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Light

Sometimes I need light.
Sometimes we,  
sometimes everyone needs light.
In the dark and the damp of rooms,
of feelings, of thoughts
and of our lives that flow,
we need light from the window,
from the open door, from the open spaces
under the open skies,
and then we need some lights to glow,
but from where, when or whether
it will come or

Categories: dilemmas, life, light, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Dilemmas of V Day

I no more can find
That word I had kept in mind
For long to tell her.

Few know: it’s not just
In love that the test comes first 
And lesson later.

Nor, love is journey,
No station to reach any,
And it puts them off,

Love’s to give, not get
And cannot be a sure bet,
That too puts them off,

At best love’s a

Categories: dilemmas, giving, love,
Form: Haiku

Cruel and Friendly Cloud Dilemma

Forms most enormous seen from our earth,
Dwarf the tallest, the grandest of mountains’ girth.
Magnificent spectacles rounded up in the sky:
Sculptured foam, floating frothy, towering high.

Black ominous clouds of malevolent breadth,
Funnels of doom, destruction, and death,
Whirling and wheeling, zigzagging tyrants
Twisting down alleyways, roaring in rants.

Scalloped and mackerel in all shades and hues,
Textured cloud patterns, sunlit paintings

Categories: dilemmas, beautiful, conflict, environment, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Dilemmas

DILEMMAS
duty
impromptu aside
closely
noted
 the imagined
influence
 in our dreams

 speculation
or  satire
 a sensational
 lightness
inventiveness
of being
   stately
& sardonic
 approachability


NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood is inherently variable.
Copyright

Categories: dilemmas, poetry,
Form: Other

Dilemmas and Dichotomies

Were there no mountains, valley dwelling would be a chore,                        
And were there no dichotomies, life would be a big bore.

The long standing definition of dilemma has always
Involved at least two problematic

Categories: dilemmas, anxiety, change, growth, peace,
Form: Prose Poetry

Cruel Dilemmas

Cool drops of water fall upon the rock
And slowly carve their way toward the sea
Much as existence, hastened by the clock,
Unfolds its wings, undaunted, soaring free. 

Strange fancies yearn to take their flight and leave
The pit of slow, monotonous decay,
Though human will must bear its toil and grieve
While bound to shackles smothering their prey. 

The

Categories: dilemmas, destiny, dream, freedom, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme

Spheres of Grown Lad Dilemmas

Spheres of Grown Lad Dilemmas

Categories: dilemmas, analogy, imagination,
Form: Sonnet

Shadows of Moral Dilemmas

Something lugubrious lies lurking
Inside every human being,
Preventing us from reaching 
Our propitious potential.
It follows us from cradle to grave
Leaving no one unscathed 
In the ever-present shadows of moral dilemmas
Within the cavernous reaches of our hearts and minds. 
We struggle unceasingly with this tug-of war
Between wrong and right, 
Darkness and light
And occasionally, get lost in the

Categories: dilemmas, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Dilemmas

Puppies or men
bears can not be friends
sooooo, I choose puppies----Amen!

Dogs or cats
Lions are not aristocats
sooooo, some are strange cats----Scat!

Friends or enemies
Parents can't be both
Sooooo, I choose byfar friends----to be both!

I've made my speech
compinsated demands, I shall still preach
sooooo, all is well, and to the eager I will now----teach.

Linda Terrell
November 2009

Categories: dilemmas, animals, education, faith, friendship,
Form: I do not know?

Moral Dilemmas.

Moral dilemmas.

I quiz and pursue resolution to my dilemmas,
My life and Its little hiccups.

My father, he protected yet
prepared me for life’s journeys.
So the day came, I flew the coop
And he thought, he had taught me well.
But the real world and my presence in it
It bought fun, adventure and love.
Yet within all that way to many,
moral

Categories: dilemmas, life, me,
Form: Free verse

The Monster's Dilemmas

The monster in bed, calmly he would lie,
Knowing he would die on thirteenth day.
Seeking freedom, he just could not find,
Freedom has left him, slavery filled his mind.
Being alone, he was blind, he could not see,
That the world didn’t even want him to be.
With his simple mind he could not understand,
Whom he has disappointed whom did

Categories: dilemmas, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme

Dilemmas

I did something, I thought of something.
Some processes were set in motion.
Now I’m wondering. Now I’m thinking.
I consider an impact of Heaven.

What was made by chance, and what was not?
Some of my reactions were instinctive, 
Some of my actions had to come from God,
Some work was in vain, some was constructive.  

What mechanisms were

Categories: dilemmas, life,
Form: Lyric