Dentist appointments cause me to linger,
Someplace betwixt dread and the blackness,
Fright’s version of despair,
Wistful and aching with silent prayers,
Silent, silence, soundless – still,
All the reasons, the responses, the requisites,
For those hours, endless times
Spent, losing my mind,
With mouth opened to oblige
Fingers pressed against my gums,
Forcing the enemy’s needles,
Taste of lidocaine, breathing in and out,
Through expanded nostrils,
Urgent moments, flooded with apprehension,
Distracted by the metal instruments,
Dreadful apparatuses,
Some intended to scrap at my enamel,
Pick at my fangs,
Some meant to dislodge roots,
Extract a tooth, - a part of me,
A portion of my flesh, my body,
Buried deep in my gums,
Where silent forces sing of dark horrors,
Will this dentist ever finish?
It seems like I’ve been in this chair for hours,
Looking at my watch….
Can it have only been five minutes!?!
Categories:
requisites, angst, anxiety, health,
Form: Free verse
Wow! Please do count yourself
exceedingly blessed!
You need not meet their requisites,
to pass a friendship test.
They allow you a fragrant, flowered
leeway.
It’s not the ice cold, rock hard,
pavement of “their”way!
Respect means giving your sister
or brother, expressive room.
Not sealing them like death, in a “my
ideas only, allowed” tomb.
Friends, we seem to think, are there for
us to hurt?
You will feel their absence terribly, when
the friendship bubble, you burst!
11/18/2022
Categories:
requisites, friendship, loss, pain,
Form: Rhyme
What are the world's current requisites?
Is preferable to intelligence than bellicosity.
We should stoop our heads like wind chimes,
Additionally, supplicate our Almighty God.
It doesn't matter if you approve it or not,
Ultimately, the answer is in your hands.
With a little blot, you cannot go wrong,
Regardless of what you might do.
Others will be exonerated and scrutinized,
It's almost as though they're finely rung.
Consider them as if they are pleased and jubilant,
When you stand together, you will be magnificent.
I'm aiming to lessen my rating and increase my love,
This action should be carefully examined.
Being exempt from the requirement to assign a score,
As a consequence, the path will be unambiguous.
Punters, first and foremost, notice your spirit,
In the long run, you might consume the right to see.
That every one of us will provide his fair share,
As a result, harmony will be defined by no rules.
2nd place contest winner
Written: March 24, 2022
Your Peace Message To The World Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Anoucheka Gangabissoon
Categories:
requisites, analogy, angst, bereavement, peace,
Form: Free verse
Infinite Voyage
Hearts embed eyes with exotic destinations
Knowledge and desires kindled by emotions
Wandering dreamers assume a safe landing
Requisites for an infinite voyage demanding
***A tribute to our intrepid human space explorers of the past and present ***
Penned:
07/25/2016
West Palm Beach
Florida USA
Categories:
requisites, future, imagination, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Rules- made for a purpose;
Required to shape life well.
Readies complex planning;
Requisites- well explained.
Respect for common rules
Restores balance to stress;
Rights and wrongs- explicit.
April 17, 2021
Contest: Pleiades R
Sponsor: Kim Merryman
Categories:
requisites, endurance, how i feel,
Form: Pleiades
Realities of life will not relent
idealistic hopes cannot compete
Begrudgingly we pay full recompense
Requisites of life's payments to meet
We seek to bargain price or new contract
the offer is rejected...out of hand
With nothing to offer life's merchant
realities fixed price, he'll not amend.
Categories:
requisites, depression, emotions, silence,
Form: Free verse
Dispute arises between love and right
Two things I always display at each side
For a belief that both produce delight
When balanced fairly below my high pride.
But these two that I maintain underneath
Dare to rise above reigning boundary
Breaking the settled standard requisites
Diverging from constructed summary.
And with reasons of love, right yield a win
So one can have a right without loving
While the other love of no right within
But serving broken heart full of grieving.
Right is given as a package of love
Of a person not loved, no right to have.
Categories:
requisites, heart, hero, love, relationship,
Form: Sonnet
Jose, Harvey, Irma, Gert,
Cat. Five puts us on alert.
Howsoever they are named,
Mother's fury can't be tamed.
Churning, roiling, liquid wall,
looming four-plus metres tall.
Floods of biblical expanse,
survival just happenstance.
Wind whipped into lethal squall,
hammers those trapped in its thrall.
Sturdy palm trees battered flat,
Man and beast lost habitat.
Follow devastation's trail,
turmoil on a global scale.
Home and business torn apart,
plucking at strings of the heart.
Lacking basic requisites,
in amongst the detritus.
Mourning all that has been lost,
how begin to count the cost?
Thank the selfless volunteers,
who assist their stalwart peers.
Former tropic paradise,
scene of noble sacrifice.
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11 September 2017
My thoughts and best wishes go out to all those affected by the catastrophic weather in the Caribbean and the United States.
For the "Hurricanes" contest, sponsored by Julie Rodeheaver.
(5th Place)
Categories:
requisites, environment, inspirational, natural disasters,
Form: Couplet
My ideal woman must have a ravishing body
With skin as soft as a baby's bottom, by golly
Having boobs to die for
Couldn't ask for more
Last but not least, she must be a breathing wee dolly
Categories:
requisites, humorous,
Form: Limerick
God's greatest gift to humanity is health
It can be considered as the mother of wealth
Without a sound health life becomes tiresome
Care for it before our condition turns out awesome
Spare no effort to remain healthy
Sickness means much expenditure even if we are not wealthy
Staying hale and hearty is a precious treasure
The secret of well being depends on several measures
Early to sleep, early to rise
Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
Continuous physical exercises and good living habits
Are essentials requisites to keep forever fit
Alongside with prayers and meditation
Man will surely attain salvation
Oh! youth of today, stop this artificial living
Substance abuse will destroy everything
If you damage your health
Eventually it will lead you to death
For when wealth is gone
Nothing is gone
But when health is gone
Everything is gone
It's only when health is lost
We tend to value it the most
Categories:
requisites, abuse, death, health, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Imagination ‘pon a massive, vast,
And boundless harbinger depends. One that
The sea, unequalled in adequacy, may serve.
Within the ceaselessness of its supreme
And transcendental flux, phantasmata
May bathe in peace, unmannerly towards
The tempest who, in turn, replieth thus:
“Am I a captive of the dreaming sea?
Of everlasting pain and agony?
In quest of admiration constantly?”
And so the dreams that ceased to bathe reply:
“But nay, for dreams are requisites for joy
And opulence, if thou but trusts the sea,
Then love shalt thou forever feel, and love
Shalt thou be then embracèd by.” Said they
To him, who then obeyed and was reduced
To coolest breezes ‘neath the flawless sky.
With that, the orb sublime will sink into
Colossus. See! On my horizon sails,
Majestic, surely bound for Sandman’s shores.
Categories:
requisites, adventure, allegory, fantasy, happiness,
Form: Blank verse