Get Your Premium Membership

Jotted Poems - Poems about Jotted

Premium Member The Prismatic Self
... Written May 03, 2025, for contest by Daniel Henry Rodgers Word count:397 words, Proposed new word: "aspira-fear" mix of fear and hope ****************************......

Continue reading...
Categories: jotted, appreciation, community, poetry,
Form: Free verse
at the factory
...poet at the factory It had been a long day at the factory but when there was a break, he jotted down a few words and during the day, it became a poem- he always had a pen and block ready, words......

Continue reading...
Categories: jotted, age, beautiful, color, courage,
Form: ABC



Candle
...Honorable Mention in: Your Choice J Poetry Contest Sponsored by Brian Strand Flames flickered as the candle’s light Touched the chilling breath of night Shadows danced around with no ......

Continue reading...
Categories: jotted, fantasy, imagination, inspiration, mystery,
Form: Free verse
working class poet
...Working class Poet It had been a long day at the factory but when there was a break, he jotted down a few words and during the day, it became a poem- he always had a pen and block ready, words we......

Continue reading...
Categories: jotted, absence, adventure, angst, beach,
Form: ABC
Premium Member traveling through my purse
...I search my purse for money or credit cards. Discovering four brochures from September Receipts from the veterinarian clinic with dog tags Twelve poem ideas jotted on a red napkin A used toothpic......

Continue reading...
Categories: jotted, women,
Form: List



Premium Member busybody armchair detective
...busybodies might help catch criminals if they write down every type of car and license plate parked on their block and the blocks around their blocks it would be helpful too if they jotted down th......

Continue reading...
Categories: jotted, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unsung Poets And Their Poems
...the llama scribbled a Limerick the robin wrote a Rhyme the bittern jotted a Lanterne the toad penned an Ode the albatross’ Alliteration the hippo’s Haiku the panther’s Pantoum the cuckoo’s......

Continue reading...
Categories: jotted, animal, bird, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Light My Fire
...From the Summer of Love this snake slithers Exposes its fangs from a sleeve of gold Shakes the Venice beaches to the apocalypse of Viet Nam A song A poem Black leather pants wrapped around Apoll......

Continue reading...
Categories: jotted, creation, heartbreak, loneliness, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seeing Through a Dirty Glass
...Genesis: 1:20 The poet cleaned the kitchen window over the sink At first glance No birds were seen there to feed or drink water Soon through cleaned window Bir......

Continue reading...
Categories: jotted, bird, creation, faith,
Form: Suzette Prime
Before I Write a Love Poem
...restless perceptions lie in shadows they stir in moments of silence words stir as they wait to take form the house is still but it breathes outside the window a yard light shines a star ......

Continue reading...
Categories: jotted, longing, love, poetry, solitude,
Form: Sonnet
We, Crazy
... In the shadows of my half-waked condition of terra firma- patronus renditioned, I mudder into your soil, snorkel into your swamp of inlet tributary, a flagellum personae , prosopopoeia explorae ......

Continue reading...
Categories: jotted, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member It Started with a Blank Canvas
...I picked up some words, From an over heaped pile, Words which impressed me most. Put them carefully onto a blank paper, Like a practiced player placing, Rooks and pawns on a chequered grid. ......

Continue reading...
Categories: jotted, art, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Stricken With Anguished Nausea
...Stricken with anguished nausea Written three years ago tomorrow, yet superimposed (likened to emotional palimpsest) upon mental state of yore recent post traumatic stress triggered courte......

Continue reading...
Categories: jotted, abuse, age, analogy, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Occupied
...I jotted down a thought but it led to a thought So out of the blue I'm weighed down With unarticulated ideas I scrubbed out the lines That were nothing much But the thinking created a space......

Continue reading...
Categories: jotted, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Bonfide
...Bonafide I am the poet The sinner The ardent lover Whose words remain unheard Mourned silently, whimpered alone Died unnoticed Never reborn I am the poet The mad The raving ......

Continue reading...
Categories: jotted, beautiful, betrayal, blue, lonely,
Form: Free verse

Related Poems


Book: Reflection on the Important Things