Best One Thousand Poems
One Thousand Goodbyes
Years ago
a stranger became a friend
with little time left
she let me into her reflections
her child and husband dead
tragedy would strike again
her time on earth
would expire soon
her empty heart to be filled
in the heavens
she showed and told
her last wishes to me
a thousand poems
she wanted to leave behind
I think she made it
I never found out
angels stole her
On this somber Sunday
another one left this earth
some might even say St Patrick
I can make only a simple claim
a thousand poems I have written
to honor those
with more charity than I
Hazza
who will remember us all?
when we too one day shall die
Categories:
one thousand, art, death, funeral, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
We were accustomed to read one thousand
And one night in Baghdad...
Tonight the glorious city-sky is sad,
It sounded bang! Bang
Where is my mummy? Where is my dad?
Are they all alive under the cruise wreckage;
Or are they all dead?
The a ‘Rashid city was weeping,
It rained hatred,
It rained prejudiced,
It rained cactus of different shapes,
They're all aliens,
Some were homemade,
They're all colourful,
In blue, in yellow and in red.
Do you still remember brother?
Because if you don't I still do
What the big Satan, Lucifer what he said!
The cross versus the crescent, take it or leave it,
An entire racism by the media was also fed.
Some hidden in a banker,
Others crawling of hunger,
Others demonstrating with anger,
Pale, yellowish faces they all looked bad.
Where is my nation..My Arabity..My Islam ?
Oh...Mutasamahh! Where are my brothers?
Are they all dead???
They called it precise bombing and it was right indeed,
In the heart of the baby-heart
Like the British game of dart,
The arrow hit its target,
It hit it like mad.
Nobody moves a finger,
In the age of Patriot and Stinger,
They all believe in star-wars, economic prosperity,
They all believe in the Pope, pop-star singer,
They all believe that one-day Allah would side with them to defeat,
The neo-Thamud and Aad,
They're all waiting for the coming future Mahdi,
And for the Armageddon battle to be led.
Categories:
one thousand, america, arabic, beauty, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Goal Reached ~One Thousand Poems
Dropping by with a bottle of champagne.
Hoping you don't mind if I come in from the rain?
Wanted to thank my small, but grand group of followers.
I give each of you a bouquet of gorgeous, fragrant flowers.
I wanted to reach the goal of 1000 poems tonight.
And, I tell you doing that was both murder and delight
I realized, too, my poetry is never one-liners.
I won't apolize, here, just think a little longer is finer!
And also, three cheers to PS Administration
They do a great job~without them,how could we
communicate in such poetic perfection?
Remember the day you first came here?
So, do have some bubbly and to all, three Grand Cheers!
With love and respect
Panagiota "1,000"
Date of Poetic Birth: 1/25/2019
{Happy Hannukah, too! First night of Hannukah!}
Categories:
one thousand, appreciation, celebration, drink, friendship
Form:
Couplet
we have lost the meteoric
icy-blue, sky-fire
above the heated planetary core
of a thousand covered suns
in the center of oblivion
where confluence
carries hope
in warm symbiont souls
and lambs
wear ragged fleece -
iconoclastic mediocrity
reflective fables
of future past history
unlocked - foretold
the shamanistic path
of return
through stalagmite tunnels
would lead our spirits home
as tribal songs retreat
oppression
ever-present present past,
shaman seer
resurrected spirit healers
weeping, weeping,
weeping,
for the buffalo
bitter flood of salty tears
blood of man
soaks the trail with broken souls
man and beast, stink and sweat,
co-mingled
bathe in single sacred tear
underneath a future vision
four white devil idol faces
spirit sacrilege
breathing devil breath
upon the sacred hills of black and gold
the ancients from the sky
watch and weep
and still dust stirs
forty thousand spirit feet
walking, winding, wending,
in a never ending line
worn and torn, shoeless feet,
blistered toes to blistered souls
trail of fear,
women wailing, pain prevailing,
psychic suicides and tribal death
takes one final breath `
Categories:
one thousand, history, future,
Form:
Free verse
The Breakfast Club
one essay question
Who do you think you are?
Categories:
one thousand, nostalgia,
Form:
Questionku
One thousand dead businessmen
Zombies of emotionless regimen
Sharply dressed
Black suit and tie, freshly pressed
Leather briefcases, to seem professional
This march of skeletons is quite exceptional
DECAY
Burst into dust and wither away
Corruption and greed let them die
The next thousand corpse march includes you and I
Categories:
one thousand, politicalmarch,
Form:
Rhyme
One Thousand Toilet Faces…..By Peter Onyancha
(The dichotomy of my country)
One thousand people sharing one toilet
Save the people! Just one more.
One thousand toilets sharing one person
Save the toilet? Just one more.
The toilet or the person
just one more!
Categories:
one thousand, allegory
Form:
Epigram
Copyright 2014 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
POETIC LYRICS BY THOMAS LAM HSI (ANDRESS)
When...the wind blows...the skies scatter...and the snowy caps
MELT!
When...two butterflies...FLY...THE HOWLING-WINDS/BLOW!
The vectors-of...SPACE...CRACK...UNDER-GRACE!
When Andromeida's/BACK-PAINS...THE RAINS
OF THUNDER/BREAK!
Two dancers...in-their/INNER-PAIN...do-they/BREAK?
One-thou-sand/TEARS...to-their/STEPS!
WAS-IT...ONE-THOU-SAND/TEARS...TO-THEIR/STEPS?
My-two-dancers/in-their-INNER-PAIN!
How could Cinderella...and-SLEEP-ING/BEAUTY
DANCE...between-each/STAR
When the stars and-MARS...BREAK-in/the-strain-of
The crystalean-SPLINTS?
Two dancers...in-their/INNER-PAIN...do-they/BREAK?
One-thou-sand/TEARS...to-their/STEPS!
WAS-IT...ONE-THOU-SAND/TEARS...TO-THEIR/STEPS?
In the vortex...of silver-'n-blue/DESTINIES
IS-IT-GOLD-OR-SILVER?
DOES-HER-IN-NER/PAIN...COUNT?
In-FOUNTAINS-of/PAIN!
When the winds howl-in/PAIN...DOES-THE/RAIN
WASH-HER-FACE/OF-ITS/PAIN?
Two dancers...AND-THEIR/DESTINIES!
MARS-and-VENUS...ABOVE-and-BELOW!
Dancers-AMONGST-the-royal-GREEN-'n-CRIMSON/BURSTS-of-SIL-VER...
FLASHES-of-VEC-TORED/LIGHT!
Another's-PAIN-is...NOTHING-TO/GAIN!
Two dancers...in-their/INNER-PAIN...do-they/BREAK?
One-thou-sand/TEARS...to-their/STEPS!
WAS-IT...ONE-THOU-SAND/TEARS...TO-THEIR/STEPS?
Can Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty...have-TWO/FAIRY-TALES?
IF-THE-STARS...BREAK/under-the/STRAIN...THE-PANO-PLY
OF-SHAME...SAYS-YES!
Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty/EACH-HAVE-DESTINIES...
FLASHES-OF/LIGHTNING...CAN-STRIKE/TWICE!
FLASHES-OF/LIGHTNING...DO-STRIKE/TWICE!
The-royalist/MARCH-AMONGST-THE-SILVER-'N-BLUE/STARS!
FOUR/CON-STEL-LA-TIONS...in-the-dark-ness/of-PRIVATE...
BLACK-VELVET!
FOUR/DANCERS...AMONGST-THE-STARS...FOREVER-MERRY...
FOREVER-IN-LOVE!
FOUR/DANCERS...AMONGST-THE-STARS...FOREVER-MERRY...
FOREVER-IN-LOVE!
FINIS
Categories:
one thousand, anniversary, beauty, i love
Form:
Ballad
We must have passed one thousand times
it's what I remember, deep down in my mind
Each time we passed, I held back on words
Could she really like me?
the thought seemed absurd
For so many years, I've thought of these words
Ive sat in the darkness, my heart kept in check.
Except the times that Id think,of my tounge on her neck
I have thought just to kiss her one thousand times
if she'd think me crazy-just out of my mind
No one could I tell of the thoughts that I had.
Destin forever to feeling a cad.
I thought just to hold her one thousand times
My wish was to tell her, if she would not mind.
Our paths have now crossed after thousands of days.
I found her on facebook, We've now started to play.
So now I can tell her my thoughts through the years.
Our paths finally crossed and the answer to prayers.
If only she'll hear me.I can wipe away tears.
RJM 2015
Categories:
one thousand, autumn,
Form:
Ballad
One thousand went to pray
I with them in the holy place
in deep meditation I fell asleep
only ten people I could see
still kneeling and lost in prayer
Scared I asked in silence,
“Where are the rest gone?
Why are we so few here?”
The Almighty answered,
promptly from the sanctuary;
“Be not scared, my child
I bring this to you today
to have idea of the world
that prays decorative prayer
preaches gospel without salvation
Of the one thousand in prayer
the ten you see still praying
are here to seek Me in truth.
The rest who fill the sanctuary
are simply beautiful tourists”.
The amount of wealth you offer
The number of times you pray
The beauty you show in sanctuary
are ordinary to me in reality
quality of heart and actions move Me”
Categories:
one thousand, humanity, philosophy, visionary,
Form:
Cinquain
One thousand naira
For one thousand dreams
One thousand hopes
Punctured by one thousand spears
For one thousand naira
One thousand faces
Queued up in one thousand war-ds
For one thousand reasons
One thousand holes grace our thatch-full thatches
Where endless rain and peeping sun cuddle our tattered
mats
One thousands holes rest upon our busy roads
Where we trade and death raids
One thousand naira
For another thousand pains?
Or
One thousand changes?
They've paid
We've bought
Categories:
one thousand, beautiful,
Form:
Lyric
One thousand for one
day,Says the prodigal
child,Two thousands
two days,Says the
greedy son,Your
pocket is full of
treasures-Your
stomach demanding for
something;Spending two
days in a day,How
would you cope with the
rest. Campus ladies
have taken you
away,Just only on their
hot chest.MISS wasters
welldone on your
guys.One day they say
byebye,Their you say
it's normal.Your cry
should not be in
summer.
Turn back He calleth
you,That you may see
hunky-dory.JESUS can
tell you a real story.On
your He is feeling sorry.
Categories:
one thousand, jesus
Form:
Free verse
She was bleeding, pierced and bruised
To love she ran, but love refused
With a thousand ugly scars on her heart
Her smiles faded, her life fell apart
He gave her a red rose
As a sign of his love
But the thorns pierced her hands
The rose was filled with blood
She trembled as the drops
Stained her white dress
Her heartbeat dared her to stop
She was drowned with guilt; depressed
With a life full of hurt
From the very ones she loved
She prayed a prayer to the skies above
They answered her with the rain
She stood silently, feeling no pain
Her mistakes, her past were all forgotten
Her distress, her fears became nothing
She dropped the rose
She stopped the bleeding
Her dress was white
She was still breathing
She closed her eyes
For a second or two
Then opened them to see
She was somewhere new
Never again she would be alone
She left the strangers, she finally came home.
Categories:
one thousand, fear, hope, peace, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Lost a memory
photograph could not return,
found it in a song.
Categories:
one thousand, emotions, feelings, memory, music,
Form:
Haiku
one thousand at the eleventh hour
They come from afar
through seasons bitten by frost
across a mountain's pass deep in snow
shout they all, " holy holy save us god"
"wash our sins away, free us from the damned”.
they dip into our well for healing
catch each trembling drop upon
crying supplicant lip, "holy, holy save me,”
"the end is nigh,”
"we hear the hooves cracking"
see the signs even in the daytime skies.
prostrate, rich and beggar charm the grotto
with promises of money or servitude.
monks and priests alike solemnly dash
a throng of fear with blessed water
scooped from a barrel behind the basilica.
Categories:
one thousand, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse