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Premium Member Multi-Di-Minstrel Message, Reprisal

Salutations!

Are we all just a figment of GOD's imagination? 
Or just a simple angle of schematical equation. 
Perhaps, we’re just a footnote in God’s mental thots? 
He’s gotta BIG BANG Universe to run, does He not?
Are we all flashing back on one of God's holy hallucinations?
Walking on water, EGGSHELLS! Raise Cain! Raising you know what and who!
Are we all just a spark in God’s expecting spectacular speculations? 
Or a One-time ticking timebomb from nuclear annihilation. 
Are we all just a coat God puts on His “quotations”? 
Keeping us in order with anti-inflammation. 
Rambling hypocrisies, babbling Biblical prophecies.
Or are we all just simply subjects of our own bad inventions?
Subjected to the whims of fanatical sabbatical radical intentions. 
Getting lost in a crowd, getting lost at Sea, Dead to the world. 
What’s to become of me? I’m only one but I’m not alone. 
I’m only one... one amongst millions and millions of Billions! 
Who all call Earth HOME!  Don't we all call Her home?
Billions who just aren’t me! Yet sorta look like me. But do they think like me? 
Do they love life?  Do they seek out the truth, new life and Lady Liberty?
Peoples who wanna share, peoples who wanna care, peoples who wanna dare
To have a positively positive outlook on life! 
Wanna little betta Light to Sunshine on, you, see? 
Wanna betta lifeboat just to stay afloat, indubitably? 
Are they capable. Of being civilly chivalrous, acting responsibly? 
There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be freee! 
Free from the scrutinizing eyes of oppression and tyranny 
Free from the sympathetic lies of social suicidal tendencies.

Are we all just a sing-along of one of Gods’ songs unsung? 
Justa tryin to figure out whatta hell is going on. 

Or are we all just a song in a Godsong sing-along? 
Just tryin to figure out what da hell is going on. 

What if ... 
We’re NOT all just figments of God’s imagination
But possibly, there's no other possible rationally obtained explanation
For all the misconceptions and misinformation ordained!
Are we all really looking forward for this final absolution?
Over population, crime, world domination, slimed, improper pollution
Best to jest to keep on singing songs
And just keep on blindly playing along
With God fearing reindeer games.

Oh my, time flies ...
The Dreamer never dies!


Gabriel

(A lone voice whispers)

I always used to wonder
Where do Robins go to sleep

Then one dark night 
Within a deep all-consuming lucid dream

At approximately one o'clock

A beautiful deity appeared out of the mist

Wearing a blue and white coat

Holding a Lily and a shining lantern

Across its shoulder, a golden trumpet and a branch from Paradise

On its golden belt 
Hung a scepter and a silver scroll

As it strolled towards me

Within my illustrious sleeping streams

A strange palace of darkness

Where no birds 
Flew or squawked

Its mysterious ever watchful eyes

Held me firmly transfixed
Like an ethereal heavenly hawk

Its bright white orbs 
Swallowed me whole

As it whispered words
I'll remember 
Until I'm old

Within the light of day, 
We appear

Your beloved and even I

To watch over and visit you

To see and follow all that you do

When we, the blessed few

Waiting in the new spectacular bright white lights

In the glorious cathedrals of Atmos, shadowy arches

Cross over 
When allowed a brief time

Before we are eventually 
Reunited in a new form

To rejoice in hymn
Within your All Highs 
Divine Church

Depending upon 
The faith of your choice

To visit those we still 
Love

To leave a sign or sing 
A sonnet

Happily with echoes of our new voice as we too mourn 

Then in here 
At darkness

In 
The Great In-Between 

A place you all visit 
Whenever you fall asleep

In deep dreams, 
We always appear

For real spiritual shapeshifters
Like us

Never really sleep

We just transform into Robins

Through a supernatural technique

For sometimes they are merely vessels
We use

Just one of our everlasting souls keeps

So if you see one 
And it sings

Looking straight at you
Remember this

It's just a beloved loved one

Maybe even me 
Archangel Gabriel

Channelling 
Through

And with that beautiful closing line

It disappeared quietly
Back into the receding winds that whined

Of the Hidden Divine

And when I awoke at eight,
I'm sure it met me

Sat on my old garden's wooden gate

My beautiful friend
Who loves to sit on the washing line

Whispering and singing
Hello

Sending shivers and tingling

Shooting
As I remember that dream

All the way
Up and down 

My sinuous 
spine 

(C) 
Copyright John Duffy
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member A Normal Stranger


Strangely, the world – strange
Has transformed from graceful,
With stardust laughing across the plains,
Sunlight silences the darkness, the night
Falling beneath the shadows of light…

As I lift my eyes to see the alterations,
Changes that speak to my spirit,
Stirring up the silence, lifting the ability
To reach out in anticipation, for the wonders
The amazing – bravely coloring the earth
In spectacular shades of joy so worthy

Fluctuating between silence and sound,
The inspirations imagine a softness, gentling
Hearts, trembling through the spirit in waves
Passing through the seas of memory, the past
Warms my faith and reminds me to listen
To the abiding truth, the ancient – forgotten
Among the memories of my youth, my life…

Before the new – before I knew paved roads,
Skyscrapers – cars who break through my dreams,
Singing of places I’d never imagined or believed
I might see – because in my past, where I lived when
There were horses everywhere, dusty roads, 
Fighting with swords and fists, never expecting
The police to carry away the problems in shackles

Yonder, where there once stood a barn – a fence
A cow and a sheep, the horses in the pasture…
There stands a building, a sidewalk or some car
And, everywhere I look… there are people checking
The little boxes they’re carrying, taking chances
Never looking beyond their hands where the mysterious
Little boxes appear to be the reasons for their attentions
To be drawn away from others, into the mightier lands…

The lands of mobile dreams, ideas that seem to bleed
Through the impossible cells where they believe
Others can read all their feelings, their thoughts, their
Opinions… alive inside the little boxes they carry everywhere,
Revealing the wonders of the future that has come to us,
The ones who once knew freedom in living with the natural world
And, finally, discovered – here in the present, a life that will

Silence the past with its slow moving theories, lighting today
With the stars, twinkling in a sky that still has not changed
Despite the transformation of the entire earth, - the natural
World erases every doubt, each cloud, that dims the candle
Lighting up the past’s memoirs of what once was so normal






Shakespeare in 2023 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Anoucheka Gangabissoon
January 12, 2023

Cryogenics Or Guess Who's Coming To Dinner Or Is It Chilly In Here

Call me mad if you must
But please first hear me out
I just got back from the Cryogenics lab
And guess who's head I picked from the crowd

If your thinking Jimmy Hoffa
No, he's somewhere deep asleep in concrete
I grabbed someone much more spectacular
I grabbed the frozen head of Walt Disney

You see years ago he had himself chilled 
At least that which contains the brain
The useless part they put in a casket
And far be it for me to dig up a grave

I've now got Walt packed on ice in a cooler
It wouldn't do to have his head melt
What kind of operation do you think I'm running here
Some kind of Mickey Mouse?  

First on my agenda find Mr. Disney a body
One that won't give out on him too soon 
Cause once we thaw out Walt and he starts to talk
There's no telling what he'll want to do

So I let my fingers do the walking 
Here's something interesting...Bodies By Jake
I just hope we find Jakes place in time
Before the ice melts and we are to late...

...talk about false advertisement!
Jake the snake didn't sell bodies at all
Walt and I are more than a little disturbed
There really should be some sort of law

Guess I should have thought this all over
Long before I thought of it now
So as a special treat I thought Mr. Disney and me
Could go see his "World", so we headed South

Standing in line to purchase tickets 
The cooler shakes when Walt hears the prices by chance
No need to tell you that if he had lower extremities 
He would crap them if he wore any pants 

We decided to do something a little cheaper
And with a Disney movie just out today 
It was kind of hard to follow along though
When all you could hear was his body spinning in the grave, miles away

Guess it's to early to try and bring back Walt Disney
Maybe one day I can try it again
But before we leave for the trip back home
We stop at the concession for diet soda and Jr. mints

Once we got back to the Cryogenics lab
They're looking for me so over the fence I let the head fly
No need to worry, one of the guard dogs grabbed it
And I'm sure drug it right back inside


I hear that the Disney Corporation, after reading this have gathered together their top notch lawyers and are wanting to set up a meeting...
I'm thinking they're going to offer me a movie deal!   Wish me luck! 
I'm thinking Leonardo DiCaprio could play Walt...

Winter On the Miles River

There was something spectacular
about a winter, long and hard,
on the Miles River.
Some days will never be the same.

Greying skies, heavy hung
with crystal burdens
of the wind, and air. Twenty above,
after sunset, zero.

And the snow was the problem
of every man of driving age
with responsibility. His children 
were busy getting ready.

And getting ready! The flurry 
of wool, and the long john-ed cotton.
A long and hearty walk ahead, river bound,
passing ponds along the way...

A pair of skates, tied together, 
a knitted cap and a smile
crossed the frosted fields, the puddled
slush and slurry, hurried

to gather like the feathered geese
who gathered 
on the ice inside a frozen cove,
a forgotten day one January.

And the town of Saint Michaels:
a sidewalk of salt and shovels
digging out the shops...
the smell of warmth, of oak,

drifting thick from brick and mortar,
soups and running noses tucked away
inside the bars and churches,
snowfall on stones in cemeteries

of the Methodist, St. Luke's,
and of the Catholic.
There's birds at the feeder
of a residential tucked nearby.

A sigh, a whisper of air
between the shops
from the docks, chilly regards
from river and bay.

And a waterman, on his way
to the mouth: leather skin, covered
and coated in khaki and denim,
with permanent painted on flannel.

The oysters busheled up are icing over
in a harbor of seafood trucks
and white liars, old men who carry business
no longer, young boys with no blood to offer.

Forsaken a tradition, over a dollar.
And so the middle aged...age. With bad knees,
busted knuckles, and a thermos of lukewarm
coffee, black and heavy.

Cigarette smoke and rubber boots,
bibs and denim jeans drying inside
beside a stove of wood, the cord
stacked long outside.

And babies buried deep in coats
and blankets, mothers careful
in the parking lots of
Grauls and Acme. 

Stews for dinner, Oyster based
and beef, warm tomato 
with Saltines for crumbling
and butter for spreading.

Just the way of things.

On Spencer Creek, someone took down
a Christmas tree: a tomato cage 
on a dock. Distant echoes of a motor
lapped the shoreline.

Some men dreamed of spring time,
when the cold would stop biting
and the creeks would clear
away the winter with the rain.

Some days will never be the same.


What Formerly Got Celebrated As Adventitious Age of Exploration

What formerly got celebrated as adventitious age of exploration...

1492 unleashed, jump/
kick started, and downloaded
a bittorrent götterdämmerung
spelling genocide of indigenous peoples
occupying Turtle Island,
now surviving tribes
just a shell of their former grandeur.

At present Columbus day
linkedin with high dudgeon
courtesy scattered remnants
of once proud nations
occupying contiguous United States
plus calling Alaska and Hawaii
their happy hunting grounds,
enshrine actual or mythologized
spectacular pièce de résistance
instances when counting coup.

I recollect needing to know
scores of years ago
when a student attending grade schools
within Lower Providence District
as an important bit of information
contributing to (white washed) history
of western civilization
(and never forgot)
recalling the names Nina, Pinta,
and Santa Maria associated
with heroic measures undertaken

by Cristóbal Colón,
(but also been referred to,
by himself and others, as Christoual,
Christovam, Christofferus de Colombo,
and even Xpoual de Colón)
five hundred and thirty years ago,
who purportedly "discovered"
the Americas, when in
fact native occupants of the land
already dwelled upon
the then island paradises.

He/him and subsequent swashbuckling
gung-ho high spirited men
set sail across expanse of ocean(s)
exhibiting eager intent to claim
untrammeled storied quintessentially
opulently magnificent kingdoms
intoxicating greedy Europeans.

Blatant exploitation inexorably nudged
courtesy trickery vis a vis hook and crook
to grab good & plenty treats
forcibly wrested by violence
sabotaging the delicate webbed wide world
constituting millenniums of heavenly bliss,
where marauders wantonly ransacked
indeed lacking absolute zero selflessness
forcing diverse autochthonous nations
to acquiesce and surrender
ancestral grounds to aggressive, coercive
and offensive Europeans hell bent
to populate occupied territory

commandeering, humiliating, manhandling,
poisoning, subdividing, triangulating
every square inch
encompassing fruitful grand home
of rightful heirs to stolen
near boundless tracts
eventually hashtagging uncharted
pristine green acres
spanning from sea to shining sea
becoming commercial real estate
falsely claiming a haven
housing home of the free
land of the brave.

Before the Light

There are too many times when my eyes open and it’s still dark.

It’s useless to think that I’ll go back to sleep, and it’s no good at all to lay in bed and watch the passing parade of worries that comes marching down the Main Street of my mind. When I do that, the entertainment seems to take on its own life. The parade grows longer, more spectacular, with the noise of marching bands, my thoughts, growing louder. Clowns scurry ahead of the band leader, throwing red balls in the air. There are too many balls to count.

The best thing I can do for myself is to rise from my bed. But there are days when it seems too much to bear being home before the rest of the world rises. There’s just too much emptiness in my small house. 

I leave, escaping to DD's, where I sit and sip my coffee over a newspaper. Sometimes there are others sitting waiting for the light to come, too–like the woman who gives an animated “Hello” to everyone she meets, staring too long into our eyes. She takes out her cell phone to call a friend about the rashes on her legs. Something is biting her during the night. Raj and the other DD workers snicker, and I am drawn to–but at the same time repelled by–her morbid troubles.

Sometimes, in the winter, it seems as if the time I spend in the dark before the light comes is endless. I don’t think it’s normal for darkness to last so long; it’s probably one of the punishments for eating the apple in Eden.

I much prefer the early light of June and July, when the morning allows the gentle unfolding of life around me. Somehow, when the sun is in the sky at 6:30 a.m., a passing gasoline truck rattling my windows does not sound so lonely. Nor do I mind the sun revealing the stains from spring rains on my windows … or the birds loudly announcing their presence in the trees. Their manic chirping awakens schoolchildren eagerly counting down the days til summer.

When the darkness is especially long, and I have already sought out the comfort of others who cannot sleep, I will sometimes return home and do what I am so reluctant to do — sit still. I take up my position in a special chair near a window that looks out onto the street. I close my eyes and listen to the heated rhythms that only my body can make. My breath … my ins and outs.

But I wonder; why is it so hard to be still? Especially in the dark before the light.
© Don Munro  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Narrative

Into the Godly Realm - Let Us Go

(Rev. 21: 1-7 /  Rev. 21: 10-27  /  Rev. 22: 1-6  /  Rev. 4: 1-6  /  Dan. 7: 9, 10, 13, 14, 18 & 27)



Into The Godly Realm … O’ Let Us Go
Into The Splendiferous, Shining Sector!
To The Spiritual Site Where Ultra-Love Glows
by the Vibrant, Blindingly-Brilliant Light-Vector

Into The Godly Realm … O’ Let Us Go
GOD Has Invited Us Into HIS Kingdom!
The Resplendent, Royal City of Emerald Rainbows
& Radiant Pearl & Gold & Glass-Sheen-Domes

… Where Thunders, Horns & Harp String Tones
Join With Angels & Kings In Hallelujahs’ Choir-Songs!
and Residents Greet Citizens In True Fashion ‘Shalom’
and Are Welcomed Like Beloved Children Come Home

& Share The Fruit of Trees –  Sweetest Ever Known
A Righteous Reaping & Keeping Paradise Beautifully Grown
as Crystal Fountains & Rivers, Bubble Forth & Shone
… in The Sparkling Waters of Life’ Gleaming Zone!

… O’ Let Us Gaze In Awe – In Meek Gratitude
At The Greatness & Grandeur of GOD’s Estate!
Let Us Whisper In Respect-Muted Admiration
with Wiped Feet As We Walk A Street Called Faith

Let Us Gather ‘Round Devotedly – As A Great Crowd
Read Inscriptions On The Precious-Gem Cornerstone
of The City’s Foundation, As Opened Fortress Beckons
To Jeweled Temple & Ancient of Days, Treasure-Throne!

Walk With Baited Breath & Bowed Hearts & Heads
As Joyful Tears Pool In Our Beaming Eyes!
As Into The Godly Realm … We Have Ventured
& Entered ‘The Archway’ Supports For All  Skies

O’ My Brothers, My Sisters, My Family & My Friends
O’ Let Us Go … Into The Glorious Godly Realm …
Where We Have Been Invited To HIS Garden Party
Where Each One of Us Will Get To Speak … with HIM!

All You HIS Faithful Ones – Who Awaited Kingdom Come
O’ Let Us Go … Into The Glorious Godly Realm …
To The Place Where The Holy of Holies Is Situated
O’ Get A Glimpse of  Heavenly, New Jerusalem!

Into The Glorious Godly Realm … O’ Let Us Go!
Up To Clouds & Zion’s Mountain-Top Location
As Earth Becomes – The Global Promised Land
Yes, Humans’ Own Homefront, Habitat Space-Station

(Yes, This World’s First Honorable United Human Nations)

… and Into The  Godly Realm … GOD Will Let Us Go
… into The Splendiferous, Spectacular Sector!
Into The Spiritual Area – Where Eternity Roams
Close To The Vibrant & Blindingly-Brilliant, Light-Vector


                           Written & ©:  7/13/2013

                           By:  The MoonBee

Premium Member - Haiku X 252 - 269 - a Small Collection -

- 252 - fireflies - 

      phantasy times dream
      luminous in the pitch dark -
      does not charge in rain…

      - 253 - luna -

      bewitched by moonlight
      it doesn't attack anyone -
      loyal companion

      - 254 -"trolltunga" 
      troll's tongue -

      walks on the troll's tongue
      a spectacular landscape
      accept the challenge

      - 255 -by sunshine -

      huge cushioned mountains
      snow shine in the eyelashes -
      the soul's strings resting

      - 256- frozen lake -

      winter on water
      transparent freezing of ice -
      warm gray woolen socks

      - 257 - survives -

      off the beaten track
      the river behind the barn -
      small trees defiant

      - 258 - winter sunset -

      on heaven's canvas
      watch the fire between portals -
      blushing with beauty

      - 259 - strength -

      any type of rose
      reaching for heavenly dreams -
      the name doesn't matter

      - 260 - almost untouched -

      a dear place to live
      this vibrant winter landscape - 
      time for enjoyment

      - 261 - proximity -

      an edge of the sky
      the mind's silent guardians -
      with life giving warmth

      - 262 - forest elf -

      before the midnight
      wings glistening in dew pearls - 
      grew up in forest

      - 263 - majestic -

      bold as foaming waves
      watch the sea with eagle eyes -
      binocular view

      - 264 - frozen -

      nature's ice sculptures
      an ephemeral beauty -
      spirit of winter

      - 265 - no chicken feet -

      a steaming sauna
      enjoy dip in the cold pool -
      with resting heart rate

      - 266- off and on -

      strange whims of winter
      thoughts of spring are comforting - 
      the old winter coat

      - 267 - dazzling -

      vibrant sunset fades
      inevitable twilight -
      the night silhouettes

      - 268 - snow kiss -

      the snowfall of grace
      soft touch with a tender kiss -
      mercy set me free

      - 269 - landscape -

      twilight light reflects
      on the snow covered mountains -
      air is fresh and crisp




      26.01.2023
      Sun :) - A-L Andresen :)
      Copyright © All Rights Reserved
Form: Haiku

Premium Member China Travelogue 2

Journey starts
Kunming portraits;
Highway song


Here old and new
Merge yet apart;
Vignettes juxtapose


China welcomes
Both ancient and modern;
Sign of the times


Tour group confronts
Unfamiliar grounds;
Rough edges grind


Quaint ways of old
Ancient tales displaced;
Modern day norms intervene


Spectacular vistas
Natural wonders;
Man seems insignificant


Flood tide drowns
Flushing away;
False assumptions destroyed


Gust of wind
Reveals new passages;
Knowing does not know


Mountain peaks
Valleys well-clustered;
Fertile grounds well-used


Everywhere we go
People of all tribes;
A Chinese pageant


Human nature speaks
Polite tones sway;
Touch of humble quiet


These Chinese people:
Kind, warm, hospitable --
A touch of home


Himalayan backdrop
Mountains for company;
Melodrama purged


Methinks that I
Could hideaway here;
Unknown, undisturbed


One sure currency:
The Chinese language;
Pervasive, ubiquitous 


Vast is the land
Far as our eye span;
Beyond imagery


Trades of all sorts
Risk is a sure thing;
Living is risky business


Ancient towns
Showpieces that speak;
In steady silence


Rivers and streams
Winding into quaint towns;
Ancient as old time


Pulse of the moment
Camera shutter snapshots;
Still life captured


Picture posture
By this arched bridge;
Keepsake souvenir


Sensory pursuits
Old Town bazaars;
Hasty trinkets acquired


Silver artisans
Hammer away;
Creations of white metal


Bric-bracs scattered
Awaiting curious eyes;
That impulse buy in tow


Round this village
Tourist show piece;
Modern commerce prevails


Bargains await
Hungry customers;
Weathered Oriental wares


In this roundabout square
Locals and tourists stride;
Seek new-found distractions


Spring time weather
Hot and dry and windy;
Like home without humidity


Our tour guide --
Cautions that silver jewellery
Best bought from reputable shops


Cheap price often
Compromises quality;
Authentic stuff cost much more


Lessons unlearnt
On-the-road trade routes;
Return odd regrets


A silver bangle
Heavy with 99 percent;
Quality speaks tons


Scattered eateries
Street vendors offer;
Glimpses that never die


So much to see,
Words fail description;
Feelings explore facts


Only ten days here
We see yet do not see;
Only vague interpretations


All too soon
Sojourn over;
Yunnan in mind mists


Leon Enriquez
31 May 2014
Singapore
Form: Haiku

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