Best Surpassed Poems
Repent and Believe...*
Up until the summer of 1999, I only knew of the words "Jesus."
I knew what was being taught in church.
As I sat in the pew, I heard the Bible being read.
Words with empty meanings, b......
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Categories:
surpassed, bible, christian, forgiveness, jesus,
Form:
Free verse
Along Dawn's Amber Shores...Dawn slowly awakened to supplant the moon
Empty, the canopy where stars had been strewn
In repose, Luna slept after wandering velvet skies
and spider webs shimmered in the flight of sunr......
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Categories:
surpassed, poetry, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
A Rose In the Heather....So still and beautiful lays the rose in the heather,
Lifeless and dying, given to bring you happiness,
So fragile is this rose laying in heather,
Slowly withering and drying, crumbling to a powder......
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Categories:
surpassed, loss, lost love, nostalgia,
Form:
Romanticism
Colors of Love...
When the sparrow meets the long nights
webbed in the gentleness
of every beat that marks your heart;
only then will we find a faraway world coming together
as graceful leaves mix
with the......
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Categories:
surpassed, devotion, inspirational love,
Form:
Haibun
Lightning Bolt...A spark cast by a careless deed,
it catches fire and sparks twigs weed.
A hushed town that is dull at last,
a Careless deed, by a spark cast.
East winds howl to display their might,......
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Categories:
surpassed, analogy, fire, storm, wind,
Form:
Quatrain
The Children Eating Grass...Often wondering is it a steak upon Our Plates that is important...
Perhaps a Hot-dog instead and more Money for a healing deportment.
To feed a Child that is suffering or very ill and extremely sic......
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Categories:
surpassed, abuse, care, character, conflict,
Form:
Couplet
Timeless Love...They met at first around sixteen,while they were in their teens.
A young man tall and handsome, a girl with many dreams.
Years later they did meet again this time he was smitten.
It took some time to......
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Categories:
surpassed, family, life, love, marriage,
Form:
Rhyme
My Lunar Cycle...By the early years of that ancient decade, the 70's,
I'd tired of my obstreperous tomboyish games:
kickball with the neighbor kids, sledding in the winter,
desecrating the peacefulness of our st......
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Categories:
surpassed, life,
Form:
Free verse
Buttercups Spreads...On a field of green grass
Yellow buttercups spread mast
Row on row of the spread mass
Coating the field un surpassed
With yellow buttercups outspread
On grassy fields spread......
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Categories:
surpassed, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Answer Me This...My life surpassed, fades long, yet fast
(Below the dirt, my coffin's cast)
Despite how deep, however vast
I'll dwell inside that vacant mass
It's only He that understands,
The One that gave me Poet's......
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Categories:
surpassed, death, god, life, men,
Form:
Rhyme
The Rainbow's End...At the end of every rainbow there lies a pot of Gold
Or so hail all the Stories that I have been told
But what do my Wondering Eyes behold?
......
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Categories:
surpassed, animal, friendship, horse, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Pile On--Let's Blame America...America, trillions in debt
gives to many nations!
Alas, what for, we are seen
as a selfish nation?
Homeless populate the streets
of LA.(thanks to governor Newsom)!
Yet don't you get it, we h......
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Categories:
surpassed, america, angst, international,
Form:
Rhyme
Superbowl Sunday...There’s a new American Holiday, guess what it is my football loving friends,
It’s a classical sport of champions, where helmet headed, game geared
Warriors challenge raw brawn against skill’s swift......
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Categories:
surpassed, adventure, conflict, football, history,
Form:
Free verse
My Emancipation...My Emancipation
The convoluted misconceptions concocted in your chaotic mind
Will no longer deaden, dim, nor darken the light that I shine
Constantly minimizing and compromising, the extent ......
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Categories:
surpassed, life,
Form:
Free verse
Nuclear Weapon...There was an old chap from Toledo
Who took meds for his bad libido
One pill made him fast!
Two pills helped him last!
With three, he surpassed a torpedo !!
......
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Categories:
surpassed, funny,
Form:
Limerick