Best Foreseeable Poems
The Gift...From the window of my chic city office, lost in thought, I gaze out.
The pedestrians scurry like frenzied ants below, caught up in their bustling state of holiday insanity.
In his haste to cross th......
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Categories:
foreseeable, allegory, holiday, hope,
Form:
Prose
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 22...The great Sabbath day descended, though not in my heart and mind
On this new day,
I imagined rays of God’s light shining generously upon the mountains,
Pools of living waters gurgling, and winds g......
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Categories:
foreseeable, beauty, bible, confusion, courage,
Form:
Epic
Lighthouse...Mute
but immutable.
Unmoving, unmoveable;
timeless, yet tireless.
Solitary stalwart sentinel
surveils undulating horizon.
Aberrant, achromatic clouds
pock-mark the skies, as distant
......
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Categories:
foreseeable, light, metaphor, ocean, sea,
Form:
Free verse
Un-Forseeable...And nothing is not
un-foreseeable if and unless
you at least consider all
the facts and complications
first!
......
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Categories:
foreseeable, addiction, age, beauty, betrayal,
Form:
Bio
Predictable...Crocheting needles waved her fingers from a self-disclosed mind
Texture and pattern set lines like predictive text and autocorrect
Wool over her eyes would know how to stitch up her soul-scape
......
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Categories:
foreseeable, friendship,
Form:
Free verse
Love Hurts...Northside of Chi-Town is full of emotion.
In the ‘45 Series Cubs and Tigers are battling.
Sianis buys two tickets to show his devotion.
Is booted ‘cause his billy goat won’t stop bahbling.
He cur......
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Categories:
foreseeable, america, angst, baseball, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
Our Amorphous Angst..."I should have lost a gesture and a pose.
Sometimes these cogitations still amaze
The troubled midnight and the moon's repose."
---"La Figlia Che Pionge"; T.S. Eliot
Qu......
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Categories:
foreseeable, angst, anxiety, dark, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
Dorm Love...Ours was daily mysterious,
sometimes near mystical,
rapture;
a sensual yet platonic
dorm-mate love affair,
within the only male grad student corridor
at SFSU.
He was the presumably straight......
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Categories:
foreseeable, culture, gender, history, love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Nine Eleven...The old woman argued relentlessly, her case.
Resolute, she raved in her conviction;
two thousand and one reasons were there for her to be mad.
Eleven was given to questioning eyes.
It was Sept......
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Categories:
foreseeable, anniversary, history, loss, political,
Form:
Narrative
Classified Part One...I have been instructed to release the following
manuscript on the death of my client
Mr John Phillips. Who was a former officer in the Royal Air Force.
Mr P.J .Carruthers. LLB.
Solicitor fo......
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Categories:
foreseeable, science fiction,
Form:
Prose
The Only Thing That Is Foreseeable...Why does one write poetry?
To get lost in the solace of words,
to encourage one to look at birds;
or is it something much less communicable:
a state of being, like a look in the eye,
that is unr......
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Categories:
foreseeable, deep, poetry, poets, simple,
Form:
Grook
Retrograde...
This relationship is going the wrong way,
it started off great, but as of late,
it has a foreseeable expiration date
Too many arguments,
too many dodgy eyes
Not enough trust between us,
go......
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Categories:
foreseeable, hurt, love hurts, pain,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Earth Investers...I have occasionally wondered what is so controversial about the World Bank.
I understand protesters travel from all around Earth
to wave placards outside World Bank meetings
and I wonder why they ......
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Categories:
foreseeable, destiny, education, health, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
Trolls, Dragons, and Carol...So you think that trolls and dragons
Are definitely not for real
You surely haven't talked with Carol lately
It's more than just a feel
They eat her food and occupy her house
Sometimes......
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Categories:
foreseeable, tribute,
Form:
Quatrain
Lucifer Aint It Funny How Scott Always Seems 2 Get Off Free Ohh Father...Ain't it Funny how
Lucifer once said to his father
Some certain individuals
No matter how guilty they are
Or evidence doth incriminate them
Always seem to get off
Scott Free
......
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Categories:
foreseeable, slam,
Form:
Free verse