the moon's kiss offsets
twinkling stars wink
attempt at dark's desire
Categories:
offsets, moon,
Form: Haiku
Hurtful words followed by deriding deeds.
There is no escape, there is not an out.
How to handle the necessary needs?
I fear for our sanity, I have doubt.
Moods swinging from serene to confusion.
There is no escape, there is not an out.
Moments remembered, then self-delusion.
Cherish the memories, and times lucid.
Moods swinging from serene to confusion.
Conversing in language not pellucid,
a notion there is something important.
Cherish the memories, and times lucid.
Kindness offsets the often discordant.
Compassion and patience oft rewarded,
a notion there is something important.
Recognition a blessing awarded.
A cruel disease within humankind.
Compassion and patience oft rewarded.
Jeckyll and Hyde terrorizing a mind.
Categories:
offsets, blessing, conflict, confusion, depression,
Form: Terzanelle
Contrary to what has been spoken.
Mythdiltra who is a strange
Goddess of the other places.
Was deemed a whore who chored
and labored to shame The Great Zagreus.
She hired Spontonaious to train Glima Nuba;
Yacy and Trice to defeat The Great Zagreus.
But Hermes and Valhalla allied to force
The Great Zagreus into an alliance
with Tice and Yacy: he refused to
associated with Glima Nuba who he
said was even more vail that the devil.
The Great Zagreus ordered Glima Nuba
tied to a stake as he and Trice
would battle Hermes and Valhalla.
He spoke of Mythdiltra as a whore
that she refused to oil him with the
sacred oil. He said she was a sectular
mucus: the offsets of
dust and pollen.
Categories:
offsets, care, character, jealousy, music,
Form: Ballade
POINTS of REFERENCE
reinventing
tradition
on display
undeniably
arresting
at
making waves
defined
in
the contemporary
&epitomises
in
bedecked settings
deliberately
elongated
unresolved
& unravelled
happening
prominence
of
the
touchstones
the
of
the
explicit
both
intense
&passionate
with flashes
of
fixating
on
the
fascinating
composition
of the bespoke
that intersect
astonishingly diverse
& paradoxically
sense
of
the
cool aesthetic
simultaneously
painterly
offsets
the conceptual
elaborate
&
equivalent
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
Categories:
offsets, poetry,
Form: Other
Curvaceous beauty, she knows not her strength
Offsets gentleman to edge of his brink.
Then she captures soul with her sweet smile.
Our hero stretches to his tallest length.
Heroine’s face flushes a pretty pink.
Their love can be seen a country mile.
She pledges her love forever more.
As she cannot resist our hero fair.
Who can throw pink roses down the aisle?
That is what dainty flower girls are for.
Categories:
offsets, wedding,
Form: Curtal Sonnet
goodt!.....even...ing : )
your presence...
offsets that which...
was not meant to be : /
a road so...treacherous...
please sit...your...destination!?...
the skies will...find balance by morn : l
the hill roads be dry...by noon sun...
my time be complete in...occupation without such as...
interruption....to that end...my people serve you till your...absence : )
stan sand
Categories:
offsets, absence, animal, grave,
Form: Free verse
Man's imbued with a flair for fantasy
that is quenched by His imagination.
And intrigued by the flight of bumblebees,
curiosity offsets frustration.
His conscious mind extends itself beyond
concepts of morality and blind faith.
But should His morals suddenly abscond,
the human soul can morph into a wraith.
A white lie, half-truth and or omission,
is tolerated by a lonely heart.
For love's an emotional condition
that oft sends your pulse soaring off the chart.
Susceptible to anger and mistrust,
Man is mortal, lacking time to adjust.
(Sonnet)
2/7/2019
Categories:
offsets, 12th grade, anxiety, character,
Form: Sonnet
we went from
I'm OK, you're OK
you were my pillar
when I was carrying the earth above my shoulders and
my hand was something you could count on
when the lights turn green
then the path turned overly uneven
for those high heels
suddenly
I'm not Ok, you're OK
and you just left me there
to look at that constructed life
from the checkpoint
while my flight became delayed
time always offsets unevenness and
timely those foundations lie overruned
so without any remorse
you dragged me in your mourning-sand and
I'm not ok, you're not OK
washed dishes won't make a person
out of you
just end that culpability sedimentation
on my already deconsecrate shoulders
nothing I said was properly
so words stopped coming out
avoidance became our reality
didn't know how to break that silence
at very end
I was left broken
missing me
uncamouflaged
unprotected
me
raising up glassed tears
I'm building a sculpture
rare animals are most haunted ones, and
every animal bites when felt threatened
I'm Ok, you're not
Categories:
offsets, growth,
Form: Free verse
The gods must be crazy to create such bad logic,
To validate suffering, pain and distress, they tick,
To allow their existence, ‘cos that’s what logic’s for,
Logic defines the systems and structures which soar.
They must be mad to claim bad weather, all year,
Intervention only points to their responsibility here,
Natural phenomena stands proud with autonomy,
In independence they have expression in taxonomy.
And those car accidents! Ah, how folks claim them,
As god’s doing, for the victim’s edification, ahem;
Joni Eareckson Tada thinks her diving accident divine,
And happened for a godly reason, for her to consign!
Christians are sour to equate a healthy man with god,
Rather than a woman who’s disabled and LBQT, odd,
Because worship should elevate up only when it should,
As it offsets a prejudice, imbalance or personality mood.
Or even a coloured person as god would be far better,
Than a white male that so permeates art and literature,
‘Cos the subliminal has such a strong, pervasive effect,
That some gods today should be dismissed as a defect.
Categories:
offsets, discrimination, fear, gender, god,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Shifting the kitchen curtain over
to the right, separating thin window from wall.
There's a resistance to witness,
dark light of troubled pane as
an imbalance offsets my true
substance and demeanor.
Drawing lips forward to taste
any wrinkles of the sun, I step away.
Easing a desperate mind with a patchwork
of memories can be so simple.
Desecrating any form of entrapment by
slipping into a mode of neutrality.
Heavily bagging the coated burdens
like donated fabric of lessons learned.
Evidence taints a stranger's hand
as I am flawless and free of wretched option.
My confessions will for a scapegoat.
Entombed are the desires I quench,
stark-naked inside the walls and suspended.
Yet, I am threatened by introduction and division.
Failing to follow the strategies that assert me,
Quarreling with myself as the final curtain folds.
Categories:
offsets, confusion
Form: Free verse