Best Impending Poems

Brain is crackling, crisp, ivory bone dry
Gremlin stuffing cotton behind my eyes

Head begins to swell with torpidity
Vivid mind fading to transparency

Internal membranes breaking down
Thoughts run a deep molasses brown

'Tween thought and motion, expanding rift
Act of sheer will, the body to lift

Limbs grow wooden, ready to...

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For decades now we've swam, we've played
and on the grass, in sunshine laid.
A haven for our meditations
visited by our many generations.
Pristine beauty, nature's pride,
and now, bereft, tears we've cried.
To be destroyed, torn asunder.
Governments decree, a total blunder.
Safety issues is their claim,
so our park they now...

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rainbow sky

in the distant

impending weather...

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Cup does runneth 
over, rhyme inside'a 
me at last, was 
barren and so 
empty til inside 
there drops a 
splash,

of rich poetic 
potions mixed with 
collard greens and 
hash, let's picture 
hours after the 
economy has 
crashed.

The whole world 
saw it coming on 
our back;...

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**Quatern**A French form, four quatrain poem similar to the Kyrielle and the Retourne. 
The first line repeats, each stanza in different locations! I like it because the refrain
adds depth and structure!

Impending Changes


Alluring, these pending changes
Everything could fall into place
This heart that has seen much patience
Still,...

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All our systems will break down
and planes will fall from the sky. 
Plagues will stalk the land and 
it is hard to stop the hysteria for
it quickens the blood and feeds 
all the addictions.

It gives us excuses for
not doing what we should
which in turn
makes systems...

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Daytime swelter
Crest of hill smoky with water cloud
Rain imminent


© r.k.chakrabarty
7 Nov 2014...

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Out on the front verandah
We'd share a bottle of silence
And watch a twenty-eight in the dead Jarrah tree -
Neither of us thinking of the death that was to be.
I'd produce a flask of wit
And you'd follow with a chuckle -
The low, breathy kind,
Like a 'packet-a-day'...

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The impending night has fallen upon us
It woke with much persistence
Our hearts fled from its rage like a doe from a rifle
But the blast had already been made. . .

People fall like rain
The clouds are crestfallen with grief
And the darkness has no mercy 
Rain soaks...leaves...

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The nights grow even
colder when I realize
I've spent too much time

screaming at your shadows and
waiting for a miracle...

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We are not alone
comets and meteorites
unwelcomed guests
the eventual outcome
cataclysmically, quiet

The outlook after 
our lands in sporadic grief
the sun, now shadows
devastation so abounds
our oasis, our Earth, gone










http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/space-3.php...

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Measly shadows, painted on the promise of darkness,
stretch across the open fields,
as nature changes her complexion.
Lake Erie, a bright orange, burns 
while the sun plunges into speculation.
The egrets know it is coming;
boisterously, they perform the ritual of the twilight.
Children sneak the last play, 
as the...

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Powerful, these blitzing beams -
Scorching rays that gleam 
Upon raging surf.

Collision of wave and rock -
Resounding, hissing spray:
The fireworks of the sea. 

These waves halt for no one. 
I am a speck...
A miniscule spot of corroded sand 
Nestled within the endless shore.

But that I were...

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On misty waters
Beholding sharp brilliant force
I wait the coming







Guiding Light--Contest  Poem
Sponsored by: Raul Moreno...

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The corona virus has crippled the
Economy and the nation
It seems to be on a death trip
Killing everyone it comes
In contact with
With several businesses having to 
Closed their doors temporarily 
Creates several problems
Like a recession
Businesses can’t pay the workers
If they’re not at work
How will people pay...

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