POETRY COMMUNITY

ENLIGHTENMENT

2015-11-25T03:49:00.004-08:00

The day you sleep to dream
The day the world play around the peace you’ve keep
Walking on that lonely path
Be conscious of the awaiting cat

Some smiles are meant to fade
In those smiles’ give way for your thinking to prevail
Not all smiles are to be embrace
But never to be rejected openly

Keep not in mind that;
which walk not with time
Follow your heart desire
But never fail to inspire

Life is not much a good fun
Even a zany yob could testify
So, let not thou be deceive in that demon
That never last like a watering mouth lemon

Be observable to the beat around
Never hit your step in dim of dance
These beat are part of your breathing
Not all are given in rise to your continuous breathing

Kill the mind against you with sweetness
Lest the bitter part may point black at you
Cuddle with the development of time
Beware of the crime its commit

Mind the heart against you
Take not easy with those cherishing you
For this Angelic grace pipers
Are the hazardous dark face titans

2015-05-13T10:23:00.002-07:00

Poetry Card Contest

Blue Mountain Arts

Announces Its Twenty-sixth Biannual Poetry Card Contest
Deadline: June 30, 2015
1st prize: $300 * 2nd prize: $150 * 3rd prize: $50

In addition, the winning poems will be displayed on our website sps.com.
Please read the following, then scroll down to submit your poem.

Poetry Contest Guidelines:

Poems can be rhyming or non-rhyming, although we find that non-rhyming poetry reads better.
We suggest that you write about real emotions and feelings and that you have some special person or occasion in mind as you write.
Poems are judged on the basis of originality and uniqueness.
English-language entries only, please.
Enter as often as you like!

Poetry Contest Rules

All entries must be the original creation of the submitting author. All rights to the entries must be owned by the author and shall remain the property of the author. The author gives permission to Blue Mountain Arts, Inc. to publish and display the entry on the Web (in electronic form only) if the entry is selected as a winner or finalist. Winners will be contacted within 45 days of the deadline date. Contest is open to everyone except employees of Blue Mountain Arts and their families. Void where prohibited.

How to Submit

Simply complete the contest form below, or if you prefer, you may send your submission via snail mail* to:

Blue Mountain Arts Poetry Card Contest,
P.O. Box 1007, Dept. E,
Boulder, CO 80306.

OR

Follow this link to submit online: http://www.sps.com/poetry/

The Political Poet: Honorable Mention

2015-05-13T05:21:00.001-07:00

The Political Poet: Honorable Mention: The Forsaken Tradition As we sit waiting in our illusion mind We await none but of the elusive time The birds in their nest Y...
An honorable mention Certificate won by Ogoh Owulo Alex click The Political Poet: Honorable Mention
to read the awarded poem

THE SEASON MOOD

2014-12-20T10:07:00.003-08:00

Jumping the croaky zenith tree

A bird of white swaying free

The carcass of bone scattered to see

The midst of harmattan the fairy winter sea

A season coloured with red-white eve

Being new born not to that of Adam and Eve

But the birth of whom could calm the sea

THE WINTER LOVER

2014-10-29T05:37:00.001-07:00

Let not the moon be our fans

As it only makes friend not much in winter

When hands are freeze

To seek a companion

Then the moon shall be lonely

We shall play with thought

Forgetting about being holy

Freely and hidden from sight

THE MESSENGER

2014-10-29T05:14:00.001-07:00

Oh! You messenger

Who stings without our knowledge

You portray your invisible to wickedness

In revenge for you being cast into darkness

You Omnipresence messenger

Full of pride and control

Eager for power on our planet

As you are being defeated from yours

You creator of short route to hade

Making the face of our lovely one’s fade

You strike most of those with no hope of paradise

Making their years on earth paralyze

You autocratic leader

Wishing to control every aspect of power

You did control most of our desire

Acting to be our messiah

As you never did make our emotion steady

You Omnipresence messenger

Shall your Omnipresence save you on that day?

When your face shall be uprooted to light

Not in light, but the short route to hade

In you shall dwell

With our lovely one’s with no hope of paradise.

QWERTY

2014-10-29T05:08:00.003-07:00

Rising with the first cock crow

My mind never did feel at rest

As I did wonder how sin flow

Waking to face the sin of test

Flat devil I did love

As it’s qwerty never seem to be curve

I kill, none was ever my faulty

It’s seem am involve in a cult

Pressing this devil

It did makes me do evil

Many were homeless

As I did make them hopeless

But then am only following orders

As it sometimes apply to defaulters

Notice, the works of black devil

Letter’s too easy with qwerty

The heart in this are mean and even

As the buttons are soft but evil

Asdf, colon never did stop its function

Lkj, in alphabetical order

These keys are devil that sanction

As the thumb never fail to succumb

But then am only following orders

As it sometimes apply to defaulters.

THE WEDDING

2014-10-29T05:07:00.001-07:00

Bless was the rain

Elijah prophesied in those days

Falling gently wit blissful grace

With love we both we run this race.

The Bride:

Cuddle with me to a perfect rest

Move with me of which thou know best

Let’s practice the blindness therein and test

In open secret we shall share

That in-between the lips the breeze shall hear

The Groom:

Testing the love you did showered then

Now I did want it in full term

We shall crawl

Where no mid shall know of which we draw

The Bride:

During the period of testifying

It was so terrifying

I wish then, if it will race so smoothly

As betrayals may testify against us very slowly

My mind did settle once we were bound in holy matrimony

The Groom:

As I wish for a fast time

Hearing a witness coming

I though,

When have I committed a crime?

My mind did bellow with gladness

As we were liberated from darkness

Both:

Now we are united

Never again to be divided

Life - Death

2014-08-15T12:03:00.003-07:00

The beat gong into the binting back bang bunk

Your astrayness can't reveal the deadly doom den dunk

Battle once lost is a grimace grime grim way to gunk

Why ponder on the zenith zany zen

When all humanity are to call on the calling caller call

The page wider to repent of a repenting serpent soul for repentance

Ye' is there battling with the comic cabal cult

Why did ye' forget the endless mortal of no ebb

Instead ye' all love the adulterates to commit adultery

A bright light fight forth to tight you home

Yet ye' prefer the darkest dark darkness

Have ye' all forget so soon the fury fire furnace?

With a bold trademark along the hill

that

Hell is real!!

They Belong

2014-08-15T12:00:00.002-07:00

Nature arrayed with all in tray

Frogs have come in all to stay

We cherishes, they flourishes

To make our land that of riches

Glowing with blazing fire

We all can and take them higher

They have come in peace

Let join and make them a feast

Danger not in their nature

Let’s contribute not to their departure

For they feed not on our pasture

They; are required as part of the future.

LET THEM STAY FOR THEY ARE PART OF NATURE BEAUTY

SAMKING RULES

2014-08-04T09:06:00.006-07:00

Many wonders will everyone think

Samking rules endowed with what?

Follow my tale that which is good to inhale

Many lack but are not to crack

He! Have walk even on river Niger

His prowess that mighty, with a tip of its finger

Popularity not part of his existence

Even his friends are full of patience

Castle builder, energy giver

He gives hope in time of hopelessness

Its tongue springs that of courage

He abandon its problem for an emblem

I write of none

But of my brother

I LOVE YOU BRO.

LIFE AND DEATH

2014-08-04T09:06:00.002-07:00

We partake in the world of creation

Exemplary are set for we all to follow

Fishes walk and talk but of the black

Our rivers we cherish all are now confusion

Catastrophe dine in the deepest rivers

Monkey swam on a dry grass

Nothing is left for us to brag

The sound we cherish not, like that of a bass

Fire partake in swallowing our daily food

Abduction now a spreading locust

Not much difference as that of Egypt locust

For we sleep and cry out our fetish precious minerals

Daily we work but walk nor talk

Our life now as that of a folk

But much worst than a dead cock

In bangle chain we all are lock

Now the end time did knock our door

Our tradition never again to be written in the book of life

Neither to be in the book of death

We are now dangling in-between for a helper to help.

AWAKEN DEAD HEART

2014-08-04T09:05:00.003-07:00

Let my seat be lessen with thy presence

Let my heart sink deep in River Niger

Let me be hidden behind thine shadow

Even thy shadow brim that of beauty

Allow me to behold thy beauty

Let your beauty shreweth me thy pity

For I’m tame in thy presence

Show to me thy kind heart

Let the audience be my witness

For I behold the chain that did last

Allow thy beauty to show me its kindness

Lest my mortal heart will depart

My dead heart has been awaken with thy beauty

Allow me not to sleep without beholding thy beauty

For my cherishes now overshadow the wickedness

Lend me thy merciful heart

And our heart shall be the subject of the garrulous in this planet earth.

OUR TRADITION

2014-08-04T09:04:00.001-07:00

We are so silent gathering around the blazing fire

Tales upon tales were being usher in abundance

We accelerate, we de-accelerate

For not all the character were meant for us

The moonlight never did like to miss our playground

Then it came nearer to play with us mortal

Smiling forgetting its origin where it came from

It did abandoned its mission to circulate the world

For we are more than a friend to him-she

Not long were those happy days array with the sign of end time

Slave we were made in our homeland

The moon then remember its mission

Never did it come nearer to our playground

For the playground now is a slave-ground

Our happy days now a sorrow day

Our tradition has now turn a coalition.

The power

2014-07-24T01:53:00.001-07:00

There i was
looking at the horse
prating on the hen
with a cry of ten
moving close to see
quickly withdraw sighting a sea

The power!!!!!

PAPA AM SORRY

2014-07-24T01:52:00.001-07:00

I will ever, forever cherish you "Mama"
     fading away from you, for you stay not long with me
             i wallow deep in pain only drug you ever did predict
                     care i know you have but not fully as i want then
                              obedient did slowly died in me for you
                                       yet the fact never did change that you
contribute to my existence.

I will forever, never forget you "Mama" in my life
your love and care flow like a fountain of water
                    never did it died down to me
                           I will always cherish you "Mama"
yet there is one who gives strength which you
pass on to me "Papa".

I will never died to repay your love to me "Mama"
you care too much with all to the last
          when fading away, you keeps me refresh
               you did taught me the true path to follow
                      yet not all did i ever learn from you
                            lest i completely become a woman,
to have the courage of man i learn this from
"Papa".
I.
        am,
               sorry,
                           "Papa".

MAMA AM SORRY"

2014-07-24T01:50:00.002-07:00

IN TEARS CAN'T IMAGINE THE LOVE AND CARE YOU HAVE FOR ME,
CAN'T IMAGINE THE PAIN AND HARDSHIP YOU PASSED THROUGH WHEN DELIVERING ME
CAN'T IMAGINE THE AGONY YOU WENT THROUGH,

CARRYING A LIFE HUMAN FOR NINE MONTH,
I KNEW YOU HAVE SHOWN ME LOVE I EVER DESERVE,
EVEN IF YOU WEREN'T ALWAYS THERE WHEN I NEEDED YOU THE MOST,YET I WON'T FORGET THE PAIN WHICH YOU PASSED THROUGH,
WHEN OTHERS ABORT THERE CHILD,
JUST FOR THE PAIN THEY DON'T WISH TO PASS THROUGH,
YOU ENDURE TO THE LAST FOR LOVE,
AND THAT MAKES ME FEEL YOU ARE THE ONLY PERSON THAT CAN STAY WITH WITH ME TO THE LAST,
I JUST WANT TO SAY YOU ARE THE BEST MUM IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD

I LOVE YOU MUM.

THE GENTLEMAN

2014-07-24T01:49:00.006-07:00

The darkness strip through you in pure gold
Your characteristics is beyond man imagination
dwelling in the hidden covers not you anymore
flawless eagle you confuse many
hope in the future of no return.

The mountain climbers are of no use to you
since you trap the hilarious people down in you
happy you are but deep down you frown
going above, the earth look straight up to you
you mortal that feel immortal
how close you are but you can never see.

You lay deep down suffering for your descendant to come
enjoyment you have, suffering you sow
for you descendant to reap
you callous, zany man
Never could you escape the wrath of the endless mortal.

HUNT FOR THE PAST

2014-07-24T01:49:00.001-07:00

THE CORNERSTONE THAT HAS NO CORNER
YOU HIDE YOUR CORNER FOR YOUR SELFISHNESS
MOVING NOT THE DANGER TO WITH-HOLD IT
YOU BEARER OF BURDEN
YOU KNOW NOT HOW TO DROP IT LEST YOU FALL FLATLY

YOUR IMAGINATION IS BARELY A THOUGHT
REALITY HUNT YOU DOWN WHEN YOU GOT NO WEAR ON
CAPITULATE YOU HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO DO
YOU GOT THE TIME THEN BUT WHAT DID YOU DO?

LIFE IS A SHORT PERIOD GAVE TO US
YOU CORRECT YOUR MISTAKE OR IT'S CORRECT YOU
REPAIRING YOUR PAST IS A BIT GOOD, SOUR
SO CHOICE IS LEFT FOR YOU TO CHOOSE
BUT THEN IF YOU DON'T HUNT THE PAST
IT'S MUST SURELY HUNT YOU.

THE HIDDEN SECRET

2014-07-24T01:48:00.002-07:00

LOOKING OUT IN THE DARK,
THERE I SAW A GREAT LIGHT WITH A FACE,
HARDLY TO SEE THE FACE BUT THE HEART CAPTURE IT QUICKLY
FLOWING AND MOVING SLOWLY
THE WIND CAUGHT ME UP
AND TOOK ME FARAWAY
WHERE WE WERE HIDDEN FROM SIGHT
ONLY THERE DID THE HEART GIVE A RESPOND
TO MY QUESTION WHICH SAYS
WHAT IS THIS?
AN INSTANT REPLY THE HEART GAVE
LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE FUTURE LOOK WITH BRIGHTER SUFFERING

2014-07-24T01:47:00.003-07:00

THE DESPERATE CALL OF HUMAN TO DEATH SO HIGH
YET DEATH REFUSE TO ANSWER THE CALL
THE SUFFERING SO HARD TO TAKE
ENDURING TOOK MORE TIME THAN SUDDENLY
FASTING AND PRAYERS WERE BEING OFFER
FOR DEATH COMING, BUT ALL TO AVAIL

THE STRONG ALSO WISH FOR DEATH,
THE WEAK WISH FOR DEATH NOT MINDING TO GO TO HELL,
THE UNBORN CHILDREN REFUSE TO COME OUT,
SEEING THE LOOK OF THE WORLD THEY STICK,
TO THEIR MOTHER'S WOMB

IN AGONY THE PREGNANT WOMAN LIVE
THE CHILDREN FLYING IN GROUPS LIKE FLIES
THERE WAS NO ONE TO CLAIM THEM
ALL BEGGING FOR FOOD TO SURVIVE
THE RICH WISHING TO DIE
YET SO STINGY WITH THEIR MONEY
NOT ENOUGH FOR THEM THEY SAY

AND BY THIS THE FLYING CHILDREN WERE MADE FOR USE
WITH THE OFFSPRING OF TEMPTING FOOD OR MONEY
BEING OFFER TO THEM
BUT THE CHILDREN ALREADY KNOW THEIR WISH
YET THEY COMPLY SAYING WHAT USE ARE WE IN THIS WORLD BEGGING
SLEEPING IN THE DUSTBIN ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT
SUCKING AN EMPTY PURE WATER LEATHER
THEY SEEM SATISFY WITH IT

BUT NOT UNTIL THEY SEE DEATH AND GRAB HIM CLOSE
THEIR THEY FEEL NO SUFFERING
AND LEAVE THE WORLD IN GREAT JOY
THE CALLOUS, ZANY WORLD THEY SAY IN THEIR DEPARTURE
WITH CELEBRATION THEY LEFT IN GROUP AS FRIEND
DEATH ONLY THEN THEY SAY RESPOND TO CHILDREN NOT ADULT.

THE ENDLESS MORTAL

2014-07-24T01:41:00.002-07:00

The ancient time left us with future thought
hopes of grace we never left to feel
wallowing in sorrow,
the bone join in bitterness through the marrow.

we were left out of the indigence of grace,
Life a mystery in times of pain
the smiles in us give way to pain
death we seek, but we were rejected by him
glowing in the cage we are
outside we see but all are white

Far beyond we see the luminous
nearer it came with eagerness we wait
hoping this is it, nearer, nearer and then it goes higher.
climb we climb up but down we are.
In deep dejection we dwell
our head deep down in sorrow
in pain all eternity we dwell.

THE FORSAKEN TRADITION (1)

2014-07-24T01:40:00.002-07:00

As we sit waiting in our illusion mind
We await none but of the elusive time
The birds in their nest
Yet we think not what is best
When their creepy noise is at rest

Our heritage which have long been sold
That we seek not but of old
Best in thought but rap in cold
Failing to create none we seek of gold
The suffering though have long been foretold

Clamoring in future hope
When we fail on how to cope
Our fast track have been forgot in a lope
Now we seek prayer from a rat Pope

Oh! those glorious days have long been gone
Heritage our father's build have all been torn
Our heritage abashed from the rule of the unknown masters
All now is a story of disaster

Coming in with a face like that of a dove
Innermost mind we know not but a predator
Ruling out our heritage theirs is installed into ours
Now we all love not of ours but theirs in every hours.

UNTAMED LOVERS (1)

2014-07-24T01:37:00.002-07:00

Cuddle with me to a perfect rest
move with me of which thou know best
let practice the blindness therein and test
in open secret we shall share
that in-between the lips the breeze shall hear.

Let forget the world and be as we are into it
let the moon be jealous and seek of love with the sun
away, far-away we shall crawl
where no mind shall know that of which we draw.

Follow my tune O' gracious image
even if it means forgetting my adage.

UNTAMED LOVERS (2)

2014-07-24T01:36:00.002-07:00

Follow my tune o’ gracious image

follow me even if it mean forgetting my adage

Is love not what my father’s seek therein the place of rest?

they are ashamed and decide to love in the silent haven

Our’s will be not an open secret

where even the moon shall peep and be jealous

the audience will freeze

that they may not feel the breeze

Of which we share in-between the lips

Greater our love shall be

than that of Romeo and Juliet for,

death with them, they shall never go the same path

Our’s shall be even beyond death wrath.