Sickle Sang - When my Life Changed
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Written: August 15, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann
Quote: "Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not wo...
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Categories:
abjured, analogy, change,
Form: Free verse
Whispers of Unwritten Absence
...Written: September 18, 2023
Unwritten Absence Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Ink Empress
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In the absence of i...
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Categories:
abjured, analogy, appreciation, dream, extended
Form: Rhyme
Rushing Russias Vodka
...He often rushed Russia's famed vodka
He had proudly named Bad Armoured Car,
Mouths daring to find the like in bar
Of the same strength and Field Marshall's Star.
But on alertness was set for a ...
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Categories:
abjured, character, death, drink, health,
Form: Rhyme
The Amourette Autopsy
...The Amourette Autopsy
In vesper’s curt caress there seems no bind
To daylight’s brim or morning’s dire decree-
Your vertigo embrace confounded vows,
Within a steel wheeled cauldron we stir...
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Categories:
abjured, addiction, bereavement, dark, death,
Form: Blank verse
I Am a Butterfly Girl
...I am a butterfly girl
I wanna whirl the world
No no no no! No enemies
No no! No need of boundaries
I am a butterfly girl...
La la la la..Doffed my old skin
Oh! Yeah! My problem was so thin
P...
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Categories:
abjured, butterfly, power, success,
Form: Free verse
Snared Love
...O' love the heart is a blueprint of sky
Empty and darkness engulf at high
Of love no vastnesses there is
Of tear no drops of the ocean there is
Merely a salty sigh is flying on the lonely jee...
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Categories:
abjured, blue, depression, fate, how
Form: Free verse
A Winter's Serenade
...The majestic moon abjured her light,
beneath a clear and starless night;
Between the heaves of her first winter storm,
snow gently falls with alluring charm.
Twilight glistens on the ...
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Categories:
abjured, beautiful, cool, creation, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
A Poem For My Orion
...A poem for my Orion
Who cowers in the sky
For many years, his faithful hunting dog
Was always by his side.
“Orion you are iniquitous,
You do not shine so bright.”
The dog's thoughts were...
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Categories:
abjured, absence, anger, betrayal, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
The Coulrophobiac
...Smiles o' that clown, and jokes,
As he whispers into my ears,
Then fill my eyes,
With nothing, but tears.
Felt me, that he is gon dine,
The chills, which run down my spine,
His hysterical face ...
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Categories:
abjured, dream,
Form: Imagism
Wake Asia Wake - Part One - 6
...Show them that a fair deal is still one to be honoured in your shores
no one will take more than what is his earned share
and none will seek to shortchange his honour for lu...
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Categories:
abjured, inspirational, children, heart, body,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Wake Asia Wake - Part One - 2
...Wake! and see the extent to which you’re still enslaved
enslaved by your own kind who hanker after conditioning platitudes
the clubby comfort of secretly oath-taking power cliques
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Categories:
abjured, inspirational, old, old,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Soul Intact
...Sanguine fluid hemorrhaging from a contrary source
My credence wavers at your broken promises
I once abjured all of your fatuous wars
Until I too was branded on your canvas’
Some tawdry amuseme...
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Categories:
abjured,
Form: Free verse