you'll cry me an onion
i didn't mean to upset you so ~
multiple layers shed endless tears
AP: 2nd place 2025
TEXAS FLOODING WARS
(Apropos Of A Lesson Of Nature)
The flood waters came,
leaving lost lives washed away;
eyes flooded with tears:
Nature herself, warring with
collateral disaster:-
So many children
won’t be thirsty anymore;
flood waters drowned them:-
Let us thirst for quenching peace:
our human nature flooded:-
a river raging
suffocating sunflowers
ripping up the roots
Bright eyes are an echo of a damp sky.
Vileness signs will never bother the moon.
To risk creating darkness for a day.
Bright eyes are an echo of a damp sky.
Launched a cascade of pebbles on the way
A torrent of hope across the heart soon?
Bright eyes are an echo of a damp sky
Vileness signs will never bother the moon.
Written: April 27, 2023
Old man wind pulled back the ocean waters
and funneled them into his watering can;
sprinkled them across the state;
over-watering every garden in sight.
A flood, six inches of water invaded my basement;
a three inch wading hole in the street and
a fortune in appliances and furniture was lost.
Afterwards he painted a rainbow in a cloudy sky and
started over again.
His tantrum lasted for two weeks.
block at start bitter thoughts, open inlets of love and joy ~ peace will flood
July.3. 2022
The Art of Peace Poetry Contest
Sponsor- John Lawless
Syllable count. 17 (HMS)
storms here
alisonville road
floods again
He warns, in love, of a time when we won’t have a second chance to ask Him into our heart. – quote by poet
~~~
He tried to warn them all
God was about to pour down
Rain that would drown the world
Destroy all life with His flood
He wasn’t that different
Than the modern day preacher
He warned them time would run out
And they’d be left without a prayer
He told them the time was coming
When life as they knew it
Would cease to be – nothing
Would survive the destruction
He cautioned with his urging
God is bringing a downpour
Not one will survive this flood
When it comes, there is no shelter
He worried about the fate
Of those he knew would die
But he told them over and over
Its only a matter of time
Noah wasn’t so different
From the preacher of today
Who is telling us about the hope
We have if we believe in His grace
~~~
Genesis 9:13 KJV -“I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.”
Pick-A-Title, Vol 28 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
January 27, 2022
TITLE chosen: 1. Along Comes A Flood
the rain in Brazil started
for the whole month of January
conflicting beauty of the waters...
Flooding life until February
Flooding,
now it won’t close ;
My heart overflowing,
with quick beats the level rising
higher.
Red alert!
Anxiety level rises.
Dam shutters open.
Water wanders
among the concrete buildings,
seeking the buried backwaters, lakes, ponds, fields…
A member of the land mafia marks himself as safe
on Facebook.
Poor people are always unsafe.
They were poverty-stricken
during the steady rains.
Now they are panic-stricken.
Rocks fly down from the mountains.
River climbs up the bank.
Cries steep in the gush.
Bloated men, cattle, dogs and chickens float.
Horrible visitors take terrible pictures.
Fear fluctuates as blood pressure.
Poetry Nook Weekly Contest Winner
Sweet benign breeze swept my tears dry
When my heart bled and spilling out
On madness, loathing minds awry
Lead to crime where love fading out.
On the streets where striplings beseech
Sweet benign breeze swept my tears dry
For some nibbles, they beg and preach
While some granaries choked and sigh.
Sufferings around, made me cry
Of the pain, life and death pother
Sweet benign breeze swept my tears dry
When resumes I tried to smother.
Then saw the nature joined with me
And flooded the world with her cry
Love and empathy, back with plea
Sweet benign breeze swept my tears dry.
Won second place in STRAND SELECT O ,any form ,any theme Poetry Contest sponsored by Brian Strand
Won third place in Distant Refrains Poetry Contest sponsored by Joseph May
O' the case of Dorian
progressing through the sea,
battering the Bahamas
then shifting to a "three",
Have you seen the damage caused,
how islands lie in rubble?
Property and lives were lost
resulting from your trouble!
Now we wait so anxiously
to know the fullest measure
of this great calamity
ending in displeasure.
Soon will come the future day
when hurricanes desist.
Dorian, I'm pleased to say,
you will not be missed.
If seeing is really believing
Why don't we believe what we see?
Autumn
blue bird perch.
Black clouds hover,
backyard turns into pond-
sunshine
5/7/2019
Poetry Contest: 'Writing Challenge 1, May 2019 - Cinqku- '
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