Daily Dew Poems | Examples


Letter To Past Self

Letter to My Past Self

today my son
is the day
that you were waiting for
the day you were dreaming of
the day when you will meet
the love of your life
who will become your wife

she will be there 
tonight 
on a bus
waiting for you

don’t blow it
meet her
fall in love with her
and remember 
she will be your best friend
your best ally
for the rest of your life

so honor and obey
your wife
for you will have 
no other

that is what I want to say
to you this day

so go forth
seize the day
and don’t look back

writing.com Daily Dew Drop inn Prompt
Categories: daily dew, age, judgement, remember, romantic
Form: Free verse

Planes, Trains and Autos - None Can Escape Our Fate

Plane, Train or Automobile - none of us can escape our fate


in these dark and dire times
we find ourselves living
we often fear that the times
are infected with death 

and so we are afraid
deathly afraid
that if we take a plane
we will find  General Corona 
among the passengers

and we afraid
deadly afraid
that the subways
are incubators 
of death and destruction

the virus spreads
fear and death
in its wake

many of us
retreating to our homes
and venturing out 
in our cars 

only to find 
death is stalking us
as traffic piles up
traffic accidents
still killing more people
that the dreaded General Corona

the grim reaper smiles
his work is done
Satan thanks General. Corona
for a job well done

writing com daily dew drop in prompt
Categories: daily dew, america, angst, anxiety, april,
Form: Free verse


Central Mystery of My Life

the greatest mystery of my life

the greatest mystery of my life
remains how I met my wife
I first dreamt of her
back in the day

every week
she came to me 
speaking to me
in a weird language

then one day 
eight years later
she walked off a bus
and into my life

and to this day
I have no rational explanation
as to How I dreamt 
about her for eight years

I can only conclude
that we knew each other
in a prior life
and our love crossed
the barriers of time and space

and we were doomed to meet
for on that date
so many years ago 
I met my fate

writing.com Daily Dew Drop Inn
Categories: daily dew, dream, love, magic, marriage,
Form: Free verse

Coffee Ha Na Yu Poem

coffee Hay Na Ku


hot 
coffee
in morning

ice 
coffee
afternoon

Drink
coffee
afternoon

will
soon have
bad nightmares

must
have my
coffee now

drink
coffee 
all day long

no 
way sleep
will come me

curse
of my
mad coffee

writing.com prompt write a Hay Na Ku Poem
Daily Dew Drop In submissions as well
Categories: daily dew, crazy, desire, food,
Form: Haiku

Life Interrupted By Corona

life interrupted by corona 


we live in a strange world
life interrupted by corona 
the virus spread throughout the world
disrupting everything

putting life on hold
as more people
hunkered down
waiting for the virus

to pass over us
like in biblical times
the virus 
will test us all

life interrupted 
on hold 
until the virus
spreads through the world

and then 
we will all
go back 
to life interrupted

writing.com Daily Dew Drop interruption
Categories: daily dew, angst, anxiety, death,
Form: Free verse


The Best Meal of My Life

Writing.com daily dew drop prompt write a food poem

the best meals of my life
has always been what my wife
cooks up for me every night

she is a genius in the kitchen
always making something great
from the simplest ingredients


Because she came down with celiac disease
she could  only eat 
what she prepared from scratch
and so she was forced
to give up all processed foods

and in the process she became
the greatest cook
in the universe

I wait with baited breath
to taste the great food
that she creates for me

on lunar new years
she threw out her lumbar disk
and we were forced to stay home
just as the corona pandemic
swept across the world

if we had traveled
we would have contracted 
the dreaded corona virus

and we were forced 
to stay at home
and she took advantage 
of staying at home
to try new dishes 
every single day

I recall the Korean proverb 
saeyeong jima
as her misfortune
turned into fortune
and once again
she saved me life


I am the luckiest man in life
the best fed man of all I know
due to the cooking skills of my wife
Categories: daily dew, food, love, magic, marriage,
Form: Free verse

To Those I Have Lost

with the corona virus upon us
I am bracing to hear the news
that so and so has died

I reflect back
on all the people in my life
that I have already lost

part of being older
is that you lose people
close to you along the way

I lost my father due to cancer in 1985
and my sister due to a freak illness in 2007
and my mother due to Alzheimer's in 2005
and my father-in-law as well in 2007

Demel Tucker
high school debate teammate
dead of HIV in 1995

Julian Bartley and his son
one of my favorite bosses
died in a terrorist bombing
in Nairobi in 1998

Jon Weber college roommate
dead due to prostate cancer
in 2000

Paul Simon  friend from the visa line
dropped dead of a heart attack
in 2004

Ted Halstead
one of my best bosses
died of heart attack
in 2007

Chris Richard one of my former bosses
dropped dead of a heart attack
shortly before we were due
to have lunch in 2014

and so many others
I have lost
along the way

and soon there will be
so many more
as I get old
in the corona era

writer. com daily dew drop prompt to write an elegy poem
Categories: daily dew, angst, anxiety, death, death
Form: Elegy

Nonsense

This daily dew danish blue doggy poo
Is in relation to a giant kangaroo
Which traveled to the capitol of Peru
To try the turkey stew
But the beef fondue gave it a purplish blue stomach flu
It tried to renew tried to review 
When it sailed through the thick shampoo
It fell into a field of glue and ran into a bomber crew
Categories: daily dew, blue,
Form: I do not know?
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