Best Forethought Poems
The Gift of Poetry
...A poet enters a private sanctuary,
A sacred place where the imagination
Dwells with a mélange of emotions
Conceived by aesthetic beauty,
Often divine and esoteric in nature;
That comprehensive l......
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Categories:
forethought, art, poetry, uplifting, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
Celebarating the Adventure of Advent: a Collaboration With Kai Michael Neumann
...Universal elegy grieves and yet embraces shifts of paradigm
New beginnings consciousness initiates comprehends and thus proceeds from
Illusion’s delusion collusions misconceptions in the irritating......
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Categories:
forethought, adventure, community, universe,
Form:
Sestina
Don'T Quit Your Dream- POTD
...Night stirred memories, once forgotten of the days
I burnt in love when you consumed my days,
and I carried you like a queen in the palanquin of my thoughts!
without forethought, to elbow out t......
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Categories:
forethought, angst, dream, longing, love,
Form:
Free verse
consciousness
...am I forethought or
an afterthought or what you
see in the mirror......
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Categories:
forethought, allusion, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form:
Senryu
Bullying 101
...Step 1:
Inhale an envious mask upon your castrated
skull,
and prompt this necessary illusion to commence.
Bathe yourself in ego-filled waters till you feel superior
to the gavel, and exit wit......
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Categories:
forethought, allegory, anti bullying, bullying,
Form:
Free verse
Open Letter To Thomas Jefferson
...Open Letter to Thomas Jefferson
You sir, destination unknown, I dare
To address. A son of worthy causes
For land vast in majesty and vast as
Vast can be in matters of liberty;
With ideals so......
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Categories:
forethought, america, character, patriotic, peace,
Form:
Blank verse
A Cute Little Star
...With no forethought of romance
Simply wanting to look up, and gaze,
a cute little star winked at me,
unlike others though amply had blaze
'neath a veil of enchanting blue
with traces of beamy-......
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Categories:
forethought, light, love, moon, night,
Form:
Free verse
Awed and Amazed
...I stand in awe and contemplate nature's beauty
Deep within I feel a very real sense of duty
Awe that I can marvel at a butterfly's flight
Then from my heart be able of butterflies write
I contemplat......
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Categories:
forethought, faith, inspirational, life, nature,
Form:
Couplet
Spontaneity
...To say exactly what I feel,
At first seems quite unreal.
What’s on my mind to be exact.
Without forethought, without tact?
To beckon my deepest thought
Not thinking whether I ought
Well, OK I......
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Categories:
forethought, war,
Form:
Quatrain
They Followed a Star
...They followed a star
As time and place has its solution for all,
those wise men knew, that a messiah will come to call.
Recognizing those celestial lights with their eyes,
that history and cult......
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Categories:
forethought, 9th grade, appreciation, christmas,
Form:
Ballade
The Path Taken ...
...The path taken ...
Authored by Chuck Keys
One day I'll go for a walk and forget to come home
and lose myself among the trees and the gnomes.
I'll be dressed in my......
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Categories:
forethought, life, nostalgia, peace, sad,
Form:
Free verse
The Eraser Came With Sage Advice
...The eraser belonged to me; it was saved by my mother and returned along with many other
childhood items when I became middle aged. I was curious as to why she would save a
stubby old eraser from ......
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Categories:
forethought, introspection, on writing and
Form:
Narrative
Thy Sword: the Masculine Principle
...What is this period, which illustrates the weak motions
of dull blades, and misguided swings?
I am an unfortunate imitator, as the fearless edge I once
owned, has faded prominently among the f......
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Categories:
forethought, allegory, change, leadership, men,
Form:
Free verse
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
...quintella (Spanish quintain) in pentameter
Hard-working spider, you do your part,
instinctive busy spider that thou art.
You speak without doubt as you weave your web.
It is we humankind that t......
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Categories:
forethought, 11th grade, humanity, strength,
Form:
Quintilla
To Be, Or Not To Be: That Is the Question.
...To be, or not to be: that is the question.
O’, to be unseen by the hands of the greater good!
Fettered with ignorance, a bliss more wanton than the love
Of a willing beauty; higher than the unkn......
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Categories:
forethought, dedication, life, people, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse