Charger Poems

List of New Poems

PM	Poem Title	Poet	Form	Form	Categories
	Dessert	Debjani Mitra	Rhyme	Rhyme	charger, age, friend, joy, old,
	Gallant-Try	Judy Dunbar	Rhyme	Rhyme	charger, adventure, character, desire, fantasy,
	Bygone Days	Tom Wright	Lyric	Lyric	charger, age, eulogy, time,
	Politicking Change	Tom Wright	Free verse	Free verse	charger, change, how i feel,
	Modern Romance	Thomas Harrison	Free verse	Free verse	charger, analogy,
	The House Is On Fire	Dear Heart	List	List	charger, fire,
	Charger One and Charger Two	Caren Krutsinger	Prose Poetry	Prose Poetry	charger, family,
	i met god and he was a f ucking psychopath	Ashlea Senft	Free verse	Free verse	charger, god, religion, spiritual, surreal,
	City in the Sky	Janet Bingham	Prose Poetry	Prose Poetry	charger, christian, encouraging, god, how
	Hurricane '05 - Katrina	Colette Dright	Narrative	Narrative	charger, appreciation, change, endurance, grief,
	I'm All About Fire	Duncan R. M. Ferguson	Lyric	Lyric	charger, absence, death, fire, life,
	Let There Be Limericks: For Halloween	Jim Slaughter	Limerick	Limerick	charger, halloween, humor,
	The Beheading of John The Baptist	Dennis Spilchuk	Sonnet	Sonnet	charger, betrayal, bible, christian, education,
	Even Smart Asses Will Bow	Daniel Hunter	Rhyme	Rhyme	charger, dark, destiny, gospel, judgement,
	Continue To Be A Hard Charger	The Brooklyn Six Project	Free verse	Free verse	charger, courage, encouraging, inspiration, inspirational,
	snowfall	Deborah Guenther Beachboard	Haiku	Haiku	charger, winter,
	Of legends and lore	John Smallshaw	Rhyme	Rhyme	charger, fantasy, loss,
	Stephanus Marcus 16	Alfred Berggren	Rhyme	Rhyme	charger, england,
	Cries from middle Earth	Steve Eaton	Rhyme	Rhyme	charger, fantasy,
	Culturally Viable	Duncan R. M. Ferguson	Sonnet	Sonnet	charger, world,
	Stephanus Marcus 4	Alfred Berggren	Rhyme	Rhyme	charger, england,
	Blackout	ilene bauer	Rhyme	Rhyme	charger, power,
	Tired	Sam Allen	I do not know?	I do not know?	charger, life,
	Happy Ever After	Stephen Gregory	Free verse	Free verse	charger, allusion, christian, dark, romance,
	the oppressed	jan oskar hansen	Sonnet	Sonnet	charger, arabic, art, assonance,
	I've got a phone to pick with You	Rose Johnson	Blank verse	Blank verse	charger, analogy,
	I've got a phone to pick with You	Rose Johnson	Blank verse	Blank verse	charger, analogy,
	I've got a phone to pick with You	Rose Johnson	Blank verse	Blank verse	charger, analogy,
	Either Or	Freddie Robinson Jr.	Verse	Verse	charger, bible, christian, death, evil,
	Technology	Vera Duggan	Rhyme	Rhyme	charger, car, computer, confusion,
	More Than I Care	Duncan R. M. Ferguson	Verse	Verse	charger, care,
	REQUIEM FOR 8:34AM	CHICANO EDDIE	Free verse	Free verse	charger, art, baby, bird, birth,
	Relations	Amit Dhiman	Rhyme royal	Rhyme royal	charger, relationship,
	Unquotable quotes:Gals, Dolls, Bitches and Broads - XXXVII Part One	T Wignesan	Epigram	Epigram	charger, family, girl, husband, men,
	Glad iPad	Rhoda Monihan	Quatrain	Quatrain	charger, business, computer, internet, people,
	Charging Blues	KENG CHUAN SENG	Free verse	Free verse	charger, anxiety, blue, stress, sympathy,
	Making Hay While the Sun Shines	Keith Trestrail	Rhyme	Rhyme	charger, nostalgia, summer, youth,
	Nights out with friends	Lisa Costigan	Rhyme	Rhyme	charger, adventure, friendship, funny,
	Meditation on Movement	Garth von Buchholz	Free verse	Free verse	charger, birth, dance, death,
	Where do we come in	T Wignesan	Dramatic monologue	Dramatic monologue	charger, caregiving, character, humanity, leadership,
	GOSSIP	BURT HEACOCK	Canzone	Canzone	charger, death,
	Horse	Nigel Fawcett	Cinquain	Cinquain	charger, animal, nature,
	Low Battery Flashing	KENG CHUAN SENG	Light Verse	Light Verse	charger, anxiety, confusion, dream, imagination,
	charger sonnet	jan oskar hansen	Sonnet	Sonnet	charger, crazy, environment, eulogy, good
	charger sonnet	jan oskar hansen	Sonnet	Sonnet	charger, crazy, environment, eulogy, good
	charger sonnet	jan oskar hansen	Sonnet	Sonnet	charger, crazy, environment, eulogy, good
	Where Shall I Go and Live Another Life	Su Ben	Verse	Verse	charger, allusion, death, life,
	A Thinker Who is Sitting on a Toilet Seat	Su Ben	Free verse	Free verse	charger, life, metaphor, philosophy,
	THE PATH OF DAWN, REALM OF RESTITUTION	LEWIS NYAGA	Free verse	Free verse	charger, angel, creation, god, heaven,
	No One Calls Me Anymore	Lehel Lorant Kiss	I do not know?	I do not know?	charger, depression,

Charger Poem Example

Tea Leaves On The Bosphorus

Tea Leaves On The Bosphorus

Seated at a table by the stirring water,
My eyes absorb the shore of Asia.
Minerets and aged worn stone
Stand haphazardly along the banks.
Istanbul is a lady with secrets
She'll lure you with her unrevealed virgin beauty,
Then seduce you with her ancient lovers.

Grilled sardines filled my charger
Fish pulled from the strait just minutes before,
Lay garnished with parsley and mint .
Red pickled turnips and warm flat bread
Are the implements that help feed me 
And scoop up the humus,
Turkish nourishment for my soul.

The empty plates are cleared by a handsome waiter
With dubious intentions I feared,
But I was flattered none the less.
A bowl of yogurt was placed before me,
And my admirer arrived with a comb of honey.
He held it high above the creamy cloud and let the heavy ochre
languidly pour atop the milky whiteness of delight.
After his seduction,he left me alone to my pleasure
As I lapped at the sweet and sour heavenly temptation,
that parted my lips and elevated my being.

As I recovered from my rapture, two eyes caught mine.
The heathen that destroyed my diet approached the table uninvited.
He pulled up a chair and sat down across from me.
In his hands, a cup.
He offered to tell me my future.
White, small, as fragile as an eggshell with the top lopped off.
Within was a dark tea with floating leaves.
In a chivalrous attempt at English conversation,
He handed me the libation and the offer to read the remains.

I, alone in a man's world, unmarried, and of a certain age,
Did not need encouragement and I accepted his offer.
I drained the tea in one gulp and returned it to his hands.
He placed the cup in one palm , then turned it upside down,
Allowing the remaining fluid to drip out around the cup and onto the table.
Once the cup was upright again he studied the leaves, then he spoke.

His voice was soft, at times , unintelligible
His reading was honest, and truthful, and painful.
His prophecy, amusing, and entertaining
His vision and it's accuracy were astounding.

Fifteen years later, the leaves delivered on their promise.
Long fluid lines inside the cup foretold of a marriage,
To a man who  would cross a sea to find me.
Two shorter drippings were the children that now delight me.
The  tea ring that he was able to complete around the cup ,
Was the warmth of a love that would soon envelop me.


Tea, anyone?

Poem Copyright © Brenda Atry