Raise your banners, peals of the orients
Maidens of fairness and might
Make proud your dear land and your parents
Cast your amber, shine so bright
Light up your flames to touch the sky
Soar to the heavens, fly so high
Let the world see your gleaming glow
From lands of sand to lands of snow
1st place
FIFA Women's World Cup Poetry Contest
*Image of Earth-Moon Orbit by Pixabay.
Companions of the Night
A life partner advances and sashay
orients a midnight blue chamber room.
Recast as sparkles, prompts unsealed cachet
dawns blessing past twilight upon the groom.
Marital rapture, quietude splendor,
and tantalizing tides affect its mood.
Affections high, stimulate surrender,
low-keyed attractions, reliant subdued.
A bluish globe and whitish counterpart
skirt the heavens and their nearby harems.
Though *two unloved passersby, they depart
like unacknowledged heroic sirens.
Duality, from beginning to end,
luminescence shreds darkness constants friend.
*Venus and Mercury have no moons.
2022 November 17
*1st Place*
Beauty Of Night Contest
~~Sotto Poet: Judging 2022 November 17
RZ & HMS.
3 - e - w :
3 echoes each - every washroom
three e wishes
three easily earned early wishes
three e's-illy urned earl lee wishes
three silly urned earl lee wish-es
threes a'lee-urned earl lee-wish-s'
three'sa le-eurnt earl le-ewis-h-'s
thresa learnt ear-l-ewis h-'s
thresa learnt earl lewis hit songs
th-resa-learnt earl-lewis hit songs
the re-sale earn't 'er loose-hit-songs
the re-sailor'n't'er lews-hit-song
the re-sail or'en-ter lews-hits on-gee
(chorus)
the'rees-ail or'e-n-t'e'r loos-hits aun-gee
terry's ale - orients yer loo's-hits angee
stan sand
I have witnessed myself clearing a dozen
bottles of alcohol.
I have witnessed myself taking overdose
of sleeping pills at 3 a. m. in the morning.
I have witnessed myself walking along a lonely
road, to no particular direction.
Frustrations have enveloped my eyes
from the future - thought to be bright.
Life, as I know it, chooses us,
rather than us choosing it. It's the boss;
It was here right before us.
It chooses when I'll win the next gamble;
get a well, derving job;
clear all my ever-soaring debts....
It does all that....
On the other hand, I've found some secrets
from the mysterious orients - secrets I need
to work hard at or practice everyday.
"No snowflake falls at the wrong place."
"Be like a tree. It never worries when the birds leave
their nests, or wait for them to return. It stands firm
to the ground. It's never bothered. That's the secret
of attaining happiness...." a sage once told me.
Time will tell whether I'll pass life's tests.....
In the East, every quest
orients to the West.
Volodymyr Knyr
2014
Nature’s Revolt
It was a day of woe
As we stared and uttered wails
When we beheld an awesome sight
Of priceless loss
It was a universal eve
When the world was sparkling the sky
With thundering shouts of joy
To greet the arrival of a saint
Who staked it, to be a saviour
But we were rooted out of our moods
With mortals wails taking us to the orients
Where we beheld nature untimely revolts
Against life in the Asian world
Like an oyster
Left now only
with a belt of pearls
I peel and palm each lustering orb
whilst whispering your names
reverently,
till the call of dawn
and this….
after invading your , sometimes,
sacred spaces ,
oh !
so brusquely
but then again…..
you ,
naturally,
like an oyster,
haloed and held
my rough intrusion
deep inside your quivering fibres and folds…..
churning and turning
the irritation into a tear-like pearl,
or was it rather,
after the ache ,
a pearl-like tear?
And now…….
with the night
gelling around me a bounteous black pearl
I think of you
and your loose-limbed movements,
dearly,
and it eases like love,
loneliness away .
Truly……
you must be infused
by the same enveloping force ,
that now
majestically orients
this silver orb,
this pocked pearl…..
in my zenith .