Best Uncrossed Poems

A sigh--
as strong as the 
rivers' flow,
where dark pain
forces the flower.

Oh! To sleep through sound
and uncrossed
dreams.

My mind groans 
for the woman
just beneath
the great horn.

The years...

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As we age we regret words of anger and spite
That were heard and remembered and can't be unsaid.
The remarks we thought clever or proved we...

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lasting... 
all through your life, dear child, 
the following crucial life lessons... 

let go of the things 
you cannot change; 
all things beyond your control.
the...

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melt with me against a toxic sunset of lust
light the burning candles

illuminate the red hot metal lanterns
dive naked into my arms raw

take of my flesh...

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MY SUN~~~

Like the sun
against the day sky.
Releasing unrestrained light!
Diluting your daily sphere
that repulse
my intellectual needs.
Take Death into my desert
dumping you a side.
Uncrossed boundaries that multiply
concealing...

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CHALLENGE TITLE POETRY CONTEST FOR AUGUST ON POEMHUNTER.COM! 

'WHY DO TURTLES CROSS THE ROAD? '


OK FOLKS! Please choose your favorite poem from those entered here...

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When meanings have been broken,
When your cross has been uncrossed,
When the reasons that you gave me,
In the labyrinth have been lost.
When your house has been...

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Hear the untold song we sing at any cost,
Though the crowd may laugh and children, jeer:
Through the parting clouds, lascivious angels leer,
Till a fall from...

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antidepressant

black death
heart rattle
against bone cage
trapped in a chemical labyrinth
smothered in a shawl mind haze
living tears dried, lost
not cried
spark fried
brain wires uncrossed.
but life
lost....

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POEMS THAT MAKE NO SENSE (1)

another kind of pink 
bothers me
a blue razor rusting 
in my throat
black backboned 
unbendable
blend meanings into
leafy greens
uncrossed white iced 
particles
melt...

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Hate

As a child I was taught to forgive
In my family hate was a bad word
I took it all in 
Sometimes forgiving too easily
Yet here I...

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Asparagus shoots, tender, and green~ killed
By late winter's artic blast and hoar's frost
All that intensive work, tossed aside, lost
The natural world rode in so skilled
Though...

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The Legend of Gusty Brown

This is the legend of Gusty Brown
And all the beans that he could down
He and his steed ate beans by the...

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A Make Believe Tree




The outside is looking in on the inside out,
  once what was known true is upended by doubt.

   ...

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I have wished on the morning star
to help us find the way we've lost,
the kindness we gave without cost.
The love...it now seems very far--
a ship...

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