Best Fuelled Poems
Be Free, My Brothers
...Penned like cattle, as if chattel,
cages rattle, sounds of brattle,
no more tattle, keen for battle.
Be free, my brothers!
The cause is great, our rights innate,
n......
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Categories:
fuelled, africa, america, black african
Form:
Monorhyme
Genie In a Gin Bottle
...Her lips caress another cigarette
A fading belle looking for love
The smoke veils a creature of habit
Chasing a young girls dream
But this Genie found the palace doors locked
Her youth distilled in......
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Categories:
fuelled, love, sad,
Form:
Free verse
LIFE IS NOT A BATTLE FIELD - POTD
...Be strong in your beliefs and opinions
Give and receive them respectfully
Discuss , debate, disagree ,
Devoid of anger and intimidation
Be polite and behave graciously
Don’t try and change......
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Categories:
fuelled, anti bullying, change,
Form:
Rhyme
Shadowland
... Shadowland
Chained to the addiction of tempting Fate
What if I told you that my life was once like yours?
Torn between love and hate
A shadow silhouette lurking between life and deat......
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Categories:
fuelled, angel, change, death, life,
Form:
Verse
The Parting
...I took you for your final walk
On that crisp and sunny day
The blanket round your
shoulders
To keep the chill at bay
We didn't talk the way we
should
I filled the gaps with platitudes
Tho......
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Categories:
fuelled, bereavement
Form:
Rhyme
The Sisters Three
...Writers of the dark
Sisters they are three
Tales of darkened horror
To scare the light from thee
Vampires of the night
Haunting the living souls
To lure them from their light
As there inten......
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Categories:
fuelled, fantasy
Form:
Rhyme
Envy
...ENVY
(Words inspired by Casarah)
Our faces are turned toward Bangkok
That buzzing hive of humanity
Where folk brush against each other
As they twirl and dance
In an effort to maintain directi......
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Categories:
fuelled, car, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Heart
...
"Heart"
Deep fissures formed
in the cracks of
the nowhere place
where time leeched
bleeding claret
through the green
veined blues
protean bit by bit
the flesh ......
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Categories:
fuelled, muse,
Form:
Free verse
For the Years of Tomorrow
...She counted the candles
with the arithmetic of an ancient angel,
the impertinent years of her life fuelled the flames slowly
patiently, and prettily,
a flicker for the fast joys, a standstill for......
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Categories:
fuelled, love,
Form:
Ballad
The Emasculation of Man
...
"The Emasculation of Man"
The world goes by loudly
emasculated man
sees nothing
for what it’s worth
ignorant and
pumelling chests
goril......
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Categories:
fuelled, humanity, i am, pride,
Form:
Free verse
The Green Bruise of Daylight
...
"The Green Bruise of Daylight"
A person can die for love
one sees red
the other sees blue
purple bruises
one sees red
alarm lights siren
purple bruises
detach int......
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Categories:
fuelled, dark, halloween, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
For the Fallen In Flanders Field - Original
...Famished and flagging footsoldiers;
formerly fitters and farmers.
Facing fatigue, fitful fever,
faeces and foul, foetid fungi.
Fostering feelings, frustrated,
for this faraway, foreign field.
......
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Categories:
fuelled, conflict, death, history, memorial,
Form:
Alliteration
Grand Papa's Library - For Contest
...It is many years since I visited you and Grand mama
The second I walked through the library door
Memories of my childhood came flooding back to me
I remember climbing up on the polished l......
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Categories:
fuelled, books, childhood, remember,
Form:
Prose
Unto Golgotha
...I stood amidst the maddening crowds
drowned in cries of disarray....
Something about this gentle captive
Encouraged me to stay.
Through the crimson rivets flowing
his eyes they pu......
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Categories:
fuelled, faith, religion, god, god,
Form:
Light Verse
Crazy Is As Crazy Does
...
"Crazy is as Crazy does"
Crazy is as Crazy does
poets and musicians
come undonne
fresh plots
till the soiled, their artful
passion twists
a je ne sais quoi
......
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Categories:
fuelled, muse, music, poets,
Form:
Free verse