A barrier to love can be
merely distance – natural for
the heart to love when in
close proximity. Nearness
often propagates dearness. A
general rule though not an
axiom. For hate is an imposing
affiliate.
Wondering where you are tonight?
Can't feel the warmth of your sight
Your wings that cuddle me under the moonlight
Your heat that incubates me in spotlight.
I'm a shelled-duckling not so pretty
My little heart beats so fast and plenty
Nearness of you I pray for each day
Your body to stay beside me all day!
I saw you
Smoother than smooth
Exotic
Kissed by strokes of earth tones; and
I can only imagine,
Traversing manhood of mounds
Toned, buffed, offering much joy delight
Noon or night.
So, I asked myself:
Is it the curve of your lips?
The pull of your smile?
The look in your eyes?
Undisguised, as the warmth I feel
Because of you?
*
Hemmed in by the Nearness
Held back by the Now
The wishful striver, always, who
O'ercome both somehow.
Lost in an isle's sailed thrill
Sea-hazed, whilst safe moored!
As far unfound, delirious
Whilst by Time's Sea shored!
From his hands white, hang blood
diamonds and fur, keys to boardrooms
and shoes shined for climbing
ladders, a cushion upon which to sit
at the table. The eyes of a black man,
glittering, see a seed in his hand without
soil in which to sow. An Indigenous
woman’s face fades from a missing
person’s poster, one of the Canadian two
thousand. A millennial dresses for a party
as an American Indian, red stripes on
their face, drunk in a plastic tepee. When
you grazed your knee as a child, what colour
plaster covered your skin? As one family tosses
out cartons unopened, bought but not
eaten, another father stands counting coupons
cut, in a queue snaking. I introduced my
boyfriend and came out; you just brought
your girlfriend round for tea. Somewhere in
Central London a polar bear was spotted
sweating and thin, trawling bins for scraps.
NEARNESS TO GOD
Humble heart honoring honesty and holiness
by Grace and Glory of God
staying salient silent settling in Supreme soul,
seeking strength and solace from Super-power.
praying for pure pristine peace.
Self-sensation acquired by blessings
of Almighty cascading in opulence on me
introspecting ethereal ecstasy.
Mind in muse moistened by magnificence and majesty
of eternal sublime spirit sheltering me.
My divine bliss lies in firm belief of guidance of God
on primrose path of truth with dauntless determination.
09/15/ 20
Second Place
'Alliteration Regarding Relationship with God' Contest by Beata Agustin
You're the fierce flame that burns in my heart,
to keep me going, know that I (was) am
the harmony that loved you from the start.
I weep and mourn for the warm human lamb;
tremble from the deep fearful hollow dam.
None listen to my mournful lullaby.
You laid a breath kiss, died a lover's sigh
under heaven's steps in the endless night.
Shill I taunt the gossamer wings and die?
For I yearn your nearness, your touch, the sky.
12/31/2019
A-B-A-B-B-C-C-D-C-D
the wind blows, and gusts prevail,
I sense your essence in the breeze
as the tempest rages in warm rains,
emerging from the dust I was found
weeping in the forsaken land of my desolated heart’s remains;
a million fairytales tremble at us,
they know how our love does outshine with flickering light-
fleeting into the ebon night; for our love loses not insight,
sounds of swift ivory doves cry out,
never cursed or full of deep blight;
black ravens plague this existence,
I knew the pain of loss and despair you carried with ease;
saturated in loneliness were you-
yet you stay with me, longing for my hopelessness to cease,
descending onto my grateful knees-
your genuine adoration still sustains
intense obscurity of the calamity I faced before you attains-
for I am but a man craving to be near you for all of eternity-
sweetheart, you are my perpetual connection,
and...
my alleviation found in perfection-
bound by love and affection
I embrace you…you hold me tight
and I shall feel this pure affection or you, my beloved…eternally.
October 3, 2019
Contest : Lu's Poem Switcha-Roo
Sponsor : Lu Loo
By the nearness of you...
I can say: I might never be blue..
I have someone to embrace and coo..
I have someone not too early; doesn't ask for dues..
In the nearness of you..
My cheeks turns red into flush..
Magical feelings commence to gush..
Like butterflies flying in hues and rush...
By the nearness of you..
I feel a quiet caressing warmth..
Enveloping me with passion affection; not harm..
Inviting me to wish forever; not quick as ramps..
By the nearness of you..
Oh, through the nearness of you..
I feel heaven in a wrath of trials hell..
Yet, it stops me to say and tell..
For I'm confident, I'm safe from any jail..
By: olive_eloi
sept. 6, 2013
1:29am
Dedicated to: all persons who have been so near to someone so dear...
The nearness of you
Will reconcile completely
The weight of my heart
In froths of a sky never ever ending,
she throttles like a half—shelled woman
slow to prance in the midst
of obedient breeze,
her movement wrapped
like a hundred cider vines...
How orange are her nights.
This hue burnt by sways
of corrugated leaves ; a crown
adorned with pearlized sequins
turning tangerine in kaleidoscopic
swirls of atumnal hues, this drift of
charmed elegance only fall can muster.
Seasonal Bliss Contest, Regina Riddle
the lord is never nearer than when he seems to be away
in times when we are tempted and apt to go astray
in times of hurt and sadnessheis right there by our side
with his love surrounds us when we in him abide
when problems loom above us too big for us to bear
we " turn them over to jesus"who resuces from despair
we can know his presence trust his word that he is near
that to him we are precious he will protect us from all fear
we must trust him in our weakness lean on him from day to day
for he is never nearer than when he seems to be away
I love thee more than all the Earth, so nullified
that of my Soul do love as qualified
this urge of sanctity involved
with only thy apprentice, thy resolved.
And I am pregnant with it so revolved
that every force within me is evolve
to thy full presence given, God's absolve
that nearness ever blessed, ever row ~
. . . is sacred understanding, ours to solve
and only truth can render its involve!
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