Best Errant Poems

Seeing through the wav’ring flame of light
your porc’lain skin your brazen eyes so fair,
the songs which stir the depth of frosty night
do not waylay the course of love’s despair.

For love of King, not I, thine heart’s declared.
Oh, I am damned by wanton deed bespoke
on Furies...

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Upon (die) re rhea ding previous poem
     All In The Name Of "Progress" zen
a glaring, leering,
     and twittering left par wren
     dared to a right (i.e. bribe)
     corrective punctuation...

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gentle breeze caressed
the desolated spirit
dawdling in the night 














3-25-2016...

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Posted February 3rd 2025.  For Brians contest 

An Errant Balloon


 I saw a balloon yesterday. 
Then I saw another again today.
Floating along on a sunshine ray
wending on its way. 
Where did it come from? No one knows 
where will it go? where the wind...

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An errent divinity-


And I assured you I would try;


In words, not simply put,

but on the words it does rely;


Of the aspects I am sure-
I trusted and respected you from the start,
For you stood up for me-
When they were bound to break my heart.


Again, you hadn't...

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If I ate chocolate naked 
 
While lounging on red satin sheets
 
Beneath the light of a pale autumn moon
 
Amidst a Smokey glaze of heavily perfumed incense
 
With no else to admire the sight,
 
Would you then pay attention to me?
 
 
If I...

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errant acorns splash 
dry leaf twirls and swirls along
dandelion seeds
dance whispering water tense
falls giggles gleefully by...

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Yours truly shirked fidelity regarding faithful vows
bequeathed courtesy angel of mercy,
who pledged her troth
July twenty fifth nineteen ninety six
five months (not quite to the day) before

"star student" birthed
on December twenty second,
(now gainfully employed
at Certified B-Corporation
San Francisco, California).

The missus madder than a raging (red) bull
visa vis upon...

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I look into my mirror
And inside I feel aghast,
Once I had flawless skin,
Those days have long since past.

My hair, lank and grey
Was once a shock of curls,
Everybody used to say
I was the prettiest of the girls.

Heading for my dotage
No fun left it seems,
Memories though, sweet...

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A misnomer of mine
The splash of ink
Which smears the page 
On my priceless artwork 
Over which I toiled and slaved 
Now leaves it’s mark on my perfect page
I forever have grumbled
And complained
“Can’t I ever finish
Without that smudge on my work
To diminish?!!!!”
Seems as I have grown...

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Errant Ways Are Transparent

We never understood why ways are errant,
Then could tell by them being transparent;
Close and near,
As well as clear,
And they also had appeared to be apparent.

Jim Horn...

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*Image of Pirates Of The Caribbean by Wallpaper Cave.


Errant Voyage

~~

wretched souls

lofty dreams

treasures

~~

gold

silver

and pearls

as big as the moon

~~

Picture #1


2021 July 07
*1st Place*
Picture This 2 - 7 Lines
~~Joseph May: Judged 2021 July 12...

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EMBARRASSED
Our limit of endurance
Doesn't always show appearance
Sometimes our often ignorance
Doesn't give us reassurance

So it surely is apparent
That we may be incoherent
When we know our way is errant
And we are much too transparent

We end up in a cluster
At the smallest we can muster
Or we begin to...

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When and how
did we see chivalry last
or is it now
a thing of the past
and honour among thieves
is no honour at all
while beating my brains
against the wall
besting the dragons
at City Hall
am I wrong in thinking
it's my fight
or am I errant
as a roving knight
exhibiting gallantry
within a crowd
of...

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