Best Withal Poems
The Evil Eye...The darkness, now descending, floods the city as it dies
while shadows lurk in legions 'neath the looming Evil Eye.
Its frozen stare envelops all, it penetrates and pries,
denouncing loathed disse......
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Categories:
withal, evil,
Form:
Rhyme
End of Days......inspired by 'The Salamander' by C.S. Lewis
The sun bore down with blinding rays,
the oceans boiled and came to nought,
it was withal the end of days
with every living creature caught,
w......
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Categories:
withal, horror,
Form:
Verse
Pickings...When the snout of lush abundance is full and flowing,
when all prey and creature-kind spill upon the verdant swards,
then it is that I worry night and day,
for the stoat, fox and hawk are at work,......
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Categories:
withal, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Starry Rondeau...In stellar skies the nights bestow
our firmament’s majestic show
with portraits of creations past
that stretch into the heavens vast
surpassing Michelangelo.
We yearn this welkin world to know......
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Categories:
withal, art, creation, life, science,
Form:
Rondeau
Peon Wall...Donald Trump offered up a prayer
But God knew Trump wanted more hair
So Trump made a call
To The Wailing Wall
Where folks bang their head in despair
Trump MUST have his own Wailing Wall
With ......
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Categories:
withal, bullying, corruption, discrimination, international,
Form:
Limerick
A Revelation...Shimmering was the air nearby, I know a man who did such descry..'
To point it out after a space.' before he could; things changed apace,
Compressed..? this glistening..' the air more 'white'..?
......
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Categories:
withal, atheist, history,
Form:
Couplet
Gloomy Reflections On the Demise of Our Beloved Mother...We gathered to lay her in the cold ground;
it was to be her resting place—poor Mom!
Grieving, I sobbed while my siblings were calm;
only I appeared distraught and unsound,
overwhelmed at the sud......
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Categories:
withal, bereavement, death, funeral, grave,
Form:
Sonnet
The Antiprigoligarchist...Can you get my point and drift?
It’s in my free verse and also rhyme.
They say ‘Life’s a beach’
I say, “All the time”
and there’s a beach for everyone, and all!
It accepts incoming the tidal withal.......
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Categories:
withal, allegorybeach,
Form:
Free verse
The Song of the Nation...We sing the song today withal our pride
For the nation who gave us our life,
Let us forgive for a day all enmities
And solely beclam their souls
Who bled freedom for us to live and peacfully die.
......
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Categories:
withal, dedication, inspirational, day, song,
Form:
Free verse
Eclipse of the Soul...Eclipse Of The Soul
By: Noel N. Villarosa
Plants harmonize to the sun to bring life aglow
And to rest at the night’s luminary
The sea is waiting for the wind to blow
And serve as a cradle fo......
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Categories:
withal, confusion, faith, hope, life,
Form:
Free verse
Sat To Chat...At the end of the elated visit
Around the mind moving marble mausoleum -Taj Mahal
I was unconvinced to leave and got a place to sit
As excited to enjoy the environment, withal
It was the inside......
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Categories:
withal, anxiety, beauty, bird, friendship,
Form:
Quatrain
A Humane World...How is it viable that life could alter the course,
from people to people?
What makes you quiver in the middle of the night
to play with my agony?
Until it is encir......
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Categories:
withal, 9th grade, confusion, creation,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Cruise To Alaska Ii...Cold and icy passageway to trudge through.
Ships and warships sailed thru the Bering Strait.
In limbo 'tween two nations, iced, staid too.
When I first set out, for thrill I await.
......
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Categories:
withal, analogy, appreciation, beauty, travel,
Form:
Quintain (Sicilian)
17 Sweet Briar Road - Port of Spain...Wistful is the heart, silent the walls
where the gambols of youth echoed.
A return tale’s sentimental journey
inside the gates of Sweet Briar Road
Long it behoves me my thanksgiving
......
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Categories:
withal, journey, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Thoughts Uric and Urinary, Or: Does She of a Morning Stand Before Some Wicked Ablutionary Sink...As I stood before the porcelaneous basin,
And streamed into its already uric and xanthous-stained depths,
A stain, a sight and a liquid yet yellower and more urinary;
And as cloudiness, not of min......
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Categories:
withal, allegory, anger, angst, art,
Form: