you're my yin and yang
you're strong when you need to be
you're gentle when it counts
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Categories:
both, appreciation, strength, tribute,
Form: Other
Half of my poems is sugar, the other half is salt both are cool
Categories:
both, poetry,
Form: Monoku
family practice
family dinners
family size
family style
there are but two of us now
we never eat the same thing
we are both a family of one
sharing a house
Categories:
both, food,
Form: Free verse
MY ADDED VERSUS:
Bows on solemn flower blooms
and scented layers of flared perfume
flow down rows of headstones and tombs.
I've looked at death that way.
But now I tend to ask God why
people visit and freshly cry.
We all know when loved ones die
they rise on His stairway.
I've looked at death from both sides now
from heart to soul and creased my brow.
It's cemeteries I recall.
I really don't know death at all.
Babes and Moms know love far beyond
the reasons seasoning their bond.
Loving a child is blessing dawned.
I've looked at fair that way.
But I live with maternal pain.
My childhood baby dreams met stain.
Now I'm thunder in my son's rain.
Won't give my sadness sway.
I've looked at fair from both sides now
from deep held faith and still somehow
it's his special needs I recall.
I really don't know fair at all.
Categories:
both, baby, cry, death, emotions,
Form: Lyric
Big stones create strength,
little ones add stability.
Both are needed
for a wall to be structurally sound.
Much like life.
Categories:
both, growth, inspirational, strength,
Form: Free verse
mother child
nestled encircled
sings a lullaby shouts rebuke
forever giving endless forgiving
cuddles with soft hands scolds with look of eyes
a candle that gently guides a flint that fires up the child
kisses heals with tender grace hugs forgives all falls from grace
silence teaches more than words songs unsung are yet always heard
soft hands set child free yielding never losing touch
endless is the sacrifice small are the rewards
beholds the dawn relishes the dusk
laughs out loud weeps in silence
never ever forgotten
beget begotten
one all
Categories:
both, mother, mother daughter, mother
Form: Free verse
You cursed a girl to die at the age of sixteen,
Yet you also gave Life to a girl suffering in her teens,
You cursed a girl to die at her own home,
Yet you blessed the other who could now stay permanently-
-In the Prince's home.
You are both Good and Evil,
And become both Mother and a Devil,
On one hand you save a girl suffering from her step-mother,
While you also make a girl suffer for no fault of hers or her mother.
I have both my opinions on you,
And see you with both Hope and Despair,
You must do more Good on others too,
Even with your cold and evil stare.
Categories:
both, beautiful, beauty, blessing, care,
Form: Rhyme
Thou hast engaged my hand,
With your fairy’s magic wand,
The ring which you placed on my finger,
Along with which I do all around your house- doth Linger.
Thee fairy more graceful even compared to Venus,
Thou pierced my heart with thy kindness,
I will forever with you be,
As I respect thy love and thee.
Thou hast the eyes of a fish,
Let me express you my life’s wish-
-That I want to live with thou forever,
And then say to separation- Never!
Thou art grace personified,
And thy words are music of love signified,
Thou art the Queen of My Heart,
And excelling love’s every Art.
Categories:
both, anxiety, body, boyfriend, break
Form: Rhyme
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ffflop
'pon the asphalt
front mine vision
one draped in the quintessential
angel's raiment
tuh shield me
from
thuh hern draped in
thuh translucent frock
cauze'n exspecially
mine wanton
"hi there edvard
take my hand bard"
"ehhhdvarrd
lookie
hear"
Categories:
both, angst, conflict, desire, women,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
We are taking the dog to the vet today
He weighs as much as I did when I was a bride
His rear end is bigger than mine
I cannot do it alone
I dread this, my husband says
I can relate
I dread it too
Not the car ride, but the shots
We don’t like anyone hurting our dog.
Categories:
both, dog,
Form: Free verse
Written By: D. Collins 11/22/24
A man like me has the best of both worlds.
A life lacking fear and an awesome Li'L Girl.
Never will I be chained, even in slavery.
And, my Li'L Girl turned out to be just like me.
I embrace that as Virginia E.Y. Collins would.
Come up with something that spits out good.
Virginia left her mark and so did I.
I warned ya'll 'bout Meika before I died.
She takes the mantle where my poems leave off.
That Good, God, Granny that'll never be soft.
The best of both worlds might just be my luck.
But when you see her coming take cover and duck.
Categories:
both, daughter,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
my telephone pal and I speak at each other daily
neither of us listens
but we know when to pause
and pretend
I speak of my garden
tomatoes, radishes, carrots, lettuce
she speaks of her granddaughter Gigi
pretty, perfect, smart, wise, wonderful Gigi
I will send you a photo she says
I get a photo of Gigi
She gets a photo of my garden
she yaps, I yap
Pausing at the right places
pretending we are listening.
both of us talking
no one listening
Categories:
both, friendship,
Form: Free verse
girl Friday met marvelous right-hand-man
they fell in love and hatched an elope plan
both wanting to be the quintessential number one
neither acquiescing to the other, not a lot of fun.
they broke up, forever, Darcy Lynne and Dan.
Both wanting to be the right-hand man
Categories:
both, life,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
both, meaningful, word play,
Form: Free verse
I look across our nation wide
… saddened by the view
Hopes and dreams in shattered heaps
Smoldering and askew.
Trust is lost, alliance gone,
Handshakes no longer known
Doubt and suspicion there
Normalcy’s been outgrown.
Both political realms
Must see what they have done
For in the final tally …
Neither of them have won.
Categories:
both, loss, political, sad,
Form: Rhyme
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