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Flutes, ahead laying the routes
Oboes they off to Villalobos
Harps, dusting off vessel tarps
Violin silenced by engine din
Cello, matching the revving bellow
Piano sad in the canoe
Clarinets are taking private jets
Horns, fasten seatbelts the Captain warns
Cymbal off checking the gimbal
Saxophone, sorry plane now flown
Bassoon missed flight in June
Trumpets in London loving crumpets
Timpanis tanning in Florida Keys
Tambourine, ouch you forgot sunscreen
Drum in Jamaica sipping on rum
Trombones still crossing time zones
Tuba, where else but Cuba!!
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melting, Red, hot in passion
imagine some try to ration
teasing, Orange, stimulating in pleasure
really do try and measure
laughing, Yellow, funny in humor
sadness here is a rumor
growing, Green, reflecting in nature
you the ever unique creature
soothing, Blue, calming in peace
come share a little piece
thinking, Indigo, evolving in wisdom
using mind to expand kingdom
tickling, Violet, rendering in imagination
such minds have no station
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Society
an illusion, the shimmering mirage in a blistering desert of homogeny
with silicon grains seen only as dunes
mass minded sheep willfully penned in suspiciously safe paddocks
fearful of everything and nothing
tumultuous ocean with waves of conformism and exclusion
where rivers of contrast flow diluted to extinction
one and few dreaming in clouds and walking on air
tethered to a wonderfully disparate and inclusive reality
September 24, 2016
Poetry Contest: What is Society?
Sponsor: Ir0nic ZiNk
Rules:
- Let's see if you can describe society better than the next.
- You may terrify me.
- you may glorify me.
- You may even simply summarize society to the best of your ability.
- 10 lines max...
- bring it on! No holds bar
- Any form allowed
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Long dreams
Alternate seems
Short happiness
Emerges snappiness
Sweetly savory
Faith bravery
Glossily scuffed
Hardly chuffed
Heat cracked
Odds stacked
Ignitable flame
Hope's aim
Pair required
Thoughts rewired
Both rediscovered
Love recovered
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family is all
that exists
making up
a meaningful reality
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Let me drape upon you a written robe,
beautifully indexed on your tablet.
My! you look divine,
off we go to dine on literary flavours and liquid verse.
A five chapter meal we just published.
This evening with you was a stunning essay read like a swift summary.
Narrating your life’s novel,
I record and archive,
citing the volume of your smile,
punctuating the exclamation of your eyes.
May I undress you with my pen,
printing kisses on your pamphlet lips.
Nonfiction foreplay is the order of the day
with teasing stanzas and touching tomes.
Your skin the clear scroll,
we edit with rhetoric as I explore the fiction of your passage.
The lexicon of your moans, would a fine manuscript make.
This plot you will review then quote.
You descend from that last paragraph,
this memory shelved high in your canon.
My pen has woven for you a silk word blanket;
as you lay on my journal pillow;
wrapping you in the epigraph of my affection.
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melting, Red, hot in passion
teasing, Orange stimulating in pleasure
laughing, Yellow, funny in humor
growing, Green, reflecting in nature
soothing, Blue, calming in peace
thinking, Indigo, evolving in wisdom
tickling, Violet, rendering in imagination
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Today will be yesterday
Today is somewhere tomorrow
Tomorrow is yet to come
Tomorrow a product of hope
Hope fuels the world
Hope's a point of view
View humanity as is
View reality of potential or potential of reality
Reality a product of perception
Reality just another perspective
Perspective requires ongoing adjustment
Perspective easily skewed and manipulated
Manipulated by subtlety
Manipulated in endless cycle
Cycle through alternatives
Cycle to right destination
Destination is not express
Destination journey is ree
Free the mind
Free the soul
Soul is true residence
Soul is worth feeding
Feeding the world
Feeding those without
Without basics what next
Without there's no context
Context propels or derails
Context is a necessity
Necessity motivates
Necessity seeking balance
Balance search's a quest
Balance is life
Life in balance
Life the human condition
Condition to unlearn
Condition to open mind
Mind that's powerful
Mind unchained
Unchained existence
Unchained shapes history
History repeats
History also unknown
Unknown to most
Unknown seeds fear
Fear can restrain
Fear can also fuel
Fuel the needful
Fuel the passion
Passion
Needful
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night desert streets bloom
now watered by dawn's dew tears
before dust gathers
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Word paint this uncanny illusion,
fluid in state of mass confusion
Product line of numb minded sheep,
in fear of difference,
holding doubt in reverence.
Minds and feet now anchored deep,
having slid the slippery slope steep
unto worn road of indifference.
Like sweeping sand with
silicon grains seen as dunes
in desolation deserts
one and few dare dream
molding disparate unique
specks in wondrous betterment
Date: September 24, 2016
Poetry Contest: Three Style II
Sponsor: Laura Loo
Syllables: checked via howmanysyllables.com
Rules:
- 1 new poem on any theme using these three forms:
- In this exact order (the couplet and 2nd stanza do not have to share same rhyme
scheme, my letters below are used as a guide)
1. One couplet : A-A
2. One stanza with rhyme scheme: A-B-B-A-A-B
3. One sedoka: syllable count: 5-7-7-5-7-7 (no rhyme scheme)
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