Best Neva Poems
For the breath I took when I opened my eyes, to start this new Today
For the smile in my heart from knowing Your angels protect me along the way
I am able to stand up, to walk and run; to lift up my arms toward the sky
In this blessing of movement bestowed upon me, there is nothing that I cannot try
I thank You that I can experience life; to laugh, and hug, and dance
To share Your love with humanity - I am willing to take the chance
I praise You for those that share in my life, whose love and support I have found
And the helping hands that hold me up - when trying times get me down
Though the love of my life has passed away to join You in Heaven's Rest
I give thanks to You for the years we shared, for we gave each other our best
There are those who live in fear and pain; many souls who are lost and forlorn
In Your Word You said Christ is always with us, and so they are not alone
I thank You for hearing our prayers Holy One; sometimes we pay You no mind
But Your thoughts toward us are more than the sand, and they stand the test of time
So thank You, Great Yahweh, Creator of all - the Heavens, the Earth and the Seas
For giving Your Son, Your Spirit, Your Word, and providing for all of our needs
Singing praises to You, Father Yahweh, I'll sing praises to You everyday
To You I give thanks and to Christ, Your Son, for helping us find our way
Neva Romaine
10/23/2015
Categories:
neva, blessing, inspiration, thanksgiving, uplifting,
Form:
Couplet
For the precious little unborn souls - in the womb
But not given their chance to suck in the Breath of Life
To find their way through the dusty storms of experience
And to grow and blossom
Into the lovely beings they were meant to be
.....Will there be Justice for them.....
For the families of people murdered - unjust destruction of life
Caused by those whose cruelty and selfishness knows no bounds
Waiting with empty hope for the peace they deserve
To see their loved ones avenged through a system
Set up to help those who caused so much hurt - the searing pain
.....Where is the Justice for them.....
For the children caught up in the insanity of abuse
Their bodies and souls raped; their hearts starved for the love
And the affection that should be theirs - the wait
For the systems that are supposed to rescue them - and yet
They are returned to those who hurt them the most - and then they die
.....Was there Justice for them.....
For the innumerable and wretched poor, needy and oppressed of the Earth
Who are always with us - deliberately kept that way on purpose
By those whose greed has bled the Planet dry
With their hoarding of wealth, riches and unbounded excesses
Cold compassion - forcing the poor to help the poor
Ignoring the request of our Creator - To Share
.....And Justice For All?
Not Yet!
SOMEDAY.....
Written By: Neva Romaine
8/28/2015
(Original Post for "What is Your Form of Justice"-9/17/15)
Categories:
neva, abuse, faith, hope, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Darkness And Despair
By: Neva Romaine
I surrounded myself with all manner of things
That brings in a semblance of cheer
The lights are bright, the noises are loud
No time to think or fear
But then time passed by-all distractions have gone
Nothing further to fill empty space
Dreaded darkness again...and I am alone
Am I doomed to this forlorn place?
Making every day, my last.
Cutting new demons into the claim of life
Missing, the light in each moment I breathe
Thinking of the things I miss - before I sleep
Finally, I find myself hitting rock bottom
Fading into hopelessness, frighten by joy
Alone, with vibes that hold not spark
Trying to reach for the light, from despair
--A Poet Destroyer Collaboration--
7/31/2015
Submitted for: One From The Dark Side Poetry Contest
Sponsored By: John Lawless
September 26, 2022
Categories:
neva, dark, depression, loneliness,
Form:
Rhyme
Let me take you into the rains which stream into my heart
Show you the lightning flashing in my veins
You can listen to the thunder as we stand a world apart
Then I will bring you inside me
To remain
Inside of me you will find the silence of hills and valleys
Places you can wander in peaceful bliss
But you will still see that lightning flashing wildly
Hear crashing thunder in the magic
Of my kiss
You can tell me about the rains that stream into your heart
Show me the rocky mountains in your eyes
Together we will stand watching rain clouds part
As the lightening in our veins
Paints our skies
Take me inside of you so I can climb your mountains
The very thought brings me peaceful bliss
Together we will seek to fill love's own fountain
With the rain in our hearts'
Streaming kiss
Neva Flores @2011
Categories:
neva, love, natureme, rain, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Hienas don't taik cair of higeen;
we’r fond of karrion; we drink warm jin
wizaut tonik and we neva uze
ze mornin afta peels.
“Beest's on ze looz!” -
you shaut in panik, raizin flags of truce
over your comfy gravez but we refewz
to uphold dead men rites. Oh, wat a feest
of flesh! Ze dead will neva rest in peast.
14.07.2019
Pick A Title, Vol 6 - Personification - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
Categories:
neva, animal, death,
Form:
Personification
On this side of darkness there are all good things
There is dancing, rejoicing - we laugh and we sing
On this side of darkness you have lots of friends
No sadness, depression or heartbreaking ends
On this side of darkness you enjoy great sights
The beauty of Heaven always shining so bright
Sweet sounds of canaries and birds fill the air
There is nothing to harm you, there is no despair
On this side of darkness we have lots of fun
The children are happy; we play in the Son
On this side of darkness there is no more pain
You share in the blessing of soft, healing rain
On this side of darkness your needs have been met
There is plenty for all and no need to fret
On this side of darkness there is peace all around
We know how to share; and love does abound
No stealing, no killing, no tearing apart
No sickness, no terror, only joy fills your heart
No crying, no sorrow, even death has fled
On this side of darkness - no tears left to shed
This is not meant for all. Only those who believe
Through repentance with Faith, this Kingdom we receive
What a blessing to walk in love with our King
In His beautiful Garden; it makes my heart sing
There is no sacrifice that I will not give
For the privilege to know that
Through Eternity we will live
By: Neva E. Romaine
Categories:
neva, caregiving, community, encouraging, faith,
Form:
Free verse
Pyu Ray
I wanted to write to u,
to let u know,
that ur were the sun that lit my day,
and the moon that shone
in my path through the night
Charles Mwalimu
I wanted to write to you, my love
And to tell you of my desire
To see your smile
Of the dream I had
That took us way back in time
I wanted to write to you...
Pyu Ray
I wanted to write to u,
and let u know,
that I had closed my heart
to every love,
but urs
Charles Mwalimu
I wanted to write to you, my love,
To tell you of the warmth,
That comes with your voice
Of the light,
That sparkles from your eyes
Of the fragrance, that comes
From your breathing...
Pyu Ray
I wanted to write to you,
and tell u things,
that av neva been able to say,
coz my body would grow numb and
I would go dumb at ur sight,
my love
Charles Mwalimu
I was to write to you, my love
To assure you of my undying commitment
Of the pleasure of loving you
Of the words I wanna hear from you
And my desire to listen
To the music in your heart...
Pyu Ray
I was to write to you,
I want to write to you,
I will write to you,
some day, my love!
Charles Mwalimu
I await the day you will write,
My love
The day I'll read you
And feel your voice in your words
Someday my love,
Someday you'll write...
Categories:
neva, romance, write, day, write,
Form:
Idyll (Idyl)
To one who’s name is written in the faint perfume upon my neck
Your hands gently tend my landscape with their caress
Each and every flower, you gracefully bedeck
In the richest warmth of your undress
You move your morning breezes into the darkness of my night
Until I no longer know the season or present year
Time is of no essence within my sight
Of warmth or cold, I have no fear
To one who’s name is written on every single line of my heart
In your ink flowing from the radiance of our eternal sun
Your hands tend my landscape in a world apart
Marked on a calendar of none
The cares of life, waft into silent pieces as they come to light
When your morning breeze moves upon my flowers
Each one you tend with your hand’s sight
Forgets these cares of ours
To one who’s name is written in my eyes as my master gardener
My flowers will always seek the ink flowing from our sun
My landscape will be your garden harbor
From your breezes, I will never run
Copyright *Neva Flores @2010
Categories:
neva, lovemorning,
Form:
Rhyme
*** Black Snow Storm ***
I’m blacker and madder and more than Hell I be bringin’ ya,
I’m a ****ed up assailant,
Mental-case mercenary hell bent,
Simultaneous and concurrent, I’m yo danger and yo savior.
But I’m real, and tangible, and do things unimaginable.
On the inside and ominous, searing truth burns my existence,
In the cold empty blanks of loathing inspired shadows,
Darkness manifests completely, as only I the one who knows.
Buried in denial, a Black Snow Storm of persistence.
Mad viral runaway,
Reaper-tagged, body bagged,
Peacefully performed, daily is as dooms a day.
Sicker than a mange’d up, street livin’ dog,
Fraudulent, Arrogant, Intelligent, and robbed.
Hustled by humanity, dignity straight-up jacked,
It’s parted-out and shipped out and neva comin’ back.
Crazy muthu****in razor bladed Snowflake,
Cold steeled touched be tight, and straighter-edged unique.
I’m in yo face, and in yo space,
An breathing stank leathelality,
Cuz crazy is as crazy does and I’m yo new reality.
I’m blacker than a ninja,
Trackin’ like a laza,
Murder-edged, star throwin’,
Life takin’ playa.
Fueled by the mental,
Conflicted, festering failure,
The whip-saw cracked, manic sized, consequential behavior,
The ease of mind is nowhere found, the truth be nothin’ gentle.
Snowflake driven, horrifying maelstrom,
Anarchist, Nihilist, devastating and then some.
Black Snowstorm blinded ya, and buried everything you know,
Snowflaka’ made it happen,
An unrelenting blizzard, of Black as coal Snow.
*** By djDiZZasteRR (AKA Brian Bauer) ***
Categories:
neva, rap,
Form:
Lyric
Brought U up 2 know right from WRONG
Was hard on U so you’d B STRONG
Looked up 1 day & U was GONE
Chasin Raw Dollaz, go getta getting ON
Somebody told me U got crossed at the SPOT
One drop of a dime & the Block got HOT
Held back my tears, got ova the SHOCK
Swallowed my fears, put my jewels in HOCK
I know at first it was done for ME
That’s why I come to set U FREE
So U may Repent B4 U enter a PLEA
Face the consequence multiplied by THREE
I got this feeling this may Be my DOIN
2 hard on U coulda lead to yo RUIN
My bad lil one I didn’t KNOW
I held so much love I failed to SHOW
U needed yo Momma, it makes me SAD
I worked all nite, neva knew yo DAD
But you’ll be A’ite, give it time you’ll SEE
It’z hard to admit but U a beast like ME
Datz why I accept U 4 who U ARE
A man, A Felon, My Sun, My STAR
Categories:
neva, black african american, brother,
Form:
Italian Sonnet
future in2past neva bk we flow accordin 2tym,
aidn the paths of our lovestruck tears to run dry,
so i bicker wt emotion denying the fact that it dies,continuosly cryin askn maself why?
why has...wt ws once a florescent dream of eternal kisses & hugs
faded away wt the flawed depth of our love,i mean...
personifying this vivid emotional rollercoaster as the night-dark,
u'll find u'll arise wt eyes visualizing more den fragments of ur broken heart,
but along wt da timid enlightenment 4rm da morning greetings of ur experience...
Rise & Shine...you see,last nyt wen u fell deep in ds love u closed ur eyes&
denied that mornin-lyt wud arise...&nw dt i visualize love az time & clocks as u&i...
inma eyes the tickn has stopped timing
&we both arise enlightened by the sounding alarmz of more than we can envision...
shadowed by blind ignorance,love izda quick-sand of understandn dt no-man cn sink in,
a beauty dt no grammatical expedition cn justify wt description...
a wild rose bush that no double-edged samoria sword cn trim...
bottom-line,she is dt window of emotion dt no black-tainted hurt cn tint
&if u feel wt i feel,den fear nt cz nw ironically we can see through her clearly...
she's dt freeway wt no limit-to-speed,
enticing bt the faster you go logically the nearer the end of the path will be...
&if ur not blessid enough to understand,den ur but a butterfly wt one wing,a bird dt cant fly,
a choir dt cant sing_without love ur simply but a pendulum dt cant swing...
until ur logic ripens & the clock stops ticking...
&u are awakened by the morning greetings of ur experience...
den u Rise&Shine...
enlightened by more than u can envision,love takes time...
Categories:
neva, character, emotions, longing, love,
Form:
Verse
DIALOGUE
PREFACE:
It was the dawn of a new day;
knowledge and truth sought and given.
As I gave, so was I again taught.
(Ask, and it shall be given)
Student:
“Teacher, same said Egypt ina Africa
lak ina de Bible?”
Teacher:
“Same said Egypt, son;
same said Africa.”
(Seek, and you shall find)
Student:
“But Teacher,
dem neva tell we
dat, Sah.”
(By night they stole us; by day they maimed our minds)
Teacher:
“I know son;
But we now teach ourselves”
our story.”
Student:
“Ah true, Teacher; ah true.
Dis day be a new day dat’a com.”
(Truth, trampled to the ground, always rises)
POSTSCRIPT:
Free your mind and you are;
but like butterflies, be aware
of the rain.
(The truth shall set you free)
Categories:
neva, africa, black african american,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Daddy's underemployed cain't pay all the BILLS
When it gets so hard U see y people STEAL
Trust Me Bruh, I know how ya FEEL
Exhausted from runnin, trouble nippin at ya HEELZ
Brotha slow down, ain't u had ENUFF?
Put that bundle down, this ain't no BLUFF
Now u messed around & got ya new shoes SCUFFED
When they grabbed U & slammed U, into HANDCUFFS
Man itz tuff, yea I'll give u THAT
Sometimes muffed up as a matter of FACT
But U can't let the BS hold u BACK
Cuz sometimes it be just like THAT
Nobody said it would be easy, it wasn't BEFORE
My ancestors’ blood left open a DOOR
But that don't mean we won't struggle TOO
Who was that who said life's hard? Itz TRUE
So gather yo witts, strength & good WILL
We at war with them & ourselves fa REAL
Neva nonchalant cuz itz a big DEAL
Trust me Bruh, I know how U FEEL.
Keep ya head Up
Written & copyrighted by Tone Jaxson
Categories:
neva, black african american, brother,
Form:
Italian Sonnet
As I waited on the Constable I wondered why the
gate was open and the front door locked, by whom?
The Constable arrived blowing his horn at the front gate
in an old Dodge pick up, real old Dodge Pick up
It looked as though the whole bed was full of wood,
God I don't need that much, I thought to myself
Howdy Thar Richard, he said in that Maine drawl
I brought your wood for ya, take what ya need
Tell me Richard, you shur ya want to do this?
never too late ta change tour mind ya know
To go home I mean, no one bendin your arm here
No Constable, I'm sure I want to check this place out
Names Arlin, Arlin Danforth, though most folks call
me Zeeke, Thats what you can call me too, if ya like
Neva been a man set on formalities and all
Sounds good...Zeeke, I'm Rick as we shook hands
We finished loading the firewood in my SUV, I took
about half, and told him thanks a lot for the wood
If ya need anything else, give me a call on that portable
phone ya got thar, with that he left, in that old Dodge
When I arrived back at the front door, I went up
the porch fumbling with the key Zeeke just gave me
for the door, and found it not only unlocked, but open
about two inches, The same door I knew was locked.
So it begins, at that point I figured I had best retrieve
my EMF meter and take a look around a bit, before bringing
my things in the house. My EMF ( Electro-magnetic field)
meter was turned on and ready, just in case, well ya know
If there was any paranormal activity going on around
me it would light up in a flash, it had seven lights depending
on the level of activity, with no lectricity as Zeeke would say
any reading it showed would be subject to investigation
To my right was a staircase winding it's way up stairs
with a window (uncovered) about the only one, lighting
up most of the area, and most of the entry way
as I grew near the staircase the meter sounded, four out of seven.
Well now!
To be continued
Categories:
neva, imagination, mysteryme, old, me,
Form:
Narrative
Is trust an emotion?
I pause jus for a moment hopin to
ponder
abt how ths elephant got to sitin
on ma
shoulder
im supposed to b a soldier bt ths
comotion in ma mind seems to
threaten my exposure
wonder how it became a secret,
that i
was jus flesh and bone
just a man
cast some darknes on ma paper so i
cn c ths world is bizzare the light is
blinding
me
the ones i claim my own cannot
bare the
site of me
and ths is all because of me, but
who is
me? Faults and mistakes
superimposd often
look the same
but mistakes only become wat they
r
once atempted
nuthing ventured nuthng gained
nuthin ventured nuthng lost so y
shld i apologize?
When attempts u expect of me give
birth
to my mistakes
i have failed, i have been victorious
what then defines the man i am?
The moments i overcame? Or the
mistakes that came and stayed to
remind me
to b wiser o die
bt death aint alway when u stop
breathn.
Sumitmes its just wen ur life loses
meanin wen u lose what at the
time seemd to b
ur reason 4 breathn..
In dat very moment, even 4 an
instance,
u r dead...
bt i go bek to the question
is trust an emotion.? Trust is takin
a leap, a giant 1, neva
pausin to blink.
Even wen u knw that the fal is wot
envitably cums next,.
trust is holdin ur breath til ur lungs
burn... Hopin.... N hop is all dat
saves us
we fal in slow motion creatin da
illusion
dat mayb....
n jus mayb we cn fly,.
Bt ofcourse we cnt,
cyclic story always ends wit a bg
thud, as da knight trades hs shining
armor for a
stockin mask he becums the thug...
And da princess takes a bow, her
interest
was al a pretence..
So no, trust is nt an emotion its a
choice...
Its a risk, calculated o nt dat we
willingly take..
We cnt live behind a glas window
lest da
world myt hurt us....
Coz pain is always beta than the
emptines of nuthn...
Ths our love myt hurt sum day.. Bt
its beautiful today
nw knwin al this.. A simple
question i
must enquire..
Do u trust me?
Categories:
neva, lovetrust,
Form: