Our effervescence
...
Written: August 16, 2025, for contest by Unseeking Seeker
Line of inquiry:
"conjoined with the whole - we play our life role
exuding a scent - granting love consent"
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
clangor, analogy, love,
Form: Free verse
Modern Poet's Pinball Machine
...
Roll up to the amusement arcade.
Behold all the video games you can play -
Dodgem car driving games, smash-'em-up derbies.
Claw-crane lunge-and-snag-a-toy games,
Pop-a-shot in basketball hoops,...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
clangor, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Raging Fire Hollow Hearts
...
Written: January 22, 2025 for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann
Quote: “In the dynamic world society which is the objective of the United Nations, all peoples must have eq...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
clangor, analogy, discrimination, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Echoes of a Forgotten Love
...
Written: January 05, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori
Poem Inspired by the Hughes Turner Project,
____________________________________
Stars ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
clangor, analogy, bereavement, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Dreams Adrift on Silken Tides
...
Written: November 24, 2024 for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann
__________________________
In a calyx of ambivalent dreams,
where shadows swirl as si...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
clangor, analogy, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
THE CORRUPT GUTTER
...There’s a constant hammering
Alongside my bedroom window
Repercussions of a corrupt gutter
The maddening drain
Obstinately and persistently has refused
All rehabilitation efforts
Ther...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
clangor, corruption, metaphor, political, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
The love search
...Don’t know what love is but I know what it isn’t
Trying to hold onto something reminiscent
Anger, malice, and strife
Words cutting deeper than any knife
Fear creeping in and suffocating all logi...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
clangor, boyfriend, break up, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Mindful Heart
...
Written: May 17, 2024
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Artistic portrayal of life events as a diorama
Fog hinders sight, and exertion leads to drama
Seek ease, apat...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
clangor, analogy, heart, mental health,
Form: Rhyme
Dwelling Vespers
...
Written: April 3rd 2024
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
How I venerate you, O Lord
In your lens, lenity and levity loom
as a benign breeze
Stars doth glitter in a p...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
clangor, analogy, devotion,
Form: Free verse
A POEM SIX THOUSAND YEARS OLD
...When Attis, in guise of maiden fair, did sing
Unto her comrades, lo, the thiasus stirred!
A cacophony of voices quivering,
The delicate tambourine, it did swell
With resonance, and hollow cymba...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
clangor, poetry,
Form: Free verse
If it wasn't for poetry
...
"Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it." Quote By Rumi
___________________________________________
Several tears, one after the o...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
clangor, animal, appreciation, inspirational, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Dance of Shadows
...Written: September 21, 2023
Shadows Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Regina McIntosh
___________________________________________________________
Shadows roamed free...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
clangor, analogy, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Whispers of Unwritten Absence
...Written: September 18, 2023
Unwritten Absence Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Ink Empress
______________________________________________________________
In the absence of i...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
clangor, analogy, appreciation, dream, extended
Form: Rhyme
Midnight Cosmic Embrace
...Written: September 16, 2023
_____________________________________________________________
In the dilatory embrace of midnight dance,
Amid gloom and shadows, we bore a chance.
Akin t...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
clangor, analogy, appreciation, beauty, cute
Form: Rhyme
Typhoon
...G or T Personification Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Joseph May
Written: August 22, 2023
______________________________________________________________
Deep in the typhoon of my mae...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
clangor, animal, bereavement, environment, howl,
Form: Personification
Related Poems