
Love beyond mere moods


Be true to your heart
Let mind frame soul art
Dare live profound start


Be the message bold
Let true love unfold
Love lives warm not cold


Be good to people
For each man struggles
With each day's troubles


Be decent and kind
Yet don't become blind
To hurting mankind




Leon Enriquez
31 January 2016
Singapore
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Turn It Upside Down

Hi friend, turn your frown upside down 
So joy can infuse your melancholy mood
Then the light of joy will turn it all around

My friend,It can be compared to“ soul” food
Smile even when you don’t want to,
Laughter is contagious, not boastful or rude

In doing so, you're changing the tide of sad and blue
Choose joy and let it overtake your soul
Acknowledge your mood and remain true

I know you're sad, let joy make you whole
So you can start to smile from within
You’ll feel better; cause happiness was your goal


Why are you sad? It’s ok, you can win
Hi friend, turn your frown upside down
So you can start to smile from within
Then the light of joy will turn it all around
© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.

Intellectual Desperado

INTELLECTUAL DESPERADO

Dear desperado,
Knowledge awaits you tomorrow,
If you painstakingly throw 
And expedite yourself like an arrow.
Though your foresight looks narrow,

Don't leave your mind incommunicado 
Or famished cos at seashore is where ships row.
Ignorance makes devious innuendo,
rising in a fearsome crescendo.
Deface this phase dear desperado.

Despite despicable deeds of a life of struggle,
You're on your way to completing your hurdle.
Education or knowledge is soul food.
Whether from the mansion, the street or the hood,
Whether a Scandinavian, Africana or Caribbee,

Reality gives life to what you grope to be,
It set prisoners at liberty, sail free!
Be consumed with passion like inferno.
Don't just let knowledge sink in but tower
A dormant mind will make ignorance to hover.

Dear desperado,
What you feed your soul in hunger 
Makes money out of a mere monger.
Intentionally feed your intellect not just nations, 
no matter the circumstances or limitations.

The insight garnered exude theories as Plato.
Knowledge announces you with loud bravado
Making a scholar out of a rascal.
Even mother Earth is a seed of Knowledge, ask her!
With same potency until the last set hour,
Knowledge in hand is worth power.
A hungry soul goes extra mile to feed the mind
And feast on information that one meticulously find.
The rarest example of a kid's mindset emancipation;
Can you fathom the level of desperation?

Starved of light at home for homework & studies,
he took the opportunity to use the street lights.
This kid jettisoned the trap of the dark abyss,
Staring limitation and slothfulness in the face
and throwing up a middle finger with much hate
Can you already tell that this one will be great, 
irrespective of the tough and humble beginning?
Even in his struggles, I can tell he's winning.
Despite life's impediment, be strong dear desperado.
Encomiums to this young Plato.


Vick Manuel Poetry {VMP}
Copyright ©? March, 2023.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Wanda Woman

She takes her wand a sugar cane long
And waves it in the air singing a song
She likes to make her heroic cape
From collard green leaves that she crochet

She makes her brazier from coconuts
With licorice straps sticky to touch
Her bald head blessed with a crown
from grapevines with grapes hanging down

Her skin is thin from all the chemo
She is stronger than superman in her soul-food soul
She uses cotton candy to make her socks
Shoes so fancy by Goldilocks

Bet you never again will see
A skirt made of dried fruit candy
Yellow sun rays shine on her face
Fighting cancer with food in more than one way

6/14/22
Written for A MERGER WITH FOOD POETRY CONTEST
Sponsor Natasha L Scragg
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Don'T Hate Her

Don't hate her because she's beautiful 
Or envy that she's hot
She is all about appearances
It consumes her every thought

Try to look a little closer
Past the makeup and the hair
Beauty has little value
If a person doesn't care

Looks are her priorities
She doesn't work on what's inside
People tell her she's beautiful 
She gorges on her pride

She's an emotional anorexic
Soul food she refuses to eat
Her behavior reinforced
When people fall at her feet

She craves the admiration
The attention she receives 
Pretty is her curse
In the end it's her disease

She becomes a caricature 
Her illusion to maintain 
Fighting the mirror and time
Over and over again

I appreciate a beautiful woman but the Beauty has to emanate from a much deeper place for me to truly appreciate it. The most beutiful women I have met have become more beautiful with each word they have spoken. We need to stop emphasizing the physical when we raise our children, we will then raise up a generation of truly beautiful people.
Form: Rhyme

Kool For Katz Kissed

"Kool for Katz Kissed"



Wake me when it’s all over
I’m having a swinging time
dreaming my purrrrrfect dreams
Hanging with the OM monks 
I’m a nun hanging loose and hirsute
swinging in the breeze 
I’ve been given a reprieve

Call it Catnip Time

Wake me when it’s all over
feed me soul food on the turn of a warm spoon
love in the time of Covid, you can feel
all the sanguine prowling Mancoons
purring heat, all the Toms and Tomasinas croon
isolation lullabies, cats and fiddles burning 
all the boisterous feathered flutter byes
under a saucy Salmon Pink Moon dream 

Licking my lips
dreaming of whiskers tickling 
slow purrs and legs wrapped 
around the kitchen table
I claim this zone of sensations all mine
fresh salty anchovies and warm laps full of cream
love in the time of Covid, you can feel
the sanguine prowling Mancoons
purring heat, all the Toms and Tomasinas croon

Call it Catnip Time

Kool for Katz Kissed
howling's for all the zen masters inside
small torrid rebellions are all off street 
AWOL has gone wild
we're all now a little on the tame side
some days are sunshine and smiles
other days we avoid the sad ride
Call it Catnip Time

isolation lullabies, 
cats and fiddles 
burning boisterous feathered flutter byes
under a saucy Salmon Pink Moon dream 
and cloudless 
chirping 
eggshell blue sky



(LadyLabyrinth / 2020)

Bless My Twigs

Jaba Love the bite of "Bhachu"

Leaves the colour of crimson

Your chariots zooming past

Hearts so desire your embrace

Calmy I now chew worlds emerge

Anthaas is when mind envisions

You are sacred very sacred..

Enemies who demonized  you

Now revere appreciating you

Tributes see rolling in KING

They cross the ravines of Tana

Since teenage ME adoring you

The glory of SIER

Basking under the SUN

Swayed by the MOUNTAIN breeze

Lustfull delinquents staring at YOU

Your sentry the seraphi GUARD

Seven sons of the LIGHT

Striking the thieving wolves

Forbidden from using you VEVE

Show me your FRUITS..

Let me IMMORTALITY embrace

Now in REBELLION, i embrace you

Let them call us goats 

We are higher than Atlantis

Nivarnas beacons in realtime

An electric current uniting

All currents byword Karama

Indeed your word CIIRA is law

Flowing beautiful meandering

MAARANJA is where I will build

My throne straddling the gate

City of gods and immortals

WABA you waters a people blessed

Am but SWORN to protect 

A people a tree a vine - ADOOR

JOY does eventually come..

In deeming witness to the STAR

Your sandal straps am not worth..

To untie yet they now yield to your will

The CALL unto repentance

I will call you ELI for you are chosen

Will you my redeemer try my farm

My vine and fruits the best in the land

Not just food but it is soul food

For the JUST ones THE UP-RITE

They were but slain... SHAHADHA

Upon the second heaven am planted

The eastern bypass I see you are open

Its time to gain entry..

For the elect to go home

It's your RULE we desire

Oh JUST one of ZAYUINI

Your word is LAW

Millennia in your presence

The govt from above..

Secrets abound regimes fall

Yeshua You are worthy
Form: Prose

Premium Member Here We Are

Here we are huddling together,
not yet our collective nightmare
nor our communal wetdream.

At our best,
struggling compassionately together 
in-between future and past
polyculturally climaxing health 
and monoculturing deep valleys
of dark pathology

At our worst, 
competing against each other
unscientifically inorganic,
resenting what our elders too liberally exhausted before us,
and what our children and grandchildren expect us
to conserve for them.

Here we are,
re-imagining what becomes theoretically possible
for power of unmerited, and unmetered, light
and not brightness of monotheistic power

Re-creating multicultural serenity
re-storying nutritional economic pursuits
re-deeming MotherNature's political passions

scientific and religious 
organic and sacred 
pleasures

While finding ever new positively healthy variables
to reproduce multi-regenerational soul food cooperatives,
savory economies of polyamorous healthcare
for geopolitically accessible win/win compassion

Without snapping food from each Other's future mouths
like rabid wolves

Without commodifying
plasticizing
militarizing moist indigenous values 
of EarthMother's sacred living water
with rivered freedom to flow out
and rise again,
as we once valued gold
and salvation.

Here we are, 
dry-humping Earth's healthy win/win
poly-empowering potential, 
huddling against past traumatic win/lose 
unenlightened mono-colonizing retributions

Praying SkyFather will not collapse 
before we have raped 
our sacredly rapturous MotherEarth
irreligiously raw.

Premium Member Pen Pals

Many purple poets with so much to say
Can’t read them all but teal try anyway 
I heard red heart beat from white page
Was in your cherry chest but I felt it anyway

I green gain from poems good and bad
I like them short long strong happy sad
I like them peach weak very inspiring 
Like comforting soul food hot filling

I read your poems like a yellow song
I imagine your face voice singing along 
The comments section is the best
Love it even when it’s rude and a test

Because we can grow despite brown dirt
We can fly like lime kite from good word
Of special importance writing since my youth
I’ll keep at it while reading your words too
Form: Rhyme

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