Best Forays Poems
Gods of WindsNotus comes creeping furtively from the south
hot and bothered from the blazing summer sun.
The wind of change...concealed it launches sudden storms
as clouds pile up across the sky, dark and towering,
lightning flashes, thunder drawls, torrential rain descends;
rivers swell to bursting point; fields are swamped, crops destroyed....
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Categories:
forays, wind,
Form:
Verse
Die Another Day“Die Another Day”
“Your mission, should you so deem it,
Is to infiltrate ALL Fluff Clusters in K.A.O.S. Headquarters
And bloody well steam it!”
“The Place is a hazardous mess of a trap
Over run with Double Agents, ulterior motives
Amorous Nuns-on-the-Run drooling ardent dreams
of swimming naked
in buckets of Blood...
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Categories:
forays, fantasy, fun, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
A Mouse Family's ChristmasIt's Christmas Eve and through the house
there creeps a curious little mouse.
He climbs into the big arm chair
and finds the cookies waiting there .
He only takes the smallest bite.
Santa will find his treat tonight.
He gazes with wonder at the tree
and the bright wrapped...
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Categories:
forays, adventure, christmas,
Form:
Narrative
The In-Between
"The In-Between"
I ripped the pages of
that tired old story
from the heart, a body of work
buried the misdiagnosed slanders
then wiped their mouths
with the back of my spoon
the feed they found,
passed the disingenuous time;
some found it hot, others -
scratching the surface
paltry yard confounded,
some alarmingly...
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Categories:
forays, imagery, life, muse, poets,
Form:
Free verse
Poetry SoupA world community like no other, this troupe
Of writers and lovers of insightful poetry
Gathered under the imprimatur of Poetry Soup --
Delightful, inspirational, sometimes contrary
With verses ranging from wildflowers to poop.
Something for everyone in these lofty environs
Even historical forays and pedantic endeavor
From sonnets to limericks,...
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Categories:
forays, poems, poetry, poets, writing,
Form:
Quintain (Sicilian)
A Chair and MusicA Chair and Music
How deep in pain I met the day,
Yesterday’s old emotions had gone into play,
To top the mood, the skies were gray,
My mind toppled into past forays.
Drifting, not thinking, just in pain,
What could I do to undo the past,
Knowing full well the impossibility,
Hoping,...
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Categories:
forays, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
For the Fallen In Flanders Field - OriginalFamished and flagging footsoldiers;
formerly fitters and farmers.
Facing fatigue, fitful fever,
faeces and foul, foetid fungi.
Fostering feelings, frustrated,
for this faraway, foreign field.
Forsaking fissures and furrows,
forced forwards with fleetness of foot.
Firearms flash and fragments fly far,
feigning the firmament aflame.
Fighting so fierce and ferocious,
fratricide set free on this field.
Fuelled...
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Categories:
forays, conflict, death, history, memorial,
Form:
Alliteration
Desert RoseI was driving to Utah, because I had gotten a promotion;
And chose the scenic route, so as to put things in motion.
I had been traveling from Los Angeles, to Salt Lake City;
And the scenery along the way, had been remarkably pretty.
I had packed food and...
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Categories:
forays, beauty, faith, fantasy, inspiration,
Form:
Couplet
Our FlagYou stand there in your pride and raw beauty,
But don’t forget that caressing you is my decreed duty.
That warm and sturdy fabric my heart can feel,
Because of your humbling courage-stimulating appeal.
My arms are ardent by desire of your body to hold,
And with due grand and...
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Categories:
forays, america, devotion, freedom, patriotic,
Form:
Verse
Earth TrotsEarth trots
Behind the meandering
Leashed by their anxieties
And we in silence
Cannot tell of our perplexities
This age
Is too politically correct
And will not stand
Such truths
There is no lattitude for correction
No urgency
To mend fences
'Fore the frivolous forays of destruction
The seeming acquisition of intellect
Is nothing more than brawn of tongue
Defending...
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Categories:
forays, political
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
forays, best friend, dog, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Me, Myself, and I - (Part 1)Hello Friends... I suffer from Severe Bi-Polar Disorder and this submission was inspired by
actual events that occured during one of my especially critical manic episodes. Be sure and
read Part 2 to complete the poem and leave your comments on the Part 2 submission....
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Categories:
forays, angst, confusion, death, depression,
Form:
Narrative
A Warrior's Blood In His Old AgeA Warrior's Blood In His Old Age
Warriors bled, most now are dead and gone
tales read of blood, guts and dried bone.
Those that found residing in sad old age
were few comforts for lost youth's bitter rage!
Tired of waiting for another call to arms
not satisfied by women's...
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Categories:
forays, appreciation, conflict, courage, death,
Form:
Rhyme
A Breakaway22 June 2010
A Breakaway
For mankind has the power to think big
History puts them on the pedestal of their career
Aimless drifting until fatally engaged into a drilling rig
Raised a surface at the heart of the sea to exploit oil on its frontier
Oil wells at the...
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Categories:
forays, health, life, nature, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme
Ins-Pir-AtionWhen folly leads; to wisdom…
By the way of endless dreams
'Pon a backdrop psycadellic where,
There's nothing all it seems’
I have struggled with good reason
made forays to shore-less isles
Lived a lifetime in the instant
Rode the shine of unforced smiles
Finding ever more to disconcert me
Through...
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Categories:
forays, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme