A billion can buy a bushel of silence
hectares of prime farmland or flashy private jets
It can buy a turd in stilettos and a pyrite hearted mistress.
A billion can buy you a secondhand spaceship
or an endless good run of wall street luck
it can buy a bloated lip- plastic nips and butts.
With a billion you can casually jump burning ships
change the scented steps of a double helix
or buy a fresh orphaned kidney if you so wish.
A billion can buy you onto underage islands
but then again so can 50 cents.
A billion can buy a cure but it won't
it will just make a billion more by prolonging disease.
They say money can't buy happiness
but I'd rather die on a champagne yacht
with half dozen painted chicks
than all alone under a soggy bridge.
A billion can quarry a slab of pink granite stone
but not a stitch of silk will anyone own
when death unchains the soul.
Categories:
unchains, death, money,
Form: Free verse
New world Andromena is not chained to a rock long
Cetus thinks he can overpower her, but he is not that strong
Andromena no longer waits for the likes of Perseus to save her.
She unchains herself, being brilliant, whose clear mind is pure.
She is being chased now, someone warns me as they watch the show.
New World Andromena has wily ways, she knows which way to go.
She turns into a labyrinth, and Cetus is pinned before he gets out his chain.
She is New World Andromena, please forget not her name.
Categories:
unchains, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
out my glass window
sways the silenced sunflower
facing herbs of gold
and silver-winged butterflies
glazed in honeysuckle hope
But in this darkness
I knit lyrical tankas;
Ink that unchains gate
to glistening moon gardens
where I'll flee from heartless ghosts
So if tomorrow
there's no poetry or prose
remember these words
as these are suppressed daydreams
of a caged blue nightingale
Categories:
unchains, faith, fate, feelings, garden,
Form: Verse
slice of sun unchains
cascading blue waterfall
teals glide in deep lake
March 2, 2022
For H Forms - Traditional Nature Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Constance La France
Syllables (5-7-5) checked by HMS.com
Categories:
unchains, spring, sun,
Form: Haiku
Everyone has aches and pains
When getting older; who complains
Depends, at times, on who refrains
From doing all the kvetching.*
For any sympathy one gains
May dwindle if attention wanes
With every detail one explains,
The story always stretching.
Each bemoaning thus unchains
Annoyance as one’s patience drains
Although what hopefully remains
Is empathy worth fetching.
*Yiddish word for complaining
Categories:
unchains, health,
Form: Rhyme
on the verge of love,
mutual discovery unveiled
in their secret world;
lips to lips ,sealed,
hearts in passion pound
ardour's whispers sound;
need unchains desire,
pleasure's fever fans a fire,
each flame thrusting higher;
in duet's crescendo choir
realisation exceeds hope,
promise, with trust elope;
enchantment metamorphose
as love,sublime,grows
Note:
a quatorzain is a stanza or poem of fourteen lines
Categories:
unchains, poetry, word play,
Form: Didactic
on the verge of love,
mutual discovery unveiled
in their secret world;
lips to lips ,sealed,
hearts in passion pound
ardour's whispers sound;
need unchains desire,
pleasure's fever fans a fire,
each flame thrusting higher;
in duet's crescendo choir
realisation exceeds hope,
promise, with trust elope;
enchantment metamorphose
as love,sublime,grows
Categories:
unchains, love, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
IT ISN ‘t ME
It is not four score years that I exist
Though calendar and records say it’s so
And I do not comprise this mortal coil
Though it may seem to many and to me
Some say we live one life then candle fades
Or having sat the test must pay the price
To then exist in bliss or endless pain
A curse at least of tedium sans end
I’ll not be limited by tyrant time
Though substance of this form may tell me so
The infinite unchains us from this frame
Releasing untold lives: were and will be
Imagine all the stories we might tell
Inscribed or dramatized for our delight
Adventures and great games to focus mind
And give us purpose to participate
Yes I in here-and-now am what you see
But will not be this for eternity
17 August 2019
Categories:
unchains, life,
Form: Blank verse
on the verge of love,
mutual discovery unveiled
in their secret world;
lips to lips ,sealed,
hearts in passion pound
ardour's whispers sound;
need unchains desire,
pleasure's fever fans a fire,
each flame thrusting higher;
in duet's crescendo choir
realisation exceeds hope,
promise, with trust elope;
enchantment metamorphose
as love,sublime,grows
Categories:
unchains, desire, love,
Form: Quatorzain
Truth
unchains*
through God's Word…
…from grip of doubts…
---freed!
Truth
settles
God’s children
victoriously….
Faith!
*John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
July 25, 2018
Categories:
unchains, courage, encouraging, faith, god,
Form: Lanterne
Freedom is,
To break the shackles
Of the yoke,
That binds me.
New beginings, no more work,
Unchains liberty.
Categories:
unchains, retirement, work,
Form: Shadorma
Wonder of wonders if God would grant one miracle to me.
Over hills and dales, here and across the seas…amid:
Racists, radicals, and warriors who rant worldwide,
Ladies and Gentlemen: laughing loudly, in disbelief.
Desire of my heart is the miracle of understanding.
People, who understand, increase peace in their hearts
Eternally gained wisdom that unchains love’s doors.
As the miracle of miracles becomes reality,
Complete eradication of angry deeds…understanding—
Ending all wars
Categories:
unchains, peace, miracle,
Form: Acrostic
on the verge of love,
mutual discovery unveiled
in their secret world;
lips to lips ,sealed,
hearts in passion pound
ardour's whispers sound;
need unchains desire,
pleasure's fever fans a fire,
each flame thrusting higher;
in duet's crescendo choir
realisation exceeds hope,
promise, with trust elope;
enchantment metamorphose
as love,sublime,grows
Note:
a quatorzain is a stanza or poem of fourteen lines
Categories:
unchains, love,
Form: Quatorzain
Nineteen hours to strip away,
As time devours every day,
And beats the clock 'till black and blue,
All distance closed with thoughts of you.
Nineteen hours are counted down,
In empty spaces, town to town;
I walk the line mapped out in vain,
And long to be with you again.
Nineteen hours parting us
By plane or train or car or bus;
In morning, noon or day or night,
Feeds the need to hold you tight.
Nineteen hours turns the key,
Unchains the aching heart of me,
And fades to mist when all is said
When we have all our lives ahead.
Categories:
unchains, life, love,
Form: Verse