Best Drawn Poems

Drawn to thy beauty, grace rains down;
     I choose this drowning than a drought – 
Where ten thousand are called mine own;
     Yet, deny thee and live without.

Skilled not enough to understand;
     Words...

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Slowly, a sliver of lemon meringue
began coloring the horizon 
beyond my valley home.
Drawn to dawn, 
I let myself succumb
to the beauty of it all....

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time cloaked         fierce wrath
I gave up the past or the wind
            wipe the chill off my flesh
bury the sun in brine
watch the warped beams
an intricate ...

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you …

came to me today
(from anon)
wholly untold to your concerns
but real enough …
I was plodding the beach, tending wounds
when you tossed your smile at
me from a shrouded sun
off whitecaps, bursting into dazzle -
echoes, alit
each a memory, recaptured
brief as a blink …
but I was transfixed, as...

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Midnight in village, 
No moon, no power, 
Lamp lit up by granny
Flickered with hope;

Lured by its flame, 
Moths spiral around, 
Making loops and coils
Only to get burnt.


Date: 06/17/2021
For Workshop: Adjectives Deleted Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Jack Webster...

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It’s drawn on the back of a stained notepad , 
On a brown worn, torn paper leaf,
It’s drawn in pencil, that’d broken in half, 
Showing the pain, the trouble and grief,

Showing years of tired hurt wounds,  
Pushing out from the fear,
This drawing of what...

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DRAWN TO UNKNOWN SPACES

Could there be sight more alluring
Than the bending of a lane
Or a brow of hill’s contouring
Could there be sight more alluring
Tied attention thus unmooring
Like a lyrical refrain
Could there be sight more alluring
Than the bending of a lane 

As the Sun lights distant...

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Brisk breezes tickle the leaves on the trees;
as a gnarly old oak tree creaks and heaves.

Silhouettes merge as daylight disappears,
and dewdrops glisten like crystalline tears.

A mix of scarlet, saffron, and chiffon;
colors a setting sun drawn in crayon.

Liquid tangerine clouds as thick as cream;
soak the sky...

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The pencil now resting the image was 'testing' for the creature before him, (his badly-drawn drawin') had come out 'not right' somewhat twisted and tight.

The picture in question, it burst with suggestion, for lines that seemed solid too often turned squalid. With unfinished thoughts (and...

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I saw Mary in Peru
as pastel chalks skimmed over
a gray concrete sidewalk, felting the surface,
baby blues and pinks vibrated with naiveté. 

The artist knelt 
each stroke given in homage
to the Mother of all.
 
I see Mary.
	The Quechua see
Pachamama, earth-time mother,
the oval shape of her beatific...

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Isn't it wonderful when a comment can make you smile
Especially about something you like so far from home
Isn't it wonderful that this comment can take you miles
This venturing adventure to allow ones heart to roam

Isn't it wonderful when a smile greets you in arrivals
Your name...

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There was a great asthenospheric disruption
Followed by parallel volcanic eruptions
There was a great, abrupt tectonic shift
In a moment, a million years of continental drift

The ground shook like a wet dog out of water 
Mother earth swatted her sons and daughters
The fault lines re-created all notions...

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The grass was always tall and green,
Every day seemed like a dream.
In the tenderness of youth,
All of life rang with the truth.
Oh, the wind blew just for me,
When I ran so wild and free;
Cooled the sweat upon my brow.
It all comes back to me somehow.

Treasures...

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Holding you so close is delightful
Your scent draws me in
                               Leads me to desire you...

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drawn 
the face of the shaking man
on the tube
he speaks of dreams half forgotten
and asks me to help him off...

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