Riving Poems | Examples

Nevertheless, Surviving

Besieged by cruelty
In the wicked hellscape
Turned a blind eye to the latent beauty
Of both love and hate
And like the memories, rewinding
Nevertheless, surviving! 

They said, reckless you are
and left me as a dystopian
Those ill disposed ones who were never a star
As disregarded the beauty in each of my scar
From the leading light they are yet so far
And like the spirals, binding
Nevertheless, surviving! 

Collapsed brain, isn't bearable
infidelity from someone inevitable
Led to the affliction for that gullible heart
Everything is tearing apart
As if carrying mess isn't anymore an art
Still painful, the riving
Nevertheless, Surviving!

D Riving W Hile I Ntelligent

Greet the new year alive
Remember, no drink-no drive
if you want to stay free
then give up that key
DUI's are not worth the jive.

Degradation

As a lovely lotus, holding her head high, dooms to fade…
So is the fate of which damn degradation does invade! 

When the angel of democracy murdered and muted,
Could politics provide people protection well suited?

When disruption of home and strife for living grow thriving,
Doesn't, like corroding steel, society go riving?

When caste, color, creed, and sects, like Rock walls, true growth obstruct,
Could we, midst so solid strife, succeed culture to construct?

Aren't riches, fading flowers, if fail to face poverty?
Could when hunger sky-scrapes, humans dream of joys plenty? 

Who can save religions from fermenting fatality,
When, they shift from soul-strengthening spirituality?

When the air, water, soil, hills, vales... get wholly polluted,
Could the environment escape getting foully afflicted?

When inner harmony, easily, by changes challenged,
Could capture of pride by shame be so easily balanced?

Every sphere needs to move in so sequential symphony,
If not, could all live in life-casting cosmic harmony?



03 October 2021
This or That, Vol 7 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh

Staying Young

D-eny
A-nguish
I-n
S-taying
Y-oung

D-riving
E-very

C-ry
A-way
S-o
T-he
R-apture
O-pens

Topic: Birthday of Daisy M. De Castro (July 11) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Empty Fields of Plenty

E ntreating our persuasion
M anifesting that more is always better
P owering the effort to provide
T ables languishing with waste and
Y ears of abuse to abundance

F isheries of men
I dle in their satisfaction
E manating from their harvests
L ong overdue in sharing
D riving their gifts of plenty
S traight into the jaws of wastelands

O ver shoals of greed
F ailing to know their heart's content

P latitudes of gratitude
L ay empty and barren
E agerly spent then forgotten
N aked in their humbleness
T o the Gods of Cornucopia
Y ielding to a desolate starving future


April 27, 2020
Cornucopia Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Kai Michael Neumann

No Rest For the Wickedly Mind

Nothing left for me to say
Up all night and through the day.
Toil and trouble does seek me out
Riving the rest I miss, no doubt.

If I lay me down to sleep 
The wickedly mind begins to creep.
Worries of old some of new 
I lose the rest that I was due.

I then begin to compromise, I ask my 
Mind to sympathsize
and finally in the end it appears 
my wickedly mind gives way.

Without a thought I fall to sleep.

The wickedly mind,  loses once again.

Six-Time Champion

L-et
E-xceptional
W-orld's
I-mpressive
S-ix-time

C-hampion
A-chieve
R-acing
L-ane's

D-elight
A-s
V-ictory
I-n
D-riving
S-hows
O-ne
N-otable

H-onor
A-llowing
M-otorsport's
I-mpressive
L-everage
T-o
O-perate
N-icely

Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Ready To Tread On

J-anuary eleventh Wednesday
O-pens the dawn with light;
E-arly morn has broken,
L-eaving the chill of night.

S-hadows, haze, and mist
A-re all nowhere in sight;
N-o more Tuesday fog, the sun sets things aright.

P-reacher proclaiming the truth,
E-xposing the man's own opinion;
D-riving on the right path,
R-eady to tread
O-n.

Lord of My Life

Lord of my life is God Who reigns with majesty
Ordering my steps toward eternal grandeur
Restraining me from temptations’ infirmity 
Driving me, as by His grace-filled faith, I endure!

Optimized power for servant's heart He does grant
Fortitude He bestows to me, His called steward
Mercy and love He pours, making me jubilant
Yielded gladly am I to Him, now and onward!

Life with my Master is blissfully the greatest
In Him, I can surpass every test's turbulence
Forever He deserves my thanks and praises' best
Exalting His name I’ll  do by His providence!

Acrostic, Quatrain
August 18, 2018

4th place, "Honourable Mentions worth mentioning" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Richard Lamoureux; judged on 5/12/2019.

Apparent Presence

K-nock
A-t
R-oom's
L-ocked

D-oor
A-s
R-oof
E-agerly
N-eeds

Y-our
A-pparent
P-resence

D-riving
A-way
G-rayness
A-nd
N-ook

Topic: Birthday of Karl Daren Yap Dagan (July 07) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Excellent Performance

L-uck
I-f
Z-ealously
A-ttained

D- uring
E-xcellent
P-erformance
I-s
D-riving
E-veryone
P-roud

Topic: Birthday of Liza Depidep (June 08) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

In Solitude

G-ood
R-eminiscing
E-liminates
E-very
C-hilling
E-ffect

D-riving
O-bscure 
M-emories

A-way
R-emembering
I-n 
S-olitude

Topic: Birthday of Greece Dom Aris de Luna (May 10) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Happy Ending

R-ings 
A-re 
N-ot 
D-riving 
Y-our 

& 

B-eautiful 
L-ove 
A-way 
N-icely 
C-reating 
H-appy 
E-nding 

Topic: Wedding Anniversary of Randy & Blanche Tolentino (April 30) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Storm Approaching

A-nother winter storm approaching 
B-lackouts are predicted 
D-riving to the store
E-xpect large crowds

Happy Trip

D-riving a new car, 
O-n the well-paved thoroughfare, 
M-ileage is so good.

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