Best Capture Poems
Don't miss me for I'm never very far,
glimpsing your days from a secret star.
I'm among flowers that grow by your side,
resting on rainbows when hoping to hide.
As stars sparkle in the misty moonlight,
should a lone one capture a naive night,
or, if the summer breeze ruffles your hair,
it's because, for the moment, I was there.
Music you hear in a soft, summer's breeze,
is our song I'm singing to sleepy trees.
If not there, I fly in a peaceful place
where love can exist in a groundless grace.
I often meet you in whispers of air,
the song of a bird, sunlight on the stair.
I'll caress you when time gathers us nigh,
Together we'll explore the seamless sky.
March 16, 2023
for Brian Strand's Number 1199 poetry contest
POTD
"What is life but a succession of preludes to unwritten words . .
Quote by_Constance La France
We’re born. We learn to walk and talk.
We grow, learn more, and grow some more.
Milestones occur – too numerous to name:
first day of school, first best friend, first date,
first kiss, first heartbreak, and on and on.
Ahhh, so many firsts – some wonderful,
some not!
The poet takes these life events
and molds them into poems using descriptive phrases.
I know within my own mind
there live unwritten words, like fledgling birds,
waiting to be released and given wing!
Poetry that makes us feel is poetry most real.
I think it should be every poet’s desire
to capture words – the perfect words
conveying all the beauty (and the sadness too)
that connects us all, one to another.
May our life’s preludes continue,
and may we never falter for poetic words.
Unwritten words inside my own mind
I hope forever
I may find.
Nov. 19, 2022
I know You desire to have my heart
I want You to have it too
But I do not know about how to start
My giving my heart to You
For love is confusing, and thoughts are weak
I hardly know anything
Of what must be done to the heart I seek
To give unto you, my King
So capture my heart, Yah, steal all my love
For nothing compares to You
Please fill me with passion for things above
In all that I say or do
How wondrous it is that my heart You see
You see all the faults and sin
Yet still in my heart, Yah, You wish to be
I wish You would enter in
But how do I make You a throne in me?
So perfectly pure Thou art
You cannot abide where’er sin might be
You only can cleanse my heart
So capture my heart, overwhelm my soul
Come cleanse me, till all is Thine
Since me You forgave, and You made me whole
My heart should no more be mine
You gave me my life, breath, and everything
All things that are good and true
You gave me all these for Your work, my King–
For me to give back to You
Most precious, You gave up Your life to save
The souls of humanity
You rose and You conquered all sin–the grave
Now come conquer all of me
So capture my heart, draw my soul away
Your love is what sets me free
You gave up Your best when You died that day
Now come take the best of me
Yes, capture my heart, bind my soul to Thee
I truly want nothing more
Your covenant oath, Yah, confirm with me
Thus binding me evermore
The best way to capture a poet
You can place them in a cage of words
Within verse their emotions contained
Each beat of their heart steeped in the pain
You can place them in a cage of words
Still they will write their way to freedom
Each beat of their heart steeped in pain
They wake up in the morning and sing
Still they will write their way to freedom
Poets are a complicated breed
They wake up in the morning and sing
With inspiration their souls will rise
Poets are a complicated breed
With their words they cut away the chains
With inspiration their souls will rise
Through worded walls they make their escape
With their words they cut away the chains
Within verse their emotions contained
Through worded walls they make their escape
With words you can't capture a poet
I love to season sense engage.
It clears parts mortality dazed.
When young, summer’s tune range
is firmly, soul-deep engraved.
When grown, human ways hush
man's faith with factual mush.
Summer composed odes grant
faith prose that hopes maintain.
The soft song of a summer breeze
lifts aloft a wonderous spree
of smoothed, spliced rapture
too song silky for feel capture.
Summer’s charming, velvet songs
hold notes of mystical essence
assuring we’re a spiritual presence.
Seasonal airs of sensual flairs
are fluid trilled, space tilled, and
sound honed by summer’s hymn.
Feeling air's first tune blend,
early man named it wind.
Lightning in a bottle
That is my little firefly
I gotcha right out of
The summer night sky
Gently captured now
In an old glass canning jar
You twinkle, twinkle, twinkle
Just like a little star
Riled up and startled
With a tap... tap... tap
Awaken and glow again
No more time to nap
Lightning bug keep flashing
Yellow or neon green
Most fascinating thing
My eyes have ever seen
Keep dancing in circles
While I enjoy the show
Don't worry little firefly
... I will let you go
When love captures your soul
Putting everything on this amazing roll
Spirit unfolding right before your eye's
Your heart is pounding totally mesmerized
Seeing your life become synchronized
With all that lives so deep inside
While we are learning to fly
Shooting our love across the sky
Spelling out all the answers why
Coming together as one is the best kind of high
Knowing commitment is never saying goodbye
The only tears falling
Are the ones that come calling
Of our bond to each other
That makes us both want to hover
Around all the love we have yet to discover
Believing we are forever lovers
Like when a whispering wind captures your heart
Living all of life's amazing parts
True love means we will never depart
The kind of love we have known from the start
Love is what we make it
So we should never fake it or break it
Rather make it our own
The kind of love that never stops growing
With piece of mind of both of us knowing
Our love is always flowing
In a place, our hearts are truly glowing
If I Could Capture Sunshine
If I could capture sunshine
I would plant it in my heart
and nourish it with gentle love and care.
I would let it grow forever
like a forest it would fill me
and devour all the darkness that lies there.
If I could capture sunshine
I would gather up the rays
and hold aloft some of the radiant beams.
Shining like a golden beacon
they would lead me to the water
flowing in the crystal river of my dreams.
Lightning bolt the ground it strikes a telephone pole.
As I walked through
The wooden door
With a murmuring heart
The silence drove me crazy
As I took the long never
Ending breath
And stepped into the room
The face I saw
I rememberd then
Oh!
We meet again
A smile knocked
At my door
As I broke the silence
On the floor
And passing her by
Capturing the moment
Equus Caballus
Flying hooves cry for freedom
Why are you pursued?
*Inspired by wild horse roundups.
A. Green
We all find ways
to cherish a moment,
the ones we wish
would last forever.
Some of us
snap photos.
A camera in our faces
every chance we can.
'For the memories'
some will say,
as they lay out albums,
photo string lights,
and frames
that line
every inch of wall,
and table
until it's a museum
in your house.
Others will write
as the words
come to them.
Notebooks,
diaries,
a pen and paper.
Words fill the page,
a record of the memories
that once were forgotten;
that others can't recall.
People will record
their voices
that tell the stories
like verbal diary entries.
Their words take them back
to a moment they forgot,
and tears find their face
as their heart aches
in fondness.
Videos will be taken
for everything you do;
birthdays, parties,
outings, and clubs.
You'll find the times
you laughed so hard
or tripped over your own feet.
The moment you met
someone who changed
your entire life.
Put it altogether,
and you find a documentary
capturing the moments
you wanted to hold on to.
A collection
of drawings
in their files
and sketchbooks.
Every person they've met,
all the ones that have left.
Moments that meant
the world to them.
Small, kind actions
they never expected.
Whatever made
their chest feel warm.
That person that posts
every photo they take;
every video,
and view,
and person they've met.
Quotes and books and music
given to them
by others.
The one that uploads
something every day
is actually creating
their online memory book.
We often wonder
what is the best way
to keep a moment
we don't want to end.
Times our hearts
were fond
and our smiles so wide
as happiness consumed us,
or little things
that meant nothing to them
and everything to us.
How do we keep
that moment
forever?
We capture it
however the moment allows.
In pictures,
writing, recording,
drawing,
and posting.
We capture the moment
so that it will live on
for as long as we want.
However it's done,
the moment is now
forever alive
in us
and anyone
we choose to share it with.
There is a singular moment when the
Sunset is at its most brilliant….
Just before the color begins to fade,
Still lovely but past its prime.
A moment the wave is at its crest,
Just before it plunges into oblivion.
To capture the force of nature
repeated, but never exactly the same.
The second before a smile fades
And the mirror reflects insincerity
The instant the breeze lifts the leaf
just so, before the hurricane unleashed..
These seconds are priceless,
The genius of capturing them
Is art that shines with triumph….
The knowing, the feeling of time.
To capture the moment with poetry
The time that words drip like honey.
They come unfettered like quicksilver…
A gift to take, and then honor the giver.
In shredded attire
Bodies of flesh
Through the waterfall haze
In sweated fresh
In his arms captured
Her leg like a vine
Wrapped with intention
As he enters entwined
In standing pose
This pillar of man
Inner grows
Wanting runs
Tongues fencing
Adventurous hands
Waterfall spray
Mixing with glands
Grandiose groans
Echo this cave
Two statues in loved weld
In carnal crave
The cry of content
Choirs her walls
As spasmodic groans
Inner enthral
In quivering shake
Intake of kiss
Cave of carnal capture
Sexual bliss
.
You captured my heart a world apart
I must say with every new passing day
My thoughts in dismay
I want you here with me
That sets our spirits free
Why can't all those men just let you be
Dear our time is very near
I want to make all of this clear
My promise to you is sincere
In no way should you ever fear
If I'm being honest with you
Or if I will treat you right
I got your back and I don't like to fight
I worry about your day and night
That my love is too far out of sight
My mind always off in some distant place
Your such a beautiful girl
A minority among your race
I know this is hard for you to shake
I can only imagine the look on your face
How you have always wanted to disappear without a trace
Out in public always having to hide your face
Never making eye contact
In fear they might give chase
They never understand you wanted nothing
To do with that place
Our love is so strong
It seems like this whole thing is taking too long
I would never let you down or steer you wrong
Hope you know I think about you
All the times I hear a love song
We must prepare not live in dispare
Must not waste any more time
Because having to wait is so unfair
We need to play this smart
Trusting in God who played such a big part
All of this time has an effect on our hearts
I don't want any of this to go bad
It's easy to be sad because we are so far away
I have to say I can't do this blind
You have to know it all messes with my mind
You must find a way to except I would never betray
Your love in any way
Our bond will last forever
If we work together
Our love will grow
Big enough to fill up a room
Trust me and together we will agree
There is never going to be
A love like ours for us to see
You mean so much with that special touch
You're my queen for I have never seen
Anyone that has been so truthful and honest in every way
I love you more with every passing day
Soon you will be my wife
Nothing can come between us or tear our love apart
Baby this is for real and how we will spend the rest of our life
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