Dana Poems

nude

from top to bottom, like a
root,
she stretched across the entire 
canvas,

eyes, petals, closed 
                  ~ arms ~ melting ~ beewax ~ liquid ~ imitating
water ~

Categories: dana, allusion, analogy, art, innocence,
Form: Free verse

Dana Or Danah

big natural pearl
a beautiful name for girls 
tune or Celtic god

Categories: dana, beauty,
Form: Senryu

Dana is Not Cinderella

Dana is pretty like Cinderella
A busybody who knows nothing said.
But I saw Dana, and she was clean
Cinderella was always cinder full, right?

She reminds me of her, the speaker said.
I tried to see it, but could not
Dana looked like a Scandinavian princess
One who had never gotten her hands dirty

This woman’s hands were pristinely clean
Her face was

Categories: dana, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

I Am Danu

In the Irish mountain "Breasts of Anu" I reside.
I am mother goddess, the spirit essence of nature.
Anu or Danu my worshipers call me with pride.
Dana or Ana my believers apply their nomenclature.
I am the female principle, primal vessel for all things.
I birthed the people of Dana, the Celtic race of gods.
As enchantress, my incantations are

Categories: dana, allegory, allusion, earth, god,
Form: Sonnet

Farewell To Dana

FAREWELL TO DANA

Our lives are full of come and go from the time that we are small,
And we admit it’s very hard to understand it all.
We go to school, we come back home, we come from here, go there;
It seems as though it never stops, not here, not anywhere.
A person comes into our lives, may

Categories: dana, dedication,
Form: Rhyme

Dana, Mother of Gods

Dana, Mother of the Gods,
           Revered, Loved, Heart-felt,
    Myth or Legend?
                What matter is that?

Categories: dana, imagination,
Form: Free verse

Dana Feeds the Hungry Ducks

Dana sits alone on the wooden dock 
she has fun throwing breadcrumbs  
to the hungry and excited ducks;
they rush to catch them in droves
so confident she won't hurt them unlike
the other naughty kids who throw rocks
scattering them through the big park...
and spreading their wings they croak.

Dana, try to keep those menacing boys away,
tell them

Categories: dana, bird, children, girl, happiness,
Form: Rhyme

Dana Sees the Southern Cross

Off Terra Firma sixteen weeks now.
My legs take roots; my eyes become infinite.
Past the Tropic of Cancer, the Lesser Antilles. 
Talk of brown skinned girls, Purple Clouds of Magellan. 
The Southern Cross peeking above the horizon at 18N°.

Those first few nights I stared at the wrong stars in my
confident knowing. A seabird landed 
on the

Categories: dana, sea,
Form: Free verse

Dana

Dana
A name for girls,
Big true pearl,
A kind of melody & music,
Celtic goddess,
Giving without seeking anything in return but more spiritual growth. 
Real poverty is the lack of spiritual wealth.

Categories: dana,
Form: Prose

Dana

There once was a girl named Dana
Who wasn't from old Savannah
She'd lived in Texas
Till she and her nexus
Moved east to Louisiana

Categories: dana, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Dana Dew

Dana Dew
I’m here; watching over you the way I always do. I wonder at times when I watch as you will always be my Dana Dew! How often you have spoken to me, wishing that somehow I could hear you. Honey; I have heard every word spoken and even those you thought.
Things you don’t understand

Categories: dana, faith,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Dear Dana

Dear Dana, I'm sorry,
For what I'm bout to say.
There's no such thing as a clean break,
Now I must go away.

It's not that I don't love you,
Cuz I swear to you I do,
But it is time for you to fly,
I cannot show you how to.

I promise you did nothing wrong,
But this will never work,
Don't tell me

Categories: dana, caregiving, dedication, depression, devotion,
Form: Rhyme

Thank You Jacob, Thank You Dana

Too many times I gave into the pain,
Too many times i've forgotten my name.
I dwelled on what was never found,
I've burried my heartaches in the ground.
One day I planned to take my life,
but you guys made my life so bright.
No one knows how much I hurt,
And how much I just hate this world.

Now I show

Categories: dana, death, depression, life, recovery
Form: Rhyme