Best Warp Poems
The scars left by those yesterdays
Leave her trapped in the past
With a never ending pain
As melancholy shadows are cast
Her heart finds it hard to dance
To the beat of love
Memories leave her in confusion
As she searches for elusive answers from skies above
She seeks freedom from her illusions
But she is trapped in a time warp
where yesterdays always return
and her tears never see to learn
2-11-2024
Categories:
warp, stars, time,
Form:
Quatrain
The Warp and The Weft
The warp and the weft are different but both thread
Choose any colour you like, through the blues to the red
The warp goes away from you stretching out tight
The weft goes across, from the left to the right,
The shuttle bobs from left to right and back
Weaving some cloth on this intricate rack.
Entwining the threads with colours of desire
From plain coloured cloth to colours like fire
The shuttle passing through leaving a thread called the weft
Intertwining warps, moving to the right and the left
We can learn to be like this wonderful machine
Learn from it’s weaving for life we can glean.
If one goes one way, it is not the end
We can try go the other without having to bend
We can cross over each other but still hold on tight
Like wonderful cloth woven for our delight
.
Two different ways and colours there may be
But woven to make stronger for all to see
We can be useful and strong and woven together
But beautiful and practical seemingly lasting forever.
Categories:
warp, inspirational,
Form:
Couplet
a life so quickly passes
one blink and we can barely comprehend
~ the cycle in perpetual motion
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Categories:
warp, life, time,
Form:
Other
I lay in the bath, scented candles gently waft
tantalising and teasing as the hot water brushes
my skin setting it tingling. I stir my legs and
hands creating rippling waves that set me afire.
I see you approaching through the billowy steam
and hold out my arms in welcome. You tease as
slowly you strip naked giving an odd tantalising
wiggle then lean over and kiss me passionately.
You slide into the bath with me water lapping
over the edge. Our limbs tangle as our lips
meet in hot lingering kisses and we slowly
sink under the surface entwined together.
Gasping I come up and stare around baffled
realising I am on my own, that I had slid under.
Slowly, sadly I realise it was only a dream, a
beautiful moment suspended in another time.
The veils had parted allowing us to love briefly
once more until we are, at last reunited by death.
written 1/11/2015
contest Hotsy totsy
Categories:
warp, romantic, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
Three kittens clumsily trying to cuddle up to mother's bosom. Blind at birth, driven in their search for comfort. Feel of soft fur, soothing purr of their mother. Unopened eyes trying to view beyond the darkness of their world. Twelve limbs seeming to have minds of their own, all stepping in different directions, stumbling. Cuteness in the human realm. Their angst and desperation only known to them
Cuddly little toys
Searching for mother's warmth
Cruel Human eyes
Categories:
warp, childhood, dark, , cute,
Form:
Haibun
A child like outlook re capturing
your childhood.
Reminiscing of
a vivid vibrant memory to a happy
carefree place.
Temporarily caught
in a time warp, re living the times
you loved the most.
A rip in the
fabric of time, back to moments
sublime.
Categories:
warp, childhood, happiness, science, time,
Form:
Warp and Woof
Daily experience for most
is a delightful fearful mixture..
We are content to allow the mixture
to serve as undoubted real..
Acceptance of the
warp and woof
is the life we know..
Yet pain and distortion
confusion and doubt
lead some to question..
And in questioning to
discover Reality anew..
Finding:
warp and woof
are most blinding
hiding our inherited light
declaring enforced separation
ensuring captivity remains...
Categories:
warp, anxiety, beautiful, confidence,
Form:
Blank verse
some say
the dinosaurs
all died out
at the same
time
some say
some day
the same
will
happen
to man
kind as we
collide or at
least it
does
with
us
you bet
your as
ter
oid
Categories:
warp, muse,
Form:
If assholes could fly, this place would be an airport
So what's happened recently to cause this retort
It's too gruesome to tell
A fate worse than hell
Someone stole my spaceship which caused a space warp
Categories:
warp, space,
Form:
Limerick
I looked at my watch and it was quarter to three.
you were on your back where you wanted to be,
I had to wake you from your dreams, game changer,
there was Tonto but you settled for the Lone Ranger.
I looked at my watch and it was quarter to four,
you were dressed and heading towards the door,
I had to weather a storm, one which you might empower,
there was a slam and I was left in my ivory tower.
I looked at my watch and it was quarter to five,
you came back and like Daley, my spirits took a dive,
I had to admit that I didnt love you as often as I should,
there was a 'buck - up' needed, otherwise someone else would.
Time stood still, your hands went neither forward nor back,
you wound me up - reminded me of all the things I lack.
Categories:
warp, power, space, travel,
Form:
Prose
An illicit miss and long haired Chris;
Stood at a gate;
Where love couldn’t wait;
Watching J. J. Brown as he hung around
While Linda sang with;
Bravado;
To a tall
Desperado;
They later all got down.
The building mange; caused downtown change;
So there in a lot;
They served a soup that was hot;
But when the man pulled through;
Things got
Grim;
Because they brought with;
Them;
A warrant just for you.
I’ve seen that face; where is this place;
Is there something we missed?
Is this boat now in lisp?
And we’re lost but not yet found?
And I don’t want to;
Follow;
Because that’s not my
Motto
And who knows where this is bound.
Categories:
warp, social
Form:
I
life's tapestry:
neat surface - chaos below -
not Chinese needlepoint
II
in - out; on - off
life, death, light, dark, cycles:
universal tapestry
Categories:
warp, age, analogy, international, mystery,
Form:
Senryu
Welcome to the Time Warp
Does it seems that history seemingly repeats
Where the simplicity of life is so rare to find
And the kindness of heart finds no retreats
No sharing of wealth, greediest of mankind
Where fear amongst the masses abound
Perpetrated by forces designed to protect us
Where human rights are lost without a sound
Our way of life changed, forever superfluous
Freedom of speech is silenced by the stroke of a pen
Unsure of what we’re told, will these lies never end
Being controlled by the wealthiest of businessmen
And our losses of freedom too much to comprehend
Welcome to the time warp, once again we all fall prey
We become just pawns to an unjust power once again
Perhaps it’s time to take a stand, one voice have our say
The time has come to speak freely, if not now, then when
Categories:
warp, freedom, motivation,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
As my salvaged soul grows restless and my heart beats like a drum,
it's my mind that defeats me and leaves me feeling numb.
Deception and coercion from the moment I arise,
are intrusive to my faculties and could lead to my demise.
Hallelujah God almighty, from the heavens high above,
stay still, take it easy and be filled with all my love.
Like the moon amidst the darkness everything appears,
when my light is with you, the mind is free of fear.
The shadow of the dark one intends to keep us blind.
But through the Holy Spirit we are unconfined.
When you wake and see the sun, beaming down on you,
the darkness ceases to exist, God's light has made you new.
Categories:
warp, change, dark, evil, light,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
A warped mind is a tongue-twister.
Hewn timber warped out of shape by water
is entropy's revenge on the carpenter.
Warp and weft weave yarns to form fabric's warp and woof.
Doing the time warp in a worm hole,
shuffling discontinuous the pack of events.
Engage warp drive to travel
faster than the speed of light.
Warp is distortion's twin sister,
a game changer.
Categories:
warp, nature,
Form:
Free verse