Time twirls slowly,
when tragedy sunders
antiquated wings—
maimed and eroded, becoming
featherless angels,
ferociously combatant,
sparring to win,
wandering in vacant division,
while penetrating the walls
of our wildering downfalls.
Finding clemency in the
glimmer of our healing ambience,
realigning the quills of our love,
with every breath and pace across
idyllic esplanades, soaring above
catacombs of lawless perdition,
remedying grievances, while
reveling in the haven of
rhapsodic euphoria amidst
lingering plumes,
diffusing eternal tales of our
blissful hereafter.
Categories:
sunders, change, dedication, devotion, emotions,
Form: Free verse
The gaps between the universe’s intrigue.
Did the heart of all hearts falter,
did the pulse in the neck
of existence die?
One universe - a tittle of bright sand
among untold other,
and in-between
that blank deep dark.
If time is a traveler then the gap,
the dead space, that fathomless
cistern that all light drains into,
is indeed a well of nothingness
that sunders one cosmos from another.
Zoological parks thrive
billions of years apart.
In all living places
God is not mocked…but
that gap between them where no light lives,
that void no eye can open within -
that is the utter separation.
God alone knows
that infinite space between dreams
where all there is and ever will be
are held in empty abeyance,
a death-door where just perhaps,
one speck of hope still flickers.
Categories:
sunders, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Hollow eyes
Sagging skin
Wounds undressed
Ashes strewn about
his feet
A tremor
sunders his lips
Categories:
sunders, sad, scary, sick,
Form: Imagism
Our impulses does civilisation set out to control
Regulation rules.
Let slip society's commandments
And the feral runs riot.
Between the rational and the visceral
There is a constant struggle
Identified so starkly in The Heart Of Darkness
Where unmoored from the diktats of custom
Kurtz his moral compass loses.
This same lesson does Lord Of The Flies
Try to inculcate
And the horrors of tribalism
Does indicate
With sadistic cruelty
Buttressed by the strength of power
Today the internet with all its temptations
Anonymity,images of perversion
And the hubris of the individual
The shackles of constraint sunders
To drive the individual
To explore
The dark side of human nature.
It is a deeper belief
That within one must reside
A bulwark to throw up
Against the rising tide
To hold back
The wrecking waves
Imperilling
What the Good Lord set out to save.
Categories:
sunders, evil, god, religion,
Form: Free verse
War
despised, feared
conquers, kills, sunders
people, countries, fragmented, torn
Hate
Peace
desired, embraced
liberates, nurtures, unites
people, countries, together, whole
Love
© Sandra M. Haight 2014
All Rights Reserved
~2nd Place~
Contest: Cinquain
Sponsor: Dr. Ram Meta
Modern Cinquain - Word Count: 1-2-3-4-1
Judged 01/01/2015
Categories:
sunders, longing, peace,
Form: Cinquain
sun’s heat sunders sand
clustered lanced leaves green hug
widow’s tears collapse
Widow’s Tears is the common name for Commelina erecta var. angustifolia, they bloom on
Texas beaches in sand or clay, and have the characteristic of flowering early in the morning
and fading by noon. The bloom in all seasons but I chose spring to be more commonly
approachable. [1]
[1] Wildflowers and Other Plants of Texas Beaches and Islands, Alfred Richardson
Categories:
sunders, death, depression, loss, nature,
Form: Haiku