Best Deploring Poems

tiny words

'went to the gas station
and opened my mouth 

filled my stomach
with gasoline

lit a match and 
swallowed it in

burned myself
smoked with fire

i spread like charcoal...

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GOD:   Good, Goddess,Giving,Gem,Glee,Goodness, Gorgeous, Gift ,Glad, Giddy, Giggle,               ...

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They couldn't have chosen a nest-bed more complex, or vaster. 
I lauded their industry (toiling through Sunday, no qualms!), 
and almost felt guilty for loitering...

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Written by D. W. Breidenthal 


You take my breath away

I wanna stay in this entrancing paradise
I want all of the negativity to fade away 
The...

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On a park bench, the codger waits
left to ponder why he must hate
this man he loves whose gone astray
in the park, his young son once...

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I linger at my laptop day and night.
Not making a fiction to shift a slight.
My ink was poised on the tips of my knuckles.
There isn't...

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This vain wish to live longer, somewhere,
makes me struggle with my vulnerability
of having been born with the fear of dying...
and before that is accomplished: let...

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"Well, I'm sorry but this is boring and your list of fines, it's got me snoring and I don't mean to be ignoring you but...

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Call me a pacifist activist deploring insanity of war,
never a Fitbit moon-unit soldier of military industrial
complex, this articulate baby boomer verily stupefied,
openmouthed, dumbfounded at inane...

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Shame.
The dwarf told me.
Deploring myself in your tears.
Kissing your brightness in your eyes.
As i tried to hug you before you disappear again.
An undeniable love so...

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Examples That Are Shining

Contributed and motivated 
by Word Warrior as usual.

While each word was beating up and walloping
God came into my life and had been...

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Schlerotic schlemiel schleps...and says Shalom...

to anonymous readers March 6th, 2021
(blustery and chilly Saturday)
reminiscing about mien kampf,
when precious irretrievable youth
frittered away within
emotional wilderness of mine.

Into lonely...

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Covid-19, do you run
on some evil foot 
out of sight,
beneath the light
till your Napoleonic march
brings you to rout?

Or out of habit
Do you lust for old...

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Apologize to God
And make your atonement
Be ashamed
And contrite

Be so deeply sorry 
Bewailing your discretion
Feeling all the remorse
In deploring your sins

Relent these acts
And reproach yourself
Seeing the...

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Turning, turning, burning, burning
in a Pharoah's dance
marking the rising, rising
of the Nile's advance.
Great Khan's mandating, mandating
heaven's acceptance.
Shamans and priests ritualizing, proselytizing
for imagined power's embrace.
Poets and...

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