Long Submerging Poems

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Premium Member Oceanic Sabbath

We have no sabbath sense
deep enough
wet enough
searching baptismally enough
for Earth's oceanic atmosphere.

Sabbath is for monotheistic cities
and castled lands 
we anthro-supremacist share 
to weekday busyness hold them
six weakly orthodox dry days per week

On lands we sell ourselves 
to uneasily rest 
deeply contest 
land-based sixes 
and sacred sevens

Crowding human over-splattered population
huddling beneath self-mattered desecrated sabbaths
longing to land-based rabid breed 
deeper nourished oceanic sacramentals
higher flourished seasoned ornamentals.

Over these past several seasick years
Sunday crawls back toward Atlantic's western shore,
border stretch of dry as lustless dust 
then wet love-drenched sand
leading out to ocean's deep sustaining 
Atlantis-Pacific round wet sabbath

Populated more and more 
by all-consuming human barging desecration,
I notice my slowly growing urge
to run then walk then swim to float away
from continental fractured unrest

Compelled to seek a cooler wetter nest
where sabbaths still speak sea-psalm gullibly
in bygone blissful birdsongs
swaying surging suds 
of soulfully submerging 
saliently surfing 
salty sacramental tears
reviving EarthPacific SunDays.


Premium Member Silence of the Butterflies

As sunrise silently
marinaded morningtide meadows,
our lips flowed like two streams,
merging within an exclusive estuary

so we set home upon the river bed.

At first we floated like butterflies in Babylon,
deaf to the squawks of mercenary crows,
blind to the creeping weeds,
which wandered amongst delicate petals

nor did I notice our submerging embankment.

As our estuary began to evaporate,
you left me stranded in the silt and mud.
My heart, once a blossoming garden,
evolved into a wasteland of sedges and sludge.

Still I wait for soothing streams to return,
but all I am left with is marshland of regret

and the silence of the butterflies.
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Premium Member Soulful Susurration

“The dark wasteland of life I need to traverse 
kindling the beacon of hope at the edge of time” – by Poet 


In the flooding river of the tormenting time, 
spreading the arms of smothering agony, 
I feel my exuberant essence drown disowned,
and for an anchorage I cling to the string of hope.

You disappear from collapsed plateau of yearning,
I hear the call of the distant bell tolling for me,
submerging the music of my life’s broken violin
in the flow of the sonorous stream of solitude.

As the tide of time searches for the edge of eternity,
in the fading twilight of despair I breathe forlorn  
the melancholic air that whispers the sunset song, 
echoing the rhythm of my soulful susurration.

From the enwrapping expanse of wasteland dust
I’ll rise with the indomitable resolve not yet lost,
and on the trail illumined by the rays of the new sun 
with tinge of hope, I’ll travel to the horizon of ecstasy.

_______________________

October 31, 2021
Contest : "S" Contest, New Poems
Sponsor : Constance La France

Premium Member Flower of Life and Rebirth

Oh, beatific lotus flower, blossom of my pious soul
How brilliantly you ascend, sparkling in sunrise gold
Being the emissary of divinity ancient tenets behold
Invigorating spiritual vibes unwavering beliefs extol

Oh, tender touch of angels, purity of enlightened life
How mystically your petals divulge esoteric delight
Kneeling for mortal beings, submerging into the night
Yearning renewal upon cleansing unwelcome strife

Oh, sage of wisdom, imperial emblem of knowledge
How you rise again and again, edifying life and death
Heavenly spirits you elate awakening human intellect 
Illuminating senses in revelations of Buddhist texts

Oh, symbol of rebirth, essence of pure revered faith
How prayers of sacred words in your epiphany toll
Where rhythms of my heart in tenor of nirvana echo
As you grant eternal peace to mortals lost on earth
Oh, beatific lotus flower, blossom of my pious soul

January 1, 2021
Placed 5th: Lotus of my heart poetry contest
Sponsor: Mystic Rose Rose
Placed 5th: Your choice (43) contest by Brian Strand
Form: Ode

Other Worlds

"Other Worlds"



Drifting through 
my mind once 
Apollonian 
 
I am enticed 
by the larger 
Dionysus 

I am 
a very small creature
twee, so

point.on.the.delivery

irrelevant 
a novel conundrum
where? the exact position to place?

like a hummingbird with 
fast beating wings 
violently violet and honeydew beak

singing towards
The Fields of Elysian
All that IS

I am
Recklessly Unknown
blending into the middle path

no standout
I am now 
Divine

Other Worlds 
beckon me 

For what Was
is not Now and
never was sanctuary

I am beguiled
through an 
opening mind

Inwards hooked
the magnet tugs relentlessly
at my free willed warm tides

I leave behind
without a care
the wasted -

those living in 
the broken shards
of my frozen memories 

they are all submerging 

Tied up in sheets
the weight of senseless stories 
throughout the years, sink rapidly

they bare me no life essence, they are
wrapped around the fast falling 
anchor of acquiescence 

They will rust and perish
in the forgotten 
lost chronicles of time

A past and irredeemable future 
dissolving, fizzing like a soluble drug
the tincture swallowed 

In one breath gone
Now 
emerges 

a sharp escape 
I am all butter soft 
and melting 

safe and aeons 
away 



(LadyLabyrinth / 2020)
gvlm/llb




Bassnectar & Dorfex Bos - Other Worlds  [Reflective Part 2]
https://youtu.be/q_hBf1ghAGE










https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollonian_and_Dionysian


Free Floating

In my foamy bubble there 's ample room for
free-floating and even, once in a while, submerging for a while
beneath the surface, where the wild things are and disturb
tranquility.
And when I free-float my head spins in only one direction, peace. It's quite
comfortable inside my bubble, and nothing can burst it, not even the bullets and bombs and, certainly, not the usual drumbeat of words, such as get a hold on your life and or stop deluding yourself.  I've put a tape on my ears and, thankfully, am deaf to disheartening needles aiming to burst my bubble.  
In your inner paradise find a priest to wed you to yourself and wish you eternal happiness.  Barely I survive my own demons sometimes, and today there's no sign of them.  Surprise, we 're off to a long vacation and you can come along, as long as you don't bump into my bubble and drag me to the real world, okay?
I have received many assurances and can rest now knowing my bubble is for the foreseeable future fully intact.  
No need to worry about the day after, it will hit you unaware.

Premium Member Afternoon Woolgathering

On lazy uneventful afternoons
     I sometimes venture into the quiet haven
        that is my occupied mind as if a voice 
        in the wilderness beckoned me there. 
          It's always my favorite place to go...

         on a day in disarray to contemplate 
      and expunge impurities that swirl inside 
  my head. I would sit beneath a tree as I trap
           myself in the undertow of reverie, 
    submerging in the depth of serene solitude. 

      I go woolgathering on certain afternoons
       in the meadow of my mind, listening to
         the wondrous cacophonies of nature. 
        How delightful the mellifluous sounds 
      of chirping birds? The rustling of leaves? 

        Myriad of memories I long laid to bed 
 would spring awake as soon as I close my eyes 
     My thoughts would swing like a pendulum 
            between the past and the future. 
     It's amazing how much the mind can hold! 

 A miscellany of thoughts would continue to rage 
   as I linger there lost in the arresting scenery, 
 taking in the invigorating zephyr; how it soothes
       my skin! It's the most beautiful escape 
            from the chaotic here and now

              On lazy uneventful afternoons
        I oftentimes linger there in meditation, 
     reluctant to leave such a peaceful oblivion, 
      but I must. I always do with bright smile
    as I open my eyes again to a peaceful world. 


Date written: 07/11/2016

Premium Member Bottomless Depth

Swaddled in frozen silence
In a weather so dolorous and damp
The pores of her mind sweat painful memories
Which take a headlong flight
Faster than the beams of light

At times shaking their fearful manes
As unbridled steeds, they come
Raising dust behind
Making all sanity blurred.
Often, they rise from their indulgent stupor
And spill over, submerging all extant thoughts

They never care to stand in queue
Jostling each other with no manners
They bump on one another, breaking all decorum
Like an unruly mob on impatient wait

Caught in the vortex of a whirling current
Her poor body begins to lose its equilibrium
And she plunges into the bottomless depth
To be choked there in whirling gloom!

A Murder

The Cold Facts of Life**

In her own eyes, she was a flawless woman, embodying grace and beauty so perfectly that many around her often mistook her for a goddess, revered by those less privileged. Yet, beneath this polished exterior lay a vulnerable heart, one that yearned for genuine connection. It was during a picturesque summer at Lake George, with its shimmering waters and enveloping nature, that the man of her dreams swept into her life like a tempest. He stole away her innocence, submerging her in the cold depths of the lake, both physically and emotionally, leaving her feeling heavy with the weight of lost virtue.

As she reflected on her experiences, it became painfully clear that too often, shadows obscure our true vision. Infatuation, with its thrilling highs and intoxicating allure, had led her to confuse mere attraction with real love. Now, standing at a crossroads, she recognized the irony of being impeccable yet careless. Through her journey, she transformed into a living testament to the harsh realities of love, confronting the cold facts that life had laid before her.

Premium Member The Day I Became a Poet

I remember the day I became a poet.

In the magnificence of the submerging sun,
I glanced upon her admiring its majesty.
Amidst hues of clementine and lilac,
her image cast a shadow so serene.

My heart began to flutter like a butterfly,
floating towards her - 
finally free from the chambers of my cocoon.
Like a silk scarf, scarlet petals wove a path,
aromatising footsteps that led to her.

Who could this mysterious lady be,
that had humbled such a hardened heart?
Although strangers, it felt as our souls
had known each other for eternity.

In twinkling twilight, I could see 
pieces of the moon illuminating through her eyes.
How could I forget how the reflection of her smile 
invited me to wander willingly into her heart.

Like nocturnal nightingales adrift in the night,
we sang sensual melodies not heard before.
Sensations felt from her soft satin skin
remain a euphoric timeless memory.

Seduced within the substance of soulful desires,
her enchanted essence became my first poem -
the purity of her existence my eternal poetry.

Silent One
19 March 2018
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