Five line poem.

[darkness0within]

This is a just a five line poem,

I just don't know where this is going,

For all I know the words are flowing,

And with this line I am now slowing,

But with this line they all are showing.

[anirbas]

Craft a poem in just five lines
Where this heads first I am most unsure
I shall make the attempt I will try
My brain is still spinning from the day
But look! Here I have left five more lines

[darkness0within]

So anirbas you’ve written more,
I wonder what could be in store,
Perhaps to make what was before,
A piece that you cannot ignore,
Perhaps more content I’ll install.

[anirbas]

If my bounds I have overstepped
My thousand pardons please accept
These actions that are a misstep
Though I did follow the precept
This time my words both rhyme and chime

[darkness0within]

No rules or regulations do you need,
Just thoughts that from your mind will seed,
Each letter from computer keyed,
Those other minds now you would feed,
But now it’s time for you to lead.

[anirbas]

For myself I'd not choose to lead.
Nor a follower would I be, indeed.
I prefer not to be a part of any crowd.
I'd rather be alone where no one is loud.
In public I feel like I am wearing a shroud.

[darkness0within]

I can slip through crowds just how I please,
Just a shadow's all that people sees,
A faceless entity so free,
Too busy to even notice me,
As I merge into the crowd; Now that's the key.

[anirbas]

Through crowds I can slip if I wear a disguise.
Cover my hair with a hat so that it won't draw eyes.
Don masculine or baggy clothing as a further guise
to hide my true nature, to myself, defeminize.
Through crowds I cannot slip unnoticed, otherwise.

[darkness0within]

The only disguise that you would need,
To stop that curiosity seed,
A blank expression like your creed,
So none around you then could feed,
on any emotion they could otherwise read.

[anirbas]

Nay, nay, my friend. As a man you do not understand
Even when a female projects a visage that is stone faced
For many men this only causes their flames to be fanned
The chase is on they are bound to find themselves maced
Only then can their ardor be brought to heel and canned




(LmBo. Dame pulling up lame.)

[darkness0within]

I do understand your plight,
It is difficult to keep from sight,
The female form is very pleasing,
And men, and women find it teasing,
It's Human nature just releasing.

[anirbas]

in my younger days
I was filled with malaise
not to be mistaken for mayonnaise
why try to find my way if life is a maze
I preferred to go to ground during that phase

[darkness0within]

Life's a challenge of that I'm sure,
Like all others that have come before,
The trials and tribulations that's in store,
Makes us grow as we open many doors,
To find where we fit in future distant shores.

[anirbas]

From shore to shore this land is weary
Fraught and frayed with eyes that are bleary
Parents drained of tears over children they did bury
Shot down in battle or on the streets where they did tarry
Doesn't matter now because they're all hanging at the cemetery

[darkness0within]

In conflict many will shed tears,
As so many have throughout the years,
And all to defend a way of life,
Soon forgotten in the heat of strife,
Leaving grieving family or wife.

[anirbas]

heaven forbid they give him a convoluted answer
a finer usage of vocabulary was never heard
doublefisted words spoken in a clipped monotone
razors used to slice dice and fine tune his emotional assault
until unseen blood dripped and ran across the office floor

[anirbas]

*Bit of backstory on the five lined doggerel directly above. I had the auspicious position of being an observer at one of my store manager's management meetings, along with five other unwilling spectators. We six, were chained to the computers along the wall doing cbL's, while he conducted his staff meeting with his assistants. Whew. Whew and whew! I had my earphones off because the speech was so loud blaring out of them, it was hurting my ears. So, I had them sitting on my cheekbones, sort of, and I could still hear the cbl exercise. Worse, I could hear Satan taking his minions to task in a most hellacious fashion. And he never raised his voice and you could have heard a pin drop in the room when he stopped speaking. Whew. Whew and whew. He used the word convoluted in the proper context!!! It got stuck in my head.*

[phantasm]

At least he's an educated tyrant.

[anirbas]

Yes, with major OCD. And personally, I wouldn't have him any other way. But, he is always solicitous with his ground pounders, meaning the worker bees. Mean as hell with his minions aka management staff. He runs a tight ship and we always bonus as a result. Never ever raises his voice.

[anirbas]

Begone these thoughts of romantic rebellion
I wasn't raised to act like a ruthless hellion
Yet, here I find myself once more and again
Thinking of your you-ness your eyes your smell
Which causes my aforementioned resolve to quell

[anirbas]

I love these kind of days glazed with a thin veneer
of utter laziness. Puttering about the home cave
moving objects here and there. Yet, not a slave
to whether the domain is mausoleum pristine clean
Just moving through space in my own time at my own pace