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Premium Member Naive Faith


In my early years I possessed this naive faith,
and I believed all that the Bible saith:
        often to a fault,
it came from a place of innocent faith;
           my life was simplistic with trust.

By fourteen I stopped expecting people to be kind,
I thought that I would find those of like mind:
        but found liars,
yet, my naive remains and I seek out and find;
            good people who believe in me.

And as an adult my naive quality is not weakness,
it is my source of strength and my uniqueness:
         I question everything,
I ask for evidence- gone is all my meekness;
           and I expect others to keep their promises.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member I Might Try Some Alternative News

Bring me reality, spare the insanity; preening and vanity
Do.! Its purpose I’d rather gather not
Twaddle and flatter; For ..!!
Really I’m open of view.’ I don’t want TV Docs
I want info that rocks’
Can I see some groundbreaking news?
Not acres of smiles, subterfuge and all wiles
I’d really like fair enough news,
It’s all panstick and slapstick and soundbites
And asterisks’ not to mention a grimness
That’s part of the brew, it seems the
Devil’s own cauldron is stirred to a fault
On the screens that are owned by a few
Do you think there might be?
Something better to see,
Have you ever thought
That there could be? an antidote to suggestion
Of gloomy dimensions, surely
It might just so be?
Not just medics with millions
With their bosses owning zillions
Who paid for their very degree?
Remember GMO in your food from Monsanto
But I guess; that’s already old
News … a week’s not a long time in your view; or maybe mine?
But in some circles, it’s a vital in-tu; intuition.. Revision in the dark
Winter tradition'  ya’ know maybe it’s all doctored views?
Hey no smiling or laughing or back slapping,
Singing or dancing.
Unless you are in on the ruse.

©Joe Maverick 30-1-2022
Form: Rhyme

Today

Each day I live, the pain consumes
What little sanity I have bloomed
Like walking in a cloud of fog
Falling down, sinking into smog

Life just seems grim
I think on a whim
Interest lost in everything I do
But what a life, who really knew?

Depressed to a fault, that all I see
Death just seems like the only way for me
A waste of time, I feel I am
But that's its nature, a full mind jam

I try and try to ease the pain
A fallen effort with no gain
Thoughts begin to eat away
Makes me want to end it today

Uncomfortable around others for the way I feel
I pray and wish this all wasn't real
Life just seems more like a prison
Caged, alone, an abomination risen

No one could ever understand
Why I would want my death sooner than planned
Its not something I want for me
But to end my suffering this is what has to be

So I write this all as I fall from grace
Down to this place, some barren waste
I know not how much longer I will last
But all I can do, is pray that this will just pass
© Gogster Dw  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Purim Serum

Purim Serum
Reverse the decree, costume quorum,
Dour outlooks, ingrates can wait,
To “V’Al HaNissim” respond “Amen!”
‘Til Shichur or REM inebriate,
Confusing “Baruch Mordechai & Arur Haman”,
Choose an opponent as a receiver of being considerate,
Send Mishloach Manos, listen quietly to Ahem!
Uplift with LeChaim! Drink Schnaps to hydrate,
To a Purim Seudah gather friends,
Imbibe wine! Purim Torah relate,
Hamantaschen savor as Oneg’s the end,
Be generous to a fault, an Oni sate,
Is Purim Serum bourbon?
Or Simcha shared? Requires Iyon, Ruminate!
This poem may be wordy surplus, excess, abundant,
Which means “A lot!” Not at all “Definate”
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Buoyant

Here by the buoy
 Buoy in deep sea
   Sea with salt air
    Air that must come...


Come let us go
 Go somewhere far
   Far from this place
     Place beyond time...


Time to just be
  Be what we are
    Are not mere stuff
     Stuff with no sense...


Sense out of sync
 Sync lost in blurs
   Blurs that now swirl
    Swirl in mad storm...


Storm that flings dust
  Dust that wears breath
    Breath in a choke 
     Choke that frees zest...


Zest in a take
 Take what lives here
   Here on the verge
     Verge of word play...


Play with fond ease
  Ease that speaks well
    Well to a fault
      Fault that feels right...


Right to sculpt think
  Think to purge tense
   Tense on the brink
     Brink of odd verse...


Verse that sings out
 Out of the void
   Void that primes seed
     Seed for the dawn...


Dawn comes with light
 Light to see things
   Things of a sort
     Sort brand new flair...


Flair of a soul
 Soul in a heart
   Heart wears a mind
     Mind in quicksand...




Leon Enriquez
01 October 2014
Singapore


Premium Member A Day In 1967

It was a windy day 
My kite was practically blowing away
But I was in a good mood
Because a bologna sandwich is my kind of food

Grandma skipped the mustard, put mayo on mine
Because she knows me, and she is really quite fine.
My cousins were with me, but they gave me some space
‘Cause I had Bruto with me and he wanted a taste.

Bruto is my dog, loyal to a fault, but sneaks a bite
I had to watch him closely while I was flying my kite
My cousin Ally came over and tried to entice him away
But he is my dog through and through every single day

The grass was soft, the day was warm, but not too hot
My cousins were there, and they number a lot.
Eleven firsts, but with the seconds, maybe twenty-two. 
I ate my sandwich, and there were brownies too. 

It was 1967, a terrific year to be a boy in Cedar Falls.
We made a day of it, played with jump ropes and balls.
Our mothers yelled for us for supper, and there was dessert.
We were grimy and happy after a day in the dirt.

Watermelon was brought out at the end of the night.
We were dragged away from Grandma’s, it was a sad sight.
When I am having a bad day, I think back to that time.
A fabulous day, a week after I had just turned nine.

Premium Member Crimson on Canvas

Love is a passionate portrait painted with the heart
Burnished brush strokes are a cherished work of art
when friendship blossoms as buds bloom into flowers
and romance reigns with caresses in garden bowers

Splashes of seafoam and evergreen flecks her eyes
Cerulean for the sea near the shore where she lies
Tint of Tuscan gold in the sand, reflected by the sun 
and pastel pink on the lovely lips of my beloved one

Crimson on canvas, ruby red once she's been kissed
It's my intimate impression of her in a tender tryst
With carefully blended oils, her portrait takes shape
as I capture the delicate tresses curling on her nape

My deep desire tempts and teases my male senses
Against loving her, I will build no bulwark of defenses
My fingers long to fondle her cheek when she smiles
This beauty is not a woman who uses feminine wiles

I've adorned the canvas with her image as best I can
Flawed to a fault by my hand. I am an imperfect man
In this painted creation I hope I've been able to portray
the beauty and grace of her that words cannot convey

Is This a Rap?

Scared Mary,
Unprepared Mary,
Incomprehensible yet strangely legible,
Outside of the box in isolation Mary.

New Mary,
Old Mary,
Realities are a kaleidoscope,
Always big vision and big picture seeing Mary.

Spontaneous Mary,
Boring Mary,
Gifted the role of everything and nothing,
Multidimensional experience Mary.

Cyclical Mary,
Unpredictable Mary,
Goggles ethereal with physical on the side,
So strange and unable to be normal Mary.

Selfless Mary,
Selfish Mary,
Fiercely loving and Protective to a fault,
Contradictory and human at best Mary.

Celibate Mary,
Desperate Mary,
A Biological Divine combination,
Big impact but small blip in wider space Mary.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Richard Lamoureux

Figure of a man, constantly open

 Poetry marriage that makes him richer 

 Her heart and beauty a gift so golden

 Separate it would change, die, and wither

 
Friendship woven his unfailing embrace

Knowing   not about him; external blessed

Through unassuming nature God gives grace

Gratitude words spoken his life expressed


Love of the tall pine and Mckinley beach 

Journey hand in hand through umber forest

Embracing warm home, changed eyes within reach

Captive to lucid euphoric promise


Blessed interest with family and friends  

Personal journey of faith God ascends

11/8/2016


Insert from ; "DUMMY - Hurtful & Healing Words"
 by; Richard lamoureux

http://www.wisedummypoet.com
 
Richard lamoureux
Richard
Husband, son, father, friend
Mary's sweetie, Matthew's dad, Edith's son, brother to Teresa and Roy
Lover of family, friends and time alone 
Who feels passion, joy and doubt
Who fears rejection, being forgotten and failure
Who would like to see Paris, Greece and the face of my Savior
Resident of Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
Lamoureux

Richard
Proud, deceitful, lustful, liar
holder of grudges, occupier of dark thoughts
Competitive to a fault, craver of things material
Temptations target
Who feels torn in two
Who fears his darker instincts
Resident and member of humanity
Lamoureux
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Sonnet

The Promise of a Lifetime

If you have a friend.
Protect them to the end.
They should have heard.
If you've given them your word.
Trust in their good will.
So that joy will never spill.
Out into the night.
Without warmth, without light.
You trust them to a fault.
Your buddy has sealed the vault.
If  they break that trust.
Then your heart will surely rust.
Do not take them for granted.
This great wisdom is not slanted.
Teach them to honor and commit.
Never barter, never quit.
If they are proven wrong.
Forgive and sing a song.
For your life be ever long.
Niceness you should be.
Fill the world with harmony.
Form: Rhyme

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