some mornings before my coffee
i feel as prickly as a porcupine
and don't want anyone nearby
precious silence respectably
a most welcomed blessing
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Categories:
respectably, appreciation, blessing, morning, peace,
Form: Free verse
Shorts, gyms shoes, a sweatshirt with a hoodie
Senator John Fetterman dresses peccably
Yet unafraid to speak his mind, to call 'em as he sees 'em
He serves his constituents most respectably
Categories:
respectably, fashion, integrity, leadership,
Form: Rhyme
I had heard of cute clowns, but this was ridiculous.
Mom said, “prepare me to dazzle your eyes out.”
I had laughed, thinking she was exaggerating.
Then he walked in, and he was the epitome of cute.
Ringlets of soft caramel hair framed a darling face.
He was not garish or cheap like other clowns.
He was refined, handsome, respectably adorable.
I said. “You dazzled my eyes out” and she smiled.
Categories:
respectably, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Light Verse
A flower in paradise
There’s a lack of nostalgic golden bell,
Garden flowers in Carlsbad*, and
Even cherry blossoms in Descanso**.
In a neighbor's mini-garden
Resting is an unknown flower.
It seldom dates bees and butterflies.
The stem bows respectably.
The petals wrinkle gracefully.
Full of comfort and peace,
Filled with beauty of recollection,
Bare flower mutters to itself,
Solely embraces the glorious sunrise,
Rolls the shadow at dusk,
Then, she falls asleep in the moonlight
Out of the vicissitude of life
Modest is the flower in paradise.
*Carlsbad: a coastal city, San Diego County, California
** Descanso: botanical garden in La Cañada Flintridge, Los Angeles County,
Categories:
respectably, flower, retirement,
Form: Free verse
World Night Prayer
Prayer poem
Lionel Derbyshire
This poem is respectably and politely dedicated to GOD
O God with your might
Let our night be of
Peace and rest
In every corner of
Your 7 continents
And their islands
O light of God
Bring forth thy
Radiant morning
Shine alike to
Every corner in
Our world
No matter where
We may stay and stray
O Lord of earth
Let rain feed
Thy grounds everywhere
Abound on your
Fields and mountains
Rivers and streams
With plenty for each farm.
Our Father of feed
Let every antelope graze
Every bird find seed
Make every carnivore eat
Give clean drink to fish
In your oceans.
Let every continental child
Eat supper at your table
Our God in faith
Council every heart
Who start with hate
To abide by your command
Bless this reader
Good GOD
Day and night.
Categories:
respectably, bible, blessing, prayer,
Form: ABC
I went to a beautiful Utopia heavenly,
Floating above the blue azure firmament;
I found myself in a Paradise lovely.
The angels were singing a sweet melody,
I felt bliss, rapture and contentment;
I went to a beautiful Utopia heavenly,
Opening the gate, I stood breathlessly,
The air full of an enchanting scent;
I found myself in a Paradise lovely.
All my beloved embraced me tenderly,
I let go of tears and found contentment;
I went to a beautiful Utopia heavenly.
I was greeted by God very respectably,
Sublime the flowers and trees resplendent;
I found myself in a Paradise lovely.
In Heaven the birds all chirp happily,
And all my pets dwell in this firmament;
I went to a beautiful Utopia heavenly,
I found myself in a Paradise lovely.
____________________
November 26, 2015
Villanelle
Written by Broken Wings
For the contest, I Went To Heaven, sponsor, Laura Urbaniak
Second Place
Categories:
respectably, heaven,
Form: Villanelle
One Look
Equals a double glance
Subtract the problem
Replace the stance
Tomorrow whispered this algebraic problem in life's ear
yesterday I thought you was sent to make this type of **** clear
now I see the fight in me is still there respectably I am in the moment of gain
Observing as you sit you back and your chest pumps with a lump of pain
Tears fighting to let go from my eye lids like a actress celebrating the road of fame
I have no guilt for your shame
Thanking the people told her that she couldn't ever make it
Respecting the opinions people that dropped her off the in the land fill
can you feel the pains that the soul plays
as the water dries up by the days
I cant find a reason to fear you
I just have a lot of numbness from what you have put me through
i see you don't believe in but I got Jesus with me
So just know its a legend living inside of me
Categories:
respectably, abuse, angel, blessing, dark,
Form: I do not know?
I am your lord and savior,
Holding thy life in the palm of my hand,
Heed my words and know I am not kind,
I shall excuse your despicably free behavior,
And teach you to die by my stern command,
For that is the way of the respectably defined.
He was my lord and savior,
And thus he shaped my life with the palm of his hand,
To avoid such fury I obeyed and followed in kind,
I found excuses for my callously free behavior,
And learnt to die by stern command,
For that is the way generations are confined.
Categories:
respectably, abuse, childhood, culture, family,
Form: Epic
A child of dreams withdrawn in a state of seclusion
Trudging through with the reliance upon a hand designed delusion
Manufactured emotions man-made potions
Enclosed shores searching for an escape a trap-door
Terrifying inverted confidence in the impurity
Tainted eyes randomly picked to wear a cloned fallacy respectably
Equated to a child’s suffering in the pickings
Of a prescribed abnormality, some would say a self-inflicted malady
Bothersome was the notion that to this problem there was no solution
No magic concoctions;
No self-induced intoxication; to cause a disruption
Of the pollutant that corrupted this child's evolution,
No conclusion only the miss-perceptional seduction ruining this child's
interpretation,
Constantly causing damming confusion:
Could not think pick-up the forgetting drink
Could not breathe smoke the death bringing tree
Could not see bow to the self proclaimed healing seed
Cannot live anymore; so opens a new door,
A new life one this child has grown to adore
Categories:
respectably, inspirational, life, child,
Form: Lyric