Best Tentatively Poems
But Seriously-The Unprecedented President
...BUT SERIOUSLY
“The Unprecedented President”
Mirror mirror on the wall
Who’s the greatest President of them all?
“I am the voice beyond-beyond...
A truthful answer I must respond.”
Yes, it is ......
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Categories:
tentatively, corruption, identity, image, mirror,
Form:
Rhyme
The Gift
...From the window of my chic city office, lost in thought, I gaze out.
The pedestrians scurry like frenzied ants below, caught up in their bustling state of holiday insanity.
In his haste to cross th......
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Categories:
tentatively, allegory, holiday, hope,
Form:
Prose
Au Naturel
...Descending stairs in ballerina pink
her naked toes now tentatively sink
into the snug embrace of each new tread.
As silently as snowflakes touch the ground
......
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Categories:
tentatively, child,
Form:
Rhyme
A Goodbye Lie
...Dark chocolate eyes bore into me,
Beseeching, brimming, tunneling for truth.
A single tear trails silently
Cascading o’er lifted cheekbones so
Perfectly angled they’re matchless
Throughout natur......
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Categories:
tentatively, abuse, betrayal, character, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
Fatal Kiss
...Time ticks away as a new dawn strokes your splitting heart,
with your mood swings re-writing my emphatic poetical art.
Although the fear of your demons may grip my soul
I am now immune to all ......
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Categories:
tentatively, anxiety, mental health,
Form:
Rhyme
Lost When Found
...She had been out for a walk
Jostling for a seat
Amid the teddy bear,
“blankie” and “bobba”.
Lost her grip and slipped
Slowly from the grasp
Of tiny, sticky, fingers.
She lay on the sidewalk......
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Categories:
tentatively, fate, lost,
Form:
Free verse
My Crystal Blue
...We walked home
Hand in hand
You were just a girl
me a boy
pretending to be a man
We held tightly to our nothing
Wrapping it fully within the wanting
Not really knowing
who we were
or wh......
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Categories:
tentatively, angst, beauty, fantasy, romance,
Form:
Rhyme
The Red Light On the Tree
...Christmas tree lights make a kaleidoscope of colors on this wall of mine
In the quiet room I sit and watch, oblivious to the passage of time
Alone, I sit and gaze at that one small blinking red l......
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Categories:
tentatively, jesus,
Form:
Epic
The Haunted House
...Beyond an overgrowth of weeds, I see
a house with faded paint. It beckons me.
Victorian, its windows are like eyes
that hypnotize, and soon I find myself
there at its door. I tentatively knoc......
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Categories:
tentatively, scary,
Form:
Blank verse
Short Cut Horror
...This particular mid winter night after a quiet drink at our local
started to venture home, frost in air only light from a half moon,
feeling brave after having a couple of beers, decided to take a ......
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Categories:
tentatively, anxiety, confusion, horror, identity,
Form:
Prose
All Because She Commented
...The first to comment
Uplifting my soul
Did anyone know
How difficult to share
My thoughts
My love
My deepest emotions
Did anyone care
As I laid my soul bare
......
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Categories:
tentatively, faith, friendship, how i
Form:
Free verse
Paddy
...Paddy
His name is Padraig Torrin McWheaten of County Cork, esq. – Paddy for short! He is Celtic mischief with deep brown eyes the color of Irish sod, a big, black gumdrop nose and a wavy wheat co......
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Categories:
tentatively, dog,
Form:
Prose
Maze
...Running Away by Maria Magdalena Oosthuizen
I am a part of each leaf that loses its
chlorophyll and fades from green in the maze
of my mind. Again, I try to run through, as if I ......
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Categories:
tentatively, childhood, emotions, love, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
A Moment's Visit
...A brown-winged Lepidoptera alights
My sweaty hand and tentatively flaps
Its delicate wings in morning sunlight.
What seemed to me a long time was perhaps
A moment or two that it lingered there......
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Categories:
tentatively, nature
Form:
Sonnet
I Got Arrested Further Developments Await
...I got arrested!... further developments await...
By gravity said law
linkedin with physics
stating that a body at rest
will remain thus unless otherwise
acted upon by an external force,
hen......
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Categories:
tentatively, confidence, conflict, cry, endurance,
Form:
Dramatic Verse