Sea raven, Cornish giant of the sea
From whence comes your anguish?
We hear your battle cry, seabird
Are you calling for your lover or about your lover?
I marvel at your ability to be heard
You are such a magnificent sight this eve.
I watch you in awe, until you take your plunge dive
Down, down, down, into the sea’s murky depths
Are you drowning yourself?
Has life become too painful?
I await your return, holding my breath.
For I have adopted you, anguished cormorant of the sea.
A silent storm rages...it rages in his heart,
He watches his child being pulled apart.
As she whispers poison again in the ear,
His child drifts away, with doubt and fear.
Tears of anguish, a silent cry...
...he feels however hard he may try,
The judge there might turn a deaf ear to him,
Though his sadness fill his heart to the brim.
Twisted in the court his love so pure,
Can he win ever, he is not sure...
...but he knows it will not be in vain,
Tomorrow's victory will dwarf today's pain.
Rising from his heart, a voice so clear,
Tells him, "Hey, victory will be here!"
Your open arms will close in a warm embrace,
Your kid will be yours, do not just stress.
The night may be long, but the day will come.
The truth will rise, your heart won't be lonesome.
Your love, now lost, will find its way,
Wait for your child, wait for that day...
my thoughts they so trouble me
my heart anguished within
there's no great love to save me
so Jesus saves, I'm born again
only God gives the power to save
He has lifted me on high this day
those who are sinful will see the grave
never to rise they're there to stay
my thoughts they so trouble me Lord
my heart is anguished within
there is no great love to save me
if Jesus saves me I'm born again
only God gives the power to save
He has lifted me on high this day
those who are sinful will see the grave
never to rise, it's there they will stay
Corrupted by fear, my mind is
a bleak place.
Unraveling and untwisting
in a harsh embrace.
Ghastly shadows surround my breath
- it fades.
Haunting me, the unknown;
lurking in the shades.
Within my soul, a cruel cold resides
sending shivers down my spine and
stamping my sides.
These fears, they torment me
and carve their name
I fear that they may never fade
forever their aim.
She was his devoted and loving wife and then came those pitiful, anguished nights..
She counted the cries, the bruising and prayed for an end to his confusion.
His night frights that she was observing had become quite unnerving..
In their bed he lay restless, squirming, what he saw was deeply disturbing..
Pillows punched and flattened held the key to the terrors that she couldn't see.
Most days he was distant, robotic. Was he now becoming psychotic?
She held him with a heart so tender. The war had ended but those memories wouldn't surrender.
It's trauma lived on and it bore thru his flesh. He now fought the battle of post traumatic stress.
Morning meditation
With mission and vision
To understand nature
And Nurtured my being,
Morning breeze blew
My mind to surmised
Darkened, smudged,
Blurred to the darkness realm,
Merciful Messiah turn merciless..
And Cursed the sinful souls..
Deep to the depth of hell,
Anguished and torment
gnashing of teeth without tears
Extreme agony..
Ceaseless clamor..
Solace straggled..
Scorched and sting..
With venom without remedy....
Wretched..
Endless...
Dead cease to exist...
Soundless but still called....
Messiah!
Messiah!!
Messiah is merciless to the sinful soul..
The Pit pitiless, devil's damned...
Suffering without solution
Unbearable pains without end..
Afterlife in anguished....
unseen tears of gold fish in aquarium - anguished heart penned a verse
How My First Poem Was Born Poetry Contest
Monoku poetry form only. Sponsored by: JCB Burl
Date: 04/10/2020
PLACE : 1st
M-eaningful
E-xpression
R-ightfully
C-omforts
E-very
D-ay
I-nspiring
T-he
A-nguished
M-ind
A-s
Y-our
O-de
R-eplenishes
Topic: Birthday of Mercedita Mayor (April 15)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
A-n
I-conic
S-cribe
I-s
S-imply
U-sing
N-ote
E-asing
Y-our
A-nguished
M-ind
A-s
G-reat
E-xpression
S-oothes
H-eart
I-nside
Topic: Birthday of Aisisu Neyamageshi (March 19)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
B-ehold
E-arly
R-adiant
N-ewness
A-ft er
R-ainy
D-ark
I-s
N-egated
A-s
T-winkle
A-bates
Y-our
A-nguished
G-ray
Topic: Birthday of Bernardina Tayag (November 09)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Did you hear the anguished cry
A call unanswered as you went by
Can you bolt out on the sound
As the cry reverberates around
For you may have struggles of your own
And to you unable to find your track unknown
But others may need your now
Buck up and take the lead you know how.
© Paul’s Warren Poetry
L-et
O-penness
R-elieve
Y-our
A-nguished
N-ight
N-icely
Topic: Birthday of Lory Ann (October 13)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
J-ust
H-appily
E-xpect
N-ewness
T-o
A-bate
T-he
A-nguished
C-hill
Topic: Birthday of Jhen Tatac (September 14)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
N-ewness
E-liminates
N-ight
E-vening
D-ark
O-nce
B-eacon's
L-ight
E-ases
Y-our
A-nguished
P-light
T opic: Birthday of Nene Doble Yap (July 12)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
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