Long Striated Poems

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Premium Member Future Days

Striated whispy clouds greet the sun
Soak up the golden rays
The Doves coo their greeting coooo, coooo
Like two children at play

Thick fog coats the hollow and creek
Blankets the roosters' pens
Lively their song of mirth a sing-along
Coyotes in their dens

The golden sun gets brighter still
Begins to top dark trees
Alone the poetess pens the lines
The artist tells what she sees

All nature is a beauty now
This day will be lovely
What about future days 'pon earth
They'll be quite smelly

For bad things in nature will come
Trees will start to die 'til
All earth will be effected then
A Bible truth fulfilled
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Contingency of New Day

Dawn a new day is breaking
Open my eyes to the beauty
As the Roosters, Cardinals, and Doves eyes open
Tiny crescent moon relishing in its appearing

Birds sweep across the pale-blue morning sky
To the beat of coo-coo-coo
As the Doves communicate to their love

Striated clouds greet the sun
Sun takes the gray away so there is apricot on the horizon
Gold to decorate the way
Clean slate_new dawn great start for this unique day

Fresh air refreshes lungs
Adds glow to all creatures
Gives life as sun clears the stale dark
Opens doors to opportunities for renewal_forgiveness

The sun rises golden
As if it is the gold of royalty
Without its daily visit all of earth would decease
Become an entirely different sphere

What contingency does the dawn of new day bring to you
Open your eyes to the venture


Contest:Sunrise~~Versus~~Sunset
Sponsor: HGarvey Daniel Esquire
Written by:Sara Kendrick

Premium Member Reflections

Sunday morning bright red sunrise
Reflecting onto the clouds
Constantly changes colors
There are wispy striated 
Vertically that are cotton candy pink


The horizonal ones have gone from
The bright red to lightere and lighter
Shades until now are salmon in color


The roosters are exzuberant this morning
Thanks and praise continually comes from 
Their throats through their beaks into the breeze
They are telling the world that it is going to 
Be a great day

Feasting in the beauty that was created
Just for me years and years ago
God declared this day to be mine
To absorb his love and glory

There is a very thick mist rising from
The creek it radiating out and up at
Least one quarter of a mile away
The moisture penetrates giving life

The clouds have changed to charcoal gray
This happene in what seemed just minutes
It is almost as though the sun started to set 

How many people get to see and enjoy 
The day at dawn and sunrise...

Premium Member Daylight of Darkness

Stepping over the threshold
Locating the floor buttons
I press the 3rd floor

~ my brain images still flashing ~

Disfigured long flames curl around
Cherished memories-

Dry spruce branches smoking and crackling
Glowing coals cooking steaks in a fire
Above the crashing waves on the North Shore
Of Lake Superior with mom and dad
Laughing and sipping root beer

Spying a twisted piece of petrified oak
 most likely a plank 
From an ancient sunken vessel splintered
 In the Gale's of November

Loosening the piece from the grips of glistening 
Basalt boulders, etching our names and place
Of discovery above striated agates embedded in 
Crevices a millennial ago

Proudly displayed on the mantle above my fireplace

Gone 
Now

Only precious memories remain

I flash the card lock on my hotel room

Entering
The
Future

2/18/23
Form: Narrative

Dissection

The blade in my hand has been honed razor sharp by reality
I wield it with the careful precision of a skilled physician
who was accrued decades of experience
performing the tedious task of dissecting existence
cutting cleanly through connective tissue to the bone
peeling back striated muscle and skin
securing them with tiny pins
severing ligaments and tendons
disarticulating joints and limbs
unveiling what by design has been hidden
beneath the deceptive shell of rosy flesh
revealing what some shield themselves from
by donning blinders made from money
building walls with the bricks of their success
never having seen or but briefly glimpsed
the darkness and depravity of the world
that exists within each of us
buried deep down or just under the surface
before turning away in disgust
preferring the pretty pictures on the wall
to the truth of it all


Premium Member My Dream Vacation - Alaskan Whale Tour

The highlight of my Alaskan vacation was a singular
unexpected breach of a humpback whale.

                                                         — by Poet

MY DREAM VACATION - ALASKAN WHALE TOUR

What’s a routine blubberflip, is a marvel to humans -
a breathtaking splash of epic proportions, a whirlwind
propensity to pail - empty salt-sea into the sun-blue air.

The striated humpback, in blubberbreach, sates
in eye appeal, strums in rhythmic entrainment, and
a solid gold breath erupts through the human blowhole.

Mood lighting of the sea and sky, the heavens riding
the wave of creation’s emotion - God’s largesse smiling.
Gratitude of the cruisers from this unexpected explosion

through the give way sea, the crop yielding a hundredfold.
The humpback’s beauty is in his creativity of timing, sublime
in oceanic movement, his fin-finish finer than a diver’s.

Furthermore, the cleansing of his blubberhide - ridding
himself of lice and barnacles — morass that when it lingers
annoys but triggers the acceleration to release his form

to exaltation - he swims the blessed air for a few seconds,
with flipper wings, angel kisses and applause. Neither
proud nor humble, as he pressures through the deep.

What’s a routine of man - to exercise his sea legs,
to gorge on the monsters of the sea, to breathe in
all that life can be — tremulous, terrifying, out of sight.*

3/8/2022
Sponsor: L. Milton Hankins

*out of sight - extremely good, excellent
Form: Imagism

Premium Member Mystique of the Mojave

A white wash of striated clouds
stretch expansively 
across the arid desert sky
where Joshua trees commune
lifting up crooked cactus-like arms
towards the searing sun. 

Massive layers of brown boulders 
jut, forming endless sculptures 
hidden places where the ancients 
made their penitence with words
swept away by unforgiving winds. 

Shadows shift under the arc of the sun
where nervous roadrunners dart
startled lizards seek shade
great hawks circle with outstretched wings 
and tortoises amble as the hours crawl by. 

Two lane highways trail into the horizon 
toward snow capped mountain peaks 
lined by nameless telephone poles 
and tumbleweeds that roll aimlessly 
across storefronts and sleepy 
rundown towns in disrepair. 

Yet the mystique of the Mojave plains
still remains an inviting oasis 
of refreshment and contemplation 
where time stands still
beneath the stillness
of the midnight stars. 









12/5/2022

Premium Member Summer's Sun

Wispy striated quiet clouds lie stilled
the sky a picture waits
An apricot sun passes by
Touches to evaporate

The brightness of its arising
Says there'll be a hot day
the cool of the air temporary
As the air heats from sun's rays  

The silhouettes of darkened trees
Raising their hands in prayer
Last only a short time compared
To summer's heat the slayer__

Already I long for fall's cool
The changing of the leaves
Summer drains the life away
And gives no sweet reprieve

Finis'

This was written on Thursday morn
Friday we got up to lower temperatures,
drier air, and a breeze which is still with us this morn.
I have thanked God repeatedly for the change.
I just don't do summer's heat and humidity very well..
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Transformed

The red rising sun has transformed
Into puffy white striated gray clouds
Pasted onto a blue, sky-blue sky
A lovely scene touched by cool air

The partly cloudy touch says
A chance of rain upon a dry land
Others have had some showers, but
So dry here, thank God no flood

Morn's sun lifts above the clouds
A brilliance sifts through the pecans
It lights up the shimmering dew 'pon the grass
Such a pleasant time on the porch

There are coyotes and dogs barking 
Birds sing of nesting completed
I wonder do they know of winter
Or of a long winter's sleep

Does this year's hatchlings have instinct
Or is their brain a blank slate
Only God knows some of the answers
Because He was the one who created
Form: Other

The Bone Tree

From beneath a long frozen earth
ancient human bones surface,
they rise far enough for an eye-socket
to be seeded.

A sapling grew from out of that skull.
In time the skull became a tree.

Like many tree’s its skeleton was on the outside
but the bone-tree’s bark was harder.

It grew gnarled and knotted, grimly striated
were it knurled as if a twisted growth
had tortured wood into blackened bone.
It’s leafage was scant, spiked, and leathery,
thorns were it canopy.

Some claimed it to be an old apple tree,
yet no fruit did it ever bear.

After hundreds of fruitless years
it fell, stuck down
by its own inflexibility,
its unbending bones broken forever.

From beneath a long frozen soil
where once a garden flourished
a serpent slid away
seeking more blind eyes.

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