Ascending Acrostics Again
Posted in response to prompts from Acrostic Only. (Nickers and Ink has been honored with a handful of First Place awards and several Honorable Mentions from Acrostic Only, as well as the July 2009 Acrostic Poet of the Month award. You can find these awards in the sidebar at Nickers and Ink.)
Celebration
Convening cheerfully,
Everyone is exuberant.
Look all around.
Entertainment and excellent eats
Beckon us to indulge.
Relationships are reborn
And acquaintances are established.
Time travels too quickly.
Instants escape us.
Overdue outlooks elapse.
No wonder we lose touch.
Schism
Skipping sense,
Conflicts are created.
How does it happen?
Individualities emerge.
Semantics and specifics supplant
Mercy’s good measure.
Sensuality
Setting spirit and soul aside,
Entertainment intervenes.
Now trumps not yet.
Sensations replace sense,
Utter pleasure the goal.
Anyone can see
Liberty equals not license.
In an instant,
Total fantasy
Yields far less than we expected.
Magnum Opus
Magnificent masterpiece.
Audiences applaud. Greatness glistens,
Needing no introduction.
Understanding appears with Mastery.
Only the most gifted
Perceive life purely,
Unless true artistry
Sets seekers to see it too.
To Be or Not to Be
Try to tell
Outright untruths.
Before long,
Everything is revealed.
Only in living may
Recognition return.
No one may know
Our own souls by
Trying to tease the truth.
Try to tell
Outright untruths.
Before long,
Everything is fulfilled.
Futile
Flawed forms fail
Under purposeless existence.
Tell me why you breathe,
Imitating idealism for nothing. No!
Linger in love that lasts.
Eternity counts for everything.
Wilderness
Where are we?
I imagined such a place,
Long ago.
Did we depart for a distance?
Everything seems eerie, though
Relics remain.
Never did we need
Escape from the everyday.
Somehow, sanity stays
Safely ensconced, since we skipped her step.
Not My Cup of Tea
No more for me, thanks.
Only one cup.
Testing new tastes is tricky.
Maybe next time
You can try my tastes.
Cups may overflow
Unless we endure
Periodic possibilities.
Outside our own choices
Favorites may flourish.
Till we sample
Every epicurean ideal,
Anyone may avoid a treasure.
Broken Verses
Busted.
Ruined.
Objects of nil.
Killing time and
Erasing lines of
Needless nouns.
Vibrant verses
Escape,
Replaced by
Silly sentences and
Empty phrasings.
Stop a while, Muse.
Persuasion
Please! Please! Please!
Enthusiasm entreats.
Resolution rebels.
Stop and submit.
Underlings are all others.
All he asks is
Simple accord,
Insisting
Only his way.
No others matter.
How Great Thou Art
Heavenly Father,
Omnipotent One,
We worship You.
Glorious God,
Righteous Ruler,
Eternal Father,
All creation bows
To honor You.
Triumphant and true,
Holy and honored,
Only You are worthy,
Up above all.
Almighty and
Reigning,
To You we sing.
