Short Braved Poems

Why do we need to say goodbye to the sun 
When our love already braved all the storms?...

Read More

On the metamorphic I sprouted
Sun and snow I braved;
With sickle I was weaned
Pain of pressing who can stand?
Let no one envy me:
Wine in King's glass....

Read More

a cardinal and a rose
braved the solstice frost,
one blackened, yet both proud
-their ends close, no matter

both sneer at the inevitable, while
their beauty is celebrated

one, a symbol of love
one, a symbol of everlasting

while, a little brown bird
knows a beholder is staring......

Read More

Here I am...
clueless as you, take my stare,
imprisoned my spirit
on your tainted palm...

Clever I was not,
but strong as you can't think of.
I braved your will,
to break me from here.

You found me unscathed,
but healed the hidden scratch.
How good were your hands,
when I am a sinner among your lambs...

Read More

I climbed the frozen peaks 
battling  the harsh winds 
blinding snow 
dared to jump the gaps 
braved the ice patches 
exhausted as I advanced 
I came to the top 
and saw 
the majesty of the night sky 
the lights 
the stars speaking into my soul 
yet I could not stop thinking 
excitedly 
of the next journey...

Read More

She ventured out into the stars
   Though a stranger to their realm
Bright lights flashing roundabout her
   Would perhaps they overwhelm

This sweet young maiden, fair but frail
   Who'd braved the nighttime skies
Who'd quit the Earth, for there she'd felt
   That all Hope for Life and Light had died...

Read More

I cried a new galaxy of stars 
wondering if all was lost,
and I braved a new world
thinking the old was diminished


but all was not lost
and nothing diminished,
as one light snuffs out
another ignites


rising over the breast
of a new world, rests Hope, 
glimmering minutely but glittering  
the stars of our universe...

Read More

Farewell to thee where my sweat and blood dripped for years
Where I sailed hard my boat against the tides 
Where I braved all the worries and fears 
Where my blades were tempered by stumbles and slides 
Where I made my greatest blunders and my haters did flock
Where I drowned with my tears and turned my tears into rock 

April 4, 2023...

Read More

Raised in the church, ingrained in Christian belief 
of confession, repentance, true grief. 
A sinner and ill-behaved
salvation I craved
I’m nervous
saved?
for service?
That journey I braved
confirmed the path - power paved
by Jesus, my Commander-in-Chief.
Raised in the church, ingrained in Christian belief 



...

Read More

Someone saved me
From feeling so lonely.

Someone finally noticed
All of my written notions.

Someone engraved into me
Feelings that will always be.

Someone finally braved
All of my so-called reality.

Someone paved onto
Dark emotions of mine.

Someone finally healed
All of my inner thinking.

Someone saved me
From the feeling called “lonely”....

Read More

Foggy mists engulfed the bright 
When raindrops fell throughout the night 
The lampposts glowed at midnights dark 
When sweethearts kissed at Lover's Park

Together they braved the soaking rains
For they were lost in lover’s lanes
They could not bear to say goodbyes
Lost in the storm of lover’s eyes



Collaboration with Charles Messina...

Read More

He took the blows of crippling pain. 
He agonized for selfless gain. 
He marched his cross to calvary. 
He braved the scorn and savagery. 

For all our sins, he bled and died,
though, only few have ached and cried;
And from the grave, he rose again, 
so, from his fond ways, we could gain. 

March 21, 2023 

Easter Poetry Contest (5th place)
Sponsored By: Regina McIntosh...

Read More

All the clouds where pistachio
The ink and the pen where not strong enough
The young lover brought himself to the window
He threw pebbles that tickled the weak glass
He did not know which weather was going to come out
His sweet and gentle sunny day
Or the thunderstorm of May
He braved himself and waited like a fox at night
Whether to varnish or stand like the oak in the rain...

Read More

Born on the tough side of hollow earth 
Raised in blood, bone, sweat, tears and dirt 
Toiled through the grace of emptiness 
Taught in the cradle of nothingness 

Braved the tides of looming fountains 
Dared the storms to climb his mountains 
Through ups, downs and rough plains, he grew 
For the sweet saps of his will to brew 

 Short story or not poetry contest 
5th place...

Read More

Started on a happy note that foggy cold December day
School being closed, for adventure, our spirits craved
After breakfast, with my cousins, I joyfully set out to play 
Catching fish was our pastime, ill luck we always braved
That day, into the pond I fell, but by a stranger, miraculously saved

Dec.7.2022

A December Memento Poetry Contest
Sponsor- Andrea Dietrich ...

Read More

dead of night draws near
and he suffers
inside the silence
the stillness
of the land
loam looming
encrypting upon his hand
bare
as his glance
a mirror mulling of a past
eyed
foreseeing a fertile future
as she comes


he pauses
in the mist of maturation
of the trees
his forest blend
bent to the cue of man
braved
he braves the hidden blue
and breathes
her scent...

Read More

COUNTLESS STORMS


Countless storms,
Have I braved, my love, throughout my life,
Harsh
Violent
Unbearable
Merciless and even fatal storms, 
Went I up against
But
My ground I stood, yielding not to
Their fury
Thus 
Victorious out of the battles I emerged 
Winning the very trophy-
The only one worth fighting for-
The rainbow of happiness that 
Only 
Your soul Emanates!  


© Demetrios Trifiatis
  01 OCTOBER 2013...

Read More

Fighting and sacrificing,
They braved the worst.
Tired and hungry,
They struggled on.
Thinking of loved ones back home, 
They kept going.
And finally, after a long time of war,
They limp home, exhausted and relieved.
Some are wounded, some are okay.
But those brave ones, our beloved soldiers,
Come home from a place far away.
Into the open arms of their family.
They are welcomed and honored,
And will be forever known
As a hero....

Read More

A large oak amid resplendent waves,
many a raging tempest it has braved.

Now beneath palette of chromatic sky
magic waves of light go lilting by.

Refulgent incandescence in abstraction;
alluring scintillation, gifts satisfaction.

Nimbus’s heartbeats in hues of elation;
billow of watercolors, a picturesque sensation.

Harmonic is this heavenly concert,
rendering viewers spellbound, inert.

...

Read More

please don't stare at me
that you're aware i clearly see
but I was hoping to go unseen
please help me keep up this charade
to myself
I would have stayed inside
but there were things that must be done
I shut my eyes against the sun
and braved the market
hoping to remain invisible
you couldn't have known
that I was hiding
in open air
and broad daylight
but, I am
and now if you will pretend
that I am not here
so will I

8/22/2018...

Read More

This is an interesting question
 born in city of Glasgow
 moved at 6 weeks to Ayrshire
 then 1990 to Renfrew I go

 So where is my home?
 being brought up in Ayrshire
 my formative years are there
 so memories are ever on fire

 Now based in Renfrew
 a small quiet town
 once home to a airport
 now no planes come down

 So Scotland is my nation
 born and brought up in this land
 here the covenanters braved the foe
 till death they did stand

poetgord@2013...

Read More

upon my left hand finger
lies a precious ring of gold
that indicates a vow i made
to keep as we got old

we married at a chapel
with His blessings from above
as one we wrote this fairytale
a special kind of love

though there were tribulations
our foundation braved the fires
for unconditional describes
the passion that's required

my ring's still on my finger
for you're the only soul
i'll ever need and cherish, love
together we are whole...

Read More

M-ake not faith weaken, 
A-lthough the weather is vile; 
R-emain firm and strong, 
Y-earning to wear a smile.
J-ust keep the faith aglow, 
H-aving braved the storm; 
O-ne new dawn will make
Y-our heart ardent and warm.

A-llow not the faith to wane, 
N-ever let it even dwindle; 
D-ay twenty-second October, 
A-im for the stars that twinkle.
Y-es, put your total trust in the Father in heaven; 
A-s you sail the rugged sea, make not faith weaken....

Read More

.

                   “Oh
        the return of crisp”
       so poetically she did
                   bide

                  Yesss
    hern smile was brilliant
                  yesss
    her chemise was softly
                  lucent
 divulging hern vivid beneath

    So I braved the return of 
            Autumn's cool
and hern breathtaking display

     covering her lucid hern

       with mine reluctant 
                    cloak...

Read More

I'm weaker than you
And just as frightened.
I have cowed and hoarded
While you braved harsh years
Holding back nothing.

Your pilgrimage cannot be appropriated or diluted
You journey to please No One but your Gods.
You understood from fledgling human connaissance
Your body and extended Body are but vessels
That They may guide your soul.

I don't know how to help you
And in my cowardice
Believe I can't 

Sail ye on, you are the glory that They dream....

Read More