Best Nerve Poems
oh, the nerve of my id
struggling to climb mountains
seeking secrets
on a quest for meanings
passing all the beauty of life
never stopping to smell flowers
marvel at deer
enjoy the freshness of a babbling brook
in a quest for self-realization
reaching the top
seeing only myself
crying out for splendor left behind
oh, the nerve of my id
ensuring isolation
eliminating potential for happiness
searching and only finding myself
too much introspection
mired in self-reflection
reaching no real destination
Based on my poem “The Mountain I Believed to Be Id”
Anagram of my last name: Devonshire
No sleep
One revision after
another
Publisher
demands-too
demanding
TIRED
My last nail broke
My last pen ran out
of ink
My last pad - my
last sheet!
My keyboard sucks
My monitor's dim
Can't see for
yawning
Words,
words,
words in my head
I'm done I said
My last nerve!
Going to
bed
SOFT HEART – RAW NERVE
suspecting my position is unsound
accepting sinking feelings I
may drown
heartbeat limp and malleable
gentle and mellifluous yet
scarcely stable
smarting anguish of frayed nerve
raw, synthetic hyper alert
tests reserve
escaping at last to spaces I go
pacified nerve and compliant
heart flow
(‘mellifluous’ = pleasing to the ear)
© Kim van Breda—April 2014
Tonight we went out in the dark
just us two in the park
we kissed under the moonlight
Held our bodies tight
I felt love
your love in my every nerve.
You whispered to me
Gryffy I love thee
Your love is true
Loving you is all I will do
I felt love
Your love in my every nerve.
pressed me hard on your ample bosom
pressed you hard on your bottom
I felt our love blossom
Never to end like Sodom
For I feel love
Your love in my every nerve.
we are compatible
we are inseparable
This I found out
True without doubt
For I feel but love
Your love in my every nerve.
Love me forever
Leave me never
Hurt me not
Our love rot not
For I love you
your love
In my every nerve.
O why O why do you make me mad
take away my help that's all I had
you are not going make me sad
That was my last nerve, That was my last nerve
There is only so much that I can do
I am only one person and that is true
this is who I am and I'm not you
That was my last nerve, That was my last nerve
While I don't mind doing what needs to be done
just give me a break to relax and have fun
I'm going to take my time and not being to run
That was my last nerve, That was my last nerve
You were given many chances to correct your mistake
this is my own choice that I did have to make
all that I needed was a little bit of a break
That was my last nerve, That was my last nerve
What you are doing to me you know is insane
so if I decide to leave I don’t want to hear you complain
I never was given any help and that's why
it is time for me to say goodbye
That was my last nerve, That was my last nerve
That was my last nerve, That was my last nerve
Surgery is always nerve racking deal
Under the anesthesia and knife
Putting another in control
Life laid into their hands
Upon their skill depend
Human emotions
Over load mind
Anxiety
Afraid
Fear
Trust
Settle
Peace control
God is in charge
Heaven is my home
Thank you God for comfort
A sweet peace now speaks to me
Now a deep settled unity
May His sweet presence fill me full up
Let His sweet perfume my cup overflow
Written: September 12, 2014
Ah! The smell of eggs
and pancakes on the griddle
Olfactory nerve distributes
five pounds to my middle
The books are off the shelf
Teachers are heading to the nearest coffee machine
Noises echo the elongated hallways
Time has betrayed you
Loud thuds of lockers slamming abruptly
Could it be?
School is currently back in session
The dreadful feeling of the first day
Routine is once again included into your lexicon
As sure as the moon smiles,
The sun shines onto your supply list
The beginning of a tragic ending
NERVE
Nearer moonlight than us
Nerves of steel skyrocket
Nationwide heroes rise
Nascent aeronautics
News - one small step for man
Neil Armstrong holds world’s hand
naked eye sees heaven
5th Place
4/29/2017
Pleiades N contest
After shutting off the bedroom
lights by closing my eyes; I see
sparks of fireworks in my mind
thinking synaptically.
It's not in anyway a day
to celebrate nor holiday,
so making me more to
think feeding with fuel
thoughts forgotten, now done
brought up from depths not
sought; for caution when
stepping on the edge
of what's surely the deepest depths
of my mind's sea. Seeing old ideas
again, now as blind creatures that
shine by bioluminosity; for we
all shine on
and on and
on and on...
I’m tempted to backhand the ones who call
us sixty-somethings old or elderly.
How dare they use such terms describing me?
Infuriating! Boy, do they have gall!
from Today's Vocabulary Word Is "Elderly," posted February 23, 2018
Date: September 21, 2020
Contest Title: Rithimus Divisa 6
Sponsor: Gregory Barden
History, forgotten element of man`s life
Adage of forgiving and forgetting
Messing and proceeding on the solemn assembly
Expunging and blotting life-long terribly
but carefully committed and covered-up tracks.
If at all the inanimate had ears and eyes
We would all be at ransom for our lives
If mistakes could be made up and rounded
up to significance of our lives
humanity would erode to miniature
weeping and shrilling at thoughtless and
careless indulgence
Swoon and sulking thoughts convergence
would lead to no hope
Thanks to nimble of days
For with each that passes, history is made
A shun to excavate stone age
Quite momentous to delve in space age.
Not all cheers come but from cloud nine,
Nor every vintage is good wine,
Nor just in fools’ fiefdom
Fools are fonts of wisdom,
Beware of man’s nerve asinine.
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Tongue-in-cheek | 01.03.2023 | epigram/limerick
Razed garden hung
Icicle vines crept mortar
Fingers of the dead
And the sun died
Cataract eyed sinking
This limitless implosion
Craven mustard then spread
Barbed
Waspish sting and evisceration
Slinking down the brick
I felt incorrigible
Violence
The lone oranges dangle
The only fruit
Are clockwork
My black heart suppurated
Necrosis
Nerve gas sought
Release to silence
The screaming
Myelin
Email says send back!
why do people send us things
If they want it back?