Cute cat couple in the house, one white and one black,
our lovely pets, we call one Kite and the other Jack.
Wherever we go our close company they always keep,
on bed by our cozy side every night they like to sleep.
Jack would climb and roll over my sagged shoulder,
Kite would lie on paining thighs, for I’m getting older.
Knitting a sweater my wife sits on the sofa with the pet,
fur and wool strands intertwine to make it a unique set.
In separate bowls we give daily food to Jack and Kite,
for we’re in need of peace, don’t like to see them fight.
In the closed room when sounds subside, I sit in the dark,
listen happily to the rhythm of our pet cats’ silent walk.
We won’t let anyone touch or caress our charming cats,
nor would like them called our animal pets chasing rats,
for Jack and Kite are like our beloved children we fancy,
we don’t care a bit if people call us a feline couple crazy.
Categories:
paining, pets,
Form: Rhyme
IN THE IRONY OF FORGIVENESS
The irony of forgiveness,
Is that human nature, doesn't
Demand that its cause
Be given forgetfulness;
Thus, giving anger opportunity
To revive its paining spirit
Of negative recollection;
Versus positive reconciliation:-
To forgive and not forget
Can prove to be oxymoronic;
Inhibiting resurrecting love
From eternally bonding
Family, friends, or lovers:-
The forgiveness we ask of God,
We must also give to one another;
And this forgiveness begins
With the forgiveness of self:-
Past trials and tribulations
Extricated and flushed down,
Let self be now ever bonded
In the onederful oneness onement
That God has bestowed upon thee
With faith’s divine peace and love:-
Categories:
paining, allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Prose
artists brush
i have painted you
with the pointed brush of an artist
creating every line and detail of your body
before finishing the colors
now
I have laid aside my paint-filled brush
realizing that i could never compliment your beauty
with pastels on canvas
i filled volumes with words
intending to tell you how much you mean to me
by building paragraphs on pages
before adding any pause or punctuation
i've now laid aside my pen of passion
knowing that my words would fall like roses to your feet
and cause you to blush
to even more beautiful shades of red
i've listened to love songs in your presence
and watched in awe as you conquered days of uncertainty
followed with a joyful heart as you strolled into new territories
unafraid
i've fallen in love with you so many times before today
but today i just wanted to say again
it's easy to love you
if i seem like a child in the presence of his hero
it's because i am
it's because i love you
all over again today
© tolbert
Categories:
paining, art, beautiful, color, romantic,
Form: Free verse
To anyone, never extend your paining hand
Hand that they might twist
Twist cos of distrust and hatred
To anyone, never reveal your tears’ secret
Secret to shield antagonists of making you cry more
More never reveal to anyone your fragile side
Side anyone might deeply explore
Explore to agonize you more beyond
Beyond of your inner secrets
Secrets buried can shun becoming prisoner
Prisoner of your worries towards your enemies
Enemies making you live in perpetual terror
Terror because an honest man was betrayed
Betrayed by a traitor who is confident
Confident because the perjurer is entrusted
Entrusted for breaking the truth
Truth no one will ever reveal
Reveal and expose themselves
Not every truth needs disclosure
Disclosure kills trust people have in you
You trust yourself, as you cannot betray yourself.
Poem by N. Mugisho
Categories:
paining, endurance, hate, jealousy,
Form: ABC
THE WATERS OF GOD
(A Senryu Pentalogy)
The water of faith
Flows waves of hope to life’s shores;
Washing away doubt:-
Curing waves of love,
Saturate life’s paining shores
Healing grace frothing:-
Sailing God’s waters,
Faith, hope and love, conquer all–
Failure defeated:-
Cruising God’s waters,
We arrive at liberty–
All shackles broken:-
Wet with God’s waters,
Dry away all painful tears–-
Joy’s sweet tears flowing:
Categories:
paining, allegory, faith, god, hyperbole,
Form: Senryu
Speaking My Mind
Miracle Man
6/7/2023
I would say much with little, if I had my druthers,
by being precise so that what I say isn’t misread.
I could make my point without paining others,
by taking care in what I say and how It’s said.
Categories:
paining, conflict, feelings, spoken word,
Form: Quatrain
Two cats in the house, one white and one black
My lovely pets, I call one Kite and the other Jack
Wherever I go my close company they always keep
On my bed by my side every night they like to sleep.
Jack would climb and roll over my sagged shoulder
Kite would lie on paining thighs, for I’m getting older
As my wife sits on the sofa knitting a scarlet sweater
Fur and wool strands make them a colorful character.
In separate bowls I give daily food to Jack and Kite
We’re in need of peace, don’t like to see them fight
All the sounds of the room cut off, I sit in the dark
Listen happily the rhythm of the cats’ silent walk.
I won’t let anyone touch or caress my charming cats
Nor like them to be called my animal pets chasing rats
For Jack and Kite are like our beloved children already
I don’t care a bit if people call me a cat man crazy.
______________
March 17, 2023
Contest : Beloved Pets
Sponsored by : BJ Legros Kelley
Categories:
paining, animal, pets,
Form: Rhyme
Been to hell and back had a re-rack still stacked chips to pack/
Cut all slack and comeback sharper than a tack/
Your life is still intact to attack with so much tact to retract/
The dive your fate had cracked leaves you one ultimatum/
Gain yourself back and just claim him/
I don’t have to spit my thoughts verbatim for you to understand them/
What I’m portraying is I’m done playing I’ll be working through while it’s raining/
Whatever is paining be your own artist just painting your whole station/
You’ve soaked enough taint in forget evil and Satan become a saint man/
Concentrate on what you need to cultivate and gain cultivation/
Walk straight out of hate that’s there to incinerate your hearts clean start engraved/
Develop your own life art to let feelings depart and be torn apart paved/
Become stark with the spark in any masquerade wearing a mask to raid
Categories:
paining, art, courage, creation, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
You wish to soon see the prince
But your coat you did not rinse.
Prince might pick its stink and wince.
You don’t such add to your sins.
You still want to meet the prince?
John’s has been paining him since
Now, it’s prayers for a means
To dump his likes in dust bins …
Or, perhaps, your hopes his wink,
After nose had snatched the stink?
I swear, you to john he’d link!
Categories:
paining, celebrity, clothes, political, words,
Form: Rhyme
It’s paining, it’s boring
The children are all snoring
They got out of bed
To school they did head
The teaching they find abhorring
Categories:
paining, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
It's not the void of your absence,
rather you are too full into my heart.
I'm trying to defy your silent presence,
but it's really hard to stay apart.
My pen is paining,
so as my heart.
I'm learning each day from you to be unknown,
but my heart is denying being completely apart.
Oh, you heartless, go far or be mine forever.
Your ferrying is hurting me more.
Will I be free from this ache, ever?
Categories:
paining, addiction, allegory, depression, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Full stop to the letter
Road which meets you
I was silence in a fog for years and I control the feeling like my eyes is open and you are near me as like clouds gets down to earth
My emotions of love by which I make my self high road by road night by night day by day your love dig a hole into my heart
My ego of to pick a salt of your love for all the pain and joy for which wait for the letter my heart is paining?
With love all
Jagdish bajantri
Categories:
paining, 2nd grade, feelings, first
Form: Cowboy Poetry
My aching frame feels like breaking
Shattered glass shards scattered
I'm quaking, totally shaking
Battered weak bones smattered
My paining form's fully draining
Crumbling bits come tumbling
This straining strength slowly waning
Grumbling parts go stumbling
This hurting is disconcerting
Fractured frailty captured
Exerting flesh is diverting
Ruptured decline structured
05.01.2021
For Charlotte's "Open Poetry 4" contest
Categories:
paining, body, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Forgiving
Forgetting all thoughts paining
Forgiving
Closing the lanes revenge traveling
Forgiving
Deleting all errors from memory
Categories:
paining, emotions, engagement, family, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Truth is always good
Anger bad and to avoid
Telling lies that bad
Smiling so good
It’s strange to sense
Anger
Hearing the truth
The truth of goodness
Becoming to anger
So bad and unbecoming
Categories:
paining, abuse, truth,
Form: Free verse
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