Over many sleepless nights
Of agonizing thoughts which creeps
Mysteriously into your poetic mind
Continuously rattling the inner core
of your once unbreachable sanctuary
Deep within your soul's eye
scaled by the weakest enemy
Within your own fears
in a fierce battle
over your unstable mind
and innocent soul Conquering
that unshakeable Noble trait
of unbounded confidence
Stripping away your impenetrable armor
Deeply exposing a complexity of emotions
Tormenting you into a Hopelessly
eternal life of unending agony forevermore.
Categories:
unbreachable, conflict, confusion, depression, fear,
Form: Free verse
Imprison the blaze
for unlearning
the ghost of our light
to bow down before
an interim simulacrum
of the sham.
You said,
that the colours are so hurting;
that this soundless shapelessness
comforts you.
I cannot extricate you.
Cannot unleash
from the unbreachable
for I learned that
this stasis is your only home.
Categories:
unbreachable, color, life, light, loss,
Form: Free verse
Inside my heart I have unwritten codes
Those values I enforce by self demand
Unbreachable, my lines drawn in the sand
Their presence helps to navigate my load
With age my principles have not grown old
Though times may change, the heart's still in command
I'll walk a line to lend a friend a hand
My conscience keeps my boundaries patrolled
And even though I do my very best
I make mistakes, sometimes I cross a line
That does not mean I'll compromise the rest
It simply means that I am not Divine
There may be times when I'm falsely assessed
But my self worth is rarely in decline
by Daniel Turner
Categories:
unbreachable, character,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Friendship Bound
One day the whole of me disappeared
I was left alone in a shell of despair
with but maimed memories, confined
behind dull unbreachable walls,
trapped by fate in this cold chair
faraway within I sealed my smile
fighting invisible mad immured
in cruel moments with no escape
but when in this frozen world
you saw me bound whole you
poured your warm black soul
into mine, unfolding time itself,
back from oblivion I was brought
you tore the pain away in friendly
peals of laughter that ricocheted
in my heart in arabesque patterns,
you spun my wheels, flew me up
and down like a bubbly African spirit
in a trance, and night crumbled,
my days mended, and my smile
went sailing home friendship bound.
Categories:
unbreachable, friendship,
Form: Free verse
The slight was unintentional,
it was not in my heart to hurt her,
but she has not forgiven me.
I have personally apologized and
I have sent a written note.
She has met all of my overtures
with stony silence.
Her defensive wall is unbreachable but
I shall keep trying.
I have learned to guard my tongue.
Words can cause wounds that
may take a lifetime to heal.
Perhaps, just perhaps,
some day she will forgive me.
I pray it happens,
as much for her sake as for mine.
Won 3rd
Categories:
unbreachable, angst
Form: Free verse
Baptised in a torrent of sweet Trojan rain
as an orchestra played geometric concertos,
unbreachable walls yielded dazzling fascias,
immortalised, spinning in saffron circles.
Barbecue moons lay on grilles of blue stars,
exorbitant diamonds, fabulous dew drops
gilded the lily with crisp crystal spheres,
transparent and tranquil in paradox dreaming.
A fountain evolved in a desert Damascus,
slaked thirst of the mouth of the shrivelled earth,
irrigation of life, bestowing Nirvana,
rain-forest lush grew where dust reigned alone.
Love everlasting transcending the chaos,
the treachery kismet bestowed with no thought,
no blighting of body, neither fates nor the horsemen
may wither or mar love transcending of all.
Categories:
unbreachable, love,
Form: Verse