Best Crumple Poems

nobody sees you the way I do
in your wheelchair
with your unopenable arms
where everything crashes to a gray twisted landscape

my brother
alpha male
of demon strut clashes
in our...

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I can see us now Luv,
pettin ponies, musing in warm moon light,
free versin in satin style, a smile born from genuine form,

Two hearts too stubborn...

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I did not know that one could feel death cold in summer sweat,
as images of you flash lightning fast, the wind remains still and vigils
past...

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On a hill, by a pond, by a tree, in the woods,
underneath a shining sun, tucked away and overlooked.
There stood a line of ants that...

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I wake from dreams and sweating, stare;
and as the clock is striking three, the ghostly form appears to me.
'Oh no,' I say, 'it cannot be...

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I’m going to possess you as I undress you
Peel away every other dream
Layers of broken promises
That cover your heart
Fall to the floor
There with your shirt
Discarded...

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Laugh a lot
Because when you do
The edges of hardened problems
Crumple away to dust... Smile! 


Akkina R Downing...

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Someone once told me that
If I can feel the words on the page
In my heart, then I am
A true writer.
But if I am so great...

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“Floating on prayer hymn the journey isn’t construed amiss,
it takes life through the stillness of soul to the bay of bliss.” – Quote by Poet


The...

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in my life-
some    have tried to murder my spirit-
to assassinate my soul
with their single-mindfulness

nincompoops    mean and nasty

torture  ...

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I was like a piece of paper
I was smooth and crumple free
And then a man did pick me out
And scribbled over me.

And then when he...

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i was created, much like a poem
not through love, rather penned
on a blank sheet of thoughtless words
that were spit out in darkness, devoid of feelings
wallowing...

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My muse is like a carnival,
a celebration of kaleidoscope colors,
a dazzling display of light and sound.
Circling slowly until I feel dizzy.
	Will I crumple and fall?

A...

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Winter beach
09/08/2018


Cool breeze, Leafless trees, Arctic freeze

White cap waves, crumple and cave

Solemn solitary Seagull, pestering peckish people

Sandy seaweed soaked, covers beach cloaked

Frozen fisherman, fearlessly on...

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trigger fingers flex
innocent victims crumple
questions unanswered


For the "Gun"-o-ku poetry contest sponsored by Gwendolen R....

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