NOCTURN
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cicadas gather…
perspicuous serenade
sung in native tongue
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” Rumi
Life can be an incomplete glossary,
speech a haunting ghost,
in search of a perspicuous poem -
to express unspoken thoughts.
I remember when she said,
"Cue me poetry"
So, I became her perpetual poet,
engraving sweet soulful words
upon her bitter spiritless lips.
Fate had turned her into the Queen of Darkness,
but my heart glows in the dark.
Together we illuminated like a trillion twinkling stars,
outshining the enigmatic effervescent moon.
Her essence infused a refreshing presence,
like morning sunshine after a night of rain.
Slowly she became a pilgrim of my poetry,
and I, a sojourner lost within her soul.
As I wandered through her secret chapters,
my word weaving revealed her book of scars,
each drop of ink resembling her tepid tears.
Each vexatious verse purified through
a catalyst of catharsis, healed her wounds.
We are like quill and scribe,
vowels complimenting consonants,
completing an impeccable vocabulary -
without her there is no muse.
MY TRIBUTE
Best Teacher or Professor ever I met
Name embedded in mind, never to forget.
Emeritus professor in Mathematics.
An ideal teacher, peerless fantastic.
Respected, highly honored by each student
Normal, below average or brilliant.
Nonparallel prowess to teach tough subject
From Bengal Mr. Kalikrishna, model perfect.
In Honors Class, I was fortunate to catch.
Specially blessed being best in that batch.
My veneration, reverence and homage
To perspicuous pellucid translucent sage.
10/22/19
'Favorite Teacher or Professor'
Contest By Chantelle Anne Cooke
Pacific, pacifist pampered papa
parading par excellent paragon
parent (parenthetically parochial
particularly partisan) parvenu
passive, passionately paternalistically patient,
paunchy, peaceably pepped, perfectionist,
perceptive, perennially perky, permissively
persevering, persistently personable, perspicuous,
pertinent, phenomenally philanthropic, philharmonic
picturesquely pious, pioneering, piquantly pithy,
playfully pleasant, pleasurably plucky, plummy,
poetically poignant, politely pontificating, popular,
positively potent, powerfully practiced pragmatist,
praiseworthy, prayerfully precious, precise
predominant, preeminently preferable, preparedly
preponderant, presently president, prestigiously
prevailing, priceless, princely, principally pristine,
privately privileged, prized, proactively procreative,
prodigiously productive, proficiently profitable,
progressively prominant, promisingly prompt,
prophetically propitious, prospectively protective,
proudly proven provocative, prudent psyched, puissant,
punctilious, punctually purposeful.
Into wilderness
Into wilderness I wished to get lost
Chose I to alienate myself at any cost
Capricious weather I found far better
Than in your hands harsh treatment I suffer
Inurbane words; your abuse, your curse
Cruel cyclones and tornadoes seem less perverse
I mistook your flatter and fake words for trust
But your malignant actions revealed distrust
Scapegoat you made me for all your malice
Venom of guile and hate dissipate from your life’s chalice
My transitory life craved for love eternal
But you etched episodes of pain in my life’s journal
I choose not to be a silent bud but a flower perspicuous
To gravitate sublime sunshine dismantling maze conspicuous
date: 17th september 2016
Oh God! Alienate me from foes, dissipate me from vice,
Gravitate me to righteousness make me noble and wise.
In this malignant world with savage and inurbane minds,
Life has become hostile and peace is hard to find.
Please forgive me, for I may sound capricious sometimes,
I don't know how to flatter or praise You, in my poems.
Give me courage, I am lost like a scapegoat in wilderness,
Transitory is life, bestow me light take away the darkness.
In my perspicuous plea, all I want is sorrows to end,
Show me the right path that leads to you, for me to blend.
1st Place Only - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Laura Loo
Sept 15, 2016.
Ten Word Challenge - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: John Hamilton
Received First Place.
Contest judged on: Sept 17, 2016.
10 WORDS to be used:
1. ALIENATE 2. CAPRICIOUS 3. DISSIPATE 4. GRAVITATE 5.FLATTER 6. INURBANE 7. MALIGNANT 8.PERSPICUOUS 9. TRANSITORY 10. SCAPEGOAT
Scapegoat Mutiny
The perspicuous statements by The Man, meant to flatter,
Were maximally inurbane. In hindsight could only alienate
The dozens of individuals who now gravitate to retaliate.
The Scapegoat Mutiny must succeed!
Woe to those who think it transitory,
bountiful malignant repercussions shall befall them!
Any actions to dissipate will fail!
Those are the claims of the mutineers.
The capricious results will be perceived as beneficial by some
And detrimental by others.
15 September 2016
Amidst the Garden of Gethsemane
to dissipate from the sorrow and pain
Looking up to the heavens in discourse
on bend knees in unspoken recourse
Archangel Chamuel from heaven appeared
giving Him strength and ease as challenge neared
A kiss upon the cheek to flatter Him
in friendship, but gravitate to breach whim
A suffering servant, scapegoat unfurled
meant to die for us, the sins of the world
Alienated ilk malignant growth
transitory moment for lifetime oath
His words are perspicuous, clear, towards
capricious, inurbane souls, not ignored
9/13/2016
My first contest submission
Through inurbane behaviour not of me
Your affections I regrettably did alienate
Watched through tears your heart dissipate
A self chosen scapegoat not a villain
Though wading in capricious waters
Drenched emotions lucidly perspicuous
From heart through pen not to flatter
But to quell malignant time apart
Hope and hearts soon must gravitate
With faith in non transitory union
September 14, 2016
Contest: Ten Word Challenge
Sponsor: John Hamilton
Rules:
1 original poem
Any theme
Use all the following ten words in any order
1. Alienate 2. Capricious 3. Dissipate 4. Gravitate 5. Flatter
6. Inurbane 7. Malignant 8.Perspicuous 9. Transistory 10. Scapegoat.
Any form acceptable
Yes, I was inurbane but not from family poor.
Of innumerable malignant deeds you were the doer!
You, urban man, on your knees you came with aim to flatter.
I was no girl capricious though stood in line the next suitor!
All charms you applied to have me towards you gravitate.
In no time you grabbed all my wealth like water to dissipate!
Perspicuous you were in making me, in face of others, the scapegoat.
Many to alienate me; your mocking mistresses, family members who gloat!
But you stupid and ungracious, you may not know this journey with you is transitory.
“Every dog has its day.” I’ve found my true love and soon he will end my sob story!
12/09/16 - 10 lines
Ten words Challenge by John Hamilton
1. ALIENATE 2. CAPRICIOUS 3. DISSIPATE 4. GRAVITATE 5.FLATTER 6. INURBANE 7. MALIGNANT 8.PERSPICUOUS 9. TRANSITORY 10. SCAPEGOAT
Not more than 20 lines.
Judged 17/09/16 - Placed 7
Words can be the flame
that burn through your emotions
your heart may be in pain
as the words become more inurbane
People might never be the same
after some traumatic event
their behaviour may become capricious
and they may drown their sorrows in the bottle
Their malignant nature will alienate
many of their friends
They'll gravitate towards "fine spirits",
their actions will often offend
Everyone will become their scapegoat
the fault will never be theirs -
..Perhaps a transitory period of sobriety
can dissipate our fears
and the truth will become perspicuous
for it is not meant to flatter
Maybe then, they'll see the light.
~---~
9/9/16
Miscues
His glance was so capricious,
a transitory gesture that was suspicious,
a curious look that would dissipate.
To his direction I wanted to gravitate,
but that would flatter him too much.
To alienate a distinct man as such,
was a malignant move for myself.
Then he was looking again, so I blushed.
He crumpled his napkin and loudly belched,
leaving in an inurbane angry rush.
My interest had been ridiculous.
His lack of it was perspicuous.
My face had been his scapegoat,
for some woman who was squeezing his throat.
9/9/16
Flirt
Lewis Raynes
Though your separation is transitory
It chokes my respiratory
My mind is perspicuous
Yet my heart is capricious
Behold me! help to gravitate me to this earth
As my soul is about to dissipate near the hearth
Why you left me in an alienate place
I can't get out of this love maze
Bear my words though they are inurbane
Consider them as sweet as cane
These are of no flatter or praise
But an endeavour for your feelings to raise
You can make me a scapegoat
But don't make me sail in a lonely boat
Don't be malignant
My love for you is magnificient
Such a pain it is to know not what feels—
Once this ruined heart knew how to gravitate.
But beauty’s malignant: it plots and it steals,
So damned unconcerned to alienate.
Don’t flatter yourself, don’t be inurbane!
Don’t pretend there’s a scapegoat to slaughter.
If my love was a sin, my presence a stain,
Then my own soul must cause me to totter.
Must I learn to adapt and live as you do—
To dissipate all but selfish design?
Should I feign to forget that life is untrue,
When transitory loves pierce me like a tine?
So capricious, the ones who know how to play.
Perspicuous, yet they have nothing to say.
7 September 2016
Written for “Ten Word Challenge” Poetry Contest sponsored by John Hamilton
I didn't flatter that inurbane toad
I was in a transitory mode
He made me a scapegoat who looks funny
Told my friends I gravitate toward money
He blamed me for all this malignant air
That will alienate all those of us who care
It might dissipate magically -
He's a capricious man, tragically
Why can't he be perspicuous like me -
I'll use your donations as they should be
September 5, 2016
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