O quatrain, if I would, could you?
Aren't we fancy-free?
Bolt, shock through! O baby blue!
Firewalk with me!
Ravine behind, seen in dream?
Houses of the old.
Tend thy garden on the beam!
Terror, strike them cold.
Fateful fire, thy fury.
Scurrying rat, mad mink.
Blizzard, spent in flurries?
Dragon, firebake. Bad brink.
Fates Three, Muses Nine, pain. Pine?
Dark fire, black thy shine.
Glisten, wound in back. Boil, brine.
Vampire, on death dine.
Torments of the damned? Hail, home.
Let out on the loam.
Thunder, roll above the dome.
Black bound bell and tome.
Doom, loom over. Sibyl, sense.
Golem, got sixpence?
Death-flame, burning. Manse, incense.
Recoil, confidence.
Monopolize, monologue.
Metropolis, maim.
Prick, my nerves. Human race, cog?
Downpour to disclaim.
Wren, wind. Weathervane, point. Seek.
Glow, O gibbous moon.
Plaque o'er door of boneyard, speak.
Float, O my balloon...
What is this ridiculous obsession ~
perhaps a case of simple vanity?
There's so much more to life
than warped arrogant narcicism.
I'm obviously more than
these pesky extra pounds
around my waist and
few deep wrinkles on my face
yet still it manages to monopolize
my moods and daily thoughts.
I seem to spend my time
reminding mirror and self,
much like repeating a mantra,
that I am the sum total of my years.
Meanwhile I'll wait patiently for this brain
to start embracing the golden age of wisdom.
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Tantalize, Hypnotize.
Insatiable lust fortifies
Monopolize. Imploring eyes.
Submit to temptation, mesmerize.
All signs of resistance attain demise.
Utter ecstasy, reaching unreachable highs.
My feelings are mosaic,
scattered and multi-colored.
There is no set pattern in the artwork
and no meaning in each separate pane.
Only the whole surface memorable.
Each shard of broken mirror
reflects a parse of the whole.
When pieced together the total vision,
though tattered, comes into clearer focus.
Reflection, a study of the conscious.
Moments of time tell no tale.
Vignettes of a larger tome
monopolize space that holds no fullness,
no revelations of intensity,
dramatism, lyricism, poeticism.
I demand everywhereness,
unbound illimitedness.
Totality of my essentialism
wherein I exist in absoluteness.
my assemblage as a full complement.
Quanta on quanta. Wholeness.
Unequivocally me.
DONT WORRY MUCH
BY TAPIWA N. MASEKO
Don’t worry much
About his or her love evaporation
On it don’t make a suicide suggestion
It is part of your life exploration
Perchance
There comes a good chance
That your heart will catch
Don’t worry much
When love breach
Comes before death ends the love match
Maybe you started to date but your hearts do not match
Don’t worry much when love is so brief
Maybe it is giving a chance to date with your to be wife
Don’t worry much when love so soon does end
Maybe it is paving a way for your to be husband
Don’t worry much when your lover is gone
To you it has to be known
That she is not your heart’s queen
Hence not fit for the crown
Don’t worry much when love from your lover’s heart stops to spring
That is not your heat’s king
Hence not fit to monopolize the sphere of influence
In your heart’s province
Don’t worry much when your lover his or her love to you stops to deliver
Maybe that will be the reference
From where you will draw every difference
On the qualities of good or bad lover
Based on your experience
We meet as a committee
The same four people monopolize it
They are the loudest, but not the most intelligent
I have no idea why the other five of us are here
I try to speak a few times but the four speak over me
They are dividing us, more than uniting us
Which is hilarious
When the agenda is how to unite our workers
I want to say something but there is no lull.
There are no pauses.
No way to get in a word let alone a sentence.
I am rolling my eyes, withdrawing now.
We could accomplish so much
If others were willing to listen to others.
Since they are not, we stay sadly divided.
It is as annoying as it is nonproductive.
To debate
To rebel
The antonyms monopolize
To express
To support
The synonyms monopolize
And now the child memories both
And never distinguishes between them
The positives from the negatives
The moral from the immoral
The saints from the devils
As they are forever morally Overestimated by the grown-ups
Until they are vandalism-prone Underestimated
With a future collapse of morality
In this fabulous and glamorous world
Full of both antonyms and synonyms
Stew used to monopolize the lunchroom conversation.
But now he has competition galore,
Especially if the new guy imbibes in liquorish celebration.
No one listens to either one anymore
As writers, our life is a book of how seductive our image can assuredly be.
It chronicles how effortless it is, to emerge as seduced off of any significant episode because of the behavior our society is nowadays.
Should we display a mimicry of that novel chapter?
A spiritual crisis will monopolize every hypothesis of our scripted lives.
It will transpose it to be fabricated and that all there ever were, was genuine emptiness.
We will then seize a conclusion in our lives wherever conviction accepts its governance on us.
We shall endure through all that, unearthing ourselves in a crudely lit enclosure, convening at a desk with the spotlight on...
...a blank piece of paper.
2019 November 25
Silver and Gold seems to be one of the best ways to save. Russia and China are trying to monopolize (especially these two commodities) these two markets, in order to take the USA out of the game. For an individual, I would suggest taking a serious look at these two markets of saving. This is an 'Abundant Harvest' time and you and I must take charge of our individual harvest. I personally believe that God wants you and me to prosper and be in health, even as our souls prosper. Don't leave it for others to prosper you; Let God's wisdom, knowledge, and understanding lead and guide you so that you may be in a position to help others that He has allowed to come across your path. That way, the phantoms in your life will not last, it will truly past.
Realize Men Monopolize
Men must learn and have to realize,
Women they may try to monopolize;
Take advantage of,
And into shove;
Put hands on buttocks and bare thighs.
Jim Horn
Maybe men should start telling their
friends to knock off their bad behavior.
Lets put it this way. If you would not
do it in church, why should you try to
do or think that way any place else.
show me another color
why do you monopolize the sky?
what truth do you hide behind your back?
blue sky, style up,
blue sky open up to me.
Restless night under summer skies
Butterflies and time that dies
I can’t exactly vocalize
Or apologize for all the guys
If you were wise you could surmise
The faults in my alibies
Then agonize what that must imply
And recognize how I exercise
Now rise, look into my eyes
Watch the sunrise
Ignore my cries
I’m not just someone’s prize
Don’t jeopardize to finalize
Though I let you fantasize
Romanticized and polarized
I can only compartmentalize
You monopolize but can’t characterize
Glamorize but don’t analyze
That I can’t moralize this disguise
I’d advise for your despise
Lied and Satisfied
To people I should never have lied;
With myself become deeply satisfied;
Find out interests of others must yearn;
What you give out back receive in return.
No matter how hard I may have to try
Eventually one day I am sure to die
When my each effort is for the Lord,
Will arrive safely at what I can afford.
Can never afford to lose God's love
Compared to all others is way above
Along with that of Jesus Precious Son
Remembering Their will must be done.
Best parts of life on should be relied
Easiest of those are one's simplified
Knowing items may be predicated
By learning about and being educated.
Investigate brain and all of our senses
God has prepared us to meet suspense's,
Remembering that Him we must not shun;
Monopolize business or others overrun.
James Serious Mysterious Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
PS. I am looking for my brush
knowing this poem needs some
brushing up like all of mine do.
They invade the cafe at first light
Then with latte and laptop held tight
They seize tables for four
To let go nevermore
So all others drink coffee upright
With a bored intellectual stare
That one hankers to be Molière
If he's writing a play
For a hit on Broadway
Then its plot must involve Solitaire
One's quite the scientific young chap
For which typing is no handicap
He must write his thesis
By psychokinesis
Cause the keyboard gets hardly a tap
That one with the big apple fritter
Is researching a mental transmitter
He's receiving the thoughts
Of strange cosmonauts
Transferred through Facebook and Twitter
Perhaps you will think I'm pretentious
And more than a little contentious
But it's just a disgrace
To monopolize space
And I think that's the general consensus
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