Footprints on the sea,
clenching salt yet mutable.
Fine art of white caps.
Unrealities and realities
grind together in mortar’s mouth,
spilling, pulverizing, volatile perfumes—
succumbing scents of citrus, crushed copper,
musks of bruised lightning,
threshing thunderous throbs.
Instability incarnate sings her reveling wails,
fragrances of something
Beyond Name.
I guide existences into black curve,
severing them against sharp, obsidian walls,
letting them rupture—letting them bleed
—syrups and statics—
messy marrows of forgotten equations.
Their shapelessness mutable,
pliant pages to pulp in the plunge
of the merciless pestle.
How many combinations will one
blend and crucify—
to crush, to coax, into coherence?
Rasps of bone bend against sanguine salts,
sheens of opulent oil merge with ember embryo—
iron filings licked into life by tempests reigned.
Anything of matter becomes
moisture—mass—mold—
hunger pooling at my basin’s heart,
seething for impending strike,
for sudden and unforgiving
birth.
mysterious mystical myriad-minded Milton
mustered mutable muscle-bound Man’s
mutinous modernistic money-making merriment
mystifying mushy mike’s mangled monkeys
O' winsome, mirthful thing
Up, up, and out in spring
From the cocoon, you were birthed
Into the light is where you'll see your worth
A beautiful creation to the world
A bundle of magic that's waiting to unfurl
Now, out fluttering and uttering a new beginning
A fresh essence and energy brimming
Lithely through the air you go
Fluttering and darting to and fro
A quiet power and a mutable essence, you behold
Remember this as you allow your truth to be told
So beautiful one, make sure to enjoy your flight
For soon, oh too soon, winter will come and bid a good night
Aries(cardinal, fire, keyword:confidence
Taurus(fixed, earth, keyword:beauty
Gemini(mutable, air,
keyword:communication
Cancer(cardinal, water,
keyword:essential
Leo(fixed, fire,
keyword:showtime
Virgo(mutable, earth
keyword:fix
Libra(cardinal, air
keyword:sell
Scorpio(fixed, water
keyword:analyze
Sagittarius(mutable, fire
keyword:free
Capricorn(cardinal, earth
keyword:provide
Aquarius(fixed, air
keyword:persevere
Pisces(mutable, water
keyword:empathy
All in Harmony:
Confident of the beauty communicated
in it's essence, I witness a daily cycle
of regeneration in life that shows the way,
faithfully, knowing my needs.
Note: (I have only written and chosen
1 keyword of many keywords that
could be written for each sign, for this purpose,
this poem)
She is sitting,
front legs under her reddish-brown mass.
When I think of her shape
it is always her belly I see most.
The bulging warmth,
the mastication, her on-going digestion.
I'm a boy,
the large cow is my meaty lean-to.
One hot summer afternoon can last for years,
on one such a year
I was resting my back
on her bovine flank's, she did not seem to care.
I really think she wanted to feel me listening
to her giant belly.
A drowsy time took its rest also.
Bees buzzed, but far away.
High flying gees made the sky speak.
Listening to her massive body, I think
I melded into her life. Her ongoing
industrial mashing
of moist clods of vegetable materiel.
The rhythmic digestive process
seemed to me to be almost musical.
When she farted, it was as though
she had turned roughage to water,
and water into wine.
I could smell the spirit of the grass,
and strangely,
I could within my own small form,
feel the mutable mystery of the land
as it churned grain into bread,
our meat to spirit.
Never be bewildered
That my instincts submerged
In the malevolence and
Dearness of the world
Could have been reinvigorated
By you, saved and renewed
Just like a resurging lep
When the latter opts out
I am created of giant solid rocks
Stationary but mutable
And you the damp feel
Of winter fur lies
Songs of fresh breeze
Declines as cascades
And my lyrics being lawns
Of undulating grass
Silent chirps and murmurs
I expected less but asked nothing
That deep undemanding tenderness
I gravely wish to offer a little space
To achieve my dreams in yours.
*Image of The Anthurium by FDIN.
All for One
An admirable blend of Anthuriums,
Aligned nexus with Geraniums,
And indulging beautiful
Acts that's suitable,
As one or
All
Answer for
Add ons...mutable,
And commands the usual,
An upright award in the forums,
An admirable blend of Anthuriums.
2023 January 21
*2nd Place*
Writing Challenge - Andaree Form
~Constance La France: Judged 2023 January 25
*RZ & HMS.
In a perishing forest of dry needles
Taxed with the fusion of dust and decay
In the times of climate change,
Where fire lay awaiting for its chance,
The first rain came
After many years of drought
Slight at first then gently falling
From a sky of mutable grey
The clouds gathered in communion
Painting a promise of what was to come
The trees stood tall and firm
Brittle in their height
Their roots pushed up from the arid ground
As though they were reaching to heaven
To touch the canopy of clouds filled with mercy
Raining down the promise of life
It was though the trees were crying
Plip-plop - their tears tumbling,
Echoing through the woodlands
Calling all the creatures to witness
This miracle of hope
That all had yearned for and abided with
These many thirsty years
Walking silently
My heart bestowed with gratitude,
I was sighing with the winds
Of thankfulness and change
My tears mingled with the earth below my feet
November 11, 2022
Inspiring Rainy Days Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Sotto Poet
INTENTIONS
articulated
not
inaccessible
an
opportunity
for
interpretation
both
understandable
&useful
a loose
preoccupation
a
plan
& focus
of
a
point of view
most ambitious
&distinct
composed
&complete
activating
the innate
within
to restore
sense
of
perspective
distance
&scale
complexity
banished
simplicity
revived
redefined
& activated
concepts
of
activity
overwhelmed
by the
intensity
of
ambition
influenced
&
made
mutable
in
perception
NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood is inherently variable.
Copyright © Brian Strand
Nobody runs, nobody hides.
The element of love may not be described.
Not fire.
Not earth.
Not water.
Not air.
It becomes all and none.
Consumed and consuming,
Enveloping, enriching, a hiding place,
Embracing, mutable, a thing of tides,
Vapour, the stuff of breath.
And yet we welcome it.
When it comes,
Nobody runs, nobody hides.
The movie bombed.
As the only screen-writer of his life,
he had been forced to reinvent myself many times.
Other movies came and went, stars shone and faded,
bit-part players infringed on his performances.
His last but one film
had to be edited and cut so much
that he could no longer recognize himself within it.
He liked to imagine he was fluid and mutable,
not stuck in any roll,
but an actor able to change his character at will,
yet there came a time
when he felt his heels deeply digging into
a well worn plot,
one he could not alter. A boxed in melodrama
that he could not find a way out of.
Stuck in an unchangeable reality; a last theater
with only one exit,
he began to write poetry.
Do not think of me; go on your solitary way,
search empty valleys or deserted mountain tops.
Or trek towards the seashore. See, the horizons beckon,
ever-shifting, changing, always fluctuating, mutable.
You sucked my soul away: I am an empty husk,
worthless, ineffectual, useless. Move on towards the sun
shining in the high skies but be careful lest
you yourself are burnt away to worthless cinders.
So do not think of me. Move on, be bright
the future is now yours, I'm merely just a past.
Forget me; I'm inexistent for that is my lifeline.
Maybe I'll find a loving soul who loves me true,
but only if you do not think of me.
Twenty five quick years
sixty infinite seconds,
mutable concept.
The lies surround us
Seeping into our skin like water
Uncontainable
Unstoppable
Unattainable
The words spoken, once silent
Now decayed in our hearts
Intangible
Insidious
Indefatigable
The orderly mind now deceased
Ruled by passion, and anger, and hate
Mutable
Dilutable
Corruptible
Floodgates open wide
Pouring the fire of rage into our souls
Mindless
Thoughtless
Kindless
Logic is a casualty in their war.
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