Best Goading Poems
Jealousy Rages
...She storms into the room
there is fire in her eyes
and thunder in her step
rage rumbling reckless
She's livid
a live wire of fire
charged
She's on the move
To punish
Is it a rumor or reality......
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Categories:
goading, jealousy,
Form:
Narrative
Innocence
...Whom the horse is looking for
Every day in the scarlet breeze
It comes and taps at the door
Have you forgotten your blue cheese
Is it the one I dream of
Accompanied by the charged shiver
Espe......
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Categories:
goading, childhood, color, innocence, psychological,
Form:
Rhyme
Exploring the Sky
...By clasping the lightning string
I reach the sky
Wondrous view there, I spy
Sitting on the fluffy clouds
I roam everywhere
Outspread clouds, my magic chairs
Crafting shapes out......
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Categories:
goading, angel, blessing, sky,
Form:
Rhyme
the horse is dead dismount
...my husband and I used to argue
weeks after a verbal agreement should have been over
we were silly about it
heckling and harassing each other
over things that do not matter
ridiculously egging an......
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Categories:
goading, me,
Form:
Free verse
A Deeper Divide
...Dreams herein, our progeny, still birth sometimes inside,
blind and rigor twisted, formless foetuses upon
the terrace steps where innocence bled and occasionally died
screeching for salvation when......
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Categories:
goading, passion, people, philosophy, sports,
Form:
Verse
The Unpredictable Sea
...A giant magnet for young and old
Its many mysteries to unfold
For dipping toes in ebb and flow
Revealing wonders deep below
Calm and still like mirrored glass
Then raging wild a storm can blast
......
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Categories:
goading, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Honest To Cod
...The Feeling of Fishing while Floating
Is Graded on Goading, and Gloating
Bystanders oft blindly believe
In salmon the size of my sleeve
Tall Tales at the Time Told True
In Grandeur they Gain......
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Categories:
goading,
Form:
Alliteration
A Shining Afterglow
...
A Shining Afterglow
we have rambled together
along the Ganges river
just you and me
gazing at each other
we have trodden together
the streets of Bombay
through narrow
......
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Categories:
goading, feelings, life, love,
Form:
Free verse
A Letter To My Past
...How do you like me as I am today?
Twenty years young, triumphantly boasting
Success through all you had been foreboding.
Casting my vast nets as far as the sun
While you cast your line in small......
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Categories:
goading, anger, angst, anti bullying,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
You Are the Reason I Smile
...The days are bright when you are near
Even the darkest nights don't generate fear
All I need is a thought about you, even for a little while
You, My dear, are the reason I smile
My mind is rich......
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Categories:
goading, love,
Form:
Free verse
Unforgiving Reflections
...Unforgiving Reflections
by Odin Roark
Life’s not a bowl of cherries,
It’s a comedy of errors.
Like a corpse refusing to die,
An attempted burial forever postponed,
......
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Categories:
goading, life,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Whispers Spilling From Their Lips
...I wander down a cobbled street,
sodden from rain, heckled by whispers
revealing secrets on this blustery night.
They bewilder me in a surge of confusion
far beyond the juncture of cursory fr......
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Categories:
goading, fear, grief,
Form:
Elegy
Storm Warning
...The gathering storm rattled snakelike over distant hills,
Heads of dust and debris thrown as charcoal relief
To the vast expanse of the sky;
In the drought of reason, heat radiated a stillness,
D......
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Categories:
goading, death, history, life, loss,
Form:
Blank verse
Worth Noting
...5/9/22
Let me change my toning
Skills mastered and others still honing
I am not droning
People to this day passed away from a stoning
Continually condoning
With no cease to cloning
It's beco......
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Categories:
goading, dark, death, deep, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Your Pain My Pain
...Chronic pain is a darkness, personally endured
Persistently battled, for suffering's ensured
It's constant plague preys on the mind, goading your torment
like misery designed
Not long ago agi......
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Categories:
goading, courage, deep, desire, endurance,
Form:
Rhyme