Best Unbending Poems

We don’t appreciate
the sun until it r a i n s,
warmth of gentle rays
that subtly stroke
distressed skin
  when time was f r o z...

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Joe Bonamassa and his band playing Beyond The Silence has
inspired me to write my own lyrics to this incredible song

~  and it goes...

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Before I scarred the page
Raging what your letters cannot invent
Let me invite you to other books
I wrote before you owed me wage
For all maladjustment and...

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Grace and mercy
I shall ever implore
as my soul
yields to boundless passions
crosses lines
and in dire straits
found lost.
The Hand of God
I shall ever beseech
to touch my heart
turn...

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In blackness,
 I hear forked tongues 
whisper wicked witchery,
hope within arthritic 
  ink slowly f a d e s
as darkness descends  
upon snow-speckled...

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Maurice.
Intense, passionate, funny, shy.
Brother of  Rene, Marcelle and Charles.
Lover of  my two daughters, all life especially simple folk and
anything or anyone that hurts, women and...

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AND YET?

If one short word could describe Betty, it’s fun
Gregarious, though seemingly loaded, falls short
You’d have to hear her laugh,
Have to see that lovely face...

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My sister my friend, 
Forever to be, 
My friend, my sister, 
For eternity.

No loss or distance, 
Can sever our hearts, 
For two joining souls, 
Can...

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In a land of rolling gentle hill,
grass of rich green scents embrace,
cotton clouds drift in parade.
One lone oak crowns a summit,
regal on blue sky's horizon.
From...

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Where are the universal themes,
the parables, the parallels that might
be drawn from humdrum, quotidian
happenstance?  We languish in these ruts
we live in and bear our...

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You are standing there
Solid
Resolute
Unbending
Unmoved
By my womanly charm

Your eyes look straight ahead
Not taking in my curves
Not noticing the look in my eyes
The sun dancing in my...

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What should I write about?

Truth, that is all!

But there is mine,
yours...

and then His of course:

compassion
unbending--
forgiving
unending--

though we are inclined
to weakly compromise;
change only when 
uncomfortably pressed;
(having tilted,...

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The candles are extinguished today and the crucifix covered in black
for the One whos life was once bludgeoned with ignorance and greed
As He readied for...

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Potpourri
By: Tom Wright
7/16/03


God gave me Passion of Heart when discovering first love,
A prayer for Love and Peace as symbolized by His Dove.
I have the Confidence...

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Jesyca


A little girl full of life with so much love
for her papa. It was love at first sight
when papa laid eyes on her at her...

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