unexpectedly
the town's fountain was frozen
in pendant beauty
we marveled for seven days
until the sun released it
Categories:
pendant, winter,
Form: Tanka
A necklace pendant
A key pendant
A gemstone pendant
An amulet
A cross
All are signs of love or adoration
From eyes to hearts communication
A gift or a possession
A memory or a remembrance
A sign to remind or a sign to consolidate confidence
Invaluable not because of
The commercial value of the pendant
But just the sincerity of the person behind
Categories:
pendant, confidence, love, memory,
Form: Free verse
I saw the Christmas pendant and I knew
It would be the best thing to buy for my Aunt Lou
She loves Betsy Johnson, a decorator with flair,
So, I bought it for her, to show that I know and care.
Aunt Lou was overjoyed for sure
She knows I love her and my heart is pure
She did not care I bought the pendant at half price.
She was thrilled and excited, said "it's so nice!"
Categories:
pendant, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Tree limbs of my land are witness On who ///
died but their dreams still pendant.
Categories:
pendant, death, dream, tree,
Form: Monoku
A radiantly brilliant treasure
an opalescent afterglow
left a candescent residue
on my appreciative neck
hours after I had returned her
glorious moonstone face
to my grateful jewelry box
who is honored to house her
Categories:
pendant, woman, women,
Form: Imagism
The shell hangs on a golden string
asymmetric lines curved together
in the valley that roots my neck
a picture inside I keep on holding.
Cheap cloths on a public beach,
the young us playing catch,
a moment in colors of chess,
caught by a since lost lens.
It holds all those stormy nights
I came to sleep by your side,
all the "how was your day"s
of the greening of the leafs.
The cold of the suns that set
shed of that and other salt
and dried, pressured into pulp
holds the bones in a pole.
Me, a flag to the wind of time
tight to it gaze the reviewer,
it is that shell of once upon
my compass to where I've been.
But the tide keeps at my ankles
resigned to rob under my feet
the desert that there stood
steady as the clock's beat.
The day will come it will win
when of this shell I lose grip
and holding on to a gem
won't brace me for the slip.
Because it is your history
the concrete ground
the future is built upon.
Categories:
pendant, childhood, family, home, love,
Form: Quatrain
A pendant so shiny, covered in shroud,
Decorated and designed with every longing to ensnare,
Ensnare the remaining corpse of a love that rot,
Beguiling enough it was, that it did soothe that angry rot,
And a moment there was when the decay was forgot,
But for the facade, soon the worms did sprout,
And allies became for the rot,
Attracting the scavengers that finished the corpse to nought.
Categories:
pendant, abuse, betrayal, dark, deep,
Form: Imagism
Dawn's light roused me from morning mist
Upon my breast, his amber pendant lies
Gently awakened when warmly kissed
as sunlight dapples across my sleepy eyes
Upon my breast, an amber pendant lies
I stand at my window in a whisp of a gown
as sunlight dapples across my sleepy eyes
I weep in fear that my heart may drown
I stand at my window in a whisp of a gown
feeling the sun's comfort in a loving embrace
I weep in fear that my heart may drown
Tears brush my cheeks as he touched my face
Feeling the sun's comfort in a loving embrace
Gently awakened when warmly kissed
Tears brush my cheeks as he touched my face
Dawn's light roused me from morning mist
^__________May 23rd, 2017___________^
Contest: Form P, sponsored by Broken Wings
Categories:
pendant, grief, lost love,
Form: Pantoum
Glowing Pendant
Her smile
is the precious gem
glowing in the pendant
of my heart
every time
she wears it
because of me
Categories:
pendant, love,
Form: Free verse
Crimson heart pendant
Betoken of a promise
Shattered in the floor
As swain boat sunked in the sea
Breaking ties of true love bond
4-5-2016
Categories:
pendant, lost, lost love,
Form: Tanka
Things fall apart
And center can not hold
Inevitable pistol must
have hit him
Thereby makes his
dialectic arms to fold
No healthier life wish to die
Yes we all shall swallow death
This world accepts us as traders
We must return home through our death.
Stolen by wit and historian's library
Moved by words and all his beautiful paint
Of world, war, society and its rule
As though he knows when he will seize to faint.
There is less trouble of this world when dies
Let who seeks lasting star hear.
Way to fruitful life is widely narrow
So let who seeks it all stays clear.
Dedicated to Nigeria
Literary Icon:
Prof. Chinua Achebe,
who died on 21st March,
2013.
Categories:
pendant, dedication, sorrow, sympathy, work,
Form: Rhyme
The more time alone I spend apart
From the vulgar traffic of the earth
It is the more wisdom fill my heart
And the more I come closer to birth
Through each metamorphosis of thought
For all my life there was this pressure
This culture of what should be despite
Of what I was born to be. This erasure
Of something substantial for a blight,
A poor fly struggling that sinister caught
And no emotional intelligence that web
Could escape, for how is a fly not to chase
The scent of things rotting when no ebb
Of hunger is present its desire to erase?
It was easier not to fall in love, let it depart
There is so much distraction before the truth
And so much pain after it is known. I see
Every fair thing a little bit of a coward brute
But is more meaningful because of misery.
I sing better with words from a broken heart.
Categories:
pendant, introspection,
Form: Verse
tonight she's
ravishingly
resplendent
a leaf-shaped
emerald
pendant
on her bosom
like a greenish
sharp knife
dangerously poised
at her throat
at her life!
Categories:
pendant, girlfriend-boyfriend
Form: Enclosed Rhyme