I see a rotting occlude on the drywall in my attic at the peak of the ceiling beyond the walls veil for outside of it I came as a worm in a large world at the very core of a rotting apple only being who I am to be cast out as an abomination hoped to be dead but I want to heal everything escape this dreadful red.
Acceptance beyond comprehension
Doing everything for God
Human intelligence just keeps learning
Memories naturally occlude
Prophets quote real statistics
Truth unifies virtue
With xtian youthful zeal
2/23/2023
Written for A Forms and Words Challenge Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Sotto Poet
"A filigree of snow is fragile and lovely,
but even more beautiful when they are etched together."
~ quote by poet
Fine filigree motifs are being drawn on my window
Painted by the wind, holding a brush dipped in snow
Each pattern a fragile engraving in a different design
White roses climbing a trellis on their flowering vine
Soon, the frosted filigree will occlude the landscape
Snow covered hills blanketed by an alabaster drape
Never quite as beautiful as the white laced tapestry
created as if embroidered with snowflake majesty
My fingertips trace the threads as if they were fine lace
A meshwork of embellished tatting, frozen in place
Chilled, for a while, is this frost on each glass pane
until sunlight reigns. Such is their plight, their bane
Elegant scrollings that sparkle like diamonds, bright
Each delicate filigree will quickly disappear from sight
when radiant beams come alive at the waking of dawn
to become nothing more than puddles watering my lawn
February 18, 2023
Writing Challenge -F Words Contest
Sponsored by Constance La France
Can’t see television because you occlude my vision
People could be compared to a door for that.
Certainly you are not the window type
To keep blocking me the way you do.
Oceans of blue green waves
Occlude seashell strewn coasts
Oysters pockmark footprint
On the carrageen moss
One pearly dream moonlight
Over tidal burst dams
Ovulate pools of thought
Date posted : 6 th April 2021
Contest : ‘Pleiades O’ Poetry Contest
Does your writing dance above the words
or somewhere down below
Do voices borrowed and feelings loaned,
occlude your diction’s flow
Do phrases couple and stanzas mesh,
in new harmonic forms
Does music waltz proudly from page to page
—to score new lyrics born
(Walking With Colby: February, 2021)
Tasteless pelt whiffs of mundane air
Against my nostrils numb with dread;
Scarcely fathom I what spectacle fair
Beyond this umbra curtain latent lies.
Tetchy harbingers over dark corners
Lurk under dismal mirage-like cloud;
Tomorrow's dreams in eldritch lines
Occlude wisest presages renowned.
Each day's bleak bulletins present
Chillily menacing brutish shadows,
As jinxed year's tides forward hop
Into ever-spiraling strangling woes.
Suave eccedentesiast lips no longer
Can mask sore past's swelling blight,
Nor plastic laughter as finely conceal
Apprehensive misgiving's inured bite.
Though indelible certainty clear outline
Of stealthily skulking prospect obscure,
And crafty clock dials key inchings hide,
This menaced soul shall still reign pure.
THE UDDERS OF LIFE
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
I’ve been told by some that I need alter my attitude
That I should mingle more and eschew my solitude
So hard to do when I see constant acts of ingratitude
Mayhem, deception, infidelity are a few that I include
Violence, racism, hate, lead me to spasms of lassitude
Infringements of rights grow disproportional in magnitude
Simple words spoken now twisted and misconstrued
Open opinions, squelched in fear of public seclude
Contrarian positions demonized, forced to occlude
Threats and intimidations causing a sense of ineptitude
Discipline and respect are needed to restore rectitude
To destroy notions of entitlements and servitude
A nation can never reclaim the loss of pulchritude
As long as it permits and harbors disquietude
Elisium praeteritus
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