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Odd Odyssey Poet Apr 2022
I'm too full of a fool; (in love)
death do us part, love you to death,
That's a coffin built for two,— some of me, some of you.
Why cry like an ocean; when your favourite
colour is blue?

There's a shade of yellow; particularly
in the back of your eye... so bright knowing; thinking
about you; (my brightest idea)

I'm alive; in a live performance of watching you
move my heart in motions. Motion pictures;
you fill with films of your story.

But if only...

I wasn't a writer of my imaginative;
a painter in the mind of what if's.
Being good at writing about love out of love;
this is poetic madness.
the sailing stones
were thought to be
a phenomenon
it was incomprehensible
that a rock
the inanimate
     of all inanimates
should show signs
     of movement
here was mystique
here was mystery
perhaps a message
left by
cosmic energies
or
higher beings
undecipherable
     unexplainable
there could have been
beauty
in never knowing
in letting
     the idea remain
pure
untainted
restorative

alas
we cannot bear
the unexplained;
where the miraculous
is founded
   in uncertainty
we must probe
and pry
until an answer
is found
whether for benefit
betterment
or
hindrance

perhaps a balance
can be found
between the known
and what remains
acceptably unknown
before
the intrigue
and enchantment
are marred by
the bland
     the sterile
          the prosaic
Steve Page Mar 2022
Give me a grain
of gravity, in a moment
of space time, tied to a thread
of string theory,  soaked
in one long figment
of my fantasy

and I will give you
a multi-verse.
Carlo C Gomez Nov 2022
~
...
where dreams
and laundry
cohabitate
there are vast
wardrobes of imagination

...
~
Zywa Mar 2022
Reading books you fly

in everywhere, completely --


without being seen.
For Lotte W

Collection "The light of words"
Lim Peh Feb 2022
Dye my life
Show me dreams
Expand imagination
Hopes and aspirations
Concentration of will
Ready and focused
Conscious is clear
All for who
Not myself
Carlo C Gomez Feb 2022
instrumental
dreamer

time free
to sight see

wide
down
corybantic
oval
perimeter
shedding
tiers

in a garden
of angels
sprinkled
with pine cones
at the border of
void and Vaud

cantons
of meltwater cirque
les petites Fauconnières
the inner basin
of my outer reaches

I am
your
visitor
I am
your
audience

let's
stop
for snow
and polar cap
songs
where things
are still run by the natural elements
instrumental dreamer
not by algorithms
not by advancement
Zywa Jan 2022
A small hatch opens

in the fog, there's a small hand --


waving a little.
"Nevel gumt alles boven de grasvlakte uit" ("Mist erases everything above the grassland", 2012, Ellen Deckwitz)

Collection "Held True"
Sonorant Jan 2022
Quietly, I slipped into a vale.
Where the ash stands stagnant as my locket memories, and the gravity of those peel reeds back from an ancient spruce I watered long ago.
Though he embowed, wounds rewarded the vehement flesh with bark. I ******* soul’s decay and sip a silent vice to subside the grief, dip a whetted shoot into ruby waters.
On that welkin, I rubricate the evening mist in scarlet poetry  as spindles of bough became lines on a paper sky, sketching and swelling with childlike-visionary.
Until I stood on the brink of a parapet in a dance with death. I realized there weren’t any shapes all along, but only clouds.
Nickolas J McKee Dec 2021
I see out a cave of wonders,
A wishing pain wanting away.
No matter the fool loved on stage,
He will suffer to earn a day.
What lost of the past a talent,
Forced a man a monkey to dance.
Seeking simple a life to live,
For children of his own to prance.
O’, can a God raise a lost soul,
To come again a life to find?
Must we let one to suffer so,
Depressed and alone of his time?
For when can we come out the cave,
Wished and wanted a soul to save?
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