Best Besets Poems
She a Dream Raven, Ghost of Ill Repute
...(1.)
Beware, Nightmarish Dreams Are Oft By Raven Sent,
(In Tribute To Edgar Allen Poe)
When incantations stoke fiery embers,
eerie nights, their sounds roust to remember
ghosts of yesteryears,......
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Categories:
besets, appreciation, art, creation, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
Of One Sweet Kiss- Anacreontic Verse
...OF ONE SWEET KISS
~~anacreontic verse~~
As yawning sun
shall end the day
and stars at night
flutter betray,
my heart besets
the velvet sight
and w......
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Categories:
besets, eve, lonely, longing, lost
Form:
Lyric
Born Again
...I was born in sin and in sin did my mother conceive me;
I wallowed in my iniquities and allowed satan to deceive me.
I hurried out to do things which were not just and right;
Occasionally they wer......
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Categories:
besets, baptism, faith, friend, sin,
Form:
Rhyme
OVERCOMING JANUS' FACED BEHAVIOUR
...
Attacked by Janus-faced complexity
My mind responds with functionality
To present either sheer timidity
Or self-entitlement tenacity.
Gripped with hypocrisy’s duplicity
I succumb ......
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Categories:
besets, blessing, character, christian, faith,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Parting
...The Parting
Exodus 14
We stand sweating and thirsty by the shore
At the setting of Ra
A setting we’ve always anticipated
Bringing a glimpse of beauty to each day of toil
Beauty now eclipsed......
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Categories:
besets, conflict, pain, religious,
Form:
Free verse
Darkness Where Now Poe and Raven Reside, Part Four
...Darkness Where Now Poe And Raven Reside,
(Part Four)
Dragon dead, headless, mired with black gore
Hero replied to those chained in cold dark
I am spent! My blad......
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Categories:
besets, art, creation, dark, death,
Form:
Rhyme
I'D Like To Go
...When I get time I'd like to go
On a cruise around the world
So many sites I'd like to know
I'd watch as each unfurled
On a cruise around the world
I'd look at the sun as it sets
I'd watch as ......
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Categories:
besets, appreciation, beauty, fantasy, world,
Form:
Pantoum
Me and Me First
...That soft-spoken Sovereign commands a big stick,
runs the world into ruins, once our bailiwick.
If asked why, He grins grimly, pale lips slightly pursed:
"Vindication? Straightforward: It's Me an......
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Categories:
besets, political, society, world,
Form:
Quatrain
The Four Seasons
...Don’t know that I have
a favorite season
I mean, Spring is quite
nice, if you don’t mind
sneezin’
Summer, warmly teasing!
Till sunburn besets the host,
unarguably not pleasing
Winter s......
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Categories:
besets, humor, humorous, poetry, poets,
Form:
Free verse
All We Have Is Hope
...I can feel the freezing fright and fear rattling in the marrow of my bones;
It immerses me.
I can feel the vexing uncertainty shrouding me like a black cloud;
It swallows me.
I can feel the baleful w......
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Categories:
besets, cancer, conflict, hope, how
Form:
Free verse
Spring To Life
...By a road traversed by many
Where few uphold her beauty
She stood a figure so *****
Which only drew me near
I wonder if she'll ever know
How marvelous she was in snow
She shields her ......
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Categories:
besets, beauty, spring, tree, winter,
Form:
Sonnet
Killed By My Memories
...killed by my memories
my thoughts, my mind
so ****ed up so twisted inside
they are killing me, ripping me apart
flesh from bone, rippng my very skin from my body
my mind never sleeps, forever tormen......
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Categories:
besets, depression, fear, love, me,
Form:
ABC
Evil Begets Evil
...“Evil begets Evil”
I read upon the derelict arch,
Engraved in the stone: a warning to all
Who to these ruins would march.
“Evil begets Evil”
“Evil begets Evil”
Even the welcome mat
......
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Categories:
besets, betrayal, conflict, corruption, hate,
Form:
Ballad
Nightwish
...**Inspired by the band "NightwisH" and the cover of an EP record. So many shades
of silver created a haunting feeling that never let go of my mind. **
My eyes close and I NightwisH
Sliding into......
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Categories:
besets, dedication, fantasy, imagination, music,
Form:
Free verse
Friendly
...Friendly.
What stupor has besieged me
All my life
That is not my end now
Friendly?
Where was i when i needed you?
Off by myself, surrounded
Without your presence,
Friendly.
Did you not......
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Categories:
besets, crush, devotion, hurt,
Form:
Free verse