Best Convergent Poems
Forgotten Words...It’s hard to keep on writing
when you know your words
never reach quite deep enough—
fail again to plumb prosaic depths
and render speechless those of
greater wit and skill.
But now and the......
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Categories:
convergent, poets,
Form:
Free verse
Love Off-Sprung...futures cavort below the horizon
an expectant dawn glows, duly announcing the first born arrival
tomorrow then forward smiles, feeling good
half planned momentous moment, ordering fate, shap......
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Categories:
convergent, children, family, love, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Now I Am...there was the cynosure on your sky
you, the convergent point of poetry
I forgot to learn your all inner eye
and failed there to make Buddha tree
here, now, I’m to the hackneyed dark
a bearded ......
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Categories:
convergent, how i feel, self,
Form:
Free verse
-the Poet's Hands Are Tied-...I’m in a mental drought
My mind is empty, my hearts beating
No! Happiest in my soul
My feet sore, no place to go;
I’m happiest when I’m convergent
Penning a verse, whispering a phrase
Y......
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Categories:
convergent, absence, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Yesterdays Joys...At the end of my tunnel I use to see the light.
It was built not with rock but with thick vines green and bright.
I could see my path it was there I always walked,
sometimes I would sit ......
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Categories:
convergent, angst, change, freedom, garden,
Form:
Rhyme
A Deconstruction...A Deconstruction
I speak of nothing but
destruction
Buttered prose; a mere
distraction
Recited when the flux lines
froze
Resolved, I became a fraction
Convergent series; no inflection
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Categories:
convergent, writing
Form:
Our Building(4 University of Ibadan Students' Union Building...Our convergent joint
The rallying point
Mecca to the Pastors and Sisters
Jerusalem to the “Alhajas and Alfas”
Refuge to the weak
Shield to the strong
Nowhere on campus like our building
Lif......
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Categories:
convergent, adventure, nostalgia, philosophybody,
Form:
Alternate Universe Ferris Wheel of Life-...around
And Around
Convergence news chirality
Convenient use hue rainbow chronology carnality
Fast tracks flashbacks
New convergent reality
Hypocritical political
Around and arou......
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Categories:
convergent, absence, adventure, analogy, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
A Letter To Robert Frost...A letter To Robert Frost
Dear Mr. Frost or Bob, as the occasion might be lent
We are happy to report a world still turning wild
There are still two roads divergent in the woods
Prevailing, waitin......
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Categories:
convergent, journey, nature, philosophy, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
The Bird of Another Sky...The patina of dew dazzled on my drenched meadow,
charismatic crystals crowning the convergent verdance
sprinkled your essence in million sparkles of motif,
a tapestry I had spread on the precinct ......
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Categories:
convergent, imagery, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Snapshots of Beauty...Ordained kaleidoscopic turn of the time wheel,
the vacillating vista of life’s lattice designed
on mindscape mimicking chameleon skin colors
of the wasteland ash or the meadow emerald.
Converge......
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Categories:
convergent, analogy, beauty, butterfly, image,
Form:
Free verse
Bequest...Turned then to tools of bequest
soliciting endurance, not love's voice
and so the prime deliverance turned invoice
is thus provisions entity, survivor's hoist!
Fighting for identity, man's pois......
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Categories:
convergent, beauty, bereavement, endurance,
Form:
Monorhyme
Leonado's Last Supper...Throughout the ages myriad eyes meet in convergent gaze,
drawn to Him who stilled the storm,
who, even now, in face of death, shows calm serenity.
What men are these who gathered here, would seek ......
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Categories:
convergent, art, christian,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Saucy...Introducing my roommate Leong to my Saturday morning cartoon binge habit proved to be one of my BEST ideas EVER. She’s a very animated watcher, frequently laughing, gasping in horror and, in the end,......
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Categories:
convergent, friendship, humor, school, student,
Form:
Free verse
Convoluted Conscience...
Rhapsody of rainbow
morphs into morose mélange
of shredded exuberance,
bleeding colors
bleached from collapsed cloud
of twilight zone
embroidered by sunset spectrum,
profoundly permeate......
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Categories:
convergent, analogy, imagery, life, sad,
Form:
Free verse