Best Jolting Poems
We Were Fireflies...These are the times you wish
you could pack it all up and be a kid again:
Take me away from the Now
and into the Then
(that's where I wish to descend)
Back when it was all so crystal clear-
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Categories:
jolting, childhood, confusion, deep, emotions,
Form:
Prose Poetry
I Wish That I Was An Eagle...The Eagle of Isaiah 40:31*…
Activating achievement-appearance
Blowing blessings’ brilliance
Carrying changes’ chance
Directing drive-dare despite distance…
Extending enduran......
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Categories:
jolting, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form:
Abecedarian
Kicking the Bucket...From a list made long ago
I’ve kicked my bucket many times
Yet, I’m still alive
Night’s impetuous canvas
Memories painted in broad strokes
Bold images color my dreams
First a brisk zip ......
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Categories:
jolting, adventure,
Form:
Free verse
Riding Out the Thunder Storm...The poor little thing, he was just a’shivering
Scared right out of his wits I’d see him jolting
Bewildered, seeking strong arms to hold him tight
To make him feel a little safe and calm his fright......
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Categories:
jolting, dog, scary, storm, together,
Form:
Sonnet
Ii...You're bent out of shape
There are holes in those shoes that you can not replace.
Gaunt like the tree branch you rode through the storm.
You release your fount of harsh tones
That will surely rep......
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Categories:
jolting, people
Form:
Rejecting Her Plea To Renegotiate What Was...Evoking sullen quests of a lonesome mind
She stepped outside under the starry skies
Only to find, one more time, no one replied
It was a vibrant sky celebrating moonlight
Wanting no part of her......
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Categories:
jolting, emotions, love hurts,
Form:
Verse
I Dream Poetry In Darkness and Light...| I Dream Poetry in Darkness and Light |
Unbroken, my light rises like deep alluvion of sweet rivulets,
Craving passions and tragedies like written poetries of Juliet.
In softly spoken words I......
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Categories:
jolting, allusion, destiny, dream, giving,
Form:
Rhyme
Fallen Heroes the Finale...Cry me a river cry me a river
The change has arrived
Where are all the heroes
Heroes like jolting Joe D
Hit the ball to outer space
Running from first to Homeplate
Kids cheering ki......
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Categories:
jolting, culture, faith, hope, inspirational,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Progressive Rock...On the energy waves of the eons,
Of lyric and line ever-forming,
One is injected, transported,
With all vibrations bursting
Through the human heart and mind,
The jolting edge of innovation
And ......
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Categories:
jolting, encouraging, faith, humanity, music,
Form:
Free verse
Vacancies...
the coastal train began to slow
as two tracks merged together
it stopped at the end of a single line
in freezing winter weather.
the arrow on the 'way out' sign
led me through a covered hall......
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Categories:
jolting, beach, holiday, image, memory,
Form:
Narrative
Sealife...Corals
erubescent, effervescent
proliferating, enticing, embellishing
Acropora, Montipora, Isanthus, Actinia......
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Categories:
jolting, appreciation, creation, magic, sea,
Form:
Diamante
Out of the Woods...A long, long time ago, three children met
this old, gentle lady in an ancient farm,
bidding them to enter her large kitchen
with a sweet flavor of gingerbread and ale...
Beside her , a ......
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Categories:
jolting, children, fear, recovery from,
Form:
Narrative
A Halloween Story...One dark and dreary night many, many moons ago
myself and a friend coming home from the local disco
no names mentioned smiling . . .
and in the far distance we could see and hear three girls
laug......
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Categories:
jolting, allegory, dark, evil, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
The Most Offensive C-Word In the Usa...The Most Offensive C-Word
By Elton Camp
The F-word is just revolting
The awful N-word is jolting
The way things have been of late
There’s another one that folks hate
Cruel is a word that most des......
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Categories:
jolting, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
I Remember...She had beautiful hands, I remember
Strong and brown and crude under the choking lamplight
that wintry autumn of the potato blight
I saw them cringe and turn over and over
She thought I’d falle......
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Categories:
jolting, childhood, death, motherautumn, day,
Form:
Free verse