The corner of my eye notes it
as my car speeds by,
eyesight pings it
momentarily, an image
looks back.
The outbuilding is vacant,
bathed in a sparrow and bat time
that flutters inside its hollow shell.
Barn ambience
has kidnapped my attention
it has stabled my eyes in a timeless stall
where horse tails hang suspended
from broken timepieces
not clocks, just pieces of time
that,
like dust in sunlight
muster in the air
to mime a car and a glance
rubbernecking back.
Categories:
muster in, poetry,
Form: Free verse
You who live without a thought
Of the damage that you do
The rift you dug so deep
Its spanning I can't see through
You lie as a child in slumber
While I rotate on this spit
Trying to reconcile my heart and mind
to make some sense of it
I want to stay as I need to go
For the sake of my sanity
Wasted years unacknowledged
Your eyes blinded to seeing me
A merciful pretence of love
Could you muster in my behalf
Saying it's over when it never started
let's end this on a laugh
I was willing to settle for crumbs
Crumbs were all you had to give
Bits and pieces falling through
Your self protective sieve
I'm tired and just can't do this
It's a puzzle I will not complete
Just remember scared as hell my
Own heart I threw like a child at your feet
As vulnerable as a newborn
I trusted I see now in vain
Your love will not be forthcoming
The old Trojan horse trick again
Please do what I am unable
Show mercy if you can
Paint me that picture of the knight on white horse
As when this travesty began
Rescue me from myself
Send me in peace from your door
I promise I will darken it
With my own shadow self never more
Categories:
muster in, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Ask truth to show in a sure way:
Choice syncs with flow in poise that plays,
Love that heart knows moves act that stays;
Ask for kind grace to cast clear light,
Seek time and space as glimpse greets sight,
Spread a fond trace of lavish flight;
Indulge calm peace with lovely heart,
Charm knows deep ease as joy frames start.
Trust love to lease such precious art,
Heed words that spring from message kind,
Etch poignant flings with sublime finds.
Dream and dance bring the verge you bind,
Hope knows true feel as soul greets grace,
Apt answers thrill the heart in place,
Mind grips goodwill in inner trace;
Muster in time the words that heal,
Air floods in mime as stillness fills,
Purpose fits rhyme that sculpts reveal;
Attest sans all that sacred code,
Dance despite gall that mystic mode,
Address that call in mother lode.
Touch knows deep feel right here and now,
Rouse up prompt fill that truth endows,
Arrive with thrills as love knows how;
Note stillness dear that speaks most clear,
Calm silence cheers a glimpse most dear,
Embrace not fear as love lives here.
Leon Enriquez
14 March 2020
Singapore
Categories:
muster in, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Stealthy romanticism,
Where else can hide,
Than my dear diary !
Twinkling of the eyes,
Time of one's life,
Enrapture !
Blush on a face,
Warmth of caress,
Ends the chase!
Whispers of heart,
Vibes of mystique,
And final embrace!
Moments captivated,
Clicked in no time,
Penned into verse!
No poem means,
Yet muster in
And inscribe !
Take it inside you,
O my dear diary,
Else memories fade !
Draft so peppery,
Seeks desperate hideout
Rests Everlasting Eternal !
Written on 16/5/14
Contest name- Dear diary
Sponsor- Anne Currin
Categories:
muster in, art, passion,
Form: Free verse
four star circus
side show of war,
thugs on a hillside
another killing floor,
greedy men squabble loudly
gulping down the poor,
coalition vacuole
futility galore,
sobbing children in the dust
silent tears like rain,
generation lost to time
born in tragic pain,
greener valleys stretch on out
blot out the crimson stain,
sons and daughters of the fist
hope for love in vain,
win the peace, slogans fly
bloviating head,
metal coffin rocky graves
feel hobnail tread,
darker cabals plot it out
empire must be fed,
marching legions to the borders
muster in their stead,
parched throats choking on a crust
bitter unslaked hate,
plowshares beaten into swords
blood debts won't abate,
who can say what life is worth
as condolence payment made,
trembling fluid, parchment hospice,
eyelights slowly fade,
sunlight melting slowly
moving through the dusk,
bloodshot eyes see clearly
at the future's empty husk,
dirty smiles, broken grins,
polluted tonic for our sins,
old hob just sits and grins.
Categories:
muster in, war,
Form: I do not know?
~Sun Dancing~
Bright yellow sparks glisten around the landscape
Sheer environment expose
Warmth slinks down every step
So-- Invigorating
Spur-like rays muster in long light
The wolves wait to howl
Soon--Bunch of flowers
Huddle in with sunlit love
Luminous rave
By; pd
Categories:
muster in, beauty, immigration, magic, metaphor,
Form: Verse