New Poetry Game-Cinquain Chain- Come on, it's easy and fun!

[CdnReader]

leave me
to weep in the
wake, drowning in your quick
passing, floundering and gasping
for air

[mazHur]

for air
to flutter wings
of a butterfly or
the blades of a windmill the west
wind blows

[CdnReader]

needs thrust
and energy
to propel us beyond
the boundaries of this present
concept

[mazHur]

concept
is like a dream
it may seem true to one
mind but false to the other or
may change

[CdnReader]

may change,
june flows like a
summer stream, then july
hammers the senses, hazy and
hot days

[qimissung]

hot days
August lurching
toward us like a mad
dog-killing sun has us in it's
crosshairs

[CdnReader]

crosshairs
identify
targets, triggers pulled by
madmen who feel justified in
their rage

[Oniw17]

Their rage
It echoes on
But the sound of their cries
Has vanished into the abyss
With time

[CdnReader]

with time
counting away
the seconds of our lives,
how can we not grasp every bit
with glee?

[qimissung]

with glee
we gnash the pulp
of life, tearing the meat,
sucking the juice, feeling it give
us life

[opheliac]

us life
now imprisoned
in a cold, sunless sphere
day after day, without a torch
to guide

[qimissung]

to guide
the loveless and
the blind, the white bird flies
into the storm, into the dark
with you

[CdnReader]

with you
I expose the
inner core of me, the
soft, untouched parts that languish there,
unseen.

[opheliac]

unseen,
in the great depths,
down, down below the sea,
a secluded cave of beauty
is mine.

[firefangled]

is mine
somewhere out there,
the uncluttered hour,
the faceless clock, space with silence
real time

[symphony]

real time
and surreal
timelessnesses, we are
born to live through the years, then lose
the tracks

[opheliac]

the tracks
as thin as sticks
held my train, now broken
and motionless, pulled off its course
to death

[_JadeRain_]

To death
I leave these words
You shall fail to take me
Until given authority
By me.

[firefangled]

real time
and surreal
timelessnesses, we are
born to live through the years, then lose
the tracks

I like this one, Symphony

[symphony]

Thanks Fire. :)

By me,
the roads create
a destiny. In me,
rests centuries of history...
of me.

[mazHur]

History? Oh, no,,,,not yet! lol


of me
better not think
think about yourself
think how you will make history
in youth

[alakungfu]

In youth,
Aristotle,
did you comtemplate the
paradox in arbitrary
these thoughts?

[mazHur]

these thoughts
live as long as
one lives; they pop off as
soon as spirit leaves its home
in ruins

[qimissung]

ruins
step carefully
once beautiful, now gone
the debris left behind can still
destroy

[Riesa]

destroy
the reaction,
it's tireless and mean.
No changes forthcoming unless
your own.

[firefangled]

your own
words, your own hands
make something small, love it
with care, watch it grow, realize
your love

[symphony]

your love,
they say, has wings.
Mine -knows no blue air- clings
to worldly pleasures and lives in
small things

[alakungfu]

small things
permeable
in the spaces between
shelving and window-dressed storefront
resins

[mazHur]

resins
are a thing of
the past; fill crevices
join broken hearts with polymers
they're good!

[CdnReader]

they're good!
the salt-scented
breezes that greeted me,
despite weighted down by heavy
luggage

:)

[mazHur]

luggage
handed over
to the concierge made us
free to move around the garden
of love

[CdnReader]

of love...
must we speak of
love when grey skies loom low,
heavy with rain, and cold wet winds
batter?

[alakungfu]

batter?
one part ripple
two part triple-decker
fusion -- combine stiffly in rough
placard

[mazHur]

placard
caught my eye at
the airport and made me
feel I was not forsaken by
my friends

[alakungfu]

my friends
surround my car
on a weekend evening
vying for my refreshed wallet
from work

[qimissung]

from work
I walk home dull
of heart and mind, a drone
who seeks refreshment with the rose
of love

[Sarida]

from work
sincere longing
to leave it all behind
and drive on and on forever
alone

[Sarida]

:( you beat me to it!!!

[CdnReader]

alone
but not adrift,
immersed in white silence,
caught in the irreversible
life flow

[wilbur lim]

How great
Is thou,how great
Is your advice,magnanimity,demeanour and
The most dominant in my life:Your humanity towards me!
God bless.

[ampoule]

Aren't we still supposed to use the last two words of the last post?


alone
but not adrift,
immersed in white silence,
caught in the irreversible
life flow

life flow
sometimes stagnant
open up the pumps please
stir the muck that's underneath me
refresh

[mazHur]

Aren't we still supposed to use the last two words of the last post?



life flow
sometimes stagnant
open up the pumps please
stir the muck that's underneath me
refresh

you are supposed to begin with the last two syllables-not words.:)

refresh
take it easy
all the muck beneath you
has been scrubbed, the place cleaned up
Begin!:)

[CdnReader]

Begin
now, for waiting
means that tomorrow's gains
will be lost in today's missing
pieces.

[mazHur]

pieces
put together
may join the broken heart
but how will you hide the broken
heart lines?

[CdnReader]

heart lines
should be start lines
begin here, travel there,
don't stray too far, or this dim path
will fade

[mazHur]

will fade
and never bloom
again; the roses and
daisies of heart need a sprinkle of
your love

[ampoule]

Thanks mazHur. :D I think you had to correct me on that once before. ;)

your love
is scaring me
holding me like a vise
trying to make me cry uncle
I can't

[CdnReader]

I can't
imagine life
without your smile, your eyes,
your sparkle, and your eagerness,
and you

[alakungfu]

and you
require my most
valiant escapades,
the adventures I aspire to
and crave

[qimissung]

and crave
a piece of your
kind understanding; we,
in silent yearning, beg, the moon
and I.

[mazHur]

and I
can see the whole
world in the iris of
your enchanting eyes smiling
with love

[qimissung]

with love
contentment our
hearts beat out this paean
of gladness-thank you God for this
dear one

[mazHur]

dear one
how long do you
want me to suffer the
pangs of separation from you?
Come back!

[mazHur]

dear one,
how long do you
want me to suffer the
pangs of separation from you?
buck up!

[CdnReader]

buck up!
straighten that neck,
throw those shoulders back, and
get your arms and legs ready for
more work!

[mazHur]

more work!
how much more work
do you want me to do
I've already 'blessed' you for more
than thrice!

[CdnReader]

than thrice!
but how can he
imagine that she would
wait any less than a lifetime
for him

[mazHur]

for him
I waited long
but in the end what I
got was nothing but a bundle
of lies.

[qimissung]

of lies
his twisted tongues'
words curled around my
heart so beautifully it broke
in half

[CdnReader]

in half,
in quarters, in
eighths or sixteenths, there is
no way to divide my love much
smaller

[mazHur]

in half,
in quarters, in
eighths or sixteenths, there is
no way to divide my love much
smaller


:)

smaller
the meteors get
the farther they travel
in the cosmic clime until they
vanish

[qimissung]

vanish
sorrow until
tomorrow; I'll throw you
in the trash bin, oh scurvy one
Be gone!

[mazHur]

Be gone!
I have seen you
experienced you too
get lost with your ugly face,
sorrow!

[qimissung]

sorrow
banished, light lives
amazing life-I dance
to unseen music; won't you dance
with me?

[alakungfu]

With me,
without the one
you were with yesterday.
Will you stay with me a little
longer?

[mazHur]

longer
than the Nile is
the story of my life
it's an other Decamaron
to say

[CdnReader]

to say
life is love, and
love is life, leaves no room
for beauty and pain and desire
within

[dramageek]

within
the mists we keep
our secrets to ourselves
while longing to break free of life's
constraints

[CdnReader]

constraints,
like chains, bind us
to the material
world, and our spirits drift off, lost,
searching

[alakungfu]

searching
like famed Horace,
jack of all trades, master
to none, true to philosophers,
steady

[CdnReader]

steady
to horizon,
sails unfurled, ready to
fly over wishes and dreams, with
bright face

[mazHur]

bright face
like the bright moon
brightens the nights of my
life like the bright sun unveiling
at dawn

[alakungfu]

at dawn
Rome's tradition
returns with Horace' slaked
persona drawing Aristotle's
good sense

[mazHur]

good sense
makes you feel good;
makes others feel good as
well; good sense also leads you to
drink bane

[alakungfu]

drink bane,
as Socrates,
would worry Plato when
reflecting on biblical fare
betides

[mazHur]

betides
often the gloom
and glum the heart but the
life goes on and on on its steam
till last.

[alakungfu]

till last,
in Socrates
pure heart, that out might rise
the fabled myth of Adonis'
bloom coaxed

[mazHur]

bloom coaxed,
nothing happened,
the pink rose bud withered
in the sirocco unable
to bloom

[aBIGsheep]

To Bloom?
Not you! Please, no!
To turn into something!
Horrible, uncontrollable
Resist!

[mazHur]

Resist!
Will you? What for?
There is suffering enough;
If you want to escalate it
Resist!

[qimissung]

Resist
fight to the end
the desire to submerge
your soul in the swamp of all souls
Rise up!

[aBIGsheep]

Rise up?
Pfft, My dear boy,
I know and, hell, you know
that I'll be standing over you ready
to push.

[mazHur]

Rise up!
stand erect
shoulders straight head up
only then you can conquer what
you want

[mazHur]

to push
someone into
the bog of suspicion
is like pulling a crocodile
by nose.

[alakungfu]

by nose
was Christian-reared
Cecilia dragged out past
the lions' cages to return
judgment

[mazHur]

judgment
may have been wrong
what is trash for someone
may be treasure for someone else
Judge not.

[alakungfu]

judge not
join me, ally
trundle my wee foibles
and I will avail you of your
threshold

[firefangled]

threshold,
the dark room waits -
the floor squeeks, curtains sigh
where the night crawls in the window
smiling

[alakungfu]

smiling
from ear to ear
Caesar's virgin warring
sense heard no threat in Gallic troops'
sashay

[qimissung]

sashay
dance, waltz, occlude
with a rush of wings and
swing me round and higher than your
sweet dreams

[alakungfu]

sweet dreams
elude my grasp
detail my counscious mind
emphasize the world as I once
knew it

[mazHur]

knew it
knew what you meant
but sweet dreams are remote
from these sleepless tired eyes of mine
My love!

[alakungfu]

My love!
My lottery-
ticket holder, what bitter-
sweet combination together
are we.

[mazHur]

are we
treading the path-
the path of Romeo
and Juliet in our whims,
yes,no?

[alakungfu]

yes,no?
Fulvia sum
Cleopatra quid pro
quo Octavia willing round Marc's
haren.

[mazHur]

Haren
and his spouse
name it Mrs haren
went out hitch hiking not knowing
where, why?

[alakungfu]

yes,no?
Fulvia sum
Cleopatra quid pro
quo Octavia willing round Marc's
haren.

Sorry mazHur, that was a typo. I meant harem, not haren.

[alakungfu]

where, why?
Never say die.
Scour the skies, sweep the plains;
finish what drove you to its last
waiver...

[mazHur]

It's alright. Haren is also a word denoting many places as well as Irish surname:)


waiver
impossible
have been charged a quarter
for flooding erroneously
Geez, help!;)

[alakungfu]

Geez, help!
So many reps
after the meaning of
leaning on this charged driving sway
of life.

[mazHur]

of life
and death we talk
but seldom think that death
is more mysterious than life;
how come?

[qimissung]

how come
they drove through the
skies bringing as their gift
the mighty power to destroy?
Come, Peace...

[mazHur]

Come, Peace...
sit beside me
havn't seen you around
for centuries; havn't felt you
for long.

[qimissung]

for long
you have not stayed,
Peace, to break bread with your
brothers, stay, we are ill, do not
desert.

[alakungfu]

desert,
site of sighs in
the thousands, desperate
field of Dali's premonitions, lair
of loss

[qimissung]

of loss
I speak my mouth
opens and the pictures
creep sorrowfully into the
grim world

[mazHur]

grim world
full of miseries
wake up in the morning
toil all day,return home and sleep
no love!

[qimissung]

no love
fever falls on
me like night my
soul hovers like a shade that finds
no home

[mazHur]

no home
for the stranded
lovers in the heaven
of love; just a nook in the house
to sigh

[alakungfu]

to sigh,
to call in pain,
the day a redolent
reeling track resonating with
truisms

[clumsy angelle]

The cold
is still with me

[alakungfu]

with me,
the memory
of your timely kiss, passed
down from the matchless gods themselves,
Zeus' page

[schadenfreude]

Zeus' page
threw down a bolt
of thunder in anger,
and now - there is an accident
on earth.

[gwyndd]

the cold
trundles about
the windowsill asking
to be let in to warm upon
the stove

[wilbur lim]

Compulsion,
Oh compulsion!You make
Me envious,chagrin and harbour innumerable
Feelings.Compulsion,you are malignant indeed,for you
compel me.

[qimissung]

compel
me not my own
beloved, quietly
sit and talk of nothing, then, please,
kiss me

[qimissung]

To the dear new writers who are joining us, the cinquain is five lines of 2, 4, 6. 8 and 2 syllables. We take the last line of the one before us and begin again. You've written some beautiful poetry; I hope you'll visit and write again.

[mazHur]

compel
me not my own
beloved, quietly
sit and talk of nothing, then, please,
kiss me

kiss me
there is no need
for words of mouth to speak
of love; let our lips meet and
converse!

[Cellar Door]

kiss me
there is no need
for words of mouth to speak
of love; let our lips meet and
converse!

Converse
with the trees and
realize you are not
alone; good greenness embraces
always

[mazHur]

always
look for good things
things that do not betray
things that keep the evil away
always!
-

[firefangled]

always
found me never -
love came in stops and starts,
a game for much less tender hearts,
not mine

[wilbur lim]

Not mine,
Not yours,discernibly not,
Behold at this peculiar-looking clock,
I perceive this belongs to the idiosyncratic man
At dock.

[mazHur]

At dock?
No, I'm at sea
to see the cinguain chain
break at its most strongest link
My God!

[Cellar Door]

At dock?
No, I'm at sea
to see the cinguain chain
break at its most strongest link
My God!

My God
Where are you now
Lonely and dying sigh
With my last breath I try to
Forget

[mazHur]

My God
why have you abandoned
me? Let me die alone here-
Forget

please read note by a previous poster (Qimissung) here regarding rules governing cinquain writing,,thanks


here it is

''To the dear new writers who are joining us, the cinquain is five lines of 2, 4, 6. 8 and 2 syllables. We take the last line of the one before us and begin again. You've written some beautiful poetry; I hope you'll visit and write again. Qim'':)

[Phauszzie]

Forget,
no memories
relieved of our troubles
we worry no more as before,
live on.

[mazHur]

live on
keep your cup filled
with the old amber wine
inebriate, play music ,dance
live on!

[qimissung]

live on
through fire and ice
through loneliness and pain
into the white heat of new love
savor

[mazHur]

savor,
drink from the cup
of my eyes the wine of
love until inebriation
engulfs

[qimissung]

engulfs
me as I try
to breathe, your love gently
clasps my neck, pulls me toward you
exhale

[mazHur]

exhale
love through every
pore of your existence
make me whirl with its ecstasy
inhale

[qimissung]

Beautiful, mazHur!

[mazHur]

Beautiful, mazHur!

thanks, Qim.:)

[qimissung]

inhale
freedom, revere
its' dear perfume; may it
thrive inside you, an intrinsic
blossom

[mazHur]

blossom
kisses her cheeks
bowing down with the bough
as she passes under the shrub
in spring

[ampoule]

in spring
thinking of fall
and back to spring again
tripping over summer, forget
winter

[qimissung]

winter
winds blow, never
mind the cold snow; come sit
with me, let me melt into your
brave fire

[mazHur]

brave fire
kindles my heart
like love's lamp burning bright
all peace, warmth and light, no fear of
winters

[alakungfu]

winters
passing into
the murkiness of time's
advancing dominion over
dew course

[qimissung]

dew course
snails snip through it
as they squidge past clover,
twigs, roots, pebbles, jostling for
first place

[alakungfu]

first place
of real honour,
second place of seasoned
accomplishment, third place of raw
drawn skills

[qimissung]

drawn skills
brute bravery
wan technicality
with these strengths, grasp the red apple
begin

[alakungfu]

begin
damned alarmist
regime evinced roundly
to void infectious instruments
of flight

[ampoule]

of flight
take off, landing
a steady trip with you
at the controls steering me home
to you

[symphony]

to you,
october skies,
a breath and broken eyes
lift up and fail too soon, pursue
long sighs...

[firefangled]

long sighs,
perhaps a smile,
the years have passed a long
while ago, all your wondering whys
and tears

[alakungfu]

and tears,
second nature,
a closet fantasy
of the tortured silent partner,
unsung

[mazHur]

unsung
heroes of war
are not the generals
but soldiers who gave their lives
for you

[ampoule]

unsung
mute rhapsody
exploding from within
open yourself to me, make love
in tune

[firefangled]

in tune,
oscillations
through the air, the same sky
that holds my dreams in deepest blue
holds you

[alakungfu]

holds you,
cloned maverick,
chassis of grated hues
binding your essence. close breaths
trapped tight

[qimissung]

trapped tight
syncopated
voices break free, chorus
that rises higher like a bird
in flight

[alakungfu]

in flight,
restoring the
gothick of cathedrals,
grandeur of Buckingham Palace,
dollup

[qimissung]

dollop,
no more, of fate,
a roundelay of love
honeyed perception, hint of hate
life's wine

[ampoule]

life's wine
let me have it
I drink it, I bathe in it
sometimes sour, sometimes sweet, always
tasty

[qimissung]

tasty
nougat of life
it's there for the taking
why am I standing here watching,
waiting?

[firefangled]

waiting,
because light speeds
through us, around us days
throw their confetti at the sun,
and why?

[qimissung]

and why
as we approach
the midnight hour do we
ask this of ourselves? nevermore
never

[ampoule]

never
you'll not allow
my escape, my freedom
I'm sure you'll pluck my wings before
I fly

[firefangled]

I fly
toward the sun,
the heat of memory
colors me, evaporating
for you

[mazHur]

for you
God created
blooming roses in spring
twinkling stars, moon, and the bright sun,
we both!

[Hobbes]

We both
sat on the curb.
Silence was our sonnet
of shakespearian tragedies.
I cried

[qimissung]

I cried
for star true, for
faith, for a night without
squalling cats, for silence; I cried
for you

[ampoule]

for you
my heart cries, dies
no matter where you are
these lyrics won't let me forget
our time

[firefangled]

our time
hides in the stars,
ribbons of light across
the purple moor of the night sky,
ghostly

[ampoule]

ghostly
ghostly galleons
rapiers and pistols
raise them high for my protection
save me

[firefangled]

save me
from the highway,
your face in the window,
like moonlight before the thunder,
wait there

[symphony]

wait there
a while, in which
the whiles we had before
will tear apart a world to show
an eye

[firefangled]

an eye
that sees our now,
infinite in spaces
past to us, and those toward which
we move

[mazHur]

we move
and the earth moves
with us; the stars look at
us with moving emotions and
moon spins!

[ampoule]

moon spins
star's tornado
take cover, now, you must
for surely you will suffocate
moon dust

[mazHur]

moon dust
covers the earth
like you and me engulfed
in the growing shadow of love
forev'r

[firefangled]

forev'r




Maz, that's a mighty thin slice of pie, but it's still a "slice of pie."

******

forev'r,
a funny word,
trying to disappear,
so unlike its infinite self,
endless

[mazHur]

Maz, that's a mighty thin slice of pie, but it's still a "slice of pie."

******

forev'r,
a funny word,
trying to disappear,
so unlike its infinite self,
endless

yeah, 'forev'r! But a kosher, I think!! :)

endless
series of words
spelled in so many ways
by poets in peculiar ways
Hurrah!:)

[Hobbes]

Hurrah!
Bandwagon. Ho.
As we cheer the captian.
We looked in the mirror and saw...
Lemmings?

[asilef73]

lemmings
may have it right.
to die en masse may be
a better alternative than
alone.

[qimissung]

alone
I dream, spinning
a yarn that leads through a
labyrinth of fantastic stories
to you

[ampoule]

to you
I come, open
ready to receive love
but more than that, ready to give
my own

[AMDG]

my own
i come into
trying to figure out
who i am, who i want to be
no good

[ampoule]

no good
prowls round my door
the doorbell is broken
the porchlight burned out, stay away
I beg

[AMDG]

I beg
for the spirits
to come and lift my soul
to take it away to heaven.
No loss.

[qimissung]

no loss
to not dance with
you, I have your love and
forever we sway, daisies in
a field

[firefangled]

A field
of sunflowers
forever in my mind,
though sun is gone, flowers remain
like you

[mazHur]

like you
like all of us
humanity draws its
breath from the same atmosphere
why fight?

[alakungfu]

why fight?
--resist an urge
to deflate argument?
defeat the standards; generate
purpose...

[ampoule]

purpose
wonder, wander
looking for mine, here, there,
I am here because or because
I'm here

[alakungfu]

I'm here
I said I'd be
I wouldn't have said it
otherwise seasonal record
shaken

[firefangled]

shaken
free from the stars,
and fallen to the earth,
we came through rain, ice and fire —
timeless

[alakungfu]

timeless
as the fragrance
rescinded demigods
suffuse in a collector's forged
pallette

[ampoule]

pallette
under my arm
protects me from your breath
that tells me you are sleeping, not
wanting

[alakungfu]

wanting
in symmetry
but generously drawn
a character of proportion
weighted

[ampoule]

weighted
burdens heavy
a puddle of pity
your smile, like arms, can lift me up
thankful

[firefangled]

thankful
the world holds love
such as this: open words,
hearts unguarded, make a heaven
on earth

[alakungfu]

on earth
frailties converge
to construct reinforced
statues dedicated to the lost
and found

[Paige19]

and found
within us, hid
beneath the sensed and parsed,
is what we always were: no-thing,
no one.

[Paige19]

Oh, and wanted to say -

nice one, Firefangled!

[alakungfu]

no one
wants to be the
only one to show up
with no money casino night,
get it?

[Paige19]

get it?
or did it drop
into that crack where it
will sneer at you whenever you
walk past?

[Hobbes]

Walk past
The House of Mirth,
Where the golden, fevered
Aura is too thick for them to
Breathe in

[Paige19]

breathe in,
that's one less left.
but would you like to know
how many more you've left to go?
thought so.

[alakungfu]

thought so
provoked that it
tinkles like change in a
glass, small ideas armored in
brass plate

[adwara1]

Brass plate
and the broken sword
in the dust lied his body
as a witness to the age-old tragedy
the war

[alakungfu]

lovely poem adwara1
Note: the composition is supposed to be two syllables, four syllables, six syllables, eight syllables, two syllables

the war
somehow removed
by mles and by prospect
no consolation for clashing
yardbirds

[Paige19]

yardbirds
counting paces,
measuring out mistakes,
their faces wear excuses left
unsaid

[alakungfu]

unsaid
the rest to be
interpreted whether
aluding to allusion or
vision

[Paige19]

vision
visitation
divine revelation
subject to interpretation
not proof

[alakungfu]

not proof
that provides ground
swell but rumour undercuts
the course of initiative and
license

[Paige19]

license
is liberty
taken without forethought,
freedom's brush, but rudely painted -
tainted

[alakungfu]

tainted
abstracted, lost
so goes the rhythm of
the ambivalent en rackets
recrewed

[Paige19]

re: crewed -
all right, he may
have dipped an oar, but just
to wow the skirts on shore. More like:
he's crude.

[firefangled]

he's crude
like cigarettes
and cheap whiskey shooters,
draws Bauhaus digs on beer napkins
he keeps

[Riesa]

he keeps
better versions
of tips of trees, hopedreams
and slivered frowns we have all seen,
she keeps

[firefangled]

she keeps
a creased photo
where jeans fold into white,
nothing else, pocket memory,
blue jeans

[mazHur]

blue jeans
will not protect
the treasure embedded;
a thief will come and steal away
all there!

[Thespian1975]

All there.
Yet not all there
The silence between them
a barrier that will not break
Silence

[firefangled]

Silence
remembers us
in its last brushed colors
the small rooms bright with our desires
for wings

[ampoule]

for wings
I would wish for
not only to fly high
but to shelter you in this storm
of life

[mazHur]

of life
talk to me not
it's your for the taking
be it rain, hail, snow, gale or storm
keep it!

[ampoule]

keep it
tuck it away
but sometimes peek inside
make sure it's still there and pet it
your thought

[firefangled]

your thought
a loosed ribbon
carried on the night wind
caught on a branch, in memory's
moonlight

[qimissung]

moonlight
whispers to the
night, "I disappear. Come,
hold my hand, bring not cold, but
comfort."

[alakungfu]

comfort
in the silken
links that brush both our rude
whispers and our murmuring doused
sixth sense

[TheFifthElement]

sixth sense;
a leaf curling
in the presence of death.
A touch of breath in the darkness,
warming.

[alakungfu]

warming
to the gentle
touch of lapping years, gone,
with a diminishing sleight of
kind hand

[qimissung]

kind hand
staunch the wounds
caused by mere daily life;
the act of rising alone brings
forth tears

[alakungfu]

forth tears
springing on her
face when she heard the news
the expected declaration of
her loss

[TheFifthElement]

her loss
with crazy eyes
stares at the floor. No more
singing, smiling, laughing, dancing:
empty

[mazHur]

empty
your sorrows here
give it all your worries
this is no coward's heart, my dear,
It's me!

[alakungfu]

It's me
haunting your dreams
One day, we'll meet somewhere
and you'll know that it's me you can
picture.

[mazHur]

picture
imprinted on
the wall of my heart shows
my beloved when I look down
at times!

[Riesa]

at times
waxing gibbous,
she shouts with pregnant shine
Orion stands guard, awaits the
Sisters

[alakungfu]

Sisters
in Pleiades
contemplate the lucent
rationale of fleet feminine
matter

[firefangled]

Sisters
in Pleiades
contemplate the lucent
rationale of fleet feminine
matter

Exquisite!

***

matter
please forgive us
our wayward processes
we too are balanced on fragments
of light

[alakungfu]

Thank you fire-fangled


of light
I have no proof
only demonstration
of an intrinsic used nature
drawn wright

[Cat_Brenners]

life sucks
I must confess
so if you agree too
join my life sucks compaign with me
so start

Cat

[alakungfu]

so start
inside the box
adding a master clue
logistical paradoxisms
in check

[Il Penseroso]

we too are balanced on fragments
of light

very beautiful


in check
a list of words,
spittle drawn in lucid
curves by a gentle tongue, poems un-
covered

[alakungfu]

covered
wagons, papered
shelves and scented drawers
what were once cliches, now rich stuffed
with thought

[ampoule]

with thought
supper is planned
as an appetizer
for the filling stuff that follows
dessert

[alakungfu]

dessert
reminds me of
fluffy clouds of crushed ice
or radiant golden circles
just so

[TheFifthElement]

just so
you know this is
not a poem. No sir,
don't accuse me of such a crime
in rhyme.

[firefangled]

in rhyme
I thought I heard
pigeons and the downspout
first one, then the other, cooing
in rain

[mazHur]

in rain
hail,snow or storm
fidelity demands
us thorns to stand by the side of
roses

[alakungfu]

roses
token flowers
emblems of the worthy
velvet yield wildly substantial
for love

[qimissung]

for love
I yield not my
heart's deepest murmurings
yet still I tread through white waters
for love

[qimissung]

in rain
hail,snow or storm
fidelity demands
us thorns to stand by the side of
roses

quite a beautiful meditation on faithfulness, mazHur...

[alakungfu]

for love
sweet desertion
of baseless commitments,
faceless assertions of stolen
live flames

[Riesa]

Live flames
damage nothing
when lit in empty rooms;
mine’s cluttered, and arsonists live
next door.

[sprinks]

Next door,
near the gum tree,
to the left of the boat,
sits a little boy, waiting to
play soon.

[alakungfu]

play soon
not soon enough
to ford the seven seas
capture crooks and gun-slingers
all told