Fortress of peace ...
dark entrance
Graduated depths,
steps icy
No more emotional eruptions
just volcanic slumber —
Something inside has died
Quiet brood ...
at what price came this cursed silent relief?
Left with only a lonely penance,
seems the calculations weren’t heartfelt
Wavy shadow movements increase
Flickering regret moments,
tears dripping ... briefly melting Arctic attitudes
Aurora nightfall gives illuminated rest,
as smouldering rage slowly cease
Wind whispers listen at a frosty distance,
creating such tranquil space
Gathering calm
beckons a cavern catacomb soul to go
where another rappel elevated heart went
Open mountain air ... no secret crevices
for the solitude to hide
Inter the cold,
and let the cooling revive
Let the northern exposure erase
all of the igneous pain
As the buried passion escape ...
feel the snow peak
kindled heat,
and watch the bonding of the flames
borealis rise
Categories:
rappel, allusion, imagery, loneliness, sad,
Form: Free verse
Watch as lissom snowflakes rappel the air,
From afar alike yet never the same,
On sojourns quiet or with much fanfare,
A passage lonesome or lit with love’s flame.
Lasting place ‘tween clouds and plains none can claim,
From the sky they came of low or high birth,
In a heartbeat to melt into the earth.
Categories:
rappel, earth, fate, heaven, life,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Leaves fall in the Fall.
Leaves flump in the Downtick.
Leaves flop in the Glide.
Leaves founder in the Comedown.
Leaves descend and drop in the Tumble.
Leaves nosedive and lurch in the Downflow.
Leaves pitch and capsize in the Forced Landing.
Leaves topple and cascade in the Gravitation.
Leaves abseil and rappel in the Descent.
Leaves coast and sideslip in the Downrush.
Leaves skid and avalanche in the Dropping.
Leaves swoop and plunge in the Coast.
Leaves settle and precipitate in the Cropper.
Leaves glissade in the Glissando.
. . . where's a rake when I need it?
Categories:
rappel, nature,
Form: Free verse
It's not her style to walk down the aisle.
Father and parson its sure to rile.
But all of the people
down under the steeple
will smile at her elegant abseil.
*Abseil - rappel down a rope
Categories:
rappel, wedding,
Form: Limerick
Understand tomorrow within plenty,
Winter darkness started in its solitude,
Beats drum stick's forbidden intensity,
To sleeping generation elsewhere;
Let my heart beats rappel in secret joy,
And torment your stillness with feline cries,
Blackened by the liquid fire in each breath,
Enough God, the vine in key fight seeks peace;
Cage my flesh for your melted chocolate yields,
On crossroads to rhyme the precious river,
I believe in my hot identity,
For wild wind blows to empty each desire:
Clobbered you reach erotic rapture,
And kindle every seductive pleasure.
Categories:
rappel, love
Form: Free verse