Breaking Free
...Some people have 'the look' and exemplify 'the part' for a lifetime.
The curtain has opened; their 'stage of life' unfolds, and the role they
seem destined to play, is set on autopilot with predict...
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Categories:
personal view, change, environment, people,
Form: Prose Poetry
'the White Flag Won'T Be Waved'
...I'm on the mental battlefield, my pen is my sword
Giving up now is what I simply cannot afford
I'm gathering momentum, I'm picking up pace
For a while I was second but I'm now in first place...
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Categories:
personal view, courage, depression, freedom, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
My View On a Poet's Duty
...My personal view of MY own poet’s duty
is to write for folk who are not too snooty
Poetry ‘experts’ may look down their nose
at the simple poetry that I compose
When I read...
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Categories:
personal view, how i feel, poetry,
Form: Couplet
Wasteland a Personal View
...possessed
by words
yet
discourse-less
implicit
intuition
meandering
in a
web of language
a whirling
vortex ...
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Categories:
personal view, literature, poetry, tribute,
Form: Ekphrasis
Mario William Vitale Latest Writings
...The language and images of Mario Vitale's poetry are so closely bound to the natural cycles of seasons, of generations, of the body's functioning, that is surprising to realize how many of his poems ...
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Categories:
personal view, art,
Form: Free verse
Listing a Personal View of What Poetry Is
...Listing A Personal View Of What Poetry Is
1. Poetry is a stone,turned to expose to searching winds once hidden earth.
Robert J. Lindley
2. Poetry is art, mind painted, heart co...
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Categories:
personal view, art, imagination, inspiration, poems,
Form: List
Categories:
personal view, cancer, thanksgiving,
Form: Monoku
The Devizing of a Plan
...A personal view of the Devizes Neighbourhood Plan
and the referendum on Thursday at the Town Hall
All careful plans of men may fail and fall
And falter, crumble; leaving broken stone
No reason ...
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Categories:
personal view, community, england, environment, house,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Who Do You Say I Am
...Who Do You Say I Am?
Who do you say I am, and who am I to you?
Is the resurrection so very important to you?
Am I such a genius in my deeds, so futuristic,
That you cannot vindicate me by them...
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Categories:
personal view, appreciation, bible, blessing, christian,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Faith, Rationality and Islam: a Crisis
...The world shared some turmoil; what went wrong?
that was the question, deplored the argument;
It’s all about Pope Benedict’s address
given to his old university at Regensburg
in Germany where he had ...
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Categories:
personal view, faith, history, introspection, life,
Form: Narrative
A Snowman For You Pt 2
...Continued from Pt 1
In the living room I could hear my parrot. I reached in the refrigerator to grab a
carrot. In the living room I found momma's sewing kit. I grabbed lots of button...
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Categories:
personal view, funny, happiness, sportsme, ,
Form: Free verse
Who Invents a Great Mind?
...Asking questions can get you far
Nevertheless, can’t answering those questions get you further?
A ditch along you path to adulthood,
The prevention of a taught ketchup sachet
Inquisitive, knowled...
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Categories:
personal view, confusion, imagination, inspirational, mystery,
Form: Couplet
Racism
...Red man, green man,
black, yellow, blue or white;
everlasting hate or never-ending fight.
Who cares man?
The unclean race lives every place;
perfection is a term of personal view.
The color r...
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Categories:
personal view, peace, people, philosophy,
Form: Quatrain