As the rooster clucked
1 June 2024
Princes hauled
into golden crown
Lions mauled
at sundown
Statehood a renewed duress
the night shares witness
Kingdoms bear
the weakened bloodstream
thinning hair
revealing
honey struck head repealing
a feverish dream
Rooster hen
glowers in the den
Lions sway
in dismay
Camelia early plucked
as the rooster clucked
Reading of the poem:
Where Spirits Sleep - Eric Heitmann and Amy Wallace
All rage now vanquished
23 September 2020
Seething energy
the fury of elements
breaks into a storm
Heavy lightning strikes
Nature no longer passive
shares its violence
All furor unleashed
in sync with nature’s madness
heavens turn ink black
Churned into frenzy
seascapes heave with creeping waves
overcoming land
Waters once stagnant
restore passion of their roots
Marshes spill over
Ferocity speaks
intensity at its peak
in quaking mountains
The heart follows storms
A pyre for minds alights
magmatic, alive
Wistful rain falls fast
upon the brooding landscapes
reluctant soothing
Gradual easing
Slow trickle of honey flows
into my bosom
The quiet restored
Ire a ghost of the past
All rage now vanquished
Reading of the poem:
Michael Kiwanuka – Love and Hate
Written in the context of Ronovan writes weekly Haiku Challenge using the words “Slow” and “Fury” or their synonyms. Rules and other poems can be found here: https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/09/21/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-324-furyslow/
The Cleopatra Tales 1: Divine Union – Hieros Gamos
The last of the ranks
5 November 2016
Throbbing vein
At every temple
Roots remain
Unseen patch
From the unwarranted match
Hues of red and blue
Give me clue
Of your fading beat
Instill heat
Slash defeat
Off my dictionary’s sheet
Pages for the white
Compose light
With mystical sounds
The heart’s bright
Sunken grounds
Arena for the giving
Life in forgiving
My soul sling
Cast around your frame
Uplifting
Unweaving
Webs of the dark bereaving
Minefields of the scars
We erect
Future imperfect
Tense regret
Of days wound
Into black knot of neglect
Dark feast for the flies
Sundown eyes
The berating skies
Taunting tinge
Feet unhinge
Slipping onto wooden planks
The last of the ranks
Reading of the poem:
Collide – Rachel Yamagata
The Reason Why – Rachel Yamagata
Horizon – Rachel Yamagata
Of heavenly bloom
5 July 2016
Moods broken
In rain-lit showers
Tireless strife
The orchard
Condensed lily white flowers
Their scent packed in mind
To be kind
Is more than a thought
The premise
Inner spin
In battle no will to win
Only outcome Love
High above
Flags of white flutter
In crossroads
The junctions
Preliminary choices
When you heed voices
Blue highways
They sizzle with cold
Marine flames
Suppression
The fight against oppression
Undercurrent breed
Beast you feed
Tames the known hunger
The unknown
A shadow
Growing in the undergrowth
Downtrodden old oath
Bear no gloom
The cells replicate
Ancient tales
Forgotten
Aerial messengers will bear
To the dragon’s lair
Chest to touch
Boon of loyalty
Kiss to blow
Seed to sow
The roots bear the majesty
Of heavenly bloom
Reading of the poem:
Against all odds – Phil Collins
Another day in Paradise – Phil Collins
In the air tonight – Phil Collins
Wind of change – Scorpions
Tune short waves the composite and plain
14-15 November 2015
Come pose me life’s fires, rhythm me soul
Square my chords amidst sixteen circles of eight gipsies
.
Let purple music be my sunrays
As fog protects the crops be the snow that covers green
.
In structure of sunflowers’ meadows
Make me within their darkest seeds intermittent light
.
Scorch me, piece me fractal, grow me whole
Stroboscopic blue meets the red when skies kiss poppies
.
Stack me in cabins, save me arrays
Bounty for one and for all let your waves be my spleen
.
Scatter me four points cardinal knows
Blend, rise my Arabic and Indian roots into might
.
.
Tune short waves the composite and plain
Purple, blue, green, red axis twine and twirl to tropics
.
Searching the skies discover pipelines
Where angels crossing Hearts mirror horizons that glow
.
Three walk away by one in the west
Their curves and their sways shoot into one growing mission
.
End fake unions may they not complain
As above angels so below only Love mimics
.
Shine now through me the one that defines
Under skies of the North the only Love that will flow
.
Three walk by one into sparrows’ nest
Sub dues of the mighty, the unholy transmission
.
Bond – Fuego
Bond – Korobushka
Bond – Explosive
Bond – Shine
Come speak to Heart again Eleven
11 November 2015
Come speak to Heart again Eleven
Bursting open the seams we were so careful to Sew
Criss cross on Heart, Eleven no More
Breaking the waves of my mind surging into the Blue
As Heart had opened then to Seven
Of numbers the farthest and the closest I would Know
The whispers unsaid laying on Floor
Unbroken the Heart which sees path ahead every Hue
Build me the ladders that I once Knew
Feet glad in tin foil gravitate through the Twelve Stars
Listen to stories spawn Seven Years
Endings began for a New Dawn to spin Golden Age
Hark to these Seven, oh how they Flew
Unchained are my Blue soul’s wings, now undone are these Scars
Glory uncoiling end of these Fears
Oozing Red leaks through Cold past as she rewrites the Page
Faith in Heart was not born for Rummage
Shatter the idols of a Stony Age’s Beliefs
One by the Sword Dies, one by Word Lives
Red are the mindless Meadows losing the Green Treasures
Shifting into Poles, unheard Damage
Scattered are the Roots like Twenty three corals Red Reefs
Twenty thousand Bees then built their Hives
What the Heart knows, Only Love, Only the Heart Measures
Kingdom of Heaven: The Mystic Dream
Kingdom of Heaven – Knight Hospitaller
Kingdom of Heaven – What is Jerusalem worth?
Celtic Woman – The Voice
Stillness in Tremors
7 November 2015
Flowing in stillness
Reaching out from within split
Backward ascension
Kicking off the weights
Upward motion redemption
Resumed progression
Clocks struck again twelve
In between the two lightbeams
Four met the seven
Look as bubbles rise
Blue and Red in yellow freed
When Time flies to right
The Four takes to White
Rotating around the core
Shifting from axis
Hurtling through the light
Closer to the centre’s pole
Stillness in Tremors
Twin journeys to One
Root yourself in the Stillness
Through fires twine One
Stive Morgan – In my Dreams
Stive Morgan – The Witch Dance
Stive Morgan feat Moon Haunter – Merging of Two Hearts
Stairway to the Skies
3 November 2015
Treasures forgotten
The well brimmed with yellow sands
That whispered in nights
.
I know the stories
Of well where a pitcher grew
Upon ivy’s roots
.
.
In that well yellow
Transformed into purest gold
Midas I anew
.
.
The touch of the rain
Scintillating in the sparks
Brimmed with Eternal
.
.
Weary travellers
From the East and from the West
Drank from the pitcher
.
.
Many distressed souls
From the North and from the South
Ate from the ivy
.
.
My flesh and my wine
Iridescent offerings
Multiplied in Love
,
.
Multiply me whole
There are hungers in this world
I will ever quench
.
.
Distribute my soul
Let it be solace’s lace
Shimmering blue veil
,
.
Strew me upon hills
Gather me in the valleys
Stir me in rivers
.
.
Climb through me mountains
Let me be your blue ladder
Stairway to the Skies
.
.
Free my airborne hair
Build upon my very Heart
Pathway to the Gods
,
There are different wells within your heart – Hafiz
We have not come here to take prisoners- poetry by Hafiz
Hafiz – If it is not too dark
Three, three like a tree
2 October 2015
.
Three of ecstasy
On my window sill knocking
They demand of me
.
Three hum like a bee
With light in me pervading
Third reality
.
Three engulfing me
Darkness its terrain losing
Lost fraternity
.
.
Three wings high and free
Words without sound now bringing
Insomniac spree
.
Three, three like a tree
With roots in the Earth growing
Branches lost in me
.
Three, three, three just see
Staircase in me that winding
Spells eternity
.
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