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svdgrl May 2014
I heard a woman singing in the car,
about being reborn as a peacock for Krishna
so that she could sit in beautiful penance for him.
While watching whizzing morning work trucks,
and beat-up corollas and motion blur,
I thought of you in the stillness of sleep.

If I were to be reborn I'd like to be a bird as well
so that I could provide the down in your pillow,
and be cushion to your carousel crown
But then I would be lonely when you go to work.

If I were to be reborn, I'd like to be your sunglasses,
so that I could protect your squinting eyes,
and live by your lushest lashes.
But then you'd lock me away in a case, and I won't be able to see you.

If I were to be reborn, I'd be a bracelet made of magic beads,
so that I could promise health around your often pained wrists,
and fix the freedom in your fiery fingers.
But then you'll probably lose me, or unstring me accidentally with time.

If I were to be reborn, I'd like to be your favorite puppy,
so that I could pacify your inner turmoils.
and be held by your human hands.
But then you'll possibly outlive me, and I wish to watch you grow.

If I were to be reborn, I'd be lonely, locked away, left, lost, and outlived-
so I'd rather stay in this life with all of my privileges
of providing, protecting, promising and pacifying
as your lucky lover.
Poetic T Jan 2016
Where life permeated through lushest
Colours reaching high, the heavens
Jealousy of such radiance as beautiful
As any sunset ever seen was eyed.

There wrath was swift as clouds of
Rage darkened and a kiss from the
Heavens graced Bark and leaf. All was
Still as ash fell earthwards in onyx tears.

Where elegant shades flowed, wisps of
Extinguished colour blossomed then faded
To oblivions nothingness. The heavens are
Beautiful but hide ominous jealous rage.
RMatheson Dec 2015
When your blonde hair turns black, through the lenses of dark ink
I cannot wash away,
I breathe your name, in syllables,
wrought like the iron fence
you built to keep me behind:

Mare-Eee-Uhn...

It's of no use.

You bore my ******* name,
and I cannot ******* bear it.

I choke you down, into my sleep,
down to your knees,
and I consume you,
a foaming ****** from the *****-
hole of my conscience.
Mike Hauser Apr 2013
I'm coughing out in rhythm
As I draw in more lushest smoke
Ain't never done me any good
But the Marlboro Mans got my vote

Two packs a day at minimum
I see no use in quitting
Though the way I wheeze in the morning time
There ain't much use in living

The doctors give their warning
My lungs are tarred and blackened
The only thing I see I'm missing
Is the free breathing that I'm lacking

So leave me be to my greatest need
We all know what that is
Carcinogens and nicotine
Are two of my favorite hits

They say smoking wont send you to hell
It just makes you smell like you've been there
And to a smoker that's just as well
In hell you'll never need a lighter

So the doctor's can warn me all they want
If they feel they must
But I ain't leaving outta here
Until that very last lushest puff...
I'm not a smoker myself...
This is just something I thought all you smokers would enjoy...
So everyone light up, inhale, draw deep, exhale, Ahhhhhhh......
RatQueen Mar 2018
You're always asking me if I'm okay
And I always keep my answers vague
two thumbs way up, I hide my face
eyes cemented shut, just another day

stumble down the stairway
eating out gourmet
don't need a lifejacket in a sea of cabernet,
(You okay?, Hey Rach?)
been a few days since I've had a taste
indentations in the blankets traced

so I sit around, I don't mind the wait
daydream until I leave this place
Always chasing sensations and feelings
sedation isn't quite the same as healing
so I head to the gas station freewheeling
fading and melting into silent sightseeing

You're so special, a wild flame meeting petrol
you don't love me, you love everyone
I'm accidental, not fundamental
so I watch it burn until it's overdone

You're explosive, and I'm corrosive
we probably shouldn't do this
but when has anything interesting
happened from doing what we should've

Skip through the lushest meadow
hope and pray I don't get stung
I tiptoe, I tiptoe
I'm afraid of bees and bugs
Bows N' Arrows May 2015
{ Do those moments of, sort of returning
An unwanted favor
( To some pre-labelled "Victim" )
Silence the rage and
Undigested trauma
In sharp slurs and bitten beatings? }

Soft-spoken and fragile ramblings and
Strumming of chords
Under moonlight.
Torn visionaries speaking in
Luminaries;
Twilight tea bags and broken sandals.
Starting off...
Beginning nervous,
Mistaken by another's train of thought, but
Ever blissful and convinced;
Knowing all the time.
Searching for a moment...
THE moment!
A sudden explosion!
Dazed on faith, maybe, or drunk on inspiration!
Things that may be someday, but either way-
True courage, this thing,
This magic called faith!
Just humble spirits,
Full-bellied spirits
With restless limbs and
Fluorescent wings, invisible.
Rustic sincerity and understanding;
Glasses over swollen azule eyes...
Distillation of hymns
And smoke;
Coffee stained and
Delusional in a pill popping coma!
Whisked away by b-flat, and ones lust for harmonies.
Shooting
Bows and arrows
Aimed at the farthest lushest niche
In the sky;
Opening and closing like a door.
Always becoming!
TheBlackPen121 Jul 2019
A cosmic kiss….
A cosmic kiss from the lushest lips, a beauty so vast and green, so stunning and wonderful but to the fool it is never seen…
A cosmic kiss as she hits my lips taking the form of the gentlest breeze, we’re close yet still far apart no matter the distance you have my heart.
I'm in love with the mysteries of your uniqueness and your wonderful creation.
The hand of god that created you had a splendid vision.


Done by:KCG
Onoma Aug 2021
as lightning lain across the

resurrectional seasons of

sight herself...

freeing her when confined

to a stone's sleep.

three times the apparition

of her lushest garden to

bear witness to her wake.

amid the miscarriages of thunder.
Dan Hess Feb 2021
Storm clouds tarry in the air
the bleakly casted shadows speckle,
dancing across the muted earth
a sheet of sleep bestowing peace
in stillness, stowed away 
is yesterday


Teeming, leagues above the atmosphere,
in auras gilt by passing rays of starlight,
hover minds detached from interplay of 
toiling ant-like beings, infinitesimal 
they seem, from here
in heaven


They who pass timeless moments
skipping stones across the cosmos
sending waves worlds over
just to see the way eternity might
crumple between fingertips
when hearts burst
creating galaxies in their wakes


a world of magic;
eyes alight with splendor 
share a glimpse of reverie
a memory of fantasy that’s lost within a dream
of towering trees and lushest greens,
of homeliness and softest bliss,


to reminisce of a place
so familiar, yet erased
a surest sense of true belonging
tucked away within a pocket
in the corner of the soul


reaching 
for the stars
to fall into the abyss
to be consumed
or to subsist
on traversing that space
of emptiness
to find a place where we exist
no more, amiss
in the vertex betwixt
Dr Peter Lim Mar 2020
She moves mountains
not by the tenacity of will
but by the strength of her heart
even as she is silent and still

blessed by such beauty of soul
every wish of hers nature has fulfilled
time will never blemish her singular charm
she's the sweetest flower in spring-time's lushest field.
* dedicated to a well-known poetess in Sydney whose anthology is entitled
SHE MOVES MOUNTAINS--she has published others.
Dr Peter Lim Apr 2020
The land is the inheritor
of the voices of the universe
the eternal faithful keeper
the unfailing and gracious nurse.

She shares the joys and sorrows
of mankind from time's beginning
the harbinger of hopeful tomorrows
her generosity knows no ending.

Men come and then they depart
each an imprint does leave behind
she remembers all in her faithful heart
every word she speaks is tender and kind.

Human life is strife-ridden
the land is all peace and calm
where the most beautiful and sublime is begotten
and the lushest harvest is the promised outcome.
* dedicated to Yoko who lives in Nara. She is a gifted calligrapher and holds exhibitions in Japan. She will translate the poem into Nihongo. I met her and her husband Takeshi (a flautist) in Melbourne two months ago.

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