Best Hastening Poems
On the Wings of a Butterfly- POTD - Collab With My Sister Cecilia Crasto
...POTD 10th May 2018
A dedication to our departed Mum, Anne Forbes.
And to all the dearly departed Mums who celebrate Mother’s day on the second Sunday in May. We will meet......
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Categories:
hastening, dedication, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Tangled Vines
...I walk along the old familiar path in the wood of my childhood -
the place that I willingly abandoned
for the lure of new friends and activities
that carried me ever farther from my......
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Categories:
hastening, childhood, life,
Form:
Free verse
My Inner Child
...
I ride the vibrant crests
Of a tangerine moon
Glowing across stardust ridges
Where inspiration tickles
My heart with laughing dewdrops
I drift on the edge of a smiling
Emerald fores......
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Categories:
hastening, child, childhood, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 14
...Despite his impatience to show me his hell,
He waited for me in my rest,
Lying upon the ground, I awoke in prayer,
Thanking God above and asking Him for guidance
“My heart is Yours, always,
F......
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Categories:
hastening, adventure, anxiety, conflict, courage,
Form:
Epic
I Knew You From a Distant Dream
...I knew you from a distant dream
The sweet streams cry out
The dumb rocks perspire with dew
My heart flutters in your comely grace
You're more beautiful than the flower
And more sweeter......
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Categories:
hastening, dream, imagery, romantic,
Form:
Free verse
Broken Wings Unsheathed
...Resurrections lone fallen spiritual being, kneeling within the darkness of mine
Own tormented soul, broken, fractured at fetters ivory appendages, a flightless
Angelic Dark winged angel standing al......
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Categories:
hastening, angel, beauty, fantasy, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
Still-Life of Autumn
...Take a walk with me within the forest
Gravel path, laced in peach and yellow, leaves.
Inhale the spirit of air it surrounds.
Listen to crunch and shift of course gravel,
See the dust rise upwar......
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Categories:
hastening, autumn, imagery, october,
Form:
Free verse
Still, Small Voice
...
Saint Augustine so eloquently stated, “Our hearts are restless until we find our rest in Thee.”
Restless heart, “Listen to the silence”
The whispers of kindness inspiring joy
......
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Categories:
hastening, faith, god, gospel, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Oh, March
...Oh, March
you pompous windbag
howling in the hollows
of Winters fade.
Scattering Fall’s gold
across warmed mud,
billowing tree bound
plastic bag kites,
hoisting the weightless hawk.
Oh Mar......
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Categories:
hastening, confusion, march,
Form:
Free verse
A Dank Day
...Today is a dank day
veiling a sullen sun;
cloudy and overcast
with shifting shadows as
breezes blow hard and fast.
Today is a dank day,
dribbling droplets of rain
water a thirsty ear......
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Categories:
hastening, change, image, imagery, nature,
Form:
Monchielle Stanza
Memories On Branches
...Scrumptious sight of prairies and grass
Ardent beaming of flower buds and buzzing bees
Leafless coils, branches of trees become alive
Hastening! Arousing everyone's joy and ......
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Categories:
hastening, autumn, life, seasons, spring,
Form:
Light Verse
The Pieces of Peace
...The pieces of peace were handpicked
Picked in the heart of the night
Shredded for an aspiration
To clutch the lone torch contained by the dark
A glimpse for some unusual rank
Then comes the ......
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Categories:
hastening, political,
Form:
Light Verse
Journal
...
“In the journal, I am at ease.” — Anaïs Nin
Crisp, like the autumn whose blazing dreams
Softly whisper into the moments,
Embracing the night and kissing the dew on dawn,
Resembl......
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Categories:
hastening, appreciation, christian, faith, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Esperance
...
“The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gathered up gold, And now he is dying…Old age, begin sighing.”- Thomas Hood
In the amber hues, kissed by scarlet
Soothing w......
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Categories:
hastening, appreciation, autumn, beautiful, dance,
Form:
Free verse
Dying Screams
...
Gusts thump the windows,
Never seen, but always heard,
Hastening to meet the tallest oaks,
Urging them to sway, bending,
Leaning as if to waltz this way, that way,
Wherever the c......
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Categories:
hastening, death, nature, nostalgia, wind,
Form:
Free verse