Best Grooved Poems
Oye, Latin
...There I stood, flushed: gripping
a diaphanous pelvis of his guitar,
he rips a pulpy drool of velvet notes…
glossy under a roulette of lights,
saucy on the parquet floor upon
an artist'......
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Categories:
grooved, magic, music,
Form:
Free verse
Phoenix Defrosted
...Phoenix Defrosted
Given by the Sun God the good of the moon and some lucky stars
he sits full of fortune love and still in miraculous amazement under
the bright rays of southern soil soaking un......
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Categories:
grooved, love, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Unanswerable
...She said we don’t sit together in the car anymore
Remember when we first met and how we grooved
I said too bad but I’m still here behind the wheel
So can you answer this, guess who moved?
I was w......
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Categories:
grooved, funny, life
Form:
Queen of the Rails
...The engine: Long and black
And sleek as she could be
She shook the earth in her approach
As her heraldry.
An atmosphere of steam and smoke
Expanding in her wake
The Queen-of-the-Rails speeds on
An a......
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Categories:
grooved, age, america, change, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Heat Wave
...
"Heat Wave"
A new dawn fades
as the sun overtakes
the division in joy
the top layer
shiny and new
still and blue
calm and observing
underneath
the cover of......
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Categories:
grooved, morning, star, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Bad Teacher - 80's Style
...Some ooglay dweeb-o-rama after school
went and caught me mashing with my boy toy
(a stella stud, I kid you not -mad cool!)
Geek said, “He’s half your age!” I said, “No DOY!”
Before that tard......
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Categories:
grooved, funny, me,
Form:
Sonnet
Cacao Tree
...Blossoms like orchids, waxy white
Waiting for pollen's lore
Producing those bean pods purple
Chocolate treats galore
Green, yellow, red, purple grooved pods
Ebony dark the seeds
Bitter the na......
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Categories:
grooved, death, food, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Scent of a Woman
...There lives a woman
In a village of the West
Besides where lake amazes
Where torrents do crashes
Her tender hand waves the maize
To buy or eat and free your hunger
By her side lays her kits
Th......
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Categories:
grooved, woman,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Pilgrimage
...the dark raven
beckons my soul
amidst quaint cackling of
the jackals mangling hisses
I witnessed flowers bloom
as the giant oaks
began to kneel at my feet
I witnessed his face
why I hea......
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Categories:
grooved, journey,
Form:
Blank verse
Where Will We Be? (One For Ms. Becky)
...Where will I be?
When your plane bursts the clouds
On its way back home
To your boys’ embrace and Asia
Dissolves
Like a forgotten stopover
On another ticket to Destination
Life.
So where ......
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Categories:
grooved, friendshipme, me,
Form:
Free verse
Sweetest Torture
...The sweetest torture
Is to walk within your circle of fire
Being warmed
Being charmed
Yet knowing
Knowing
Your fire does not burn for me
The sweetest torture
Is feeling alive in the light of your ey......
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Categories:
grooved, pain, universe,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Rolls
...Dusk finally breaks
so we assert ourselves with ecstasy
and weed.
We claim omnipotence in pills and
crystals, whose uneven facets
reflect our fractured souls
shone through the darks of our
ey......
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Categories:
grooved, abuse, addiction, culture, teenage,
Form:
Free verse
Stops Along An American Dream - Part 2
...(Historical train-ride on the first Transcontinental Railroad in 1870 from Omaha to Ogden aboard the Union Pacific Railroad) © 2009 (Jim Sularz)
Wyoming winds blow like a hurricane,
the flims......
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Categories:
grooved, america, history, travel,
Form:
Quatrain
Ww11 Somewhere In Rome
...today my darling we were in flight
somewhere in rome
we flew through the night
all our faces cover we couldn't see
i however invisioned your lovely face
when the covers were removed
the silen......
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Categories:
grooved, mother
Form:
Italian Sonnet
Reflections In a Glass Room
..."Gleaming diamonds in sediment seams,
The trickling washes slithering into streams,
Notching clouds serrating luminescent beams,
Hazy mirage of mosaic jigsaw dreams,
The interlocking notches of o......
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Categories:
grooved, adventure, allusion, beauty, blessing,
Form:
Limerick