I did not even think, lo, that you would erupt,
Like lava from a wild volcano, so abrupt;
You are not mere water raised as a vapor,
Nor imaginations unwritten on paper;
Instead, you are my hopelessness and helplessness,
Breaking into waves of oceans of recklessness...!
My emotions pile up like Ice Mountains and hills,
Melt by the summer sun of feelings heart brim-fills;
I turn helpless as a child fell into a pond,
I plead reasons and reasonableness, to bond;
None dares to perforate the holes of my tears,
Is this because each element has its own fears...?
O my tears, I love you because you are unique,
You push yourself in full hope and when faith is bleak;
In birth and death when in mixed emotions you move,
My moods, on and off, you approve and disapprove;
You are like rains or gales that cleanse the earth,
Having shed you in abundance I gain new birth...!!!
17 June 2023
Teardrop Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Regina McIntosh
Categories:
reasonableness, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Born in the broken hut of an old story
he persists as a writing,
as words hammered from his own breath.
There is not enough
of the right kind of madness in the world,
too much reasonableness has led to
an increasing violence.
He spoke as if he knew,
but the writer but scribbled his mind
barely thinking, only persevering.
He arrives in the cradle of each morning
fully clothed in words
as a somebodies best and worst idea
yet
only the most keen eared of souls
will know how deeply
he is walled-in
by dread and an appalling silence.
Categories:
reasonableness, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Real life
We clamour to be heard for our space which invariably
will intrude on others’ space which we dismiss in a torrent of abuse
we will not listen to voices of reasonableness.
We say they are voices of traitors and bitterly want them silenced.
More and more people demand statehood even if it is within the borders
of the country they already live in; they will not assimilate.
Accept other cultures which are dismissed as inferior to their ideal.
Smaller and smaller allotments of land declaring independence
Isolating their religious culture from interference and using
violence against any seeking sanctuary.
Russia and Ukraine fight a turf war, as do the USA and China demand
fidelity to their culture; there is only one veracity in the one manuscript
written by sages who had nothing new to offer other than hatred
against those that speak in a foreign tongue and preach understanding
Categories:
reasonableness, anxiety, break up,
Form: Free verse
Her legs, they’re long, they’re slim, they proudly stride,
Owning the dark of the street,
And they both have pure, lines of hot,
Exuding a sensual heat,
They’re my poison, my drug, my toxic desire,
That I think of every day,
Devouring every thought of reasonableness,
In a crazed little thoughtful ballet,
I love her legs, the soft and smooth,
I love the fall from her thigh to the ground,
I love every beautiful curve her legs have,
They’ve got me completely spell bound,
I love her legs, both beautiful legs,
They’ve switched a love switch in my head,
Her legs are all I can think of each day,
Till I’m in heaven, beside them, in bed.
Categories:
reasonableness, beautiful, beauty, love, lust,
Form: Quatrain
The commotion in my psyche is beyond strenuous
I get temptations of repugnant conduct
My better-half also confirmed my heart's melancholy
On this, would you be gentle Mother Nature?
Take me wing, soon as I slam my sight
My engagement in collection of ignominy
Has been a unremitting excursion
Which so long as I live through
Shall embrace me in its tender pain
I went in and out of infirmaries
Every time I woke with just a perfect pelt
To which white-coated folks cheered
With little acquaintance of my valid condition
Oh liberty! Why do you shy away in this
Have you no espy of my affairs
Even when with conviction I assert
That should I gather one more dire truth
Those of reasonableness shall embrace my presence
Categories:
reasonableness, depression, engagement,
Form: Free verse