Best Shaken Poems


Shaken To the Core

Her sad eyes and tear stained face evoked such ambivalent feelings;
I could barely stand to look upon the half-naked child in front of me. 
She turned her face toward me with a pained look begging for help.
Maternal feelings welled up within for this pitiful tangled haired waif. 

Gaping in abject horror, I observed the orphan's frail arms wrapped 
tenaciously around a dead rat and held close to her dirt smeared body. 
I sensed this sewer 'pet rat' had been her only source of comfort in life. 
The one thing she turned to, when sad or hungry, would never again be.
 
While resisting the urge to gather her up in my arms and dry her tears, 
still I desired to sympathize... whispering, "Don't cry honey, it'll be OK". 
I lied, knowing it wouldn't.  Besides what could I do with so little to give. 
I turned and walked away not wanting to face my growing sense of lack.

I awoke with a start, shuddering, deeply disturbed and troubled to tears.
Sometimes the vivid images, like a horror movie returning to haunt me,
make me question, "Who is that wretched child so forlorn and dejected?
The memories shake my very soul, the hidden message still eluding me.

Shaken But Not Broken

FROM THE MOMENT THAT SHE MET HIM 
SHE WAS AWESTRUCK!!! 
HE HAD THE WORDS, HE HAD THE CLOTHES, HE HAD THE LOOK 
HE HAD THIS SMOOTH, UNCANNY WAY 
THAT EASED HIM RIGHT THROUGH HER DEFENSES 
THAT LEFT HER DANGLING, HELPLESS...FROM HIS HOOK 
SHE WAS A CHRISTIAN WOMAN, AND 
SHE MINISTERED IN CHURCH 
HAD NEVER KNOWN A MAN LIKE THIS BEFORE 
A MAN WHO KNEW THE BIBLE 
EVERY CHAPTER...EVERY VERSE 
A CHARISMA, SHE FOUND TOO HARD TO IGNORE 
HE DATED HER THE CHRISTIAN WAY 
SHE MET HIS FAMILY 
THIS HUMAN BROOM, WHO SWEPT HER OFF HER FEET 
RESISTING EVERY SEXUAL URGE 
UNTIL THEIR WEDDING NIGHT 
BUT ON THAT NIGHT, HE TOOK HER, HOT, AND SWEET 
HER SPIRIT KNEW, BEFORE HER "MIND" CAUGHT ON 
SOMETHING HAD CHANGED 
A HORROR UNEXPLAINED HAD GRIPPED HER SOUL 
THIS CHRISTIAN MAN SHE MARRIED 
HAD TURNED OUT TO BE A DEMON 
AND HER COMPLETE DESTRUCTION, WAS HIS GOAL 
WITH COLD METHODIC PURPOSE 
HE HAD PLANNED HIS WIFE'S DEMISE 
HE GAVE HER AIDS, AND THOUGHT HER FATE WAS SEALED 
SHE WAS SHAKEN, BUT NOT BROKEN 
AND WITH STEADFAST FAITH, SHE SHOUTED... 
"THANK YOU JESUS! BY HIS STRIPES, I'M HEALED!!! 
HE HAD COME TO CHURCH TO FIND A SAINT 
WHOSE LIFE HE COULD DESTROY 
THE DEVIL WRAPPED, IN CHRISTIAN MALE ATTIRE 
HE GOT IN THROUGH HER EGO 
AND DESIRE TO BE LOVED 
BUT OH PRAISE GOD, THE DEVIL IS A LIAR 
THE LESSON HERE, THE DEVIL 
GOES TO CHURCH AS MUCH AS YOU DO 
DELIGHTING IN DESTRUCTION OF THE FLOCK 
AND SHOULD YOU FIND YOURSELF A TARGET 
OF HIS DEADLY PURPOSE 
REMEMBER, ALWAYS...JESUS, IS YOUR ROCK! 

AMEN!

Premium Member Love Shaken and Stirring Feelings

shaking desires
hot peppered emotions
burning passion
tasting delicious 
delightfully spicy
warming the insides

inhaling sweet fragrance
blossoming in 
the soul
floating this heart
one budding 
red rose
with a feathered touch
silken soft petals
falling deeply
with you love

on a bed 
nestled inside
within dreams 
upon a petaled blanket
sweetly scented
with heavenly you
my beautiful angel


Premium Member Shaken Baby

Oh the sham and serious shake,
  Earthen crust erases land.
Upset moon mourns its men.
Uplift of craven shore and ben.
  O the Winter its downer tanned.

Of creature great and downy lost,
  The surgeon’s fissure quite abrupt.
The baby’s tears from the bright sun -
Befallen stars say it is done.
   The crude ovalis corrupt.
   
2/5/2020

Premium Member Be Grateful For a Kingdom That Can'T Be Shaken - Hebrews 12: 25-29

A warning here is given to all
don't refuse the one that speaks
for those on earth did so at their peril
from heaven now warns you He seeks

But God comes with a promise
for in the past, the earth was shook
now He says shaken will be heaven too
all of this comes from God's holy book

What's been said so far indicates
things will be shaken yet once more
that what's been made will be removed
so the rest will stand secure for evermore

Be filled with gratefulness to the Lord
for giving you His kingdom that stands still
unmovable, unshakeable, irresistible
this is our God, lethal sharp-edged sword

Come with reverence and awe
to truly worship this consuming fire
this is God who is eternally divine
from His power, we can always draw

 ("See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.  At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.”  This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of things that are shaken—that is, things that have been made—in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain.  Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe,  for our God is a consuming fire.")

Hebrews 12: 25-29 (ESV)

Premium Member Slightly Stirred But Never Shaken

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If I have just one more drink
(slightly stirred but never shaken),

I can drown them. They will sink,
if I have just one more drink.

This time they'll stay down, I think
and for once, I will awaken

(if I have just one more drink),
slightly stirred, but never shaken.
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08/15/2015


Shaken Not Stirred

"Truth be Told," James Bond opined
Over a pint of Guinness
"Love is just a consequence
of bouncing balls in tennis!"

Premium Member My Demons: Awakened

My demons: are awakened; 
They're lurking around inside my mind
I've become so bitter, shaken
These demons somehow keep me blind.

These demons are trying to get at me;
Throwing obstacles in my way
My writing these words, be mistaken
But it's just my demons wanting to play.

I find myself in grips by my demons;
As if they had chains on me
Thunderous yelling at myself
In the mirror that sat on the shelf.

Gaps in time unaccounted for;
Missing what had just taken place
I know I have some memory problems, face it
But, this is more like it's Alzheimer's disease.

There are these days I forget my name;
And there isn't anything to blame
Sometimes forgetting where I am
Or are these my demons trying to shame me again.
 
Writing of this makes me uneasy;
I keep telling myself or is this reasons
I ought to choke you to make them stop;
Sometimes, I think my head is going to pop.

Shaken Not Stirred

i Was never looking for love
i Was never a big fan of it really?
cause i see a lot of lucky people has it
but they don’t treat it fairly

Some use love as a weapon
to cheat and bring a lot of grieve 
And the more love they receive 
their appreciation for it decrease

I meet a girl and fall in love
But she just didn't concurred
So now although my heart broken
I’m just shaken not stirred

Every one I know, says to me
You are really a very nice guy
But to love I’m just the one 
who Can’t find it no matter how I try?

Life has so many roads to travel
and not every one will reach the end
we go on with our life's not knowing
what awaits us around the bend

So right now I can’t see the future
My visions are still very blurred 
But I will never give up on love
Because I’m just shaken not stirred

There’s some one for every one
That’s what’s I keep on believing 
And if you to closes your heart
Love would not be able to walk in

i try to tell her that i love her
but my words become slurred
and i watch my hope of love
flying away like a bird

So I will always love this girl
with the sweetest voice I've ever heard
And No one will know I’m hurting
Because I’m just shaken not stirred

I always been a fan of James bond
Think he’s a very smooth character
With his cool charming domineer
So it’s him I try to model my self after

So while many are losing patience 
Some will even use a bad word
Me I will be cool as James bond
with a martini shaken not stirred

Premium Member Soup Creek Toasts

Soup Creek Toasts
Marmite cocktails are delicious I've heard
They are the hippest cocktails being served
So to raise a toast 
Tell Jenna the host
Mayor Tom's sure to be shaken and stirred.

6th September 2022

Premium Member Shaken

Wings of silent pristine perception
Glide through and over
Infinite fields and states of vibration
Noumenal and phenomenal

Shaken is the ground of being
Volatile conceives
Unity diversified
Nothing is what seems

Just Ice Shaken Not Stirred

What is a word what do you re call
When reading or writing it
Does it mean any thing at all
One definition of justice  is fairness
Many say no such thing exists
Or maybe you didn’t shine
You didn’t top the lists
At that all important  interview
Where you didn’t show your best
Whichever way you read it
You didn’t pass the test
Is justice ever dealt with satisfactory
Conveying  innocence  as their plea.
Felons would wholeheartedly disagree.,

Contest Justice sponsored by Carolyn Devonshire
Penned 28 December 2018

I'Ve Been Shaken But Rarely Stirred

I've been used and abused, mistreated and mislead,
so many times before, it's wonder I'm not dead.
Been thrown downstairs, pushed through the door
knocked out a window, flattened on the floor.

Been raped and defiled, bled from wounds made,
the cuts that bled soundlessly, those scars did fade.
Life hasn't been great, but I've never bailed...
I've fought to the end, and my life has prevailed.

I am a survivor, and I always land on my feet.
I don't put up with ******** found on the street.
I'll never give in, never give up, never stay down;
I'll keep doing what it takes, to make my life sound.

You think you can beat me, you better watch out!
I'll fight to the finish, I'll beat you no doubt,
cause I am still alive and I got what it takes
to make sure I survive without any mistakes.

When Her World Was Shaken

Wistful wisps of wan whispers wound her, 
She looks withdrawn, weary and wrung out, 
Staring blankly, not a word to stir
this uncanny silence spread about, 

Grim as if a stone had crushed her heart, 
Unaware of others' tears and cries, 
It was as though her mind did depart
to another world behind her eyes, 

Melancholy like a shroud cloaked her, 
Suspended shock at Fate's cruel game, 
Life passed her by in a blinding blur, 
Shaken, her world would ne'er be the same, 

Something darker than depression crawled, 
Gloomy, clueless about her future, 
Her husband's death had left her appalled, 
Feelings that couldn't be healed by suture.

Shaken

your heart is shaken
it's perspective now jaded
no strength to move on
© Jo Bien  Create an image from this poem.

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