Best Anoints Poems
Quietus
...In a mire brewed
betwixt puddles of hell and mute dissent
a martyr wades -
weighed down by chains of shame and disdain
alas the thirsting self-absorbed swamp
distills and swills her stewed sil......
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Categories:
anoints, angst, conflict, dark, depression,
Form:
Free verse
The Perils of the Ghetto
...Soft silhouettes sashay by my window
Grievingly gazing out unto a world of which you may never know
Linen curtains briefly ruffled in the breeze
Old drunken Julius finds shade under the huge oak t......
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Categories:
anoints, life, people, sorry, world,
Form:
Quadro - New Dawn
...
Every new dawn reigns
as nature's queen to start the day
and her sword of light
anoints us thru the window panes
Sandra M. Haight
Quadro: 4-line verse with 5/8/5/8 s......
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Categories:
anoints, morning, sun,
Form:
Verse
Madrina and Her Baby Angels
...Draped in diamonds like the starlit heavens
she walks through the milky way and shines
like a burning candle in the thick of night
She is Madrina the sky Princess of love
her sparkling......
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Categories:
anoints, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
God Bless You
...God gave you gifts that you may use them
Omnipresent He is hoping you choose Him
Do press on He will walk with you
Be meek as a child watch God move
Live your life as best you can
Even when d......
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Categories:
anoints, appreciation, christian,
Form:
Acrostic
Moonlit Suite
...Candle of Ishtar glints their eyes to taste
where fireplace burns hushed tones, a smoky glide
and dew anoints waxed mouths, sighs collide,
like unspoken quakes, uttered not in haste.
L......
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Categories:
anoints, desire, love,
Form:
Sonnet
A Kiss of Honor, a Memorial Day Tribute
...Frantic searching for my sanity as the odor of explosives and burning flesh assault my soul. Longing for the boredom of stuffy barracks my eyes my friends constantly search for your return I hide al......
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Categories:
anoints, blessing, brother, conflict, death
Form:
Prose Poetry
This Little Light of Mine
...This Little Light of Mine
I run though with a glow
That seems not to see afar off
But here is my starting point of achievement...
Mighty oceans appreciate every little flow.
Even though the wi......
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Categories:
anoints, inspirational, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Respect Vs Love
...Sages say it's wise to persist
In striving for respect over love.
Such counsel I readily dismiss
One is set here, the other above.
Respect requires a clinical bent
Empathy-empty in the joints.......
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Categories:
anoints, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Sultry Southern Sunday
...Sultry summer deep south
not only a season
or a climate, it is a dimension
I float in it submerged...
A sinuous southern life
oblique and sometimes slow
old beauty in salty thick air
warm blood sea ......
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Categories:
anoints, desire, love, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Paint Me An Ugly Duck
...Awakened and degenerated, I feel I am clashing somewhere
The clouds appear and then depart, just another face amongst billions
Millions of colors of the rainbow at one point I thought I was rare......
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Categories:
anoints, art, depression, horror, loneliness,
Form:
My Beautiful One
...You’re an enduring eclipse of quotidian winsomeness,
Existing in front of all others, compelling the aforesaid into your shadow:
My Beautiful One…
Surpassing their talent for beauty,
By allowing ......
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Categories:
anoints, beauty, love, romance, romantic,
Form:
Free verse
The Barghest's Monody
...Therewithal, profluent life ettles it's while.
Thitherward, from Death's bleak campanile
Grim antiphonals serenade.
A capriccio, the slashing swipe of the reaper's scythe
will serenade.
Strin......
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Categories:
anoints, death, life,
Form:
Ballad
The Accordionist
...The accordionist (haikus)
To the accordionist playing on the streets of my hometown, Agrinio, Greece
Nectar of a tune.
A bee am I, harvesting
my memories’ buds.
A bitter tune.
Pollen on the wind’s ......
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Categories:
anoints, life,
Form:
Haiku
Relevance Through Simple Terms
...So much money isn’t necessary, yes! It isn’t necessary
to live a life of luxury and sophistication.
Enjoying the simple things, each and every one of them
with contentment, patience and di......
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Categories:
anoints, character, humanity, life, success,
Form:
Verse