Best Hankering Poems
yearning
of ritual
lethargic
in thunderstorm
through
huge chasm
of window&
watching
sky
darkened &
drizzle
dropping &
gust
howling
non-stop
yet stipulating
coldness
within
intimacy&
a glimpse
charming
longing
for flowers
blooming
rooting in
womb
relishing
drafting
sun and moon
elysian fields
of yesteryear
& blue oceans
crave
scooting
&
alleging
obsession
musings
notification
compelling
1St place contest winner
Written: August 1st, 2022
A Brian Strand Premiere Choice Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand
NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood is inherently variable.
Categories:
hankering, analogy, appreciation, care, cheer
Form:
Other
Come dear beau
embrace in my shadow
beneath my leaves
for a kiss or two.
I am a mistletoe
a parasite,
that needs to hang
on a tree as host,
and moreso,
I need kisses
to excite and powerup!
Categories:
hankering, environment, love, tree,
Form:
Free verse
The calendar counts the weeks and months of COVID.
Yet, every pensive daybreak I am granted that for which I never asked.
Of course, suffering sickness and death tolls are endlessly morbid.
Still, my morning strolls find dazzling nooks where wonder is unmasked.
Plentiful pansies splash passion rainbows over meadowlands unrequited.
Common Windmill palm trees display fan palms like broad hands.
Neighborhood lawns spawn hankerings for cornucopias delighted.
Each new day contains unique complexions, signature ambient wavebands.
I am an animal of textures, but the relentless pandemic compels tactile chill.
By what right am I awarded these winsome private moments on each stroll?
Rain drums on the roof like an invocation, and I touch the palpable thrill.
Nature’s rhythms are carried on wings of monarchs and in the birth of a tadpole.
At last, I am not alone but connected to rugged bluffs and smooth beaches.
Finally, I realize without these endowments, existence would be impossible.
I am meant to discover all the simple prodigious self-ordering reaches.
In understanding them, I see no beginning or end, only that I am tangible.
Categories:
hankering, appreciation, beautiful, butterfly, flower,
Form:
Rhyme
Hey! What are you prating?
Nobody in here desires waiting
With everything being instant
Why should waiting be a constant
Sarah, for Isaac waited until ninety years
Rebecca, begot Esau and Jacob waiting twenty years
Waiting for Joseph, perhaps made Rachel shed tears
Her words could have been bitter in Jacob’s ears
Ruth’s patience outran years of her melancholy
Until she got placed in the Eternal One’s genealogy
Am I not worthy of ten sons? Her husband did say
Yet Hannah’s heart placed a vow and earnestly did pray
She had to wait for Samuel and his siblings
Trusting a Father who never forgets her pleadings
You may be one with such a plea
Wait, be focused on the Lord with glee
Surely this lack in your life will flee
While hankering for this gift of a child
Wait in God’s presence as His child
Waiting is tough and tougher still
When most things are available instant at the sill
If you wait, then –
Kings shall be your foster fathers
Their queens your nursing mothers
They shall bow down to you
With their faces to the earth before you
And lick up the dust of your feet
Proclaiing that it’s the Lord’s feat
You, shall not be ashamed waiting for Him
Particularly when things look very grim.
Categories:
hankering, hope, inspirational, wife,
Form:
Rhyme
Cowboy Ray here...
I am a bronco bustin lover
Sunday meeting goin to see my girl Darla
Hankerin fer a cold can of beans to be eatin
So I git off my horse
As I arrived on coarse
Met up with the stagecoach
hankering for a brawling
Saddle bag in my hand
Even I have been brand
Watch ya self partner
Wait a minute
git T up horsey
hankering for a brawling
Over yonder
That fellow’s messin around wit my darling
So mad I could have been spittin on the floor
Pisstle whip that man fer..
Trying to romance my darling
hankering for a brawling
Pull the triggle
Shoot his finger
Guess I have ta saddle up and mosey on over
To the sheriff
Everybody dun saddled up for the county ho down
What???
Somebody hankering for a brawling
Trying to romance my little Darla darling
hankering for a brawling
Hee haw……….
Categories:
hankering, anxiety, character, hilarious,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
I’m hankering to leave
To lightly tread upon the resilient clover hiding from the path
To touch the soft moss frosting on the garden rocks
To search for footprintless paths and linger in the stillness
To listen to the breath of the salty wind
To mentally needlepoint the stars
To follow the bird’s chant
To float among the dandelion seeds
To dream of countless tomorrows and cherish countless yesterdays
Won’t you join me?
Categories:
hankering, adventure, nature,
Form:
Free verse
dusty drips drooling
inky lits lurching
felon fits fostering
callous contractions cupping
Haggard how hankering
oily oceans assembling
nocturnal nature nimbling
fiery feelings seducing
airy allotment amputating
bounty pulses puncturing
severed seals smirking
damp dark dancing
multifarious means metamorphosing
all transcending tottering.
20:01:19:09:18
Categories:
hankering, dark,
Form:
Sonnet
My wishes sit on fates shoulder
A hankering to sit over
I lie asleep in my fog of desire
For I can’t cast a spell un pondered
Categories:
hankering, 12th grade, angst, beauty,
Form:
Rhyme
smirks drip dances
seeped'n rustic rhythm
birthing moaning melody
spanked by surges
airy ambiguity fostered
callous concerto register
punctured piano pulses
riveting reeling rises
squashing sassy capillaries
then haughty halt
diminuendo digs gore
perforating pulpy pores
hoisted hankering fart:
callous emotions' cart.
'20:02:22:11:22
Categories:
hankering, allegory,
Form:
Sonnet
punctured pleasure pulsing
bounty beats blushing
hoisted horizons hankering
damping dark dances
on tainted torrent
cupping callous crest
wielded waves whooshing
heaving vying hymns
with felon verses
Ironbounds mystic move
swaying stray mood
feeble fishes chew
on and on
punctured pleasure's pawn.
19:12:30:07:23
Categories:
hankering, ocean,
Form:
Sonnet
Seemingly out of nowhere,
I have experienced an incessant yearning for sweets.
When I see mouth-watering sweets gracing my table,
An intense temptation grow inside me,
My desire goes on elevating;
Making it hard to satiate my selective hunger.
It's always an overwhelming feeling,
triggering a happy spot in my brain.
Categories:
hankering, 10th grade, addiction, candy,
Form:
Rhyme
let
me
taste you
head to toe,
just like forked lightning
tastes air, if you feel so inclined.
please allow me to savor your saccharine sweetness;
you're much like lukewarm honey oozing generously into my salivating tongue!
Date posted: 07/28/2021
Categories:
hankering, desire, longing, passion,
Form:
Fibonacci
I have hankering
for so many of youth days
I really do
Categories:
hankering, childhood, youth,
Form:
Senryu
Hermit Hal
hoped that Harlot Sal
had halted
exalted
exertions as a rustler.
His two-way hustler?
Categories:
hankering, hope,
Form:
Shadorma
under the banyan
the beggar dreams and finds him ---
king in a palace
Categories:
hankering, humanity, life,
Form:
Haiku