Best Solidifies Poems
The shuddering waves hasten the night
the fullness of the moon hides behind copious clouds,
soon a roar becomes overwhelming amidst the storm
as the lashing rain solidifies upon the creaking bow.
freezing salty air
the siren of the whale’s call
enhance his struggles
It was then, as if a giant hand sweeps away the tempest
when tossed with in its heart, the tigerish rouge is subdued,
the lone sailor cries out in prayer as his trembling fingers
wipe away the remnants from his Bohemian brow.
paper thin egg shell
stained ribbons of wooded ply
wax candle aglow
His prayer was answered suddenly the clouds part
and the prominence of starlight shine through,
with his compass lost and guiding system kaput
he plots his way; sails the furrows of the celestial plough.
tears of gratitude
aid the swelling ocean waves
red sky a warning
Entered Sailing Poetry Contest
Sponsor Julia Ward
Written 2020
Categories:
solidifies, storm,
Form:
Haibun
Fire
Scorching, Danger
Blazes, Burns, Melts
Torch, Bonfire, Snowflakes, Icebergs
Crystallizes, Solidifies, Expands
Frost, Freezing
Snow
Categories:
solidifies, break up, fire, natural
Form:
Diamante
SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL & UPLIFTING – PRAISE, WORSHIP, & PRAYER
There is no reason to be down and out.
The sun still shines in the sky when raindrops.
Smile now because this is your time to pop.
We really want to hear your thoughts about…
Life love joy rapture pleasure thrills bliss blessed
There is cause to be irrefutable.
You know the heights of life uplift others.
Happiness esteems and solidifies.
Each time you strive, you find that the world thrives.
Uplift life elevate mind and inspire…
There is purpose to take on; therefore,
Give heart to another and cheer to the
dishearten. Raise spirits to encourage
deification of our creator through praise.
Mother Earth is our celestial orbit.
Peace seekers we are in spirit and truth.
Love and harmony is for all dwellers.
Let us join on native topography.
Hold hands sing from the voice of the patriot
Scale the endless strife of diversity
To meander in our conflicting journeys
So that our life is a religious hub,
Which brings forth faith in the omnipotent.
The crux of our essence edifies soul.
Elucidation is magnetic force
Mesmerizing all the people involved.
We shout in our synagogues worship
Via life force, which is cognizance.
Oration heard from the heights of trouble.
Just a closer walk with God was words voiced.
A proclamation so great, tears came forth.
I know the Lord exclaimed the choir from the
balcony while others were praying in
the aisles. Oh Lord have mercy on me.
There was no doubt that salvation was there.
The expression was that the Holy Ghost
had entered. Utterance of faith is with
all. An enduring completed through the
works of God. How were the burdens taken
to a place of repost? The Lord keeps me
safe and warm. Through veneration and
extol, prayer; praise; and worship heartens all.
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PENNED JUNE 28, 2014!
Written for a those who seek a greater determination....
Categories:
solidifies, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, care,
Form:
Sonnet
A wicked heart blinds the eyes and steals the soul's redemptive growth
A corrupted mind is never forgiving and hates a tender smile
But because there is an abundance of joy built in strength
I see my fellowmen as humanitarians and as friends
I am the modern-day Bob Marley chanting my redemption song
I am today's preacher giving thanksgiving and praise
I march like Martin Luther for I have a dream
I sing like the angles in a humble refrain
Unity solidifies the heart
Eternal love prides the eyes
A rolling dice have many outcomes
Chose the possibilities of your successes
So I dance like Fred Astaire as I glide through out life
I will box like Mohammed Ali and sting like a bee
I want to be the modern-day sunshine casting my light upon the world
Just a natural woman roaming and visualizing my plan
There are so many things to be thankful for
There are so many good silenced by loud noise
Like Whitney Houston I have nothing without you
At the end of the day I will always love and treasure my miracle.
Categories:
solidifies, growing up, happiness, history,
Form:
Free verse
Prayer to the Stone of Sobriety
Under a purple flannel-like sheet, but not as soft;
As warm as flannel-but hotter,
I am sweating.
The flannel shroud soaks up my sweat like my liver soaks up venom
I see angry tigers approaching from the ceiling above where I lay;
Tigers coming to rip the walls of my mortal gut.
Oh, Bacchus, send your vengeful tigers away
What did I ever do to you?
The sheet protects me from sunlight, but not from myself;
Nor am I shielded from Bacchus’ tigers; and not from my sweat.
Beads of toxic perspiration roll across swollen eyelids.
I press my cracked lips firmly together as if to scream silently to scare the tigers.
A poison tiger in my body torments my heart,
Pressing its scabbed paw firmly against my veins
Each pulse of the baneful blood pushes against my forehead as the tiger roars
And Bacchus begins to laugh.
Oh, wine, Oh drink, Oh smoke and pill
Who put you in my shriveled stomach?
Who breathed you into my cancerous lung?
What did I ever do to you?
A heave of tepid vomit snaps like a leather whip through my throat!
Tigers hate the taste of vomit.
Bacchus’ hatred is repulsed by its smell.
The tigers stop with one last press upon my forehead.
The sweat-soaked purple cloth is flung back from my shaking body by an unknown woman.
The wet pile of purple sheet crystallizes on the corner of my pyre.
It solidifies, as does my resolve, to keep Bacchus and the tigers at bay.
The mound of purple quartz is tethered to my body by a cord of desperation.
Oh wine, Oh drink. You too, smoke and pill,
The blue of hope and red of blood join forces to guard me from your tiger claws.
My sobriety hangs in the balance.
It hangs around my neck like a stone
That has the weight of three large hogs.
It hangs around my neck like a young woman, not yet a noose.
Like the woman who was commissioned by ancient Greeks to keep me sober.
Oh, sober Amethyst
Like ancient Bacchus, I cry
Tears of sweat over my drunkenness
Ashamed enough to die; but I cannot
Your generous gift of recovery is free.
What did I ever do to deserve your sober generosity?
Be my stone of sobriety;
You are my receptacle of thought and habit.
Heal me, oh purple goddess.
Protect this mortal from my internal tigress
Guard me with the weight of purple stone.
Oh, stone of sobriety, heal this mortal fool.
Categories:
solidifies, addiction, prayer, recovery from,
Form:
Free verse
ARMAGEDDON!
Defining the human character avers that yet we may be different our likelihood
remnants the same.
Figments of yesterday lingers.
Never a will lost but a being found.
The sylph sleeps with soul.
Aphorism is percept.
To live by doctrine and principle, is the axiom brought forth.
Never to fragment or pierce the heart but to heal a broken path of truth is
veracity unto God.
The spirit sleeps within the soul.
Proverbial, as the greater determination, humankind solidifies their crossing.
A peak will transect and transform into a jet stream.
The clouds are aura overhead.
A revelation discourse will soon become the ration.
Spirit is shown.
Once the rage comes, the veils will be removed.
In the distant will stand an almighty presence.
Seen by the eyes of one, the universe will be possess by its people.
Adherence will be the commandment.
The badness man (or woman might child) will remain standing.
I will step to the cause.
The soul is engrossed.
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PENNED ON JULY 21, 2014!
Categories:
solidifies, character, conflict, courage, creation,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The raging typhoon
Solidifies the tall tree,
Trials make me strong.
Categories:
solidifies, faith,
Form:
Haiku
For shall the almighty dance with wickedness
Freasting darkness solidifies clashing swords
Forsaking us illuminates our lust for fulfillment
Attributes for grace heightens desolation’s plot
Fiend mends the holy terror back to life
Your gracefulness is deafening to us sinners
Exuberant romance awaken golden hour twilight
Lightlessness fuel starts to shed our midnight skins,
Letting us rejoice among the self-righteousness waters
Perplexing there was no storm in the Lords
Storms among harts in airlings wings has forsaken ourselves
Categories:
solidifies, art, august, beauty, bible,
Form:
ABC
Microscopic observations on display,
Subatomic collisions, violently exploding into the next phase,
Uploading word combinations on this holy day,
Through consciousness and biochemical ways,
Into an array of influential thoughtful wordplay,
With no ignorance to lead astray on this written page,
Is this just hearsay and staged within our systems cage,
We easily disengage as inner rage circulates through our veins,
Because fear has been ingrained and taken over our brains,
Daily life easily draining inner accomplishments and gains,
Governments and social movements creating stressful strains,
The tricks within the matrix keeping us locked within chains,
So remove yourself from the constrains,
And get onto this subatomic campaign.
Because this is knowledge and power inscribed and applied,
Ignoring curiosity is magnified intellectual suicide,
Ignorance or awareness, you need to choose a side,
Put aside ego and pride,
It’s unjustified,
So I’m going to tell you my opinion of why……
This world is full of lies, yes so many deceitful lies,
The current ties of spirit and flesh solidifies,
Forgetting self is what occupies our present sense of I,
These word combinations are to teach you to look to the minds eyes,
From now to the day you die,
Try to apply what’s being described,
So be wise, go and mentally scribe like a rabbi,
And always give thanks to the universe that’s always nearby.
Quincy Mac
Date Written: 23.4.2016
Categories:
solidifies, growth, life, lost, meaningful,
Form:
Free verse
The sugar maple and the oak hold tight their leaves,
barely green, yellow tinged lines sway in the breeze.
The plum glows in a deep dark purple dance
feathered soft and small along the branch.
Another oak stands a mix yellow orange peach
with etchings red crimson pink burns out of reach.
Standing alone and in between the naked eye
mere skeletons remain touching a clouded sky.
Autumn holds true to reputation
producing a multitude cacophony of colors, dark unseen
ominous lightly draped in emerald greens.
The first and quickly mid November hush
comes the fall and holiday rush.
Wind still calm yet wildly ready
as blinding sun beats down hot and steady.
Songbirds seem to no longer sing stray cry coos
rising on the breeze as they seek shelter and others bid adieu.
The weather soon to change
to a chilling wind and rain.
Holidays break the lull of comforting fires
with harried shopper rushing of want and desire.
As quickly as it comes, just steps behind a party scene
of costumed revelry and gatherings, the seasons pass to dreams.
Thanksgiving turkeys with cranberry sauce, potatoes and stuffing
waft the air as frosted glasses rise eyeing pie and whipped fluffing.
Families toast and taste the holidays,
with the memorable pictures taken holding out for Christmas plays.
The together that solidifies relations of the crew
of grandmas and grandpas, aunts and uncles, cousins too.
Children yelling, crying, playing games to a hullabaloo of cheer
but makes parents glad it comes once a year.
The gathering of faces and acquaintance celebrations
folds a memory happening just a little more patient.
That laughter and joy so endeared in time,
a right of passage lost to happiness, tears and wine,
missed yet fondly remembered
as time passes November into December.
Categories:
solidifies, autumn, december, holiday, november,
Form:
Rhyme
Time becomes liquid when I’m with U
an endless torrent, rushing river & I imbibe it greedily
sucking down hours like minutes.
It runs down our bodies &
sizzles our words
Like pungent hot oil.
It runs
Like mercury
smooth & easy
until it lands heavy in my conscience
a finite measure of our infinite joy.
Becomes wet concrete, slowing
Wishes words actions thoughts dreams
Solidifies into
duties, alarm clocks, books, responsibilities.
It hardens.
Creating the path that I tread upon, dragging my feet
until it again becomes
A liquid endless torrent . . . rushing river
when I’m with U.
Categories:
solidifies, allegory, love, words,
Form:
Free verse
Goodnight, my whistle whispers
muffled by squeals and clanks,
the freights' heavy weight cradles the breath I take.
Exhales through chilled wind churn coldness steel,
solidifies my being real,
through every jolt shakes every bolt, a thrash, clash, pulsing bit,
steal me up a comfort ladder, with dirt upon its' grip.
As southern evening falls, does burning spark of metal wheels in the dark,
miles before the port breaks clear
before I hop off to see you near.
Categories:
solidifies, absence, identity, leaving,
Form:
Bio
WITH RAIN CAME LOVE
Cool breeze
Cumulus clouds
Breeze solidifies,
Drizzling
Monsoon rain
White threads move to
Heavy shower.
Rain smiles
And with rain came love.
Long journeys
Longing leaning on his back
In the valley
Where meteors shower
Unexpected momentary moments
Eddied life,
Glimpses like water bubbles
Shadows overpowered specks of lights
Specks of laurels
Sudden borders to dreams
Yonder in the sky departing clouds
Swollen rain clouds
Lustre obscure
Renunciation with disinterest
Rain and love spreading over
Love brought silence
Mermaids, water nymphs
Stood guard.
We went close at heels
Along turbulent back waters
We sat, in grief
In rain and mystifying silence
Passion delivered
And kept in store
Spread over us.
Rain peeping through
Birch trees
Rain lashing through
Gulmohar
Geography of silence
Without a speck of dirt
Pious communion
Of love and rain.
Wailing hornbills, compassionate
Invoked rain
She saw us in deep grief
Grief of life-
Love in deep sleep blushed into
Wakefulness.
Longing, sights and rude realities
Cosmic force showers
Moments of eternal bliss.
In steep valley of sterility
Ascetic sun winked
At welcome clouds
Dryness transplanted
Into alluvial softness.
Rude faces, sights and longings
Lost way,
Emerged throbbing passion.
Showers of love,
Showers of mystic bliss.
Categories:
solidifies, lost love, rain, water,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A blissful torment of stagnant virtues solidifies the unity incomplete.
Revolution looms in the hearts of millions. Undesirable uproar invoking insidious
apocalypse extrude the synthetic lapse of cognition, society’s true poison.
Categories:
solidifies, people, political
Form:
Free verse
SHAPE OF MIND : WATERY
Water existing in three natural forms
shows three different shapes,
as liquid to fit in shape of container.
When water freezes, comes in solid state:
Ice, glacier, iceberg, snow, hails appear in varied configuration.
Water turning vapor escapes in limitless contour.
Mind resembling water exhibits three patterns.
Being affirmative, assertive, gallant, aggressive,
envious or revengeful mind solidifies in stern attitude.
Rigid mind in solid texture showing dynamism,
acts harsh if needed.
When compassionate, kind, jovial or rippling in love,
mind melts drifting in dreamy stream of emotion.
accommodating and welcoming like liquid water flow
Transcending to sensual spiritual mode
mind entwines with soul soaring high
in ecstatic vapour of ethereal glow.
Wonderful water initiating Life.
Marvelous mind controlling life- long journey.
Both run in same three styles flashing human profile.
If not polluted, stands sterile.
06/24/ 21
2022 Poetry Marathon Mile 26
Contest by Mark Toney
Categories:
solidifies, 12th grade, appreciation, water,
Form:
Free verse