when jelly is both jelly and wall
wall simultaneously wall and jelly
a point for nail to enter piercing, stall
lucidity inconceivable to a machiavelli
Enchanted by your voice, I almost fell asleep,
in a field full of sunflowers, dreaming reality could mirror dreams.
I followed you so far, unconcerned by the fatigue,
walking through danger just to keep my place beside you.
Loved you so hard, when I saw you I missed a beat,
rational as I am, I was startled that I lost my breath.
I carried it to wake with you beside me,
wondering at night if an angel could be disguised.
Hearing you, I learned that dreams could also become scary.
Seeing you near taught me vigilance.
Loving you moved me across worlds — but I had traveled far enough.
Carrying it this long, I saw our colors — bold and subtle — filling the canvas.
Now.
My ears can listen from afar, but I cannot hear you.
My legs could cross layers of hell, but not to reach you.
My heart now beats fast as falling leaves, but not seeing you pass by.
I still carry it — but it no longer shines the same.
Dwindling minds
breeds clarity,
exhaling paved trepidation,
as gilded moon tides
shadow my fading lucidity.
Too much lucidity makes you suffer, makes you cry..
lucidity in this crazy life we live in... illusion is better...
Is this what I seek? loud gratitude and a soon end.
Words once comforting
They seem so fake
Expression is vulnerable. Can I come out of this Darkness, yet?
Waves in my tranquil sea.
Happiness; Is it worth it all?
Thoughts became a past
Don't you want something from me?
A maze in a way.
Where's my path on shaky ground?
I stumble, but I don't want to give in.
I crumble, fall, die. Unfairness
I have arrived here, where am I?
It travels in my veins, and my mind, concurring my thoughts
I'll fight for this insight
my hope, the kind darkness.
side by side.
Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints. ~ Eric Hoffer
And should I cherish lucid moments of my day
to dwell on how my words will paint the blue vellum?
Or dream that in those lucid thoughts may lie the way
to philosophies protected by dark pelham?
Soon to write my thoughts in a pleasing structured form,
I turn to flow my life for all to analyze.
Is it eloquence I seek, or a bright brainstorm
to loosely form coherent thoughts and crystallize?
Basking in boastful brilliance, words outflow freely,
purest unbridled revelry is extended
to writing fraught with inner secrets genteelly
hidden in subtle between-the-lines pretended.
Laying my pen aside, I read what is written.
Word by word, in silence, I am humbly smitten.
I struck the raw edges
Jagged scraps
my shards
thunders like waves of anger
on your shore breeze sighed
to ride the wind
sunrises past my dismay
odious side of dark
souvenirs blazing
fade in
skyline silken sun song
propel blimps
orthopter wings
&
draw dusk aches
with burning shapes
& endless rapturous sinew
crimson philharmonic!
grateful life flows
beyond obvious
bestowal affection in a diamond hour
lucidness
climbing longing
velvet whispers
spectrum choir
Written: July 23, 2022
A BRIAN STRAND PREMIERE CHOICE Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand
LUCIDITY
this notion
of genius
merits
of assessment
appreciation
of
the pristine
in depictions
connected
innovated
&juxatposed
as
genres
fluttering gently
into
floral
bouquets
THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma so derived
S-hine
O-f
L-ucidity
E-rases
D-ark
A-nd
D-awn's
F-og
L-etting
O-ne
R-adiance
E-ndorse
N-ewness
T-o
I-llumine
N-atural
O-penness
Topic: Birthday of Soledad Florentino (November 10)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
C-lear
L-ucidity
E-rases
R-ainy
E-vening
N-egating
C-hilling
E-nvironment
A-s
C-oolness
U-ses
N-ature
A-new
Topic: Birthday of Clerence Acuña (December 15)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
D-elight
O-f
L-ucidity
L-ets
Y-our
M-orn
A-bate
C-hill
A-s
L-ovely
I-mage
N-icely
A-llows
O-penness
Topic: Birthday of Dolly F. Macalinao (December 13)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
J-ust
E-xpect
L-ucidity
I-n
Z-enith
A-s
B-eacon
A-nd
L-ight
I-n
A-ppearance
T-winkle
Topic: Birthday of Jeliza Baliat (April 05)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
M-orn
A-nd
R-ays
Y-ield
C-ool
R-adiance
I-n
S-unny
M-orn
A-s
C-learness
A-nd
L-ight
O-pen
L-ucidity
O-f
T-winkle
Topic: Birthday of Marycris Macalolot (January 05)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
J-anuary
I-n
M-orning
E-arly
L-ight
A-llows
S-unny
T-hirtieth
R-ay
O-f
L-ucidity
A-s
V-ividness
I-s
O-bvious
Topic: Birthday of Jimel M. Astrolavio (January 30)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
M-arch
E-arly
L-ight
E-nds
N-ight
C-hill
I-n
O-pen
D-awn
O-f
L-ucidity
O-nce
R-adiance
I-n
T-hird
O-pportunity
S-tarts
Topic: Birthday of Melencio Doloritos (March 03)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
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