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God's Time

I welcome change as long as it is God breathed
Like peace turning to war, the blade is unsheathed 
Like rain tending the crop, then the sun comes to ripen
For in futility we push to cause, no let God's Will happen

No aspersions cast on diligence 
Just that times and seasons know our negligence 
As we fail to read the signs of the times 
Nothing of the moment and deed rhymes

For until time came did Christ enter Jerusalem 
Though beseeched He commended not Himself to them 
And when came the hour of the Son of Man to be lifted up 
It was the very time to drink of His cup

None knows the day nor the hour but the Father
All knees shall at the place of bow gather
And it shall all change suddenly to eternity
To the baffle and relief of a great fraternity.

K. Muitherero.
Form: Rhyme


November

An Arctic wind comes reaping the mild air,
breath hangs in clouds and grass hides under frost,
low morning sun soaks branches soon stripped bare,
boots wallow in the reds and golds now lost.
Chevrons of Geese head south for warmer climes,
ground creatures bedding down until the spring,
their instincts telling them it is the time
when nature's heartbeat slows, and no birds sing.
No kindness shown as autumn's laid to rest,
no mercy given, winter's blade unsheathed,
it's willing victim gladly bares it's breast
and falls, in pallid shades the land is wreathed.

Each year this drama plays, the rise and fall
consoled by distant promise, spring will call.
© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Sonnet

Head of Two Person Patriarchy 2nd Guess

Domestic chargé d'affaires
became mine bailiwick
dint of the missus being
disinclined and less quick
budgeting, hence I inadvertently
accepted lickity split,
subsequent obligation did

smoothly clack and click,
which minimized conflict
whereby we shared equal intrinsic
reciprocity complicity, culpability
then at playtime, thee enigmatic
one whipped out adult toys
stashed in the attic.

Altercations impossible to avoid,
'specially when unemployed
(think Rob zombie humanoid)
additionally, I lacked emotionally unalloyed

communication cues, nearly destroyed
romance, cuz only recourse re: primal
non verbal, viz Braille
while disguised as android
amorousness I expressly enjoyed

satisfactorily papa bear
groaning courtesy steroid
launching petsmart aery mission
poised to strike no 
matter mainly to void

i.e. unpacking heat prohibited,
one tony peppy trooper deployed,
but unexpectedly waylaid
understandably yours truly annoyed
unsheathed hot pistol manually toyed.

Admission, confession, decision firmly laid
down, I oft times insisted felt test ease made
purposeless seething hormonal secretion
triggered fountainhead sprayed

activated provocation upbraid
ding the then live in girlfriend
French kissing parlez vous
pledged troth plus
serving as milkmaid.

Premium Member Bite Your Tongue

Chaucer wrote, "... thy tongue shouldst thou restrain."
There is truth in his words for a vile one can cause pain.
A sword unsheathed from its scabbard can pierce a heart.
In like manner, a wicked tongue can tear a friendship apart.

No matter how the teeth bite the tongue before it speaks,
if allowed to talk freely, emotional havoc it often wreaks.
Each word can be a bullet shot from a combative tongue,
delivering a verbal assault when ugly words from it is flung.

Be mindful of the sharp weapon your tongue can wield  
because it's capable of wounding those without a shield.
Foul words can't be returned once they've been spewed.
Control its abusive actions by having a change of attitude.

Don't allow it to run wild then say, "It was my tongue's fault."
Control the cruel beast, to say least, and rein it in to a halt.
Scripture says the tongue has the power of life and death,
so do not allow it to define you. Stop and take a deep breath.

Words burn whether whispered, hissed or shouted in scorn,
weighing heavily in the air, leaving the innocent feeling torn.
A tongue can crush both spirit and soul and tell a twisted tale.
Keep it leashed inside your mouth and pleasantries will prevail.
© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Homage To St Michael

A Knight from the vast Kingdom
of The King of Holy Throne.
Michael slept within a castle
on beds of peat moss, and of loam.                               
His face was sedimentary,
though laughter mapped its course.
And his gleaming hair cascaded,
much like a Viking of the Norse.

His raiment wasn’t fancy.
No silk nor satin hose.
But his mind was quick as silver
and his heart was pure as gold.
Cloaked without, by a robe of integrity.
Fortified within, by a will of steel.
He wielded the Sword of Justice,
while holding Truth up as his shield.

Saint Michael’s crusade was legendary,
as was the power of his sword.
Forged to slay the inner dragons,
in reverent service to our Lord.
Countless times the blade was tested,
for malice dwells not on defeat.
Never lacked he for contenders,
disciples of rumors and deceit.

Bad Rumor sowed the seed of doubt
within the mind of man.
Watered from the trough of spite,  
he conceived his evil plan.
Each rancid seed that sprouted
grew to a bud of tarnished mail.
Thus, shrouded by corrosion,
he sought corruption to prevail.

When Rumor heard of Saint Michael, 
his phosphorous eyes lit up with hate.
Armed with his pitchfork and scythe,
he charged through his hellish gates.
Targeted by dark ambition,
saddled by vicious greed,
he raced upon the clouds fate,
engulfed by jealousy.
.
Michael felt the evil presence
and strapped on his Mighty Sword.
Then he rode off to a clearing,
in the sweet realm of The Lord.
Rumor attacked with animosity,
his trident held, as if a spear.
But as the Sword of God unsheathed,
Rumor was lanced by sudden fear.

Michael raised the Sword of Eminence  
as if to pierce the sky.
While sunlight sparked along its blade
a beam smote Rumor’s eye.
Blazing light seized Rumor’s mind.
It seared his ravaged soul.
And when the inner battle ended,
Rumor’s heart was charred to coal.

As Saint Michael wiped soot and ashes
from the length of his trusted sword,
his eyes fell upon the hilt
to runes inscribed there, by The Lord:
“May The Force be your faith
May your spirit know The Lamb
May Love guard your heart
May The Light guide your hand.”
Form: Verse


Premium Member Resurrected Graves of Memory

In depth, in graves of memory

                               I brought my rose of peace

                            If you live on within my heart

                                Your life will never cease

                           
                           Is earthen vase, in layers of time

                                    Living as we breathe

                         Then layer by layer this living climb

                          Memories' sword of light unsheathed

                              
                                      In memory, I wield it

                                  It shines within my hands  

                               No longer memories grave I sit

                            Cutting through time's misty lands

                            
                                 Now you are here with me
                              
                                   Funny, joyful, full of life

                                    Alive as you can be

                           Before sorrowed tears and strife

                               
                               Amidst my turbulence of youth

                             Felling vain Philosophies wisdoms

                               You Shared with me the truth

                             A King beyond earth's kingdoms.

                                
                                Your lovely eyes shown brightly 
                    
                                   As sharing with me hope
                                
                                Your weilded sword held tightly

                                 That Light helped you to cope

                         
                              In depth, beyond Grave memory

                                  Resurrected rose of peace

                                Vibrant you, within my heart

                                  Your life will never cease

                              
                                 Though living in my heart

                                You walk on Heaven's shore

                              We're really not that far apart

                                           Closer than 

                                        In days of yore
Form: Rhyme

Tears To Heal

Inside this spectacular flare
 seeped to shadows edge, 
  is a sadness born of leagues 
   sorrow freed 
   a forged memory shrines
   in might,
   timed unsheathed tears 
   blessed flows of comfort,
   rained misery echos,
   from chambered arch, 
   heart wells to break
   this ache of mime,
   these broken despairs diverged
   soul searched memoir
   now worn retiring,
   serrated scorched flesh 
   burning lines seared Though,
   breathlessly transformed 
   flourished streams unbidden-ed,
  now breached
 renewed
Breathing in the blackness
sprays that misery blew 
pain of crushing memory
now merged,
lustrous forever, 
  heart strings sung before
   a munimented fibril of tears,
    drips quenching
    a heart dwelling
   within a mind
  Memory graced in visions 
 seems broken spilling bare,
defined into the sharing
 this soul de-lined despair,
  hope refilled in crystal hue
   deeded thought was found
    shimmering in its loveliness,
     these ruminated musings
      blazing Love astound

Paltry Credit Karma

Earned to date,
nee absolute zero
academic bankable bragging rites
explained arduous, horrendous, onerous
agonizing, heartbreaking,
nerve wracking travails

hamstringing, hijacking, hobbling...
maximization of potential
e'er since yours truly
begat when ma dada
fired off his johnny rotten sex pistol
handy dandy blues clues unsheathed

ejaculated gun - lobbed more'n blanks
scoring bullseye pregnant truth
discovered ex post facto
yoked target with egg sealant aim
conceived coe idle upstanding ovation
fusion formed diploid 
cell signifying zygote

activating, kickstarting, quickening
embryonic biological reproductive processes
intimating swell happening,
where linkedin rocketed payload
snookered triggered ultimately
yielded inchoate homunculus jackanapes

zapped out birth canal
ready for prime crying time
parturition players chemical romance loosed
yawping, writhing, tethering pipsqueak
full term newborn blasted,
the shocked monkey,

accompanied by archangel Peter Gabriel
trusty unnecessary dangling umbilical cord
obstetrician quickly severed
in utero air supply superfluous
initial gulps of oxygen
commenced fretful incessant laborious

ongoing ripsnorting unrelenting
said vicious trauma,
albeit begat courtesy
glommed deoxyribonucleic acid
mercilessly assailing psyche
metaphorically holding hostage

nee actually essentially cannibalizing
analogous to birthing simultaneous
diabolical identical twin doppelgänger
undermining since getco
proper holistic pursuits
evidenced when matriculating

learning fraught
shot thru with abysmal results
post high school
academic endeavors
evidenced by matriculation
without graduation incorporating

half dozen colleges/universities
earning measly grade point average
simultaneously accumulating
shoddy employment record
now saddled with unbridled

penuriousness - scratching out poetry
every now again
this brother grimm
writing endeavors feeble
becoming financially solvent.

Moon Confession

Have been accused that the splendor of love has my praise,
constant change and its stimulation for the awaken days.
The longing, the calm, the touch and its astonishment,
illimitable desires, its creative expression and still content.
The many excuses and fears to cheat despair,
to know the madness to take the motion to bear.
Promised eternal love to cross that dark of life,
lovers eyes speak in that voluptuous light of strife.
Remembered potion of my beam in constellation,
embracing souls and glowing emancipation.
Immortal praise for all tenderness is given,
the inenarrable senses all driven.
The queen of love beaconed in dreamer’s nights,
cause of attraction’s magnificence.
Celestial loyalties in timeless sphere,
soothing away the troubles everywhere.
Holding the bond that made love to trust,
sacramental echoes of stardust.
Awake above the ego’s cry without doubt,
redeeming will humble allowed.
My waning intemperate indulgence not to blame,
unsheathed reality for the constant new again.
Possessions through the act of memory,
spectrums in light of progressive immortality.
Form: Ballade

The Earthy Habitat 5

the krishnachura and the champa 

both of them 
have the only-one unsheathed afternoon 

both of them
have the same-one broken harmonium 

how long more the eyes of terracotta 
would roam in the sun 

the uneven fate-line 
is written on the green slate 

the sound of the vocal chord is also eloquent 
as if it were some  bare trees of wood-apple 

around the swimming 
there are some scattered scrapes of slippers

the colour of whose straps 
is blue 

and some tales of the faded sky 

i return home with the night of 
phosphorus
 
i return with those waves of the 
mid-night that have no translation 

i lay them in order

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