Slotted rocks allotted in a stacked wall of stone
Greeted me gray as smoke, carved statue honed
Halted my walk among sun snuck tall trunk home
Flatly reminded my psyche I'd arrived here alone
For beyond its forbode, forest sprouts unknown
Told to me only in rubbed limbs creaked moans
To quenching's quest, searched soul seeds sown
Willing to merge with alternate ways, I will atone
With whatever whirled leaf torn trauma is thrown
Where woods go, be guided by my bravery shown
Hammered heart tells me climbing sparks danger
Safety belt suffocated, thus love stayed a stranger
Signals from scintillated stems, summons known
Spurs me toward side greener, a renegade ranger
2nd October 2020
'Wall In The Woods'
Sponsor: Craig Cornish
Categories:
scintillated, anxiety, appreciation, boxing day ,
Form: Rhyme
pine busting with bulbs
scintillated in tinsel —
no room for the Star.
12/8/2018
Categories:
scintillated, christmas,
Form: Haiku
She was around when the story was written,
Even when the tides rose,
She mastered the art not to be beaten,
That's why she will always be a rose.
As the stars scintillated in the night,
Our fascinating story exploded,
Seeing her face filled with delight,
Meant our romance had finally sparkled.
Since the train has already left the station,
I can now feel its languid movements,
My only wish is her heart to be its final destination,
My flame is burning for the moment.
Categories:
scintillated, friend, love, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Frozen chaos painted the widows
pristine sky blue seen through ice
icicle patterns spirals and swirls
We opened the door and stepped outside
“Jesus it’s cold” your breath the only cloud
Upon the fields of snow
no footprint touched
the freezing glitter on its surface
Sunrise pink, day-glow iridescent
the forest of silver-birch trunks
caught on fire with soft rose light
White, white, crisp cold white
under the pristine sky
and a forest of pink trees flaming in the sunrise
You held your closed fingers to your mouth
breathing on them hoping to warm them
and I could see in your eyes how you scintillated and smiled
We stood there as the chill seeped into ankles
snow deep boots
and the perfect stillness of it all
“Coffee” you said, “I need hot coffee”
We opened the door and stepped inside
Frozen chaos painted the widows
pristine sky blue seen through ice
and the bed sheets still warm from the night
Categories:
scintillated, winter,
Form: Free verse
In a world swathed, in the darkest of night
She danced and she twirled, emanating light
The very place where, her dainty hands lay
Scintillated sparks, of glorious day
A woman touched, by celestial grace
Heavenly glitter, sheened angelic face
She traipsed high and low, aching hearts to bless
Lustrous glory, she clothed in tenderness
One day fairy, by unseen hand did fall
Shiny wings crushed, she was left there to crawl
Her soul's glimmer, now flowed out in her tears
Prostrate on the ground, weighed by bitter fears
With every sob, falling glitter left bare
Her magic gone, she gave in to death there
Eileen Manassian Ghali
Categories:
scintillated, death, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
For many an historical generation,
you scintillated man’s imagination.
The subject of numerous films and books,
your presence was worth some astronomers’ looks.
From writers such as H.G. Wells and Jules Verne,
the fire of man’s curiosity would burn.
With mankind’s ingenuity and labor,
could we travel to this planetary neighbor?
If we arrived there, what would we find?
Are there living creatures similar to earth’s kind?
With man’s advancing technology,
space probes to the planet became reality.
However, what we discovered was not as expected.
Hardly any form of life was detected.
With cold desert-like terrain and desiccated atmosphere,
no life as we know it could live here.
No canals as previously conjectured would exist.
As a planet with life, you are crossed off our list.
Categories:
scintillated, science, space, life, planet,
Form: Rhyme
The alchemists seek to change iron into gold.
They have never succeeded, so I have been told.
However, I have found gold within your body.
Everything about you has scintillated me.
Heloise, not only do you have great beauty,
for a woman, you appear very scholarly.
You have uncanny qualities many men seek,
as you are fluent in Latin, Hebrew, and Greek.
It seems God has taken the riches of the earth,
and mixed them together on the day of your birth.
There’s no other woman like you in all of France.
Since I have met you, I have taken a great chance.
I realize I am more than just your tutor.
You blessed me with a child as you are my lover.
I know your uncle Fulbert will be furious
the moment he discovers what became of us.
I assure you as our God is our judge above,
I’ll provide you and Astrolabe will all my love.
Categories:
scintillated, history, love, god, god,
Form: Rhyme
Within the hype of hop-head hitter's fear
Are bitter crystal lies of siren night.
The sight of city sounds will surface near
As frantic raging rhythms rise in flight.
And songs we play in honor of the horn,
Blue-blended notes and half-note incompletes,
Diffuse the blues to jazz where love is born,
Creating genius bound for easy streets.
The scintillated syncopated sound -
Dramatic Diogenic dreams so vast;
A vibrant vision vital and profound,
Improvisation purity, at last.
Another brother for the gutter dead -
Transcendent saxophone--your habit fed.
Categories:
scintillated,
Form: Sonnet