FRAGILE VESSEL Broken But Bold Enough to Bounce Back Contest
...FRAGILE VESSEL
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Poem written for and submitted to “Broken But Bold Enough to Bounce Back” Poetry Contest, Anoucheka Gangabissoon, sponsor, August 11, 2025....
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Categories:
slanderous, 12th grade, courage, truth,
Form: Free verse
Rubato's Tenth of Stave's
...The part of Holy Week in Spain where participants wear capirotes (pointed hoods) and robes is called the Nazarenes
She spok
e his name and he found it slanderous.Hearing her voice
after what he ...
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Categories:
slanderous, love, music, romantic love,
Form: Ballade
Defiance
...Cling not, to currents of kleptocracy.
Seek not, slithering shortcuts.
Like molding wood in molten guts -
Revolutionary, make that your story.
Slanderous slogans of snakes
dull deep, deaden d...
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Categories:
slanderous, corruption, courage, dedication, deep,
Form: Free verse
Haunted House
...God damned the Demons of Hell to Hell
God damned the Demons to Hell
Let us depart, Beloved
,Where their morbid howls don't swell,
In our ears, in our minds,
Coiling weaving diabolic binds.
Let ...
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Categories:
slanderous, anxiety, fear, gothic, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
A stroll in the garden - Haikus
...sits a little swift
amidst violet flowers ~
flying bud on tied fly
mesmerizing tune
in the midst of blaring horns~
magpie Robin sings
long train swiftly moves
without a loco...
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Categories:
slanderous, beauty, environment, garden, giggle,
Form: Haiku
Sanctum of Solitude
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My Innermost And Fervent Desire for Solitude
Has Unleashed the Taurus Beast
Mortally Weary are My Bones That Pre Exist My Existence
Worn Is The Sound of My Granted Title
Weighed With Accolade...
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Categories:
slanderous, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Speech
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Libelous, slanderous speech
singes the fuzz off of the peach
Gossip and tale-bearing crooked ears reach
no thanks to the mouth of the human leech…
Speech is God’s great...
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Categories:
slanderous, spoken word, uplifting,
Form: Couplet
But mark this: there will be terrible times in the last days 2 Timothy 3:1 part eight
...Godlessness in the Last Days
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will
be lovers of themselves, [Taking selfie pictures of themselves and post
ing them over th...
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Categories:
slanderous, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO ENABLES US TO OBSERVE HIS STATUTES
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February 7 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Leviticus 19-21
Key Verse – Leviticus 19:37 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD....
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Categories:
slanderous, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
- Inhale Exhale -
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~ When wind changes - slanderous tongues - never truthful confession ~...
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Categories:
slanderous, image,
Form: Monoku
The Final Danse Macabre
...* for maximum effect cue audio at stanza break
"For as they were in those days before the flood... so the presence of the Son of man will be." - Matthew 24:38-40
I see them, though the...
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Categories:
slanderous, bible, judgement,
Form: Haibun
Downward Slide
...GOOD
Virtuous…Forthright
Serving…Praying…Loving
Saint…Paragon…Murderer…Liar
Slithering…Salivating…Hating
Slanderous…Sneaky
EVIL
8/8/2022...
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Categories:
slanderous, america,
Form: Diamante
Khaleelah
...I’ve hoped for your bond
But I remain cut off from hope,
You’re the one who I entrust with my eyes & sleep,
For the crumbs of musk stay under your veil
& the morning light shines under your foreh...
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Categories:
slanderous, 1st grade, first love,
Form: Free verse
Victory At All Costs
...Carry on through the struggle
carry on through the pain
carry on through it all
until you rise again
hide to survive
stay alive
then you’ll thrive
don’t capitulate
just wait for the...
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Categories:
slanderous, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Soup Creek Limericks-Updated
...Another showdown in Soup Creek, I s'pose
Someone's got a wedgie in her pantyhose
It's another outcast
who likes to lambast
A bad attitude she chose to expose
Folks in the Creek asked w...
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Categories:
slanderous, community, conflict,
Form: Limerick
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