Seeds sprout to become trees
Trees with ample green leaves
Leaves fully growing yellow
Yellow to dry under a hot sun
Sun causing the leaves to die off
Off the tree they hastily tumble
Tumbling silently wraths mother tree
Tree dismayed for losing her leaves
Leaves now lying at her foot inactive
Inactive and leaving nude the branches
Branches of mother tree cause her shame
Shame for the birds’ frantically watch
Watching powerlessly their home gone
Gone at sunset but waiting for another day
Day for seeking a new comfy home
Home of joy to host everyone joyfully
Poem by N. Mugisho
Categories:
powerlessly, absence, age, anxiety, death,
Form: Free verse
She cried her heart out in the shower this morning
Desperate, anguishing tears
Uncontrollable, convulsing sobs
Anxiety within was strangling her
Clenching and crippling
Incarcerating her into a frozen-like state
All the while
No one heard her cries
No one shared her suffering
No one knew how defeated she felt
How crumpled her courage was
How convoluted her coping skills had become
How much it was consuming her
Porcelain contours cradled her body as she wailed
Powerlessly...
Fearfully...
and...
Alone
July 25, 2021
Categories:
powerlessly, anxiety, courage, dark, depression,
Form: Free verse
My day had been extremely hectic
Stamina, I fully consumed along the day
Desperately, into my cold bed, I jumped
To only find myself into the shade of death
A deep sleep immediately swooped my soul
To guide it mercilessly into hallucination
Where red and black visions invaded me
To find myself into the shade of death
I was lonely and poorly struggled powerlessly
With lions and leopards that surrounded me
Great fear vanished my voice to cry for rescue
To find myself into that distressing shade of death
My arms abandoned me desperately to fight
Into a deep burning hell, I stood, with wobbling legs
Burning was my bed and prickly were my sheets
I found myself fearful into the shade of death
But luckily, a kind Angel came closer to me for rescue
To only realize the real world existed around me though
The whole night had been unkind and silently dead
Lifeless was the land: no crickets’ songs, no moon, no stars
To leave me in such virtually scaring shades of death
Poem by Mugisho N Theophile
Categories:
powerlessly, anxiety, death, depression, dream,
Form: ABC
I was taken captive by an amazing Chinese rose
She is very far away, but it seemed close
In the land of fantasy,was born a powerful illusion
Against a beautiful dream, powerlessly of preclusion
Categories:
powerlessly, allusion,
Form: Romanticism
This husband is double-crossing his wife and she is suspicious
That her ‘for better, for worse’ trusted husband is promiscuous
He is called before the gods of verdict and fate: some court session
To make him affirm before these gods: indeed a serious procession
She made him say that she was the only woman he was seeing
And only and only her, the suspicious wife, was that human being
The suspicious wife asked: “Am I the only woman you are seeing?”
The cheating man said: “Yes. You are the only woman I am seeing.”
“And swear by your soul that I am the only woman you are seeing”
“And I swear by my soul that you are the only woman I am seeing”
“And say I hope to die if you’re not the only woman I am seeing”
“And I hope to die if you are not the only woman I am seeing”
The woman lets out a sigh of relief and content for her bold attempt
The man chuckles ‘how many women am I seeing here?’ with contempt
And the gods of verdict and fate look at each other, powerlessly
For the promiscuous husband has answered so fine and faultlessly.
Categories:
powerlessly, husband, language, trust, words,
Form: Rhyme
The ghostly sky hangs over the bay
Purple, ominous and looming black
Seagulls screech their advance warning
Of the foreboding storm approaching.
Through the endless rush of water
Swelling, surging and wildly panoramic
The passage of time flows powerlessly.
A rainbow glares from the November sky
At one with winter's warning sounds.
Small fishing boats cradled by the pier
Rock and sway, frail and threatened
The darkened ocean has caved in
And is now under siege.
Seagulls flap their wings in rhythm
Seeking out the giant cliff's shelter
While frothing waves, great replicas
Of an eternity of lifetimes -
Roll and struggle to their destination.
Through blackened skies covering the bay
A myriad of orange light shoots momentarily
Dimming - fading and then dispersing.
Nature is trust into chaos
Thundering and spraying the pier wall.
As the winds howl and the waves lash
The fury of the night has just begun.
Categories:
powerlessly, nature
Form: Free verse
Droplets delicately adorn the skin
dressing it with diamonds of life.
How you seduce the mind,
your peals pleasingly relaxing the body.
Soothing the soul,
your warmth trails playful affection,
infectiously raising temperatures
whilst refreshing hidden areas,
cleansing parts unseen;
until your passionate embrace is over,
and quietly you renew your natural force.
Waiting, welcoming tired spirits,
awakened, your piped need to run free escapes.
Then caught, trapped and suspended once more.
You stand now powerlessly surrendering
while pressures urge of desire to embrace
holds you, patiently awaiting naked return.
Categories:
powerlessly, adventure, caregiving, dedication, devotion,
Form: Free verse
An angel passed by me
With a broken smile that I could see,
A tear fell from her eye,
A tear that made all my feelings die,
She screamed, facing the sky,
Her words almost made me cry,
She said that the world was a lie,
But she never told me why,
She powerlessly fell down on the floor,
And I couldn't hear her voice anymore...
I looked at her bewildered and confused,
But at the same time I was amused
From the angel that feels the pain,
So now I know that I am not insane...
Everyone feels the pain in this life...even an angel
Categories:
powerlessly, imagination, sad, me, angel,
Form: Rhyme