Their bodies were robbed of free will

Their bodies were robbed of free will
8 January 2025
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Lily white scattered memories
played in my head wooden stories
contours so light for soul to tease
when why what, questions still burning

Inner turmoil kaleidoscope
like a drowning man thrown a rope
writings on the wall help me cope
whispers of thoughts rise to wake me

I start remembering the scene
The acting of it so obscene
replacement actors never seen
outer shell same, inner alien

Prior mindfulness in tatters
parasite that itself flatters
believing it is what matters
occupying a grudging host

A life stretched for mind to ensnare
to forget toil, to forget care
heart bereft, consciousness aware
something was lurking in shadows

Like ragdolls they were forced to act
unable to scream or react
the bond was like an imposed pact
their bodies were robbed of free will


Written in the context of Ronovan writes Ovi Poetry challenge using the word “aware” for inspiration. For more poems and the rules, follow this link https://ronovanwrites.com/2025/01/08/ovi-poetry-challenge-82-aware-is-your-inspiration/

Reading of the poem:
Within Temptation - Memories

Of lucid embrace transient phase

Of lucid embrace transient phase
16 April 2021
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Glory of new-found mystery
The rhythm of the feet now changed
Embracing magic once estranged
Bodies melted in ecstasy;

Like long lost pagan symphony
The moon the clouds in night did chase
Fervent dancers in trembling daze
They locked their arms in restless link
Skies defined them in magic ink
Of lucid embrace transient phase

Reading of the poem:
Lonely – Cosmic Balance
Based on challenge by Ronovan Writes using the word “Chase” in line C of the decima.
In brief, for a Décima, there are 10 lines of poetry that rhyme and there must be 8 syllables per line.
There is a Set Rhyming Pattern we must stick to: ABBAACCDDC or ABBA/ACCDDC.
For more information or to view other contributions, please follow the link here
Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 53: (CHASE) in the C rhyme line. | ronovanwrites

The Prison Planet

The Prison Planet

15 May 2017

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They hailed them

Creatures of the dark

Flailing heart

Empty souls

The strings that other controls

Bodies for rental

 

Game mental

Cowering shadows

Knowledge grows

From the light

We hold forever insight

Future that hovers

 

Statistics

Probabilities

My mind tease

Soul appease

The oncoming wave that frees

The Prison Planet

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Never in the Prison of their Stars – Bvdub

 

Blossoms of your breath

Blossoms of your breath

16 March 2017

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Haughty mare

 

In riddles I bare

Heart to swear

Hard to tear

Patched through dragons entering lair

A bosom to spare

 

Soul’s delight

Gathers me insight

See the light

In twilight

When lovers breathe through the night

Bodies’ trance in flight

 

June in hay

Summer’s haunting day

Ghost of May

Sudden death

On grounds of convenience lay

Blossoms of your breath

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Let’s Meet – Michelle Gurevich

Blue Eyes Unchanged – Michelle Gurevich

My familiar unfamiliar – Michelle Gurevich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiRdKt3enhY

Shadows of our kiss

Shadows of our kiss

8 November 2016

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Sheer beauty

Your sun in my rain

The trickle

Of rainlight

Feeding us the dewdrops slight

Trace for our pillows

 

Highs and lows

Tears of sorrow ne’er

Old veneer

Covets fear

The brush a stroke of glazing

Sun soaked frames lazing

 

Lizard stance

Our bodies slow dance

Shimmering

Quivering

Into remnants of the sheen

Hands with fingers keen

 

The unseen

Plays upon mindsets

Carved in stone

Forged alone

Invisible touch now prone

To garner pure doubt

 

Loud and stout

Cherry lips twitching

Rolled in pout

Rules to flout

Amusement a new party

The laugh now hearty

 

Pure delight

The glimpse of your sight

Conjoining

Lines forming

Heart no longer deforming

Shadows of our kiss

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Ode to… – Rachel Yamagata

Meet me by the Water – Rachel Yamagata

Falling in Love Again – Rachel Yamagata

 

All is in now what is in sight

All is in now what is in sight

19 September 2016

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Like dislocated entities

Writhing in a mass of bodies

Identities in the worries

The sum of all our fears empties

 

Flailing pieces of past that tease

A present tense that would bid ease

Steadfast the falling memories

Uncover more than barren trees

 

Within bosom a dwindling light

Forging the strength of lone willow

Dawn rises after dark of night

 

Forgetting purple of twilight

Concentrating on the wane glow

All is in now what is in sight

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Adagio – Lara Fabian [Cinematic]

I will Love Again – Lara Fabian [Cinematic]

Tomorrow is a Lie – Lara Fabian [Cinematic]

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

The scent of musk and jasmine

The scent of musk and jasmine

17 September 2016

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I feel your fingers

Reaching out through the wind chimes

That desert breeze moved

 

The play of promise

From elevation to drop

An uneasy road

 

Integer constant

The wholeness of your spirit

Containment an art

 

Sensitivity

Outreach of the slow goose bumps

Your hand on my back

 

Old movements unlearned

Reacquiring sensations

Delving into Heart

 

Olfactory load

The scent of musk and jasmine

As our bodies blend

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Song from a Secret Garden – Secret Garden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ivDvMkWQ2c

Shells of Flames

Shells of Flames

5 August 2016

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In glory we set the purpose of Flames

The battlefield signed with blood of the hosts

The hearts we forget in thrill of the games

The endless confined by flags that mind posts

 

Now laden regret the tears of the Thames

For the bodies lined the conquests one boasts

Hearts aid and abet the hand that them maims

A closure to fret horizon of ghosts

 

Pray tell me now clear where do rivers flow

When thick with the blood they ravage valleys

I harbour no fear of underground glow

 

Oncoming the flood of tears that we know

The hearts that we smear in night-clad alleys

Shells of Flames in bud that silent we grow

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Back to You – Brett Anderson & Emmanuelle Seigner

 

Unfolding mysteries spin

Unfolding mysteries spin

11 July 2016

 

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Three fingers

Woven in the skin

Define me

Pink contours

The flash seen without detours

As the heat rises

 

Still glances

As the ship glides on

The icebergs

Illusion

Above and below now bound

The law of fusion

 

Hot and cold

Term me dynamics

Balance point

Zero stance

Two heads one bodied soul joint

As the wizards dance

 

Dead freedom

Measures of the sleep

Company

False we keep

Lulling us into the fields

Where orphans will weep

 

Writhing frames

The wilting will slain

Our bodies

Fallen stars

Mummies preserved where we’d lain

Tucked into the folds

 

Death akin

To ecstasies’ flames

Subtle grounds

My mind hounds

Unfolding mysteries spin

A blue heart to win

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Uloin – Tenhi

Näkin Laulu (1997 version) – Tenhi

Haaksi – Tenhi

 

De nos chairs réunies éternel reposoir / Of our flesh united eternal altars

De nos chairs réunies éternel reposoir

(Ce poème écrit sous la forme de sonnet occitan en Alexandrin est traduit en anglais plus bas ou ici)

1 mai 2016

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Les distances anoblies aux lisières de l’émoi

Que le cœur étreint fort lors le cerveau médit

Surannées établies les limites de ce moi

Vieil orgueil en soi mort que l’intérieur prédit

 

Règle de base rétablie la fusion unique loi

Enchevêtrement sort que destin expédie

Résistance affaiblie mollesse de bon aloi

Que la danse de nos corps à ce futur dédie

 

Je vis d’illusions fermes flottant d’entre viscères

Des rêves bleus infinis suintant en moi le soir

Si ambigus les termes de ces mots qui lacèrent

 

Paroles creuses impunies le géant arrosoir

Inondant cœurs qui germent comme dans une vaste rizière

De nos chairs réunies éternel reposoir

 

Lecture du poème: 

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Of our flesh united eternal altars

(Translation of an Italian sonnet written in French. Original version above or here)

1 May 2016

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Distances ennobled in the fringes of emotion

The heart hugs hard while the brain slanders

Outdated established the limits of this me

Old pride in oneself death that the inside predicts

 

Basic rule restored the merger only law

Entanglement fate that destiny expedites

Weakened resistance pliability a good sign

That the dance of our bodies dedicates to this future

 

I live of firm illusions floating between viscera

Infinite blue dreams seeping into me at night

So ambiguous the terms of these words that lacerate

 

Empty unpunished words the giant watering can

Flooding hearts that germinate like a vast paddy field

Of our flesh united eternal altars

 

Reading of the poem: 

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Love is a mystery – Ludovico Einaudi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSVvE1R1348