Best Converged Poems
Where Gladiators Fought...Part I
Where gladiators fought for life,
we meet to fight for love
The constellations in the Roman night sky,
celestial spectators, bathe the Colosseum
in the white blood of light
The night i......
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Categories:
converged, passion, places,
Form:
Epic
Heritage...The ranch on which I hang my hat, though short on most the frills,
Is thirteen sections, give or take, of rugged trails an’ hills.
We call it ‘home’, our little world, our very own frontier,
Among......
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Categories:
converged, adventure, cowboy-western, education, imagination,
Form:
Quatrain
Saints and Demons On Halloween...On the eve of All Saints Day known as Halloween
We've a night where nothing is ever as it seems
Abraham, Martin and John hosted a grand ball
In heaven’s huge castle, a white marble town hall
......
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Categories:
converged, holiday
Form:
Couplet
The Raven and The Bard...The Raven and the Bard
-Daniel Henry Rodgers
The Raven's quill drips shades of blackest night,
Its haunting words, a melody of fright.
The Bard......
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Categories:
converged, philosophy, poets, psychological,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Sonnet 26...With pen I write to thee, Elizabeth
Whose comments I have noticed notably
No words can describe inspirations width
That thou has given unto my poetry
When writers block crippled my mental thought
Yo......
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Categories:
converged, friendship,
Form:
Sonnet
Destined Lonely...Here I remain where my destiny pointed
Followed the path with a twist at each turn
Long was the road that appeared ever changing
After these years you would think I could learn
Sa......
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Categories:
converged, loneliness, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
The Red Umbrella Hideout...It was a dark wet night...rain over head..
Sheltered us close.....an umbrella red.
Breathing moonlight ....in your silent air.
My eyelids closed ..inside your hug and care.
The fragrance of wat......
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Categories:
converged, cute love, drink, kiss,
Form:
Rhyme
Never Go Back...Walking through the streets of my home town
Reaching for the Memories of days long passed
Seeing nothing of what I once knew
Accepting the fact
That I can never go back
To the time when doors rem......
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Categories:
converged, nostalgia, people, places,
Form:
Free verse
Transcendental Triptych of Epiphanies...into the depths of the bell jar
In quiet solitude
on an autumn night
i drifted through
a quotidian quagmire.
fleeting thoughts of stillness
sparked a quest
for t......
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Categories:
converged, nature, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
The Queens Conjurer...All things that glow and move,
all things that change and pass,
I gather their delight
as in a burning-glass;
Judith Wright
The Queen's Conjurer
1.
'Given to magic and uncann......
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Categories:
converged, betrayal, dark, mystery, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
Hi, I'M Batman...Words dissolved like crystals on my tongue
Moisture filled my mouth, my jaws converged
City lights shimmered in the distance
Wings bashed the air, passed the yellow Moon,
Our footsteps slowly fel......
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Categories:
converged, love
Form:
Sonnet
Get Low- Three Trains...Three trains
The first train was bereavement, in the cab the driver died
pulling a coach of grieving souls, unknowing yet, inside
The second train was unemployed and heading where it will
......
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Categories:
converged, depression,
Form:
Rhyme
Checkmate...Clever queen, I maneuvered my way through all of the subtle and most obvious plays
Masterfully
Sensual aestheticism, sexual teetotalism, romanticism, sadism, masochism, hedonism
Calculating man......
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Categories:
converged, passion, me, heart, emotions,
Form:
Family Highway Time...I woke in the backseat ‘cause sleeping is what I did - -
I hid when we had a many state, family vacation ride.
Daddy said that this time, we would drive straight thru five.
Mama’s hair b......
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Categories:
converged, car, funny, scary,
Form:
Lyric
'twas the Month Before Christmas...'Twas the month before Christmas
When inside the house
The housewife was quiet
There's no sound, not even a grouse
When all of a sudden
There arose such a clatter
Even the Chihuahua came ......
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Categories:
converged, life,
Form:
Free verse