Best I.E. Poems
Perception
...To see ourselves as others see us --
unmasked images, through others' eyes --
half-formed caricatures, perhaps --
or mere grotesqueries --
barely recognized, telling
what we thought to hide --
we'd ......
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Categories:
i.e., confusion, introspection, life, people,
Form:
Free verse
On God's Existence
...What am I?*
Am I just a matter?
Am I just spirit?
Or
Am I a combination of spirit and matter?
If we examine the first case- that I am matter-then
whatever I am, I have borrowed it from nat......
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Categories:
i.e., faith, god, people, universe,
Form:
Prose
Strange Creatures and the Forest of Egregore
...
“Strange Creatures and The Forest of Egregore”
Where do we go -
when our rosebuds
stop still in the cold,
unwanted,
along the unopened road?
we walk into the
for......
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Categories:
i.e., dark, light, love, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Perception
...Just when I thought you knew me well
You're bothered by what circulates and surely I can tell
I know you heard about Georgia peach, i.e. Ashley
I know you feel like my past girls are still mad me ......
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Categories:
i.e., friendship, girl, love, rap,
Form:
Rhyme
One Thing That Love Is
...Everything here is true
Just as stated
because it's already happened
or - it has yet to occur -
but it's very soon to occur
and I have such strong feeling
that the future will be as I see it
......
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Categories:
i.e., dog, love, memory, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Brave New World
...(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")
Human hatchery
Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening unde......
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Categories:
i.e., confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Such Wonders Are Breathtaking To Behold
...Such Wonders Are Breathtaking To Behold
(NOT FOR CONTEST THAT INSPIRED THIS POEM)
The morning dew on red rose does glisten
As early dawning sun beams brightly down
Such beauty, bees decorate ......
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Categories:
i.e., art, beautiful, imagery, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
The Meaning of Life: Extinction Or Transcendence
...Since humanity first became a sentient species, aware of time, space and its own mortality, there has been only one question that matters:are we just clever animals destined for nothingness, or does ......
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Categories:
i.e., appreciation, atheist, death, god,
Form:
Prose
Lord Harry's Front
...Old Lord Harry put up a good front.
He hid socks in his pants as a stunt.
But, his Lady swore
as argyle hit floor
that no organ was found to be blunt.
6/17/14
It seems som......
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Categories:
i.e., funny, gender,
Form:
Limerick
Nothingness
...
“Nothingness”
Words
lines drawn
unending
dusk
to
dawn
characters recognised
transcribed
in the mind
where voices unheard
plant meaning
wild ivy grows
......
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Categories:
i.e., muse,
Form:
Free verse
Teach Me In a Dream
...Constellations of values and ethics
like dancing stars in onyx nights.
Majestic fields of ideals stay grounded
in what only seems right. Keenly, I search
philosopher’s heels to grasp theoretical ......
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Categories:
i.e., language, me, passion,
Form:
Imagism
Dani a Charming Cvs Pharmacist
...within Zieglerville, pennsylvania
genuine snow white hair
upon her noggin doth adorn,
perhaps she will divulge to me (in private)
after i croon (to said lass),
the melody of Jimmy Crack C......
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Categories:
i.e., 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
On the Love For God
...What I'm about to write will make no sense to those who have a materialistic worldview: that only matter exists, no mind, no soul, no god. This mindset includes over 1/2 of scientists and probably a ......
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Categories:
i.e., allusion, appreciation, atheist, god,
Form:
Prose
Archy
...Oligarchy - From the Greek, olígos, meaning few,
hence, those guys over there, with their
hands in their garments; They say they'll
tell everyone what needs to be done.
Monarchy - Mon, variant o......
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Categories:
i.e., introspection, people, society, world,
Form:
List
Remembering December
...Remember,
My Dearest,
December.
On my birthday we met,
The fifth day of the month,
I shall never forget
That awesome occasion--
Your breathless expression,
With winsome persu......
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Categories:
i.e., december, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme