Each chapter of the night tells a story,
Each moment it arrives offers insight,
Each time it prevails brings out the light within us,
Its duration unravels mysteries.
The night closes the door to daylight,
Which transforms us into fighters and gladiators.
We emerge from obscurity,
Harnessing the fading light.
The night makes us creative tools;
Its challenges encourage us to seek the True Light.
It provides us with depth,
Allowing us to see both sides of a coin.
The night is beautiful;
Its turbulence enables us to peer into the chamber,
We emerge stronger than when we began our journey,
Unperturbed by the shadows in the meadow.
August 11, 2025.
Categories:
harnessing, inspirational, night,
Form: Free verse
desire the cause of energy leakage
with ego focusing on outcomes sought
making presence tense, quivering in rage
whereas in cessation, desires are naught
where thus poised in the void, we are self-taught
harnessing power of the universe
without a need to prepare or rehearse
Categories:
harnessing, anger, desire, peace, power,
Form: Rhyme Royal
What is poetry but harnessing the thing of grace
that's most dear to us and crave most to embrace
What is poetry but expressions of the heart
when lovers suffer from being torn apart
What is poetry but the voice of pain
the undertaking that keeps you sane
What is poetry but outright fascination
born from godlike power of creation
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Submitted on April 1, 2025 for contest YOUR CHOICE H sponsored by BRIAN STRAND - Honorable Mention
Categories:
harnessing, appreciation, heart, love, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Reaching my nadir, where insecurities hide,
Few souls reached out, "How are you feeling inside?"
A torrent of emotions engulfs all recess,
"What next?" is a question my heart would confess.
Waltzing unforeseen with a zing,
Harnessing verve from the universe's ring.
Hope devours the monsters of darkness,
Sprinkles confetti, illuminates the dimness.
Everything unfolds with reason,
Lessons learnt within this season.
Categories:
harnessing, life,
Form: Rhyme
Good karma, like a knight in shining armor’s might,
Guides us through the dark and into the light.
Heals the wounds with rays that gleam,
Sets the path for a radiant beam.
Carving and gliding on this transformative journey,
Harnessing energy from the cosmos’s story.
Categories:
harnessing, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Freedom of Self Expression
True freedom
is freedom to train oneself by harnessing free will
to free oneself
From false freedom's illusion.
Aqua Marine. 5th July, 2024.
Categories:
harnessing, freedom, identity,
Form: Free verse
Pictures of life are so blurry looking through the lens of a wet pane
Wind fills it with all its fury heavy; driving me today a cold rain
It howls with a strength; if only I could use the screen as a harnessing strain
But instead, I run from it just as a minnow swims towards a seine
It's tailwinds inflicted untold fear as they razed the central plane
There's life in this sky, elixir; as the Tulips push out of the soil this week, they can not restrain
Sunshine will fall again just as water always finds a way to drain
Such guilt seeing all the colors of the world unfold, it hurts so badly that it was expensed by others' pain
Categories:
harnessing, fear, natural disasters, rain,
Form: Monorhyme
Drunk is the man,
Who gave me the roots of my existence
In this harsh, cold and dark world...
For instance,
He beats up his so-called darling heartbeat
To a pulp, saying she's not caring about him
Yet he spends the little he gets
In bars, so late at night
With his friends, who dance to the tunes of alcohol
And use that chance to know harlots biblically...
He pounces on them as prey
Though they spread disease in the community
Alas! The more he laughs, is the more he loses soberness
Harnessing thoughts that we are his enemies
On his return, to our ramshackled house!
They say that a home is a safe place
But to me it's like a warzone
A heart rage of shame...
Mother, so verbous that her words land out of place
As she fires gruesome tantrums to her husband
And as African men once nurtured,
They shan't tolerate disrespect from a woman
When he flogs her in front of my siblings and I
Indeed our miniature size, prevails as our weakness
Seeing our mother bleed, to the brink of death!
Categories:
harnessing, 11th grade, abuse, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Fleeing
this world a while
harnessing the night air,
I'm swimming in constellations
flying
A pen and a nocturnal grin
I daydream in the dark
sparkling bright
writing.
Categories:
harnessing, dream, emotions, poetry, writing,
Form: Cinquain
We live in a world
Brim full of uncertainty
Yet some things are set
Unaltered by humanity.
Science has laws
Which we did not make
Instead we defined them
And make no mistake
We may have rules
And constants and such
But science is in charge
And we own it so much.
But as we developed
And grew year on year
We became sophisticated
Learnt to engineer.
Harnessing science
To do what we need
Mass growth industry
Enabled us to breed
Rapid development
Coming out of the gloom
Engineering meets science
The industrial boom!
Categories:
harnessing, science,
Form: Rhyme
We live in a world
Brim full of uncertainty
Yet some things are set
Unaltered by humanity.
Science has laws
Which we did not make
Instead we defined them
And make no mistake
We may have rules
And constants and such
But science is in charge
And we own it so much.
But as we developed
And grew year on year
We became sophisticated
Learnt to engineer.
Harnessing science
To do what we need
Mass growth industry
Enabled us to breed
Rapid development
Coming out of the gloom
Engineering meets science
The industrial boom!
Categories:
harnessing, science,
Form: Rhyme
I stride out into the night
Harnessing my fright
I wander long and far
And I remember that tale of the bizzare
Dragon city all burning hot and well
Maybe I'm crazy but that strikes a bell
Soon I felt the boiling heat
And blisters appear all over my feet
And then far ahead, I see
Burning trees as far as could be
I started running, my feet bleeding
And then I started seeing
Them all wonderful and bright
Dragons! Fighting with all their might
And now I see, that I pursued my dream
And everyone could see my smile gleam!
Categories:
harnessing, animal,
Form: Rhyme
"Rapido"
walks on water fast
salty trinity
soul heeling
a pearl reflects wisdom
on indigo see, the mirror mapped
dancing with diamonds
the light shows
characters
rippling mirages
compasses peppered
rapt in black
and blue velvet
soon arrives the Morning
like a twin, golden apple
rolling before us
Apollo
alighting upon a floating chariot
racing white horses
a storm
is approaching
harnessing the tornado
petulant Horseman
Apollyon, hit lists,
in raised fist
riding a magic carpet
(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)
heeling.
healing.
list (nautical).
list (enumerate).
Rapido 60.
Categories:
harnessing, blue, endurance, muse,
Form: Narrative
The journey of souls
Pay homage to rebellion
Like mongol queens
The prophet drinks medicinal tea
Harnessing the power of now
Resting in the seat of his soul
The argonauts battle
They fight through the wasteland
And commit murder in the cathedral
The spirit’s apprentice
Tends to the soul
And lathers the oil that heals
Leaves fall gently
The birds are all dying
The journey of souls
Pay homage to rebellion
Categories:
harnessing, dream, journey, romantic, soulmate,
Form: Free verse
Gracious beauty
Inner power of God's precious love
We feel from above
This warm embrace
We feel gently touching our faces
Harnessing positive energy
God's frequency
You are my witness
I feel this closeness
Categories:
harnessing, blessing, devotion, faith, family,
Form: Rhyme
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