Oh, the Scots what to understand?!?
Do you really know what you truly want?!?
Heard your cry and plea
the was , the now, and the eternity
Shall we count sands of angst to quell
the bitter thistles of tears that fell
or summon the elements of spilt blood
for one and all to even the odds?!?
Oh, the Scots why now and why ever?!?
Can you not with your heart forswear
or was ancient drama so sweet so bitter
a savored play to divide and sever
Was it for true freedom or plain money
perhaps both I surmised to agree
Be careful of guised patriotistic sentimentality
a fabric so weak for life's tartan reality
Elusive unicorn is but tr
Missing him...
A match in the sky all aglow to keep vigil
A sigh ablaze hearts' hunger fill
Chambers brilliant bejeweled with tears
I miss him that's so clear...
Dew handed clock flight it keeps tab
Future memories on the look-out
Scaling might of heights no map
Vanquishing jealousy, fear and doubt...
Lantern dotted midnight mile
Ambit of unforsaken twilight
Sky to tread upon only to beguile
In need of respite yet no where in sight...
Ribbons of murmuring sweetly disguised
Spell of the heart a charm devised
Unmasked yet veiled in lace of tears
I miss him that's so clear...
Music swirling with lights dancing merrily
blind & deaf with the mute paint and sing
Of colors glowing invisible as it ring
Anguish & happiness blends in harmony
Rousing deep slumber's knotted lethargy
Christmas lantern 'neath the rain stands guard
flashing as it flickers sighs of musical notes
On glass hearts' deafening silence as it floats
The clock drowning in smiles of no regard
Marching with no compass on season's yard
Waves of light & sound bend to dash and sway
Ripe with thick mist soothingly caress to pierce
Upbraiding flashing memories both tame and fierce
From a chasm of maze tears sweet and bitter w
I found a kingdom in a city of iron
rough, sharp with bristles and horn
decaying rain pours fumes of death
on victims' random trapped breath
Its faded beauty's muffled cry I heard
Heard it from pure iron's heart spurred
An invisible pull a heart can not reckon
'neath layers of debris none can beckon
Wails of slavery's griping ironclad's passion
an enslavement in unending coiled succession
Once again for freedom noble blood bleeds dry
Bleeding dry on a Cross unseen nails Faith's spy
I found a kingdom in a city of brick
a vineyard redeemed in grace ripe and thick
Grape's trunk scorched yet death it defied
Defying weeds of cynics
Icy sunshine caressingly melt
as vapors of love float and knelt
Angels unhindered descending
in syllables of dreams unending
Hearts if but for a moment kissed
amidst distance with time insist
A winter fire within unknown, a spark unseen
Each ship sailing content and so serene
Gusts of thundery inaudible song clamor
Surfs roared and trampled in stillness tremor
Fiery icicles rattling with waves drumming
Trumpets blared mutely yet forthcoming
Felt to hear each heartbeat without a miss
'though battered with cries, sighs, glee or bliss
A winter fire within unknown, burning unseen
Each ship sailing content and still serene
Petalled
Leap High... Dive Deep... by nonconformist90, literature
Literature
Leap High... Dive Deep...
You are free to roam and fly
dreams of your desire so high
unhampered and unhindered
untethered and unconquered
Seed of freedom deeply planted
didn't sprout what you wanted
Wings ensconced in doubt and fear
Light struggles 'gainst night so clear
You misjudged and presumed too much
that I'll quench your wanderlust and clutch
Blocking your power to take a leap and risk
as your ambitions are ripening on an obelisk
Your freedom is not mine to take and keep
Decisions yours alone to make and reap
Sense of determination and total surrender
Winding ventures obscure engendered to ponder
Two gifts I offer you: Wings of pricel
In the glow of the setting November sun
paintings on the sand rippled undone
Misty trails surged to trace a portal's arch
Rainbow crystallized into tears so parched
Glass wings its tips pierced by the light
as water moves slowly painting the flight
Paced to race with cold cloud covered night
Sunlight's reflection languidly fading
Highlighting mirrors in the sand wading
Lines curved and straight waved goodbye
as liquid honey of light issued a sigh
Glass wings drenched in grief's cinder
Praying the tide and time not to hinder
fate's design in truth abide to render
Render to pour a blessing undeserved
into a vessel frail yet aptly
Ode to JK Galbraith by nonconformist90, literature
Literature
Ode to JK Galbraith
Brilliant mind your voice drowned and silenced
as the world waltzed and wallowed in pretense
Prisoners we are of the fog alongside history's lens
Digging, stumbling unbeknownst I fell into time's eaves
Wisdom with merit entombed as virtue on cue weaves
A voice of reason vanquished into oblivion
Marginalized, discarded as an aberration
Logic's thirst for truth unchained in suspension
Sterling errors its charms and trammel rusting
Truth's vitality crushed yet shines unrelenting
Soul of good-will flawed and imperfect you maybe
Never did you boastfully impose your will and decree
Nor did you claim you have the divining eye to for
Lip Service Or Is It Lip Sync? by nonconformist90, literature
Literature
Lip Service Or Is It Lip Sync?
Yes, a verse to start...
An echo of a searching heart
A hymn so framed as a piece of art
seemed sincere, yet its content
quite steeped in superficiality foment
Foolish is he to think Faith
True Faith is born in airy wraith
from reading Clive's works in a wink
acquiring human knowledge in a blink
only to find he needs to re-think
Human knowledge is not enough
if slavery from sin he wants to slough
Solid effort at times heroic required
if genuinely he aims for what he aspired
to claim and lay siege on Heaven's Heart he so desired...
I Write For Thee... by nonconformist90, literature
Literature
I Write For Thee...
I write for The Word Who inspired me
when I'm happy, loved, betrayed, hated, content, hurting,
lonely, weak, rejected, accepted, confused, angry, and empty...
I think of You in ways so simple and ordinary
with days that You deigned to take and give
in and out of season with its sting and beauty
I feel You with my every breath and beat
that my heart and soul silently sings
when fear and darkness clamored defeat
I see You everywhere through Faith's lens
Unseen from my sight yet so near and real
Midst the mirrors of wars and quiet eloquence
I hear You whether I'm awake or in slumber deep
Designs in varied echos clear and vague speak
I am happy to be me
I offer no apologies
Im independent as you can see
I can be sociable if I want to be
I am comfortable in my skin
I strive ever to live my life clean
You may not grasp and heed why
I am happy most of the time
You might be quick to judge
Or doubt why petulant am not
Youve failed to see the real me
Cant believe yet you feel I am real
I am ever so near with treasured secrets to reveal
Willing to lavish and share only invite me if you dare
I get such a thrill to know Im well loved
I am grateful to feel joy and sorrow alike
I am aware Im made for heaven above
Im glad fo
All Art Touches The Eternal by nonconformist90, literature
Literature
All Art Touches The Eternal
Few captured what is really important
when it comes to adequate portrayal
of the sacred and the essential
For all art is a thing of glimpses
So, art with all its drama eclipses
living habits of life's continuity of pulses
Some artists their souls disturbingly consumed
and haunted harrowingly by claims for originality
But 'tis their absolute loneliness in reality, in the guise
of novelty expressed in vileness, torture or obscenity
Medium employed so venal and cryptically coarse
Audience not just ignored, but insulted and scorned
Art alludes to an ethereal interior adventure
A wonderment into life's clear visceral past