Best Superior Poems
tongue tied
the bell on the sunken ship
relives the trauma
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Contest: Sing Me a Senryu
Sponsor: Maureen McGreavy
Inspired by the song:
“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot
https://youtu.be/9vST6hVRj2A?t=3
Placed 2nd
Categories:
superior, loss,
Form:
Senryu
the sky has a rip in it today
and I don't think I am here
a little boat rocks it's sides in the wash
and people grow cold
Categories:
superior, nature
Form:
Free verse
I know that is what you are trying to do until you don’t lose.
Upset the balance of a rightful world to
Destroy a focus that remains visionary to
Defeat the purpose of eternal peace.
Against the odds, you will precede while waiting for the truth to weaken.
A mountaineer never gives up the climb.
He or she seeks knowledge on how to peak the next time.
Even when it may seem a deadly try, his or her mind is with the goal defined.
Rightful is your success.
You are the splendor to your voice.
You are searching for the best way to proceed.
A wrongful world is always depleted.
An alpinist knows his or her rise.
He or she climbs to summit the incline.
Although him or her may scramble along the way, the journey has been
partaken.
A mindset designates a mental attitude or inclination formed.
One that has regiment that is detrimental to ambition.
Ubiquitous deseeding is paramount.
A mountain is to climb once formed.
You are therefore superior to all others.
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Written July 03, 2016!
Categories:
superior, city, community, culture, education,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
LIGHTS ABOVE LAKE SUPERIOR
moonrise
pours caramel
splashing across the lake,
reflecting aurora's pining
elope
© All Rights Reserved
James Marshall Goff
Categories:
superior, nature
Form:
Cinquain
No willows weep along this craggy shore
Winter's unforgiving shock no test for
weaker limbs
Pine trees and the barren Birch remain, their
hearts cold
Steely eyes glimmer with icy stares at Raven's
perch and passing Gulls
Bankers loan a timid step, the endless lake
a promise of frozen dreams
The wind stopped just short of my ears, bitter
news the breeze carried unable to fill my
senses
I left yesterday's newspaper on the table
today's issue unwelcome
All I could think of was what will I be seeing
hearing or smelling when the wind resumes?
The smell of fresh flowers deposits me back
in that church 4 years old as I looked in at my
Grandpa's
frozen face in the coffin at his funeral
roses and lilacs
weren't there
I can
smell them
and
smile...
04/27/15
2am
© james marshall goff
Categories:
superior, absence, anxiety,
Form:
Alliteration
...upon emerging from the fury of
swimming just a few feet out in the Grand
Old Lady
Boldly upright in surf
Fog races in and cloaks her surface
Alive! I grip the bottom for the crush
As waves crash my glistening face
Freedom has found me!
01/19/14
Categories:
superior, nature,
Form:
Lyric
Other men wonder how I make women mesmerize
Bigger than most men similar to football player size
I begin to share my secret and they still don’t realize
It’s my pleasant desirable qualities
To her liking
Suited to her end or purpose
Having the ability to treat her well
Indicative of future success
Or full of promise to stay by her side
Throughout the good and bad times
The guys say “who do you think you are?”
I’m a man
A superior man
That’s me
When I see a woman struggling with groceries from a far
I’ll walk to her, and carry her groceries to her car
Sometimes when she wakes
I’ll have breakfast cooked for her so she won’t be late
I’m there when she needs for me to caress and hold
Even when I’m hot because I know she’s cold
I make it an oath to cater to her in every way
Write her poetry and send roses on any given day
On days that she’s sad or when she’s had bad luck
I’ll do whatever makes her better even if it takes my last couple of bucks.
I’m gentle with her body like chemicals in a flask
Anything she needs me to do, I will do, no questions asked
When other women ask “Dang girl who is he?”
I’ll say I’m a man
A superior man
That’s me
As I travel throughout the city
Feeling the cool breeze
I tend to catch women
Begin to stare at me
When they glance I glance back from time to time
Now I know thoughts of me are running through her mind
It is my smile that you see
Or the size of my feet
Or the size of my wand
Parting your Red Sea
I see she’s getting hot
Loving her I’ll never stop
I make sure that my tongue serenades every spot
Women ask themselves “how can this be?”
It’s the flick of my tongue
My appetite for fun
My ambition for not stopping until my job is done
Then women will ask themselves “What makes him so attractive to me?”
I’ll say for every phenomenal woman,
There is a real man
A superior man
That’s me
Categories:
superior, caregiving, love, passion, me,
Form:
Lake Superior
Strong- shouldered waves crested
the rocks below Split Rock Lighthouse
with frothering glee-
happy to be home among the orange-lychen,
basalt-boulders and Gulls-
high above the lake, mountainous columns
of clouds drifted in legions towards Canada,
against a sky so blue, no reasons were needed-
where the sun peaked through, sparkling
diamonds scattered across the lake……existence was enough
existence
was enough
08/16/10
© All Rights Reserved
Categories:
superior, nature
Form:
Free verse
The world is a lave a pallet of creation
Looking into space, a futile distraction
The earth is in space and all it represents
Looking upward wondering ignoring the obvious
The pattern of nature the key to life
Everything in nature release us from strife
From wondering mind, from wondering soul
Pillar too pillar young and old
Some think of it as architecture, some confusing mess,
Some a spontaneous fragment of scientific jest
To some a duty a jigsaw to caress,
And some just get on and never confess
We each hold the answer to our brain
Coming once sometimes again and again
Sometimes never at all, contained in distraction
The harrowing lore, the abyss of infatuation
The buckled belt restraint on the mind
Have to find out, not sure I will with death and time
But will it empower or dissolve my life
Sitting here continually wondering why
When that could be it, just to live to experience and enjoy it
And we the fools who try to explain never understood the simplicity
Expanding our stupidity with information overload, we didn't need
To study or to vex our thoughts flexing our complexion
With stressful sickness broken and distraught,
Are we just the sickness in god’s body?
A disease spreading in the DNA of the supreme
Thinking we are special, a comforting belief
Or are we trapped in our own creation,
Our creation is no waiting quotation
Or selfish intoxication of boredom
Or perhaps, the conclusion the capstone solution
Buried with its foundation, alas the incantation released
And now fondled into confusion its veil of truth still uncovered
No one is true enough to bind its rudder,
Elevate one’s conscience, conjure up the thunder
Not in modern times where knowledge is sought
By any mind, any person, any element of thought.
Categories:
superior, allegory, life, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
SUPERIOR – not the lake
To me there are no persons drearier
Than those who think themselves superior,
Think everything in life that they do
Is a little, no, MUCH better than you (do)
She didn’t come right out and make a claim
Not sophisticate was to give it name
As example – I mentioned my dentist
Hers, compared to others by far the best
Sadly, my doctor’s name, somehow, came up
Hers had won the Johns Hopkins world class cup
When I mentioned housing she had a ball
When compared to hers, the Taj Mahal was small
Dare I mention our Jeep parked in the back?
She’d boast of her three bran new Cadillacs
Fed her dog ‘Vet’s Laboratory Test’
Even claimed her Fido’s droppings were best
Then, one day –
Joy! When they had to call an ambulance -
Her chronic case of painful flatulence
Categories:
superior, funny,
Form:
Free verse
If you think that you are far more superior then the next person
Written By Dean Masciarelli
October 23, 2010 (7:17am)
If you think that you are
far more
superior than the next person
Then you truly are the foolish one
Just remember nothing that you have
ever done goes unnoticed;
because the good Lord see’s everything
And some day he is
going to knock you
right off that mountain
And he is going to teach you a few
lessons
in compassion and understanding
So that you can learn how to do things
that wont cause others so much harm
From your spoken words and your actions
And maybe it will change your way of
thinking because
you are no better then the next person
Categories:
superior, life, people
Form:
Rhyme
superior itch
must be scratched using a gun
insanity plea
Russell Sivey
Entrant into Gwendolen R.'s "A "Gun"-o-ku" contest
1/20/2013
Categories:
superior, life,
Form:
Haiku
Women are most definitely
the more superior gender of my human specie,
at least in the area of a more higher level of spirituality.
Men on the other hand are the more superior gender of my specie
in the areas of self absorption, hate and greed.
That in no way means that women are weaker to men in any degree.
Positive will always be stronger than Negative eternally.
Categories:
superior, gender,
Form:
Rhyme
A Superior Being
Mankind, the superior being roaming the earth,
for he alone is capable of intellectual thought,
it is instill in his or her essence from birth,
for it is but what each one of us are taught.
If only the reality of substance could be told,
discerning our crude aggressive way,
powering and enabling us to be so bold,
while instilling us conquerors by light of day.
If you upset or confuse us then you will die,
for we kill out of bewilderment and greed,
never understanding or even asking why,
incapable of grasping the depth of our deeds.
Subspecies live in harmony and peace,
surviving in an orderly fashion beyond belief,
the insects and animals kingdom could teach,
our anguish and suffering could find relief.
Superior does not mean intellectually bright,
defined as controlling and dominance,
we repeat our mistakes not seeing the light,
sacrificing all in the name of prominence.
Samuel E. Stone
Copyright ©2008 Samuel E. Stone
Categories:
superior, life, peace, philosophy, social,
Form:
Rhyme
Golden image idol was created by King Nebuchadnezzar,
They refused to serve the idol~friends of Belteshazzar,
Thrown into the burning furnace to be consumed for he was bemused,
Unhurt,they sang and danced with the Lord which make the king amused.
Categories:
superior, devotion, religion,
Form:
Clerihew