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Cinquain
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Broken
Wounds will not heal
Surrounded by sadness
Grief pours from every single line
Constance
Form used traditional Cinquain 2,4,6,8,2 syllables
Contest: Fragment of Life
Sponsor: Broken Wings
02~24~16
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I hear you like a ghost
Bringing me to tears
Cause I want you so bad
Grief sittin by me
Digging his way out of my heart
Ripping me apart
Apart from your soul
Screaming out
Shouting out my pain in tears
I can’t accept
Losing my mind
Over
Losing you
Damn we had it all
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Can’t seem to stop what’s inside
The silent calling of your name
The empty nights without you
The emptiness that surrounds my soul
It’s the hardest thing to live without you
Losing my heart to you
Only to have you lose the love for me
I try to get by
My grief takes hold of me
Weighing me down
Through hell
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Our heartstrings are so fragile,
We have to be extra careful
When we talk to our child,
Our husband, wife or mother.
So who gets the crux of our anger
When we lose our hurtful minds?
Saturated with sadness or grief?
Usually the ones we love the most.
Sad isn’t it? Yet, who do we trust?
Who will still love us regardless?
After we get ridiculously mad or mean?
The ones we trust the most.
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The touch of lips- brief and soft.
There was no more grief.
This evening forever lost in memory.
Through the ripples of untroubled water, we sat.
The waves rolled closer.
Together we crashed by the pull of the tide.
Anxiously losing track of time.
The wave- thick, unforgiving.
Retraced its step.
And I forever lost.
Forever inhaling it's essence.
Forever remembering that night with closed eyes.
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It's plain for the eyes to see
It's pain lingering from the lies to me
and the thoughts that end up with grief
how we fought and messed up our memories
Fragile we were, and heart-broken too
I clinged to her, and was born anew
Fiction lied, and I lied
For I found what I saw, non-existent
because I held onto a brain
that deformed my reality
So now, i can call myself insane
stretched out from a tragedy
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I let myself off a cliff,
landed in a garden full of roses.
Times blue, heavy grief,
found smiles under our noses.
Drawing portraits of you all night,
got my brushes painting love.
Brushes down, night poetry write,
got my quill scribbling love.
If loving is wrong, am an outcast.
Promise it's life-long, am here to last.
Love knocks, ding-dong, always opens fast.
Lips ever serving a love song, this love, vast!
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I do not know?
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#2
You’re in grief, and the worlds accept
Your struggle, change the world’s concepts
It was she who confronted that much
Hers, whom they matter that much
She smiles and laughs
Yet inside full of doubts
She cries and sighs
But still fights
Mostly, but not always
Blamed by the blaze of people
Reckless and wrecked
Shy and wicked
And she accepts all of those
Keeps it inside, deeply inside
And pretends not to care
To whom she dare
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Always shall I love
They say all good things must end
But I am still here
to begin whenever I'm on for time
For the grief eats me away
Memories washed away
By those years without your love
I shall always love
Saying good night
Which is never in sight
For the pain eats me away
I pray
Every single and each day
For your smile
Effects my heart I am only your love
Always I shall love
I shall always be your love
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May you bring love
filling my night with stars
when the moon is lemon yellow
among celestial silver bars...
Come when the sun sets
the evening mellow and gray
or if you wish
come early in the day...
Embrace me when you're sad
and feeling full of grief
float into my arms
like a falling Autumn leaf...
Be the first wind
the Springtime blows
the morning star
as it flickers and glows...
You are dark my love
on my shoulder you may rest
my ebony nesting dove
always bringing out my best...
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Lady what's happened to that radiant smile?
It has become a mask to hide grief,
Open up to me just for a little while,
Please do so for your own relief.
I'm always here for you to understand
The not so pleasant memories that drag you down
Why they're there in your beautiful mind so grand,
As I try to lift up that sorrowful frown.
I'm never gonna love anyone anymore,
I think my heart has set it in stone
Who I am truly and eternally for,
So you don't have to deal with these shadows alone.
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Butterflies dance beneath my toes,
My heart beats faster as I take you close,
I feel so numb and weak,
That I cannot speak,
Lost in a maze,
For days in your embrace,
I touch your thighs,
I close my eyes,
Our souls do the all the moving,
Everlasting is the fuel that our love is consuming,
The night grew late,
So I'll have to wait,
Because surely I must leave,
And my lust for your love will turn to grief,
Until in your eyes I see,
The butterflies that began to rise that you used to set me free.
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Lavender Love
the shadows are my only companion
your pictures lost in life's constant toll
say goodbye
they say, all good things must end
as I clasp my hands and mourn
I am only your feelings.
I am only memories.
Lavender Love
Say good night
for the pain eats away
for the pain eats away
I am but a lost soul
I am not a perfect person
the grief tortures
But I am still here
Rain showers fall above
Pretty little flower Lavender love
7/27/2021
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021©
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We took one last shot at love—
She mysteriously vanished.
My mind became fragile,
My thoughts unsure—
I’ll wait for her in the moonlight.
Her voice whispers in my ear.
(The smell of her fragrance)
I felt her presence.
Have you ever made love
To a woman who’s love
Feels so pure?
I’m addicted to her love.
A woman’s love has no cure—
Freed into the world
Where the lonely walk in grief,
Searching for her love
But not wanting to believe.
The moonlight takes its place;
The stars shine like white diamonds;
The night whispers her name,
But this time I’m not buying.
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I do not know?
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You have read her words . . .
Laughed at her lyrics
Listen to the sweet melody of her words
But now . . .
Now
SILENCE
No words to fill our imagination
Where have you gone ? ? ?
Come back . . .
wind-tears smote the ground
grief hangs from trees
she is hurt
heart-wounded
David Meade
11/28/2015
Love Generously
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A PAINFUL GIFT TO TREASURE
Her Heart was filled with grief and sorrow
For her there seemed to be no happy tomorrow
Yet there wasn’t a drop in her eye
Because the pain in her heart was too much to cry!
She hoped that a sense of joy would wrap her around
Longing for peace to completely her surround
So that she could forever sleep
And her heart would no more weep!
She did not want her life any more
For there was nothing to live for
She knew she could end her pain
With a simple cut in her vein!
Although She was tormented in every way
She still struggled to live life every single day
FOR SHE KNEW LIFE WAS A TREASURE
A GIFT, THAT ONLY GOD COULD END, WHENEVER!
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Than-Bauk
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Blue soul whispers
nightmare toll on
ice cold pier stroll
Date created and submitted : 3rd January 2031
Contest : Bauk Than - Than Bauk
Sponsor : Charles Messina
NB This is a story of grief and loss.
Sensible language is a requirement for this contest.
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ETHERIUM
©David Arthur
I ponder long, pained eyes upon
Ice silent yesterdays
Mere memories beloved Louise
Cannot my loss allay
An ocean is my love, but not enough for you
Whose grace precedes lithe mystic steeds
The winged gods of lore
I wander on, bemused, withdrawn
In weary, wayward ways
In dreary, dotard ways
A pious mermidon
Forever is my love not long enough for you
My eternal spirit draws its neverending breath for you
All earthly will, dead quiet, still
A shade bemoans by day
And dark of night yields not respite
For grief that has no stay
A poem is my love yet not enough for you
Whose soul sublime
Stirs nobler rhyme
From bard's supernal shore
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Tears On The Wind
Tears on the wind glisten in the light of day
Rolling droplets, prisms of swirling colors stay
Lifted to announce at first, a sad story
My charming friend who died in glory
A special human being
A soul who gave to everyone her everything
Shining life glows on those nourishing tears
Fills us at first with grief
Followed by the warming quenching relief
A thirst for life
Honoring a life that never fades away again
Tears merge with sun light on the droplets of soothing rain
Take on a new life to feed the oceans, plains and grounds
And like our friendship, nourished, it remains forever found
5/27/14 Tears On The Wind contest
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Funeral.
A young man died in his sleep he was 49 years old, with my aged eyes
he was boy too young to die. I don’t know the medical reason for his
early demise, think it has to do with burst blood vessel in the brain.
I went to his funeral last Sunday it was a sunny noon and thought at
least heavens could have cried. I didn’t know him, but had hoped to
meet his sister, whom I adore, telling how sorry I was for her loss; but
the whole family was there in common grief, I wouldn’t intrude in their
unhappiness. I spoke to a friend of hers and asked her to extend my
concern, I wanted her to know that I had been there to show respect
and that I cared. But could not escape the gnaw of guilt in my heart,
hadn’t it been for her I might not have attended.
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There's no room in my head
it's filled with thoughts of you.
And I'm alive, yet dead,
both are equally true.
Losing your fight with death
grief shrouds me like a glove.
You were my blood, my breath,
my hope, my dream, my love.
I’m as pale as a ghost
my heart is out of blood.
For missing you the most,
it is barely a thud.
How much more can I take,
without breath, I'll smother.
And must endure an ache,
unlike any other.
My future's dissolving,
how am I to cope?
My world is devolving,
I can't live without hope.
I'm far beyond dismayed,
on the verge of a scream.
And I feel so afraid,
for I no longer dream.
No one will replace you,
I swear to God above.
And yet, it's just as true,
I will die without love.
(Quatrain)
1/11/2015
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Dance thee swift on a midnight wind
And charm the stars above me
Call my name from a mystic's dream
I dare thee thrice to love me.
Sing amor through a cat's meow
I'll send my heart to find thee
Searching souls with each rain drop
Dancing a spell quite lively.
Hear my song through a cricket's choir
Born among marshes puddled
Softly through the reeds that swish
Our haunting song befuddled.
Won't you seek me bright as day
And love me darkly nightly
Won't your words my heart hold sway
'Till beauty seem unsightly.
If magic, love, and grief have names
Let us both forget them
Living life's pleasure and pains
And this moment treasured true-gem
Give me your chaos then hold still
Statuesque, mighty, eloquinn
Sailing boulders, desert's sandy fill
Dancing midnight's star loft wind.
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NO WEDDING BAND, OR RINGS
THEY BOTH ARE NOT WEARING
WHAT HAPPENED?
A LONG-TERM MARRIAGE AFTER DECADES OF YEARS
JUST IN A RELATIONSHIP
NO GENUINE VACATIONS
NO WALK IN THE PARKS
A LONG TERM MARRIAGE
WASTED IN THE DARK?
SOME GREAT DAYS IN THE PAST
AS EARLIER IN THE DAYS
SOME BAD DAYS OVERWEIGHED THE GOOD
A MIXTURE OF EMOTIONS
CARRIED ON BY FEELINGS
IS IT JUST A MARRIAGE EXISTING?
OR, NOT REALLY LIVING?
PEACE, LOVE, JOY
PRAYERS FOR THE TWO
FINDING LOVE AGAIN
IS THE MARRIAGE ENDED?
HURT AND PAINS
CALLING OUT OF NAMES
GRIEF AND UNFORGIVENESS
FOR THE ONE
IS IT TIME TO MOVE ON?
BOTH HAS LEFT
IN AN UNKNOWN WAY
A RING REPLACED
A DIAMOND IS GIVEN
NOW ONE IS REALLY LIVING.
LIFE GOES ON
NO TIME TO WASTE
YEARS PASSING BY
NEVER TOO LATE
HAPPINESS, JOY, PEACE WITHIN
A SMILE WORTH-WHILE
AMEND.
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You said 'Yes I do'
You vowed your honour to me
You said 'I'll always love you'
To me that's your reason for being
You said 'for better or worse'
Now you try to walk out on me?
You said 'forever I will'
Now you want to go a new way?
Vows may mean nothing to you?
But to me I'll take them to my grave
I always told you that I'd die for you
How do you think it could end any other way?
I never thought that you'd cheat on me
Then bring him here to get your own way!
You're tied to the chair where you sit
Your arms are free but there is where you'll stay
I've made a dinner for you
You'll eat now and I'll bring more for you each day
The blind fold will be taken off soon
When you finished your meal one day
The man that you wanted to fool
Has fooled you and your boyfriend his way
Did you enjoy your meat?
The vegetables I seasoned my way
You wanted to consume me with grief?
You've consumed him in a different way.
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Perhaps?
Perhaps it is, perhaps it isn’t?
Perhaps it’s just what we’ve been given?
Perhaps for you it’s so far away?
Then why do you think perhaps for some it’s here to stay?
Perhaps the grief and pain it brings makes it more like an enemy here, right here within?
Perhaps this is our war?
The days to come, so far removed from the days before.
Perhaps we have to fight to win? No soldiers we are but National Health Service heroes we’ve seen.
Perhaps it’s time to face ourselves?
We bleed the same, no matter what our coloured skin tells?
Perhaps we can find a better way?
Perhaps our hearts and minds can lead the way?
Perhaps the hate and fear can die?
It can for me with no questions why.
Perhaps I see you and feel your pain? Perhaps for me you do the same?
Perhaps one day I’ll see you there and I’ll approach you free with no distance care? Perhaps you’ll walk right up to me and perhaps as strangers we will smile and hug for humanity?
Perhaps?
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