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Death Is Wedding Night

(Dedicated this writing to the merciful birthday of the greatest love of the earth Mevlânâ  Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi. 30th September is the auspicious birthday of this ever greatest spiritual icon.)

My Death is My Wedding Night- RUMI


In the unstructured body of the rosy sky
the love river is flowing to assuage the frantic heart

the stars of the west show the dance of Sufi
where the souls of east are rejuvenated 

You died before the earthly birth in the flute of love
where beloved gets rebirth to be enraptured 

No stain on this ground soil, no sin the elopement is 
where the thorns are rotten, the love is God

Who knew the ancient mystery of the love
where your all bookish knowledge were invalid

When the semen of your intoxicated devout wisdom
The master of soul offered you to birth lac of lovers

From that time still- the death of love is the wedding night
and the wedding night is the birth of eternal loving reunion 


-01.10.2020 Chattogram


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Note: - 

Mevlânâ  Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, (September 30, 1207, Balkh, Afghanistan - December 17, 1273, Konya, Turkey ) also known as Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi and more popularly simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet, faqih, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran. The Masnavi, or Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi, also written Mathnawi, or Mathnavi, is an extensive poem written in Persian by him


My Matty Mattel Talking Doll

While meditating earlier today,
a flashback leapt
     clear for me to assay,
those ever receding

     early boyhood daze,
     now subsumed within fifty,
plus nine shades of gray
blissfully innocent naivety,

     (though blessed) no way
would, aye desire to turn back
     the hands of father time (hypothetically),
     where unstructured play

regularly with older sister
     (thirteen plus months
     my senior) predominantly
     slicing, sliding, and slipping

     stockinged feet skittering
     across slippery basement floor,
     this then soul full
     skinny thing bellowed hooray.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
"I'm Matty Mattel; I got hurt;
     Can you go out?"
Those words uttered
     by the very first

     pull-string talking doll
     Mattel did tout
circa nineteen sixty
     revolutionizing the birth

     of quasi simulated (lifelike) toys,
     and made of common
     materials found scout
ting around the house simply comprising

     hard vinyl (i.e. pseudo
     plaster of Paris) head he did flout
     with remaining body
     stuffed with padding,

     a definite no
     no (chew toy) when Fido about.
Actually that pooch,
     would be Georgie to you,

     (a hybrid Boxer Dalmatian)
     with docked tail
my young parents acquired,
     when as a newborn,

     aye did inconsolably wail
though recollection of such memory
     fifty nine years ago tis of no avail
yet, a resumption of meditation,

     sans lightness of being
     (analogous trancelike state),
     that doth prevail
replaying silent film preceding,

     when psyche seem so frail
plummeting into emotional abyss
     the nadir i.e. anorexia nervosa
pleading return to nostalgic boyhood
     decrying change hide didst bewail!

Premium Member - In Playground Of Imagination -


                A vivid imagination
                Build a castle in top of a tree
                Pirates and jungle animals
                Pink elephants and hungry crocodiles
                Princesses and trolls
                Floating paper boats,
                huge ship sailing on the ocean
                Bringing life to children's play
                Without specific props,
                free and unstructured

                The result of natural curiosity
                a fictional and incredible world
                Fighting a dragon
                among ivy in arches
                Simple serving,
                in the shade of the mulberry tree

                Creates fascinating stories
                A silk thread that sews a seam, pluck from the skies
                Mud play, freshly baked chocolate cookies
                Would you wish to taste the success?
                Expands the palate's taste buds ... undoubtedly
                Coming home with red apple cheeks
                A healthy development and 
                precious childhood memories
                Tired toddlers
                                 -  sleeps through the night

Premium Member Lest We Forget

Remember them who lay in rows and
rows where poppies grow, and
enjoy this life because many died, 
to make it so.  Mother's weep for a
child no more, echoing canons can be
heard in the distance, and many have 
bowed their heads to cry. Bring yourself
to silence at eleven in the morning. Ringing
out are bells, eleven times, and bagpipes
sounds drift in praise, and those who stand
with honour are set in stone. Now jets fly over 
in an azure sky, thundering. Canada we stand
on guard for you! The Red and White Maple
Leaf Flag blows. Even in the going down of the
sun we will remember your precious blood.

Days have passed and pages have turned yet
we remember them, and now it is time for prayer
and quiet contemplation, yes, let us pray in this
hallowed place to honor the past and present.
Within my heart I see great-grandpa and grandpa
in black and white photographs, now give respect
to those whose names are etched on plagues and
stones in cemeteries, and remember those who came
back broken in their souls, nothing could help those
who took their own life due to memories horrible, and
on the grave of the unknown soldier we place our red
poppies, oh do not ever forget their great sacrifice so
we could live in sweet harmony, and now wreaths of
remembrance are being placed on the war monument.
Now, I place a wreath for the First Nation People as I 
swell with pride for my ancestors who died in war. 


 "and the sound of pipes and drums drift along city streets"

______________________________
November 11, 2016


Poetry/Unstructured Prose Verse/Lest We Forget
Copyright Protected, ID 16-849-151-0
All Rights Reserved.  Written under Pseudonym.

Submitted to FTI Blog Series 15 - November 
Brian Strand

Podium Place1
Form: Verse

Premium Member Playing with a Pantoum

A newly shaped poem is composed
Of themes both rare and common.
The poet’s thoughts, it is supposed
Will flow to paper without caution.

Of themes both rare and common-
Candid expressions, as pebbles upon the water hurled,
Will flow to paper without caution.
Unstructured elements mingled together in a whirl.

Candid expressions, like pebbles on the water hurled,
First ideas spill forth uncurbed.
Unstructured elements mingled together in a whirl
Wildly unreasonable, ludicrous, even absurd.

First ideas spill forth uncurbed
A tumult of hysteria, an outburst of facts and fantasy
Wildly unreasonable, ludicrous, even absurd,
Until (like magic) the figment’s purpose becomes reality.

A tumult of hysteria, an outburst of facts and fantasy,
The dreamer slows her crazed word play,
Until (like magic) the figment’s purpose becomes reality
And the poet’s whimsies an elemental form displays.

The dreamer slows her crazed word play.
The hard work now begins.
And the poet’s whimsies an elemental form displays,
Time to focus on imagery, sound, and rhythm.

The hard work now begins.
From the jumble, selected words must “pack a punch.”
Focus on imagery, sound, and rhythm,
Tone, diction, and structure -must consider much.

From the jumble, selected words must “pack a punch.”
A newly shaped poem is composed.
Tone, diction, and structure -must consider much.
Intentional placements- lines and phrases transposed.

It’s been an entertaining afternoon
Playing with a Pantoum


Michelle Waters
Nov. 27, 2023
Form: Pantoum


Premium Member Lint's Aura

AUDIO: Danse Macabre by Busy Strings.

Lint's Aura

Dignity gliding,
Resplendent in red was I,
Generous eyes felt,
Occurrences display me,
Stellar launched my existence.

Wardrobe visit hung,
Collection of new threads fills,
Close-knit paradigm,
Fussy fingers orbit me,
Small room phases a small box.

Reduced unstructured,
Yond pilfered vigor stills I,
Tattered wisps attend,
Cleavage currents my image,
Flew with the best ere sole flight.

2022 June 03
*7th Place*
A BRIAN STRAND PREMIERE CHOICE
~~Brian Strand: Judged 2022 June 06

*HMS: 5,7,5,7,7 syllables per x 3 stanzas
Form: Tanka

I'm a Seashell

I’m a seashell. 
No one inside, but spiraling patterns and maybe memories.

No one knows how to tangle with seaweed anymore. 
Or how to live off slime. 
I used to know these things. 
Nothing works underwater. 
Except fins and eyes. 

No one knows how to survive ocean things. 
Anything good about me…

Got washed away like something unstructured. 
Living like slime so what does slime eat?
Disastrous. 
I’m a seashell or something. 
With nothing except horrible thoughts of cave divers.

I’m a seashell. 
I’m beautiful and I used to be alive. 
I’m still part of the sea this summer. 
I certainly never heard of things. 
Like summer, humans, or how to live a long life.

Premium Member Why I Am Here Part Two

POETIC BIO

Alliteration,the starting place, alongside

cinquains,apace in time,crystalline

lanterne and rhyme came to be

Inspiration later drew forth

footle,broken monoku &emagi

&for a while

 short imagist was my style.

Sequenced longer poems metamorphose
 
within this chrysallis

changing into ekphrasis.

 Then Open,and organic free to be,

as you see,unstructured poetry.

With cadence and pause,

others began to hear my voice,

youtube became  this poet’s choice.



What intimacy is its cause,perhaps

an immaculate conception of words;

too swift to comprehend,see or

recognise.

The moment is there

and then is not.Gone with the wind

the seed of inspiration

self-transcending a word into a phrase,

a sentence to a strophe;a rhyme

rides a waterfall 

into a chasm of verse. Terse or

long, the sonnet becomes a verse
Form: Bio

Heat Wave

"Heat Wave" 

A new dawn fades
as the sun overtakes
the division in joy

the top layer 
shiny and new 
still and blue 

calm and observing

underneath 
the cover of morning
the firmament dissipates

like phoenix burning

sensual pleasures 
sharp grooved 
igniting loose ties

sacrificing cool 
language dripping
like molten honey 

over a body 
a real piece 
of work crucified

a deep story 
just short of 
6ft high 

gone all
unstructured 
and supine 

dark Night
tightly holding court 
with Excalibur 

held high
like an offering
to Blue Sky

melting in a heatwave
renaissance rising
oceans turning 

rolling rapture
the blood and water
eye for eye still scoring 

not feathered 
and tarred, 
the never dead 

very much alive

witness the walking 
on watery nets
always close, never far

as in a mirror
the bright 
and shining 

Morning Star

(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)








duality.
Form: Narrative

Premium Member A November Poppy

A NOVEMBER POPPY
Names,familiar names that
now remain exposed,carved
in stone,a memorial to others'
shame.In their prime,cut off
a time,so brief,float down,my
sweet poppy leaf.
Once a face,smiling eyes,
lives with dreams vibrant as
day,faded now,untold in
someone's memory destined
to lie.Every name,there were
schooled,loved,laughed,and 
cried,like we,walking this town,
exploring field and vale,each 
unique,and an unfinished tale.

An unstructured prose verse dedicated to my grandfather and great uncle.

Listen to me recite this verse on youtube today under pen name ichthyschiro
Form: Verse

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