His eyes of gold;
peer into my soul
with a milk mustache
he licks his fancy,
torn between two worlds
reality is magical,
says him so
needing to be free,
yet longing for a hand;
to scratch his silky locks
strike while you can
his finicky soul;
dances in the wind
dreaming of playing again
his sorcery is made of stone,
annoyed by your attention
yet never wanting to truly be alone
his meow is a roaring fire;
piercing through the thickest of skulls
biscuits he serves by the claw,
treasuring every chance he gets to fall;
Quit to land on all fours,
he sprints so fast;
you could say he's climbing up doors.
Copyright © Candice Yates | Year Posted 2022
Like a book that has been read time and time again,
Those who understand, bear outer markings of their pain within.
For total understanding is not something we gain,
But rather something we accept, and choose not to explain.
For when you attempt to explain what you do not know,
You often picture the past, and miss where the future is set to go.
Like a book, tattered and worn,
Most will move to toss it aside.
Yet some will know that though the pages are torn,
There is something special that lay inside.
Copyright © Landin Willis | Year Posted 2023
Light, defined as electromagnet,
radiation; photon particles
Natural visible light: with intensity, and frequency
Light wavelength spectrum / polarization propagation
People pleasure and preen at the beach with sunny tanning
Sunlight illuminates mountain bike trails for bicycling and trekking
Sunsets have lavender with orange bright beams extending
Solar sunrays light a day of picnic park fun and joyful frolicking
Some of the light spectrum is radio, white, ultraviolet and x-rays
Infrared is only heat visible and gamma-rays are the most powerful
Small lasers are used in disk drives, printers, and fiber-optics
Fiber-optic networks is light fast digital information system
TV plasma, liquid crystal displays, LEDs light-emitting diodes gives visuals
These assist our everyday visual optic neural perceptions
Cars have headlights and ships use fog-lights
Light-towers have flood-lights and we use handy flashlights
Tesla and Edison partook in the light bulb’s invention
Lewis Latimer and Joseph Nichol invented its carbon filament
This did dispel much of the world’s nighttime darkness
Lightning lights to reveal a charge of negative and positive
Colors of violet, blue, green, yellow, orange, red: are in white light
Some colors viewed when seeing a rainbow over a dewy meadow
What can be possibly seen at the other end of a rainbow
This but to note God’s faithful abatement covenant
Starlight is continually being reflected and refracted
Earth and the Heavens is lit up by starry Star Lights
Great Stars round and renowned, in balance and equilibrium
They are fiery fireballs very luminous and bright
Stars dispersing their photon particles at light speed
"Light speed, “299,792,458 meters per second"
Light, is a part of the equation “E=MC squared”
“Energy,” not made, nor annihilated, yet always in flux
"Natures life sustaining and revealing light, "Light Particle"
Copyright © Ronald A. Williams | Year Posted 2017
I am haunted by your words, hunted…by their meaning,
Torn to pieces and healed, at once alone, and embraced…
I wish you could see what I see, all this beauty…and heartbreak
I cannot bear them without you, come, and share my soul…
Drink deep of who I am, tear me open… unveil me,
Until I rest naked, in the light of your love…
Copyright © Roy Wilde | Year Posted 2023
Autumn has arrived.
The sycamore are starting to loose leaves, and the corn fields
almost ready to be picked, indications of its arrival.
Though the temperature, especially in the evening has cooled,
it’s still not quite demanding a sweater.
The night creatures haven’t ceased their songs.
The last of the tomatoes still cling to the vine,
and potato plants withered and hilled, still to be dug.
But as this big ball turns and tilts, ever so slightly,
I can feel it. The month or day isn’t all that important.
Life moves on at its own pace and we humans,
merely participants in this universe, move with it.
Like the sycamore, the mirror reflecting my image indicate it has begun.
The age of summer has gone.
The mind is still sharp and the muscles, stronger then most,
at least at this age, like the last of the tomatoes.
Similar to the songs of the night,
plenty of life and work still ahead.
But all too soon, it will be time for winter’s sweater.
Though seeming early, Autumn has arrived.
Copyright © Jake Werner | Year Posted 2023
For three hundred thousand, of five billion years,
A fact never challenged by science or fears;
Upright Homo-Sapiens, embodied two genders,
Each body clearly favoring, the other body’s splendor.
But alas as we humans, have improved and evolved,
We decided old constructs, should now be dissolved;
By strong social order, and educated means,
Replaced by enlightenment, and the Science of Genes.
In a newfangled world where anything goes,
And dare not be challenged, questioned, opposed;
Men can be women, women now men,
A surgical metamorphosis, with the stroke of a pen.
As we blur the lines separating, factual truth,
Eliminating inequalities, deemed clearly uncouth;
Despite our clear difference, in gender and sex,
Fair treatment of genders, includes mutual respect!
We owe our world's progress, to mindsets deemed fair,
Of gender equality, that eliminates despair;
And instead of confusion, melding genders the same,
We should celebrate our differences, in far more than name.
Copyright © Michael Wegman | Year Posted 2020
Love doesn't dash, it loiters -
with repeated movements like music
and beautifully crude endearments.
Love does't dash, it lingers
with rhythms like dance
and boastfully rude aphorisms.
So dally my love - lollygag,
lounge and we'll share breaths
and mess about.
Copyright © Anais Vionet | Year Posted 2020
Love you more
From the first moment I saw you
I knew you were the one
My feelings so powerful
So overwhelming
This couldn’t be right
Could it?
I was in a dream
It wasn’t real
But you melted my heart
My mind in a whirl
Was this really happening?
Then suddenly
Something clicked
And finally I realised
It was meant to be
You and me together
It’s just so right
My love for you is so strong
I love you more
Always and forever
Copyright © Gail Underwood | Year Posted 2015
Grown men today will always complain
About how much their paid a wage
When the same men in their lane are paid
At the same rate but dont say anyway.
Copyright © Criss Tripp | Year Posted 2015
The strength I show, I show to all.
Forgive my footsteps, if I should fall.
I'm here as ever I've been, and shall ever be,
don't ask about the old ones.
The ones who asked, why we..
didn't find that sacred path.
I will make you understand, a love that surpasses,
A love that will find its way, to reach your heart.
So be kind, and let me rewind....
My life is still at the edge of a new dawn.
Let me show you the promise of a love,
that finds a path to truth..,
and quiets the dreams of youth.
Copyright © Quoth Theraven | Year Posted 2018
She wasn't worth much
But I loved her I did
Like nothing I loved before
She was rusty and dusty
She didn't smell good
And had a dent in her passenger door
I was only sixteen
Thought I was cool
Driving around feeling badder than bad
The greatest feeling on earth
To have your own wheels
Even though she belonged to my dad
There was a tear in the front seat
And the radio was broke
It took a while to start
With a manual choke
She had a manual transmission
And the headlights were weak
She had a miss in the engine
And a slight oil leak
But I held up my head and felt like a star
Driving around in that rusty old car.
Kids don't seem to have love affairs with their vehicles anymore. This was a
black 1950 two door Ford coup. The memories were priceless.
Copyright © Vince Suzadail Jr. | Year Posted 2006
The 2023rd Psalm
By Mark Stucky
“Above the law” is our shepherd; he shall always want.
He maketh us to lie about the election; he leadeth us into deep divisions.
He stealeth our souls; he leadeth us in the paths of insurrection for his name’s sake.
Yea, though we talk through the valley of Twitter and Facebook, we do fear evil, for hate speech and conspiracies they frighten us.
He prepareth the Big Lie before us in the presence of deniers; he appointeth head officials for his term to runneth over.
Surely narcissism and corruption shall follow us all the days of our lives so that we may dwell in a derelict democracy for ever.
(See also my related poems "The Art of the Devilish Deal," "Bathing with Bathsheba," "Antisocial Media," and "Tweeting the Truth in Love.")
(Image by VENUS MAJOR on Unsplash.com.)
Copyright © Mark Stucky | Year Posted 2023
Listen to poem:
Surely before I have felt as though heaven were pressed to my lips such as this, Yet touching your smile is so sweet I imagine there never has been such a kiss.
Riv’ling the ruby, cottony soft, as warm as a slow summer breeze.
The ultimate passion…love - at its purest - thrives upon lips such as these.
Oh how they beckon, though ne’er do they speak,
The coldest are warmed……the strongest made weak.
Slowly they render, ‘til all strength is gone…each kiss, like of wine…a new sip.
They capture…consume…and completely control.
What power doth reign from the lip!
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Copyright © Mark Stellinga | Year Posted 2020
No one knew that Mavis was a stripper,
They thought she worked at Tesco on the till.
Most folk knew her since she was a nipper,
No one knew that Mavis was a stripper.
A woman always cheerful and chipper,
She twirled her tassels publicly, but still
No one knew that Mavis was a stripper,
They thought she worked at Tesco on the till.
Copyright © Elisabeth Sheaffer | Year Posted 2013
Heaven's blustery winds
are under her sheets,
over the curvature, an arc
ripening our bodies moist,
grazing her trim bush,
upon my long brush,
and plum
is her berry.
Copyright © Sammy Shaq | Year Posted 2018
White lightening conjures magical spells,
As you feel binding thoughts from her mind’s wishing well ,
You’re most precious held dreams spin in her wake,
As you breathe in & out to rewrite your fate ,
Now open your eyes to hear whispers ring true ,
A menu of lavender lights up for you ,
As you honor the past in your deepest held trance ,
Remember the scent of your sweetest romance,
As your mind drifts to read what’s next on the page ,
Remember the scent of rosemary & sage ,
So take what you can & honor her heart ,
As the light in her eyes reflects love from the start ,
So listen deeply & imagine the cast ,
As gifted actors pretend from your past .
©2023 AlanShapiro
Copyright © Alan Shapiro | Year Posted 2023