Best Loaning Poems


Premium Member She Was But a Chickadee

she was but a chickadee 
small but mighty 
with a soaring heart 
that included everyone
flying in the sun she felt her strength
loaning it out to whoever needed her
she was but a chickadee
with the faith God gave her
and it was more than enough
Categories: loaning, god,
Form: Free verse

First Trip

When we travel first time 
All alone to a new country 
Many worries will land 
Along with you at the airport. 

Somebody at the immigration 
Will be scanning our eyes 
Using the camera lenses 
To take an image of our worries, 
The colors of our dreams 
From our thumb impressions.
The dates of our solitude 
Will be stamped on our passport. 

San Francisco, when did I land 
Into your colorful dreams 
Like a silent computer robot 
By loaning my village memories. 

-----

Jul 24,2016
Something Seemingly Insignificant and Unexpected Changed My Life
Categories: loaning, journey, malayalam, solitude,
Form: Free verse

The Lusitania (Part One)

More than twelve hundred souls
Meet their watery grave.
German U-boat patrols
Spark a fatal shockwave.

This echo of the past
Resounds throughout history.
Rousing war unsurpassed,
Deadly shroud of mystery.

The empire aids Cunard,
Loaning millions in pounds.
Lord Inverclyde toils hard
On deceptions unsound.

They hide admiralty
Within their merchant fleet,
And in reality
War barons plot deceit.

Famed cruiser so agile
Brings home the Blue Riband.
Propellers prove fragile,
New designs would respond.

While retooling the craft,
Gun mountings are installed.
Hidden away most daft
Down where the ropes are hauled.

However they decide
To switch their new design.
Large cargo holds shall hide
Munitions in her spine.

War with Germany starts
With land mines and blockades.
America builds parts
While Britain launches raids.

The Isles become war zones
With no sure passage back.
Submarines would throw stones
To sink the Union Jack.
 
So Daniel Dow protests
This British smuggling ring.
The prior chief suggests
Attacks these loads will bring.

A German message warns:
"Huge risk at British sea!
If allied flags adorn,
They'll be hacked to debris!"

Captain Turner is picked
To lead the merchant ship.
"Speed shall avoid conflict
On this momentous trip."

Voyage two hundred-one
Departs Pier 54
Under a watchful sun,
Fresh ammo in her store.

Steaming toward Fastnet Rock,
Bowler Bill seeks advice.
Three ships are sunk in shock,
Warnings are confirmed twice.

Posting double look-outs,
They ready the lifeboats.
Bill secures a black out
While taking careful notes.

Thirty miles from Cape Clear,
The vessel enters fog.
Weather thwarts so severe
The captain slows their slog.

The periscope spots them
As orders are passed down.
One button shall condemn,
Destruction all around.

The Old Head of Kinsale
Watches the missile glide.
The bomb shreds to assail
Those weapons stowed inside.
© John Weber  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: loaning, history, warwar, war,
Form: Ballad

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Premium Member A Girlie Under the Blanket

Last night my tortured mind did wander
Imagined all the Hollywood starlets
Wanted to squeeze me and cover me with kisses
My body was their ultimate target

Now I'm aware I have an amazing physique
Young girlies would really die for
But we all must conduct ourselves with order
There's enough of me to share and more

Long as my heart is able to hold out
My all night stands still apply
The stamina I possess is famous worldwide
Some would love to love like this guy

They're writing books bout my incredible stamina
How I'm able to go on for hours
It all comes down to an oversexed libido
That provides my extraordinary powers

Seriously thinking of loaning myself out
At five hundred bucks per session
Taking requests by email and by phone
But I must be in bed by eleven

I can't have any girlies under the blankets
Need my beauty sleep every night
Get ready for another day of teaching sex
But whoa, what a great life despite



© Jack Ellison 2015
Categories: loaning, humorous,
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Girlies Under My Blanket

Last night my tortured mind did wander
Imagined all the Hollywood starlets
Wanted to squeeze me and cover me with kisses
My body was their ultimate target

Now I know I have this amazing physique
Young girlies would really die for
But we all must conduct ourselves with order
There's enough of me to share and more

Long as my heart is able to hold out
My all night stands still apply
The stamina I possess is famous worldwide
Some would love to love like this guy

They're writing books bout my incredible stamina
How I'm able to go on for hours
It all comes down to an oversexed libido
That gives me these extraordinary powers

Seriously thinking of loaning myself out
At five hundred bucks per session
Taking requests by email and by phone
But I must be in bed by eleven

Can't have girlies under my blankets past eleven
Need my beauty sleep every night
Get ready for another day of teaching sex
But whoa, what a great life despite


© Jack Ellison 2015
Categories: loaning, fun,
Form: Quatrain

Mom,You Are Still Alive and Well

MOM, YOU ARE SILL ALIVE AND WELL

I miss your smile, the times we shared and the world that
	you opened my eyes to.
I smile at the major ass whippings you put on me in your 
	goal to bring discipline and manhood to me.
The Cherokee in you got wild at times especially if some
	fool disrespected the seven that came from you
Yet, the most important part of you and your life was 
	that you were MOM to many and as much as
	you loved me,
YOU HAD THE ABILITY TO LOVE US ALL.

You left here twelve years ago today, and though there
	are tears, I feel all love and no pain
I talk to you often, see your smiling face and laugh when
	you shake your head at your crazy son
The absence of pain I believe is because I was present
	when you went to meet your LORD, at that time
	there was only sunshine, no rain
I got your last earthly smile, the peace I saw, although I
	was losing you, MOM, you won
And I am thankful to my Creator for loaning you to me
	even if just for a little while

Reid J. Lewis
06/18/2015
© Reid Lewis  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: loaning, bereavement,
Form: ABC


Mrs B

How do I Thank You 
for watching over my child 

investing your 

time 

energy 

focus 

and 

passion 

in him  

Every  

day? 

How do I thank you

for using your keen eye 

to emerge with his full picture  

and tailoring a years worth of education  

just for him? 

for making sure he is comfortable 

and relaxed 

and happy Every day? 

How do I thank you  

for finding inventive  

ways to facilitate his goals Every day? 

for the look of alarm, ever so brief 

if even a remote chance of danger 

for him or others?

for your warmth  

your upbeat kindness 

and nurturing 

that you give him Every day? 

How do I thank you

for loaning him Snow pants 

and a little Yellow T-Shirt? 

for teaching him how to honor 

his own work 

and that of his peers? 

How do I thank you  

for planting seeds 

that deepen his understanding  

of Everything? 

for taking a lesson plan that is fine 

infusing it with complexity  

and transforming it  into  

something extraordinary 

Every day? 

for teaching my child as if he were the only child in your class

while teaching Every Child in your class as if they  

were the only one as well? 

How do I thank you? 

This happy 

full 

creative  

thinking 

boy 

who chatters to me as he is going to sleep  

about Martin Luther King Jr. 

Johnny Appleseed  

Spheres and cylinders  

sets of tens  

mammals  

fish 

poems 

songs 

and Your words of Praise 

is the living proof  

of the gift that you are to education and children. 

I can only say Thank you Teacher.. 

Mrs B; Poetry by
Susan M. Walker 2014
Categories: loaning, children, education, emotions,
Form: Prose Poetry

Loaning Birds

who shall
loan
a bird
to me.

for i am
small
i am 
farther
than
the  blank
expanse 
between
word and speaking.

who shall
loan
a bird
to me.

For the worn
blanket
of my being
does not call me
mighty.
Categories: loaning, mystery, visionary,
Form: Free verse

Singing In the Wind

I have  heard  grass singing in  the wind.
I   have walked through poppy fields in  sun
I have  suffered  when dark rain descends

I have watched  trees’ shadows in the ponds
I have  known the  arctic wastes of pain
I have  heard  grass singing in the wind.

Another soul is writing  with my hand
Yet I have  wept  while loaning him  my pen
I have  suffered  when dark rain descends

I have known  the edges  of the mind
I ‘ve   sensed  hollow silence un-contained.
I have  heard  grass singing in  the wind.

I have sorrowed for  humans confined
I have  watched  the antics  of bad  men
I have  suffered  when dark rain descends

I have seen the storm by camera lens.
I have felt the   solar system bend.
I have  heard  grass singing in  the wind.
I have  suffered  when dark rain descends
Categories: loaning, allegory, courage,
Form: Villanelle

Premium Member A Haiku Conversation

We should spend Christmas 
In Paris this year with Jean 
Christmas in Paris?

Spectacular plan
Let's buy the tickets and call 
Early and  call Jean 

Just then Tommy turned 
To them loaning his senses 
"I HOPE I'M GOING!"

"Intercontinental 
Paris  -  Le Grand great!"
"We need plan tickets."

Christmas in Paris 
With joyful friends Jean Paul and
Laurent Paul hurrah!

I can hardly wait 
Razzle dazzle Joan screamed hurrah!
Razzle dazzle day!
Categories: loaning, french, travel,
Form: Haiku

Melody

It started on D - flat, 
succulent & succinct 
soft & rhythmic
loaning hearts pats. 
the wail of the piano
caressing the voices' glissando

riffs tampered with the tune, 
notes trailing tracks of crest, 
demisemiquaver pruned
by the demigod crochet:
parts of belts

accompanying baritone, 
baroque & tormenting bass
nursing decrescendo, 
an atlas

And then clef, 
embellishing the melody, 
encore spill the best, 
swift fortemente

Hearts lured, 
esophagus of the musician
shifting. Pure
steps moving in pleasure, 
as the lyrics complimented
the melody

A coda:
a flat accompaniment
severed the passion
as the keys & notes did melt

tumult in rhythm, 
sundry languages inflected
the lyrics. 

like concerto grosso
of courante on 
bagpipes, accordion, 
harps, obeos & paino. 

now we're stuck
in the maze of this music, 
no virtuoso could make meaning of
the tune, lyrics or melody

but we're moving our bodies, 
till those that gets weary
goes to hear death's string. 
     19:09:22:18:47
Categories: loaning, confusion,
Form: Lyric

Premium Member I Think I Need a Wife-

Future tense
I think I need a wife 
to finish out my life
 I have one life to give
 for Christ God and me

 before I leave this plane 
agreed i'm about to love again
 the thought of a lonely broken heart 
No longer fits the part

 parts of me says No Way 
no woman would want to have a time of day
 in my loaning aloneness life 
again I think I need a wife

 my first the only girlfriend 
this girl I met when I was 18
 I  courted and dated her was amazed 
that she gave me the time of day
 
Past tense

 I had have no low self-esteem 
I thought I was still in a vision a dream
 she accepted my chase 
she stopped the race
 
I proposed to her and she said I do 
42 years of blessedness married with 3 children 
and one day God said 
come home daughter and she left this plain

Present tense

 and back home to her Father 
I vowed before I leave this plain
 I need to love again 
the thought of a lonely broken Heart

 no longer fits the part 
to finish my life I have one life
 to give for Christ God and Me
 I think I need a wife


2/22/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022
*An Answer to Paris Marie-Boreham poem "Again Think I Need a Husband"
Categories: loaning, analogy, destiny, fate, future,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Yesterday's Pain

The time has come for me to move on, 
to let go of things I've held for so long
with a new day and time I've tried to forget, 
all the pain in my life from people I've met
But time is the greatest healer I've heard in the past
That's how I know this pain won't last
I've climbed a mountain I've almost reached the top
it's a hard journey,but I'm not about to stop
My heart is healing with God's help I know
He keeps me strong wherever I go.
This yesterday's pain had a hold on me
so strong and so tight I could hardly see
The damage it done, my soul grew so weary
but I kept on climbing and now I see clearly
the lessons from God he wants me to learn
the lesson is that now it's my turn
to take this mountain and show it whose boss
to climb without stopping no matter the cost
It will not defeat me, there's too much at stake
to let this pain my life overtake
Thank you lord, for making me strong,
for being with me when others were gone
for carrying me when I couldn't walk
for being my voice when I couldn't talk
for being my eyes when I couldn't see
for taking my hand and leading me
for loaning me an angel when times were hard
for giving me the strength to make a new start
because yesterday's pain is about to die,
a horrible death without a soul to cry
so long my pain, you had a good run
to rip me,and ride me, now your time is done
Categories: loaning, imagination, inspirational, life, passion,
Form: Verse

We, You, I : a Rap Song

"I ain't gonna be nothing, 
Cos it seem like f'ever I've been longing."
Tears in the eyes, phlegm in the nose,
Skin so sore, malady of the toes. 
Helter-skelter, yet, nothing to show for, 
Studied chemistry and physics what have I got? 
I've got nothing, but walking, 
Turning like a wheel, with no Boris, 
Fishing and hunting, yet no prey, 
A thousand padlocks and just two keys. 
Governments say what they won't do, 
Making us seem as big fools, 
Manifestoes, flap-doodles;
Serving trimmed rubbers as noodles. 
"Eat, eat, eat" they bade us, 
Proud to champion course unjust. 
Queen of s, Lord of tongues, 
Sharpened bolox, Seasoned guts. 
Now they stand as the saviours, 
Voice so high, dreading as thunder.
More they speak, more they hunger, 
Nourished with lies, growing fatter. 
What do we do, what are should? 
'nough of savagery, 'nough being fooled. 
Hey hey hey I'm talkin' you. 
You you you you you you you. 
Y'all wake up, wake from slumber, 
'Nough of dearth, 'nough of hunger. 
We goan be sleepers death after, 
Now eyes are open, why the scar? 
If its dirt they're tissue papers, 
Come for bucks, here is a dollar, 
Buy the one which is cleaner, 
Use it on your eyes and see clearer. 
You should now see, yea better, 
Humans like you claiming beggars. 
Those then begging, now are loiters, 
Those then loitering, now are robbers, 
Those then robbing, now are killers, 
Those then killing, now are prisoners, 
Those then in prison, met their demise. 
And on and on, Same thin' O'er and O'er. 
And we live on in myopia, 
Till perhaps come the rapture. 

Now we need revolution, 
Bundle up and throw out corruption. 
Right in our palm is solution, 
But we've been feared by confusion. 
Change prior to conviction, 
Let's agitate for lib'ration, 
Kill who should die as oblation ;
Those who're swimming in corruption. 
For e'ery bribe they get commission, 
E'en loot their congregation, 
Loaning 'em to indecision. 
Spare no seed of transgression. 
Even the bible make no exception ;
The book of proverbs even in extension, 
In chapter six verse eighteen makes a correction:
Only the death of the innocent is a transgression, 
But of the wicked? Sure purification. 

The first two lines would come no more, 
If we do what is right as we ought. 
        19:08:17:18:35

Ancestor. Ancestral Pen. We, You, I.
Categories: loaning, depression, evil,
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Come On Down To the Savoury Hotel

I shall try not to give you the impression that on the Iowa Frontier
We are either a swindler, a thief, or a joker but come closer, my dear.
You might want to check into the Savoury Hotel. This is quite clear.
Do not worry. Your peacock and hippopotamus are already here.
We have your favorite snacks, and in the frig is cold beer. 

Oh, there is a dilemma? Well, please do not broadcast that.
I want my guests to enjoy their vertical activities in this flat.
We have a universal TV set up, and there is play station and a cat.
If you come stay with us, so what do you say to that?
If you are checking in late, the key will be under the mat.

The hippopotamus is already down in the casino, bending a chair.
The peacock is preening in front of the mirror, with nary a care.
The Iowa Frontier’s Savoury Hotel is ready, and our prices are fair.
We are waiting for you, honey. You may bring cousin Lair.
If you do not turn up soon, we are loaning your bed to a bear.
Categories: loaning, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
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