Best Contiguous Poems


An Affair With Nature

Pass onto this thinking place
Pristine with luster and rhythmic textures
Bath in its heart-warming splendor
Here in this monolithic emerald patchwork
This relationship consoles your psyche
A pluck from here, a collection from there
A rack of tools and an now idle straw-hat 
From the loam to dust that stick upon your shoes
A place to conceal with an atmosphere 
Contiguous to the eyes embracing and rich
Time honored in its entirety
Carefully romanced by birds and creatures alike
I found you here in a home of comforts
Now your essence is complete 
Behold the gardens of light and sound 
As perfect as the gift given to man 
A portrait flowering a secrete of love
Its scenery influences your center 
Today and always 
A thinking place
With a reflecting pool
Categories: contiguous, nature, places, seasons
Form: Free verse

Premium Member The Wolf

The wolf is the ancestor of domesticated dog.
(Did you think we found our pets in prehistoric catalogue?)
That fact should be enough to make us tolerate the wolf
And to forgive his killing everything with a horn or hoof.

They keep eco-system in check by taking share of the big game.
But ranchers hate the wolves for sometimes taking prey that's tame.
They communicate with each other with howls and growls and barks and whines.
They kill and eat and then when saturated, another creature dines.

A wolf is not a grain eater, a wolf must have his meat.
If he is not allowed to kill, he and his family do not eat.
They have been exterminated from the most of this USA.
There are still some in Canada, Alaska, and parts of Northwest today.

Wolves live in large areas  a contiguous habitat.
We're trying to reintroduce them and some folks do not like that.
Wolves keep big herds thinned and they take the old and lame.
Man shoots prize animals for the fun of it and calls his victims game. 

Written 4/2/15
Categories: contiguous, animal,
Form: Rhyme

A Rainy Dawn

A mere walk in the street with some old memories,
At a mute dawn with lighted bulbs;
Recalling again some old sceneries 
Sore retrospect running in my arteries.
Under the bridge I came; to wonder
Heard some drops falling on its top!
Declaring the demise of the silence hereunder
The rooftops began to crack by  the thunder.
A forlorn feather struggling to rest on a concrete.
When it found a sleeping puppy,
It slipped on his feet.
Contiguous to him- it took a seat.
I slithered over a perished  white paper,
 figured out it was a love note!
yearning to reach its friend ,from a weeper,
saying that-without her-he is a forsaken laker.
He also conveyed the conventions they made:
"We can conquer the world together."
"Thou art my harmony and my shade,
"so no farewell is to be bade."
Suddenly! a phantom of a  car drew near
And alas, I was in the middle of the road reading the note
I resigned to this feeling of fear.
And soon was a vapid body of a deer.
The last thing I glimpsed, was:
A worn out man on an old bicycle
-tattered though it was, it showed no flaws-
Waving at me; manifesting  his sympathy and awes.
I discerned there was no reason to survive
This venom of old grievances  
Decided to eat me alive!
And there was no cure to make me thrive..
Struggle-didn't I- to remain
No echoes of merry sounds to listen
No shadows of love, but pain,
Nothing alleviated my  heart's sprain.
I left the glass broken
And I seek no returning back.
So many words left unspoken
But the tale is not yet woven:
Because the rain was washing my dust!
It didn't want me to rust.
And the thunder was roaring for me
To look around and realize the glee!
The peacefulness by which the puppy slept
And the shelter offered for the feather to be kept.
The love note that made me believe love still exists,
And old is gold with the bicycle despite its twists                        
And now I could see the sun on the horizon,
I- with the whole sleeping world-has risen.
Categories: contiguous, hope, life, lost love,
Form: Rhyme

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Premium Member A Battle With Life

A battle with life 

Dying each minute 
Disease and medication 
Diagnosed cancer

Two loving hearts part,
Trepidation that turns true,
Tears their souls apart,

Contiguous breaks, 
Courage totally shattered,
Can see blemishes ?

Heartbeats if fumble,
Hard to search serenity,
Harsh words can crumble,

Drug abuse poisons,
Destructive devil dares do,
Death knocks anytime!


Written September 2nd, 2014
Haikus 5/7/5
For contest ' Heart and soul' by Charlotte Puddifoot
Categories: contiguous, angst, death, life, drug,
Form: Haiku

Premium Member My Life

MY LIFE

Born in Dublin on Saint Patrick's Day
School; spelling champ; steady girl
Senior Prom; graduation; went away
Air Force career; traveled the world

Turkey; Germany; England; Japan
Korea; Vietnam; Philippines; Guam
Austria; Hawaii; Azores; Alaska; all grand
Thirty eight contiguous states fit the plan

Fully retired  --  more to be told  --  stay tuned 

22 September 2018
For the contest sponsored by Anthony Slausen
Categories: contiguous, career, military, retirement, soldier,
Form: Free verse

Damn Divisive Demagogic Derelict

Das Don doth debilitate democracy
driving a collateral wedge
deliberately dividing differences
collaborating, collapsing, and collaring
disparity amidst ever
increasing homogenization

extant within contiguous United States
across world wide web for that matter
attested by increased
spike among multiracial
amalgamated enclaves, individuals mixing,
where preponderance of melanin

generally affecting predominance
regarding increasing swarthy
naturally copper toned skin
across vast majority of heavily
Caucasian populated areas predicted
to become minority

according new statistics
located at webpage
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/
the-avenue/2018/03/14/
the-us-will-become-minority-
white-in-2045-census-projects/

predict the nation will become
“minority white” in 2045
which genetic assimilation
also harken better angels
among us to herald

interfaith marriage represent
according to hyperlink-
https://www.npr.org/
2013/04/10/176802652/
til-faith-do-us-part-

the-price-of-interfaith-marriage
close to half of all marriages
in this country over the past 10 years
(this cited for the year 2013,
which mostly increased since).

No doubt, the commander in chief
buzzfeeds into this inexorable trend
disquieting, horrifying, mortifying...
especially white supremacists
decrying, lamenting, threatening...

innocents abroad, and/or naturalized citizens
taking cruel dull liver re: to heart
acrimonious, caluminous, jealous, ferocious...
hazarding, kindling, tweeting
inevitable demographic transition overtaking

North America, and teeming masses
(particularly whose skin color,
perhaps fifty shades of brown,
albeit I hereby posit as
forthcoming second, yet
nonpareil gilded bronze age).

Relatively insignificant disparity
(within schema, asper genus/ species
*****sapiens per se)
people comprise greater similarity,
versus starkly disparate contrasts

between each other,
nonetheless oh bomb men able
enthuses, maximizes, trumpets...
every opportunity to spark
altercations, conflagrations, exhibitions...
animals veritably tearing each other

satiating human blood lust,
where coordination, integration, union...
welcoming brother/sisterhood, tolerance,
versus filleting, fomenting fracturing
mosaic boosts ego
inherent narcissistic tribalism!
Categories: contiguous, america, conflict, grief, howl,
Form: Political Verse


Cautiously Caught My Eye

Cautiously Caught My Eye

This saying cautiously caught my eye;
Should never let a poor dead horse lie
Not a sound,
Made around;
Go ahead and bury him and then cry.

Jim Horn

By Big Wings

By big wings we were forced to fly,
Even when wet or soon will be dry;
We flew in curves,
Small and swerves,
In and through clouds in the sky.

Jim Horn

Can Be Choral Response

Moore created example becoming a moral;
Many responses were in form of a choral;
Lost cause became,
And him to blame;
Sins committed are both mental and moral.

Jim Horn

All Over Again Have To Start

All over again we will have to start,
Being someone had change of heart;
Could be contiguous,
About being ambiguous;
No one did prefer playing the part.

Jim Horn

Over and Then Done

Finished things and are over and done;
Now can rest by sighting in bright sun;
You did convey,
Not your way;
Way you wanted it was not the one.

Am putting up Christmas decorations.

Jim Horn

You Can Hardly Wait

Are things to do that you can hardly wait;
What I hope and wish is you appreciate;
Might be behind;
Changed my mind;
So another new idea decided to create.

Jim Horn

Words I Am Frequently Using

I have noticed that be, being and been,
Are words I used over and over again;
Unnerving;
Am deserving;
Next ones are how, where and when.

Jim Horn

Signified Being Dignified

In social circles certain things are signified;
You are did determine to become dignified;
Pick and choose,
And if not loose;
Then later in life on myself still being relied.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contiguous, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

My Enemy

Are you my real enemy? 
If you are, God bless you.
And if you aren’t, I will not curse you.
But, I have to know if ye are physical or eternity.

Do you know why I ask blessing for you? 
‘Cause this shows that I’m better than you, eased.
And no matter what, I got to say boo! ! ! 
‘Cause I know your envy is on what I possessed.

Perhaps, if you are a devil, I have nothing to do ?
Only ask for curse upon you, the gab ages.
And apparently, I hate you; well I do.
I believe, keeping in contiguous will make you lose the advantages.

I live my incredible life so easy, before I got burry.
So keep on hating, watch my back in a hurry.
Categories: contiguous, evil, hate,
Form: Sonnet

Premium Member My 28,176 Sunsets

My 28,176 Sunsets
Written: by Tom Wright
2/15/2016

California dreaming foremost on my mind,
Beach filled days made an expansive collage.
But, in retirement, age has left me resigned,
And days of merriment are now a mirage;

When juvenile, my route lay so much clearer,
With no seemingly contiguous ending in sight;
Now I’m left staring into my rear view mirror,
Where virtually all my days have taken flight;
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contiguous, age, sunset,
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Brainstorming

Declarative mantras in tenacious pulchritude
reiterate the unbound verisimilitude.
The cohorts cannot comprehend the vicissitude.
Learning and judgments are encumbered in lassitude.
My thoughts are accomplished extemporaneously,
although they are all confronted adversatively.
Examples of life’s essences contrary to me,
adulterated by each potent adversary,
appear contiguous with each stark antonymy.
I seek honest truth from an external faculty.
I search for a scrupulous freelance authority.
Though time is quick, I seek this elusive entity.
I beseech your unencumbered intact allotment.
This installment will help elucidate my judgment.
Will supplies be exhausted in a fleeting moment?
Be munificent in this required fulfillment.
Categories: contiguous, on writing and words,
Form: Rhyme

The Great Lakes - Part Two

An alternate track is via Illinois River (from 
Chicago), to Mississippi, up the Ohio, and then 
through the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway 
(combination of a series of rivers and lakes 
and canals), to Mobile Bay and the Gulf. 
Commercial tug-and-barge traffic on these waterways is heavy.

Pleasure boats can also enter or exit Great Lakes 
by way of the Erie Canal and Hudson River in New York. 
The Erie Canal connects to Great Lakes at 
east end of Lake Erie (at Buffalo, New York) and 
south side of Lake Ontario (at Oswego, New York).

Statistics:
The Great Lakes contain 21% of the world’s fresh surface water: 
5,472 cubic miles (22,810 km3), or 6.0×1015 U.S. 
gallons (2.3×1016 liters). This is enough water 
to cover the 48 contiguous U.S. states to a uniform depth 
of 9.5 feet (2.9 m). 

Although the lakes contain 
a large percentage of world's fresh water, 
the Great Lakes supply only a small portion of 
U.S. drinking water on a national basis (roughly 4.2%). 
Winter 2009–10 was somewhat mild, the precipitation 
was below normal for Great Lakes Basin. 

Mean lake levels are thought to be slightly below or 
at their levels of 2009. An ice jam in February 2010 
dropped the level in Lake St. Clair. Since jelly roll more 'in jam 
was removed the level has come back to its average. 
As of March 2010, the lakes were at the level, or slightly 
below, where they were in March 2009.

The combined surface area of the lakes is approximately 
94,250 square miles (244,100 km2)—nearly 
the same size as the United Kingdom, and larger 
than U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, 
Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New 
Hampshire combined.The Great Lakes coast measures 
approximately 10,500 miles (16,900 km);
however, the length of a coastline is impossible to measure 
exactly and is not a well-defined.
Categories: contiguous, adventure, america, beauty, blue,
Form: Pastoral

On the Beach

we live such fragile lives
subject to earth, wind, water, fire
alive in a universe we barely understand
despite all our probative energy
attempting to stay the hand of death
one more hour, one more day
warding off its perceived finality
a woman once dreamed of an airplane crash
jet fuel and blood streaking her face
like drops of rain
bodies falling through the sky
horrified, she watched as they hit the ground
only to become new life forms
a contiguous existence, death passing into life
as gracefully as a blossom
falls to the earth
this image a stark contrast
to the decimation we experience
our terrified response to earthquake and flood
we base our security on
transient forms and beings
human flesh and personality, a beloved pet
structures composed of concrete, wood, metal
this is my daughter, my dog, my partner
this is my house, my office, my car
when natural phenomena
disrupt our carefully constructed lives
we are shocked, grief-stricken
appalled at the universe
for dealing such a blow
indignant at God's apathy
and in our blindness, fail to witness
death's genesis
Categories: contiguous, bereavement, birth, death, world,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Children of Tomorrow

This is the great big world we will see.
It begins inside this hatchery.
Since Our Ford made it reality,
it has been home for both you and me.

These are the children of tomorrow.
Give them happiness without sorrow.
In harmonious community,
we are strong with solidarity.
Zygotes renew our identity;
each a pillar of stability.
We will expand our society.
It is possible with you and me.

From the alpha down to epsilon,
the quilt is sewn at each echelon.
We insure that life shall carry on
We shall make each stitch continuous.
All our borders are contiguous.
With Ford’s help, it shall be congruous.
Take pride in your working as you go.
Care for the fetuses.  Watch them grow.
These are the children of tomorrow.

Based on the 1932 novel "Brave New World" by the late Aldous Huxley
Categories: contiguous, adventure, science fictionchildren,
Form: Rhyme

The Great Lakes - Part Three

An alternate track is via the Illinois River 
(from Chicago), to the Mississippi, up the Ohio, 
and then through the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway 
(combination of a series of rivers and lakes and canals), 
to Mobile Bay and the Gulf. Commercial 
tug-and-barge traffic on these waterways is heavy. 

Pleasure boats can also enter or exit the Great Lakes 
by way of the Erie Canal and Hudson River in New York. 
The Erie Canal connects to the Great Lakes 
at the east end of Lake Erie (at Buffalo, New York) 
and at the south side of Lake Ontario (at Oswego, New York).

Statistics:
The Great Lakes contain 21% 
of the world’s fresh surface water: 5,472 cubic miles 
(22,810 km3), or 6.0×1015 U.S. gallons (2.3×1016 liters). 

This is enough water to cover the 48 contiguous U.S. states 
to a uniform depth of 9.5 feet (2.9 m). 

Although the lakes contain a large percentage 
of the world's fresh water, the Great Lakes supply 
only a small portion of U.S. drinking water 
on a national basis (roughly 4.2%). 

Winter 2009–10 somewhat mild, the precipitation 
was below normal for the Great Lakes Basin. 
Mean lake levels are thought to be slightly 
below or at their levels of 2009. 

An ice jam in February 2010 dropped 
the level in Lake St. Clair. Since the jam 
was removed the level has come back 
to its average. 

As of March 2010, the lakes were at the level, 
or slightly below, where they were in March 2009. 

The combined surface area of the lakes 
is approximately 94,250 square miles 
(244,100 km2)—nearly the same size 
as the United Kingdom, and larger than 
the U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, 
Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, 
Vermont, and New Hampshire combined. 

The Great Lakes coast measures approximately 
10,500 miles (16,900 km); however, 
the length of a coastline is impossible 
to measure exactly and is not 
well-defined measure (see Coastline paradox).
Categories: contiguous, america, appreciation, beautiful, boat,
Form: Free verse

Eye My Eye

Scornful detest here it lie
Anger, hate reflect my sight
Amid your skillful moronic sense
Have a dare to eye my eye !!

With the contiguous idiotic charm
Try my attention, I demand
I assure you, will not stop
For you my patience and my calm!

Love me, like me, hate me, fight me,
Piss me, jerk me, kick me, **** me,
But here my challenge for you to take
Eye me, if you're yet to go insane !
Categories: contiguous, imagination, mystery, hate,
Form: Chant Royal
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