Best Lifetimes Poems
Incarnations of many lifetimes
sweep before me...
Liberating my soul's chants
As universal notes of music
Float on vibrant strands of color,
Phasing purple, pure and light,
In violet vibrations, swirls of
Incandescent glitter shimmers
Drawn by gravity in downward drifts.
Flaming candle's smoky essence
Mixes with incense of sandalwood
In a wafting waltz of vertigo.
Past and present intertwine
Lacing love with pulsing pain.
Effervescent breath is shallowed
By visions from the living dead.
Categories:
lifetimes, allusion, assonance, birth, death,
Form:
Free verse
(blank verse)
Not long, but clear and strong, came Dad to me.
He'd died six months ago, grief still my decree,
yet Dad's words steered me away from tragedy.
This gave me proof that death invites no fear.
Souls ebb and flow, roll like ocean's own tide.
Death must be two doors, one souls pass through,
and one love-sealed to hold humans earth bound.
When flesh life dies, one's spirit life remains
on journeys aptly mapped for souls' growth-gain.
Each soul endures umpteen human lifetimes
'til spirit consciousness shines light divine.
Now mortal senses hold the universe,
when spirit senses would spare us our worst.
In race and gender, many are fast wrapped,
yet death shakes gone both sad, human rigged facts.
Misplaced emphasis could be what ends us.
When spirit sense outweighs human nonsense,
we shall seal heavenly wrapped, peaceful traits.
Categories:
lifetimes, death, fear, spiritual,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
An army of mites reside on our lashes
With mouths and tiny claws
Along the way during human evolution
This surely must have been a flaw
Astronauts strangely can't burp in space
What kind of dribble is that
A feline can have over a hundred kittens
Now that's one pooped out cat
Some atheists put up Christmas trees
An identity crisis for sure
A cow can poop up to four tons a year
That's sure a batch of manure
A woman once had sixty-nine children
Talk about barefoot and pregnant
With a dirty big bunch of kiddies like that
She could hold her own beauty pageant
Nose prints are used to identify dogs
Imagine if they were used for humans
Especially during the influenza season
There'd be snot all over the policeman
The tallest people in the world are the Dutch
Must have to duck under the windmills
While kissing most tilt their head to the right
But there's some who rub noses still
The salary of Toto in “The Wizard Of Oz”
Was a hundred twenty dollars a week
That's a hundred and twenty more than me
Since retiring my new job is sleep
Categories:
lifetimes, fun,
Form:
Rhyme
dusty in the eaves
three lifetimes undisturbed
cluttered memories
Categories:
lifetimes, history, life, memory,
Form:
Haiku
How long is a lifetime?
They say it lasts
From birth to death
But is that really true?
Mine has surely been long
Centuries, at least
Or have I been here
Just a few months?
A few moments.
It all happened so fast
Age six seems like only
Seconds have passed
Age sixty was an eon ago
Perhaps when I’m
Dead and gone
I’ll be back
For another go
Categories:
lifetimes, age, death, future, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Born into an ordinary, churchgoing family
No one expected Satan to reign supreme
Relapse and rehab and sobriety chips
Postpartum vacations in the psych ward’s west wing
Three decades of life, aged twice as much
Finally lulled into domestic bliss
The wild can never truly be tamed
Excitement and fire I missed
Turned my passion of life toward writing instead
Cause 50 years old is too young to be dead
Sponsor: Silent One
Contest: Story of My Life in Ten Lines
Date: 9/30/19
Categories:
lifetimes, life,
Form:
Blank verse
In this lifetime the bond is blood
But these wounds go back eons
We hurt at something seemingly small
But the game of pain
Has a Great Fall of Fame
Into many lifetimes
Whether we choose to see what is
Our reality is this moment
Or taste disastrous recipes of loathing
The gift of the present is to forgive
As He forgave us
Into many lifetimes
If your promise was to show me pain
I felt the deep pangs of that sadness
And accept what is
Let’s leave judgment at the doormat
Love requires integrity
Into many lifetimes
I choose forgiveness
For no person is innocent
Like water under the bridge
But when I stare at the water
It doesn’t seem to move
Into many lifetimes
To truly forgive is to allow Being
Release brings evaporation of rooted ego
Forgiveness is the only way
The Truth and the Life
Created with cobblestones of love
Into many lifetimes
I forgive myself for my shortcomings
I release my fears and disappointments
This lopsided backpack of pain is too heavy
I forgot I could put it down!
As I walk the next path
Into many lifetimes
Categories:
lifetimes, fear, forgiveness, introspection, jesus,
Form:
Lyric
I walk into love with you.
With my eyes wide open.
To take every measure along the way.
I didn't fall in love with you.
Because my eyes were wide open,
So, I can love you every step we take.
I believe in destiny and fate.
And we intended,
To do things that we value.
I'd choose you.
In a hundred lifetimes over,
Because you're unique in scars.
I'd choose you sooner.
In a hundred worlds different,
Because of your imperfections.
I'd choose you sooner.
In a hundred universes unalike,
Because I'd find you in time.
Any interpretation of this existence.
I'd find you sooner and choose you,
And I'd walk into love with you, again.
I love you all the same, Shannon! R.I.P.
Categories:
lifetimes, best friend, family, fate,
Form:
Prose
a soda fanatic
a tv hound
an armchair fiend
a couch potato....fried....not baked
i am fooling myself here
i miss you and that's just why
too bad you are no longer here to hear it
it is six years exactly today
the inhaler still sits by the picture you took twenty-four hours before
when i said goodnight to you, i never thought i would really be saying goodbye
a sucker for tearjerkers
a new connoisseur of tragic plays
a soap opera rookie....blue....not green
Categories:
lifetimes, death, i miss you,
Form:
Free verse
I have loved you,
In lifetimes before,
Right here and now,
I love you even more.
I can’t make you love me,
Not so sure you should.
Doesn’t stop the tears,
Or prayers that you would.
My heart doesn’t know,
What I have longed for,
Is out of my reach.
Or how to let you go?
I know I love you,
With everything in me,
But I am not the one,
This much I can see.
So I’ll go on loving you.
Forever and a day,
And pray for the time
When you walk my way.
Categories:
lifetimes, faith, girlfriend-boyfriend, life, love,
Form:
Romanticism
I was so young the first time,
like many others.
Santa Clause,
The lie should be a crime.
A bit older and in school,
like many others.
Our history,
Lieing is the Golden rule.
And now a bit older still,
like many others.
Love is forever,
He lied for his thrill.
Now all grown up,
like many others.
Freedom,
I'm fed, on lies I sup.
I fell for these once,
like many others,
I'm sure mores to come.
I won't believe,
I'm not a dunce.
Categories:
lifetimes, life,
Form:
Would you believe we already met before
At the first Oak tree of an acre more?
You're like a short-lived beautiful trail of light
I waited for you during my empty nights.
Do you remember what you said to me?
"In all our lifetimes, I will come to thee."
So I let you go without a slight remorse
Trusting time will bless us with its course.
Now, this is another lifetime yet you remain
The only person my hollow heart is chained
I'll keep the faith that what you said is true
If you can't come to me then I will go to you.
Categories:
lifetimes, death, dedication, destiny, i
Form:
Rhyme
Why are days looking like endless lifetimes,
Mistimes of pastimes...
As all I have is a mortal heart...
Foretime the thwart, an impart.
Categories:
lifetimes, extended metaphor, image, metaphor,
Form:
Couplet
it's like surfing;
over lifetimes I can't
remember, but
carrying little pieces
over, adding new drops
to sugary, rolling waves,
falling, riding; shouting
occasionally at the devil
or you when you're
nearer
Categories:
lifetimes, death, fun, introspection, life,
Form:
Free verse
The die is cast
lungs turn to rust
another one bites the dust
Quick! Hide Roxy
Queen; she is a-coming!
Abandon Abadon's ship
Abandon tea
make way for the ancient mariner
Pigs to the sea.
Categories:
lifetimes, earth, environment, health, humanity,
Form:
Free verse