Erring Poems | Examples

Dark and Deep for RLF

Tiptoe through the darkness round the lip of lexicon
Peer into the mouth of what awaits the hear and gone
Careful! One misstep can send you tumbling down 
Grab it by the throat, lest your message come unbound

Wrestling with the spirit, is it angel is it muse?
Or ghost upon the parapet? It's up to you to choose
Choices come in bunches, but wise ones not so much
And eloquence no guarantee to come through in the clutch

For beauty's eye is keen, it watches through the night
A single erring step, can dim the brightest light
A shade of blackness guaranteed to put the soul to sleep
The words alluring, fleeting, fading... lovely, dark and deep
Full of promises the words are lovely, dark and deep

Fragmented Life

Another morning,
Stormy gray lies,
Verification code 062480,
Method of payment,
Onerous office,
Forgotten,
Depressed/suppressed,
Collision warning!
Erring & errands, 
Shopping for sanity,
Trembling triad,
Solo sunset,
Revised & deleted,
140,000+ miles,
275 poems,
Life, films, anti-humans, 
Usually hard,
Orange King,
If Jefferson became Burr,
2mm, DVR the clubhouse,
Geeks inherit the earth,
Sales + senior,
Emailing Miock,
Texting mockery,
Dust, dirt, remote work,
Deported to Mars,
Arriving dead,
Appointment, agencies, locations,
Unremarkably dressed,
Will do,
Barely alive @ 5:15 AM,
Squealing grocery cart,
Monday miasma,
Pausing, freezing, crashing,
Bureaucratic blasphemy,
Problem: garbage,
The End begins,
A lurid mini-series,
Super-8, hooray!
Sunday—updated,
Made sadder,
Check Engine Light (aarrggghhh),
No refills,
Pitted windshield,
Obsessive recycled cyclones,
MacBook weeps,
Fiasco at night,
Discharged,
Digital snake oil,
Smitten spreadsheet,
Ignoble typos,
Nightmares in Midtown,
Select 0,
Chapter/s paused,
Deaden this promptly,
Lying biopics,
Naughty neologisms,
Flying, falling, exploding,
Cancelled lives,
Unresolved.

Coffeeshop Romance

it was the autumn of our lives
being no longer the fools of our youth
that naive twinkle in our eyes long gone
erring these days on the side of caution
our guards wired and circumspect
explanations not needing to be formulated
being much too late to play the lovers' serenade
but still ~ it was pure velvet to the core


AP: 1st place 2025

king of being alone

just like a message
you turn me on
erring on the side of caution
all i wanted
was your voice 
like a teenage dream
you haunt me
all the pathos you can reach
new broom to sweep
long legged candy yet
dancing strictly alone

recycled reflections

crawling words
slithering
waiting for something

questions without answers
in the zone of twilight rerror
Oh No!

erring inhumanly
gaslighting
becoming gas

volcanic eruption
savage rays
in the breezy trees

insanely iconic
epic hunt
beyond reason

a dangerous game
a masked requiem for a virulent era
a robotic rumination

fleeing...
raging rubble
deliverance...?

Divine Magnetism

The night doesn’t have a forever hold,
We’re not subservient to the embrace of shadows,
Light is not perpetually cloaked from our windows,
There’s an emancipation towards redemption.

Something pulls us to a higher plane,
There’s a vacuum in us longing to be filled,
They’re cracks in us desiring to be healed,
We’re in constant search of the extraterrestrial.

There’s a call from the deep,
There’s a spiritual gathering,
Hearts that are victims of weathering,
Souls seeking celestial grace.

There’s a pilgrimage towards an eternal door,
Something gnaws at our erring hearts,
We’re not self-driven carts,
The Divine summons our awakening souls.


May 14, 2024.

Naked Against the World

Government officials, chasing me 
A peaceful Naked being dance on the street
Woke from a nightmare being chased by blind eyeballs draped in flags, 
City on fire, smokestacks, meat trucks, doctors of insanity.

I came to a decision
Gonna stay here in my Naked skin
I don't think there is a promised land out there anymore,
Gonna stay here in Cap d' Adge, France.

I say some prayers that the children of the world have a future
Where Nudism is accepted and not shyed upon
I ponder to why the human species shy away from something they came with,
Humans keep making this same mistakes over and over. 

Luckily in this era the hate just keeps getting lesser and lesser
But erring on side of the positive 
Put out more awarness about the loving community of Nudists my fellow Nudist,
Put out more faith in Nudism as it liberates.

Screen of Awareness

these events and thoughts pass all over me,
like insects on a fluorescent screen,
a glitter, a moment, flicker of time,
a lifetime to travel in social slime!

memories are made, memories erased,
on the brain slate of nerves, bemused and dazed,
writer is unseen, the chalk doesn’t screech,
my story unfolds and fate? out of reach! 

many voices come through, somewhere from dark,
no faces to see, no glimmer, no spark,
my eyes are shut but my mind is awake,
soul records my spiritual uptake!

I am but a blank white sheet on time’s book,
million pages may not get a second look,
I am imprinted with what hand writes on me,
what generations may read, I let be!

a world of illusions, world of untruths,
from our birth to old age through erring youth,
in this ignorance is silent wisdom,
seeking eternal truth, yearning freedom!

 
Unseeking Seeker sponsored 
Screen of Awareness Poetry contest
Written 24/05/23
10 syllables each line
5 stanzas with aabb rhyme sequence

S Bahn

(the overhead railway in Berlin with a stop either side the Wall, one in the East, one the West, to be ridden with caution.)

I never took the S Bahn
you could end up on the other side 
if you missed your stop and
unintentionally extended your ride.
There were so many stories
about the treatment you could get
when the train was searched 
and you and the comrades met.

Every coach was checked 
as they did their security round
with very little chance to sit quietly
and hope you wouldn’t be found.
The Stasi were the bogey men 
the true inspirers of fear
always aware of the lure 
of the west so enticingly near.

Escapees tried so many ways
lured by the call of democracy
ready to risk everything
for the chance of living free.
They said the beatings were severe
with not least the threatened hell
of unlimited hours confinement
in a dank and cheerless Stasi cell

and then the double jeopardy of
posted absent without leave
with the additions punishments
erring squaddies could receive.
No I never rode the S Bahn
that potential magnet to all
to try and sneak on board and
get to the Western side of the wall.

Recovery Through Bravery

Take corrective steps to control mind
As often erring is never good for life
A solution as a remedy you must find
By developing a will to solve strife
We must prove that we are not blind
If brain is husband, heart is its wife
By heavy losses, we may be shaken
Sky may curse us to badly weaken
High level measures must be taken
Definitely we can come out of a snag
For this we must wisely do pondering
With us the defect must not just drag
No use in with no sense blundering
What a tragedy to carry loser's tag
Peace, defeats will be plundering.

Erring-Divine Being

To forgive seems hard to man
For the hurting sake seems so electrifying
To those that live in the town
Correction will make them align 

The bastard amidst thy clan 
May tease your patience of what love assigns
And sometimes gets you frown 
The one once thought the best you can consign

Hearty bluntness and poignant sadness  span 
In rage with the beautiful orientation of thine 
Staging a probation of dilemma arid plan 
Forever together for peace to dine 

By heart, you are made whole 
With grace, you free the bound 
Of blessings, you cure your soul 
That your heart wears not beyond

Terra Incognita

*Image of Pelosi Leaves Taipei by BBC.

Terra Incognita

Diurnal moments margin in my head,
As metamorphosis pirouettes hands,
Nightmarish recall exit none be said,
An armistice mosey in of spilt sands.

Logjam beliefs wane gains, prosperity,
Erring hand fingered an island nation,
Right foresees windfall, voters clarity,
Left wins Red China, lost the election.

Past oversights also recent letdowns,
Amiss twentieth, twenty-first embed,
Ruse an angle nefarious look rounds,
Dame be a torpedo full speed ahead!

It is a jigsaw board, a puzzling face,
An instance period to bygone years,
A world in awe as one alters a pace,
A nation benign oddity brew peers.

2022 August 25
*2nd Place*
This or That, Vol 13
~~Edward Ibeh: Judged 2022 September 04

Terra Incognita

An Unknown Force Saves All Ofcourse

There is an unknown force monitoring
At no time it will be wrongly erring

It possesses indeed colossal potential
Its presence to stabilize is essential

Massive clout is had by that force
It only protects this World of course

Without gap, it is bringing real safety
That force is called as the Almighty

It makes flowers bloom and rain fall
It will bring true peace of mind to all

For happiness, it is totally responsible
With its support, anything is possible

It knows the future happenings fully
And it performs miracles skillfully

It controls the Cosmos with power
It will act against holy Justice never

That force alone helps all souls live
Great boons, it will give and forgive

Seek that force and obediently pray
Say your grievance to happily stay.

Dewdrop

Topaz nose-ring on floral-brides,
Detached like a wise sage;
Touching and letting go, abides,
Toward gentle flow of breeze slides;
Though feels like bird in a gold cage,
Within, no tinge of rage…!

Dropped from up like tentative guest,
Toward heaven staring;
Yearning with eternal unrest,
Searching and not finding its nest;
Season's wrath modestly bearing,
Exists never erring…!

What does it tells the human race?
Is it to leave the earth?
Is it to trust on divine grace?
And to fix our gaze on his face...?
Is it to earnestly unearth,
The mystical rebirth...?

Whatsoever it might have meant,
When sun rushed so fast paced;
And rays wrapped with their golden tent,
The dewdrop felt its life got spent;
Heart in heavenly hands it placed,
Grand-finale it faced…!


25 June 2022
Dewdrops Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Angel L Villanueva

Oluwere

The iroko tree,
Wise in the growth
Faithful in its development -
The seer!
Sees good and evil
Brings death to those who deserve
Showers blessing on those who reckon
With Its absolute power. 
Oluwere
Effigies from you are always beautiful 
Glorious that death envies you
Oluwere stands above the envy of others
Oluwere
Do not strike the erring child with death, yet, 
Bless generations with unending filth.
That gives joy to the swarms of bees!
Oluwere
Shall we thrive and rejoice? 
Shall we drink the red milk of grief and be seen as 
The quantum of solace? 
The father's loincloth is gone
Torn, stolen, we know not of.
Yet, the cry of Oluwere hampers
the serenity of the forest!

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