Best Falter Poems
Together we lie on the crimson sheet
Hands pressed together, we are now complete
Worlds apart in so many ways
Our eyes fixed on each other with agaze
Years have passed since we last laughed
We need to rediscover our craft
But, Time is short when you reach life’s peak
Our body’s are worn down like a showroom antique
Our love for each other will never falter or cease
It’s now time for us to close our eyes and make peace
Categories:
falter, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Lest I Should Falter
I sit and watch as clouds gather above
huddled under my umbrella, singing along
to pitter-patter droplets destitute of
emotional mourning, or yearning, or love
befitting the day; our emotionless song.
But billowy winds stir up in the trees
which howl in despair and fright
and cast off their crowns, but bend not their knees
nor surrender their will to the relentless breeze
befitting the day, and our dreadful plight.
Some days all of Earth refuses the sun
pulls up the blanket and hopes to drown
but that which transpires will not be undone --
Salute! Salute! Then wish it away, or fight it, or try to run
but I’ll sit it out, as numb as the rain falling down.
For this is the beauty of nature and rain,
the inspiring fight of the sentinel trees
which never surrender, nor bow to the pain
which fight through the gales and refuse to wane
for other days come, brighter and warmer than these.
9/18/16
Categories:
falter, addiction, anxiety, death, depression,
Form:
Rhyme
Don't alter from the altar
But if she does, try to halt her
Categories:
falter, funny, wedding,
Form:
Rhyme
i love you but i falter too! Time to time i used to lose,
momentum but now shifting in rhythm observe this
potential its exponential, if you mine you mind's,
connection to divine these eyes will open in time,
follow your own grind cause i'd never waste my own
time, unless i scheduled it to remind,
that we are a part of divine,
though we seem far entwined this very present
brought by language seems fine.
and the scars on our thighs, no longer waist high,
no misery we hide, a pride thats bottled up in divide,
wonder for life, we searched and found right,
and for all the trip was live, cause every morning,
four till five, though i cherish it now, as clouds i sprawl,
to see you after-all, you're the reason i called,
could life be involved?
Categories:
falter, love, pain, poems, smile,
Form:
Free verse
I watch a single girl
falter
when her face falls
her costume becomes parody
trying too hard she transforms awkward
and moves away
tucks into herself toward invisibility
dont listen to an invisible
older woman
with a turn
you could be fabulous
Categories:
falter, faith,
Form:
Free verse
8/6/17
Regardless if I spend time as a salter
From here to beyond Gibralter
Going to make you falter
I don't care if you pray at an altar
Catch them by the collar
Not going to let go even if they holler
Spent time growing up in squalor
Never was I the best scholar
Getting my hands dirty for blue cheese and not no dollars
Another rascal
I heard about the scandal
And pscyhobabble
Talking about people like they're cattle
I can understand why you're feeling frazzled
And rather rattled
Toward me so many confide and tattle
But don't worry this will get handled
And it's not going to be a hassle
I will make sure they are used as an example
Getting continually trampled
By cleats and sandals
It will be worth the risk and gamble
No matter how far I have to travel
I will make sure I win the battle
Even if they got to get shackled
And put in front of a panel
Or left lifeless below or above bits of gravel
After all time will always tell and unravel
Regardless of if you believe it had anything to do with a bite from an apple
Categories:
falter, dark, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
My sanity in constricted
by all the lies,
and the non convicted
my hope was faltered
and my truth will fail
this taste of honesty
has become so stale
my lips colorless
my skin pale
my eyes were covered
by your lustful vail
and your lust was satisfied
by my undoing
and my broken will
you took it upon yourself
set out for my kill
or murder
and no one ever bothered
to ask you
"Would you hurt her?"
so shall I sit
here by myself
and now I shall know
I shall never have help.
Categories:
falter, confusion
Form:
Rhyme
My fingers hover half a breath
from harvesting a budding storm
but rhythms falter, unimpressed
beneath word-tides I would possess
and drown in squirming moons to mourn.
My fingers hover half a breath,
my listless pen held limp at breast
in hope my muse might be reborn
but rhythms falter, unimpressed.
Insatiable the emptiness
I can not fill with rhythmic scorn.
My fingers hover half a breath
so tempted by poetic quests
that leave them damp and hiccup-worn
but rhythms falter, unimpressed.
Unquenchable, the thirst for depth,
the prick of penetrating thorn
My fingers hover half a breath
but rhythms falter, unimpressed.
Categories:
falter, introspection
Form:
Villanelle
Wie leuchtende Blumen
Der Flügelschlag der Falter
Im frühen Morgenwind
Schillerndes Spiel über Sommergras
In freudigem Auf und Ab
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Like brightest flowers
The wing beat of butterflies
In early morning's breeze
Dazzling game over summer grass
In such joyful ups and downs
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Como flores brillantes
El aletazo de mariposas
En temprano viento de mañana
Relucido juego sobre hierbas de verano
En tan alegre alto y bajo
Categories:
falter, nature
Form:
Tanka
A beautiful blade of grass, gleaming of a sad dew sits on the ground accompanied by many.
All are casual, some soft, some dry,
Yet all so plain and simply satisfying.
The human touch does not hesitate to fall on them,
As they curl and deteriorate,
But a force so powerful takes them on.
A dry tired weed lays on the ground,
Blooming of a yellow powder.
It is dusty, but simply beautiful.
The children come out to play, gentle at their touch.
The weed is picked by the soft hands of the interested,
Still innocent only to be left,
With the collection of common blades.
Oh, so beautiful.
Categories:
falter, flower, inspiration, nature, youth,
Form:
Free verse
We’ve been, seen but not become
soul’s light that bids us welcome,
since as yet we stand not still,
not quite aligned with God’s will.
Subtle flickers of disdain,
stifled dreams that cause us pain,
from time to time, raise their head,
signalling that we’re ill bred.
What avail the Holy Grail
if feral instincts prevail,
clouding sight, veiling God’s light,
making us cower in fright?
Although we do hear love call,
we’re headed for a long haul,
slowly erasing fissures
to reclaim heaven’s treasures.
15-August-2022
Categories:
falter, introspection, spiritual,
Form:
Jueju
No Halter and Will Falter
An ego likes leading you to the altar
And may be big as rock of Gibraltar
She had forgotten to wear her halter
Then both of them started to falter.
Interesting
James Thomas Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
River Sea Plantation
Bolivia, NC
Categories:
falter, humorous,
Form:
Couplet
Don't stumble; don't falter; don't fumble;
Don't fall
Hey you;
Why do you even try?
When it all seems pointless;
Is it even worth it to try,
I mean all of it.
Don't stumble; don't falter; don't fumble;
Don't fall.
The rate at which you are willing to believe;
Oh how naive!
Are you even growing?
Pain after pain on top of other pain;
Will you even learn?
Disappointments after disappointments on top of other disappointments;
Will you ever reflect?
Tears after tears on top of other tears;
Aren't the tears drying up?
Grief after grief on top of other grief;
Haven't you had enough?
Betrayal after betrayal on top of other betrayals;
Where is your breaking point?
Don't stumble; don't falter; don't fumble;
Don't fall.
Honey, whatever am I going to do with you?
Why do they even come?
Why do they shake you so?
Are you so foolish?
Honey, look yourself in the mirror
The one you can never forgive is yourself;
You are the one who believes;
The one who tries;
The one who waits;
The one who forgives;
The one who is so ignorant,
Till it all comes crumbling;
Don't stumble; don't falter; don't fumble;
Don't fall.
Honey how do you even live?
Seems like you are always given the shorter end of the stick;
Don't stumble; don't falter; don't fumble.
Don't fall.
Waking up to tomorrow;
You repeat this like an incarnation;
You tell yourself to be strong;
To brace yourself for the day;
Don't stumble; don't falter ; don't fumble;
Don't fall.
Is there any end to all this;
Yet you still smile;
You still laugh;
The temperance of a fool!
Categories:
falter, blue, feelings, heartbroken, identity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
N-ever let your faith falter
E-ven if the night is blue;
L-et the new dawn break,
L-et the beacon shine on
Y-ou.
P-ouring heavy raindrops
A-re dark, black and gray;
I-nclement clime will fade
N-ovember twelfth day.
A-llow your trust to glow,
G-reat love must not waver;
A-im and hope for sunshine, never let your faith falter.
Categories:
falter, birthday,
Form:
Acrostic
I'm helpless, helplessly so,
Bound to the weight of mine own woe.
Mine hands do shake, mine limbs do fail,
And every deed is carved in frail.
I wander around aimlessly,
A wretch who doth not wish to be.
Mine fingers break what once stood tall,
Mine lips do lie, mine own to fall.
I tear, I spoil, I set to waste,
I choke on all I swore to taste.
Till breath is thin and time is slow,
I'm helpless, helplessly so.
Categories:
falter, anxiety, child abuse, corruption,
Form:
Rhyme