Make Do Poems

Lost in a Memory

...My mind is drifting back in time today
To the moments we shared together
We captured it for awhile when we were feeling sublime.

I was coming out of an ended relationship
Jaded and confused
I ...

Paradox of awakening

...Thought precedes action, intent comes yet before,
arising from murmurs of a restless soul,
feeling incomplete, though each pore is a door,
to imbibe agape love, that heart may feel whole,
yet foi...

Fit In

...the crowd you hang with
is ‘sophisticated’
everyone sporting 
new duds
new cars
new women in bars
my make-do threads
barely seem decent

      you said I had to change
      as I don’t fit ...

Wallop When

...Sear my heart, O rampant rage!
Simmer deep within!
Scour, devour this rusty cage!
What it takes to win...

As below, thus up above?
Not in this fair world.
Raptor hawk, guard well the dove?
D...

Forever And Always, For All Eternity

...Infinite love
Has come to an end
The white dove?
Its neck has a bend

What was promised forever
Did not last
Continued for never
And came in last

Eight months
To be continued
Eight month...

The Interview

...You thought the application was the hardest part
Without actions you have to share your heart
While your talking you're wishing to read their mind
Are their thoughts of you nice, pleasant or unkin...

Picture This

...In an American primitive painting:
she fetches a pail from a well,
the bucket on her hip is full of
broken eagles,
wind turbines churn in the distance.

Corn fields are bundled together.
Drone...

Heart Transplant

...The doctors just confirmed it what deep down I already knew, I’m dying from a broken heart and there is nothing that I can do
Do I laugh or do I break down and cry, maybe I will go with my third opt...

Zen mode

...recognising limitations of body-mind
the vessel allotted for earth life
we make do with the vehicle
remaining always bliss rife

our true Self is love and light
cognised directly by eye of soul...

Reflections Of The Past,Visions Of The Future Poetry Contest

...Oh, how did I arrive to where I’m at -
a state perpetually in discomfort?
When young, I was athletic and so strong.
I rode my bike with speed and ran so fast.
I went to church and was obedient.
...

Brain Washing Machine

...Years ago, no one had new knees said Dad
They had to make do with the ones they had
Women ran around with wrinkles and gray hair
Plastic surgeons and hair dye did not exist anywhere

I see a bra...

Friendship

...Party all night
Or talk all day
Is that all to friendship
The friendships of today

Or is it a warm embrace
On a cold winter day
Even when the voice rings far
From continents away

Dear fri...

Circus Act

...Underneath the blazing sun
horror widens it’s gape
A merciless ploy to encapsulate gullible minds
It knows you are familiar 
and yet you abandon your truth on the tightrope above 
Trying to main...

Lonely Christmas Elf

...There once was a lonely Christmas elf
who could not do it all by herself.
She said, "I must need a boy", 
and sadly put back the toy
she was making to the workshop shelf.  

While she strolled ...

The Language of Weeds

...
Pick one or two, then that night
we may dream of fragile petals around our
dozing heads,

we may feel butterfly kisses,
they tickle, but it’s all perfectly innocent,
their subtle perfumes
wi...

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