Inclinations Poems - Poems about Inclinations

...Winter’s releasing us from its perpetually gray and gloomy grip. Who can study in their room, on a beautiful spring afternoon? Azaleas assail ya, with champagne petals of bubblegum fuchsias, the......Read the rest...

...“Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare” William Blake With a fragile earth warm, I lure my Labeo rohita. Minute minnows manage many magical Mackerels. Shrimps attract snapper, aro......Read the rest...

...The Truth Of This Magnitude” Obstinate defiance from an indignant child Consummate reliance on the spirit of the Wild Intricate compositions of meticulous art A syndicate of derision that ......Read the rest...

...STONE I spent my youth presenting as stone, sure that protection from the violent vicissitudes of the human condition lay in a geologic journey, the only real threat the unlikely complication......Read the rest...

...Importance of the Alternative Perspective Contortions of my sentient being Distortions of my inclinations to dream Proportions of truth deciphering what it all means Abortions of opinion as t......Read the rest...

...A Meandering Cocophony of Thought that Evades Fate Contractual obligations toward your future self Non-Factual invocations that deprive you of your health Actual comparisons between poverty and......Read the rest...

...Emergency Circumstances A heavyweight contender for the Consellation Crown A ready to wait pretender of a serious genuine frown A street sweeping vendor in the middle of a mid-western town A ......Read the rest...

...Oceans and Winds I have an obsequious unnatural inclination To sustain my external compulsions And convert them to a pre-text of a sub-text Of instantaneous conclusions Bi-Partisan confusions......Read the rest...

...Golden Harmonies of Existence Grace falling in essence of pure gold from the sky Place the lightning bright vision from the centre of my third eye Embrace the old derision as the armies can onl......Read the rest...

...* Thanks to Sara Kendrick for the inspiration and "Determination" to attempt this (my first) acrostic poem. Desiring Excellence Through Endless Mindful Internal Nature A......Read the rest...

...*** Sketching the Ballerina *** It is well, quite well after midnight. My pup lies fagged on the blanket as close to me as possible. The young ballerina sits slightly slumped On a bench a......Read the rest...

...We live in a world where magic is alive We live with incantation and the surreal We live with the charmed and the fay In a world of magic where enchantment swells In a world where monitoring sp......Read the rest...

...A child lights our way in life... The greatest gift there is to be. They suppress our selfish inclinations... They set our passions free. They give sense to our mortality. They put narcissism ......Read the rest...

...The butterfly counts months not memories, Of the springs and autumn that passed away. Emancipation from all mortal bonds, Memories afflicted only with inscrutable fond. Draped with lamentation ......Read the rest...

...Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.” - Mary Olive......Read the rest...