Best Costly Poems

Costly Reprieve
by Jason Williams

A hypnotic ritual
Holding utensil to flame
It hurts to see the bubbling
But I’ve no one else to blame

I do not care for anyone
I only care for me
About the next fix to get
That's all that I can see

Cotton brushes against skin
The tourniquet stretches tight
My...

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Calculate costs carefully - Christmas can create credit card crisis! 

Contest – Alliteration one liner
Sponsor Silent One
10th December 2015...

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If every black sheep of the family
Became a billionaire
Then maybe others of that family
Would want then more to share.

It is so then they’ll testify,
“By God, we have not been unfair!”
If so by God then answer please,
“What did it cost to care?”

Brenda Elizabeth Rose...

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Should I thank lightning for its fire,
or praise the wind when it's blowing?
For without fire, we'd all expire,
and the wind keeps the air flowing.

Fire demolishes all with ease
and when winds wail, ships oft get tossed.
And nothing can ever appease
the grief felt for a loved one...

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Amidst strong foes, in real, he plays the hang
disturbing a hive to trouble the gang
one on a town to sweep
ride on sea with a jeep
placing the hand on a poisonous fang....

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Contractual agreements with publisher caused DELETION...

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was a garden unloved not many flowers 
memories run deep and were buried there 
here children used to play in summer showers 
a cat stalked  looking absurd with an irritable stare

we caught this moggie stalking a tiny mouse
was hiding away in the iris bed
not...

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On a night such as this
A besom seated, flighted Witch
The Maple near an Oak is blowing;
An emboldened Toad on root is croaking.

Halfway down the hillside lawn
The dusk enlightened flowers sulking
As breezes toss the moths about them
Close a Ring that slipped to soil.

A couple sits within...

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There once was a much-desired piece of real estate nearby the estate of a king.
The property was coveted by the king and owned by a subject in his domain.
The king offered the above mentioned landowner a fair price, but he promptly refused to sell.

The use...

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COSTLY

binding and blinding
pale and fluorescent
under white silk
parted
her skin seethes
fleshy and full
incandescent
like mist off sea
sticky and costly

something out of nowhere
 taut blue skin of water
an absentee
lost but free

he is hypnotized
by perfection as
she rolls her soles
against a cold
unyielding wall
curved feminine
legs that beg
for instant
answers



something out of nowhere
 taut...

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Jesus Christ  is a blaisser
He  is a provider 
Hosanna , Hallelujah!
Hallelujah , Ah - ah!
Amen 

Jesus Christ  is the head of the church 
He is pure honey that cost so much 
Hosanna , Hallelujah!
Hallelujah , Ah - ah!
Amen 

March 31/2023
By Alfonso Warally Ngengethe Mussabwa Chris...

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With each tick, a sag
Still in the lag
some in neglect
demise as death
dumb as the sea

Still waters run deep 
diverse tongues and beliefs
black clay however beautiful
 none is voice
...none but passion

Alas!..the power of passion
A mandate to be
once a whisper
later,..a mantra
Feat worth dying

Passion is a jailer
A limit,...

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He was a silver tongued devil from New Orleans
Carried a new deck of cards in a locked brief case
He came up to Texas in a pair of pressed jeans
With a stiff demeanor they called a poker face

He had big brown eyes and a set of...

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Is it the arrow while in its flight?
That determines what is in its sight?
More likely the archer, with steady aim.
Shot not to kill, but to hurt and to maim.
At last, he’ll release his final revenge.

It’s not his choice, the flight to abate,
The target chosen as...

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costly stones

the mountain partly hid the lake 
was crystal clear and warm
they swam across to the river where its outlet was
we were looking for costly stones.
The lake got shallow, and they waded, but could
not find any pricey stones.
When they waded back, the lake had retracted...

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