LABYRINTHINE PATHS
...LABYRINTHINE PATHS
“You have no need to travel anywhere—journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.” Rumi
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Categories:
expectantly, 12th grade, inspirational, journey,
Form: Free verse
Eyes Cry at Cloudy Skies
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My burning red raw, bloodshot eyes,
strain expectantly, under reluctant skies,
counting fingers, with tearful sighs,
longing for sunbeams, to defiantly prys,
open cracks in gray clouded sunrise...
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Categories:
expectantly, cry, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
PIZZA FARM
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There is an innocence in life to which every child brings…
before their brains become too cluttered with all those adult things.
It is a lovely place where wide-eyed children dwell.
Where, if ...
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Categories:
expectantly, children,
Form: Rhyme
Backward is forward
...Wake
The ever present enemy
Overbearing and oppressively
Shadowing expectantly
As forethought always secondly
Two minds hang suspended be
Interrupting thoughtlessly
Relentless and attentiv...
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Categories:
expectantly, conflict, depression, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme
9-11 Everyday
...I wait for the sound of keys at the door,
A prelude to your eyes in mine,
For your presence to affirm me more,
Like the timeless aging of fine wine –
Left un-tasted now, ‘til evermore.
The...
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Categories:
expectantly, allegory, hate, love,
Form: Rhyme
Lee the Fabulous Chili Maker
...Lee considered himself the most famous chili maker in the west
Added tobacco, Heinz 57, cinnamon, gave it a big taste test
We had heard about his concoctions, and could not wait.
The first bite wa...
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Categories:
expectantly, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
How Sweet God’s Blessings that We Know
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To sunshine and its blushing dawn
and brilliant sunsets we are drawn
which over plains and mountains glow.
How sweet God’s blessings that we know.
We wait expectantly to see
pink...
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Categories:
expectantly, nature,
Form: Kyrielle
A Whisper In Devil's Ear
...As a lotus raises its head to receive the sun rays
I wait expectantly for my Lord's whisper in my ears.
In the forms of Satan or tempter, evil has its ways.
Amidst my fears, it enters my spheres a...
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Categories:
expectantly, evil, life,
Form: Sonnet
Trust Me
..."Trust me," he said, and gave me such an impish grin it melted my apprehensiveness. "I wouldn't lead you astray." And so I did, trust him, and let him lead me down the garden path.
He took my han...
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Categories:
expectantly, desire, emotions, feelings, lost
Form: Free verse
sands of Heraclee
...Peter (my bf) and I are at Heraclee beach for the weekend.
It’s a little sliver of heaven, about 11 miles south of Saint Tropez.
It’s too early in the season to swim - being breezy and 72°f -
but ...
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Categories:
expectantly, beach, boyfriend, humor, summer,
Form: Free verse
Devil Comet Diamond Ring-Welcome April
...April showers may dampen Dallas Texas torrents glooming deluge on path way
Priceless zooming presence; shrouds blend violets and daisies blooming in May
Rain forecast an encumb...
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Categories:
expectantly, april, moon, star, sun,
Form: Acrostic
Tearful
...“Give them back! Give my tears back, right now—with interest!!”
—Natsuki Takaya
She wrote her marine a letter, hopeful, bright
loved with her kisses and perfume. In sight,
the po...
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Categories:
expectantly, lost love, war,
Form: Quatrain
waiting for the sky gods
...beautiful mermaid floated her dream into a wish bubble
it featured the lighthouse where she met the sailor
she waited expectantly for the sky gods to show her the way...
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Categories:
expectantly, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Jack 88
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You can live your life believing all will end well
However, where we end up we can’t really foretell
Expectantly looking forward, to a time of warm peaceful bliss
But if continually knocked do...
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Categories:
expectantly, journey, life, mental health,
Form: Rhyme
Time
...Why is it? that time flies
when we are having fun
Yet creeps along so slowly
when we are expectantly
waiting for an event.
Or flashes past
when we look back
on important things
like mile sto...
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Categories:
expectantly, irony, time,
Form: Free verse
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