I was never born a poet
But a pauper standing on a pulpit
Penning words in spring tide dings
Ritzy scribbling like trundling rings
Talons of my feet
Seething grounds I scratch and leet
Feathers I preen and wag
Over my scruff I rip and gag
On rivers and wells I soak and dip
Shimming on reflections I gobble or sip
Over hills and cliffs I hover and skip
Your face I slip over my lip
"Poetry brought life to a dreamer as a penner
But why is life more important than poetry as a winner?"
(Prosebite)
Categories:
penner, life, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Verse
*Image of POETRY SOUP logo/avatar.
Poetry Soup
Presence of a plethora of patron poetesses and poets, Welcome!
Openhanded optimism is offered.
Exciting endeavors of extending enrolments blessed the multitudes.
Translate and transcribe text, and transpose them and be of good cheer.
Read and review others, and be blessed.
Yearning yesterday yields today, blessed am I.
Satisfaction soothes and savors me.
Only Oneness am I true.
Universal and unpretentious am I.
People pleasing penner!
2022 August 09
*3rd Place*
POETRY SOUP BEYOND ITS NAME
~~Beata Agustin: Judged 2022 September 25
Categories:
penner, identity,
Form: Name
By Izunna Okafor
Beyond the shrubs of Sahara
Lifted a munt of brainy bond
Over the Mississippi of Ethiopia
Lofted a penner with his hunky thoughts
Across the bridge of a foreign land
Hovered a book of beautiful pages
Tightly enclaved yet as an Ireland
In a skull rounded in the clime of golden edges
Off the coast of Addis Ababa
Tears rang bell aloud
Beholding a star being staggered
In a nimbus of a faraway land
A heroic pen was raptly melted
As the book of many pages shattered across the ocean
A nation's pride has become ashes
Making a wave in the hist of the deadly world
Oh! he was roasted faraway
Faraway his father land
Amidst tears in the eyes his nation
A great gem was ruefully tossed
The ashes of his fecund head
The cranes of his creative fingers
The cremains of his eagle eyes
Now pose lifeless in a foreign land
He's gone
A hero is gone
Roasted in a faraway land
Oh! He's gone forever.
© Izunna Okafor, 2019.
Categories:
penner, africa, death, life, tribute,
Form: Elegy