My “Obscene” messages
Have been seen by all.
Eyes twitch at the blue and grey bubbles.
I am disgusted.
They are disgusted.
We are disgusted.
A pungent smell,
A sour taste.
My senses have been contaminated.
One through five.
All of the above.
Gone.
Just like that.
Just one glance at fun-filled,
Childish words,
And you’re sick.
I feel full of regret,
But regret nothing.
Categories:
obduracy, 10th grade, age, boy,
Form: Free verse
Regardless of my mother's death,
One hope, obduracy, and words otiose breath
The wheels of progress never stop turning
The times shift, and my sad heart is yearning
The world continues to burst forth in beauty
To regain faith, one can never flout divine duty
Lemons had just started to turn yellow
The sky is azure, and there are plains in view
Conjointly to the bewildered trout
Somehow, the spark of passion faded out
Even as yearning is freed from restraint
I saw years slip by without one complaint
There is still plenty of love in us to pass around
I can stand with my feet sustained on the ground
And savor the peaches as a warm embrace
Where the imprint of love may leave a trace.
Written: May 26, 2023
Categories:
obduracy, appreciation, death,
Form: Couplet
Resolutions Poetry
Related meanings I have to firmly determine myself
Everyone lies to themselves resolvere, "to loosen, undo, settle."
Stick-to-it-iveness pertinaciousness we find ourselves in abated promises
O bstinacy my power over myself obduracy obdurateness fosters my grit
Loyal testiments truths stout-heartedness
Unified in boldness steadfastness dedication commitment in awe
Tenacity, tenacity, tenacity strong-mindedness constancy
Intension intentness fixity of purpose when we change our minds
Openly staying power spiritedness strength of character
No one tries hard as us purposefulness resolute yearly onslaughts
So we all promise to do better
01/19/20
~Placed 10th in contest
Acrostic poetry form only.
Sponsored by: Matt Caliri
Categories:
obduracy, analogy, assonance, change, character,
Form: Acrostic
solving illetracy
removing obduracy
Categories:
obduracy, imagination,
Form: Couplet
HER SINKING SILENCE
It feels like sinking.
This stirring, unrequited thinking.
This love. This connecting
Emotive quantum linking
It pains.
You in obduracy
Me alone, pathetically
In pain.
Again.
We could be
So happy.
Instead
We’re dead
The end.
December 16, 2014
By Joel Thornton
Categories:
obduracy, absence, december, loneliness, longing,
Form: I do not know?
“SOUL INGRAIT”
Look where you have ended up.
A place so filthy and lonely;
us
to dissever.
Converse to interrupt
Mutated to plastic;
so fake, so phony,
When will enough be enough?
Unrecognizable, no cognition
Insensible & dishonor,
needing to comprehend
How you are; truly desolate and lost.
I abdicate on reaching what once was you.
The reflection,
an aberration of hopes and dreams
Obduracy to rescue;
clairvoyant and blind.
Avoiding all honesty
Masking all that dirt
filling up inside.
Categories:
obduracy, absence, desire, faith, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Tired, staggering, falling,
walking, crawling, creeping, moving ahead
- overwhelming obduracy
Categories:
obduracy, faith, hope, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Haiku
I am both wind and whisper
as the tenderness of life's rush
mellows the passage of posterity
I am both forgiving and fiery
to the softening of obduracy
I can be sorrowful and somber
or a paragon of felicity.
I may be sincere, sometimes I'm not
from truth to a degree of fakery
I am the rashness of ribaldry
as the coarseness of a day of wrath
and the sense of a better path
chosen with wise analogy
I am defiled and graciously defined
oft praised and oft maligned
I am both reason and rigidity
for truth be told
I am the absolute worst and
the ultimate best of humanity
Both wind and whisper
I am you!
Categories:
obduracy, imaginationtruth,
Form: I do not know?