There's no set list of motivational things I can name
because my inspirational impetus is never the same.
Often, I'm encouraged to pick up my pen and write
by celestial bodies glimmering upon me in the night.
What moves me to choose canvas and brush to paint
can be induced by flower, a child, there's no restraint
when it comes to what triggers my mind as inspirations.
It can be reading works of a Master Poet's compilations.
There are no bounds that hold back my impulses to act.
I'm easily prone to create from song lyrics. That's a fact.
I'm prodded to cook after coming across a good recipe,
maybe tweaking it with a bit of this or that to satisfy me.
I'm an artist at heart, finding inspiration in everything...
sunrise, butterflies, my senses honed by birds that sing.
I'm stirred by many touchstones that spur my imagination.
Remaining open-minded is a great source of stimulation.
I've been inspired by compliments and even disrespect.
They serve as catalysts, like an inspirational architect
that lead me to find new provocation; a spark to ignite
the fire of creativity within me to rise up and take flight.
Categories:
touchstones, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Still life nature mortista
an immersive
conception
enveloped &
surrounded
with
imagery
of the commonplace
a
disguised symbolism
in a cloak
of
interpretations
appearances
of
time
standing
still
arrested
moments
revealed
by
stimulations
of
the mind
illuminations
of
past
yesterdays
becoming
todays
postponed
memory
&
lives
again
a
momento
mori
in hypereality
of
sentient
touchstones
in
memorials
of perception
aesthetic
sublimations
of
spontaneity
in
fascinating
expectations
a visual
genesis
of
animation
once distant
now
alive
once more
to past
existence
from
shadows
of
genesis
Categories:
touchstones, art,
Form: Didactic
TOUCHSTONES
emotional
references
anxious
& creative
innovation
in action
colossal
concepts
chronicled
in reticent
revelation
amplified
& constantly
changing
& shaping
intuition
Categories:
touchstones, poetry,
Form: Verse
DIFFERENCES
collaboration
unveiled
in
contemporary
touchstones
creatively
beguiled
thinking
focused
on
imminent
eclectic
gestures
spontaneously
profiled
Categories:
touchstones, poetry,
Form: Free verse
time standing stlll
arrested
moments revealed
in stimulations
of the mind
revealed lluminations
of the past yesterdays
becoming today
tomorrow's postponed
memory
past pictures live again
momento mori in hypereality
as monuments
to past existence
from shadows of transience
sentient touchstones
in memorials of perception
aesthetic sublimations
of immersive
spontaneity
fascinating expectations
in a visual genesis
of suspended animation
still distant
now living again
February 5, 2023 / 2022 Poetry Marathon Qualifiers' FINAL Placement Poetry Contest / Sponsor: Mark Toney
Categories:
touchstones, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
EVOCATIONS a still life ekphrasis
time standing
stlll
arrested
moments
revealed
in
stimulations
of
the mind
revealed
illuminations
of
the
past
yesterdays
becoming
today
tomorrow's
postponed
memory
past pictures
live
again
momento
mori
in hypereality
as
monuments
to past
existence
from
shadows
of
transience
sentient
touchstones
in
memorials
of perception
aesthetic
sublimations
of
immersive
spontaneity
with
fascinating
expectations
a visual
of genesis
in
suspended
animation
still distant
now
living
again
NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood is inherently variable.
Checkout this unique still life (on a grand scale)by Jorge Diezma 'Bodegon del Limon'
Categories:
touchstones, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
POINTS of REFERENCE
reinventing
tradition
on display
undeniably
arresting
at
making waves
defined
in
the contemporary
&epitomises
in
bedecked settings
deliberately
elongated
unresolved
& unravelled
happening
prominence
of
the
touchstones
the
of
the
explicit
both
intense
&passionate
with flashes
of
fixating
on
the
fascinating
composition
of the bespoke
that intersect
astonishingly diverse
& paradoxically
sense
of
the
cool aesthetic
simultaneously
painterly
offsets
the conceptual
elaborate
&
equivalent
NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood is inherently variable.
Copyright © Brian Strand
Categories:
touchstones, poetry,
Form: Other
SEARCH FOR SELF
in anecdote
&discourse
a miracle of illusion
noticeable trends
with
an
emotional outcome
both paramount
& immediate
featured instantly
for the
sake of remembrance
a memoriae in
transient naturalism
with
emotion mirrored
by empathy
this distortion
or connotation
so subjective
clustered
then crystallized
in
distinctive
measures
touchstones
to circle
this imagined
inner life
to
rival
former
occasions
&situations
a
devoted
exegesis
inspired
by familiarity
into
an elevated
synthesis
THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma so derived
Categories:
touchstones, poetry,
Form: Other
My morning walk was rainy;
My feet were soaking wet.
Though I had an umbrella,
Every puddle was a threat.
My mask fogged up my glasses
And the sky was pre-dawn dark.
There weren’t many people out
On paths inside the park.
Yet even dressed in rain gear
With my hat pulled down real low,
My sunrise buddies spotted me
And called out a hello.
I recognized them both as well
By looks and also gait,
Our morning shout-outs the reminders
Of a former state
When strangers were compadres
In the urban life I knew,
Reduced now to my touchstones,
Our good mornings right on cue.
Categories:
touchstones, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
occasional
ambiguous studiously
careless
provocative in
retrospection
a pretence of subtlety
evoking
paradoxical frisson
in
flowing graphics
graceful
supremely refined
so effortless&
sophisticated
enchantment evoked
then
crystallized
into memorable images
contemporary
self assured immaculate
little fantisies
Categories:
touchstones, imagery,
Form: Verse
The touchstones of existence…
how many have you known
A common rock, a baby’s kiss,
a dog to walk you home
Can one then trump the other,
with importance or with worth
Can a seaside villa or Renoir painting,
outshine a child’s birth
The physicists solution, quantifying
parts and sums
Can all the gold inside Fort Knox,
rebuy what Mozart’s done
What seems to me important,
is to touch as many as you can
And let the truth reveal itself
—your soul to then befriend
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)
Categories:
touchstones, truth,
Form: Rhyme
poetic touchstones
kiss the blue heart of love
to live in all age
-March 14, 2019 Chattogram
Categories:
touchstones, how i feel,
Form: Senryu
the best
and worst
of times
haunt experience,
hypnotise
thought
processes
day &night:
almost
incessant
ebb ,flow and recedes-
sleepers
of sentiment
once so
isolated
arise
awake
in small
fragments
to become
phrases
in the anthology
of the creative
being
Categories:
touchstones, inspiration, life, words,
Form: Verse
The corner store across the street
Was known for all its cuts of meat
But also it sold milk and bread
And other things you’d need instead.
On Friday mornings folks would flock
To sit on chairs among the stock
To hear the music on guitar
Of Uncle Junior (TV star).
The owner’s lived at my address
For more than forty years, I’d guess.
As neighbors we would nod and chat
Of Yankee games and this and that.
Today, in shock, while walking by,
An empty storefront met my eye.
I’d heard the rent went through the roof
And there before me was the proof.
Though times must change, it makes me sad
When touchstones that we’ve always had
Just disappear and are no more;
Farewell, my friendly corner store!
Categories:
touchstones, change,
Form: Rhyme
i read indulgence mid scripted words
breaking all the rules and then some,
what be greater than gutting & swallowing
uttermost concentration of language
critically consummated or otherwise,
communing within written ideologies
something profoundly reverent or
perhaps deliberate liberating nonsense,
nonetheless commonsensical compunction to
the discerning foresightedness of poets
& enduring escape artists 'tween psyche's
hallucinations & declarations
about analytically anomalous analgesics
and mellisonant melancholy metonymy,
rising above the fray of brutally alliterated
annotations fragmenting & fracturing dimensions,
steel blades sharpening anthologies' imperfect isms
inferring resoluteness 'tween deductive reasoning,
willing exposure imparting quintessential bollocks
literally grasping mercilessly melded metaphors
courageous enough to virtually be aptly bled,
plunged beneath swords' inky touchstones
Categories:
touchstones, hyperbole, metaphor, muse, poems,
Form: Alliteration
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