Best Prospero Poems


Premium Member Tanabata-W

Look at the 1st quarter moon of the 7th
Day of the 7th month in the naked sky.
There! The two stars Vega and Altair
Blinded by love like Yaksha & his beloved
In the Bard Kalidas’s epic poem Meghdootam.

Vega neglecting her weaving and
Altair allowed the cows to stray.
So did lovelorn Yaksha in his duties to Kubera.
Dereliction in each case infuriated the kings.
Vega and Altair separated by the Milky Way
And Yaksha from Alkapuri in the Himalayas to Ramgiri.
Yaksha expurgated by separation for a year.
Vega succeeded in arousing the sympathy
Was allowed to meet Altair once in a year
Provided no rain on the eve of seventh
To unite in the milky way-Scorpion region
On the bank of Amanogawa river.
Prospero proved wiser expiating Ferdinand
By his log bearing as ‘trials of thy love’.
Reducing Miranda as ‘rich gift’ or ‘acquisition’
Forever as compensation to Ferdinand’s pains?
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Sixth Placement
For contest : your best poem

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Explanations of foreign words in the poem:
Japanese “Tana” means a shelf in English and “bata” is a transformation of “hata” which 
means a loom
"weaving with the loom (bata) placed on the shelf (tana)",
One popular Tanabata custom is to write one's wishes on a piece of paper, and hang that 
piece of paper on a specially erected bamboo tree, in the hope that the wishes become true.
According to a Chinese legend, the two stars Altair and Vega,
Yakshas : name of the Kubera’s servant
Meghdootam: Megh (rainy clouds and Dootam means messenger)An epic poem written in 
Sanskrit in the year 400 A.D. by the great Indian Bard Kalidas – meaning cloud messenger
Ramgiri ; a hill near Nagpur in Central India
Alka: the name of the city in Himalayan region also known as Alkapuri
Kubera:  the God of Wealth in the Hindu mythology
the Amanogawa (River of Heaven),
Prospero, Ferdinand and Miranda- the character in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

Shades

"Shades"

You shade me
I shade you
stops the sun burning
eternally through
long nights’ deep bleed
the blue birds lead the way;
"definitely no more flowers",
you say.
I say, "fancy some 
foxgloves?"
You say, "Slinky opera-like?"
I say, "No way, Prospero
digitalis are us
behind eyes that pray."
Just for good measure
I say, 
"I’m not Miranda,
I’m Prospera,
by the way,
my high charms work,
and these my enemies
are all knit up in their 
distractions, they are
now in my power.
I hear tell that 
Hell is now empty
and all the devils are here."
"I believe you", you say, 
"digitalis ready
lead the way."

(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)








“This music crept by me upon the waters,
Allaying both their fury and my passion
With its sweet air: thence I have follow’d it” 




“Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again.” 




“We all were sea-swallow’d, though some cast again.
And by that destiny to perform an act
Whereof what’s past is prologue, what to come
In yours and my discharge.” 




“I'll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound
I'll drown my book.” 




“Now I want
Spirits to enforce, art to enchant,
And my ending is despair,
Unless I be relieved by prayer
Which pierces so that it assaults
Mercy itself and frees all faults.
As you from crimes would pardon'd be,
Let your indulgence set me free.”

Premium Member Remembering the Past

Remembering the Past
 
Tito is Tagalog of Uncle
Tito David Rodriguez and Tito Willie Totanes are very good friends
Up rising Star-Ms. Jacqueline R. Mendoza

Tito David recruited me to Filipino American Multimedia Entertainment (FAME) 
on the 90’s
Tito David is a Filipino model, journalist, actor in FAME
Up rising Star-Ms. Jacqueline R. Mendoza

 Tito Willie Totanes strongly supports me
He drives me around the bay area
 Uprising Star-Ms. Jacqueline R. Mendoza

Tito David is Also a base in Anima Christi choir at St. Andrew, Daly City CA
Both of them are supporting me
Up rising Star-Ms. Jacqueline R. Mendoza

Directed by the late Mr. Jesse Pangilinan
Who passed away
Up rising Star-Ms. Jacqueline R. Mendoza

Supported with Mr. Prospero Luna
A Retired Comedian and actor in the Philippines
Up rising Star-Ms. Jacqueline R. Mendoza

Knew by my late father
Mayor Leonardo G. Mendoza
Up rising Star-Ms. Jacqueline R. Mendoza

Mayor of San Pascual, Batangas City, Philippines
Returning to FAME
Up rising Star-Ms. Jacqueline R. Mendoza

I would sing all throughout the Bay area
Had shows 
Up rising Star-Ms. Jacqueline R. Mendoza

Sang at some Filipino gathering in SF, CA
Concert on October 11, 1998: Outrage on Stage Launching my only Song-Through the Eyes of a Child 
Up rising Star-Ms. Jacqueline R. Mendoza

Would Sing in Karaoke beer house
At restaurants and parties in the bay area
Up rising Star-Ms. Jacqueline R. Mendoza

Sang in Westlake Shopping Center in Daly City, CA
Also sang in Serramonte Mall in Daly City, CA
Up rising Star-Ms. Jacqueline R. Mendoza

Met the Asia’s Song bird of the Philippines
Ms. Regine Velasquez
Up rising Star-Ms. Jacqueline R. Mendoza

And the Song Writer
Mr. Ogie Alcasid
Up rising Star-Ms. Jacqueline R. Mendoza

Tragic Car Accident happened
On October 11, 1999
Up rising Star-Ms. Jacqueline R. Mendoza

The late Director Jesse Pangilinan passed away
FAME disbanded
Up rising Star-Ms. Jacqueline R. Mendoza

As of now a client of Heart Soul’s True Hope
In North County, Daly City, California
Up rising Star-Ms. Jacqueline R. Mendoza

God took my singing career and He changed it to Poetry
He changed it to a harder one because I have to learn poetry but I’m having fun
Up rising Star-Ms. Jacqueline R. Mendoza


Premium Member Platonic Relationships

Platonic Relationships

Look at the 1st quarter moon of the 7th
Day of the 7th month in the naked sky.
Japan celebrating Tanabata festival
There! The two stars Vega and Altair
Vega neglecting her weaving and
Altair allowed the cows to stray.
Dereliction in the case infuriated their King
Vega and Altair separated by the Milky Way
Vega succeeded in arousing the sympathy
Was allowed to meet Altair once in a year
Provided no rain on the eve of seventh
To unite in the milky way-Scorpion region
On the bank of Amanogawa river.


Blinded by love like the stars Vega and Altair
In the Bard Kalidas’s epic poem Meghdootam.
So did lovelorn Yaksha in his duties to Kubera.
Dereliction in each case infuriated the kings.
Vega and Altair separated by the Milky Way
Yaksha expurgated by separation for a year.
From Alkapuri in the Himalayas to Ramgiri.

Prospero proved wiser expiating Ferdinand
By his log bearing as ‘trials of thy love’.
Reducing Miranda as ‘rich gift’ or ‘acquisition’
Forever as compensation to Ferdinand’s pains?
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Date 3-1-14
Dr. Ram Mehta
First Place Win in
Contest: Appreciate Platonic Relationship by Poet Undertaker

Explanations of foreign words in the poem:
Japanese “Tana” means a shelf in English and “bata” is a transformation of “hata” which 
means a loom
"weaving with the loom (bata) placed on the shelf (tana)",
One popular Tanabata custom is to write one's wishes on a piece of paper, and hang that 
piece of paper on a specially erected bamboo tree, in the hope that the wishes become true.

According to a Chinese legend, the two stars Altair and Vega,
Yakshas : name of the Kubera’s servant
Meghdootam: Megh (rainy clouds and Dootam means messenger)An epic poem written in 
Sanskrit in the year 400 A.D. by the great Indian Bard Kalidas – meaning cloud messenger
Ramgiri ; a hill near Nagpur in Central India
Alka: the name of the city in Himalayan region also known as Alkapuri
Kubera:  the God of Wealth in the Hindu mythology

the Amanogawa (River of Heaven),

Premium Member Remembering the Past To Poetry Soup

Tito David Rodriguez recruited me to Filipino American Multimedia Entertainment (FAME). He was my choir mate as a base at St. Andrew Catholic Church, Daly City. He and Tito Willie Totanes are my best supporters. When you call a person “late” it means the person passed away. The late director Jesse Pangilinan and Mr. Prospero Luna, a comedian actor and assistant of FAME. He was a very good friend of my late father Mayor Leonardo G. Mendoza who passed away, former mayor of San Pascual Batangas, Philippines. My loving mother is Ms. Dorothy Ann Ramirez to where I am staying right now by the Daly City Bart station, she can cook a good Filipino food. I was an Uprising Star at FAME when all of a sudden a tragic car accident happened on October 11, 1999 with my late best friend Ms. Adiel Rallos and she passed away, my left arm was crused to 41 pieces due to her car seat and was left to  coma for or 6 weeks or a month and two weeks. I was in 3 hospitals Stanford ICU, Seton Med but the prognosis at Seton was not good so I was brought to and St. Mary’s, SF where I had Speech Therapy (ST) Occupational Therapy (OT) and Physical Therapy (PT). The late director Mr. Jesse Pangilinan also passed away so the FAME disbanded. I previously met Ms. Regine Velasquez with her songwriter Mr. Ogie Alcasid on early 2000. I thought that God took away my singing career and replaced it with being a part of Heart and Soul’s True Hope at North County,  Daly City  with Mr. John Zamora as my Case/Social Worker and Mr. Chito Crisostomo M. D. as my Psychiatrist and with writing poetry- it’s therapeutic you know whatever feeling you have, all you need are a pen and a piece of paper and start writing how you feel. I am with “Poetrysoup.com” where I paid $150 for a lifetime member years ago because it increased as years passed by.  I was able to convey or deliver the messages to the people. I started with writing a couplet or a 2 lines poem, a Haiku or a 3 lines poem or a Quatrain or a 4 lines poem. When I think I’m ready to write longer words I jumped to learning Sonnet or a 14 lines poem.

Premium Member Prospero

To all I see, I bid a gracious hello.
I am a magician by trade, and my name is Prospero.
I was once Duke of Milan twelve years ago.
However, I was deposed by my treacherous brother Antonio.
With my daughter Miranda, on this island I now dwell.
Also, there is a spirit who goes by the name of Ariel.
I can also mention a creature half beast, half man.
This incorrigible soul goes by the name of Caliban.
I understand Antonio is aboard a ship at sea.
Some other adversaries keep him company.
Let me sink their ship in a storm, and have them come to me.

based on the play "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare


Premium Member Electron Herders

Electron herders, 
that's us. It began
earnestly late 20th century.
The first organic computers
using polymerase and qubits
came later. Weaponry
via numbers, words
magically appearing, 
telepathy. Measurements
in which the last significant digit
is the Other. However
immediately depleted
our resources were, 
antibiotics were always at the ready.
Forgetting what we knew, 
reverting to austerity
because in times of prosperity
we forgot to be austere.
It's the uncertainty principle
taken to the nth degree
where the bad god resides, 
Zeus, passionate, confused, obtuse.
Yes, we are electron herders
matter gatherers and shapers
of our time. Cancerous
cysts, irrational exuberance, 
collective experience, experiments
gone well or wrong, 
we were trying all along
to last forever. Flood and fire
saw to that.
Prospero was our answer
who threw his book
into the sea and wanted to be
mortal, meditative.
Find himself. We found
the world without the self
cornus to oxalis
orbitals and calculus
waves and particles
equally likely to be
within us as without us.

Premium Member Tanabata-W

Tanabata
Look at the 1st quarter moon of the 7th
Day of the 7th month in the naked sky.
There! The two stars Vega and Altair
Blinded by love like Yaksha & his beloved
In the Bard Kalidas’s epic poem Meghdootam.

Vega neglecting her weaving and
Altair allowed the cows to stray.
So did lovelorn Yaksha in his duties to Kubera.
Dereliction in each case infuriated the kings.
Vega and Altair separated by the Milky Way
And Yaksha from Alkapuri in the Himalayas to Ramgiri.
Yaksha expurgated by separation for a year.
Vega succeeded in arousing the sympathy
Was allowed to meet Altair once in a year
Provided no rain on the eve of seventh
To unite in the milky way-Scorpion region
On the bank of Amanogawa river.
Prospero proved wiser expiating Ferdinand
By his log bearing as ‘trials of thy love’.
Reducing Miranda as ‘rich gift’ or ‘acquisition’
Forever as compensation to Ferdinand’s pains?


Third place winner in
Contest: Your best Poem

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Explanations of foreign words in the poem:
Japanese “Tana” means a shelf in English and “bata” is a transformation of “hata” which 
means a loom
"weaving with the loom (bata) placed on the shelf (tana)",
One popular Tanabata custom is to write one's wishes on a piece of paper, and hang that 
piece of paper on a specially erected bamboo tree, in the hope that the wishes become true.
According to a Chinese legend, the two stars Altair and Vega,
Yakshas : name of the Kubera’s servant
Meghdootam: Megh (rainy clouds and Dootam means messenger)An epic poem written in 
Sanskrit in the year 400 A.D. by the great Indian Bard Kalidas – meaning cloud messenger
Ramgiri ; a hill near Nagpur in Central India
Alka: the name of the city in Himalayan region also known as Alkapuri
Kubera:  the God of Wealth in the Hindu mythology
the Amanogawa (River of Heaven),
Prospero, Ferdinand and Miranda- the character in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

The Absolute Wish

What Will Be,Will Come to Be...!
Kill Three Birds With One Stone,to Be Free...!
Sacred Fire Upon My Chest......
Do Thy Will...And Do It Best...!
Let That Pain Go Forth And Be....
Unto Those Who've Caused Thy Misery...!
The Names I Won't Say....
For You Know Them Very Well....
Go Forth Unto Them,Time Three.....
And Make Them Suffer The Same Exact Hell.....!
What Will Be....Will Come To Be.....!
Make Them All Suffer Three Times The Pain That They've Done Unto Me....!
Whether By Natural GOD'S GIVEN GRACE.....
Put These Vipers In Their Place...!
Whether TEMPEST,TSUNAMI, or....Even TORNADO......
Fulfill Thy Will With Such Powerful Bravado....!
Just Like Shakespeare's DUKE OF MILAN...PROSPERO....
Though I'm Not A Man....
Upon This Enchanted Island.....
I Be.....
A CONJURER'S DAUGHTER....A MAMBO....Is ME!
All I want Is Justice,But...More Than For Me.....!
But,FOR THE OTHERS WHO WERE WRONGED....NOW...As Well As Years,Decades,Besides....THE CENTURIES....!
Whether...TEMPEST,TSUNAMI,TORNADO,...EVEN EARTH QUAKE......
All We Want Is Justice Fulfilled To The Greatest By GOD'S Powerful Grace!
As MOSES DONE DID OVER THREE THOUSAND YEARS PAST.....
As QUEEN ESTER  DONE,ALSO....
IT'S ALL THAT I ASK...!
To Prevent A MUCH BIGGER MESS WORSE THAN WORLD WAR TWO....
I PRAY TO THE ALMIGHTY....YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO....!
EVEN IF YOU GOTTA DO AFTER NOAH BUILT THE ARK....
EVEN IF YOU HAVE TO TEAR THE WHOLE EARTH APART...!
IF THAT WHAT IT TAKES FOR ABSOLUTE PEACE....
THAN DO IT SOON...TO CAUSE WAR TO BE PERMANENTLY TO CEASE...!
IN ORDER TAKE US ALL TO THE PROMISED LAND....
THAT HIGHER DIMENSION,AWAY FROM THE EVILS OF MAN...!
WHAT EVER IT TAKES IN THE GREAT MOTHER'S NAME.....
GAIA TERRA...SO PEACE WILL FINALLY REIGN...!
WHAT EVER IT TAKES....!
FOR ALL OF OUR SAKES...!
PLEASE MAKE A WAY...!
That's All That I Have To Say...!
I Have Said My Say......

Ars Economica

The wheelbarrow of Prince Prospero
pushed straightaway, like an arrow
it's passengers a motley farrow
not worth much more than a sparrow
it's aim and goal so very narrow
'tis horrifying to the marrow

View of Death

How vast the view of Death!
Sure, it’s a certainty,
That's why many fear it, 
From children to adults, 
Are you first to admit?

How vast the view of Death!
Some long for the Reaper,
To save them from their pain, 
They think Death will cure them, 
But it would be in vain. 

How vast the view of Death!
Some think they can escape,
How cautious they will be, 
But from his icy grip,
Never could you be free. 

How vast the view of Death!
From the Old Man and Eye,
To the two lovers star,
Perhaps Prince Prospero,
Trust me, you won't get far.

Written on April 7th, 2022
Sponsored by Constance La France
Form M- Monchielle - New Poetry Contest

The Call of Venus


The Call to Venus

(A lone voice whispers as a ceremony begins)

Candles lit
In brazier pit

Like a reborn Prospero

Music playing 
As offerings 

Are lit

To summon the universe
And all who goes

To step in and commit
 
Guardians in
The Great In-Between

Guard us
And all our kin

From all unseen
Who flows

White lights
Bound
Around our homes

To guard against ghouls
From loosened tombs

Floating around like red balloons

We pray tonight 
For astral protection 
In all our rooms

As 
Candles lit
In brazier pits

Burn

With
Music playing 

As sandalwood offerings
And Christmas ferns

Are used as keys 
Of devotional angelic magic

To turn away

All who conspire 
And drink from the Devil's Urn

As we call to you
Venus
For protection 

As the Great Wheel
Turns

So
Come our sceptre-bearer of harmony 

And love to cope

Do ut de
Dum vivo 
Repleti spe

(‘I give that you may give.
As long as I live. Filled with hope.)

(C)
Copyright John Duffy

31 Espera

EsperA

Ano Novo,
Espero... 
Espero o momento da chegada 
com os cansaços 
e os ansiedades
de todas as chegadas... 

Ano Novo,
Espero a tua vinda 
a tua vinda, 
em dia de lua cheia. 

Ano Novo,
Hoje
A mente
[...], 
sempre duvidosa, 
desenha 
interrogações 
na 
espera do Ano Novo. 

Ano Novo,
Espero 
Enquanto deixo 
O coração aberto 
para entrares.

Feliz e Prospero
ANO NOVO

Narciso

Narciso

Dezembro desde sempre
é mês dos narcisos
a flor mais poetizada
desde sempre.

Narcisos, símbolo do 
renascer e da prosperidade
para o  bom e prospero trabalho
e para alcançar seus sonhos.

Sonha com o amor?
Cultive narcisos
sonha com mais
agradeça e sorria
junto com narcisos.

vivas ao dezembro,
vivas ao narciso
agora, em dezembro
com narcisos
faça mais e mais.

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