Rippling Refrain
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Written: August 5, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Nette Onclaud
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River,
rippling refrain,
rushing, rolling, revived,
ribbons of rain rearranging
ro...
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Categories:
rousing, river,
Form: Rictameter
18 sokatore oi kadichhe sokole
...Earnest a teary congregation, heavenly father, heed us in our prayer in humbling a fearful soul
Response in supplication, soul builder say, in a pristine may ,within cosmic and mundane role
The ...
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Categories:
rousing, absence,
Form: Free verse
Summer's Glow
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pleading petals play gently in the sun
whispering joy across the sticky skin
summertime blessings cannot be outdone
however, autumn is her next of kin
praying roses and melancho...
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Categories:
rousing, appreciation, autumn, seasons, star,
Form: Sonnet
A Victorian Christmas
...Out in the streets,
A Church bell cries
Under a misletoe,
A couple shares a delightful surprise
Marking the advent of dusk
Streetlights ignite
Flaunting the excitements
Of the christmas tha...
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Categories:
rousing, christmas,
Form: Free verse
WE SEE LONDON DAY 1
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After 22 hours in planes and a ride on the London tube
our adventure in England had begun…
We met Bryan, Ali and Ava at our hotel…then it was off to have some fun.
To fend off any jet lag…we d...
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Categories:
rousing, family,
Form: Rhyme
Council Culture
...An initiative unforeseen
Supported by the Countess Aberdeen
Motivated several politicians and were
Encouraged to convene
In the year of 1920
When issues were aplenty
Delegates backed the Cork...
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Categories:
rousing, ireland,
Form: Rhyme
Another Farage barrage
...Slewed and screwed by another Farage barrage
No longer a skewed malicious mirage
Stronger imbued with pernicious camouflage
Wronger spewed such vicious sabotage
Doom Monger crude offici...
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Categories:
rousing, political,
Form: Free verse
Proclamations
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Love stirred my soul, rousing an aspiring fire
passions swelled, feelings exploded with delight
gentling hope and grace soared higher and higher
whispers of joy pour out stars ac...
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Categories:
rousing, appreciation, christian, faith, god,
Form: Terza Rima
bishwabinarabe bishwajon mohichhe from Tagoreweb
...17 of 442
(bishwabinarabe bishwajon mohichhe)
The cosmos unison delighting cosmic a flight of a heartsong
The cosmos unison delighting cosmic a flight of a heartsong
O’er the land and the seas ...
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Categories:
rousing, daughter, literature, longing,
Form: Free verse
HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD
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How great is our God! Let it be clearly understood
All Mighty is the Ascendent of all things Good.
He is restoring our suffering Nation
Through the strength of one immovable man
Who will not ...
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Categories:
rousing, america, celebration, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Splendor!
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You are the balance of black and white
The realization that God is so alive
The gentle grasp of pleasure that ignites
The purest peace filling up my insides
You are the rousing sp...
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Categories:
rousing, love, marriage, passion, relationship,
Form: Other
Dreamsong
...The night is deep, the stars are still
The waters too had fallen asleep
Beneath this dark and moonless sky
Nestle down and hear my lullaby
Now hush, your fears let me allay
And let your rousin...
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Categories:
rousing, dream, Lullaby, sleep,
Form: Quatrain
Beelzebug the God of Flies
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To a group of recovering alcoholic flies
the pastor offered hope with rousing cries:
Ignore what others say, ignore the lies,
resist temptation, transform your lives,
stay clear of bars, salo...
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Categories:
rousing, humor,
Form: Monorhyme
Love Me Evermore
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Inspired by Glenn Hughes song " From Now On"
In the whispering breeze I heard the birds sing
for you as the sunburst sky flushed your face.
How endearingly attractive you were then to me...
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Categories:
rousing, hope, inspirational love,
Form: Free verse
Unitarian Church returnee
...Unitarian Church returnee
After a hiatus of countless years
plus an additional
almost three months
since a major makeover,
(I experienced the magic
wrought courtesy
a bonafide big hearted ...
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Categories:
rousing, 3rd grade, age, america,
Form: Free verse
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