Fire and Shadow of the Eternal Flame
(c) 2025 by the Entangled Pair
You make longing feel like poems
all soaked in sweat and truth
they flow out unashamedly
sometimes unkempt, uncouth
and as they flow somehow they show
the yearnings of our youth
I come to you as fire and shadow
filling you with pleasured pain
pulsing you to overflowing
striving to relieve the strain
dissolving all that is not us
'til only we remain
we peer behind us, blissfully
into that other worldly place
we feel the beat of our contentment
see the thing that knows our face
our questions answered by reply
'this flame may dim but never die'
Categories:
pleasured, desire, longing, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The dark road of misery
led me to a more abhorrent realm of existence
when I succumbed to your disguise
before you abandoned my heart
in your pleasured dungeon of dreariness
where your veins flowed with emotionless blood
as you spoke your final words, cold, calculating
that fell upon my ears like a winter's rain
this landscape of illusion has become barren
where lips once pressed the flesh of our desires
to claim my soul...now
has turned to vile contempt
for the lifeless bouquets from a garden of promises
I feel the sting of poison pump through each heartbeat
as I wander in a lonely black silence
towards a Bastone of bitter bile
where my heart awaits its fate
of cupped hands clinging to my face like talons
as I crumble to my knees...abandon
in a dark and desolate sob-filled tomorrow
Categories:
pleasured, lost love,
Form: Free verse
As the night creeps slowly on,
deep thoughts drift to your sweet kiss.
How it takes me to warm Paradise,
my body tingles in tender bliss.
I’m frozen in that moment,
floating on desire’s cloud.
Soft sighs echo in my lonely soul,
lifting the veil of this loveless shroud.
I long to be in that place
where we are alone all night,
on a big rug by a roaring fire
where love rules and everything is right.
I remember your laughter;
the gleam in your sexy eyes.
The candle flames seem to dance in time
to our body moves and pleasured cries.
Passion filled our spirits full
as all longings were fulfilled.
Every sensual feeling released
while love’s enchanted hearts were thrilled.
I sit with my glass of wine
in front of a raging fire.
Without your love there is a great void,
to my lonely bed I shall retire.
At least there I may find you
in one of those alluring dreams.
Drifting slowly, searching for your touch
that makes love feel as close as it seems.
Categories:
pleasured, desire, lonely, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
desultery
make-believe
festooned
in
patterns
of
.pleasured
opulence
a
cornucopia
of
hedonist
innovation
flourishing
interludes
of seismic
seranades
embracing
sumptious
magnificence
AN OPEN FORM uses spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,& relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input &respond in a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood thus is inherently variable.
Categories:
pleasured, senses,
Form: Verse
Behold the sun
and all its authority,
great manufacture
of God
behold God’s man
and all his impurity
prototype written on
fluid stone – the earth,
its belly of churning,
belching~ dis-pleasured
groan….
Categories:
pleasured, christian, creation, environment, evil,
Form: Free verse
Words
Weaving
The letter
With the heart speech
On the leaves of leaves
No ink is pleasured scar
It writes the living desires
Thus an epoch makes the soul tale
No letter can expire without roots
Words find out the blood of eternity
©Mahtab Bangalee
Categories:
pleasured, poetry, words,
Form: Etheree
Why is it that kindness,
like integrity,
is both free
and freeing?
And meanness,
like Supremacy,
is too expensive
and frightening?
Yet
I often do not feel free
to choose healing passions
and pleasures,
Earth's sacred dancing choice
While pursued by overpowering lack
of wise wealthy light
ego singing
bright love's cooperative rejoice
Inside curiously echoing
compassion's pleasured voice.
Categories:
pleasured, earth day, humanity, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
"Bahebuk awi ya habibi," as I leaned toward his face.
"Bahebik awi ya habibti," he said as he set the pace.
He pleasured me all night until he was red in the face.
Categories:
pleasured, arabic, language, love, lust,
Form: Sijo
When he speaks
transparently
he feels co-passionate
as long as s/he appears
to vulnerably listen
Without Me v We risks
of retributive judgment,
body shaming
and mind blaming,
when he aims
to restore healthy cultures
and wealthy climates of peace
through win/win reassessment
Which may be why
music feels safer to sing
resonantly
when compassionate audiences dance
engaging pleasure's peak resilience
Co-empathic brilliance
of CommonSensed communion rituals
Wealth-enlightened minds
empowering health-embodied love stories
NaturalRoot/SpiritualCrown
wisdom recirculations
as old as
universal salvation
Anthro-passion cultures
unfolding/refolding
unitarian co-redemptive
Earth-pleasured body climates,
wealthy mindful singing
performance Now
within healthy bodies dancing
co-engagement Here
Receiving in
light's notations
while thrusting out
power's most sacred
invocations.
Categories:
pleasured, anger, body, fear, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
small forest
The small forest or the woods by the white road
made of crushed sea-shells, was a place of enchantment
Squirrels played here and had no fear of lone dreamers
stumbling over oak roots.
I used to walk there when cows had
been milked, fed
and the mucking out was done,
fresh strew strewn
in stalls, and the barn had contented animals
I could do so many things in the forest, be an Indian or
take out my pocket phonographic book,
the milkmaid
gave me and masturbated.
especially drawn to pictures of cunnilingus women
seemed to enjoy this form of sex, I was horrified when
told this was not a manly act, ye the pleasured faces
stayed on my mind.
A year later, I drove to the forest
it was a private estate
high walls and posh villas, but the squirrels had gone
I laughed out laud
The good people in the villas will never know my secrets
here, where I dedicated and trained for a hearty sex life to come.
An edited version of my book: The Collected Work, of
Poetry, Vignettes, Humor and Political Statements
Categories:
pleasured, absence, abuse, age, allusion,
Form: Blank verse
When one succeeds
Then your vanity pleasured
Through words and deeds
Your humanity measured
Categories:
pleasured, humanity, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
CONVENTIONS
the
banal
thoughts
as
excess
baggage
widely
spaced
&
reinforced
by curious
virtues
a
source
of the irregular
antecedent
in surprising
resurrection
of
the
inapproprate
derived
from
pleasured
reverberations
of
prolific
understanding
mirrored
in
the soul
Categories:
pleasured, poetry,
Form: Verse
past passions passed parting
present pains pleasured prolonging
love's longings lowered lingering
world's weight winded waiting
sadness's solo silenced singing
freedom forgotten feared freezing
brittle bones bruised breaking
taciturn tears tattered tumbling
mind's memory mangled melting
reason's remnants ruined remaining
kneels nobody nighted knowing
gutless ghosting gathered grimacing
careless cacophony caged constructing
mammon millions murdered meandering
demons divinity damaged dividing
hearts heads hooked hungering
chastised children chunked chasing
betrayed bought banned burying
jingo jeering jaded judging
kindness kisses kindled killing
quiescent quakes quieted quivering
vapid verses vanquished vaping
words' world wearied wounding
zealot xenophobe zeroed zooming
Categories:
pleasured, absence, children, heartbreak, leadership,
Form: Free verse
past passions passed parting
present pains pleasured prolonging
love's longings lowered lingering
world's weight winded waiting
sadness's solo silenced singing
freedom forgotten feared freezing
brittle bones bruised breaking
taciturn tears tattered tumbling
mind's memory mangled melting
reason's remnants ruined remaining
kneels nobody nighted knowing
gutless ghosting gathered grimacing
careless cacophony caged constructing
mammon millions murdered meandering
demons divinity damaged dividing
hearts heads hooked hungering
chastised children chunked chasing
betrayed bought banned burying
jingo jeering jaded judging
kindness kisses kindled killing
quiescent quakes quieted quivering
vapid verses vanquished vaping
words' world wearied wounding
zealot xenophobe zeroed zooming
Categories:
pleasured, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
It's better to rest in peace than to surrender unwillingly, by causing your heart through a painful experience... Would never earn a chance to live, live freely, Thy eyes are the sharpest as a knife
Could ever would I get a better chance, a chance of not being compromised, Compromised for the sake of security, safety, Had what I secured in this life?
Why should I bow for the sake of tradition, which keeps me drowning to get a pleasured night,
Why should I always say yes to thy, Can't I be free from this never ending plight
Categories:
pleasured, freedom,
Form: Free verse
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