Tank you Tyr-Ziu Saxnot!
This is Great to start a day from reading your poetry.
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Tank you Tyr-Ziu Saxnot!
This is Great to start a day from reading your poetry.
Indifferent alike to praise or blame
Give heed, O Muse, but to the voice Divine
Fearing not injury, nor seeking fame,
Nor casting pearls to swine.
(A.Pushkin)
Life, Love, Truth, 3 gems
Shall I Remember Father's Longing Soul
I'm tired of living in this ancient dark hell,
With evil, sins and smells of eating hate.
Shall I journey to much better wastelands afar
An escape before death proves me too late?
I'll race into the forests of pain and gloom,
Seeker of Life's longings and great treasures.
No fear of the unknown hand and waiting doom,
An adventurer chasing deep love and pleasures!
Or take the next fork to lands far and unknown,
A risk worthy of all my hot, flowing blood.
Each path another clue my mind blessedly shown.
Into my searching heart each a river in flood.
This valley holds deep my father's longing soul.
This farm won, he paid in sweet blood its high toll!
R.J. Lindley
May 20TH 1983
18 U.S. Code § 2381-Treason Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
Life, Love, Truth, 3 gems
A Religion That MURDERS All That Oppose Its Course
Expand your horizons they say, as we righteously dread.
Punitive actions given for words we long ago said.
Wise up and know such enemies live within our midst.
Those traitors putting our names upon a punishing list.
Do not fear such hiding and lowlife coward's secret plans.
Unite and record they and their insidious deeds.
Stay the course, honor truth and fight the good fight.
Teach fear is a double edged sword they too may yet feel.
Expand your horizons they say, as we righteously dread.
Punitive actions given for words we long ago said.
Wise up and know such enemies live within our midst.
Those traitors putting our names upon a punishing list.
Understand this, we shall soon see their darkest face.
As we and our children they plan to murder and erase.
Robert J. Lindley, 09-20-2015
Note- SONNET
18 U.S. Code § 2381-Treason Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
Life, Love, Truth, 3 gems
My Love Lives In A Maiden's Fallen Tear
I saw sweet love in maiden's fallen tear
a racing orb of light so very bright.
A love lost, great tragedy so many fear
as small children do darkness of night.
If only to live and not be too late
for the appointed day that I died.
Mend the widening cracks in my plate
careful to eat my stolen eggs fried.
Should a poet compose for me a monody
I shall rise again just to hear.
For my sweet soul fled my tortured body
but my love lives in a maiden's tear.
Will I ever hear sweet song sung in tune.
Or peacefully sleep beneath crescent moon?
Robert J. Lindley, 10-25-2015
Note-Tried to go to sleep,but that wicked muse
of mine, demanded just one more! And it had to
be a sonnet!
18 U.S. Code § 2381-Treason Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
Life, Love, Truth, 3 gems
Seeking The Refuge Of Great And Airy Dreams
Slumbrous my mind glides off into another place
seeking the refuge of great and airy dreams.
Yet always, always appears my darling your face
shining sweetly your bright smile that always beams.
There we walk together on soft dewy grass
our time romancing amongst the ancient trees.
Far too swiftly, dear fleeting time seems to pass
my heart asking for more in sad, futile pleas!
As gaunt shadows race to invade our retreat
time drinks its water from our heavenly stream.
Alas! I can never that racing clock beat
Or hold the glow of our love's softest moonbeam!
I that willfully fight the coming of day.
Beg my soul, in this dream to forever stay!
Robert J. Lindley, 07-19- 2015
Note: Sonnet- 11 syllable verse.
(1.) http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dic...lish/slumbrous
slumberous (ˈslʌmbərəs ; -brəs) or or slumbrous (ˈslʌmbrəs)
Definitions
adjective (mainly poetic)
sleepy; drowsy
inducing sleep
characteristic of slumber
18 U.S. Code § 2381-Treason Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
Life, Love, Truth, 3 gems
In A Darkened Attic Room
In attic room, one window tightly shut,
Dwells broken heart hidden from future pain.
Bare as a savage brute's empty hut-
Condemned to no hope, no future, no gain.
Where rests such perilous fear darkness reigns;-
Shattered dreams give rise to dark illusions.
Hope rejected brings on its most wicked stains,
Evil held, births its blackest conclusions;
Grown in decay until nothing remains,
Yet sad hope is better than none at all.
True love waits the bliss it always contains,
Treasures gifted, one only has to call.
If one ray of love's light but filters in
Love brings life and its promises again.
Robert J. Lindley, 1-30-2016
Syllables Per Line:
10 10 10 10 0 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 0 10 10
Total # Syllables: 140
Total # Lines: 18 (Including empty lines)
Words with (syllables) counted programmatically:
Total # Words: 103
18 U.S. Code § 2381-Treason Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
Life, Love, Truth, 3 gems
First draft -6/6/6 challenge, last poem number 6.-Tyr
Shown A Sweet Wonder Rarely Ever Known
Fair forest glow, transcends earthly compare;
Masked veils waiting to be sincerely asked;
Why hide thee below a bright and blue sky,
When your beauty is earth's covering skin?
Shall not your greatness also teach man how,
To live and gather up happiness due?
We have seen wondrous face of ancient tree,
Stands of black forest within German lands;
Tokens of dark history now broken-
On a relic of blood-sacrificing stone;
Rests traces of previous savage guests
Revealed now from a darkness once concealed
Yet in same stand of timber you may get
Shown a sweet wonder rarely ever known.
Robert J. Lindley 2-20-2016
Not necessary but still written in-
Syllables Per Line:
10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
Total # Syllables: 140
Total # Lines: 14 (Including empty lines)
Words with (syllables) counted programmatically:
Total # Words: 100
DEBBIE'S 6/6/6 CHALLENGE- Final poem(first draft)
SONNET FORM #6 - Shadow Sonnet May be written in any sonnet style.
The Shadow takes place at the beginning and ending of each line as
the words are identical or homophonic words or
their derivatives. 14 lines Should have a volta or pivot
(if original form does)
Iambic pentameter is not necessary.
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SECOND DRAFT
Known Now, A Hidden Sweet Wonder Rarely Known
Green forest glowings transcends earthly green.
Masked veils waiting to be wisely unmasked.
Why hide the answer after asking why?
Would a forest's skin be only bark wood?
Can not earth's Nature also prove man can;
live in peace and do right by letting live.
Finding old trees joyous in the finding.
Many jewels found where runes are many.
Tokens of darkness just ancient tokens.
On blood-sacrificing stones, red stains still on.
Hope for greater insight against lost hope;
revealed in wood old savagery revealed.
Yet old timber growths you may still find yet
Unknown miracles crying to be known.
Robert J. Lindley, 2-20-2016
Not necessary but still written in-
Syllables Per Line:
10 10 10 10 0 10 10 10 10 0 10 10 10 10 0 10 10
Total # Syllables: 140
Total # Lines: 17 (Including empty lines)
Words with (syllables) counted programmatically:
Total # Words: 100
DEBBIE'S 6/6/6 CHALLENGE- Final poem(first draft)
SONNET FORM #6 - Shadow Sonnet May be written in any sonnet style.
The Shadow takes place at the beginning and ending of each line as
the words are identical or homophonic words or
their derivatives. 14 lines Should have a volta or pivot
(if original form does)
Iambic pentameter is not necessary.
Writing this in ten syllable verses made it ten times more difficult,
doubled again by hitting that perfect 100 words. Both were not required
in the Shadow form but I enjoyed adding that greater challenge.
Last edited by Tyr-Ziu Saxnot; 02-20-2016 at 10:52 PM.
18 U.S. Code § 2381-Treason Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
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