Best Whirlpool Poems

Abaft the beam the aberration spun
Below the turbid surface like a pearl
Commanding all attentions, overrun

Dissolving as colloidal midst the swirl
Encircled tons of matter as dissolved
Fierce vortices, toroidal in their whorl

Gesticulating with his mates, involved
Hypotheses suffused the captain's ire
Intense 'twas this anomaly, unsolved

Just as a jester...

Continue reading...

Luckless vessel plucked from the surface;
sucked into uncharted fathoms.
Relentless, roiling vortex
consumes all evidence.
Sated, exhausted,
swirling eddy
dissipates.
All is
calm....

Continue reading...

Whirlpool 
         



opposing current  
tides swirling downdraft vortex
blown canvas of glass

5/30/2016

# 9  Glass Art 

8/28/2014, first poem submitted in poetry soup...

Continue reading...

Luckless vessel plucked from the surface;
sucked into uncharted fathoms.
Relentless, roiling vortex
consumes all evidence.
Sated, exhausted,
swirling eddy
dissipates.
All is
calm.

--------------

31 August 2017 (this version)


For the "First Poem" contest sponsored by Kim Rodrigues.
(2nd Place)

Notes for contest:

I joined Poetry Soup a few years ago and posted this as my first entry.

Reading...

Continue reading...

I forget what form of poetry this is (wrote it for English class a while back.)


Swallow within your own, Panic!
Wriggling in its strong grasp, Suffering!
Subdued beneath its murk, Frantic!
Twitching weakly with hope, Flickering!...

Peacefully captive lost soul, Unspoken…
Recalling events long past, Ebbing…
Neglected feelings pour out, Broken...

Continue reading...

Mind’s been on edge. These drugs just seem like the only way out.
I tripped and fell into an abyss of time.
I’m going back in time, to try and figure out where I MESSED up,
But it’s all gobbledegook to me, its stressing me out, tearing me...

Continue reading...

The Whirlpool Galaxy of grand-design,
a stately spiral with companion small,
once held to be in gravity’s confine
of greater galaxy’s imposing sprawl,
is shown in sharpest image ever caught
to have essentially been gliding past
for myriads of years, beyond our thought,
behind the Whirlpool’s classic swirling cast.
A cosmic canvas visioned...

Continue reading...

A force of nature spirals in the middle
of a river, making the fish, leaves,
and sticks to dance together,
crashing against each other.
The fish don’t want to move in circles;
they want to swim downstream…


Date published: 4/25/2016...

Continue reading...

Whirlpool of colors




Beguiled by vibrant colors butterfly flutters in perplexity.




Written Feb 22nd, 2016
For contest "Monoku #8" by PD A...

Continue reading...

Various perceptions afloat in a sea of thought,
Ideas and thoughts independent;
Emotions swayed in random movement,
Yet all in one direction advance
By a force unseen and cohesive.
Feelings creating moods;
Moods that scream and insist on action.
Imaginations stirring reactions to every thought
Which give birth to consequences....

Continue reading...

A WHIRLPOOL OF MY MIND
Cycles of life..churn..revolve,dissolve..
resurface..mix in restless sleep.
Deep from the chasms of the
unconscious, the froths of 
yesterday's concerns as flotsam
become a jetsam dream..to
scatter up on the beach of
our tomorrow..as hazy recollections.
Forlorn..half-remembered..such 
detritus of our persona slowly erodes
shrinking in the light of day.
Put into...

Continue reading...

Pulls the trigger…
Bang…Bang…Bang…
Blood and nothing else…
Screams, shouts, horns
Rain, wet, soaked

Ringing bell,
Cheerful faces full of hope
Colorful clothes, bags, umbrellas
 A worried look, anxious to get home

A cloaked figure 
With malicious gaze
At the passersby
Crawls into darkness

A ringing sound…
No movement, no answers…
Answer machine mourns
Over the sad message

A shaken...

Continue reading...

She is like a Swedish maelstrom, so deep
and dark and dangerous, always spinning
out smaller eddies into which I leap,
but always carefully, because knowing
that to move too close to this awesome pool,
to be dragged under to a blissful but
relentless depth, where self-knowledge may lull
you to destruction...

Continue reading...

.......W
..........H
.............I
................R
.............L
..........P
.......O
..........O
.............L

..........T
.............W
................I
.............S
..........T
.............S


Devours the ferry
Roars in agony
Devil’s symphony
Angels to bury......

Continue reading...

Silently she waits, 
wearing a crest of a wave on her finger.
The night will erase all the meaningless fears.
Silently she dares
to break all the obstacles unforeseen,
to dive into the truth
that is far from luxurious.
Silently she realizes
that part of her fault is in building a world...

Continue reading...