esoteric

HEAD

Quick, quick, quick. Slow.
Too fast now.
You take instruction well.
Don't let that go to your head.
That's not my job.
What's yours?
Elusive. Speak, damn it.
I retract, too harsh...
Expect trailer trash.
Brash.
Learn your words,
I compel education.
Fascism, you say,
Judgmental, I say.
Agree/Disagree
Stalemate,
Chess:
Rooks, Knights, Pawns
...Your Queen has fallen.
Crash.
The Poem is over.

thank you afriendoftina great entry..

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FATAL ATTRACTION
(A Season's Ender)

Worms crawling in the grounds
As Spring slowly wokes up
And when she opened her eyes
She felt them wiggling down her spine.
Tickling her to death, confused but she laughed!
The morning sun beckons her
Urging her to get up, to rise and multiply

Should she marry the dwarfy serpents?
Oh, but they had no bones to keep her satisfied!
She wondered if they could father
A handful of lush greens and petals?
Bah! That they are cannibals
According to folklores and legends and the likes.
Will they fed on the children or her for that matter?
What to do?
What to do?

And so she kept on musing
While the sensation kept burrying her
Away from the beacon of bright rays above
Her laughter faded as she's consumed with wretch
Leisurely, from the inside...
Spring slowly died.

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thank you OxyMoronicMe for a fantastic entry..

Posted in my poems already, but this is indeed a fresh write that I will add as my second entry.

FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION

In sotto voce, a stricken tone
We have lost it all
The trials and the fears we’ve known
In dark, the cabal  


They regard me as nothing
In their static gaze
They look not at me, through me
Into the obscurity


I can feel their eyes, like blade on grindstone
I am the blade that cannot pierce
And rusted by many years  


I am nothing, claw and tooth
I am nothing, so are you  


The holder of the key
In transcendent debris
Stardust leaking from mouth
As all avian life flies south  


No clemency from the rain
No refuge from the disdain
No storm to relieve the calm
No pain, for which I’ve longed
No glass I yearned to shatter
No rungs to climb the ladder
No cage that I seek to escape
No way I could be so vain  


I am nothing, through and through
I am nothing, I am you

In the Boulevard

Blue skies turned gray
With clouds of dust
So in God I trust
My life

I heard thunder in the distance
And paid no attention
But in an instant
My whole world would turn upside down
Knocked me down
When the boom shakes the roofs and walls
It makes you hit the floor
Sounds I never heard before
Because the first thought I had was:
God’s second coming!
So I had been told in church

But this was no religious experience
This was the opposite
The antithesis of peace and love
Synonymous with hate and war
When all you can say is Jesus!
As the ceaseless rumbling
Shatters everything to pieces
And you pray that nothing hits you

All that just within the first few minutes

Was it a reckoning of all my sins?
Or was it just a warning if I don’t behave
Another life a war enslaves?
But the shockwaves had just begun
When it all erupts like hellfire
A demon choir cackling
A massacre had come to town
Leaving innocent dead on the streets

This is where I was quick on my feet
Oh you bet I ran for my life
(Literally and figuratively)
No time to think but rely on instinct
And perhaps this where the miracle
Or anomaly for those nonbelievers
Came in to play

Caught in the crossfire
Between army and guerilla fighters
(Neither gave a fuck about casualties)
Their fire ceased for several seconds
Enough for me to run those hundred feet
To get to my grandmother’s arms
And lock ourselves at home
Until the curfew was over
Because soon
The vicious tanks would roll by in the boulevard
And they would wreak havoc

Allow

Had it been another mistake
made twice, I'd have pulled
myself out. Had I the foresight
to paint the picture of my
harrowing decisions, I'd
have thought of the price.

Let alone the failure of a life
once self-driven, conceited.
What would have been
the right choice at the time?
I can picture it now, there I am
without the point of ice.

Had it have been a dream
I'd have dismissed it as such.
But this, was vision.. passed
from His throne; it's time to
atone for a life of wrongdoing
and my repentance be pure
in heart, I'm falling apart at the
seams, terrified of inescapable
dreams; without Christ a man is
incomplete, obsolete.

That harrowing spiral into darkness
and despair, that left me cuffed,
detained. I turned to God when I did
and not a moment passes where I'm
not in remorse, reminiscent.

The further I go the stronger the
sense of the Holy Spirit, I hold it
nearest, in the clearest of vision
with intense stress comes
intense revelation, this is my
testimony... I, am but a humble
servant of the throne. In this
life we atone for the suffering
felt in many, that unnamed feeling
is really just the presence of God.

- Testify

I'm Broken

I’m broken
Fractured in the place underneath the core
Where the structure of existence and foundation lie
Where the texture of abstract thought has torn

It’s the phase when faith and creed are shaken
Reveling in the freedom of what the revelation brought
Wrought ceaselessly by the eons of perilous times
When then the vain and futile plans have come to naught

It’s the sinister void of all reason and purpose
The rupture in the framework of the mind
Slivering away, slowly caving in, unreeling
Till all the unholy fears are lived and wholly realized

Conflicted amid the ruins of lust and judgment
At the site where reflection has lost its drive
I’m frayed deep within the heart and spirit
That I love and loathe all of it at the same time

But still I strive to mend my errant ways
Trying to make some sense of it of all
Reticent and remorseful for the wasted days
Withered away in shattered pieces that took their toll

And yet the more I ponder the more I become flawed
The façade of phantom memories remain unspoken
Like gods and monsters at the table patiently awaiting
For the tipping point, unbalanced where I am broken

some of the best poetry i've seen was posted for this comp. to be fair i'm sending it to public vote

crimsin said:thank you KDAmB and Missy wonderful entries..

Thank You Brenda and all fellow members and voters! My first ever comp success. There were much better ones as well also deserving. Thanks once again All!! 🎉 🎉
Cheers 🍻
KDAmB ☺

thank you to all who voted.

congratulations KDAmB

Congratulations, KDAmB!