by Geoffrey Brewer |
Categories:
parody,
Come out on the Veranda Amanda
For the sun is setting soon
We will speak of love with candour
As we stroll beneath the moon
I will strum upon my mando-
-lin, choose sweetest songs to croon
For you are my heart’s commander
And your nearness makes me swoon
As we let our steps meander
Through the twilight, petal strewn
Will you take my hand and pander
To my passion til eftsoon
Like an unrestrained crash lander
On an outer planet moon
I shall die, a salamander
In your fire to be consumed
by Clive Culverhouse |
Categories:
emotions, kiss, love, passion, relationship, together, words,
a yearning of alabaster guilt given birth
from this mouth of words mesmerising
like rings of Saturn, behold encroached
by your retort, cutting if not comic, life
adjacent to corners of some death, you
lit fires with a tongue and let them burn
reeling in oceans, as salamander heads
lined exotic craters of timely eruptions
yet honey melts heaven in a single kiss
by Anastacio Rivera |
Categories:
life, love, nature
I would breathe you in
Like oxygen
Hyper with no ventilation ,
Asphyxiation
A mellow mush
Together dried
Crystallized and surprise!
A lightning bolt
Electric jolt for the
Lady of the Labyrinth
Rainbow omniscience
Blinding bliss
Kissing the iris
Vision of the prism
Versicolor mix created
Fixated on the electromagnetic spectrum
Divine strumming
Every atom humming
Phonetic reverberations
Arcane incantations
Salamander songs
Of long ago
Pyromantic pixies
Generative divinities
And the evolutionary imperative
Applestarseed naturalism
by Garth Von Buchholz |
Categories:
animal, dream, fantasy, imagery, imagination, mythology, nonsense,
(A Dream)
O ripe delicious Salamander
Thou beast-fruit
Thou art mine!
O moving morsel
Dangling sun-blessed on a tree
Perching there so sweetly
How I love thee!
Climbing high, the picker’s hand
Snatches forth to capture
The living fruit?
Greater than the others
Greater than the apple, pear or grape is he,
My Salamander.
O walking melon!
Sit still now in my palm
Thou smiling fruit,
Thou art mine!
I slice thy ripe skin cunningly
And cut by cut I love thee
I suck thy simple life
The nectar from thy bloated belly
O tasty Salamander!
Noblest of all tree-babies
I live for thee, my urchin fruit
My melon Salamander.
by M Braimah Saaka |
Categories:
break up, love,
We used to wait outside
at the girls rooming house
by the Ohio in Cincinnati
Sex does not self heal
Nor does the salamander
we trapped under the moss
We always said
We'd die together
At daybreak
We knew better
Love does not always
fill the heart
On rainy nights
It kills the heart
The noon at the clinic
shall remain our secret
The long recovery
Bittersweet
We woke this morning
To our failed romance
Your boyfriend from Somalia
He was right
Some women are exotic
Like goldfish
only less slippery
Always out of reach
by Donovan Beukes |
Categories:
blessing, death, inspiration, inspirational, sister,
Your essence is still and will always be with us
Your unlimited love and compassion a beacon
For those in need of acceptance and comfort
Your smile a sign of divine joy and content
Your embrace all-encompassing and warm
Your humour could brighten any dark mood
Your wisdom a gift from God
Your absence a daily struggle in life’s bubble
Your legacy pulls us through
As we declare daily our love for you…
SALAMANDER
by Caren Krutsinger |
Categories:
3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade, 9th grade,
But I do not want to be grimy
Wish I was a salamander, slimy
You’re a piglet. You should love mud said Dad.
Dirty soiled hooves and hair should not make you mad.
Let him be said Mom. He is his own best pig.
For her my identity was important, truly big.
Daddy backed off from his far away boy.
Giving this piglet a renewed sense of joy.
by Delice Arleen Skelly |
Categories:
love, memory, romantic, romantic love,
'Twas a magical night beneath the moon
Enchantment unfurled sweeping all around
Cicadas vibrated musical tune
Jasmine's fragrance, beautiful, quite unbound.
Magical moonlight looked down on lovers
Their secret tryst will never be erased
This was moment true love was discovered
Like a magnet drawn they stood face to face.
Whispering midnight they were all alone.
In magical kingdom they did embrace
Salamander scurried across warm stone
Palm trees murmured softly, enchanted place.
Memory lingers of first tender kiss
Smell of Jasmine and they both reminisce.