The Language of Blue
Sinking into the lyrical language of blue
Prime layers of still solitude speak
With muted voices
In sapphire soprano rhapsodies,
Lines of bass blushes, electric flecks of neon fire.
Hear in dusky blue’s modal shafts of light,
The peaceful plaintive sotto voce
Set an indigo scene
In delft lingua for a pas de duex
With trebling hues lapis and arbot.
Blue chants a lexis, a cerulean chroma glow
Sung in tender tenor tones patois
To translate soft sky blue aqua idioms,
As minor phrases meditate on azure,
In prose text that wafts in periwinkle blooms.
Unhurried blue on blue in plain-chant paeans,
Whispers and bedazzles teal twilight librettos
Of cradle songs in soft celeste waves
Of cobalt midnight in the consoling,
And the mystic, language of blue.
11-3-21
Contest: Blue
Sponsor Mystic Rose Rose
Trebling = triple
Arbot is a shade of blue
Chroma means glow
***Summer Love***
Summer’s pulse - hopelessly romantic heartbeat -
Opens wide winter’s barren lifeless places
Aroused in solstice fields of bare petals sweet -
Unlocked naked delight spread open, effaces.
I sink into the warm depths of your passion
Going down in moonlit ecstasy complete
Mounting in hot breaths undulating fashion
Hands gently stroke trebling veins of inflamed heat.
Disappear in depthless summer’s velvet sky
Joined in one breath beneath the swelling stars
Long past midsummer’s heat intensified
Lost in one flashing surge of shooting stars afar
Summer love mellows into fall’s throbbing caress -
Harvest summer’s fruitful ardor tenderness.
"Trebling" = triple or the highest part of the vocal range
5/18/21
Contest: Summer Love Sonnet
Sponsor: John Hamilton
Crumpled Wings That Fly
I hold close your crumpled wings,
Trebling fear that traps your flight
Quivering in the grip of songless things
Night crushing pinions swallowing delight.
Your caged heart beats wildly next to mine
Wrapped in brokenness - numb to soft caresses
Dazed in listless trances - faint lassitude entwines
With suspended starlight longing to refresh.
Nestle your broken parts in this healing downy nest
Fold your wings in layers of respite sleep
Swaddled here - swathed in love's sweet arrest
Stir to stretch for your new blessings keep.
With arms wide, released to the new sky,
Expand diamond studded wings to fly.
5-13-21
Contest: Embrace and Release
flawless wreck
floating wrapped in lulled current
by fluid veracity you have overheard
draft of my soul's architecture
moaning from the pellucid frame
embedded in that petty-bourgeois wall
I listened your eyes whispering through my glassed barrier
scream
yell
treble
something changed inside
glassed surfaces started trembling
which made me envisage
they have shape of a fish tank
I listened your eyes whispering – you don't want to be a fuc**** fish
mute and hunted
scream
yell
treble
glassed surfaces are trembling
thousands of translucent shrapnels
created a harmony from my outburst partiture
I'm screaming
I'm yelling
I'm trebling
you were the first one
who really listened
those drawn lines
from that saturated paper
I've heard your eyes vowing – I'll rebuild you
piece by piece
we will be a home
Beguiled by the eyes of a thief
Whose hands have stolen the moist of my skin
With just a breath my very soul he unruffled
With just a gaze he made these words improper; jumbled.
Not like any other, he's chaste
Not like any other, Not like...
Ever he would wipe these tears away
Ever he'd kneel to his knees to plead
His volition's bullet in my chest
Digging trebling holes that never convalesce.
Not like any other he mastered
This art of hate that tortures as it perforates.
Shut the door, I beg
So I'll ever see your face
It attracts more of distaste,
venomous like a snake.
Shut the door and don't
remind me of your world
-Your burning dreams off the wall!
Dull me like a flower on the wall.
Cause I could die every day
My veins would not display
Free fall, I already fall
I beg, please shut the door.
Cause how to let you go?
...Really. I don't know.
HAND IN HAND
Hand in hand,
Slowly we walked with smiling faces and
Singing souls,
Through the placid night under the silvery light of
Majestic moon,
Tenderly holding our precious dreams deep into
The trebling for joy elated hearts.
Devine melody, the noble words we gently
Spoke,
Delight to our lips, the burning kisses we
Softly shared,
Ecstasy to our enraptured spirits, the hope we
Secretly shared:
The dearest dream we ever had,
That one day, my love,
We would, forever and ever, be ONE!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
22 APRIL 2013
*Time Never Ending*
Life's about chances
Moments to feel
Fear to grasp
She began to party
But,
Heart ach came to others
Sadness came to mothers
That moment that was fun,
Turns out there was a gun
Life's now no fun
Sorrow, aching bodies lie
Her love lying in agony
Thinking there was no life set for her
Begging as the gun points her way
Trebling, and will offer anything
Handing money, giving options
But,
All that was done was from her self
Passed out as the cops come
Hearing talking so, she opens her eyes
No darkness no party
Just a shot side, she wonders
Is it the end?
No screams just peace.
After all was done, she soon lost her mind
Ages 50 and still believe he'll come
Telling others her love will come
Clueless that November 13 was the day that he was done
Having faith, he would come
Yet,
No one can convince to her
She has so much faith
Lost in time she starts again.
Dressed up for the party
The party that was forgotten
Others wonder
Will she ever know?
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