Submissions by Ahavati
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Proprio Vos Sanguine Pasco
)O( Totality
Lunar plum, umbra'd poppy
sunset's bloodshot eye;
port wine features beckon
our sleeping inner child
God of War advances –
blazing lesser distance
shields our solar plexus
defensively resistant
Mercurius stations --
courting retrograde;
consort Larunda flushes
orange to marigold red
This isolated collective
such combative energy
merges now with Creation --
One Blood-born totality
Reveling in completion
until veins bleed luminesce
stiffling...
sunset's bloodshot eye;
port wine features beckon
our sleeping inner child
God of War advances –
blazing lesser distance
shields our solar plexus
defensively resistant
Mercurius stations --
courting retrograde;
consort Larunda flushes
orange to marigold red
This isolated collective
such combative energy
merges now with Creation --
One Blood-born totality
Reveling in completion
until veins bleed luminesce
stiffling...
#moon
#night
#humankind #magic
#humankind #magic
833 reads
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Leah
Fathers never imagine cradles
rooting as crypts;
wooden limbs returning
as conduits through dirt
to rock in the bough
Worn monument of teddy bear
its fur skeletal from handling;
last button-eye dangling
its all-seeing childhood gone
A vast nothingness reverberates
through an empty chest;
her stripped Hospice mattress
rested on a ribbed mindset:
What if, what if, what if ...
rooting as crypts;
wooden limbs returning
as conduits through dirt
to rock in the bough
Worn monument of teddy bear
its fur skeletal from handling;
last button-eye dangling
its all-seeing childhood gone
A vast nothingness reverberates
through an empty chest;
her stripped Hospice mattress
rested on a ribbed mindset:
What if, what if, what if ...
#father
#children
#death
861 reads
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Flashback: Acid 101
Vietnam: American soil
maroon(ed) southern roots
twisted around a civil war;
Nixon and tin soldiers
lay four dead in Ohio.
John F Kennedy: membrane
sliding down the limousine
shattering the American dream;
a souvenir of pavement
by way of conspiracy.
Martin Luther King, Jr: jawbone
disjointed, hanging by a tendon
cupped in the hand of a friend;
its severed skull conjuring
Injustice on the balcony.
Woodstock: retaliation's skin...
maroon(ed) southern roots
twisted around a civil war;
Nixon and tin soldiers
lay four dead in Ohio.
John F Kennedy: membrane
sliding down the limousine
shattering the American dream;
a souvenir of pavement
by way of conspiracy.
Martin Luther King, Jr: jawbone
disjointed, hanging by a tendon
cupped in the hand of a friend;
its severed skull conjuring
Injustice on the balcony.
Woodstock: retaliation's skin...
#corruption
#politics
#religion #historical
#religion #historical
763 reads
5 Comments
Mountaintop
We celebrate distance as a summit -
release potential embrace
for a future moment to create
Letting go of anxiety, absence
envelopes Us, our fetal dreams
gestating, fluidly forming;
the curvature of their spines
unfurling in gelatinous forests
of vesseled bone and pulp
Calcifiying cartilage into stems
they extend the furrowed depth -
their pods now fodder for earth
From ashes to ashes, dust to dust
we depart to return, alternating choice
until our roots are terra firma
...
release potential embrace
for a future moment to create
Letting go of anxiety, absence
envelopes Us, our fetal dreams
gestating, fluidly forming;
the curvature of their spines
unfurling in gelatinous forests
of vesseled bone and pulp
Calcifiying cartilage into stems
they extend the furrowed depth -
their pods now fodder for earth
From ashes to ashes, dust to dust
we depart to return, alternating choice
until our roots are terra firma
...
#dreams
#spiritual
#learning
868 reads
15 Comments
The Art of Fine Dining
I
A half-circled sun of yolk --
its soft liquid rolling over-easy
onto a pineappled-orange horizon
Wind scrapes the earth
as a butter knife over toast
while grape-jellied plumes
steamed from half-light
perking-a-pot of Sumatra gold
Window sheers became banners
pristine white in surrender;
caterpillar oceans reflected
light and shadowed movement
across the ochred room
Harbored candles shape-shifted
dying upon a basin of bed
and crushed...
A half-circled sun of yolk --
its soft liquid rolling over-easy
onto a pineappled-orange horizon
Wind scrapes the earth
as a butter knife over toast
while grape-jellied plumes
steamed from half-light
perking-a-pot of Sumatra gold
Window sheers became banners
pristine white in surrender;
caterpillar oceans reflected
light and shadowed movement
across the ochred room
Harbored candles shape-shifted
dying upon a basin of bed
and crushed...
#love
#romantic
997 reads
15 Comments
All-American Immigrants
Let freedom flay
our gluttonous memory
Replay forgotten history;
an infant survives only
by fleeing his country
Religious freedom
birthed on new soil
of humble beginnings--
natives opening hands
as wings to immigrants
Let it sever callous minds
greed, apathy
self-serving hypocrisy
resource-driven profit
over aesthetic beauty
Let freedom flay
our ignorant...
our gluttonous memory
Replay forgotten history;
an infant survives only
by fleeing his country
Religious freedom
birthed on new soil
of humble beginnings--
natives opening hands
as wings to immigrants
Let it sever callous minds
greed, apathy
self-serving hypocrisy
resource-driven profit
over aesthetic beauty
Let freedom flay
our ignorant...
#religion
#spiritual
#redemption #politics
#redemption #politics
1150 reads
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Whole-heartedly
He knows me
These incantations, quirks
spells of isolated retreat
process besetting fantasy
Chameleon he becomes
when often I need him most
Knight in shining Truth;
a variant deviant of identity:
Pirating circumstantial adventure
Psycotic Masterminding brilliantly
Mother Mary Letting it Be
Sci-fi trekkie Lost in Space
Anarchitect of boyhood schemes
True to Himself in all ways...
These incantations, quirks
spells of isolated retreat
process besetting fantasy
Chameleon he becomes
when often I need him most
Knight in shining Truth;
a variant deviant of identity:
Pirating circumstantial adventure
Psycotic Masterminding brilliantly
Mother Mary Letting it Be
Sci-fi trekkie Lost in Space
Anarchitect of boyhood schemes
True to Himself in all ways...
#devil
#angels
#spiritual
#aliens
#philosophical
1063 reads
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Acorn
Be patient in opening
for 'Nature's first green'
Acorn, your golden root
twisting invisibly underfoot;
Herald death instead: summer --
its scorched scarecrow shriveled
reigning rows of cracked sod
under abandoned nests of crow
Welcomed by autumn's bijou;
true citrine, ruby-fired blue
shedding her legacy of skin
to bury your amber hull
Pray for that frozen grave
overlooked by foraging squirrels;
sleep until the frigid thaw
severs winter's umbilical cord
For to survive time as...
for 'Nature's first green'
Acorn, your golden root
twisting invisibly underfoot;
Herald death instead: summer --
its scorched scarecrow shriveled
reigning rows of cracked sod
under abandoned nests of crow
Welcomed by autumn's bijou;
true citrine, ruby-fired blue
shedding her legacy of skin
to bury your amber hull
Pray for that frozen grave
overlooked by foraging squirrels;
sleep until the frigid thaw
severs winter's umbilical cord
For to survive time as...
#trees
#summer
#winter
#fall
#spring
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A Father he is
to many strays meandering
within survival's shallow breath
A limited resource
snagging the dying kitten
from the mire of grave
Graciously spending his last penny
on antibiotics for congestion
food easing distended bellies
Shelter from the elements
rubber totes and blankets
fresh water for the weary
A Father he is to a multitude
of four-legged creatures
guided by the Universe
to a home for the homeless
seeking nothing in Life
save all he has to give:
Love,...
within survival's shallow breath
A limited resource
snagging the dying kitten
from the mire of grave
Graciously spending his last penny
on antibiotics for congestion
food easing distended bellies
Shelter from the elements
rubber totes and blankets
fresh water for the weary
A Father he is to a multitude
of four-legged creatures
guided by the Universe
to a home for the homeless
seeking nothing in Life
save all he has to give:
Love,...
#love
#kindness
#dogs
#cats
#animals
832 reads
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Chambered in Love
When content
you rise in confidence
above deep dramatics;
an innate compass beckons
despite petty buffeting;
your own actions
are more important
over those of others;
you recognize negatives
are merely borders
manifesting detours
Realize everything and one
is here to nudge
your directional course;
possess no second thoughts
nor desire beyond
what you already own
When importance centers ...
you rise in confidence
above deep dramatics;
an innate compass beckons
despite petty buffeting;
your own actions
are more important
over those of others;
you recognize negatives
are merely borders
manifesting detours
Realize everything and one
is here to nudge
your directional course;
possess no second thoughts
nor desire beyond
what you already own
When importance centers ...
#love
#strength
#gratitude #admiration
#gratitude #admiration
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Editor in Chief
of all things
He is
Strengthens
weakened wordsmithery
Straightens grammatical slips
as crooked crowns
for light to shatter
their misplaced dolor
into a billion shards
of written color
He doesn't tame strays
allows metaphors to escape
from a page's confines
honors nonconformed originality
Not-so-subtle Analogies ...
He is
Strengthens
weakened wordsmithery
Straightens grammatical slips
as crooked crowns
for light to shatter
their misplaced dolor
into a billion shards
of written color
He doesn't tame strays
allows metaphors to escape
from a page's confines
honors nonconformed originality
Not-so-subtle Analogies ...
#love
#universe
#faith
#spiritual
#philosophical
866 reads
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Stillness
We move the speed of presence --
no moment better or less
by what is taken or left in growth
Poetry imitates natural being
no value heightened or reduced
for brevity or expanded length
It's a Spirit, feeling beyond
beating existence of word cavities
excavating marrow from space. . .
fertilizing bones of cell
into that first breath of Poem
inseminating the womb of us;
secrets of the Universe
lie not in the...
no moment better or less
by what is taken or left in growth
Poetry imitates natural being
no value heightened or reduced
for brevity or expanded length
It's a Spirit, feeling beyond
beating existence of word cavities
excavating marrow from space. . .
fertilizing bones of cell
into that first breath of Poem
inseminating the womb of us;
secrets of the Universe
lie not in the...
#love
#universe
#spiritual
#evolution
#philosophical
958 reads
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DU Poetry : Submissions by Ahavati