PREGNANT MEMORIES
...PREGNANT MEMORIES
The love we shortly shared,
Was as the sunlight of life,
Fueling and energizing souls
With unimaginable pleasure:-
We met, touched, and loved,
In that moment, we were one...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
fertilizing, allegory, break up, extended
Form: Prose
SUMMER RAIN
...SUMMER RAIN
God cried today
His tears fertilizing
The womb of
Mother Earth:
The wet smell
Of nature’s essence
Saturated the air
As moist breeze blew
Breath of new life
Into dried hope...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
fertilizing, allegory, extended metaphor, high
Form: Prose
A JUNETEENTH HAIKU QUATRAIN
...A JUNETEENTH HAIKU QUATRAIN
Freedom seed sown,
its's germination halted;
it's reaping delayed:-
The fruit of freedom,
takes a long time to be reaped
and may rot quickly:-
Let's sow June...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
fertilizing, allegory, analogy, black african
Form: Haiku
TO POETIC REAPING
...TO POETIC REAPING
In the mind’s garden,
the poem of poems, germinates
in its fertile soil:
The poem’s ripening word-fruits
seeded with enlightenment:-
May poetic grace
be reaped from rhyth...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
fertilizing, creation, extended metaphor, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
IN THE GARDEN OF GRACE
...Blossoming onwards
Know you’re worthy of success;
God…navigating…
Like flowers of spring,
Your destiny is assured;
God…cultivating…
Plow onwards in faith,
Rowing towards your greatness;
G...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
fertilizing, allegory, extended metaphor, high
Form: Haiku
IN THE GARDEN OF GRACE: A HAIKU TRIO
...Blossoming onwards,
Know you’re worthy of success;
God…navigating…
Like flowers of spring,
Your destiny is assured.
God…cultivating…
Plow onwards in faith,
Rowing towards your greatness;
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
fertilizing, allegory, extended metaphor, hyperbole,
Form: Haiku
what the paper didn't say
...What the papers didn’t say
We read the octopus is an intelligent animal, I’m not sure if this is true but they can be trained to
play with dipping bottles filled with water. The sinister side is ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
fertilizing, 8th grade, abuse, anti
Form: ABC
IN CELEBRATION OF 2025 BLACK HISTORY MONTH: A REPOST
...IN CELEBRATION OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH: 2025
1
Once again, it’s Black History Month; a time to celebrate
And commemorate Blacks and those many organizations
Which have, in s...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
fertilizing, allegory, black african american,
Form: Prose
IN CELEBRATION OF 2025 BLACK HISTORY MONTH
...IN CELEBRATION OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH: 2025
1
Once again, it’s Black History Month; a time to celebrate
And commemorate Blacks and those many organizations
Which have, in s...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
fertilizing, allegory, black african american,
Form: Prose
Winsome Chance Huitain
...In a meadow of death a rose,
our remains shed skin quietly;
Thorns fall out as we decompose,
A bit of you and some of me;
Feeding the soil triumphantly,
reviving a bloom of romance;
Caught the...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
fertilizing, emotions, flower, romance,
Form: Other
Extra Extra Read all about it
..."Extra! Extra! Read all about it!"
Not a crock of ... but bull heave me,
you heard (read) right here from me
the horse's mouth,
who never neigh says,
cuz Trump (unexpectedly)
nixed presidenti...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
fertilizing, adventure, america, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
The Mystery of the Bag of Bones
...A bag of bones tucked in the trees,
Nestled against the fence,
Camouflaged by branches and leaves,
Heavy with the weight of death.
It tells a story of mystery,
No longer here in this world, but ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
fertilizing, animal, death, earth, mystery,
Form: Free verse
garden and a cat please
...Give me a garden and a shed full of sweet cat
Some seeds for lilies, marigolds, and petals so fat.
I do not mind the tiny mice, or an occasional rat.
But do not expect me to put out a welcome mat....
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
fertilizing, cat, garden,
Form: Rhyme
Dance of Shadows and Storms
...Without a shadow's kiss
How blooms a hidden rose?
Without a storm's embrace
How does an oak repose?
In Twilight's waltz, secrets unroll
the mystery it bestows.
Yet i...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
fertilizing, blessing, conflict, emotions, garden,
Form: Rhyme
Everything seems fine to me
...Splattering dried soil upon my face
Lying on that bed for a space
Space for stars, rainbows, and the moon I plunged my eyes; the sky took me into a room
An inch of fumes and smoke filled my lun...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
fertilizing, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Related Poems