Hanging tree now lit

Hanging tree now lit
18 February 2022

Courtesy Rodrigo Luff

Peasant ennobled
exalted by the honours
raised head to adorn

The stern church endowed
a bishop to coronate
head shaking off dust

The stance handed down
raised wild bodies to enthrone
forsaken the crown

Feet in the gravel
pebbles thrown in old fountains
arm to unravel

Sanction renewal
erect a hanging treetop
enable embers

Jubilatory
settle platinum attire
rekindle fire

Induct strong the grit
molten powder raises flames
hanging tree now lit

Reading of the poem:

Bad Wolves - Zombie

Written in the context of Ronovan writes weekly Haiku challenge using the words “crown”, “grit” and their synonyms. For more information or to read other poets’ contributions, please follow the link. 

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From knights of Jerusalem

From knights of Jerusalem

2 June 2017

Courtesy Garella on Maggiesfam.eu

 

Lift me up

Through waters flutter

The minds roam

Through gutter

Where unworthy thoughts utter

Binding codes of dark

 

Drill me spark

In marble prairies

Where moons shine

White pristine

Alabaster diaries

Like sins of fairies

 

Twinkle through

The lost hearts mayhem

Wind me down

Bear me crown

From knights of Jerusalem

Banished past Salem

 

Reading of the poem: 

Courtesy P. Tosetti on expertissim.com

Shamanic Touch – Sufi’s Life

Throw me words

Throw me words

16 November 2016

Courtesy ohbthewayblog.blogspot.com

 

Fallen down

On concrete flooring

Reaching lows

Loosing flows

This blood cascading river

Cutting deep slowly

 

Breathe in me

Sounds of your return

The days cry

As I yearn

For your name to be printed

Across soul wilted

 

Sorrow’s clown

Pantomimes a thought

In my mind

Windmills grind

Sands grains that come loose sinking

Hopes of lost laughter

 

Morrows flee

Your shadow hovers

Moon covers

Pale lovers

Their sight building up in I

Living on a lie

 

Frozen crown

Plays with fire’s lace

In disgrace

Throw me words

Flocking sheep to their shepherds

Once upon a rhyme

 

Give up glee

Nothing left to see

Buy me time

Features grime

Mask the curse you gifted me

Break this death’s saunter

 

Reading of the poem: 

Courtesy pinterest.com

So Close – Olafur Arnalds feat. Arnor Dan

The colour of the night – Lauren Christy

It’s not goodbye – Laura Pausini

 

Waking Ophelia

Waking Ophelia

18 September 2016

Courtesy pinterest.com

 

She sleeps not

Slumber a migrant

Eyelids wane

Window pane

Glassy content of iris

Myriads of stories

 

Fragmented

Illusions of life

Power strife

Lost battles

Reminiscence of the spoils

Battlefield gargoyles

 

Self monsters

Darkness overcome

Or never

Mind clever

Constant crisscross of the word

Of puzzles unheard

 

Withered speech

The tongue bridge to breach

The outreach

A dark plunge

Like a drunken man will lunge

Into the bosom

 

Tales of ore

Constantly hammered

Crown jewels

Chest medal

In between a neck strangled

Studded star spangled

 

Throaty spells

Voicing world over

Sleep that dreams

Jolting bolt

The whiff of paraphilia

Waking Ophelia

 

Reading of the poem: 

Courtesy pinterest.com

Daytime Dreamer – Omar Akram

Love of my Heart  -Omar Akram

Dancing with the Wind – Omar Akram

 

Heart shaped Polly gone

Heart shaped Polly gone

26 August 2016

Courtesy pinterest.com

 

Handed down

Jewel of my Crown

Endless heads

Flower beds

Prairies tall as gardeners reek

Generations leak

 

Entrusted

To the mindless eyes

Decisions weigh

Mass unwise

Prairies fall as gardeners reap

Generations leap

 

Hands many

The traceless is One

Bring me back

My emblems

Shadows your darkness totems

From my dance all stems

 

Eyes cast down

Heavenly choices

The mind own

Heart bonded

Skies when questioned responded

With my purple hues

 

Speak to me

Of ageless morrows

Give me rhythm

Of your Heart

Wisdom my soul will impart

Into your twined suns

 

Ascension

Flight to the placeless

Elevate

Inside Frame

New geometry the game

Heart shaped Polly gone

 

Reading of the poem: 

Mandara – Vas & Azam Ali

Saphyrro – Vas & Azam Ali

Prayer for Soleil – Vas & Azam Ali

Surreptitious

Surreptitious

12 July 2016

Courtesy Rassouli on rassouli.com

 

It is done

The numb look away

The good cry

The bad smile

The music goes on a while

Before curtains fall

 

Bleak recall

Bis repetita

Non placent

Moving on

The art of dramaturgy

Through comedy’s peaks

 

Twined effort

Compounding inches

Of the flesh

Quarter pound

The quakes in hundreds resound

Of flailing senses

 

The garish

In hues of Toulouse

Colours me

Split rainbows

Released in dreams nightmarish

Fascinating haunt

 

The boys taunt

The stray kitten meek

Their eyes cruel

Their minds fuel

Imagination Hydes seek

To play with the prey

 

Wilting zone

Surreptitious play

For undead

Kingdoms rise

Survivors none the less wise

A black crown to hone

 

Reading of the poem: 

Courtesy Rassouli on rassouli.com

Curtain falls – Blue

Sorry seems to be the hardest word – Blue feat. Elton John

Elements – Blue

 

Spirit me the Light

Spirit me the Light

2 July 2016

Courtesy multipix.com

 

Expunging

Sleep comes to an end

Followed trend

Breaking down

The depths of Earth retrieving

Jewels of the Crown

 

We are One

Realisation

Like the sun

Now dawning

Upon latecomers yawning

As they stretch out slow

 

We surpass

The high and the low

Battlefields

Abandoned

The will guided by the Heart

New cycle to start

 

The waters

Flooding the wastelands

Cover hues

Of rainbows

They sparkle through morrows’ dues

Paid through the brainwaves

 

Freed the slaves

Their chains dissolving

Heated pit

Raging fires

The burning flames of desires

Prometheus lit

 

The mother

Divine feminine

She calls sweet

Three to meet

The wings carry us in flight

Spirit me the Light

 

Reading of the poem: 

Courtesy abeforum.com

Gates of Morpheus – Amethystium

Break of Dawn – Amethystium

Silken Twine- Amethystium

 

Deride me

Deride me

18 June 2016

 

 

Embrace me

Open and tender

Your tight frame

Defines me

A straight hedge cut neatly down

Into prim rows sleek

 

Amaze me

With more than saunter

Your light frame

Defiles me

The banter a world to drown

Sentiments at peak

 

Disgrace me

Intentions blunter

Than the game

Deride me

Astray is the mindless crown

That feeds on the weak

 

Reading of the poem: 

First image courtesy Adam Martinakis animated by George Redhawk

One Day – Kodaline

Love like this – Kodaline

High hopes – Kodaline

 

 

Giant that staggers

Giant that staggers

6 May 2016

Courtesy pinterest.com

 

You misread

The sacred teachings

Book of dead

Cherry tree

The baby cradled on knee

That knelt in penance

 

We restore

Balance forsaken

Promises

Weak taken

More than dignity of whore

Who spoke in wisdom

 

Time hastens

To broken seconds

Send not dogs

To do errands

Your messages borne by crown

My only audience

 

She repeats

My darkened thunders

I promised

Rare wonders

From the whole you gave bleak seed

Your downfall the greed

 

Between worlds

We shuttle griefless

Your wombs dry

Souls seedless

You carry wasted bodies

Useless sacrifice

 

Look beyond

The days are counted

They fly swift

Like daggers

Finding the eye that blinks not

Giant that staggers

 

Reading of poem: 

Courtesy pinterest.com

The Eyes of Truth – Enigma

Beyond the Invisible – Enigma

Silence must be heard – Enigma

In Twirling

In Twirling

13 April 2016

Courtesy sfoxwriting.com

 

Inside clouds

Upon rim of skies

The trees grow

They flow life

Within fluffy boats’ cotton

Spin of a lifetime

 

Within leaves

Clinging to the trees

Lies rustle

Talkative

Voices rumble with the change

That shakes within bark

 

Over shades

We cast light and dark

Unbridled

The heart spark

We seeded every light heart

The fruit of morrows

 

Upon ground

The apples fall stale

Like cherry

Picked random

More than crown is the kingdom

We devised in airs

 

Under breath

We talk to the mind

Voices loud

Pregnant hues

From loans we collect all dues

Time always settles

 

In Twirling

The dancers spin roots

Of new worlds

Cast in dreams

You cut we sew again seams

Repetition Time

 

Reading of the poem: 

Courtesy Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid on hipa.ae

Look Within – Rumi

The Exquisite Pearl – Ghazali

Alone with the Alone – Ibn Arabi

Being a Person of Paradise – Shams Tabrizi

The 7 days of the Heart – Ibn Arabi

Shams Tabrizi – Rumi’s sun