Still waiting for you

Still waiting for you
10 January 2026
Courtesy Sophie Wilkins


In my dreams
the wilderness screams
It pulses
convulses
through ancient time revises
threads of what life is

We were once
breath of warriors
now pale dunce
we relay
a stark falsehood lest we may
break our barriers

Fear to mull
we breed the inept
Tight concept
driven through
generations of split hull
shunning what is true

From ember
I now remember
promises
before Fall
There are reasons to recall
beyond white noises

The throbbing
through dark matter’s ink
leaves my mind
grey yet pink
when the memories rewind
stories for sobbing

The heart yearns
for Adam to wake
sullen turns
grave mistake
I am beyond who is who
still waiting for you

Reading of the poem:
Lilith: I Remember Eden – Ashen coir

As the light enters our bosoms

As the light enters our bosoms
19 January 2025
Courtesy freepik.com


Tales, one winter, had to be told
of rivers twining of the old
where highest of heat meets the cold
where struck in the head he’s revealed

The Beast is given chance to sway
millions of men just charmed away
serpents slithering find a way
blackbirds flying in sky tremble

Trumpets will sound as he’d be sworn
while purple and black would be worn
their heads then lighter should be shorn
a ritual to be unveiled

A ceremony from times past
as black pope dark shadows would cast
dancing in jigs they would go fast
round and round in circles of blue

We face them now in squares of pink
Though the dark fears our minds would sink
we retrieve ourselves from the brink
where we were facing gaping wound

We’ll find a way to mend the rift
some place to cry and pause to lift
the hearts that weighed and turned adrift
as the light enters our bosoms


Written in the context of Ronovan writes Ovi poetry challenge using the word “lift” as inspiration. For more poems and information on the poetry form, follow this link: https://ronovanwrites.com/2025/01/15/ovi-poetry-challenge-83-lift-is-your-inspiration/

Reading of the poem:
Jocelyn Pook - Masked Ball

Internal flicker fed my hope

Internal flicker fed my hope
20 December 2024
Courtesy freepik.com


The blackbirds flying oh so high
over war torn landscapes they sigh
wings forming black waves in the sky
They replicate patterns on Earth

The world hurled out its wayward grief
It seemed there just was no relief
I looked at it in disbelief
Would I withstand what was in store?

I lay low in the leafy grass
body weighted like solid brass
eyes peering through the looking glass
would tomorrow hold new meanings?

My heart survived the black dismay
I kept the gloomy thoughts at bay
I piled upon me yellow hay
to make believe in new sunrise

Sun’s pallor shone at languid pace
to serve a day of deep disgrace
when men their horrors would not face
so the innocent paid the price

A thousand children were our shame
most surely we are all to blame
we saw them fall to deadly flame
now rubble and tears fill our hearts

I lift a world of red ember
a weight more than I remember
In a cold night of December
internal flicker fed my hope

Written in the context of Ronovan writes Ovi Poetry challenge using the word "remember" as inspiration. For the rules and more poems, please follow this link https://ronovanwrites.com/2024/12/18/ovi-poetry-challenge-79-remember-is-your-inspiration/

Reading of the poem:
Emel Mathlouthi - Ma Lkit Official Video

Humans united

Humans united

2 October 2020

Clad in iron frame

weary from the highs and lows

the traveler weeps

`

The separation

sum of all our misgivings

undulating pains

`

Look into my eyes

see the rivers of my soul

piercing into black

`

Unchained, flying free

a bluebird sings in my mind

melodies that haunt

`

From dead plains they rise

the songs of togetherness

echo of the Love

`

We come together

Breath of you through Heart of me

Humans united

`

Reading of the poem:

HUMAN’s Musics – A film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand / Composed by Armand Amar

The Woven Life 2 : Bubbles of liberty

The Woven Life 2 : Bubbles of liberty

19 March 2020

Courtesy Bojan Jevtic on Saatchi art

She wove conscientiously the points keeping in mind most of the time the greatest good of all. She knew that some of what she wove would not be witnessed in her time but in eons to come. Other parts of what she wove were for immediate results or results on the short or medium term. In the beginning it had been disappointing that the desires she had did not have an immediate resolution but she had learnt to accept this. She looked upon her task as a humanitarian one as she was weaving a better consciousness. She wondered how many out there were like her weaving a better series of connections into the collective consciousness.

 

Sometimes, her old shadows returned and she would need to stop the weaving during those days. That could mean no weaving for several days in a row. She always wondered whether her consciousness would still be connected so closely with the collective consciousness to affect it in a significant way or if these days of absence would have weakened the contact. Every time she had such doubts they were dispelled immediately when she returned to weave for the greatest good of all and saw the almost immediate results. She wondered how she could cope with her shadow selves to bring them out to the light and no longer have to sit in between all the time. This would allow her to keep weaving every day instead of having to make a pause.

 

One day she caught herself talking to one of her shadow selves that had strayed into the room. It was no longer lurking behind her as they always tended to do when they manifested, watching her, thinking she was unaware of their presence or pretending they thought that. She normally would only observe them and try to fill them with light but they would take cover, literally and refuse to be dissolved most of the time although she had been able to lighten a couple of them. Today however, she decided to talk to the one who had unwittingly strayed into the room.

 

  • Why do you need to provoke the advent of darkness, she said
  • Because that is what we are made of, she answered
  • But you are me and if you are me, you cannot be made of darkness for I am light
  • There is no light without darkness so therefore if you are light, we have to be darkness
  • Will you always exist? Is there no end to some of you?
  • Who knows? You have taken such liberty with the self that there is so much light. We have kept some to ourselves. It is our bubbles of liberty where we choose to express the colours grey and black. Are they not colours too? Why refuse them? Surely as an artist you should know that a palette must be complete? How would you paint the night without us? Or the ravens or the dark clouds if not for those colours?

 

She thought to herself that she must be right. She should perhaps leave them these bubbles of liberty.

 

Björk – jóga / State of Emergency

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loB0kmz_0MM

Supernova in making

Supernova in making

10 December 2017

 

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Courtesy wikipedia.org

 

Wildcard score

Hidden in the night

Throbbing core

Blinding door

Supernova in making

Silence beckons soft

 

Deltas spin

Around my bosom

Aching flowers

Waning hours

Serendipity watching

Renewed momentum

 

Tedium

Rearranging paths

Salted rain

Subdued pain

Explosions inside of me

Black hole takes over

 

 

Stepping Stars – David Arkenstone

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAsx6Q3Sq8M

Through impossibility

Through impossibility

9 September 2017

impossibility Marie claire Grace-Neutral-Landscape
Courtesy Marie Claire (Grace Neutral)

 

Talking birds

Flying through monsoon

Quick to swoon

Under moon

Her pallor accentuates

As the heart dilates

 

Wayward herds

They speak survival

Revival

Of rival

Plan simple black against white

Inclination fight

 

Unknown nerds

Working for planet

No regret

None to fret

Through impossibility

Align humans free

 

Reading of the poem:  

Impossibility panoramio com
Courtesy panoramio.com

From Yesterday – Thirty Seconds to Mars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpG7FzXrNSs

Remedy

Remedy

30 August 2017

Remedy George Redhawk
Courtesy George Redhawk

 

Image cut

On landscape of white

Sleek black ink

Trickeling

Down the white quill gyrating

Paper plane grating

 

Sink my thoughts

Tight little black knots

Chinese art

Subtle part

Finding the bud in the spots

Bloom of the morrow

 

Bring me snow

From ever rest bones

Pupil hones

Teacher’s tones

Valleys of music notes fly

The deserts’ ally

 

Wisp the hair

Starker the lashing

We will sing

Remedy

Voices between you and me

The chilly winds free

 

Reading of the poem : 

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Courtesy George Redhawk

 

 

Dogs of War – Blues Saraceno

Run on for a long time – Blues Saraceno

Carry me back Home – Blues Saraceno

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cypfadNtcXo

Morning optimism

Morning optimism

14 August 2017

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Courtesy erasmusu.com

The sunflowers hope

That mornings will turn brighter

So they stay in sun

 

Sunflowers hasten

Their desire locked in black

Seeds that stay inside

 

Morning optimism

Meets midday where sun will stride

To point of sojourn

 

Reading of the poem:  

Sunflowers-pinterest com
Courtesy pinterest.com

Rononvan’s weekly Haiku challenge with the words Hope and Stay. Rules here

Les tournesols – Jean Ferrat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7mt9x091uo

When the Angels cry

When the Angels cry

31 May 2017

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Courtesy Paige Mireles rosemm on deviantart.com

 

Darkness stood

A ground in sinking

Blaring black

Symbols drawn

Remnants of my pen inking

Contours of demise

 

We will rise

In the wings that flap

Tomorrows

Sails ahead

The heart in light like arrows

Integrity shot

 

Unveiled hot

Smoldering pits wake

Soul in stake

Of choices

The senseless balance forsake

When the Angels cry

 

Reading of the poem: 

Angels cry haserot angel The Blondera
Courtesy The Blondera

City of Angels – Thirty seconds to Mars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtk8ro_eJZE