Best Take Hold Poems
Penning my thoughts is an important part of who I've become.
Some memories hit me hard, like they're beating on a drum
forcing me to acknowledge them, and a poem is the outcome.
Others make me smile, and to write of them I gladly succumb.
There are moments when my emotions inundate me with rage.
Flames ignite inside me that I fear could singe or burn the page.
That pent up angst against someone or thing I have to assuage
and writing poetry frees me from rancor when I must disengage.
Not all I write is of personal experiences in which I've had a role
I'm a bit too private to compose an intricate blueprint of my soul,
but I open my thoughts when creating idyllic imagery is my goal
and reveal heartache when writing of lost love and I lose control.
I write because when my heart is broken, I allow myself to cry
If my wounds have need to bleed, I offer no excuses as to why.
I can break Cupid's arrows, and clip his wings so he'll never fly
near me again, for love hurts too much to ever say 'good-bye.'
My poetry can sing a mourning song or take flights of fantasy
In verses I can choose to be anyone or anything I desire to be
The power of my pen can turn a fallacy into the truth and reality,
and change a pending tragedy into one that ends quite happily.
Authorship of verses gives me liberalism to pen with expression
Sometimes I concede my guilt and write a repentant confession
As a poet, I think composing is a catharsis to bouts of depression,
without exposing everything during a psychoanalyzing session.
I express my feelings when I view the beauty of a moonlit night
or when I witness sunrise paint the sky with glorious pastel light.
I scribe romantic sonnets about a princess and her white knight.
This gift of writing provides me with pleasure. and thus, I write.
Submitted on August 30, 2022
For the contest: I Write Because... Contest
Sponsored by Anoucheka Gangabissoon
Dreams Take Hold
When Gods evaporate
men take possession
of their thoughts
walking hand in hand
with all
when we dig within
outward hate dissolves
illusions erased
one
Focus your mind on the present
The past has come and gone
Today will be bright and decent
Think of the recent heavenly bliss
And you will be blessed with a kiss
No need to worry so you won’t be sorry
Seize the day....and enjoy it
For you know not what tomorrow holds
Stay with the present affection
and fear no deception
Looking upon the cool flowing stream
Which has been your long dream.
DATE:10-23-2014
CONTEST:"Seize the day(carpe Diem) sponsored by Regina Riddle.
I would like slipping very far away
Where all is quiet and no one speaking
Maybe I'll slip away during day
Upon very loud train with horn shrieking
From the closed window I'll wave goodbye
On this trip I'll spend all day dreaming
In a glass car enjoy visions of sky
And listen to rhythm of engine streaming
Excitedly listen as the wheels nosily make
Clickety-clack sounds and in my heart knowing
Within my being burning love soon will take;
This love reaching deeper as farther away going.
Be Told
What worth a thousand
Can't be attained with hundreds
To know the degree
You must measure
To get to the top of a tree
You have to climb it.
Stay bold
If you're working on it
It will surely work out
When you give it your all
There must be an outcome
Even if not immediately but it's certain.
Take hold
A race can never be won
By standing
When the pistol
Had been fired
If you don't begin
You will never get to the endpoint.