Grippingly Poems | Examples


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Bald Eagle's Nesting Elegance

Craving for rats awhile 
grippingly standing, leaded by the stomach; 
Barks the hen over the Eagle’s tragedy 
lands the hit on the mountain beak 
sneaking the eye on shadows awhile; 
Heading for the shadowy stones, 
the Bald Eagle stuns the Hen awhile! 
 
Captain hen jumping over awhile; 
Here comes the talking break in a couple, 
heads the cries o’er a mountain hill 
breaking the abruptly weak 
of the dawning sea awhile; 
Shot the stone willingly the captain transiently 
the Stone stunned the bald with it styled. 
 
Sank the dreams of the henly Commander 
Hearing the sound, ”Stared Me Momentarily!” 
Comes home the com inhumanly alive 
stunningly acting on a while. 
Spiritual eagle hisses time and again, 
“Stared Me Momentarily.!” 
The Spiritual Soul stunned the Captain long a while! 
 
Actions repay all the time.

Premium Member Tenth Cycle

Just twenty days. The mystical
Libra will turn rosette boughs into
fading auburn… nights combing
the breeze colder and quite somber ,
as if women on bare hilltops await
the arrival of men in some far oceans 
when bleached summer gives way
to icicles of endurance so patient
and wives, lovers tremble in this anticipation
swaying 
back and forth, balancing the cold 
clutches of afternoon’s light and
destitute clouds wearing mufflers
for near or far elegies of snow.
It is grippingly delicate: I mean, watching
the changing hint of a breeze growing
paler.
Yet wiser is October rising to chip the
glow of studded stars, bit by bit, dying
in the gray of grayest sleet to bear 
the tunes of venial woes. Yet, it is the cycle
when courage bides its time for amiable joy.
It is the cycle when her adolescent stage
transforms ladies into maids-in-waiting...
how much longer must the women endure
to find an armada of loved ones back home?
And the weight of contentment drips, drips
in a season fulfilling its own quest.

There are
no answers; only reflective surrender.


Contest: Waiting
Sponsor: james rogers
9/10/2015

Smokey Lungs

Crackling Breathing
Wheezing black lungs
Toxins are seething
Tar parked among
Stubbornly apparent
Selfishly coherent 
Still boldly smoking away

Stunningly idiotic
Inhalingly hypnotic
Ground Breaking Discoveries
Show less lung recoveries 
Generations of addiction
Some have permanent affliction
They need inhalers today

Grippingly enthralling
People continue falling
Drug dealers are victorious
Selling drugs unglorious
Getting away with lawlessness
Covering up their flawlessness
Some smokers will never change

Guiltily societies hide
Gropingly searching for pride 
Science blindly leading the blind
Legally no guideline is kind
Cancer seems ignored today
Smoking lungs expel away 
Destroying life’s hope… is strange~


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