Best Suddenly Poems

Upon the slow-flowing river,
Suddenly swans 
Scud quickly away.

From round the bend I gracefully glide,
I am the queen of them all.

And quickly my king arrives.

The dance of love begins.
We bob our heads, wings quivering,
Necks entwined.
Unruffled snow-white plumage.

In time my eggs are hatched, 
Cygnets are so cute.
How...

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Winds were among first to notice
Fragrant air blowing fresh breeze 
Stemming from your pristine vicinity
Extolling prospects of your visit,

Announced by the birds in flight
Message circulated far and wide
Into the emerging scenic twilight
Pushing far away the opaque skies,

Cotton clouds then adorned charm
Scattered in ways of scenic...

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For Timothy Lee


My fried anxieties and crisped lonely would unite in my sleep's 
repeat nightmares where a roster of random monsters pursued 
their viewed, vile end of me.  My pulsing terrors urged I run fast
but my feet always turned to absurd concrete, freezing me...

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     Suddenly I was caught 
In the whirlwind of you.
     Tumbling, tumbling...
My heart beating faster
     Flying, soaring the heavens.

The universe in its vastness
     Swallowed me.
Your brilliance penetrated
  ...

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Fool that I am an  
    Incurable Romantic 
        Rolling in the Deep...

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Plain as she can be
She who sat next to me
Freckled with horn rimmed glasses
And late to all her school classes
An outcast, she thought by her peers
Dwelling on her chronic fears
Not wanting to be noticed
As like the beauty and grace of the lotus
Flying under the radar...

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suddenly I thought
who am I--
meeting in the mirror,
my sanity tested:
I was not who I am...

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Suddenly though a lifetime of joy, happiness, tears and devastating sorrow
Suddenly there is calm, suddenly a glimmer of a serene contented peace
The waves of the ocean no longer a tumultuous frightening turbulence
Instead a new placid peaceful calm, so inviting and so enticing
Suddenly one feels that...

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Out of nowhere,an idea
   Then image;
Out of this picture,a sentence,
   Then a page;
Out of the verse,a sonnet,
   Then a rhyme;
Out of this art,a hobby
   So sublime


labelled this imagist form 'a tabb' in his honour.

EVOLUTION
by: John Banister Tabb...

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When We Woke, Suddenly Thinking We Had Died And Went To Heaven

O' that aroma, jasmine fragrance from her hair
She virgin goddess I an uninformed young lad
Her beauty was so golden nothing else compares
Thought why the hell not , she mine, I sure ain't that bad
And...

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choleric clouds, suspended
         over the leaking lake

   the rebellion of a teenage face
cross-eyed, ferocious

bereaved by a split pancake
      baffled by life’s inconsistencies

a vortex peeks out of darkness
   ...

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Our Tall Duckling (original title)

Our daughter, always through her childhood,
at least a head above any other girl in her class,
stands somewhere offstage now 
with long lashes darkened by mascara
and with lips and cheeks painted pink.
She waits with other nervous pre-teens in her group
where I left...

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suddenly the bird sings, quite suddenly, startling
the stranger-to-the-dawn of day; he thinks the bird
is where the bird shouldn’t be; but knowingly,
with amusement, having quite habitually heard
the bird tweet, as the morning sun stretches its wings,
the wife informs the stranger to the waning dusk,
“oh dear husband,...

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What is it that tears the mind 
In the witching hours of 4 ‘til Dawn;
Thoughts of horror darting and piercing with pain,
“Jesus help me, Help me through, make me strong”
Panic crackling in the air
“Get behind me, Satan, this is not fair!”

To fight the fight this...

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Hush to shore th' swans may hear you

A texture of art , a living never seen 

A petal of lily and eyes so bright 
 
Their lashes pick, nostalgia of mind

They pass through th' waves an' slide

And move across th' bridge an' back

How soft their...

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