Best Paining Poems
I shall not waiver nor will I digress
from gazing at these lambent hills of green
where mounds of grass like cobblestones progress
from creek beds where the ash and alder preen,
their leaves like coins that shimmer in the sun,
up to the graceful summits round and lush,
that as the waning mists become undone
and dissipate within the morning hush
are bathed in iridescent emerald.
My eyes are now redeemed of paining dark,
though stars' asunder twinkling would herald
the incandescent trilling of the lark.
Indeed with eyes enraptured I confess
I shall not waiver nor will I digress.
10/22/18
Categories:
paining, nature, spring,
Form:
Sonnet
the art of poetry isn’t hard to master
make the syntax good and entertaining
the gruesome heart of poetry brings disaster
a meter errant makes the lines come faster
an oxford thesaurus gets the listeners waning
the art of poetry isn’t hard to master.
a genius woke and saw a verse rush past her
it only needed polishing and planing
the gruesome heart of poetry brings disaster
she left the oven on, it gassed her
ever since her folk groan, paining
the art of poetry isn’t hard to master.
she saw her selves as coloured shapes in plaster
and round her mind, were ghosts all craning
the gruesome heart of poetry brings disaster
there’s not a lot of hope if we’re complaining
for criticism from hidden ghosts is draining
the art of poetry isn’t hard to master
the gruesome heart of poetry brings disaster
Categories:
paining, art, cool, creation,
Form:
Villanelle
WITHOUT TALKING TO U AM DYING
EVERY MINUTE OF THIS MOMENT IS PAINING
INSTEAD OF GIVING THIS PAIN
PLEASE GIVE ME A DEATH AS YOUR GIFT
I'LL TAKE THAT HAPPILY
BECAUSE YOU ARE MY BREATH
Categories:
paining, cry,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Been a life trenching year,
Several trials my soul has faced,
Aching, and paining and brutal injuries
Left me strife ridden,
In an ocean blue of self empathy,
Coerced myself to turn a new page,
Finally got on to writing for a change,
Having faith in what's good for myself.
Stand up and give this glorious life a try!
Heaven only knows what served on a plate called life,
Covid 19 has put as all in a cage,
Learning, to play honest is de facto brave,
Read books of the old dusty shelf,
A newfound tranquility in my soul I've earned,
Calming the blizzard and hailstorm,
Left with a piece of a fulfilled day.
8/12/20
Your Soul In 2020 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Chantelle Anne Cooke
Categories:
paining, allusion, life, light, me,
Form:
Free verse
artists brush
i have painted you
with the pointed brush of an artist
creating every line and detail of your body
before finishing the colors
now
I have laid aside my paint-filled brush
realizing that i could never compliment your beauty
with pastels on canvas
i filled volumes with words
intending to tell you how much you mean to me
by building paragraphs on pages
before adding any pause or punctuation
i've now laid aside my pen of passion
knowing that my words would fall like roses to your feet
and cause you to blush
to even more beautiful shades of red
i've listened to love songs in your presence
and watched in awe as you conquered days of uncertainty
followed with a joyful heart as you strolled into new territories
unafraid
i've fallen in love with you so many times before today
but today i just wanted to say again
it's easy to love you
if i seem like a child in the presence of his hero
it's because i am
it's because i love you
all over again today
© tolbert
Categories:
paining, art, beautiful, color, romantic,
Form:
Free verse
Right from the day I am born
Admire her not just as she is my Mom
Happiness stays and sadness gone
As her care & love is magically strong
Broken the knee while playing on ground
Her eyes sparkled with my paining sound
Each hour In her mind only i surround
Struggles till the time my smile is found
Seen lots of miseries and worst times
She covered all on her without a sign
Fulfilling all my dreams before i design
Being my "Hero" caressing me to shine
Selfless and incomparable beauty on earth
Asking for nothing but blessed seen my mirth
World still seems beautiful in spite of dirt
Her innocent love gives humanity a new birth
Faced many downfalls in this small life
She was the one who made me to rise
Fight all fears to attain the desired heights
My mother is an Angel in human disguise
Categories:
paining, motherlove, me,
Form:
Rhyme
I am strong,
and I won't complain.
The light may shine,
blinding my eyes,
but no I won't complain.
Eternity and destiny,
are my right and left,
so no, I won't complain.
Till my last breath,
of paining vain,
I won't complain .
Why?
Why won't I complain?
Agonize till unbearable,
and still,
why won't I complain?
Simplicity,
lies in the answer,
I won't complain,
I feel gratitude,
to what happens...
I feel special...
I feel unique...
That things, only happen to me.
as my heart is a home for God.
Blessings are my gift,
so why should I complain?
Categories:
paining,
Form:
Nostalgia
Endearing, wistful
Recalling, longing, reflecting,
Remembering a cherished time
Beloved
Grief
Sorrowful, tragic
Mourning, desiring, paining
Torpid from heart’s despair
Loss
for Dr. Ram's Cinquain Poetry Contest, 12/13/14
Categories:
paining, grief, longing, nostalgia,
Form:
Cinquain
Grinding stone,
Mortar stone,
Remaining of Stone Age,
Gallstone,
Kidney stone,
Paining of IT age!
Categories:
paining, age, change,
Form:
Light Verse
"Ma, How are you?
How is dad ?
How is our sweet home and how is my room?
Ma, I know you will be waiting for me,
Dad is calling my mobile continuously,
Thanks for your love my dear,
Ma, you told me only after death a person can go to hell ,
You are wrong my dear mother,
Even after marriage a person can go to hell,
Why this wedding ceremony mother to put dad and you in debt?
You can never fulfill my in-laws because they are not humans,
They can digest money, gold and silver,
How long can you feed them?
Ma, this marriage was not for me,
But for the car, the motor bike, the jewels, the furnitures,
Because they want only those to be with them and not me,
Ma, I know how much dad struggled to make my wedding a grand success,
But my mother -in- law says his son’s life has turned a failure,
They find fault in everything I do, even if I sit or stand,
I don’t know what to do and I simply stand,
Ma, I think He doesn’t like me,
He really knows nothing about marriage or wife,
He thinks wife as a slave and a living doll for her Mom to play and hurt,
They make my body burn, bleed and sore
It is paining ma,
He needs me in night and in the mornings out of his sight,
Ma , how long to grope in darkness ,
Now I have become blind,
They in the name of marriage have bought a richest maid,
My whole body has become numb,
Ma, I am not able to feel myself,
Is this my gender curse?
Ma, but you don’t worry all my problems are going to end,
I cannot let it flow all time ,
I am going to bring a solution for this,
I know who can bring an end to this,
I have come to meet him now,
But there is a big queue ma,
No wonder ! I am going to meet him today,
Ma, only he can resolve this,
Because he created women,
This negotiation is not for my life which ended just 10 mins back,
But for my next birth,
If I have a next birth I want to be only a man,
Ma, you are still waiting for me near the doors,
Dad is still trying for my mobile,
But I will never come,
Ma, I promise you,
When I meet God I will ask only to change my sex and not my parents."
Categories:
paining, abuse, cry, daughter, death,
Form:
Narrative
Protect our children from AIDS..........
My heart is paining me
when I see AIDS patient
My eyes are hurting me
when I see them suffering
Is AIDS God's punishment for
the people who went against nature love?
God has created a man and a woman
and he said a man for a woman
God has shown us the beauty of love
and he has taught us the meaning of the love
He wants us to be faithful to our love
Today, the world turned in to dark
The value of the love has been lost
The value of the faith has been lost
This misuse of nature love
angrily spreading AIDS everywhere
Our innocent children are living
in the world of AIDS
Let us fight against this deadly virus AIDS
and save our children and our nation
Ravi Sathasivam / Sri Lanka
Copyright @2004 Ravi Sathasivam
Categories:
paining, healthchildren, nature, world, children,
Form:
Light Verse
IN HELL WITH NO COOL WATER
An Old & New Aged ***** Spiritual
by James Edward Lee Sr.
It's hot all over and I'm so thirsty
It's hot all over and I'm so thirsty
It's hot all over and I'm so thirsty
OH! brother won't you give me some
Won't you please give me some
Mercy Lord have him give me some water on the tip of his thumb
I did not repent, nor did I mean it
I fell to shame and sin
Got thrown in the pit, was condemn
Now fires all around me
Been sentence for eternity
OH! Lord it's hot down here, God please help me
It's hot all over and I'm so thirsty
It's hot all over and I'm so thirsty
It's hot all over and I'm so thirsty
OH! brother won't you give me some
Won't you please give me some
Mercy Lord have him give me some water on the tip of my tongue
My body sweating, burning, never consuming
Constantly raging, a blazing on fire
Gnashing itching my skin burning
Painfully paining ever, ever on and on forever more
Lord please cool me down sent a cold artic breeze
Father I'm so sorry stop me from burning up, please;
My eternal life is over because I disobey
Should have repented, turned around before I death day came...
It's hot all over and I'm so thirsty
It's hot all over and I'm so thirsty
It's hot all over and I'm so thirsty
OH! brother won't you give me some
Won't you please give me some
Mercy Lord have him give me some water on the tip of his thumb
1/17/18
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2018, 2023
Arranged music by Alivea Mutty ©2023
Categories:
paining, angst, anxiety, assonance, bereavement,
Form:
Lyric
is there a sign on my back?
label me since you're a quack
too many names
we're playing games
we're all complaining
because we're paining
too much suffering
I'm not stuttering
moments of peace
will never cease
Categories:
paining, pain, peace,
Form:
Couplet
Broken “Perfect”
Blowout Preventer
Billowing Petroleum
Burning Profusely
Bodies Paining
Burning Peeling
Bleeding Pleading
Buried Passing
Blighted Preserve
Bayous Profaned
Beaches Polluted
Biosphere Poisoned
Banned Products
Boats Parked
Businesses Pinched
Breadwinners Penniless
Beleaguered President
Bluntly Proposed
“Billions Promptly”
BP Provided
British Petroleum
Blind Profiteers
Bloody Pumpers
BRUTAL PERFORMERS!
British Petroleum
Broke Permits
Betrayed Public
BRUTAL PERFORMANCE!
Categories:
paining, angst, business, confusion, depression,
Form:
Acrostic
Little fields have big fields
Upon their backs to bite 'em,
And big fields have bigger fields
And so ad infinitum.
(Alan Watts, 1966)
Little systems have open systems
Upon their boundaries to bite 'em,
And open systems have ecological metasystems
And so ad infinitum.
Within systems have withouting systems
Upon our boundaries to right 'em,
And withouting biosystems beget withining neurosystems
And so ad infinitum.
We are raining,
training,
rebraining
withouting leading withining.
We are thereby paining,
withining leading withfatting.
Responsive straining and explaining,
with fatuating dissonating listening ining.
We are training
Left-withouting leading Right-withining.
We are lightning
withining co-gravitating withouting
co-arising yet another inning...
Categories:
paining, environment, light, math, philosophy,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum