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Premium Member Zealots

Zealots are totally incapable of any emotion other than rage. It is an unalterable law that people who claim to care about the human race are utterly indifferent to the sufferings of individuals.
— Quentin Crisp

ZEALOTS

The raging machine, storms of zigzagging arrows, fueled by each word that bounces off the trampoline of their eardrums. A zealot sage, an oxymoronic knight, not a saint. Stained not with tears but billowing eyes and cheeks.

emotional wreck
concentrated on one theme
no deviation

The heave and the ho of heavy sacks. Teamwork in torrent. The zealot doesn’t stop to hear a prophet, except Simon. Simon will buzz in their ear about a diamond but the team has their eyes on the gold. With cold, strong hands, they sharpen their swords, meditating on the prize. They want to topsy-turvy, throw out the law, upturn the tables of dirty coins.

if one turned his head
a scene of perfect substance -
heals blind, deaf and dumb

Does the tyrant trump the zealot, or is power the point? Both explode. Not on their sides, you will be imprisoned or stomped out. Simple Simon was a zealot whose ears steared toward the Son of God.

Simon the Zealot
apostles known by their works
one’s tax collector

Zealots loose whilst hell’s hammer wills the fastening of cruel suffering. This innocent has the right approach to rid the world of tyrants though the chariots have not entered the course. The zealots would still be wielding their swords as the stone was kicked away in a powerful way.

Zealots have their way
the martyrs follow Christ’s way
Simon chose wisely
Form: Haibun


Reverse Orbitz

Mach my words, that time travel aye
foresee (rather than being 
     at a stand still, nee frozen 
     analogous to cry

oh ja hen nicks, or more particularly 
     going backwards) 
     this chap doth espy
great breakthroughs, 

     asper similar advances this guy
   i.e. myself witnesses quantum leaps I
learn (reading The University Of Penn Gazette) 
     the Burmese doctoral 
     engineering student Kai 
     Sir Von Wilhelm Harris 

     made profound advances within 
     advanced combined research 
     laboratory of rocket surgery 
     and brain science set my
mouth ajar 
     (with rivulets of drool spilling forth) 

constructing a simple 
     to assemble gizmo (avail able 
common household materials 
     rendered unto YouTube), and/or Cable 

Comcast, Fios, Infosys, et cetera 
     which accidental discovery 
     automatically codified feign 
     top secret "FAKE" news to enable 
  
boot (simply for formality sake) 
     code named Clark Gable
yet in reality (a faux veil of secrecy) 
     to con Vince sing lee 

     foster an inimitable
mystique, button truth 
     for general public to unzip noble 
     no red bull) knowable

handy escape to past or future 
     and essentially unlocked laudable
simple "household solution" 
     to become the latest craze
 
     (synonymous with an opiate - manageable
minus addiction, conviction, 
     and excruciation viz zit operable 
via needle marks of the masses 

     within a fortnight necessary 
     supplies sans quantifiable 
while Das Donald Trump 
     could enact legislation satisfiable

knowing majority being 
     totally tubularly oblivious unalterable
measures permanently infringing on inalienable 
     rights such as life, liberty 
     and the pursuit of winnable pacification.

Premium Member Study In Kafkaesque

I slowly come to 
as light creeps across the floor
and dissolves what I thought
had fallen through
the torn sides of a dream.
Nothing is there but
the scuff marks left 
by fleeing ghosts.

Unalterable facts assemble 
and lock shut around 
a narrowing space housing all 
that I think I am.
Faces appear and find
their place in the gallery
of portraits, some smiling 
others wearing a haunting 
sadness. Love attaches 
and takes up the tension 
as thoughts move and stretch, 
each nerve linking 
to a loved one. I hold on 
and hope it's enough.

Then fear rummages through
its wardrobe of masks, trying on
each to see what best fits
the day. It likes to look ahead.
Morning begins its rituals
to hold back a harm
that hangs over me
or stop the countdown 
ticking towards some
menacing, undisclosed 
catastrophe.

That Lonely Ache

Every time I think of you, a smile runs across my face
The moments that we shared in part, can never be erased.
It may have been at a haggard pace and now there's just an empty space,
my world has shifted out of place, as I long for your embrace, 
to grasp your waist
your lips to taste

I opened up, i was vulnerable, you seemed to be amenable,
and now I feel incapable of moving on irrecoverable,
my sadness is insufferable this feeling is uncomfortable,
my intentions only honorable, my love for you unalterable.

I hope im not making mistakes, by holding on, lying in wait,
this love I have... I cannot shake 
she made me feel so awake, 
alive inside a creative take

it’s her love I cant forsake, 
its why I feel this lonely ache.

I’ll persevere, I'll move along 
but deep down... I’m holding on, 
even as I write this song, 
hoping our hearts truly belong,

I know my love cannot be wrong 
its hard as hell to stay so strong,
the suffering may be prolonged, 
I wont deny my love lives on.

I wont give in, I wont give up, 
Im realistic in my thought.
I've learned the lessons I've been taught, 

I know a love can be caught 
and just as fast, rendered-naught. 

Its just my soul, it’s tied in knots,
It’s tough to prevent a hardening heart 
But a love like this, a fight be fought.
Just to be sure... just for the aught. 
A love so special should be sought.
to its end... it’s natural force, 
remaining friends, no remorse 
for letting that love run its course

Let love stand tall! Let the chips fall!
‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never have loved at all.

Let love stand tall! Let the chips fall!
‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never have loved at all.
Form: Lyric

Premium Member If a Tree Should Fall

if a tree should fall and there is no one to hear it 
not even the merest susurrus for a poet to capture the moment 
the encomium will cease
	
with each slight 
each rejection of the light 
and acknowledgement withheld 
the all encompassing existence of all 
called into question 
the glacier crevasses gape 
to engulf 
the whole 

however 
frozen to the core 
we must 
remain undaunted 
on a steady bedrock of the conviction 
that all existence 
isn’t in vain 

if we can dream it we will not fade away 
like unalterable photographs from bygone eras 

we are the essence 
the stases 
holding 
reality of 
all life 
in the 
balance 


23rd April 2023
A Wisdom Download Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker
3rd Place
Title changed AFTER the judging of the contest.


Towers and Bridges

III

But, of course, I had no dizzying towers                  
To burn...only bridges; and they were torched            
Years ago in the urgency of my direst hours;           
Along with so many mighty battlements sacked, 
Countless golden fields scorched...                            
Afterall -- it was the age of Bronze!              
I should have well known that in the flight          
Of birds, in each cold dawns pale grey light,                       
I would eventually come to see the unalterable 
Fates of Wilusha's last Imperial Scions:-                             
Tottering precariously - on the brink -            
A world in crisis! Then the elopement...               
Did you not once stop to carefully think           
It through? Giddied no doubt by bestowment 
Of that accursed title; just as if it were the 
Same giddying rush                                               
You have experienced from the heady
Potency of  a full bodied, Oaked Chardonnay.        
The coy performance at being required to strip -- 
An inner excitement at your self's shamed 
Nakedness! The obvious insincerity on display
When receiving an invite to dine at the gaudy
Little bistro; your hot skin noticeably flushed               
With the delirium of wine; frequently              
Pressed to partake of yet another glass;           
There was, he casually said, much to be            
Desired in a pleasurable rape. Her audible gasp...                                             
As if, from that roadside window, she was
Suddenly staring out over the idyllic plains 
Of mythical Arcadia;                         
His eloquent assurances artfully calculated 
To lend themselves to a distressful behaviour.
Form: Rhyme

That Lonely Ache

Every time I think of you, a smile runs across my face
The moments that we shared in part, can never be erased.
It may have been at a haggard pace and now there's just an empty space,
my world has shifted out of place, as I long for your embrace, 
to grasp your waist
your lips to taste

I opened up, i was vulnerable, you seemed to be amenable,
and now I feel incapable of moving on irrecoverable,
my sadness is insufferable this feeling is uncomfortable,
my intentions only honorable, my love for you unalterable.

I hope im not making mistakes, by holding on, lying in wait,
this love I have... I cannot shake 
she made me feel so awake, 
alive inside a creative take

it’s her love I cant forsake, 
its why I feel this lonely ache.

I’ll persevere, I'll move along 
but deep down... I’m holding on, 
even as I write this song, 
hoping our hearts truly belong,

I know my love cannot be wrong 
its hard as hell to stay so strong,
the suffering may be prolonged, 
I wont deny my love lives on.

I wont give in, I wont give up, 
Im realistic in my thought.
I've learned the lessons I've been taught, 

I know a love can be caught 
and just as fast, rendered-naught. 

Its just my soul, it’s tied in knots,
It’s tough to prevent a hardening heart 
But a love like this, a fight be fought.
Just to be sure... just for the aught. 
A love so special should be sought.
to its end... it’s natural force, 
remaining friends, no remorse 
for letting that love run its course

Let love stand tall! Let the chips fall!
‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never have loved at all.

Let love stand tall! Let the chips fall!
‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never have loved at all.
Form: Lyric

Apologia To Avoid An Online World Squaw Bull

please allow ample delivery time 
     per arability of friendship
and hoop fully this acquiescence 
     can render an accord shared 
     via exchanging calumet peace pipe

     initially invoked qua 
     piercing, gouging, digging...from hooked aquilinity
upon awareness miss applying the squaw aridity
mine swallowing capacity as pins pricking 

     a voodoo likeness doll (of me), 
     though this claim could steeped 
     in utter contrived artificiality 
      fusing flagrant faulty aromaticity
asininity admitting absent attentiveness
 
     as ska walking a fine line 
     betwixt asexuality behooves 
rectification allowing solution Wiccan agree 

     upon linking assimilability, assignability, assiduity 
     implicating with asperity whore err roan 
nee huss rubble word choice prompting asperity
     inducing me to cast the first stone

of apology, and self awareness 
     totally tubularly offer thyself as human sacrifice 
redeeming conceding unalterable venal tone 
     role of squawking chief fowl ling at the end zone

     regarding, where associatively properly went
assumability, anonymity of the internet vent
     ting modality adopting immunity, 
     viz virtual community tent

revival meeting adumbrating atypicality, attainability 
     avoidance of audiological atrocity, sans atonality sent 
to ear rate, the autoimmunity authority, 
     authenticity, austerity, audacity, co rent

ting availability, automaticity, accessibility 
     asper automobility to scale tenement, pent
house, or pre faux ying bing avascularity, 
     avidity, avuncularity avers automatically tall lent

aim to amble along xy feigning tubby 
     with minimal audibility clark kent
     information superhighway 

     axiality grid via galavanting gent
can be activated swimmingly 
     with less overt axe said dent.

Premium Member Making Mask, Instead

On the flower petals of the blooming faces,
flutter the patina of chromatic luscious lips,
gracefully painted with alluring shades of lipstick,
the attraction amplified by the dazzling smile. 

In the women’s winsome world of enticement
many things stay tediously the same unalterable,
but the colors of the lips is an option of change,
they all strive to try in various charming hues.

Realizing it’s a large fashion market worldwide,
I set up a modest factory rolling out array of lipsticks,
not competing with the products of L’Oreal or the like,
my business started booming, soaring to new heights.

But then comes the virulent corona virus from the blue,
making lipsticks for the masked lips rather redundant. 
No takers, I have to close down my factory where now
I am making mask to survive in these difficult times.


May 16, 2020

Premium Member Refuge

Inside my house – inside myself
Hushed in the reckoning of my living 
I drift in streams that have taken me here.
As I contemplate my age, my years,
Now belied by restful wisdom
I am complete and unalterable.
I have come to my final destination, my end.
My mouth is agape in the sullen silence of remembrance.
My hair, a turbulent gray, draped like ghostly storm clouds- 
A torrent flooded by a life that tested my courage and strength.
My skin slumping with the weight and furrows like rivulets 
Of weary responsibilities now embedded
Awaken me to the toil of pain and endurance.
My eyes weakened from flooding visions-
Monuments of life, death and love
Retreat into a myriad of sentiments.
I now reside with gratitude and humility of the meek and mild,
As I translate my time on earth as mere footsteps before my grave.
My pride is diminished by years of compassion,
For all trials I have faced and challenges I have met- 
I stayed in the stream.
I flowed within a hurricane of waters that surged mercilessly
Along the divide of faith and love.
Now I am enraptured in the subtle estuary of love remembered 
Where joy triumphs and promises become the virtue of living.
My moments fly overhead like rare birds in forgiving skies
Beyond oceans of turmoil they find their place of sanctuary
Where the islands of contentment greet them
As they wistfully land to take sanctuary in my heart.


September 23, 2021

Islands In The Stream Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Craig Cornish
Form: Narrative

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