Ostentatious Poems

Scars

Scars
and Sun,
with their mark
a gruesome glow. 
You can taste that edge,
as the knife stabs your throat.
Cut pumpkins swallow the Sun,
now this final curtain is warmed.
Ostentatious heat clings, darkness waits
for that first bittersweet taste of autumn.

Art and Artifice

Delight! nothing could be more delightful
than when talent receives commendation
for effort that is one's own insightful
art with an original foundation.
...Stand and say without intimidation 
...“I create from my own heart and mind.”
...your own witness worth hearing, well-defined.
I've met those who post A-I in comments;
mere placebo, neither helpful nor kind,
so ostentatious, perceived as pretense.

Coffee Break

Lively at eight, the pool’s a.m.
Morning coffee’s brewing; I’m bending.
Noodled ‘til class end, then I sip.
Ostentatious sciatica
Propels me into later wake.

M N O P

Mud puddle Marvin makes messy mixes
Never nailed Nanette notices noodles by nixes
Ostentatious Oscar organizes oatmeal fixes
Providing proof personified, pixie counts by sixes

Mother Heartbeat

Written: April 12, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Joseph May 

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You start life in a transparent, brittle yolk,
Underwater uterus, pulsing with mother heartbeat.
Reeling consistently, ostentatious in your cloak,
Gossamer, in your mother womb, comfy seat.

Ready for air by evolving in this glass soak,
Yarn umbilical cord pulls you out of the peat.

Opulent

Billionaires
flaunt a lifestyle
we can
only dream of;
luxurious yachts, 
opulent
mansions,
solid gold 
toilets,
decadent
precious stones,
and world-class cuisine; 
all materialistic,
posh,
and ostentatious.

Ratiocinate

Away Babbling, Certain Discourteous Expression Face. 
Grayson Howard, Impeachable Judgement Kept Lingering.
Moments Negligent, Ostentatious Pride Quake Ratiocinates. 
Self-absorbed, Thoughts Unspoken, Vivify Warm Xemial Yearning Zest.

luxurious hotel lobby in 1962

New Orleans’ 1962 ostentatious hotel lobby
extravagant crystal fluted chandeliers
highly polished walnut counter tops
opulent Italian marble floors
plush scarlet velvet cushioned couches
swankly brass and glass décor
luxury never seen after nineteen sixty-two

Far end

A lot have their eyes fixed at a far end 
Holding on tight but only with one hand
Imagining things that only few could understand.
The brain is twisted like a rope into believing
and it believes as in days of living
Through all there is a chance of surviving.

The main reason behind taking a risk 
Is caused by how breathtaking our minds get brisk
brisk enough to overlook and fix.
It controls, fights and sometime ostentatious,
it can be fair at the same time devious
not once but the process is continuous
and carries on being acrimonious.
In all, the door is to find a way to manipulate it
not all at once but bit by bit.
Because like the heart it is brittle
and strikes, it does not at all tickle
Tickle you to let you know what you have done wrong
And it continues like that for long
Until one gathers strength for that spell
Probably after the far end, all gets well.

Existence Enshrined

The rhapsody of rainbow 
melts in morose mélange,
the concoction of colors
bleeds bland in 
shattered silence,
sucked out 
of crumbled core 
of sensuous cloud,
soothing rain rinses 
the stains in broken hearts,
shades of grey paints 
the frayed linen of love,
redundant.

The requiem 
of longing patina
of repentant rose 
resonates melancholic medley
in the portals of petals, 
the faded gloss
turns into tears 
in pearls of mourning dew, 
desiccates uncared
under the summer sun 
of the desert mind,
the wilted flower falls
on weathered gravestone 
of spent passion,
departed.

The cacophony captured 
in the melody of forlorn music,
chaotic symphony floats
out of tune
on disharmonic wave,
strained smiles displayed  
with elusive enactment 
in ostentatious podium of life,
songs turn into echo
of convoluted noise 
in hollow souls,
pretentious.

The intriguing facet  
of listless life 
seen entranced 
through liquefied layers
of cynical stratum,
configures pessimism
in the sunken essence 
of living exaltation,
the apparent aspect
refracts defiled expression 	
of warped existence,
enshrined.

EUROVISION SONG CONTEST

EUROVISION SONG CONTEST

Every year, it is getting ever more weird
Unlikely now that actual songs are judged
Risky costumes and acts are getting stranger
Overtly gender-neutral in displays of pride
Voting is always political, and predictable
It all started off being just about the music
Songs themselves now seem not to matter
I admit these days I do avoid that TV show
Ostentatious spectacle has become the norm
Now, it is not even just European countries

In Defense of Saxophones in Rock

I've got the lecture notes ready
I've got the examples 

Just blow what I'm telling you to blow
I am responsible for the resurgence of the sales of saxophones 

I unlock the doors of my car
By raising my right palm

You saw the crescent
I saw sod all 

You need a guitar player
Bass and the whole caboodle

But don't stop there
Get yourself some 

Man clarinets
And ear trumpets

In fact
Sack the band and 

Just have a sax on stage
And horn away

Nostril reeds and
Ostentatious bellowing 

I'll be your mouthpiece
I'll pretend to be from L.A.

Cringetown bottom burp

ARTISTA

ARTISTA
prosaic
  reality
in footnotes
to history

aspirations
  flowering
experience
   expressed
as emotions
flourish
&expound
in potent
     awareness
particularised
  addressed
articulated
literally
in
  conscious
     concepts
made credible

the improbable
contextualized
filling
  space
visited
  viewed
revered
or
  reviled
relevant
& irrelevant
vacuous
ostentatious
left - field
  avant-garde
conventional
traditional
yet
unpredictable
&
 unknowable
always
  personal
&individual
ever
  provocative
objective
   instinctive
& interpretative
the enigma
  made
   manifestto
to
taste or touch
see
  &feel
absorb
in
a unique
   moment

Lightning struck

Lightning struck

For transfer to soil..
High voltage of electrical value.
Currents that continue to be considered for soil..
Actually,it's like an oxidizer..

Audible fear is firing from the sky.
Fire,landslides and swamps..
It exists because it is ostentatious.
Its naturalness can be erased.

Museum Of Masked Faces - First Draft

On synthetic derelict stage of deception domain,
I gyrate the split mind, ensnared by bipolarity chain.
Under illusive limelight of ostentatious time, 
I’m entangled in machinated invasive paradox prime.
In make-belief life’s drama I act with no compunction, 
I face fabricated faces flocking redundant in conjunction. 
Identity lost in conglomerate of counterfeit facades,
I don’t perform by heart's prudent prompt if it pervades.
In masquerading faces reflected in warped mirror, 
I see concealed the contorted contours of rancid rancor. 
With their phony pretense a conciliation role I tactfully play,
my misshapen face of spite, the actor in me doesn't portray. 
Finding a fake place to subsist in pretend archival spaces, 
I’m a configured antique in the museum of masked faces.

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