Best Gif Poems
I stand alone a barking tree, where silent sorrows of ripples flee,
No one hears my calamity, wearing weeps of my raped reality…
Branches droop to ice-cold ground, solitudes surface of their drowned,
Abysmal anguish of leaves have browned, lacrimal echoes of their sound.
Randomized reflections of rivers flow, suffering scourges in their woe,
Ripples raging in their row, creating cabalistic contrasts as they grow…
The forest dense as to populate, the seeds of seduction must copulate,
All is dormant until the eyes dilate, weeping willows that magistrate.
I accept my life near the lamenting lake, weathering wounds as I wake,
The wood whispers as to ache, secluded shadows share the snake…
Wandering waters that ripples bring, vines that struggle in their swing,
Alone in my salvaged spring, where sparrows segregate in their sing.
Gif # 1
02.25.2020
Placed 1'st & POTD...Thank You
Deep Purple Violet
Deep purple Violet – hiding and quiet –
Beneath the forest greens;
Carefully we search for you
Or your dainty face hidden – not seen.
Nestled in a quiet place -
Modest in many hues -
Amethyst, purple, sometimes mauve,
A joyful surprise finding you.
Date: 1/28/19
Gif #1 Launched in Lavender
Confined within this little bowl
Sadness invades my feeble soul
As in dire straits myself I find
To cruel fate I am resigned.
Deprived of freedom, short of air
Caught in a maelstrom of despair
Restricted space that leads to stress
I struggle hard without success.
Beyond the glass to public view
The scrutinizers have no clue
Of what I’m really going through
And with disdain they turn the screw.
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A Gif Poetry Contest
Sponsor: William Kekaula
Visual #3
Placed 1st
There for me in my hour of need
surprising me with a small gift
How blessed am I …
your friendship is one I cherish
Always having time to listen
when we share a pot of tea
Now I bring shopping for you
to show my appreciation
Kindness and thoughtfulness
are so evident when we talk
So finally I can pay tribute
to my wonderful friend Chris
Thanks Acrostic Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Beata Agustin
A tribute to my wonderful friend Chris Faragher who has been a tower of strength for me especially when my husband had his cancer surgery and I had no support from my parents and sister. Her friendship and support mean the world to me
06/21/20
Roll and roll along, my golden sun,
for with this sweet bright day you gifted me,
my heart and soul forever you have won.
My love and I leave footprints by the sea.
Roll and roll along, my golden sun
and keep my true love golden next to me.
Yes, roll and roll along, my golden sun.
I want for you to ever roll along.
Roll on and never let this day be done!
March 26, 2020
Gif #4
for Carolyn Devonshire's '"Footprints" Old or New for a Prize' Contest
Boisterous clouds are churning, roiling air-mass in warm updraft
Declaring on callous inhabitants of earth, a dark ferocious war
Manifesting malevolent force, imposing anger on spatial norms,
Conspiring with anguished winds to invigorate violent storms.
Colossal is their expanse that threatens the rise of new dawn
Offering a preview of what face of death would encompass
When enraged nature punishes humans for irresponsible acts:
Burning dirty fossil fuels, and decapitating vast forest lands.
Atmospheric inferno defies galactic harmony of equilibrium
Suppressing sun’s orange glow striving to uplift amber horizon,
Shrouding advent of nascent day to teach humanity a lesson
Collaborating with mighty oceans, stirring hurricanes and cyclones.
Overshadowed by the reckless commotion of ghastly gray,
Emerging marigold expression of ascendant tangerine daybreak
Grieves for the lost vegetation and deserted parched terrains,
Thundering a warning to foretell why the birds have already left.
March 28, 2020
Placed 1st: Gif #2 contest by William Kekaula
With boldness untold
She bared me her soul
Confiding in me
Her very humanity
A gif of herself
So courageous and free
It clarified for all
The direction from thee
On a beach in the moonlight
You showed me the way
For goodness and grace
Now I see it today
A gift divine
So crystal so clear
That forever in this life
Will I know what is dear
I pledge to her again
My heart and my soul
For it is in her arms
That the story will be told
Should I falter should I fall
I beg of you now
Give me the strength
To climb this high wall
In this life we’ve created
I vow for her my best
I’ve climbed the high mountains
God put me to test
He gave me the vision
To continue to see
That in this life
There is only Susan and me
I ponder about the life of a tree as I sit across from it
watching ripples disturb its mirrored image
that lays gentle on the surface of a pond
I can't help but wonder
how many ripples its seen over its years
how many different images of itself it has known
Like my own life
the ripples of years wash towards me
and carry with them the different images I've known
I'm not as old or as wondrous as this tree
neither do I have its beauty or its grace
it has stretched its limbs far beyond its boundaries
I have not
and though I can see I wonder
of all the years I've lived my life
I've been here no longer
then the years it took to grow the breadth of a single limb
Life is the only thing we have in common
both our lives are reflected in the ripples that cross the ages
that rush towards us until our end
Contest GIF 1 2/24/20
Die reptiel vrou
Het my alweer geflous
Met my gedeel, haarself ontbloot,
en toe
Die bitter gif gespoeg
Dit vloei uit my bors uit, deur my are
Verander my bloed - haar bloed
Word swart, taai, en koud
Soos haar hart
***
The reptile woman
Has fooled me again
Shared with me, exposed herself
and then
Spat out the bitter venom
It flows out of my chest, through my veins
Changes my blood - her blood
Becomes black, sticky, and cold
Like her heart
Sometimes we look to closest friends,
Expressly those who think we're ace:
Let them confirm our worth but still
Forget, inside us lies the proof.
Actualization calls for a
Command of strength and keen logic
To shape ourselves, at last, to get
Unknown rewards on our plateau.
And with revealed goals, we take a
Lone journey through heart and soul
In our quest...a long safari,
Zestfully seeking life's pizzazz,
And a fruitful new arena
That hones our talents as our gift.
Inner joy promotes stimuli
Of further searches, that lead to
New trails of self-completion.
Sandra M. Haight
~First Place~
Premiere Contest: Self Actualization Double Acrostic
Sponsor: San Woo
Judged: 11/13/2016
https://media.giphy.com/media/nxLc6H4XqnwLm/giphy.gif
Inhale
the last you will
of this planet’s wholesome gift
blowing out grey cells
and bits of a life
..distance..
until a stranger
with two
puffed eyes
and clouded vision
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On the ill-effects of smoking
A sunset, pixilated, colored RGB,
a virtual bit world envelops me.
Watch .gif waves break upon a gravel beach,
in endless patterned loop Mew glide and screech.
Each click leads to another, yet unplanned,
connected all by fiber optic band.
As users pass with only offered tweet,
hash tag emoticons, each is so sweet.
Sound in MP3 and addictive chat,
all input loads in digital format.
Adrift in the world, internet my link,
a dance of keyboard in a hi-tech prink.
No further need of bio world to be,
just digital internal cache of me.
Robert Gene Stoner Jr
1/9/16
Goldfish stuck inside a bowl,
tiny is your space!
Simple is that bowl you're in,
yet you lend it grace.
Goldfish in that tiny bowl
with your orange hue,
softly shimmer your small fins.
It's all you can do!
Were I in your circumstance,
I would feel bereft,
knowing barely could I turn
either right or left!
March 13, 2020 / Based on Gif #3
(the form is 7/5 Trochee, a rhyming form)
Board fence entraps three Angus cows
who would much rather go
out and about to their content
than hear from freedom's crow.
Corralled within their space so small
constrained by pride-filled squawk
no grass of green, no grounds to graze
so here they gaze and gawk.
"Of what does SHE have to complain?"
crow hears a lowly moo.
Indignant cry spurs raven queen
to do what she can do.
She picks the pin which holds them in,
gives them the needed boost.
So free they run until the sun
invites them home to roost.
Queen Raven waiting on her pole
views "thank yous" on each face.
And when the cows have passed the gate,
she puts the pin in place.
March 3, 2012
I chose GIF #5
common meter (abcb) with personification
Reflected in the pellucid ripples
That thither upon the welcoming shore;
The majestic angel oak unruffled beauty tickles
The water's edge draped in orange honey ore.
Whose boughs dost bend like elbows on its shore,
To all who wilt hark to its chants and tales,
Of ghosts of former slaves
Appearing as angels around its feet.
Like gossamer threads dulcet whispers
Waver trailing off on the back of the wind as it meets.
2/29/2020
Gif #1
Under Free Verse since all words do not rhyme
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Oak
The oak derives its name from the estate of Justus Angel and his wife, Martha Waight Tucker Angel.[6] Local folklore tells stories of ghosts of former slaves appearing as angels around the tree.