The Quiet that Speaks : Come to the Waters
..."Incline your ear and come to Me. Listen that you may live;
And I will make an everlasting covenant with you." Isaiah 55:3
I chose the character trait, trustworthy, and wrote this piece a...
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Categories:
foreknowing, 11th grade, power,
Form: Rhyme
Soothsayer SueAnn
...Soothsayer SueAnn is a scary woman in town
You can ask anyone; her reputation is solid and sound.
She has an amazing talent for foreknowing
predicts new babies before their mommies are showing
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Categories:
foreknowing, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
What Tomorrow Brings
...It had been a long time since she had peeked
Into the future using the tea leaves,
Happy to accept what each day wreaked,
Aware that foreknowing oft deceives.
Into the future using the tea leav...
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Categories:
foreknowing, future, grandmother, moving on,
Form: Pantoum
Crunch
...Crunch
"I don't want to read something I already know
or which is going to slide down easily:
there has to be some crunch,
a certain amount of resilience."
Poet John Ashbery.
He wasn't t...
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Categories:
foreknowing, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Restless
...relentless restlessness,
a foreknowing of intention,
to put aside feelings that capture the heart, that cause such massive tension,
sorting through uncertainty,
grasping his love, and gripping hi...
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Categories:
foreknowing, lovelove,
Form: I do not know?
Reflections
...keep my union bound, let time stand silently still,
from a distance of remembrance i can catch a glimpse of my father's will,
like staring into mirrors, we were made so much alike,
staring into th...
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Categories:
foreknowing, faith, friendship, hope,
Form: I do not know?