poem number 5 from poetica ads
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Silver A is the slot this wet morning
Silver A is the most loved Dude
in the streets of Big Apple
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Categories:
stratum, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Shape
The Village On the Water VII
...Raised Stone-Tablet eternally abiding under
Towering Heavens endless span; and in its
Solititude...charts the migrations of our
Highest Lord's cestial rockets.
Because of Stone-Table...
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Categories:
stratum, appreciation, imagery, places,
Form: Free verse
Multiplicity Of The Self
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In the dark alley of time the thoughts of being wanders
with the sliced life stumbling on the pitfalls of blunder.
The frailty of the indistinct fragile future
casts the shadow of despair...
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Categories:
stratum, self, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
His Reflection
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In my journey across the plain plateau of life,
stalled in the undulating landscape,
the course of the designated track
as ordained, I don’t lose.
The hazards on the way,
paving the path o...
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Categories:
stratum, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
God Perception
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In my journey across languid life's undulating landscape,
the course of the designated track as ordained I don’t lose.
The hazards on the way I could circumvent and safely escape,
as I...
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Categories:
stratum, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Picking At Scabs
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Written April 11, 2025, for Contest Sponsored by Edward Ibeh
Quote: 1/ “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ? Rumi
2/ "Many times we pick at the bitt...
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Categories:
stratum, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
Mind Of The Heart
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“feeling not thinking, soul with love linking ~
we attained God consciousness unblinking”
In the awareness anchorage of the mundane mind,
detached from the ephemeral princi...
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Categories:
stratum, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Colony Of Dreams
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Submerged in the flood of the maddening crowd,
I see a verdant valley carved out by covert ingenuity
within my lonesome mind, drifting away entranced,
displaced from the still stratum of suffu...
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Categories:
stratum, analogy, dream, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Free verse
In An Instant
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The incisive probe of insight
dissects my life’s stratum of delusion,
the shards of shattered pretense
scatter as discarded debris,
the mind reminds itself to forget.
The blizzard of di...
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Categories:
stratum, analogy, change, hope,
Form: Free verse
Chronicle Of Ends
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The culminating azure ecstasy of the glistening autumn sky
fades away at last with the blizzard of the arctic blast.
As on the wings of winter the golden leaves fly
at the end of their verd...
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Categories:
stratum, analogy, feelings, life,
Form: Free verse
Descent And Ascent
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The turning wheel of time stirs up the dust of disarray
that settles in the crumbling cauldron of disordered life.
In the maiming moments of disdained dejection
truth tumbles in the debris of...
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Categories:
stratum, analogy, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Descent And Ascent
...I fall a raindrop from stratus to stratum
birthed from clouds pregnant with thunder
a lion’s roar —a pride in the sky— fierce!
armed with lightning’s rip and slit
the scythe of claw and tooth fin...
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Categories:
stratum, conflict, freedom, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
The Calling Gull Of Aquinnah
...The calling gull leaves her nest
her wild magic cleaves the nimbus.
An avian aerialist suspended aloft
she sails on tapered ribbons of cirrus silk,
ruffled sea breeze ironed ‘neath her lustrous ...
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Categories:
stratum, appreciation, growth, introspection, love,
Form: Free verse
In The Shadow Of Sunlight
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Floating in the flash flood
of divesting dissonance pervasive,
I see a verdant valley carved out
within the entity of lonesome me,
drifting away with the desolate sigh,
displaced from t...
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Categories:
stratum, analogy, life, memory, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Existence Enshrined
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The rhapsody of rainbow
melts in morose mélange,
the concoction of colors
bleeds bland in
shattered silence,
sucked out
of crumbled core
of sensuous cloud,
soothing rain rinses
the ...
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Categories:
stratum, analogy, life, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
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