Rose Poetry Poems

The Tortured Poets Department has a writer's division that has to approve every poem before it goes out
And my mind is tired of being held...

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I am turning half of my garage into an office space so I will have more room to scatter my unorganized thoughts into even bigger...

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Take my words
Gently
As a thorn-crested rose
Beauty
Shielded by doubt
Shivering
In its self-ness
Caress my words
As infants
Seeking
Sustenance
Toddlers
Tumbling
Over one another
Adolescents
Unsure
of their meaning
Challenge my words
That they
May be honed
Matured
Aged
In the silent cellars
Of...

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Time and mind unravel 
A maze of rose tainted gravel 
Whispers life’s secrets...

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Writing for me is fun 
Like painting words under the sun 
Even in intense of heat 
It makes the rhythm in my heartbeat 

On limitless...

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Within Me

Trapped within, a tempest roars,
Where demons dance and anguish pours,
In the haunted halls of my soul's estate,
Dwells a darkness deep, where love and hate...

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“This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.
I don't plan it.
When I'm outside the saying of it,
I get very quiet and rarely speak...

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I write my thoughts 
on paper,
 let  ink of my soul
      glow, amidst the grief
    ...

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Banks did not burst,
just a dribbling bladder of river
leaked into our back yards.

It drooled over damp roots,
seeped into groundhog holes,
into ditches, where winter debris
had already...

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You never ignore yourself.
You....a finger pointing nowhere.
You flap; make waves,
what else you got?
A flashy kite with no sky
that's what.

If a vulture and a jellyfish
gave birth...

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I sleep 
to visit You 
in Your dreams,

oh my Esteemed -

a gauche novitiate,
there like a Laureate
You receive me

to learn Your secrets,
there wisdom is served
like as...

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Haiku: Red Rose 

red petals unfold 
whispers of love in each fold
nature’s poetry 
...

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Instead of giving my mind some rest
Switched on to ace my mind to test.
Checked if inbox, had comments new
At Poetry Soup, my poems are few.

Then...

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My people are from the community of football both local and national
My people include varied characters from over 50 years in the game
My people include...

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For 'Guess Who' contest sponsored by Margarita Lillico

Born in the abode of the angels,
a blooming rose beautiful and coy;
Glance even from different angles,
as always you...

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