Life is the reflection of the road; we will get to follow—
And that will always be more than what meets the eye
Or Seeing Eye to eye, with the eye of the very storm—
It ‘ll make the natural things, to no longer be the norm
And who am I, or you, to ask the same, old, question—
Others—may have already asked, a million times before?
While furthermore; why did that chicken cross that road? —
As if simplifying the depths, beyond, what we truly owed
It’s a lot like pondering at a mirror, but through the other guide—
How the same illusions, always reveals, exactly the same pride?
And so, if I could change one thing—it would only come to this—
I would love to hope, to go back to where home, is where my heart is
As only the heart knows, the road, where “The Way” leads to the other side—
Just as every sheep will hear the same voice—we too can drown out the same noise
As our future destiny is made, not by what we’ve done in the past, but in the present
For by definition, “the present” is a gift, and quite frankly, we will all need a lift
A reflection of the heart by Wilbert Dela Cruz
Categories:
simplifying, baptism, character, christian, faith,
Form: Free verse
God has put success
On both worlds
Peace of mind and heart
For troublesome ones
Success is just temporary
But failure is permanent
Neither I'll be simplifying things
Nor corruptuon to go beyond
If my world is double damn
I'll better go empty belly
Than be successful in short cut way
And that tortured conscience
And licking wounds in silence
Made me more vallain in His sight.
Categories:
simplifying, character, corruption, success,
Form: Free verse
Divine instrument, is poetry
and only poetry with her magic vision,
who describes
the indescribable,
defines the indefinable,
exults the verisimilitude
of the simple, because
exceeds any limit
of the believable and the incredible
breaking the shackles
of the mysteries..
Simplifying and demystifying
the obscurities by clarifying
any and all secrets
exposing emotional beauty
of poetry...!
Categories:
simplifying, allegory, allusion, appreciation, extended
Form: Light Verse
Why make everything complex
Complicate, replicate, concave, or convex?
I am a strong proponent of simplifying
If there’s a problem, it’s for rectifying!
written November 29, 2021
Categories:
simplifying, how i feel,
Form: Light Verse
Inside an old library of things uncountable
clippings, extracts, jottings, and snippets.
‘things’
nothing can be
excluded
yes the air is musty, thickly clothed,
muffled and club fingered,
incidentals are listed
on the cuff of the half-remembered.
Mind dust wafts from one place to another.
Orts of loss, tittle, and trifles. A library
in pieces.
A fine looking woman approaches
she has an armful of books.
Maybe she works here
or maybe she works only
in this moment.
Behind her
things begin to fall off shelves.
“Don’t worry.”
She is Scottish and actually says
“dinna fash yersel.”
An old Celtic grandma peeps out of her eyes.
The enormity of every-thing
pecks and probes.
She places more books
on the reading table.
The thought of a ‘reading table’
amuses.
Outside the library the world is simplifying.
A fresh sky begins to write
in a language only spoken of
in empty rooms.
It’s a braw uncluttered daylight
that greets awakening eyes.
Categories:
simplifying, poetry,
Form: Free verse
How quick she is
to pass judgment
little need for facts
why bother
they only clutter
and get in the way
slowing down the process
doesn’t she feel effective
and utterly proficient
passing a verdict
in one minute flat
simplifying life
in record time
breaking down the structure
into black and white
AP: 3rd place 2020
Posted on January 19, 2019
Categories:
simplifying, abuse, betrayal, bullying, people,
Form: Free verse
A she now mine,
A she made time.
A she instincts cool,
A she minimizing blue.
A she daydreaming,
A she leaning still.
A she toying glee,
A she living free.
A she and her hoodie,
A she and her fringe.
A she reflecting smile,
A she reinventing style.
A she intentionally indifferent,
A she intimating significance.
A she simplifying stealing,
A she modernizing meaning.
Categories:
simplifying, emotions, feelings, girlfriend, love,
Form: Free verse
Love creates signs
Visualized into how walks made
The signs may be late
People read signs
Interpreted into expressions
The signs may be high
Walks and exprssions
Simultaneous in simplifying ways
To shortlisted signs, to love
Categories:
simplifying, love, simple,
Form: Free verse
Be Understood if I Could
There are many things that have been happening
Away all of our strength they are always sapping
And will be wearing us all out as well as down
As we have started travelling from town to town.
Which question will pop up in our appearance next
May be hard one that with Hillary would be hexed
According to things existing in my modest counting
And total of troubles keeps mounting and mounting.
Why should truth appear difficult to be understand
While there has to be some way in which we could
Instead of us being facetious and continually lying
Make all things short, sweet and also simplifying.
To you, this certainly is best way it should be done
Why is it me who should be the one and only one?
Who at times has been very boisterous and loud
Must be quiet so can perfectly fit into the crowd.
James Serious Mysterious Horn
Retired Soldier and Poet
Categories:
simplifying, allegory, analogy,
Form: Couplet
Beneath the dam St. Vitus swam
Till he settled upon a bar
Where heaven's light reflected bright
In eyes fixed upon a star
No move he made, or mind he paid
When minnows gently kissed
Good night to him, who couldn't swim,
Now shroud in mornings mist.
Epilogue - The Fall of Man
With celestial shine cast so divine,
His rapture was complete.
Was heaven's call that caused the fall,
Damned by agnostic feet.
* A light parody (if imagery of a drowning could be considered light) of a wonderful poem "Muess des Beaux Arts" by W. H. Auden. Auden's poem is based on a 15th century painting "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus". The theme of the poem (I am vastly over simplifying the theme here) is the human capacity to be so focused on our daily lives that an amazing tragedy, Icarus fall from the sky, could go unnoticed. My point is that if you are too fixed on the heavens and great questions - life, the universe, and everything - you might miss the simple things that are important . . . like watching where you are going!
(And no, St. Vitus didn't drown, he is the patron saint of dancers and epileptics.)
Categories:
simplifying, humor, imagery, satire, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Poetry
Is
Simplifying
The
The complex Universe
Into
A
Simple
Verse.
- R k Chowdary Jasti
Categories:
simplifying, on writing and words,
Form: ABC
(how well I could play)
in a straight forward way;
simplifying it, making it more pure
in a clear sound, turning it up
and bearing down...
there'd be distortion, red-anger, punk-blue,
get it up tough, keep it going,
'cause I didn't know what else to do.
at fifteen I was unreasonably accomplished
with those long dynamic echo-delayed riffs;
at eleven I was sleeping in the back of a car
surrounded by books an amp and a guitar,
rolling around with the sound of
a welt chord, a grace note, Henry Miller and Nietzsche;
laying-down these upholstery-songs in the summer of seventy-eight
where reverb was explored beyond the return of counter-culture,
going 'round the bend, headed in a back-words direction again
Categories:
simplifying, allegory, art, childhood, life,
Form: Free verse