"firmed" poems
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The waves spilled the rising tide
back into the scattered footprints in the sand
deeply entrenched in life’s mystery,
receding into every breaking wave
A stiff sea breeze put back every grain of sand,
elements of a larger object gathers,
gravity firmed, into the silent shoreline chasms—
a beheld essence washed out to sea
by the fugitive tides and retreating sea-foam
Soon all trodden traces visibly vanish;
unmarked mileposts on a metaphysical pathway
slip away back to a windswept shoreline
and elapsing summer tide
Seabirds glide in slow-motion,
held sway into the shapeless gusts —
as if feathered puppets hovering,
hanging from the rafters
of the burgeoning orange sky
There's an uncommon peace in the renaissance;
effervescent crisp ocean air filling
the indefinable emptiness
marooned within each heartbeat’s echo
Each new breath inhaled, disappearing within
the unhealed hollow of every thing once believed;
fully aware this life is unholdable as time,
yet feeling many things deeply retained
in each passing moment—
slipping away like a handful of sand
sifting through all these hands once held
Presence becoming wreathed in a miasma of stillness,
space that levitates like an unpredictable fog
that seeps into the gnawing voids
of an unsated hunger
harlon rivers ... August 1st, 2018
Jul 31, 2018
Jul 31, 2018 at 8:34 PM UTC
Facing an empty nest
my son said don't be stupid
use your apple laptop
to go on ok cupid
So i struggled with my profile
uploaded a picture or two
then waited for my soulmate
while stalkers came to view
One said he disliked people
the next, just casual ***
seeking christy brinkley's
firmed up **** & pecs
Once i was a **** buddy
i swear i never knew it
until he said "meet melody"
that's how i learned i blew it
I'm not greedy, not too needy
so i'll say this right out loud
when it comes to playful ***
for me 3 is a crowd!
Should i call on carrie bradshaw?
to explain *** in the city?
when samantha found her mr. wright
it ended not so pretty
Once a young man pursued me mightily
with passionate hysteria
until he asked for plane fare
to fly him from nigeria
Who IS that who winked at me?
what does it really mean
a sea of faces scrolling down
a modern mating machine
I digress, most do agree
that our lives flow like a river
but wait...what do i see?
my dream man in my quiver?
Oct 17, 2015
Oct 17, 2015 at 5:17 PM UTC
On a cool damp night
the patter of the port subsided
drips of the cold rain echo
a captain ripe with whiskey
breaks the silence of the harbor
feeling his way back
to the flat on high street
navigating his feet on each stone
he muttered to himself
“left, right and then right again”
ending at a stoop
he found the *** within three
“click” the humble door opened
entering the dwelling
ready for the weeks pummel
he swung his fists at the inhabitants
especially the women, the wife
this night was routine
the smell of whiskey, puke and **** is familiar
but, tonight the mist in the air was different
his blood boiled with fermented spirits
his eyes gazed an emptiness of black
with a quick hand
reaching for a sparkle of steel
he firmed his grip and pulled from the block
it made a “ting” sound as it cut the air
meeting gently with mothers throat
with rage, his eyes stabbed with intention
holding the cold steel to freckled skin
his remarks filled her eyes with fear
and I in the corner, watching, listening, feeling and rocking
yes that was you, as a sea captain
and I was there
Apr 11, 2012
Apr 11, 2012 at 10:04 PM UTC
don't blame me because
the sand in your ******
is irritating you
go take a shower
and while you're at it
shave that pathetic excuse
of *** fluff you call a beard
from your perfect face
and while you're at it
wash away
the verbal diarrhoea
caught in the corner
of perfectly firmed lips
and while you're at it
practice in front of the mirror
saying
*I can only criticise
when I'm more perfect
than you*
then come back to me
apologise
and say something new
Apr 21, 2014
Apr 21, 2014 at 4:51 AM UTC
You see no scars and laceration
But it doesn't define that I'm not wounded
I smell and looked great to you
Hey! It just my make-up and perfume
But If you really want me
Caress me no matter what season
Stand firmed for your reason
Love me as I am
Embraced even my demons
2-2-2016
Mysterious_aries
Feb 2, 2016
Feb 2, 2016 at 7:04 AM UTC
glow to the righteous and firmed in their ways
aloof and fervent forever steadfastly pure
we allow secret ways to uncover us then cover us
over softly so other realms may enchant
we participate open-handed, open-hearted
taking and sharing in delights of pleasure
and in all good measure, we seek the quiet
of love or god or spirits those special ways
to each delivered by cherubs or captains in dress
relentless we search for purpose or oppose
sureness that slurps away at us like melting dew
how can we know or see the ways to
delay or restart matters that can confuse
then reward and disappear as if listening to fallen rain
it's not that we can not see all
but more to it, the mysteries of the unknown
far outstrip anything found, written or even imagined
Oct 5, 2016
Oct 5, 2016 at 5:43 PM UTC
I braced my feet; knees light,
And the lord said: You shall not fly.
I firmed my earth; legs tight,
And the lord said: You shall not run.
I took my stride; afraid in blight,
And the lord said: You shall not go.
"Why?!" I begged. "Why do others go while I stay?"
And the lord said:
Oct 2, 2012
Oct 2, 2012 at 5:28 PM UTC
Busy in my bout
of fast life
Mother's day celebrations
I heard around.
Impulsively,
I connected
silently by myself,
my inner soul
with hers in heaven away...
And she firmed the connection
last night
in my dream
taking me back
to the same
terrains and fields,
across the small dried brook,
where she had worked
and I tried to escape
to join the team
of my friends
as a teenager would do;
and..
the same earthen hearth
where she had cooked
the corn chapatis
on those red coal pieces
this motherly bond more firmed
never to break
Of course, it never breaks.
Narinder Bhangu
May 12, 2018
May 12, 2018 at 10:47 PM UTC
Mark how, with alien glow--
an imposing form proclaims your
ecstasy, mark!
This monolith of first blushes.
Circuited by a spirit on leave...contours
of seeped salt lit by their sweet burrow.
Ground firmed, with every step the fall
of the world--whose rise only knows
successive steps.
Fast upon heels...keeled over--glistening
with anointment...mark how!
This overarching winter--of co conspirators
in the dead of...who bank and blow
blood till blue in the face.
Their skulls slated to sleep through, as white alms bowls--
yet they contrive...bite you upon both hands,
with the crumpled features of the face you empower.
You are the bell's curfew, a sound more
ancient than rite...where hearers come out
of their skin.
You leave peace to itself...to your quadrant
gape--lest to see what may, or may not configure.
Knowing what endeavors to stain--will belabor
to dissolve as that stain.
How like grape to wine--how like wine to oblivion...
to sodden a leavened sky.
With the care of a flower--never petulant in its exorbitant
youth, cut and set down...one for every step circuiting
this monolith.
These shocked straits of limbs, overrun with sourceless
current...flow onward, onward, onward--by command!
One miraculous, an continuous deference to that
command...seeking out what shall sate the need to do.
What is it to be content with what thou art...is it to forgo,
do what thou wilt?
Retain thy image...do not cast what thou were cast in the
image of...a voice says.
Who hears--as command is voiced, both command and
commanded hear, here.
Unmoved mover--Monolith...dispassionate salve to daily
death, circuited by spirit.
Till blindness, deafness fully informed of stone--alien with
glow...marked how!!!
Feb 5, 2017
Feb 5, 2017 at 12:50 AM UTC
A man of intergrity.
Is a man of strength.
He stands by a value code.
And comprehends what it means?
In him see this.
A man that admires his mother.
Will be a man that also loves her.
In him see this.
A man that respects his woman(wife).
Is a man to keep for life.
In him see this.
A extremely good man.
A man that stand with beliefs.
Will be a man that stands up to truth.
A man that knows, he has the woman he loves.
In him see this.
A man that has a ounce of faith in God.
Is a man that knows his fortune is cause of the lord.
He has no doubts about it.
He testify and firmed about it.
In him see this.
A man that holds honors in his child's eyes.
Will always be a man to respect and admire.
In him see this.
For some fathers are complete failures.
A man that respects his dad.
Is truly a man that understood his role.
He tries to provide for his house hold.
In his see this.
And you realize that when he away.
The reasons he is missed.
You will feel it in his kiss.
In him see this.
Oct 15, 2012
Oct 15, 2012 at 7:17 PM UTC
Smiles undirected
no firmed target
myself expected
jealous jumpstarted
In most cases
I'd of assumed
you'd of switched faces
your heart entombed
Yet it stayed
icy but warm
smile frayed
but no love'd born
May 23, 2016
May 23, 2016 at 9:27 AM UTC
spool of
attire when
maid in
Taiwan was
white but
a stranger
in elucidation
as she
firmed her
noggin for
Rasputin in
orient to
China Grove
when perl
kissed her
kind with
silver spice
Feb 2, 2020
Feb 2, 2020 at 1:23 PM UTC
The steps arose,
a base there was
the muddle of screes
For it was a landscape
Vacant,
Of trees
Gingerly I paced
a cliff that laced
a path destined,
Told, I was
For a few sunrises
and sunsets
Firmed to the locus
stood there, I had.
By degrees
the cliff
obsecured my view
the bewilderment I could not rub
Mayhap, myself scrutinized it far deep
I thought.
the cliff,
for unyielding it depicted
percepting apprehensions, of own
promising it portrayed
Afresh, the climb excecuted
Little by little,
embarked the escarpment
it was still,
dormant
so I too, adjourned
It spoke to me
for footsteps,
no longer scraped
"W'rry not, I shall holdeth thee"
and,
reverberations
igniting the specks of fragility
for I queried myself
if this voyage is my to ascend
Oct 30, 2019
Oct 30, 2019 at 12:40 PM UTC