Best Compels Poems
A Tulip Grows Under An Evergreen - Inspired By the Poets At Poetrysoup
...A
fine
Parrot Tulip
in vibrant intensities
with unique undertones
of green acquirable only in a
few forests. A ruby red swirls within
its petals beckons awareness of those very
strokes th......
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Categories:
compels, beautiful, beauty, earth, light,
Form:
Shape
Categories:
compels, art,
Form:
Shape
An Eulogy of Sorts, That, Hopefully, Lends Itself To Daver
...Do not vainly look in those remote
Places,
That, once, were acquainted with a
Small part of me;
Here I roamed beneath congestion's
Of tumultuous cloud; ......
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Categories:
compels, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Christmas Miracle In the Ghetto (Co-Written With John Moses Freeman)
...Peering at the radiating faces of happy families
So much joy emanates from well-to-do children’s sparkling eyes
Wish I could replace the grief, put smiles on the faces of my sons
Without a glimmer......
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Categories:
compels, family, holiday, hope, upliftingme,
Form:
Narrative
Leper Messiah
...
Walking toward His grave, the cool air nipping at my nape on this chilly Nisan morning, feeling disconsolate. The sun has just risen over the Mount of Olives, while the magnificent temple basks in ......
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Categories:
compels, jesus, remember,
Form:
Haibun
Living In the Dark
...
It is the night, in deepest dark, that death foretells
the demon heart in which all lonely feeling dwells.
Yet, in plain sight, our eyes can’t see what life impels,
emotion’s plea, our dee......
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Categories:
compels, anxiety, dark,
Form:
Monorhyme
Game Day
...Mighty Ducks win the game
Pass the ball perfect the play
There's so much riding on your fame
Men clad in armor win the day
The crowds are grumbling they've all gone wild
The stripes bad call h......
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Categories:
compels, football,
Form:
Quatrain
Trick
...(THE GHOST)
In the naked eye,
Pure death approaches!
Incredibly hollow, kick the bucket long ago
No, whiff nor smell when “THE GHOST” is around
Abuses the whiteness, in which exists inside t......
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Categories:
compels, abuse, bullying, death, fear,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
''They Graze In Beauty,'' a Pastoral Parody of Lord Byron's ''She Walks In Beauty''
...THEY graze in beauty on the land
of grassy glades and dewy dales,
and all that's best of tamed and tanned
meets in their aspect and their tails;
thus softened with that tender hand
......
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Categories:
compels, animal, beauty, poetry,
Form:
Lyric
Contrapuntal Moon - Parts One and Two
...Part One.
A silent yawn, the moon awakes.
Compels its patron planet's shape.
As oceans shift by its command
And with its might recasts the land.
Below the lunar rings of mist,
A strip of cloud, a ......
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Categories:
compels, analogy, conflict, confusion, earth,
Form:
Rhyme
Hope Deferred
...Again I shield my eyes from ocean's spray
While lifting eyes of hope to search the sea
But seas and skies are endless, troubled grey
My hope deferred; how often must it be?
I'd give my life to see h......
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Categories:
compels, absence, loneliness, longing, sea,
Form:
Sonnet
Christina, Puff of Smoke
...When we were nine
and yearning, outcasted
I did not understand the bruised
nature of your soul. Perhaps I
do not understand even now.
I remember
how I criticized you for the way
you sang "Twi......
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Categories:
compels, addiction, angst, change, corruption,
Form:
Free verse
911 the Falling Man Cometh
...The falling man, one photograph captured in time
An unforgettable image, imprinted on this mind
He represents us all, weather we like it or not
His faith did not kill him, ......
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Categories:
compels, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Forget Me-Knots
...~Without~
He loves me`
He loves me without'
Sometime has passed,
I'm still without.
A wish~
I forgot to make that night.
Heaven and earth, I cast behind my eyes.
A beautiful sail, that in time wi......
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Categories:
compels, adventure, world, life,
Form:
Free verse
Ghaza
...Grovel for blood, grovel for blood you bastards
Hunger for bodies of innocent children and flee
Amidst webs of mayhem you throw the world asunder
“Zionists we are, all so powerful, all so free!”......
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Categories:
compels, angst, death, war
Form:
Acrostic