Along uncertain ways and valleys
In through existential highways
And multiple biways
Heading along in the uncertain rain
Wondering when the storms will come
Dawning suns and morning dusks
Playing along on ecstatic murmurings
Resolving to scale the heights of sublimity
Only to fall once again to human levels
Observing the path of the subdued life
Inside a tempestuous heart
Lies a fiery inferno of emotion
Never shown, never exhausted, never drained
Only to release and maniacally rise again
In abstract voices and uncertain cries
The soul begs for mercy and redemption
Of a life spent in quiet retrospection
And inward glances not easily spent
Looking down this road less travelled
The mind transversing a freeway
Life is such a flammable flower
Raging from the seed of the Lotus
Enlightenment a book, a travel, a lifetime away
When beaten paths are for beaten men
When shall one know the righteous way?
In uncertain times uncertain travels beckon
Forces of which one dare not follow
Within the heart an insatiable lust
That creative power can never touch
Harnessing the wind and funeral pyres of time
Wondering when the reaper might call
With unfurled, unbounded cries of heavenly recompense
The banner, the song, burst forth till skulls resonate
Snakes, recoiling, slithering in bounded leathery coils
A protean metaphor of symbolic abstractions
Of crimson colored eyes searching, gushing forth
A vomit of emotions in colorful hazes
The head in dazes
The mind in cognitive phases
The writers of old clamoring their celestial cries
Singing out to heavenly glories cloaked above
In analog, imaginative glances
Throwing stones at glass houses
Protocols of broken down bureaucratic propriety
The artists made their advance
The earthly places shaking from the murmur
Of androids with human souls
As the concentric cosmos
Relatively swirls beyond normal consciousness
And Buddha, Krishna, and Jesus shake hands
Dissolving into one another in pluralistic embraces
And the fountain of life is tasted by the masses
Drinking of the cup, aqua vitae
Flowed straight from the eternal vein
In the sanctity of the moment
Historical breakdowns and metaphysical enclosures
Wrapped in riddles and shrouded in acknowledged mysteries
All are one,
All are one,
All are one,
Amen.
The trinity of the explosion of the creation of the world,
The cherubim, the seraphim, and the nephilim
Of godly manifestations
Of the modes of the source
Rationally relating to human subjects
In eternal oneness, eros, and love
Love is the root of existence
Lust the foundation of being itself
Love related to lust related to love
Amen
Author notes
Option 10 for contest
Pretty abstract... but I like it.
A contest entry
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I am sorry but I have to DQ you. I disallowed option 10 a long time ago. It's important that you read ALL of the rules in ANY contest you enter. Again I am sorry and good luck to you in the future
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You know out of the whole lot of this poem this line stood out most for me...
"Life is such a flammable flower"
Never heard it refered to as that
Good luck in the contest
Great job -
Very well writen, Thanks for entering the contest.
Good Luck.
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i know exactly what you mean kind of
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Bravo!
Drizzle me and hand over a towel for I am drooling! Remarkable structure at abstract writing. Superb metaphors and variations of the other poetic devices
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LOLOLOL haha....
ok let's get serious now [puts on serious face]
i hate the word crimson. i don't quite know why. but i like the way you used it, so i guess it's ok. LoL. [i say this like if you were looking at me for approval hahaha.... i woke up in a good mood today.]
i like your random sporadic rhyme every now and then. it was cute.
perhaps you do need a shrink. cuz you are pssssyyyy-cho. no just kidding. i think. haha.
anywho.... when i was done reading i had to take a breath. i don't know. i just kinda felt out of breath. it was such a stream of thought that i don't know what else i was supposed to do when i was done. i feel i see a drop of all that you think of the universe - and i'm not sure i see it right the way you do.
hmmm... i liked it.
however, with your last three lines.... i beg to differ on that whole love is the root of existence.
how about the one night stands? i think... my personal opinion... LUST is the root of existence. but that's just me cuz i'm sick and twisted and in more need of a shrink than you.
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'multiple bi ways'
that line made me chuckle haha.... like a little girl. snickering at the word "bi"
ok it's thundering ugly and it's late so i'm going to have to finish this review later...
actually it's not that late. it's rather early. but still... i'm getting the evil eye from someone, so its time to get off the computer. and leave the room. Lol.
sooo goodnight!
will be back to finish reading tomorrow
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