December| 2022

Tumbling through an hypnotic  defiance

Spreading wings in a faithful reliance

Feeling magnificent in soaring splendor

Finding journeys hidden trail once more

Expecting a reverend and tasteful chivalry

Announcing dutifully a heroic noisy entry

Debating the outcome of a tortured score

Repeating once again life's prosperous bore

Drifting solemnly inside sheltered facade

Awaiting fully a sincerity's anguished nod

Twisting verily thru dimensions hidden door

Making waste of popular wisdom's folklore

Rewriting something from yesterday's pages

Placing comma's to separate our long stages

Hesitating briefly upon many a distant shore

Gathering sunlight to relieve eyes leaking spore

Painstakingly we accept the withering spiel

Arguing thusly against todays falsified ordeal

Omitting a kindred spirits most crucial chore

Excruciating in realization's deep seeded core

As my mind plays to sweet sounds of silence

forevermore

Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr

Copyright 12/1/2022. All rights reserved

Pierced tween mine double faulted aftermath

Meanings deranged offering of actualities rage

Forgiving's stolen chance of redemption amiss

Timely Minutes destination wades brightly anew

Every challenged innuendo, a charactering edge

Previews demeanor running thru (peek-a-boo)

Spinsters groveling, times shoe shuffled dance

Gravely the punished compilation of thy reveal

Tonal oblivion, along a thunder trailed comply

Peopled existence, share remissions unveiling

Sanctions controlled horizon, again; rivers wild

Lively we thrive, under a tentative wondering

Preference favors the remorseful acknowledge

Understanding volunteers, a connectivity found

Hideous contrive, alas laughing a naughty dare

Verily, minstrels fanciful undertaking unwinds

Withering reminders of yesterday's onslaught

Misgivings remedial, thinned of hyper absolve

Staged defiance, cured of histories remittance

Hastily things of nature, swell with life's walking 

Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr

Copyright 11/1/2022. All rights reserved

Daily offerings of institutional conglomerations 

Stealthy images woven of time-delayed message 

Fleeting passages strained of misguided follow 

Theaters dancing affirmations all rolled into one

Leaky reminders, filter mentality’s groveling peek

Suffrage emulated from cloak-and-dagger reveal

Dehumanized factions, thriving under misdirection 

Third world acknowledgment outside normality 

Energies swollen appetite for inclusive connect

Fibers prickly abandon unchallenged annoying

Slovenly adherence a cores gravitational pull

Blind capitulation, a study of willful emasculate

Movement, garnished of predisposed apprehend 

Tangled webbing enhanced before visualization 

Eyes blurry acceptance, thy cloudy disposition 

Minds turmoil, skipping through make-believe

Satellite volley, uncontrolled between administer

History channeled byway of internets alluring 

Bewildered infusion, times repeated come-along

Time line lost to informational bombardments

Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr

Copyright 10/1/2022. All rights reserved

Hedged betting in negative congregations

Tempo based hallucinate under black light

Glowing aftermath, deviations silent mass

History bound participation's, slow drawn

Deficient reparations cajoled unto aware

Weasels slither, in and out of today's rule

Pestilence mingled between an overbearing

Livelihood falls short, again of entry's battle

Drainage seeps through punctured collect

Frailty exposed before tired eyes moisture

Glistened references entail fabrics solace

Preoccupancy heaped upon desolate souls

Tremor bargained solutions, guttural squeak

Responsiveness stagnant of voiced inserting

Founded dilemma, a continued written rebut

Temptation, polished affirmations unchanged

Verified indemnity scathed of abrasive smile

Wired assaulting through umbrellas canopy

Secretive confirmation, our big brothers spy

Life's finagle, caricatures face blended deny

Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr

Copyright 09/1/2022. All rights reserved.

Darkness, from where time christens existence

Life grows through routinely tunneled arrivals

The arrow of beginning is squeezed unto being

Lonely thrives, among abandoned shallowness

Pressured resistance, a survivals introduction

Blackness, shuffled between intimidated sty

Danced figures walk, under world's umbrella

A starved potential running totally unaware

Innocent file gives unselfish surrender to surreal

Theaters borrowed sonata unto basic regalia's

Vivid scenarios, blend yesterday into whatever

Soul drenched voluntary, a nighttime's release

Hours infinite abandon, ungoverned to reality

Messages spearheaded under grappling allure

Sustenance beholden to fortunate acquisition

Initial's reminder, times affronted expediency

Escape floundered on destiny's gripped annoy

Footfalls plodding, slow amid progressions tug

Situational advancement bled of connectivity

Morning's eventuality, futilities born conjecture

Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr

Copyright 08/1/2022. All rights reserved.

Livings devine desegregation, from routine spill

Hidden agenda, polished inside a grievous spoil

Journey's voyage, an insiders complicated deal

Woefully traveled, a strangers long awaited toil

Destinies color, as revealed top popular displaying

Perishable collective, a trying affirmation to give

Today's followed transgressive, new dawn graying

Weary participants, dance afore united collective

Our symbols of truth, wound to a spacey being

Witnessed collaborations, mysteries announce

Eyes unbalanced view, to galvanized belonging

Pressured understanding, a shouldered pounce

Whispering sagas, torn from an anguished core

Breathable recalling, to yesterday's mistaken spy

Frustration's dialog, running thru regrets harbor

Insistence peeled from irony's endangered deny

Entities gambled destination to a future reveal

Timely Minutes releasing, of a wayward child

Conclusions trampled heart, to ended conceal

Destinies allowing, thy willed investigative wild

Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr

Copyright 07/1/2022. All rights reserved.

Beyond the spontaneous demeanor of timed global

Destinies triumphant recognition within exuberance

Yesterday's life theater, worthy replicated squander

Everything dependent upon recurrences affirmation

Perishable conclusions running under a blind insist

Staged clinical observance, today's recorded remit

Eventualities tunneled preparation to galvanization

Proclamation clarified, thy resounded witness peek

Fever, dancing between fires stolen annulated end

Carnage spinning amuck, to treasured spoiler us

Affirmation waiting for a granulated overwhelming

Timely minutes decision, a predisposed conclusion

Pestilence thriving afore temptations groveled spit

Benevolence shining unto the cracked allowances

Nightingale whispers running under silenced spew

Fogged filled obedience, afraid of a timid reconcile

Memories beamed understanding of happenstance

Shinning preferences to cloudy backstage recording

Crested reminders to a history's bygone generation

Alas, pompous reality; falls between now-and-then

Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr

Copyright 06/1/2022. All rights reserved.

Plagued before a trending example, again uncovered

Today's face-to-face, unshielded from a themed cloak

Visuals defined debacle, our grand unwinding of time

Meanders strolling patronage, blinded happenstance

Peace-mill guidance, filtered through imagined glory

Statures previewed benevolence, fairy's wild observe

Testimonies dried compliance, our theater's revenge

Picturesque the colorful essence, of a make-be-leave

Entities borrowed stoppage, under the rooted growth

Hazy Images from the salty-eyed weariness of space

Blissful carnage, between spite's thunderous resolve

Daily's scorched horizon, conceals a natured demise

Memories premise, slowly ground unto walking's step

Forever's demolished accusations, thy faded remorse

Winded journey's, living the heralded dance miscue

Saga's profound exclamation, hold type-cast; unseen

Reflected circumstances the far reached never-ending

A bothered testimonial lost to frightened participation

Free-wheeled abandonment un-searched unto reality

Yesterday's bereaved insistence, memorials oversight

Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr

Copyright 05/1/2022. All rights reserved.

Gravely tutelage, whispers unto a borrowed time

Caressed passages dance within evenings entwine

Memories denounced pawnage, of a lighted display

Living's fellowship, as guided to heart-ships dismay

Sour are tentative dangling's, of life's ovarian unfold

Creature's blind-side viewing, a mystery offering sold

Shallow the twisted roadside to an acknowledge past

Flagrantly, we again sample our timely minutes task

Stones slippery referral, of a footfalls unsure plight

Desperate grasping, within tunnels pitch-black site

Stealthy images, spinning round the frightened cry

Angry apostles sign, theaters groveling nightly spy

Of withering alignment, does nurtured pawn drive

Smothered maniacal balance to a fevered bee-hive

Plated drumming, again a nightly thumped rhythm

Restless abandonment, plowing through continuum

Envious sanctions unfold before a plagiarized reveal

Neighbor's obvious wannabe, a gold treasured steal

Lighted understanding, afore a heralded proclamation

Truth shelved inside visualized, and divine destination

Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr

Copyright 04/1/2022. All rights reserved.

Livelihood's damnation, our totalities converse

Each squealing testimonial' a unweilded drown

Uneven footage, from which all have traversed

Many touched avenues, a banishments ground

Field dressing camouflage, likely hidden pledge

A poisoned aftermath spins thru our tomorrow

Times suites, unfolding of a spirits acknowledge

Weathered happenstance, a stone bred sorrow

Yesterday's regaled admittance within a heresy

Thunders dance, among our channeled torment

Memories hyphened stretching, upon the queasy

Periods allowance, our extensively stolen intent

Forgotten promises rain the hampered spewing

Multi-colored horizons shadow a blissful refute

Timely Minutes eyeing, of disinterested viewing

Mimics comply, bare our compromised dispute

Holy stampede of a clients righteous aftermath

 Worldly advantage through times cycled renew

Roustabout findings, teacher between overcast

Companion's hostage, a featured grand review

Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr

Copyright 03/1/2022. All rights reserved.

You control the strings of my soul

Fingering gently the brittle threads

Making queasy music of the heart 

While sending me to floated edge

The heated and rising involvement

Complete with melted acceptance

Speedily turning poisoned arrows

Hoping only, for a merciful ruling

Yet the migrating footfalls of repeat

Slowly drawn off the beaten course

Dispel my revolving sanctions lost

Testing life's resolve inside my mind

Glory not lost, but entwined together

You stretch our timed purposefulness

Something placed below the common

In abandonment's bitter re-visitation

And memories, formed by our dealings

Fragmented to yesterday's importance

Hold relevance, simply on the strength

Of time, place, and voluntary hind-site

Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr

Copyright 02/1/2022. All rights reserved.

A Carriage ride to oblivions chosen destiny

Suiters, so designed accompaniment in tow

Patronage filled with the irony of liveliness

Wheeled suffrages spawned of a minuscule

Treasures defined allowance; reward unfound

Walkings's tearful reminder of a deserted trail

Missions developed inside a fevered hasting

Ghostly, the tragedy of timed happenstance

Each tip-toed advancement within earthly step

Barriers filled with hearty remnants of shame

Fabrics renown overture of an arrangement

Caricatures glowing reminder, actuality bound

Fielded adventure, daisy washed in sun yellow

color blinded, systematic, revelations of bleak

Paint-by-numbers display of today's legged-ness

Rainbow's rendition, glorified after-engagement

Festered examinations, under the glassed view

Pin-pricked alterations, from furthers rebuke

Tainted reminders of actual, & Usual occurrence

Seldom does the hammer of truth fall in place

Written by Raymond J. McCarter, Sr

Copyright 01/1/2022. All rights reserved.