GRANDMA’S PRAYING HANDSHands of wisdom
Gone on to God’s Kingdom
Guidance in understanding
Knowing and sustaining
Heaven on high
The watch from Thy
Encouragement that was broad
My heart being assured
Grandma’s years of living experience
Her impact and influence
Strength endurance
Grandma wise
Seeing I to I
Times of Discipline
Wrong to right
Youthful years sometimes resent
As an Adult, I understand
Her song her own, “Afterwhile”
I am enriched to stand and withstand
Her...
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Categories:
journey, appreciation, celebration, grandmother, grandson,
Form: Rhyme
Our journey thus far1 Intent
Assigning no meaning to grace imbibed,
we watch how we are breath by breath transformed,
drenched in bliss mists that cannot be described,
trouncing ego, last bastions of mind stormed.
With God-search the aim, our journey began,
brought about simply, by force of our will,
heart’s fervour the means and also the plan,
as a non-doer by making thoughts still.
There was...
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Categories:
journey, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Kaleidoscopic Journey
Colors whirl 'round and 'round
and the child twirls around
the sun-filled room with joy
and laughter, heaven bound,
not knowing life cut short
when cruel nature frowned.
For: Some Kind of Kaleidoscopic Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Date: July 11, 2025
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Categories:
journey, death,
Form: Verse
From Dusk Till DawnAn isolating darkness looms:
A numb yet tingled skin;
And residues of twilight's gloom,
As walls unseen close in.
This place feels sharp, yet vague and stale;
The clash stirs strife within.
My fingers click and spread—a snap!
So faint—I fear I'm dead.
Insipid airs invade my lungs:
The voices haunt my ears;
Adrift in dreamlike black, undone,
Alone, still lacking fear.
Commanded, guided, commandeered
My soul is...
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Categories:
death, journey, lost, philosophy,
Form: Verse
ROLLIN WILLIEOn the move
Trucker’s style
Every highway mile
Off ramp routes
Through the night and next day
Destination to destination arrive
Sometimes clear skies
Storms in otherwise
Trucker’s highway friends
Flashing of headlights and horns blowing
Around highway bends and mountain highs and lows
Views below
Town citizen waves
Eyes on the road and behave
Truck stops
Restaurant eats
Country songs
Accelerating as I move along
Trucker’s wheels
Turning Turning Turning
Truckers Horn music
An orchestra...
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Categories:
journey, adventure, america, business, character,
Form: Rhyme
Terminal GateFrightening silence pervaded
Swelling of ground due to mounds here and there
A tree adjacent the gate with a GHOSTLY stature
Unfurling a dark blanket by its broad canopy
Even birds don’t like to perch in the GODFORSAKEN place.
Except the bulging- eyed owl
A silent witness for GRIEF-STRICKEN hearts
The fibre art of GOSSAMER aglow in the sunlight
Floating gently like...
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Categories:
journey,
Form: Free verse
Tricycle SojouornI tied a string to my tricycle handle.
In the basket, I placed a shining candle.
From the other end, I tied a balloon.
By hook and crook, I knew that one day soon,
I'd be in the court of the Crimson King.
But what would he offer - not a thing.
He sailed a...
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Categories:
childhood, journey, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
journey, appreciation, bird, christian, courage,
Form: Haiku
Today, Tomorrow and ForeverToday, tomorrow, and forever,
Whether we stay together or not,
You’ll always be the best part of my life I’ve got.
I don’t know how long we’ll walk side by side,
Or when time may take us on a different ride.
Because we never know what tomorrow may bring—
A journey together or separate wings.
But no matter where life takes me...
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Categories:
journey, for him, happy, heart,
Form: Free verse
House I CarryI carry a house upon my back,
A fragile frame of dreams and stone.
Its windows cracked, its timbers black,
But still I walk, and still alone.
Each wall is built from words unsaid,
From nights I stitched with fraying thread.
Its roof is shingled with the dread
Of all the tears I never shed.
I pass through valleys, rivers wide,
This house sways...
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Categories:
journey, emotions, environment, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
sheer tenacity
Categories:
courage, journey, life,
Form: Senryu
Reflections in the River’s Wake
In life’s wake
Are trailing memories,
Born from dreams
With life’s bow fixed
Toward an unseen horizon.
Willed by bold stroke,
The soul is set afloat
Down a river never traveled—
A river of doubt.
Drifting
Under the dark forest canopy
The cacophony,
Nature’s chorus,
Is unusually silent.
Only imagination’s din
Echoes in the ears,
Stirring the heart.
An unuttered presage
Taming hubris
With its humbling message.
On the liquid canvas
Are sketches of nature
Flowing past,
Giving...
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Categories:
allusion, analogy, imagery, journey,
Form: Free verse
LostAmid the fire of twilight sun
I wish I knew my way
horizon’s char and moonlight’s shun
has ashed my hope I pray
for dark cloud constellation to free
a steed for me to flee gunshot streets
for primrose to steal my jaundice
and burn the itch in roadside stars
for me to follow scent and sight
and find forsaken...
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Categories:
journey, addiction, conflict, drug, hope,
Form: Verse
Hold hands together and passLife is beautiful but the journey is no less than a rollercoaster ride.
Let's hold hands together and pass each high tide.
Let's make it interesting and cherish it together.
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Categories:
journey, blessing, care, family, feelings,
Form: Free verse
SoulsFloor tilts in the dark
stumble, fall, look to my side
a lost soul sees I...
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Categories:
emotions, journey, lost,
Form: Haiku
Specific Types of Journey Poems
Definition | What is Journey in Poetry?
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