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Premium Member My Travelogue

After two weeks of riding the winds across the world,
I return to the nest where my heart had perched all along.
Meeting old souls and young flames was a melody of warmth,
Their greetings, like golden threads, wove memories into my soul.

Living alone in my quiet cocoon, I had forgotten the dance of life,
But among many hearts under one roof, I felt the fire rekindle.
The walls may have worn the years like ancient scrolls,
Yet the laughter within them lit the halls like chandeliers of joy.

Some lands felt like overflowing treasure chests,
Where a simple coin made me a king, if only for a day.
Others stood like castles on high cliffs, unreachable,
Yet the kindness of strangers built bridges across our differences.

I longed to stand before the great wonders,
But the stormy whims of weather and health held me back.
Perhaps, through the looking glass of a screen,
I shall still taste the marvels of my fleeting odyssey.
© Jay Narain  Create an image from this poem.


Colours In a Cloud Speak

"Colours in a Cloud Speak" 

The colours 
of a world 
speak 

no one 
has time 
to listen

The spectrums 
speak like
music, lucid

like clouds
that pulse ultraviolet
in front of you 

through wide open
windows, unavoidable,
some strange dream 

your eyes see,
but do not 
speak

the unbelieved
reels in the 
unbelievable

we live 
in these odd times
we observe meanings subliminal

that no one else
other than we
in our own moment

believe, 
could see
on the peripheral 

of even
like odd 
evening clouds

in the small hours
that pulse curious
purple, then ultraviolet, 

points of calculus 
invading our 
small space, try reasoning

watching us
as we move in
some strange elusive dream 

a beacon 
calling us 
home, 

some strange home 
calls us crazy, we are 
cats cradles cartwheeling 

unreachable 
we think, it exists 
somewhere else, 

other than this, 

in the 
in between
unseen

we exist
we dream
we try to live

what we see, 
is not real,
it’s spun 

like fairy floss 
in the machinations
of the others' schemes

sugar tastes sweet
addictive, we are lost
in the after taste

wanting more
of what we 
know is their drug

what we are taught
from birth to see,
is not the real of reality

our minds are locked
from time of rebirth, 
re-entry 

into 
well-rehearsed territory
birth pains burning 

the inevitability, 
truth hits us 
the gravity glitching

karma circles
Ferris wheels
that stop occasionally

to let us
get on 
get off 

it could be 
realer 
than real

the mysterious colour 
hidden in clouds
we touch 

in our dreams
we are like 
comets falling

(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)













cat's cradle
noun
a child's game in which a loop of string is put around and between the fingers and complex patterns are formed.


Harry Chapin - Cats in the Cradle
Form: Narrative

Premium Member TRIPTYCH EXPERIENCES

TRIPTYCH EXPERIENCES
portrayed 
    surrounded 
now
repotoire
recited 
recalls 
    questioning 
      the formulae
to
 stimulate 
     subjectivity 
delicious 
  luminous
dialogue 
in
        bizarre 
graduated
contrasts  
   with unbridled 
shades 
predominantly 
  prevailing
afresh 
in sensitive 
      hesitant
 scenarios
 passionate
     unreachable 
role-play 
   studies
of
 facial 
  splendour 
in
lavish  
   concept 
a 
   formulated
 process
to
  conveys
a 
    quiet relaxed 
series
carefully
fronted  
    emphasis
balanced 
precise 
    awareness 
with
vital
  counterparts
in
  closely 
     occasioned 
devices
Form: Verse

Premium Member Earthquake

Life rumbles like a strong earthquake
While trying to keep feet on the ground
Stable, settling, through all the shaking
Trying not to fall into some deep crevice
With no way out, never able to get out
Trying to believe in the next bright sunrise
To bring new things, something, anything,
To rise above the bold shaking all around,
The shaking within, the answers unreachable
At a time when answers are needed the most
So much strain, just trying to get through
Trapped by falling boulders, in every direction
Trying to see the flower of the present moment
Peeking through, knowing this moment is alright
Knowing the beauty will grow and I will be with it
Then one day, all will be still, quiet, peaceful
 -----------Everything will be alright -------------

Heidi Sands
2/21/17

Premium Member We All Have Our Own Stories

*Inspired by the song: Different Kind Of Tears - By , Sully Erna
__________________________________________________

We all have our own stories
Intertwining on this road through life
Some things understood
Some things, not so much

Oh, how that rain falls
On all of us, during our travel
But, the sun shines on each of our steps
Onward up these hills we climb

Yes, we all have our own stories
Our own hurtful tears to cry
Familiar emptiness knocks on our hearts
Pain that may be deeper, unreachable

But, we all walk on this solid ground
On which our tears do fall
Where we sometimes bury pain
Then lift higher, when it transpires

On this road for ours to share
With scenery changing everywhere
Blessed with love between us
To accept what is not always understood

Yes, we all have our own stories
Written from laughter, tears, smiles and pain
Woven together with our own words
Even with stories not the same in detail

Within you, within me
Like the beating of our hearts,
We breathe, we love, we walk this road
Made of our lives we travel

We reach our hands to each other
At each plateau, a chance to help
Another to see the view, the meaning of our lives
Intricately woven together, in completion, as one

Heidi Sands

11/22/17


Premium Member Giggle Then Gurgle

Today, it's a warm splash in a rubber pool
bright bobbing toys-smiling,
A giggle with every splash...
too soon it'll be the open ocean
silver things darting just beneath the feet
a gasp with every splash and every flash off teeth.

A journey all must take
they call it growth-
Out from the shadow of comfort zones...
reaching for unreachable goals.
family-blood-security, be damned.

One could get lost in the froth
fighting off gulls waiting to steal your French fry refrain.

It's all about survival
ignoring stings
the shell games
dolphin man jumping through golden rings
salt smiling.

Someday you'll make it back home
back through the backstabbing breakers
but home will be nothing like you remembered it to be.

Premium Member PURPLE LIQUID TOMB-Perfume Bottle Poetry Contest

PURPLE LIQUID TOMB
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Glass cool against her cheek, a curved silent, liquid prison.
     A vicious dawn clings to her skin-the scent of lavender and regret.

She remembers spritzing, a nervous habit before sleep,
     a fragile shield against restless sleep and shadowy nights.

Now, the night is gone, replaced with imprisoning purple,
     by the ghost of lavender, by the echo of her own skin.

She inhales deeply trying to understand how she became the perfume,
     the distilled longing, instead of the woman who wore it. 

The world outside the perfume bottle, a blurry kaleidoscope, unreachable.
     Only the scent remains. ‘Do they smell me?’ 

‘Do they understand me? This barrier of scent is a warning
     flashing, DO NOT APPOACH TOO CLOSELY.’

‘Will anyone notice I’m gone? Will they reach for this bottle,
     spritzing themselves with my dis-ease and despair?’

She yells, but only the fragrance answers~
     a silent floral shriek lost in the beautiful, gilded glass bottle.

Lost in her liquid tomb, she releases a morbidly silent question. 'Is this mortality~
     to be forever the scent of a woman who no longer exists outside this bottle?’

Fukuda Chiyo-ni Haiku Translations 4

Fukuda Chiyo-ni Haiku Translations 4

The next seven autumn moon translations are dedicated to Stephen I. Hsu, who suggested the Chiyo-ni poems to me.

Keywords/Tags: autumn, moon, bright, walk, touch, nature, absence, angst, loneliness, solitude, understanding, distance, nearness

Bright autumnal moon,
but no matter how far I walked,
unreachable.
—Fukuda Chiyo-ni, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Bright autumnal moon,
but no matter how far I walked,
distant beyond my grasp.
—Fukuda Chiyo-ni, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Here, “grasp” in both the sense of touch and understanding.

Walking, walking
toward the bright autumn moon,
never the nearer.
—Fukuda Chiyo-ni, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I walk and walk
toward the autumn moon,
yet it remains distant.
—Fukuda Chiyo-ni, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

"meigetsu ya": "bright moon" or "harvest moon"
"ittemo ittemo": "however far I walked," or "no matter how much I walk"
"yoso no sora": "distant sky," "unknown sky," or "another's sky"

***

The bright autumn moon
even for those we keenly miss
shines just as full.

The bright autumn moon
even for those far from us
shines just as full.

The bright autumn moon
even for those far from us
seems just as close.

meigetsu ya: "bright moon" or "harvest moon"
rusu no hito ni mo: "for those far away"
maru nagara: "while round" or perhaps "remains round/full"
Form: Haiku

Premium Member The Interrogation

"I would rather be on a leaky ship that is mine, than aboard a more seaworthy vessel going where I don't wish it to go"—Poet's alter ego

Yes, I know what I’m doing
I’m the master of my fate
The captain of the sinking ship
Seeking harbor in ports whether safe or rocky
With gusto I plow through uncharted frontiers
Why do I do these things to myself?  you ask
Perhaps I’m a rebel in search of what's unbeknownst
to me, in search of virgin long lost horizons pristine
Horizons others deem unreachable
I’m bold, brash and yeah sassy, brassy
And irrepressible! You can’t love me you see, 
I’m a Lonewolf, and it's quite fine, to be…
Untamed as the wild northern wind
Sweeping the prairies with a gusting woman’s surge
Nature's raw elements try in vain to halt my advances
But I laugh and mock at Mother's efforts
Although I’m tossed and torn
In the grips of Her relentless tempests,
Her  storms of fury suppressing, oppressing 
Her stern and staid demands to obey, tame and domesticate
You may say I’m the constructor of my own chaos
A free-spirit,  challenging myself
My integrity intact, place not your pity on me
Respect is my hallmark and independence,  
my calling.
© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Beyond Reach

I could not for a moment, even if I wanted to.
I could never fly like a butterfly out back.
Or zip through raindrops like bubbles of joy.

But I could follow the lights sparkling for me,
lighting the pathways as I go skipping free form.

The multicolored rainbow always lights up my day,
like the energizer, firing up my entire being.

Notwithstanding, regardless of how I may feel,
how well I might hear or see, or how far or near
my destiny may be, nor yet how seemingly unreachable
it may appear. If I never make the first step forward,
believing the plan and purpose God has chosen for me,
it is indeed an obstacle course. And without a doubt,
it is beyond reach.

122622PSCtest, Beyond Reach, Mystic Rose Rose
Form: Verse

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