Charted Poems

List of New Poems

PM	Poem Title	Poet	Form	Form	Categories
	Sea change	William Forchion	Rhyme	Rhyme	charted, black african american,
	Wild Horse	Pippa Gray	Free verse	Free verse	charted, abuse, corruption, fairy, spiritual,
	Mortal Prose	Dale Gregory Cozart	Free verse	Free verse	charted, metaphor, poetry,
	Moments	Chantelle Anne Cooke	Light Verse	Light Verse	charted, death, goodbye, introspection, night,
	WHEN The WIND COMES DOWN LONG LAKE in OCTOBER	Charles Eastland	Free verse	Free verse	charted, autumn, farewell, feelings, water,
	Somewhere in the Superlative	Janis Thompson	Quatrain	Quatrain	charted, appreciation, character, hope,
	Hello, 50 Years Ago	curtis johnson	Narrative	Narrative	charted, destiny,
	A song about a story	roger turner	Lyric	Lyric	charted, angst, anxiety, poems, song,
	courses	Jaz Yeats	Rhyme	Rhyme	charted, analogy, best friend, conflict,
	Amazing Grace A Sparrow Died Today An Angel Unfolded Their Wings Sings	James Edward Lee Sr.	Free verse	Free verse	charted, appreciation, bereavement, black african
	Odyssey from Africa 16b	Phil Salmon	Narrative	Narrative	charted, adventure, africa, animal, history,
	The Dream, The Judgement And The Final Plea	Robert Lindley	Rhyme	Rhyme	charted, blessing, dream, farewell, forgiveness,
	Shedding of Performance Charts	Kai Michael Neumann	Free verse	Free verse	charted, love,
	Spring	Susan Gentry	Monorhyme	Monorhyme	charted, angst, april, conflict, nature,
	Odyssey from Africa 14e	Phil Salmon	Narrative	Narrative	charted, adventure, africa, animal, environment,
	Dim Is The Trial And Limitation Of The Unseen Imagination, With Which I Cannot See	Douglas Cate	I do not know?	I do not know?	charted, absence, adventure, allegory, allusion,
	Laying Out The Road	Duncan R. M. Ferguson	Verse	Verse	charted, moving on,
	Institutional Jargon	Rose Johnson	Blank verse	Blank verse	charted, repetition,
	I HEARD THE WISE WORDS	Vicki Acquah	Prose Poetry	Prose Poetry	charted, life, voice, wisdom, words,
	I Grew Up on YouTube	Keith Dovoric	Lyric	Lyric	charted, anxiety, character, childhood, hyperbole,
	charted chains	pipping stars	Blitz	Blitz	charted, art,
	Maze	Heidi Sands	Free verse	Free verse	charted, inspirational, introspection, life, time,
	The moment I understood my Father	Fariq Yusoff	Rhyme	Rhyme	charted, family, father, love,
	The Bench in the Labyrinth	Brendan J. Simons	Couplet	Couplet	charted, adventure, fairy, grandfather, ireland,
	I HEARD THE WISE WORDS	Vicki Acquah	Prose Poetry	Prose Poetry	charted, judgement, perspective, religion,
	Once Upon A Time	Vincent Flannery	Rhyme	Rhyme	charted, betrayal, culture, faith, freedom,
	One day	MRi.jagdish bajantri	Prose Poetry	Prose Poetry	charted, break up, creation, missing
	After The Straight And Narrow Lies The Truth	Kai Michael Neumann	Acrostic	Acrostic	charted, metaphor,
	Today I Will Write About Stars	Joe DiMino	Rhyme	Rhyme	charted, allegory, beauty, inspiration, light,
	That 9 11 Day	Rhoda Monihan	Tail-rhyme	Tail-rhyme	charted, america, anniversary, death, evil,
	Seven Days	Just James	Grook	Grook	charted, god,
	O Captian	Charles Reese	Quatern	Quatern	charted, inspiration,
	The Odyssey Redux Part I - From Trozan Shores To Aeolian Isle	Karam Misra	Epic	Epic	charted, adventure, fantasy, myth, mythology,
	The Leaf	Gerald Greene	Rhyme	Rhyme	charted, allegory, death, death of
	The World In Our Hands	Balveen Cheema	Free verse	Free verse	charted, care, child abuse, faith,
	Heroic Crown of Sonnets 1	Frederic Parker	Crown of Sonnets	Crown of Sonnets	charted, poetry,
	A Violent Child	Marilyn S Jennings	Free verse	Free verse	charted, anger, cute, drug,
	Awakened	Cornelia Mattioli	Free verse	Free verse	charted, emotions, growth, pain, truth,
	A Vice You Love	Balveen Cheema	Quatrain	Quatrain	charted, addiction, writing,
	Narwhal And a Narwhal-Contest	Balveen Cheema	Personification	Personification	charted, betrayal, fish, freedom, myth,
	A Poets Magic	uriel wisdom	Free verse	Free verse	charted, art, creation, poetry,
	On Artic Travels	Iredia Uyi	Sonnet	Sonnet	charted, adventure, snow, weather,
	THE DEVIL'S TRIANGLE	cherl dunn	Free verse	Free verse	charted, art, imagination, inspirational, international,
	I Will Not Be Broken	Alesia Leach	Rhyme	Rhyme	charted, break up, goodbye, love
	Greater Consciousness	Balveen Cheema	Didactic	Didactic	charted, confusion, death, god, time,
	Free Flight	curtis johnson	Prose Poetry	Prose Poetry	charted, change, christian, confusion, destiny,
	Game of immortal love	Patrycjusz Kopec	Rhyme	Rhyme	charted, fantasy,
	The Peak is Really Lonely	Swamidhason Francis	Dramatic monologue	Dramatic monologue	charted, angst, books, dedication, passion,
	MY HYPOCRISY	KP Nunez	Quatrain	Quatrain	charted, desire, lost love, love,
	Fools Quest	Mark Spencer	Rhyme	Rhyme	charted, life, philosophy, political, society,

Charted Poem Example

Into the Woods

I stand neck-high tall
within the quicksand
of my infirmities.
Green and gaunt,
I hesitantly genuflect.

Ravaged tendons and corpuscles
are barely breathing
within the vacant corridors
of a soiled carcass.

My ardor for vindication
has been abandoned.
I presently refrain from accepting
the consultation of 
umbrous soothsayers.

Readers of tealeaves and tarot cards
hurl my infractions towards
the apex of your divinity
and the nadir of my scrutiny.

I espy no Judas rope
(dangling from lofty boughs)
as scores
of unanswered novenas
sleep beneath my fingernails.

Scars flourish upon my skin -
agnate to larvae
and dried leaves.
The density of my marrow
turns moss covered and dank.
Choirs of starving nestlings
bear witness to my afflictions.

Swallowing the last notes
of a disenchanted requiem;
they slowly bind my wrists 
with twigs of knotted reflections -
as Harper Lee's macaws
peck my cheeks and 
the calculated feast ensues.

A murky blanket
of eventide quilts me
in fibers of remorse.
Lesions burst
underneath my skin;
they herald my inhumanity
as I impishly smile.

Connect-the-dot cold sores,
(not found in children’s books)
entwine a raw endoscope probe -
mocking
my charted results.

Inky woodlands
are devoid of carnival mirrors
and inner deliberations.
Such forms
of bun coed celebration minuet
within another's emptied psyche.

The conduits
to my umbra are blocked.

All exits are closed.

So, into the woods I go,
medicine chest-closed
and matchstick available.
Searching for answers
the starving nestlings

formerly consumed.

Poem Copyright © John Heck