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Premium Member Gaze Upon the Sky

When the twilight embraces us, so does the Light 
and with the Light comes inspiring  encouragement.  Quote _ by Poet



When I was a young child, I would lay on the green
Grass and gaze up to the cloudy dim sky.
Captive to the evening twilight.
Sun rim sank and embraced 
The boundless horizons breast and moonlight's magics
Reserved silence and cool sweet-scented air.

It's peaceful brief shelter; lashed nightmares dissolved there.
Reflecting on the past days weaved fabrics
Weight as the evening had unlaced
And drew to a closed night.
Those moments my heart would quiver glorious high
As the opalescence clouds veiled the scene.
 
Time for bed, my bed beside the window I'd glean
The heavens and smile or couldn't help, but cry.
Famished for warmth, I'd wish the sight
Would stay, so much it graced.
The darkness would wake the night with magical tricks
As shadows danced, I'd say The Lord's Prayer.

1/2/2021

A Little Memory


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    ABCDEF - FEDCBA - ABCDEF
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme


My Day of Reckoning

It feels muted.
Like a bubbling ache, miming the mince of my patronising murk.
The peevish petulance of my prejudice prompts an abandoned frugality so thinned to a destined demise.
Unlaced.
Untied.
Undone.
A portal so honed to the residual refine of my extinction.
The sterling silver glints off the ashen sheds of my abandoned flesh; she looks like a platter.
Each serving an amortisation to the segments of my pestilent seethe.
Every atom of her making nurtures a barbaric famine to the fester of her feud.
Each larceny a sacrificial suckle for the prosperity of her condemn.
I feel my ruins spewing in a sovereign decay of a cataclysm so heinous in its destruction. 
So sinister in its devaluation.
So predatory in its death.
It feels muted; all my days blending one.
All my days blending into the countdown to my censure.
My day of reckoning.

Premium Member St Govan Chapel

Saint Govan’s Chapel

They stood with their raincoats and rubber boots at the top of the cliff

Clothed in anger and fear they braced the elements and honoured the Saint

A hermit had lived in a fissure hewn into rocks by the tides and corrosion

The Chapel had been a later addition to weather storms for silent prayer


Souls stuck on survive they had arrived at the abyss to halt their demise

Hearts on surrender they threw caution to the wind for one final shout

‘Maybe the dolphins will offer a ride or the seagulls will take us higher’

Into clouds of salvation where their minds had failed to deliver release


He picked wild flowers and arranged a crown on her sunken head

Yellow Poppies for Peace and Wild Garlic to fend off their demons

Caressed the breeze in her hair embraced her Puffin tattoo and

Sank into her bell feathered arms seduced by kindness and hope


Raindrops fell like pearlescent seashells from a rainbow while rosaries’

Ocean spray tickled their weather worn skins and covered their sadness

Wind brushed away urchins of cobwebs and urged them to proceed

Sun rays reflected the moon as they enlightened their shadows’ horizon


Stripped to the core and essence they unlaced gloom and their burdens

Stepped forward in time and let nature answer echoes of happiness

Before they knew it stark naked bodies mingled under moons’ canopy

As they spooned their fortunes together and went deep inside joy


They felt younger by the minute and recalled the ancient wisdom that

A healthy body resides in a sound mind and rekindled passion and life

Soon they would not hear the sound of waves but felt the earth move

To rhymes rhythm and metre holier than holy and discarded insanity


Tongues licked the salt of the earth kissed cradled abandoned restraint

And tied a union made in heaven transported into ravines of rapture

The gods blushed a bit but looked kindly onto the feast of delight

No one demanded that life must be prudish when beauty unveils



06th June 2019

A Weary Heart

Author Dana Redricks
October 17, 2023

In the depths of solitude, I often ponder, am I worthy of love, or destined to wander? Rejected and wounded, never truly embraced, lost in a sea of tears, consumed by fears unlaced.

Do any souls comprehend this ache within me? The longing to be loved, accepted, set free? Yearning for solace, for a gentle touch, to erase the scars of rejection, to heal so much.

In the realm of darkness, my heart does weep, but within this pain, a secret I keep. For there lies a spark, a flicker of light, a belief that someday, things will be set right.

I seek understanding, a compassionate ear, someone to hold me close, to draw near. To see beyond the surface, into my soul, embracing my flaws, making me whole.

Oh, to be loved, cherished, without condition, to banish this feeling of constant inhibition. For in love's sweet embrace, I yearn to dwell, to rise above this ocean, where loneliness fell.

So, I'll search and I'll hope, and I'll never cease, for a love that will grant my weary heart peace. And until that day comes, I'll hold on tight, believing that love shall conquer the darkest night.

One Last Sigh

I brushed the fabric black fields
 of heaven, ripping, a sliver of time
 flashed lightning and unveiled
 the universe speaking in one voice 

With numbing relief I softly run
 my fingers cross the firmament
 feeling moments ripple in tune
 with the song ringing in my bones 

I sing with agony and pain
 my only voice, I breathe in
 bubbles of pure white light
 but gasp with a tongue of hope
 conversing in unspoken history 

I can now carelessly stroll
 cutting a swath through sheer will,
 across memories rhymed to repeat
 I softly tread filling my spirit
 with the elation of joy and love 

In memory ...

I look back at my footprints
 wondering at the million moments
 that will vanish on my last sigh
 magnetic I gravitate to eternity 

And now hands cross my face
 as a second counted milli’s,
 final gasps are heard in sleep
 moaning in tune with the ache 

Underneath tomorrow lays forever
 trilling for my return to the fold
 and collecting stars in my basket
 I make stardust as your eyes stroll 

My darlings,

You cannot follow
 where I have to go
 I love you into forever
 it will always be so 

With the standing greys
 my spirit will shortly fly to rest
 to see the face of the most holy
 I will rest on a white doves breast 

I am tired, so tired, I unravel undone
 tumbling on forwards
 paper fibrils flutter
 I've now felt rapture in release, 

I am numb and broken in body
 falling forever into the night
 my eyes are always blurred
 as the dawn mourns its sight 

reaching out of the dark of the vale
 I will find my place in God’s Grace
 under relief an earthquake will shake
 I already miss your gorgeous face

with a last sigh I am unlaced ...


Premium Member Beyond Reach

Beyond reach in her child's world as she plays
Lost in her magic land of flower friends
Could I but capture the remaining days

Before fleeting childhood too quickly ends.
Those days of marshmallow clouds, velvet skies,
and best friends forever, magical blends.

I'd keep her young but she is much too wise.
Nor can I relive those days that have flown
Each day her growth is in a new-found guise

Reaching toward the future, free and unknown,
unlaced as flowers growing in the wild
those precious moments before she is grown.

Life doesn't wait for an uncaptured smile.
Moments, like bubbles, fade as they beguile.

December 21, 2022
Terza Rima
for Beyond Reach poetry contest
by Mystic Rose Rose
SECOND PLACE!
© Ann Peck  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Rapacious Itch

Rapacious  Itch 


It felt things coming, 
The undeniable bottom feeder reality, 
Where thought had no credulity, 
Where irrational emoting ruled, 
Void of mind’s prep, 
Blind of light’s revealing purpose. 

Such remained 
This well-rehearsed and produced 
Pulp life infestation. 

It remembered… 

Once many clambered to the marble steps, 
Where dreams born of teachings 
Promised delivery of reward. 

But today…
 
All that is found 
Is perpetuation of schoolyard practices, 
Where bullying, 
Mocking, 
And “my dick is bigger than your dick” war-cries 
Intimidate life’s playground with slippery slopes. 

Down 5th Avenue, 
Up Park Avenue, 
The viral contaminants parlay their wears, 
A far more contagious disease than Ebola. 

And it knows… 

Unlike a possible cure for a biological virus, 
This consumerism equation seems without solution, 
Given little of non-material worth remains 
Visible on the species’ blackboard mess. 

Today’s squirming parade of absence 
Is dominated by the pounding of urban-warrior chests, 
Of Armani jackets atop unlaced “made-to-look-raunchy” boots, 
Ken Doll fantasies courting the strut of Barbie Doll dreams 
Clicking attention with stiletto heels 
Beneath ripped shorter than short-short insecurity. 

On it spreads, 
Past the Wall Street reviewing stands, 
Where unlike the fickle nature of society’s infection, 
Market makers understand a fever’s ups and downs, 
Vulnerability’s capricious norm endorsing today’s 
Debauchery fashion to Trump-taste, 
Loudness to drown out worthy music, 
Shock to shatter the true awe of discovery, 
And the drowning of excellence
As it continues its desperate clinging, 
All while mediocrity’s narcissistic sell-off 
Creates another closing-bell windfall. 

The pestilence holds firm its lock on discernment’s immune system, 
Mutating daily into a mind-shrinking captivity, 
A synaptic virulence rapidly rendering this once simple discomfort 
Into an insatiable itch that will never realize its pursuit of “Ah!”.
© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Mysterious and Magnetic

- - The way we were
           in poetic form, underlined and understood,
                        unlaced and then,
                                exposed –

  Like chapters taken from the vertebral column
              reality now realizes the connection

   
 I am curious     
      how the glossary of you can still remain:
                               untouched,
                              unexplained 
                           
                . .  The illustration being plain . .  
                               
                             Who knows
                           your definition
                                 when,
               Incomprehensible is the selection

                               _______
                              Pull me in
                                  again,
                        to the way we were
                               
             The electricity between you and me, 
                             is Magnetic
                    an uncontrollable sensation,
                           
                           Quite Mysterious
                               ________


You wonder: 
              While I am bare and unaware
       
       Will tracing space, aligning lace back in its place,
                  . . the vocabulary of me . .
                           
                             Somehow
                                bind,
                          your section
                              to mine
                          
                    To the way we were, 
                       in poetic form


    Together - -
            We are underlined and understood,
                        unlaced and
                                exposed –
           
            Reality now realizes the connection




_________________

~ Just a little scribble ~
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Incomplete Farewell

Redolent, posh lyrics have hidden flaws.
Surrounded by a rusty sapphire sanctuary
That dampened the beauteous bronze glow.
Gold-sparkly afterglows can be sumptuary.

Surrounded by a rusty sapphire sanctuary
with acidic pollens and nervous neon wisps
Gold-sparkly afterglows can be sumptuary.
built an array of dark and wicked tale tips.

With acidic pollens and nervous neon wisps
Where platinum wings are tightly encased,
built by an array of dark and wicked tale tips.
With ash, in the dawn of solace, unlaced.

Where platinum wings are tightly encased,
I wake anxious, wailing rain, loving the flute.
With ash, in the dawn of solace, unlaced.
Melding dark poem of doom into wool toot.

I wake anxious, wailing rain, loving the flute.
That dampened the beauteous bronze glow.
Melding dark poem of doom into wool toot.
Redolent, posh lyrics have hidden flaws.

Written: January 27, 2023
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Pantoum

Treasons Reasons

Treason Reasons




                              Concreted cracks, abandoned train tracks,
                                unaffordable housing built like shacks.

                                    Unplanted seeds gardens of weed,
                               never having enough to satisfy the greed.

                                       Unseen view, is the sky blue?
                                  Goodwill bought unlaced white shoe.

                                 The frontyard seat on ol' bucket street,
                                  cool air doesn't help that kind of heat.

                                   Battles kill, unordinary run of the mill,
                                  another happy mailman undelivered bill.

                                  Where is our morality? What is our deal?
                                 living here in the now is such a reality kill...



bmdavey@
02/24/16
Form: Couplet

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