Best Jodie Poems
Verse:
Calamity, atrocity...
Lord, if you please,
we need a little help.
Monstrosity, ferocity...
Here on our knees,
we pray for your strong Hand
To ease this pain, bring on the rain;
wash clean the scenes
of violence and abuse.
Nightmares and flares of hatred,
war and trafficking,
these days, are too profuse.
Chorus:
Set us free.
O Lord, we beg You, set us free
from the wickedness that strangles,
the temptations that it dangles;
this world's knotted up in tangles.
Set us free.
Verse:
We know you care; Your love for us
beyond compare;
we doubt You want our fall.
We've come so far, so many scars
show who You are;
please, harken to our call.
Humanity can do so much,
but so much still seems
way beyond our reach.
We've gotten ourselves in this mess,
we do confess;
Your help we now beseech.
Chorus:
Set us free.
O Lord, we beg You, set us free
from the wickedness that strangles,
the temptations that it dangles;
this world's knotted up in tangles.
Set us free.
Verse:
I've never really asked before,
but I implore You
please, don't look away.
Help pave the way for all astray,
those lost, uncertain, in decay
and those who really
could not love You more.
Please make anew, this world askew,
' least clean it of its vile, foul debris.
Help plant the seeds of dignity,
of righteousness and unity
with hope, joy, peace, and love
always in view.
Chorus:
Set us free.
O Lord, we beg You, set us free
from the wickedness that strangles,
the temptations that it dangles;
this world's knotted up in tangles.
Set us free.
Set us free.
O Lord, we beg You, set us free.
Even though our struggle's real,
we can't deny Your presence here;
be ever with us, Lord, until
we are free.
Set us free.
O Lord, have mercy, hear our plea.
We won't give up, not giving in;
we'll keep on trucking to the end.
Oh, won't it be amazing when
each broken heart is on the mend,
and we are free?
~Jodie 2024
Categories:
jodie, faith, freedom, humanity, life,
Form:
Lyric
Freedom.
Oh you can run now, I'm setting you free
So for once in your life, accept gratefully
Ignore every time I proclaimed in the past
My arms open wide will, again, be the last
I said that before I won't say it anymore
I'd mean what I say, then you'd knock at my door
I'd open it up, let you in, let you lie, let you
Sleep in my arms hoping dawn won't come by
But morning did come with the realisation
Your eyes spoke a tale through a brief hesitation
Tsunami of regrets and self preservation
But at long last I've healed, I'm a brand new creation
Awash with tranquility, peace I never knew that
Exists beyond chases and captures from you
Stood still for too long and in sunk the teeth
You leeched at my neck, you wouldn't let me breathe
But those where the days I was happy to die for
I'd rather you kill me than leave me to cry.
A poisoned nostalgia begins to creep in then
Proceeds to inject itself under my skin
How the tables have turned, I've become the snake
The skin you infected has begun to flake
I'm shedding the moments, the heartbreak, the lust
The love and the hate now united as dust
So hard to accept this was never meant to be
So go, you can run now, I promise you're free.
Jodie Williams for
The secondhand emotion contest
13 Jan 2012
Categories:
jodie, history, love, me, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Ecstasy:
*an overpowering emotion or exaltation; a state of sudden, intense feeling.
* slang 3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine; MDMA: a powerful drug that acts as a stimulant and can produce hallucinations
Some time after midnight, a change in the noise
The bitter white pill cleaves the men from the boys
Only the most hardcore of party heads gather
So hungry to fly without sprouting a feather
My clammy hand trembles then moves to my lips
I swallow it down, I wait to lose grip
I'm waiting for death to grip me by the throat
I wait, for you promised my body would float
My skin feels so cold I'm convinced it could crack
So why is there sweat dripping down my hot back?
My eyes scan the room, they jitter as they move
I can't find one person not feeling the groove
And why does my head seem to turn in slow motion
My brain swims around like it's lost in the ocean
The cramps in my hands, have they already died?
I throw back my head and laugh til I cry
I love this, I love it, Oh where have you been?
Who knew nights could hold such rapturous dreams
These people, once strangers, I cant comprehend
How every last person became my best friend
Red, sweating bodies, bouncing together
The DJ ensures the tunes last forever
Your face oozes steam and your jaw won't stay still
It shudders and flutters against your own will
I fight down the nausea but I'm to late
Why didn't you tell me this room can rotate?
I don't care coz I love you I LOVE YOU
who are you?
A realisation I don't even know you
So this is the comedown I heard all about
I fall back to earth with a cumbersome clout
My body feels swollen, exhausted and battered
The gnawed, raw remains of my mouth are in tatters
I felt such a big girl, had nothing to lose
Thought I'd walk for miles in my new grown up shoes
I thought I could play at your wild games too
All I've learnt is I'm still a child. Like you.
Jodie Williams for
Frank's Coming of age contest
5th Feb 2012
Categories:
jodie, childhood, happiness, imagination, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Beloved of my flesh
Is my greatest creation
Unreservedly
Categories:
jodie, daughter
Form:
Senryu
I just want you to wake one day and maybe comprehend
The extent of my emotions, but I doubt you'd understand
I shouldn't have to ask to always be there on your mind
I'm sick and tired of never knowing, looking for a sign
I want you to let go now, I need you to be free
Will there ever come a time where you HAVE to be beside me?
I wish when I unshut my eyes in the first glimpse of light
I'd find that you had stayed awake to watch me sleep all night
I want to feel my back upon the cool, hardness of wall
Take advantage of the moment, you can't resist at all
The catching of my breath, you know I never could disguise
The sheer volume of rapturous desire in my eyes
I want you to reach out for me, in the dead of night
I want your eyes to pursue me, never leave your sight
I realise you've never tasted love upon your tongue
I want to fuel your soul with an explicit sensation
Do I creep into your day with all the silly things we've said?
Do they play a smile upon your lips and echo round your head?
Those unexpected moments when I hear a certain tune
Transports me back to conversations I have shared with you
I just want you to wake one day and maybe comprehend
The extent of my emotions, but I doubt you'd understand.
Jodie Williams
8th April 2012
Categories:
jodie, love, day, day, me,
Form:
Rhyme
My D.I.
Written: By Tom Wright
3-16-2008
I’ll say when you eat & I’ll say when you sleep
And from your recruit mouth I’ll hear not a peep
You’ll visit our barber and get an Army issue “burr”
You’ll resemble some prisoner just released from stir
You’ll sleep with your rifle and spit shine your boots
You’ll repeat my Jodie calls and hold all the hoots
You’ll be my road guard stopping the necessary cars
You’ll not leave Ft. Leonard Wood to frequent the bars
You’ll stand daily inspection and there best be no gigs
You’re in the Army now not back home with the pigs
We’ll first break you down then build you back up
When finished you’ll be a mad dog not a cur pup
You’ll like doing push-ups or that’s what you will say
“Cruit” you better learn to love it for it gets worse each day
You’re mother didn’t want you, that’s why you are here
Unfortunately I don’t either, but me, you’ll learn to fear
You’ll double-time on marches with an eighty-pound pack
And God save your behind if you’re the one in the back
You’ll fight hand to hand and learn to kill at close range
You’ll spit in another’s eye for less than asking for change
You’ll be subjected to ridicule to the extent that I can
For my job is to keep you alive and make you a man
Appreciate Uncle Sam for the Ozark vacation he’s giving
And never, never, call me sir, for I still work for a living
Nothing like a white glove inspection
with a bad breath DI nose to nose cursing you.
Ah the good old days. ha
Categories:
jodie, bullying, military,
Form:
Couplet
A tale of my two girls.
One's called Jodie
and one's called Daisy.
They have a lot in common,
mostly they're both crazy.
Being teens,
so full of life,
infact they both amaze me.
One big difference,
for all to see
is that one's covered in skin,
the other is much more hairy.
Both mastered in the art of making noise
and both attract all of the boys.
Both love to go out in the sun,
just as soon as the day has begun.
When it rains they don't go out,
they stay indoors and muck about.
They're full of fun and love to play,
that's non stop every single day.
I can't keep up,they're too much for me
but without them
I never want to be.
Categories:
jodie, girl,
Form:
Free verse
What do you see when our eyes chance to meet?
A wizened old woman; a mouth void of teeth?
No heavenly body, no long flowing curls
Just a gnarled, barren landscape remains of the girl.
Can’t you see her so young; with wings on her feet?
Her beauty arresting, to all she would meet.
A heart filled with joy, and mirth overflowing
Created from love for giving, bestowing.
See the hopeful young beau’s falling down at her feet
In droves they would fight for her hand - None she’d keep,
Until that rogue Billy swaggered right into town
Knowing the bounty was there to be found.
That one sided smile, the slick curly hair
She stood not one chance to resist this affair.
She was there for the taking, her eyes told her truth;
For this handsome of heroes she’d pledge life and love
Trusting their love to natural existence
Their lives now determined by the full power of “Kismet”,
Assuring warm sunshine, while showers may prevail
So their love could be fruitful; or rot in the rain!
Martha and Billy and Jodie and Ben
Holly and Kitty and twin boys and then…
The fruits of their love, a passion ne’er spent
As for Billy, the “Hero” ……….- true to the end
So when by chance our eyes meet and this gnarled figure you see,
Pause a while, take your time Nurse - Do you see the real me?
Categories:
jodie, allegory, caregiving, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
I must have been 7 when I first climbed that old willow tree,
The gang called it the club house.
There was Jodie, Bridget and of course Rebecca the Wrecker.
I think that that tree was more of school than school.
It was more a parent than my parents.
I certainly learned more about life, boys and the fear of falling,
Than any other place I've been.
We once placed 5 snake eyed marbles there.
The first was Courage in Adversity.
The second marble was Joy in the good times.
The third was Faith to overcome Doubt.
The fourth was Love thy Father.
The fifth marble was Love thy Mother.
I went back one day, all grown up.
I saw that the council had a sign on the tree.
This tree is regarded as unsafe.
Please beware.
Oh doubt in my childhood. Fear in the every day.
Let not the pangs of daily life ever erase
The treasured moments in that tree.
Categories:
jodie, adventure, tree, fear, love,
Form:
ABC
He smells like he came from a bin
the odour has stuck to his skin
For this fugly twit
with eau de armpit
is known as Big Ianto Bumchin
(This is about my smelly performing arts tutor.
He's well aware he stinks.
He just gets off on being as disgusting as possible.)
Jodie Williams for
Carolyn's Horrible bosses contest
17 Aug 2011
Categories:
jodie, education,
Form:
Limerick
Draw me.
Not as they see me,
ignore the flaws that feed my self-pity.
Discount the bruises, the cast iron shackles,
the nostalgic anchors bound to my ankles.
Sketched from behind, so you can't see me cry,
fake charcoal tears cannot be justified.
And from your rear view your gasp breaks the silence,
is it such a surprise to discover I'm spineless?
I want you to draw me before you know me,
I guess I'm intrigued to see how you see me
So I strip off my clothes, as they pool at my feet
I'm stripped of my shackles and anchored deceits.
And I stand there, naked, my legs start to shake,
What do you see in your colourblind state?
You won't see my cheeks kidnapped by a blush,
or the lightning blue sparks though we didn't yet touch.
Lifeless and grey in your fogged imagination
Scared I'll seem dull in your black and white vision.
I want to be painted in shades of crimson,
Monochrome portraits won't portray my passion.
Jodie Williams
8th August 2013
for Nette Onclaud's 'Softly Sensual' contest
Categories:
jodie, art, color, lust,
Form:
Rhyme
Forever have your name engraved,
Un-eroding, infinately imprinted.
Ice cold track, a final grave,
Forever have your name engraved,
Raised her eyes then knelt and prayed.
Beneath her weight, the deathbed glinted,
Forever have your name engraved,
Un-eroding, infinately imprinted.
Jodie Williams for
Nette's In the Afterglow contest
7 Aug 2011
Categories:
jodie, death, peace,
Form:
Triolet
A chance of a job, set of fire
The boss of our nation, a liar
The rioters reasons expire
Jodie Williams for
Dr.Ram's Triplet contest
12 Aug 2011
Categories:
jodie, angst, people, political,
Form:
Terzanelle
Thank you fellow poets in poetry soup
For leaving all your kind thoughts and critiques
You have given me the inspiration to continue on
And for that I am humbled and grateful
May twenty ten be filled with many more wonderful memories
God bless you always, Dean
Carol Brown, Charmaine Chircop, Christy Hardy, Audrey Carey, Gary La Buda,
Anthony Nutter, Caroline Cécile Paczynski, James Fraser,
Patricia Adams, L'nass Shango, Simone Segal,
Sara Kendrick, Constance La France, Jessica Arteaga, Andrew Crisci,
Mary Meade Stephenson, Robert A. Dufresne, Derrick Burton, Carolyn Devonshire,
Linda-Marie Bariana, Karen O'Leary, Krista Kurth, Richard Pickett, Geoffery McHugh,
John Loving iii, Juliane Thomas, Deborah Guzzi, Andrew Crisci, Joshua Lacey ,Tara Jennings,
Eduardo Orozco, by Diane Christian, James Marshall Goff, Larissa Sanchez, Marty Owens,
Jon Sledge, Sharon Weimer, Ernilando Tugaff, Nathan Leccese, Angie Washine,Kat Crane
Donna Golden, John Freeman, Lena Townsend, Barbara Gorelick, Jodie Quintero,
Matthan Atherton, Catie Lindsey, Diogenes Zuniga, Sue Mason, Kate Mcnaughton,
Trudy Diane Rider, Kate W, Amber Jenkins, John Freeman, Amber Jenkins, Krystal Cochrane,
Prince Freakasso, Abe Lopez, Autumn Page, Tumelo Ame Mogotsi, Becky Harmon
Derrick Burton, Jessica Kellems, Rebecca Pasco, Michael Jordan, Izzy Gumbo
Ernilando Tugaff, Laura Mckenzie, Raul Moreno, Vince Suzadail Jr., Adeleke Adeite
Cherica Eckiwaudah, Nathan Leccese, Cesar Cantu, Justin Hensley
Categories:
jodie, thank youautumn,
Form:
Free verse
Let's get ready to rumble
Il turn the man 2 a mountain il make da weak become strong
Il make da loser become a winner make him b no 1,
I am the mentor 4 champions I'm at da forefront of weight loss
ill transform your body yes I'm da big boss
I train with such fury I ave da tigers eye
the buzz of da gym watch da dumbbells Fly
I train with precision with no head swell
da proof is in da pudding da results 1 can tell
da changes ul see as u adopt my chain of thought
leaving at door your ego u will not b caught
In da mentally that I constantly see everyday
trust me Jodie you don't wanna be that way
ok da trainer of champions an exaggeration of da truth
but you'll be da best although sometimes I can b uncouth
but all in all pure honesty I speak
we will take it steady improvements in coming weeks
so this is journey now no more do you have 2 wait
let da monsters roar let da lion out of it's gate
let da Olympians look down let da legends assemble, Jodie da Westman lets get ready to ruuuuuumble
this is your time to shine x
Da Predman powriginalpoems2makeu:)
The Urban Poetry collection
17/09/11
Categories:
jodie, inspirational,
Form:
ABC