Best Formulated Poems
Feelings
...FEELINGS
Feelings,
Masters of my destiny
Lords of my life
Strength of my dreams
Instigators of my actions
Burning fire you are
Consuming my whole
Being:
My heart
My mind
My soul
......
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Categories:
formulated, imagination, introspection, language, universe,
Form:
Epigram
The Sword, the Spear, and the Shield
...As the Nordic gods all gathered around
for there is a treasure that I have found
The Celtic gods all came as well
To listen to what I had to tell
For the Fenris Wolf has been unleas......
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Categories:
formulated, magic, mystery, myth, mythology,
Form:
Couplet
How I Snagged Joe (And the Rest Is History)
...Hot August, 1974, I was back for my second year at college,
having just settled into a new place at Anita Apartments,
right next to the guys’ apartment complex called Tanner’s.
My first night, we ......
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Categories:
formulated, husband, lovedance, dance, me,
Form:
Narrative
In the Beginning
...In the beginning God created the heavens and earth
And some think it all came by chance, what a big mirth
That life arose by itself from chemical soup and from it birth
Soup formed by unceasing ra......
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Categories:
formulated, birth, christian, creation, earth,
Form:
Rhyme
Broken Glass
...Melodious kaleidoscope
of broken glass,
Its mosaic montage
consumes lost encounters;
a toasting ceremony
for what perished.
Committed specialization
expires unrewarded.
Sand dollars of shor......
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Categories:
formulated, life, loss,
Form:
Free verse
She Was Everything -Part 4-
...When I awaken, I am in my classroom
The math professor is in the middle of a lecture
Then . . . there she is
The girl I killed
The girl I fear
Sitting at her desk taking notes
What is this?
......
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Categories:
formulated, angst, fear, me, girl,
Form:
Free verse
Remembered Echoes
...you’ve muted your voice
by choice
years have passed since I heard
vibrations of love
formulated in words
passionately spoken, whispered........
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Categories:
formulated, emotions, i love you,
Form:
Free verse
Core Belief
...I had no Mentor when I formulated
My Core Belief **
Read the Bible, (words of My God), in my youth
In my own grief **
Through HIS Word, I learnt the meaning......
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Categories:
formulated, christian, faith, god, grief,
Form:
Rhyme
A Historic Event
...A Historic Event
Legend goes on discovery of
Universal Law of Gravitation
as an apple from tree just fell off
on ground, watched by Sir ......
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Categories:
formulated, 11th grade, appreciation, meaningful,
Form:
Rhyme
Villanelle: the Cricketers' Hakka: How's Zaat
...Villanelle : The Cricketer’s Hakka : « How’s Zaat ! »
Balls thud into pads bats gloves or whisk past batsmen
At bowler’s end or square leg umpires stare stand
« How’s Zaat ! » yell players ga......
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Categories:
formulated, games, judgement, passion, pride,
Form:
Villanelle
My Voodoo Bride
...MY VOODOO BRIDE
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
Married only three hours still in jubilation
My beautiful bride natures finest creation
A seaplane trip to an island just east of Haiti
I had in my life......
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Categories:
formulated, betrayal, conflict, evil, grief,
Form:
Rhyme
On the Mother Moon
...On the Mother Moon
Between the lipatospace and terrloid of two techtronic plates, great fountains of terrasawl pour from a captured dormant lake,
Crimsondands of cluster clouds, and seep oily res......
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Categories:
formulated, allusion,
Form:
Romanticism
Equations
...Thank God the Earth's movements--its spinning
and revolving, and all actions in, on, and around it--
do not depend upon my comprehension of equations.
I was bombarded by them in various h......
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Categories:
formulated, confusion, math, science,
Form:
Free verse
The Twilight of Reality and Make Believe
...In the twilight~~~~ of reality and make believe~~~
There where dreams hover
on the wings of Night
And stillness belies the passage of honored TIM......
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Categories:
formulated, fantasy, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Social Privy
...justice
What does this vastly misunderstood word mean to you?
Too what ends?
May we seek?
Who(m) may guide us?
Endless deliberation (spiss spiss spiss)
Debated and glorified by......
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Categories:
formulated, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure,
Form:
Free verse