Relenting Poems | Examples

what love could i seek if not yours?

what love could i seek if it’s not yours?
a joyous ode to your name— 
even sorrow would glee to hear.

i’ll leave some words on your doorstep
slowly relenting, slightly scrambling.

like the way they were in my tongue,
your name’s as sweet as the morning dew,
waiting for my lips to utter
each syllables describing all of you

don’t spare me from your benevolence
don’t spare me from your rage
don’t push me away when the voices 
get to the corners of your circle

breathe me in and hollow me out
let me hear the ache in your voice
before the wind’s whistle blow you away 
from me

Poetry Soupris

Poetry soupris
Soupris being French for sighs
And we all breathe them
At different times in our lives

We breathe them in relief
And maybe in our sleep
Exhaled after we've railed
Against the nightly thief

Poetry soupris
Potato soupris served cold
Alphabet soupris
Spelled out in the bowl

Sighs of relief
Sighs that matter
Sighs of release
In thoughts that scatter

(Carole Landis
"The sigh heard round the world"
Only Twenty-nine 
When we lost "your baby" girl)

Sorrowed soupris
During suffering endured
Godly suffering
Soupris when your cured

Soupris relenting
Served during your sentence
The sighs, the soupris
As we seethe through repentance

Now that the war is over
And you have traveled home
Awaiting and waiting
To breathe out this soupris poem

Let the soupris fly away 
And all things al dente (to the tooth)
If this were the Seventies
I’d hope your needle finds its groove

CONCENTRATION

Concentrate
So you can penetrate
Through that concrete
Which are obstacles, denials and more
Into your concealed dreams or visions
Without deviating from your mission.

Focus and keep looking ahead 
So you don't loose guard 
Then fall back or resent
That's what a coward does
Relenting or forfeiting dreams.

Distraction is an enemy
That steals your glory
Gain victory over you 
If you ain't focus or curious 
So; concentrate on what's ahead of you
Concentrate on the necessities 
Forget about the naysayers 
People always have something to talk.

Making a Web

Webs of a certain color
The wheels of dancing 
Silk under the stark stars
Love unwitting
Hatred spinning
Filling the night with choices
A black rustle of her mind
Challenging the corners
Where pets play and music sifts
Jovial matters in witting the ring
Towering the shake of debate
Anchoring the blood of soon
The relenting attack a fever still
Touring the measure
Her eyes, opiates
Her bread wrecking
The siren in her well
Love, her lease
Hatred her paw
Among the misunderstanding

Are These My Golden Years

Arthritis dictates much of what I do,
Relenting sometimes, though. Then I will be
Elated as I feel my strength renew,

Take walks pain-free and do, with energy,
Housework without completely wearing out.
Each week I see more wrinkles and gray hair. 
Sometimes my mirror makes me want to shout~~
Enough complaints! At least, my head’s not bare.

My bathroom trips are more than in the past.
Young people, I know you don’t understand!
						
 
Glad my home’s small, so I can get there fast.				
On outings, restrooms are in high demand.
Last year the doc increased my BP med.
Decaf might help, but caffeine’s such a good
Elixer. It clears cobwebs from my head.
NO caffeine makes folks eat more than they should!   

       ***********************
 
Year’s end approaches. Thoughts of coming days  
Excite me. More than ever, love of friends
And family sustains me. God, I praise.
Redeemed, I’m Heaven-bound when life here ends.
So, I conclude there’s GOLD in life’s late phase.

In a Snowflake

Breathless sighs, soft
Dreams awakened, stirred
To life by smokey gasps, air
Cutting, biting… bitter
Blustery cold, like the heart
After a dismal divorce
From someone who knows
Every sorrow, each fear…

All the dreams forbidden,
Like the silence of the dawn
Who is blanketed by white, snow
Falling overnight, reminding
Each puffing prayer that there is
Gusting winds of change,
Laughing through the flakes
In quiet waves of inspiration, soothing
Away the melancholic fright
As night is erased by a sun reflecting
Flurries raging between the pages
Day and night – the moments
Connecting silence and sound,
Stormy weather and the moon’s
Shimmering pleasures, singing
Music in notes of turbulent
Relenting into the breathlessness

Raging, furious storms
Relinquishing the silence
Through the explosion of a blizzard
Who reminds us all…
	Historically, we’re all merely
Fragments, dust – a snowflake
Melting beneath the warmth of the Son






WINTER STORM Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Kim Rodrigues
December 23, 2022

A Quiet Night of Simply Listening

venting
you instill your trust in me
relenting
you pour all of the tears out of your heart and mind

i never mind listening to you
for no one did it for me

at times you have to stop thinking about yourself and devote a listening ear to others
for you are not the only one, and you can learn something as well

being quiet
i become your diary as well as your journal
causing no riot
i become your the pages within as well as your sounding board

i do not mind
Because I Am Proud To Be The Friend That You Turn To

Manhattan

Manhattan
By LoLa

The neverending cascade of looming city skylines
Towering strangers captures her gaze and her hands
Attempts to lift the veil from abandoned timelines
Leaves her breathless where A Phantom Hurricane stands

Relenting to the light from the cracks in her heart
Beating to frequencies of screams in the city
A lifeless stare where frenetic signals depart
Swelling with the blood of lost souls in harmony 

Expressing a love lost through the pain in her eyes
A thousand miles away, lie stories of their past
Approaching lights of distant shores will ask her, "WHY"?
Why memories and matching tattoos never seem to last

Forgotten daydreams of nameless faces in the crowd
Forgetting days when She lost her grip on the wheel
Stranded in streets where silent thoughts were not allowed
Breathing in the weight of grief She has yet to feel

As waves of rain proceed sunshine profanities
Honest words lie, with false displays of bravado
Smouldering signal fires revealing fallacy
Moments where they’re free from confines of pine below

With the Light, Comes Hope

As the sun fades behind the horizon
Relenting it's hold on the nation,
Darkness, with steady steps and might
Clutches in and set to fright
The gloves that holds my peace,
Shattering them, piece, by piece.
Laying the mind bare,
For a thousand thoughts to run in despair.

The silence of nature entwining 
With the Owl's hooting shattering
The ominous silence, 
Tells of another invisible presence
That sends the shivers down the spine
Unraveling thoughts of man and Divine.

The cockerel's shouts prepares the way
For all creatures home and away
And me clinging to my soul in desperation
To prepare for a new vibration.
As the new light emerges and I cut off the rope,
I smiled, for with the light, comes hope
                                      © Temajung Michael T.

Life Verses Death

Life can be compared to a cunning fox,
We often need to cogitate out of box;
Showcasing our cleverness.

Death can be compared to gloomy songs,
We need to surrender as the time bongs;
Accepting with braveness.

Life and death are non-identical entities,
We need to agnize, there aren't immortalities;
Relenting sheer earnestness.

28-5-2020

~DEEPA~

Third place in the contest.
Note:Triple Stanza Couplet Tail-Rhyme Poetry Contest
Sponsor:Charles Messina

Dear Stranger

Dear stranger,
pouring those capsules
into relenting palms, 
ready to down
the pain away -
don't do it.

Dear stranger,
testing that edge
against naked skin,
hoping to cut 
away the hopelessness -
don't do it.

Dear stranger,
trying a knot
with desperate fingers,
believing it will clutch
away the loneliness -
don't do it.

Dear stranger,
reading these lines,
consumed with despair,
don't let a moment
become your definition -
you're stronger, my friend.

Jordan Runs

Long ago, when he was young
  Just learning every path leads to new adventures
When Jordan flowed with finer things
  He turned about and took the long way home

Time would mock him along a longer way
  What was he thinking just to see some scenery?
But the tug on that irresistible summer day
  More about feeling than a 3D destiny

Shy and wonderful, he willed to wander
  The bending of another will for an instant relenting
Shackles swiftly disappearing at his feet
  Opening a soul to draw the heart to a place uncharted

No hope to make a legacy today
  Flowing follows steps of two most trusty feet
Spirit of youth, such innocence cannot be distilled
  Set to the wind, the vapor moves from one’s free will

Soon he found the new way exciting
  Set the pace a run along the path through now~here
Finding freedom an essence greater than any destiny
  A perfect lesson on a perfect summer day

Arriving slightly winded to a place to call a home
  Compliance leads to comfort from the wilder-ness
Yet his fondness glows about that other route
  The memory of a moment turned a light inside his heart

Heartless-

In a kingdom full of small;
Filled with relentless humans;
I sat engaged and unrelenting;
Upon a midnight hardhearted;

you are...

HEARTLESS

Once upon a midnight hardhearted;
^Suddenly, I heard something snap,
the paranoid brought such sorrow;
You warned me about the map;
And so you came gently flapping;

you are...

HEARTLESS

With such a passion for sapping;
Bored, I choose to sleep;
Bored, I’m napping;
Still engaged in relenting schemes;
While searching for my dreams;
Lo’ so foreign my heart you shall not keep;


you are...

HEARTLESS

You were ever so cold to me
Emotionless, you froze me
So thoughtless and uncaring…
So far you are. Ever so
Heartless

11/20/19

Written word by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2019

As I Relish In My Savior-

AS I RELISH IN MY SAVIOR--

As I relish in my Savior;
Once led by my sinful behavior;
I’m addicted spiritually slain by my inner demons, 
Harvesting these pangs, I pain caught up in exigency;
God’s mercies His grace He has given me;
Now alas, I AM a freedman;
Abstain from the woes those that I’ve vested;
I’ve past my trials, I’ve past my test now I’m rested;
In the mighty, mighty arms of the Master Christ;
Relenting in all things I’ve sacrificed;
Shall know I shall not scream His name in vain;
I will allow His truths and culture to rain;
Is, destined I will, I shall be His;
For this is so, this is what God says;
For my sins shall be drained;
In Jesus mighty named…
I’m now forgiven beginner, 
yes now I am a winner
In the mighty, mighty name of Jesus, Hallelujah, 
and alleluia
AMEN and again
AMEN


8/7/19


For Eight Word Challenge Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Emile Pinet



Submitted poems must used :
https://www.rhymezone.com/ and
https://www.howmanysyllables.com
 
Totals:
147 words
202 syllables
829 characters
22 lines

A Prayer For Fathers On Fathers Day

Bless be the fathers 
Who provide life’s wonders
To their families without blunders
Sometimes from yonder places
Always making the needed sacrifices
Never tiring, never relenting
Ever giving, ever loving
Touching our lives with love
Lifting our hopes
Causing our hearts to move 
And our feets to dance 
To unsung music from a distance
Thank you fathers
We need no others

To all fathers
Who provide life’s wonders
To their families without blunders
We bless you.
Happy Fathers’ day.

A.A, 062019.

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