The poems that should be read more than once....

Dec 2014

Tobias Engkvist

Your spirits strength I've seen,
More amazed, never have I been,

It reverberates from the lion roar,
Echo (echo) to the core,

Inside the mane you reside,
Yet ever so bravely; playfully you stride!

Swinging madly on Gods dreadlocks,
Your pendulum of ethereal knots,

Twines of love mirroring yours,
Synchronized rhythm, an unstoppable force.

#love #dreadlocks #spirit #rhythm #roar

Dec 2014

Tobias Engkvist

I’ve Learnt To Float

This river carried me to your ocean

And in your shores it was safe to play

But as the tides and currents flow

I found myself swept out to the deep

I began to swim, my aim was to breathe

I was only creating waves

Salt I my eyes, I couldn’t see

Now I’ve learnt to float

Water carrying me

And now I touch the stars above me

I AM where the skies and seas meet

Dec 2014

Amitav Radiance

Introspection

While introspecting
I came closer, to myself
Being distanced
I forgot the language
In which scripts were written
Became myopic
And veered farther
Enjoying being away
Lost in the din
Never realizing
I was being swept away
From myself
While my soul yearned
For a rendezvous
I was oblivious
Seduced by the glib talkers
Became gullible
And yielded to the manipulations
Was a hallucinating ride
In the scariest roller coasters
Mind in a jumble
Entangled in the web of lies
Now, I have come back
From the brink of oblivion
To myself
Once more to listen
To my soul and heart
A union
After a struggle

#truth #life #heart #soul #questions #introspection #answers

Dec 2014

Phoenix Rising

repetition is hell

Much woe
for the foes
I encounter,
I know
it is not I
who causes deep tragedy
that feeds the hatred
coursing through their veins
poverty of heart
The withering shoes
on their dusty feet
They tell me a tale
of repetitive misfortune
Succumbed to the nature
of hurtful thoughts
Will they ever want to stop
and walk a new direction?

Dec 2014

Phosphorimental

twenty-five words away from truth

I climbed the highest tree within the forest of my mind... only to look down to find my heart at it's base, holding an axe.

Dec 2014

Amitav Radiance

In Life...

We are attracted to our desires
Whereas, we surrender to true Love

#love #life #desires

Dec 2014

Amitav Radiance

Beautiful Memories

Some memories are so beautiful
That they never fade away
Cutting across the darkness
To light up the present moments
Into eternity they will travel
Bringing solace till the last
They are not meant to let go
Till we have seen the last day

#love #feelings #heart #memories #beauty #thoughts #soul

Dec 2014

Bhupathi Prabhakara Rao

TRICKY TIME

Time is unlimited
Our time is limited
Time available is valuable
Time invaluable is inviolable.

Time is sweet and spicy at times
Time is sour and spiky sometimes
One has time for one self
None has any time for others.

Countless cosmic time is lustrous, long and strong
Count of clock and calendar is meek and meagre
Time has no origin or end albeit its ageless ageing
Time has no shape and size but it shapes and sizes.

Time seeks none, all seek time.
Time is good but not at all times.
Time is turbulent and terrific
Time is titanic and tenacious

Time is generous to some sometimes,
Time is ruthless to some others many times.
Time spares those who spare it.
Time makes and mars and makes.

Time and again time is in and time is out
At times, times are good but out in no time
Out and out some have no time sometimes
Many a time many time-out all time.

Every time is not our time
And all good times are lost in life time
Times may come and times may go
But the time goes on forever

Time has no stable time-table
Time solves, absolves or dissolves
Endless time tickles endless times
It is high time to tackle all times.
At one time or from time to time.

Dec 2014

PrttyBrd

I Hate Holiday Parties (for Wolf Spirits Christmas Challenge)

Gilded cage so small and tiny
Even singing comes out whiny
Stinking of fake fresh and piney
Tis the season
Leaking water warm and briny
With good reason

Christmas cheer and glasses toast
Loved ones smile and laugh and boast
I sit perched upon my post
A tinsled column
Invisible reluctant host
A heart that's solemn

A longing for a love so distant
The melancholy is persistent
A smile could erase it in an instant
On a face cherubic
For my heart is not resistent
It's theraputic

So that smile that is perfection
Is mirrored in my own reflection
Without a thought about rejection
Hallucinations
About the subtlest inflection
In Salutations

Surrounded by the merrily intense
With drunkard tendencies immense
A bar with all accoutrements
They pound tequila
Drinking away the sacraments
Oh yes, I feel ya

Merry time with old Kris Kringle
Guests all lubed enough to mingle
Mistletoe hangs and sleigh bells jingle
Gifts homemade
Tables adourned and glasses tingle
Gold brocade

Still I sit all caged and flightless
Blind to joy all sad and sightless
Drink could make it hurt a mite less
I'm going backward
Laying here all limp and lifeless
Broke and fractured

Surrounded by the fake and vexing
Artificial and quite perplexing
Reality they are rejecting
The devil may care
Bellies bare and muscles flexing
Lost underwear

So ******* dancing to the jukebox
Lost alone here in the boondocks
There is no snow upon the rooftops
Ahead they forge
Find a room before that thing pops
It's so engorged

Neighbor ***** all dressed in orange
Wearing gold to make the poor cringe
Stripping time to fill her syringe
I'll be her hinderance
Still too drunk from her last binge
Faulty remembrance

Ridding riff raff from the party
People still drunk on Bacardi
Noxious gasses burp and farty
With toilets makeshift
Worn out makeup on the smarty
She needs a facelift

Time to let the people go
Too tired to keep watching the show
Drinking hard and walking slow
Verbose yet listless
Honey I don't want to know
It's not my business

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not the easiest thing to write, but I do so love a challenge

#drunk #party #invisible #alcoholic #holiday #chrismaschallenge

Dec 2014

Phoenix Rising

A Paradoxical Guide to Achieving Happiness

-The moment you stop wanting it, you will have it
-The moment you stop planning, your life will begin
-To be happy, you must stop saying you will achieve it after a goal
-Forcing will not help what's meant to be a falling into placement

#love #happy #happiness #spiritual #paradox #compassion #loving #careful #mindful #guide

Dec 2014

Sjr1000

No More Water/The Fire Next Time

Fire
fire
in the sky
burned so bright
burned so high
how was I to know
it was the end of time.

Meteor predicted on
its way
flashed incandescent
as it made its way,
shattering into a
million fragments
atmosphere burning
fires starting
nuclear winter
envious of its
power.

A lone figure
on a hill
never knew
such loneliness
as this,
took your hand
and
one last kiss.

The meteor bright
brought the end of time
rendering all of our
fears, petty jealousies
brutalities and stress
our issues
our loves
irrelevant.

If I had known this
before
freedom wouldn't
have been that painted
she-male *****
seductively calling
to me for more -
but could have been
a moment before
that meteor made
its call.

The fires have melted
the stars have
been renewed
the planet continues
its spinning around
the sun
the deepest ocean fishes
continue evolution's marching orders
while a cell phone alarm
flips on
and
the icon shows "no signal"
while beneath
the rubble a
malfunctioning relay
finally finds
that call made
hours ago
and the phone
rings and rings
beneath the
ashen snow
until the last
silence
no one is home.

Mother Earth
finally restored
to
its
silence
once again.