I can’t tank the administrators for their hard work and for choosing my poetry for this honor.
Have any of you poets written so much that you lose the writing that gets honored? Well, I do, and it’s embarrassing, to say the least, but if I do find it, I’ll update the post!
My poetry book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, is available on all eplatforms including Amazon. It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.
Thank you, administrators, for the honor and your hard work.
Vanity’s Curse
From the swirling darkened fog A wisp of a gorgeous woman Wrapped haphazardly in blood red smog Alive in its flow as she moves, an
Astounding beauty, captivatingly attractive, Sensual, and her sexuality bared for All to consume closely and become enraptusured By a fiery beauty hiding an insidious core,
Horrifically rotten with envy, Hatred, corruption, aggression, All coalesce within her stare, a visionary Of destruction, disunity, strife that lend to perfection
Into her spiderweb of infractions That destroy unity’s equality And fairness that require absolutions From a community that venerates all that’s holy.
Wherever there’s equanimity She presents chaos and superfluous vanity.
My poetry book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, is available on all eplatforms including Amazon. It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.
Mirror, mirror, ‘Who am I looking at?’ Is that face, mouth, nose, all mine? Mirror, what do you see when you look at Me? Is it just my beauty and thine?
Have I no substance in your mind? Haven’t you born witness to the depth I hide behind the broken smile that’ll find A hidden maze to secrete screctets in a breath That creates a brume on your shiny Expanse? Does it fog my reflection Of a life lived, enjoyed, even chose empathy For the plight of others under destruction?
As the image is reflected back at me, I wonder on the choices I made, The trajectory I took, is what has come To be a reflection or refraction of things that fade?
My poetry book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, is available on all eplatforms including Amazon. It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.
Thank you, administrators, for the honor and your hard work
Man’s Rejuvenation
The garden begins beautifying bloom As the birds start tweeting harmony’s tune Waking all nature from its dormant time Into a rainbow of brightness In June That destroyed depression as nature’s Beauty envelopes symphony’s prayers Lifting soul from morass of stagnation.
Its simple beauty reigns supreme over All that man turns complex When it’s simple Pleasures around are enjoyed better When all is shared with loved ones, whose ample Support surrounds us in a balm of peace As contemplation of beauty helps fleece Negative into positivity.
My poetry book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, is available on all eplatforms including Amazon. It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.
Thank you, administrators, for the honor and your hard work
Best Friend
Her shiny mahogany violin Lays gently under her chin As she strums lyrics of a magical Build, pleasing the listener in a sparkle
Of harmonious sounds transporting Her into a veiled world, rosy, blessing Its concordance in a cacophony Of rhythms rumbling, hurtling freely,
Soaring into the sky, leaving stress Behind a locked door that’ll impress Those who wish the reality rather Then the dreamy world of a conqueror.
She strums her harmonious melody, Alone, in a forest filled with astoundingly Cohesive creatures within nature’s Bounty that she serenades with music’s layers
Of joy filled cries in reply to strumming Violin notes flung into the breeze, melding Soundlessly within the whistling Air that rustles the leaves’ dancing.
My poetry book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, is available on all eplatforms including Amazon. It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.
In her mind’s eye, she sees the new, New city built on the ashes, rubble, Rubble and destruction of war, War that took away family, Family whose lives were taken, Taken violently in bombs, Bombs whose yield was astounding, Astounding even objective observers, Observers of world’s humanity, Humanity whose humane compassion, Compassion never fails to rise, Rise in younger generations, Generations whose conscience, Conscience in battling against oppression, Oppression of the Indigenous, Indigenous populations for material, Material resources that rebuild, Rebuild what was destroyed, Destroyed cities become futuristic, Futuristic, symmetric, organized, Organized to represent power, Power of Faith’s survival, Survival among death’s door, Door that opens into a brilliant, Brilliant future, where equality, Equality, wisdom, harmony, Harmony of races, understanding, Understanding that unity, Unity is forged in steel, Steel that has a feel, Feel for needs of families, Families whose support, love, Love and ambition is a construct, Construct of a world of utopian, Utopian haven on earth’s astounding, Astounding beauty that enraptures, Enraptures our imagination into, Into creating our heavenly vision.
My poetry book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, is available on all eplatforms including Amazon. It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.
Thank you, administrators, for the honor and your hard work.
Remorseful Actions
As the guilt presses down on my heart, I look into the sky towards your hut, Where your gardens prosper, And delicacies abound, but never shatter
Your serenity that enrobes contrition With a balm of faith leading to absolution For actions that might have created A snow ball of reactions that fenced
Calamities in your midst, propelling You into regretful actions causing Others pain while striving not to fall Apart while the pressure turns into a ball
Of explosive events That need you to barter millions of cents For your soul in penitence For actions coming out of ignorance.
My poetry book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, is available on all eplatforms including Amazon. It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.
Thank you, administrators, for the honor and your hard work.
Ocean’s Cry
Oh you blue body of life, Your azure, royal blue, turquoise, teal, Color my life in blues, uplifting strife From the midst of man’s fall. Real,
Real in his prolific dumping of garbage In its depths, insouciant of consequences On marine life, that’s slowly disappearing into a cage Of fishing nets, plastic bags, oil spills, defaces
Defaces reefs, shores, schools of fish, Extinguishing crustacean habitats, Underwater algae beds where fish, Multicolored of varying shapes and sizes,
Sizes that help propel the flourishing Ecosystems beneath man’s watchful Eye who’s still looking for expanding, Conquering territories for boastful,
Boastful insecurities that need To be bolstered by their flashy vanity, Showing off their possessions, a creed Of avarice, capitalism, and duplicity.
Duplicity in dealing justly, meticulously Working in protecting assets’ vanishing Existence, as man only knows how to fully Siphon resources without a care of destroying,
Destroying access to them in a furor Of greed that’s only surpassed by Pride’s cataclysmic need to conquer The unknown by debasing it as simple opposition that’s binary.
I am supremely honored to have my poem published with OOTP Magazine.
Pirouette
I watch as she pirouettes, Her dress, a parachute, flies In waves to her flutters.
Her sensual beauty attracts An audience, not for her moves, But for the supplication in her eyes.
They shine with an inner peace That translates into an oeuvred pace Shinier than the purest diamond face.
My gaze is glued to her oneiric flexible Limbs that have divined that the rain bubble Ensconces her in a world where trouble
Is an abstract concept she’s never Experienced, as her innocent cover Protects her as she adds prayer to the dancer.
As her body flows, swings, undulates, She hears titters on her esthetics. She says: ‘Believe in a faith that provides Truth and dares to challenge lies.’
They then turn away and bicker, Having forgotten why she was a riveting picture.
My poetry book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, is available on all eplatforms including Amazon. It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.
The greens and burgeoning bushes, Flowers, and trees are heady bees Working hard to overthrow Winter’s Deadly stagnation by flipping switches
That spring with bubbling streams, Vibrant greens, and flourishing branches Heavy with new life seeded by birds And the bees.
How is it that you can see growth Within the beauty of nature and mouth Off that you’re an unbeliever in faith That GOD exists and helps the resurgence
To take place, while beauty that usurps The dreary with life that cups, Embraces, and soars into the cusps Of quiescent delicacy, flawless in its
Need to beautify the world with Its wondrous fragility, whose growth Into stupendous strength, Refreshes your belief in Godly faith.
As spring springs with sublime Beauty, festivities abound In a crime Against nature, as man destroys time, That can’t return, as feasting needs a compromise
For harvesting can asphixiate The breath in the soil seeking a fate Of rejuvenation while waiting in a straight Line, awaiting death’s suffocating blow.
My poetry book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, is available on all eplatforms including Amazon. It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.
