Grander Poems

Premium Memberheartspeak

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tho' I am but the sparrow's twining strains
      the palette and the pen of whisp'ring souls
         I'm sweeter still if dashed upon the shoals
   or bleeding from the hem of day's remains
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Categories: grander, analogy, heart, metaphor,
Form: Italian Sonnet

Premium Memberthe ruby spires

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there, among those Ruby Spires
        stood I, a-gazing toward the mist
            red winds cut skin, heaven-kissed
    much too cold for hellish fires ...

worlds and suns behind us, then
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Categories: grander, adventure, analogy, appreciation, science
Form: Enclosed Rhyme


Premium MemberThe Weight Of Creation

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I did not ask for the weight I bear,
Yet here I stand, beneath its stare.
A world of futures, unshaped, untamed,
Balanced upon the fire I’ve claimed.

With hands that tremble, yet never break,...
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Categories: grander, creation, endurance, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberbeyond limit

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these days I question more and more
        my faiths and what their purposed for
            while evil grows to breadths unseen
    beyond, it seems, where it has been

oh grant me sense and...
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Categories: grander, analogy, forgiveness, introspection,
Form: Quatrain

Heads Up!

...Roaring African Diamond, Rolling Thunder, Beloved Warrior—

Cotton’s Violent Cr-owner craving Tougher, Blacker Pickers

praying Brother, Sisters, Mothers, Fathers couldn’t recover

Delight, Com...
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Categories: grander, addiction, africa, america, black
Form: Kwansaba


Want What We Wish

...Will the tears ever dry?
When wrong wishes wreck what we want,
Still, each day we must try,
Featherfins flee from feral fish,
Known for never bein' shy.
Strength still same, sanity stays...
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Categories: grander, blessing, business, destiny, prayer,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberThe Poem I Tried to Write

...I sat with pen, with page snow-white, 
 to sculpt a verse, to birth some light— 
 but all my thoughts just slipped away 
 like shy young clouds who won’t stay. 

No poet’s muse knocked at my doo...
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Categories: grander, poems,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Lonely Road

...I walk a solitary path, a reclusive soul/
Lonely whispers echo where shadows console/
Nobody speaks, nobody sees/
I'm lost in their world, like a silent breeze/
In public, I vanish, an invisible ...
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Categories: grander, courage, deep, emotions, environment,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Living and the Dead

...For you, who must remain in Asphodel,
We weep for you, who have forever fell.

Yet we, who lost the moment, gained all time.
In falling, do we hope that others climb.
And though we lost our litt...
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Categories: grander, dark, death, dream, emotions,
Form: Rhyme

Mother Nature's Tentacles

...Cats are Mother Nature's energy healers.

Humans are energy churners. Tornadoes. Waves. Breath.
We are movement itself. We can be soft or violent. We are warm or frigid, hard or impartial.

Elep...
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Categories: grander, analogy, grief, health, pets,
Form: Free verse

Cartoon Landmine

...A monster of cookies and a man of spiders
Lie in a stilted plastic embrace
On the floor of my shower
Waiting for my sleepy naked foot
Like a soapy cartoon landmine
In the semi darkness
Where I ...
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Categories: grander, childhood,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTHESE THOSE SPOKEN WORDS-

...Mine boggled journey through the letters
Voices in my mind I hear I heard, reciting revealing words
Radiant verses, some words misspoken are curses
Humanity prime objectives numeral st...
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Categories: grander, analogy, destiny, how i
Form: Rhyme

Cleaning Up The Mess

...In suit of orange, he strides the scene
With tweets like whirling winds, sharp and keen
Promises made to sweep the debris
A tumultuous path to a grander decree

© daniel miltz...
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Categories: grander, political,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberForest For the Trees

...It is right there in front of your face.
Look around, it’s all over the place.
Don’t know why it is you cannot see
What is plainly apparent to me.

Could I get you to open your eyes?
Look again...
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Categories: grander, relationship, tree,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Penetralia Ruby Queen Lyrics

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Professed, nonwarranted kinfolk attest upon the secret florist
Herald stewards, forbear! Striplings, go not to entice the fawn’s forest 
Yonder snowy peaks, betwixt pearls, radiates the pinkest a...
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Categories: grander, beautiful, creation, fantasy, flower,
Form: Lyric

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