Best Wips Poems
Dirty Am I, Was I Until Jesus Washed Me Clean- -Dirty am I, was I until Jesus Washed Me Clean
O’ but that I have been lost
Trapped incumbent to this storm
Tattered and bathed in my own sin
until Jesus came and washed me clean
Trapped incumbent to this storm
Dirty was I now I'm cleansed
until Jesus came and washed...
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Categories:
wips, analogy, confidence, forgiveness, how
Form:
Pantoum
Spoon-Fed On SpoonerismsHooming in the near lorizon,
another girthday makes me bloomy
The yays, the dears are massing paster!
I am diserablly mepressed, and in a date of great sistress!
Age, you may agree, is rot for nissies!
More crinkles fill my worehead, more frowsfeet crame my face!
My shin is cagging,...
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Categories:
wips, age, funny, old,
Form:
Free verse
Canto Xviii Hell TranslationIn hell is called Malebolge a site
Completely made of ferrous color stones
As almost all the rim around looks quite.
Of the malignant field the middle zones
Are the seat for a well much wide and deep,
Of which I will portray order it owns.
The remaining band...
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Categories:
wips, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Black and Blue- - I am a Son of an African American
I run
my turmoils taints the history books
yet people give me evil looks
I run
I choose
Yet I am
Black and blue, this is my physical hurt
Been given a name by my parents James
This is true yet still I'm black...
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Categories:
wips, analogy, anxiety, appreciation, black
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Fear-FEAR
WHAT SCARES ME
FROM AS FAR BACK AS I COULD DREAM
THIS IS WHAT Fear has done to me
This is a verse, bout’ what is cursed..
What scares you?
Is it the crossing of a busy street?
What scares you?
Is it the meeting of someone new, different?
And what scares you...
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Categories:
wips, analogy, assonance, engagement, faith,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
AshamedBy
STREET CRIES
AM I ASHAMED OF ME
SEE THE CITY WHERE I LIVE NOT OFTEN I SEE ME
MY JOB TEAM ONLY HAS ME
THAT LOOK LIKE ME
IS IT POSSIBLE THAT I HAVE FORGOTTEN ME
WOMEN THAT I AM ATTRACTED TO SOMETIMES
DON'T LOOK LIKE ME
PEOPLE THAT I OFTEN...
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Categories:
wips, anxiety, appreciation, black african
Form:
Lyric
The Powers That Be Kryptonite- -I AM A HERO
BLACK
Are you my kryptonite
To battle the powers that be
Discrimination, political
Spirituals warfare
Sadly my powers that be ruled over me
I AM A HERO
WHITE Are you my kryptonite
White supremacy, skinned heads
Wounded knees
Shaved cold stoned hearts
Sadly my powers that be ruled over me
I AM...
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Categories:
wips, analogy, anxiety, corruption, discrimination,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Peace- -I tranquility
I’m calm
I restfulness
I’m peace and quiet
Peacefulness I am
I quiet in quietude
I’m silence
I’m soundlessness a hush
I’m calm
In the calmness of the Lord
PEACE
Stillness still am I
Privateness seclusion in mine solitude
Isolation retirement
Freedom from interference
Mental calm in mind serenity.
I am at peace and forever be
in a larger sense,...
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Categories:
wips, analogy, bereavement, confidence, peace,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Questions To the Universe-QUESTIONS TO THE UNIVERSE-
Hello, Universe are you God?
I AM
God you are… are you here?
I AM
What you are? Where and what are you?
I AM ALL THAT I AM
One of the many questions I have
And what are you, are you the universe
I AM
You’re the universe…yet...
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Categories:
wips, adventure, analogy, creation, environment,
Form:
Blank verse
As Dawn Can Only Tellthe sudden hint of the early sun strokes the dove
the mid morning air swiftly wips threw the raven
the morning moves on the sky is no longer its love
the afternoon hunger grows on in draven
he was the shining star as she was the only losted
he knows...
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Categories:
wips, dedicationmorning,
Form:
The Phone Rings At 3 a M At the Doorly Zoo- -At the Doorly Zoo a well-trained guerrilla waves
It’s 3:00 am
Gorilla flung his manure like a combat soldier in guerrilla warfare
No one but the ground keepers are there, MAN DOES IT SMELL
The phone rings at 3:00 am
Do you know where the monkeys are?
In the trees most...
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Categories:
wips, analogy, animal, corruption, environment,
Form:
Free verse
The Sound of Silence--I stand here in silences, but God knows me
I sit here in my personal space, quiet yet God hears me
You ask me how am I doing, you speak to me, say, “Hi”
Ever so ever yet quiet am I
Yes! It’s rude
It’s so not normal
To be...
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Categories:
wips, analogy, angst, desire, destiny,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Neighbors Grass-NEIGHBORS GRASS-
I have a neighbor who’s a man’s man;
He has every tool;
he needs in his garage and shed;
He has a lawn vac
A regular lawn mower
A leaf blower
A snow blower
He has a riding lawn mower
And an gas powered lawn edger
I say he has everything...
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Categories:
wips, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, caregiving,
Form:
Free verse
Lamented Loneliness Yet Not AloneLamented Loneliness yet Not Alone
I am more than a mere man
I dress in the spiritual clothes of Jesus
I need prayer and redeeming grace
I am related to God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ
I vacation right now in my mind/sprint heaven
My job is to let...
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Categories:
wips, analogy, blessing, celebration, how
Form:
Free verse
Beauty-Death is beauty only when it’s physical and your –
Soul and spirit goes to heaven
Ugly is beauty causing you to recruiting
Beauty is just a name
For the selfish
And the immune
Beauty is beheld
And I shall not behold
~
Beauty is the newborn winkled baby
Beauty is newfound land you enable
Beauty...
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Categories:
wips, analogy, beautiful, how i
Form:
Free verse