painful scars borne by a bug bite
toxins therefrom causing deep pain
melt in bliss mists that rise at night
cool heat that cleanses our soul’s stain
from heart abode in witness mode
moment by moment, poised in time
in staid silence we break the code
that releases love’s bliss beat chime
Categories:
therefrom, joy, pain,
Form: Quatrain
SPONTANEOUS ART
My spontaneity
of pure chance style
is to use
paper on a handheld
A4 clip board as a work board
&upon it
use a 6 pack of 'primary
(no smudging/quick drying)
paint sticks)
then
to experiment
therewith randomly
exploring abstractly
with these colours
¬ caring if I
overlapped onto
the underlaying
smaller sized
paper beneath
in addition to these sticks
using other media e.g tippex,pencils biros...
(whatever came to hand)
Sometimes
using the smaller underlying
smudged artwork to rub( when wet)
. randomly upon the others
to create
'spontaneous' effects
& also cutting out shapes
therefrom
that appeared to me
as something ie animals faces
or whatever.
Categories:
therefrom, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
O how have I suffered such great graves!
I have been pierced by the swords of my kings
Injected with the liquid of their corruptions
They have rescinded my harmonious names
They have plucked away my treasures,
With every good of mine
Possessed unto themselves as stern,
And given them to foreign sons.
For self-benefits they have sold me to them,
And these Whitefaces treat me anyhow
Just like I was a cow;
To implore each their gem
In their own fathers’ land.
I, even I Africa, am replaced for a ring in my destroyers’ hand.
I have thought my kings would therefrom free me
But they yet serve them rather than me.
Woe to they that are presidents of poverty!
Wretched are the princes that pervert my people;
Cursed be the prophets that preach tribalism and nepotism;
And wicked are they that set my peoples asunder!
Categories:
therefrom, africa, depression, leadership, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
German George Flegel
of whom you may have heard tell
Still life his passion&metier
exccedingly well therefrom did fare
Categories:
therefrom, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Imagine cool heat enlivening our spine,
pulsating therefrom, engulfing feeble form,
magnetic power with which all nodes align,
orbiting spiritual heart, always warm,
wherefrom bliss beats rise as love for love does pine,
enveloping presence in this benign storm.
Oh worthy hermit, this is fact not fiction;
soul's transmutation, ego’s crucifixion.
09-October-2022
Categories:
therefrom, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima
Lunar Revelation
Like the moon
seeking fulfillment,
my thoughts hung dangling
in cosmic crescent and yin-yang
spaces of contemplation
until tell-tale gibbous moments
of awareness prefaced
the paralleling of the full moon
reality and life’s waxing and waning;
it’s crucifixion and resurrection;
and the revealed emptiness
of its cross reflecting the fulfillment
of its quest.
In the moon-glow
of the cool stilled night,
spiritual meditation whispered
the mission purpose of inking a
cross of words of truth, praying
they would empty themselves
therefrom and be entombed
and resurrected in yours and
the children’s minds; anointing all
with the wisdom and guidance
of quested liberation.
Thus, may these anointing words be
as precious to all as was that of the oil
of Aaron, the dew of Hermon, and the dew
which descended upon the mountain of Zion.
Categories:
therefrom, allegory, analogy, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Prose
*VIDEO of Justin Bieber's Talk of his Affliction on YouTube
Justin Bieber's Ramsay Hunt Syndrome
Just in
Justin
Bieber
Tweeter
Likewise
Apprise
TikTok
He talked
About
Timeout
Renege
His gigs
Because
He was
Concerned
He learned
Shingles
Hostiles
Illness
Stillness
Partial
Facial
Benumb
Therefrom
Hoping
Coping
Explore
Restore
Maintain
Unstrain
Renew
Sinew
Routine
Hygiene
Lengthen
Strengthen
Steadfast
Stand fast
Brainstorm
Inform
The signs
Headlines
Contribs
JBiebs
~~0~~
Justin Bieber announced that he is taking a break from performing after being diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt syndrome (RHS), a rare shingles-related condition that has paralyzed one side of his face.
2022 June 14
Categories:
therefrom, celebrity, encouraging, health, hope,
Form: Footle
*Image of Dandelion Blowing Childhood by Pixabay.
Simply Breathtaking
Upon its advent
done ... it came and went
so characterless
this working process
from depths, we inhale
therefrom, we exhale
breath names this function
to be ... its junction
~~breath
relieved sigh ... expire
deep snoring ... respire.
We take breaths from out
inside whirls about
cache paired lungs fill up
all calm, we letup
in-out when at home
out-in while we roam
climb uphill we huff
candles out we puff
~~breath
through life ... unnoticed
keeps death ... remotest.
As we be breathed
brings us this life
as we unbreathed
blessed afterlife.
2021 August 11
*9th Place*
As we be breathed
~~Unseeking Seeker
Categories:
therefrom, health, life, meaningful, people,
Form: Rhyme
The mind indeed is a wondrous thing
it has so much fully retained within
therefrom schooling years to old age
but no matter what it's tainted with sin
Only God can deal with such a state
His judgement alone will have its day
to escape this plight requires a sacrifice
only Jesus can be this perfect offering today
Ink that flows so sweetly has no blot
learn well with your pen a voice
speak with real insight and right
guide your pen so make a correct choice
Remember your tongue flows from your mind
enabling the pen to purposefully write
all that's in your own little grey cells
use it so others may know some new light
The pen is the tongue of the mind
speaking with your ink not a blot
let it flow like a long Mississippi
words to encapture your fire on the spot!
(Quote:
"The pen is the tongue of the mind")
Miguel de Cervantes ( 1547-1616)
Categories:
therefrom, muse, voice, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Claytonia
How God ignited the living continuum
No mind can fathom; neither therefrom,
How we sparked to flame.
Yet, some Sparks must beget Starbursts
Not Stars; Ephemerals, in their fleeting bursts,
Are needed not less than Oaks.
I kneel in prayer to lift up her small light
Against the dark, not to morn what might,
But illuminate the birthright of the briefest life.
Copyright Paul Thomson 2008
Categories:
therefrom, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Queens of Kings an heir to bare,
to hoast and boast in lavish fare.
When her body cursed a girl abide
her mate no longer waits her side.
A boy only fit to reign,
to grow in powers noble fame,
A daughter loved but forgot
for a ruler, she is not.
What if the tides should turn a new,
what hatred therefrom pursed lips spew.
A Queen would reign without a care
to hell with a future King as heir.
Categories:
therefrom, appreciation, betrayal, child, discrimination,
Form: Jueju
1.cinquain.- love at first sght
Adeaide Crapsey cinquain form first motivated my interest in poetry
2.imagist- viduage
Capturing an enigmatic image into words upon my page my continuing inspiration
3.shortform. footle bonie&clyde
creating the footle form encapsulated my initial novice learning curve as a poet
4.openform-sound poems
Open form organic style marked the change in style to longer forms
5.tribute poetry- to be or not
my fascination for origins of inspiration leading to this form of poetry, in tribute to my forbears therein.
6.christian - litany prayer
My committed Christianity led me naturally to use God's poiema giftings
7.ekphrasis-descriptive the form
I discovered this form enabled me to combine my hobbies of art &poetry
8.found poetry -beyond love
The inspiration of others actual words enabled the creation of my unique poetry therefrom
9.humour/wit -silence for a clerihew
Light hearted poesie was a key part of my formative discipleship as a poet
10.love/passion -amatory ayre
Poetry is an natural vehicle for love expressions to my first & lasting
love of my life
Categories:
therefrom, life, poetry, word play,
Form: List
Mt Tai
How do I describe lofty Mt. Tai’s grandeurs?
Straddling Qi and Lu states, its green lingers.
The most gorgeous landscape the Nature has drawn,
The dark and light sides convert into dusk and dawn.
Floating clouds cleanse the mortal mind and soul;
Birds fly home in groups along the mount on a scroll.
I shall climb to the top and therefrom a bird-view will
Render all the other mountains around into small hill.
(tran.)
Categories:
therefrom, analogy, metaphor, mountains, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Words I found,and chose- to make a poem in structured prose
Phrasis is a structured verse where the poet uses selected prose phrases of another writer’s(not a poet) to compile unique poetry therefrom as a tribute thereto,the word phrasis is Greek for phrase.
Categories:
therefrom, poetry,
Form: Monorhyme
She was an abstract woman in a clinical world
theoretically reasoning her notions were perfectly
discerning midst-chaotic sensibilities,
whilst her inane whimsicality kept semblances of
insanity eye-leveled twixt reconfigurable ideologies'
over-share & objectionably designated delicacies of
exothermic exposures pseudo-psychic phenomenons,
therefrom she found divinities were misaligned
with governmental expansions as an alternative to
spirituality and hypotheses of butterfly hurricane frolics,
'twas indubitably manifestations of poetically piddled
calculating escapism artistes & scoffing con-conspirators
Categories:
therefrom, allegory, butterfly, confusion, environment,
Form: Alliteration
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