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Determinate Poems

soucouyant

...
you …

found your way in -
a keyhole that I had left unguarded
squeezing through
with fiery wings folded like leaves
I should’ve seen it coming
but your “goodbye” had been such
a jagged edg...

Categories: determinate, analogy, dark, fantasy, horror,
Form: Free verse

Alone and Lonely

...I am alone without you
Days are long and lonely without you
"Must be crazy" whispered my neighbour
 in a sly tone.
I must have been muttering to myself again.

I want to unburden my heart
But ...

Categories: determinate, absence, angst, i am,
Form: Free verse

You Are Not a Man

...You are not a man that lies
God of Abraham
You are not a man that changes his mind
God of Elijah and Elisha
You are not a man that dodges crisis
God of Shedrach Meschac and Abednego
You have no...

Categories: determinate, character, confidence, creation, devotion,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Middle School Math Teacher

...Should I become a middle school math or English teacher?
Leave my bed early in the morning and return with test papers to grade.
With what authority will I persuade those kids to sit still and perf...

Categories: determinate, joy, love, magic, math,
Form: Free verse

Choices

...If I could select
      where to disappear...
      I would select your look!

      If I could select,
      where to live...
     would determinate in your heart!

      If I had to select,...

Categories: determinate, allegory, allusion, appreciation, extended
Form: Free verse

Earth Not Heaven Nor Hell

...The Earth in determinate places,
is almost the same as Limbo..
In others, almost as hell...
So we submit to this reality,
there is no paradise here...!...

Categories: determinate, allegory, allusion, appreciation, heaven,
Form: Epigram

Veneration

...Your throne awaits your ascension oh my Queen!
Aye, retreat to this immutable secretive place
rise, yes come forth from your lethal darkness
from shadows and bask in eternal rooted glory!

Ruler...

Categories: determinate, myth,
Form: Free verse

Caged By Free Will

...I live in your box
        Of determinate shape and size
                   Free to move around
                          But within your confines
                                 I have free wil...

Categories: determinate, political,
Form: Narrative

Growing Up Divided

...Growing up in twentieth century USA,
without a recent immigrant history,
nor a Native American indigenous heritage,
just another in-between victim 
of Straight WesternWhite Male privilege,

I r...

Categories: determinate, culture, earth, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse

In Stitches and In Toughness

...The tongue, the tooth or today,
Or then, the gaze with memories and sweat,
Left of the misery, the haze, or the blurred set,
The thoughts tied to the codes for the day,
The tongue, the tooth or t...

Categories: determinate, absence, anger, heart, heartbroken,
Form: ABC

Co-Redeemer Vocations Needed

...Naturally regenerative
living systems,
like Earth
optimize global ecological opportunities
as co-redemptive economies
of loving solidarity relationships
expressing mutual not-negative subsidiar...

Categories: determinate, desire, destiny, environment, love,
Form: Political Verse

Camus-Pieces

...Camus-Pieces
           by Odin Roark

Might it be…

Lives are merely spent
Putting fragments of one’s picture
Into place?

Is it random
We seek as children
Blocks placed to spell a word
In order to ...

Categories: determinate, life,
Form: Free verse

In the Eye of the Beholder

...Poem by Jorn Boor '' In the eye of the beholder ''

 

The path of life I will walk, slowly I will grow old

Along this road I stumble, throughout the years in which I unfold

 

Insecurity's hold me...

Categories: determinate, angst, death, dedication, devotion,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme