Now quiet, settled, easy, leisurely
through life’s affairs,—say, couched in everyday—
and sipping being’s sweetest, freshest ray;
Sunshine!, Sunshine! ‘midst winter’s coldest glee!
Now troubled, disjointed, uneasily
fumbling, scrambling through dumb frowning time.—Gray-
-haired night’s murk weighs down gay light’s mirth filled play...—
tumbling through summer’s scorching cruelty!
An inescapable alternation
of gloom and cheer,(to be—and—not to be),
wheeling circles and cycles—infernal,—
recur, relapse, return through all creation.;
Remember, though pain’s but temporary,
vacuous suffering is eternal.
Categories:
recur, desire, destiny, humanity, life,
Form: Italian Sonnet
“What is the use of a house if you haven`t got a tolerable planet to putt it on.”
Henry David Thoreau
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Global Warming
what have we done
for glaciers to melt so fast
for forest fires to flare so often
for tornadoes to rage so strongly
for droughts to occur oft and anon
for flash floods to recur time and again
Categories:
recur, environment, inspirational, life,
Form: Other
Warriors of a kind
reporting on ground
amidst booming sounds
Bullets can’t read
words on their waistcoats
Warriors of a kind
caring for the wounded
amidst booming sounds
Bullets can’t read
words on their whitecoats
Warriors of a kind
living albeit in ruins
amidst booming sounds
Bullets can’t read
words of their prayers
War, like storm in ocean
can’t be controlled
but can be traced
yet, destruction is
at its best, loss recur
Warriors in the field
being caught in storm
pray in faith to be saved
to rebuild lives
to rebuild faith
Categories:
recur, war,
Form: Free verse
It might begin with the sweet songs of birds
when sunrise blooms its glow, seeming divine.
We view the month to see those written words;
“Spring now begins” confirms our current sign.
The resurrection from grim Winter sleep
will move full-swing while buds unveil to stir.
Soft colors of new willow greens will sweep-
blot Winter drudge while brighter views recur.
Fresh hope rebirths the life in every soul
when Springtime flowers crown the rolling fields.
While gushing brooks from melted snow unroll-
the feeling of new life within us yields.
This mystery of rebirth gifts our Spring;
gives promise in new life for everything!
Categories:
recur, appreciation, nature, spring,
Form: Sonnet
A losing river runs with chains—
Still, cannot bind with the sea;
When alive with you was its only calling.
Now I return and recur over and over
In my loss – my great mental heart.
My love, my life,
Are you still mine?
Anywhere, I need your love.
I need your love, anywhere.
Locked-in,
Me underneath
The numbing quiet—
Where all I can think of is you:
Your breath fogs images in my chains.
Only your touch can feed them into running over.
Anywhere, I need your love.
I need your love, anywhere.
I’m reaching up through you.
Our power is more than sun or moon.
Unchain
—This melody—
To yours free.
(Inspired by my #1: GREGORIAN - Unchained Melody)
Categories:
recur, deep, devotion, emotions, feelings,
Form: Lyric
I dream of making love to her.
I stand tall in front of her tomb,
My heart churns up a lively stir,
I cannot help but feel the gloom.
I smell roses strewn all over.
I dream of making love to her.
I have lost all my composure.
Must all these painful dreams recur?
I stare and stare but it's a blur,
Her loss is great as it should be.
I dream of making love to her.
Seems that I'm tied, never be free.
Whispers from trees I try to shut.
Wish she were here. How I prefer!
Useless, for all life, must end, but
I dream of making love to her.
Categories:
recur, lost love,
Form: Quatrain
"We're connected to God through faith and Satan through fear."
Robert Hood
fallen spirits are involved
or below, looking for the culprit
any chart always fails
unless to flunk
why are we here?
but succeeds without error
is a dream
therefore, Satan was to blame
a liar and thief that roam the land
in search of souls
may he unfold
to the existing world
but who was to blame?
fantasy is never seen before
to the bared eye
who gave you this name?
you soul thief
~If this was the intention,
to Create.
In the imagination of a desperate spirit
It mustn't be
so does the mind secern the essence of its being?
If not, because none of us could
Inventions only
Imagination of existence
only demons can recur magic
This cryptic suspicion
in mind
a soul-seeking demon
so its existence
does not stop~
Written: October 24, 2022
A Brian Strand Premiere Choice Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand
Categories:
recur, analogy, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Because there will never be a perfect globe.
I'm going to cope.
I'm still young, and my small queries don't matter.
It's me versus fate in this battle.
There is a lot of unfathomable concealment from us.
It is all left to be discussed.
My loved ones and those I despise aren't perfect; they merely try their best.
I guess feelings were never meant to be expressed.
People come and go. It's in their nature.
Life's about finding our hidden treasures.
Our lives are too short to cry.
It's all about learning to rely.
The past won't recur, and the future cannot be foreseen.
The journey starts the moment you break yourself from the routine.
Society doesn't matter and doesn't care about you.
What matters is who you grow into.
Categories:
recur, cheer up, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
It barely vanquishes my quenchless spirit of inquiry.
To what exactly reason have I sledded so wildly?
Boasters and swindlers sprang up a treaty vigorously.
People are queuing to sway slated on a promontory.
It's plodding to incite thugs by misleading people.
Your genuine assertion is both witless and guileful.
By discerning purport, you may be pioneering.
As though a doleful mistrust was typically unfurling.
Why is it crucial to recur an idyllic shade?
It's time to hoard the dart and glittering blade.
Valorous braves are slogging toward the staid.
Everlasting zest is not a squib and never fades.
Yet we must swither in waging truth and moral virtue.
Truth and equity can't alter insight on specific bestow.
Written: December 24, 2021
Categories:
recur, analogy, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
OUTLINE
so
elegant
exact
if
plain
but
pure
a fleeting
fidelity
this
pride of possession
that
disturb feelings
though remarkably ironic
recur
covering
the
obsessive
in veiled irony
leaving
a slight
rapport
candid
&intimate
THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma so derived
Categories:
recur, poetry,
Form: Other
Scarlet setting sun surrendered serene silvery moon,
And bold beauteous blackness is bursting with blooms!
In wide wilder windswept spaces without ivied walls,
Perennial pleasures recur, as a perfumed night falls.
Yellow canaries still croon in collaborative chorus,
Long after a laudable late afternoon's honeyed plus,
As capricious catching colors charm evening for us!
Categories:
recur, beautiful, color, flower, moon,
Form: Alliteration
It lingers, magic fingers
of the rich and greedy tingler,
just when you hoped 2020 was over
the itchy touch returns over and over;
a sore throat, a loud voice in exasperated attempts to vent
just when you thought we found success it is spent;
the loud emboldened demands recur again and again
America continues to burn, and covid intensifies now and then ;
if only the bully and the fight endowed
focused on the citizens cold night shrouds,
mankind just wants to live and retain
the sanity we have yet to regain.
Categories:
recur, allusion, america,
Form: Rhyme
I evoke the moaning Stars,
Bad memories reviving behind my bars.
I recur not having a care ;
Imagining we were soulmates.
I relive being so elated,
To bring it to the top.
I remember where it all started ;
And where my meekness stopped.
I recall the closing door -
The way he fiercely corked.
I remember being so afraid ;
The way he wildly looked.
I try to forget the menace,
But I was forcibly stuck.
And I recall the obscession that occurred
The moment he tried to wave.
I effort to neglect the disgrace and woe!
Curtaining for the bright.
But I remember from that day;
Life was never the right.
I remember meagre more,
As the years passed.
And I am still trying to escape;
From the massacre of his lust.
I remember my family didn't know,
And I am not competent to share of.
But I am afraid to go out;
As the neighbours are ready to harass of.
Categories:
recur, betrayal, depression, encouraging, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Heart raptures are often revisited,
When poring over the things He said;
And as a rousing drama replays again,
All evergreen is love's aged domain!
Words of prophets in the mind recur;
The divine tales of each messenger-
How Moses by God obtained the law,
Then merciful Jesus, who had no flaw.
When evening comes quite softly and,
Blossoms His shadow all over land,
When hoot owl and all creation sighs,
Prayers rise to purple satiny skies!
His story is warm as sunshine gold,
And our destiny His word had foretold,
Like fireflies foreshadow the night,
And as excessive darkness heralds light!
He revealed the way to live in love,
In beauty joyful as rampant foxglove!
It's no wonder all of nature sings,
Crypts of saints have eternal spring!
Categories:
recur, bible, god, jesus, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Lovely to know He is everywhere,
For love blooms anywhere He goes,
Answering every fervent prayer-
The source of endless rainbows!
Knowing just what to do and when,
Every single time, right on time;
So shadow flowers may recur again,
And fruit so blushes at its prime.
And creepers know whence to creep,
As bunnies hop in fields of summer;
And Mole knows if he's in too deep,
While each early follows latecomer.
He espies the trailing fireflies,
Glamourizing all the summer nights;
And hears the many fatigued cries,
Of songbirds on southern flights.
He created magic of midnight stars,
And the long slow dance of the moon;
Oversaw our reigns of ancient tsars,
And commanded shadows at high noon!
Categories:
recur, blessing, flower, god, heart,
Form: Rhyme
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