battered women
any gain too large
pregnancy test
Categories:
rendered, abuse, addiction, pain,
Form: Free verse
He offered me a painted flower
Its genus I did not know
But the token gift had the power
to melt my heart of snow
I really didn't give a fig
if it had been a bent twig
The gift he rendered on a whim
was the best part of him
Categories:
rendered, flower, love,
Form: Rhyme
Reproduction is oocyting.
With beingness what it is.
From eggs we all develop
as does everything that lives.
500 cardinal gambles tendered
for congress milt to meet, before
fecund moons by periods ended.
From family we are decended
but from eggs we all are rendered
(inspired by “We all are eggs” by poet BLT)
*** a woman is born with 500 eggs*
Categories:
rendered, animal, baby, creation, father,
Form: Rhyme
Rendered
Render me in colours
Reflected by the moon,
Let the white of my smile shine
Against the brown of my frown,
Let the curve of my chin feel the touch of your hand,
While the feel of your breathe warms my soul.
See the dip in my collar bone,
Fill it with your need,
While the slow drip of your desire
Drops in pearls down my spine.
See the dent of my belly button,
The disconnect from my beginning.
Do you see the bulge of my belly?
Childbirth leaves its scars...
My legs like brown branches
Slope down to my toes.
Render me in Colours,
Soften the blow with shadows,
Spray heart across my soul,
Wrap me up in cotton wool.
Categories:
rendered, allusion, beauty, endurance, extended
Form: Free verse
A terrible tragedy occurs,
We do not move to handle it,
Yet we wallow in our own self pity,
And allow ourselves to enter the maze
The labyrinth has a centre that stuns and confuses
Why enter the furthest distance from the exit
Rejuvenated in Summer and cowering away in winter,
Yet it is summer elsewhere
We do not have mercy for ourselves,
The indistinguishable difference between humanity and pity
Emulating a casing disproving of truly digging deeper
Angry and hating what we might find
You see a pyramid, made by Gods, worshiped by ancestors
Casual to us until we hear of locks
Blacksmiths forge the key
And produce it available to the common rat
Plaguing the details of an event unbeknownst to us
Tangentially spewing albeit still connected to the central circle
Whatever point you leave you come from the same
How can you describe the catch
22 answers are not enough to explain the downtrodden expression of a lonely man
Without a dog perhaps dead, the sadness drives him to rage
Which unearths and unholy truth
Everyone has a beast and all it takes is a little nudge
Categories:
rendered, confusion, dark, depression, endurance,
Form: I do not know?
to kiss your lips, to drift away
and feel the allure of palms burning
soft tremors from love's timeless enchantment
where time trembles, and grows still
to wait shimmering souls
lover's hearts meet in crescendo
to bathe in warm eternal bliss
hunger's fluid floating motion
fill wishful wishes from this kiss
warm nectared petals
where beauty's bare blossoms bloom
plucked from lover's lips
feel sensual sensations
in rendered realms of romance
4/2/18 contest It's All About Four
sponsored by Broken Wings
Categories:
rendered, kiss, love,
Form: Verse
When all is said and done
And the struggle is in vain,
Its time to lure the bad memories out
By lancing the boil and opening up
Withering to let the bad memories spew out
Rendering to helplessness,
Giving in, giving up, so renewal can begin.
Look deeper now, to clearly
Recall the ones you used to know.
Let the feeling flow
Before the barrenness overwhelms you again
And helplessness makes you feel like giving up anew
Tomorrow you'll render renewal after the clean out.
After the bile and pus spews out.
Categories:
rendered, meaningful, memory, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Words Heart Rendered
What is a poet's soul?
love and passion for a start
torment and misery from a deep dark abyss;
imagination stolen from the stars, inspiration's fine art
and true dedication high upon heaven's first list!
Or is it words heart rendered?
sweet beams of mornings light, cast forth without fight
bouncing against dark forests of deadly trees;
into thickened weathered bark wrapped so very tight
morphing into angels upon rare beauty's pleas!
What is a poet's way?
simple arrows slung from gleaming bows
words flying within mystical , egotistical softened clouds;
tales of life's beauty, infinity and bright glittering shows
shadows eating mysteries wrapped in fattened rainbow shrouds!
Or is it sad pains echoing?
within a golden ring chiming crystal bell
chills and thrills pouring in cold hardened purple rain
cracks springing across space and time into mind's hardy shell
colors cast into running waters making such emotional stains!
Robert J. Lindley, 1-27-2016
Categories:
rendered, appreciation, art, blessing, passion,
Form: Rhyme
I've found that
happiness
and despair
are close siblings
who tussle and feud
over playthings
like me
you
and that poor chap
who offed himself
down the hall.
I'm staring at
the same cracked
grout-grey drywall,
musing on his fate.
Maybe he's
enjoying the void.
Perhaps he's stretched
out on a pitch white
beach of infinity,
catching some rays
from the imploded
neon-black sun,
hurtling a few
inches farther away
each year.
Categories:
rendered, death,
Form: Free verse
Services Rendered
On the side street, where the poet
took his nightly walk, shots resonated,
yelling, and a car driving fast;
on the pavement a man´s blood
was running into the gutter.
The police asked what he had seen?
Nothing!
You must have seen something?
I saw a waterfall running down
a mountainside in spring and
the air was pure.
Gangland murder?
Weeks later an envelope in his
postbox, five thousand dollars.
The poet smiled at last someone
had paid him for his poetry
Categories:
rendered, parody, visionary,
Form: Blank verse
Take a sampling of interest
Dice slice spice and wrap it
Slow warm in an oven of love
Until firm with a bubbly crust
Set out to cool in evening ranges
Carefully balanced
Lest it deranges
Yearning and turning to lust
Flavor with arduous ferment and fear
Casting and sprinkling
All you hold dear
Then serve it forever
Bright clean and clear
On a platter of innocent trust
Categories:
rendered, hope, love, passion,
Form: I do not know?
The heart was rendered silent
Buried and freshly cut
By the nuance of the moment
I was destroyed as the space closed shut
The pain of disarray
As my emotions I did disobey
Buried in the silence of indifference to myself
The pain, the pain of this mental closure
Gates were closed as the “saviour of the world” I tried to shoulder
Every ache and every need
Of those that were dealt life’s misdeeds
But where was I, where was I
In this painful mess
Here I am pained and bloodied by my own distress
Silent closure equals physical pain
As the body repels with disdain
Release me or I will foreclose on you
You have a choice to yourself
You have a choice to be true
Release your heart, release your pain
Allow yourself to exist on this earthly plain
Recognise yourself in this quagmire
It is not necessary to doom yourself to the flames of the funeral fire
Alive, alive, I am alive
My voice shouts out to my own ears
Who is this voice, who can it be
I truly thought I had buried she
She that resides within my heart
All I had to do was open my inner eye and allow fear to depart….
Categories:
rendered, introspection, life, sad, pain,
Form: Free verse