Love Leaves One Breathless
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“Love can change a person’s life, leave him breathless, either building him or breaking him”~ By Poet
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Cupid the great archer,
Shoots his ...
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Categories:
inlets, anxiety, love,
Form: Free verse
The Power of Words
...some words wound and some heal
some words seeping down, hearts steal.
some words hit hard, some deeply cut
some meant to praise, but some to insult.
some stay inert, dead on the lips.
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Categories:
inlets, cheer up, desire, words,
Form: Rhyme
Rise And Fall
...inspired by The Platters song, ‘Ebb Tide’
Rise And Fall
Salty tears ebbing away on moon’s tide
as whispered love echoes on ocean waves
across caramel sands w...
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Categories:
inlets, beach, romance, sea,
Form: Terzanelle
Harbors and Inlets
...Along the waterfront where the piano keys play,
A harbor of echoes, where notes gently sway.
Keys like ripples in a tranquil bay,
A melody of inlets, where echoes stay.
Frequencies murmur with ...
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Categories:
inlets, boat, color, earth, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
I Knew What Was Coming Next
...i knew what was coming next
as I set the sandwich down
there is a proper way
to remove the crust I heard
and that familiar jolt
ran up the length of my spine
as it settled into my logic
of cou...
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Categories:
inlets, angst, anxiety, psychological,
Form: Free verse
I Know a Place
...Between frosty cobalt-cliffs, cruise-ship hesitates to pause,
Amidst ice sculptures echoing cheers of spirited applause,
Mesmerizing enthralled sights evincing awe-struck trance,
Lauding vast geli...
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Categories:
inlets, beautiful, nature,
Form: Rhyme
In the Folds
...O hollowing gales,take me to the breathtaking sights
Where dreams abide and love resides
in the ensemble of butterflies
and beautiful summer skies
where morining sparrows narrate t...
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Categories:
inlets, 7th grade, absence, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Rain
...rain hitting the asphalt, the cracking concrete, water weaving
its way down the overpass. Residents cover up with plastic,
a conflagration of yellow light on garbage bags
hitting tree tops, branch...
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Categories:
inlets, absence, bird, city, love,
Form: List
Flooding Peace
...block at start bitter thoughts, open inlets of love and joy ~ peace will flood
July.3. 2022
The Art of Peace Poetry Contest
Sponsor- John Lawless
Syllable count. 17 (HMS)...
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Categories:
inlets, joy, peace,
Form: Monoku
Sailor Meets the Siren
...He fell off topside and floated in the ocean for a while.
He traveled downstream hanging onto a whale with a smile.
Ending up in a river with some beautiful inlets and a song.
The lure of a melodi...
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Categories:
inlets, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Seaside Village
...Life for a child at this seaside Village, wild and free
A band of misfits come together, boys and girls
They Gathered overlooking the village, a day of adventures waited
Through grassland over bou...
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Categories:
inlets, childhood, children, confidence, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Vagabond Dreams
...Amidst reality of my life two single things remain
inflection of your voice and glow of your tender eyes
held safe by this memory we become transparent rain
wild as the tidal waves of Bri...
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Categories:
inlets, appreciation, love,
Form: Quintain (English)
Just a Drop of Water
...humidified life
nourishes a thirsty mind
like poetry it settles
on a leaf of emotion
transpires ideas
while insects feed
on nectar
and manna
from somewhere appears
on reas...
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Categories:
inlets, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Jealous Jumping Jaguars
...Amazing antiquated alluring alligators
Bending ballistic beyond belief barbells
Crushing curious crimson crucial crocodiles
Delighting dark dank daring darling dwarfs
Enormously elongated elves e...
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Categories:
inlets, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Abecedarian
Prose Poem Hogarth
...Shell like and thin,without and within,whose surface naturally co-incide.Straight rays from the eyes,horizontal,perpendicular,grace with beauty personified.
Simplicity,intricacy uniformity .Quanitif...
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Categories:
inlets, art, word play,
Form: Prose Poetry
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