My grandmother knew
the exact moment I was born.
She was sitting in the passenger seat
of my grandfather’s navy blue Jeep Wrangler.
Speeding down the New Jersey turnpike,
the windows trembled against rushing air.
She closed her eyes and said,
“I just heard my baby granddaughter cry.”
Every time she tells this story,
I imagine my first guttural wail
transcending miles of houses,
trees, and pavement.
I think what a crude force even then
was my unrelenting fear,
its velocity,
its volume,
its stamina.
Mr Rate of Increase of Speed and Mr Rate of Change in Velocity.
Mr Rate of Increase of Speed and
Mr Rate of Change in Velocity took advantage of
Mr Machine for
Increasing the Speed and
Energy of
Charged Particles for
being too agreeable. They have
too much expression of
acceptance in them and
too much applaud of
praise type in
them.
When I am strong
slow....
When I am weak
faster when I am weak.
speed is time,
Time is Love,
and
You are my gravity.
It's out in plain sight, cultivated in fields;
our science has made it increasingly strong.
Morality, stigma no longer are shields;
it's held in esteem by our youth in their song.
There's simply no way to predict what this yields.
The precipice looms large; we're racing, headlong.
Pursuing oblivion, seeking the high.
Societal enigma: no one asks why...
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for the Ottava Rima Poetry Contest
sponsored by Milt Hankins
written on 09/09/2022
viewed viscosity
varying velocity
of atrocity
(animosity)
(aristocracy)
(a democracy)
(of veracity)
Aik moriya pul pay
Charha mujhay lul pay
Maar meri khul kay.
his gulosity grew at such velocity – an atrocity
The Velocity of Change
David J Walker
Perhaps it was only a matter of time
Before we bowed to the gods
We vowed never to create
There is an app made in
Our own image in
Pages of code written by
A future named Babylon
Which doesn’t care if you
Live or die
Come or go
The velocity of change
Is written in its own scripture
Of new commandments
Terminal velocity maximum thrill, always falling against my will,
Acceleration gives me a chill, supersonic speed but standing still…
Falling in love with just one look, my romantic desires by the brook,
An exotic escapade by the book, lavish lavender skies is all it took…
Falling into Oblivion beyond my control, lamenting life takes its toll,
Landing in a diminishing dust bowl, the decreasing of my silent soul…
Realities that mirror illusions, amidst fast binding fraudulent fusions,
Increasing speeds of idol inclusions, I’m sinking into secular seclusions…
Falling in dreams wide awake, viewing scenes as they slide and shake,
Jump into my mind and see it ache, fall into my heart and see it break…
Fast falling into the unknown, reaching now where the wind has blown,
I am the King who has lost his thrown, forever falling finite on my own.
May.27.2020
Falling Poetry
Sponsored by
Kai Michael Neumann
N/A for contest
Viscosity and Velocity of Animosity
We wondered how thick would be viscosity,
As well as the speed determined by velocity;
Breath took away,
Every day;
May have been involved with much animosity.
Jim Horn
the essence at hand
abandons every demand
silenced voices on the highest ledge
gravity incites a nudge
leads the inspired urge
fly's the spirit, feeds a need
where a dream once held the key
a beauty shattered piece by piece
the heart of a diamond refusing to beat
held tight inside clasped hands
fingers grip and squeeze
the jagged slivers cut shrewd
trading fractures in a precious jewel
for handfuls of moot
the sparkling debris shroud weeping eyes
I left my love
for a chance to fly
the promise inside everything
and nothing more than sky
soft whispers liberate the plunge into flight
desire drives the enchanted ride
wings unfold to soar over great divide
Terry D'Arcy-Ryan
I came in to day with a question in hand
Is my money as free as my hand
How many way can the tide be loosing
How many way can man be doubt
I came in to day with a question in hand
Is my money as free as my hand
To assumption that cash flow simply
As stream water is wash it all away
To hold my position crowd a dime
To win at time where is mine
I came in to day with a question in hand
Is my money as free as my hand
If cash flow free and my money is of hand
What is he meaning of a good man
I came in to day with a question in hand
Is my money as free as my hand
See all of her beauty painted in those words.
Feel the warm silk of her voice flowing softly.
Reaching out closes the immeasurable distance.
She folds time as if it were a sheet of paper,
She folds paper knowing it is a piece of time.
I have bathed in her kindness.
I would have drowned in her love.
VENUS VELOCITY
the mighty Aphrodite
flaunts her voluptuous
Venus Velocity
a beauty of note
with potential to
transform and
emote
she even outdid
Helen of Troy
but alas…
Prince Paris
chose Helen
which started a
war
her symbol the dove
a peace offering
which is odd
as she controlled
and manipulated her
love
Venus Velocity
which leads us to
life’s truthful sting
looks are and always
will be
everything
© Kim van Breda—10 February 2015
Our minds would be riddled with confusion,
If we did not depend upon illusion.
With our planet spinning at a rate
Yet we think it is a steady state.
That constant stellar glow at night
Flashes at us with the speed of light.
And while the sun shifts through the air
of its speed we are unaware.
What we see from planet earth
Is but a snapshot of stars' birth.
We would feel bewildered and aghast
If we understood our view was of the past.
It feels like it is just the present
Which allows our minds to give assent.
Just think how your mind received a jolt
When in a train carriage at a halt
A sense of motion over you did play
As the train beside you pulled away.
To reality we do seem blind
As nature plays tricks upon our mind.
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