Epiphany Poetry Contest, Sponsor - Constance La France. Date written: 08/27/2026
manacled...
by gnawing self-doubt;
a life-long affliction
voices in her head
incessantly spewed
lies and half-truths
that grew like watered seeds
planted by naysayers;
she internalized all the nonsense
she lacks self-belief,
but she miraculously turned a corner;
all she needed
was a little nudge
by a caring new friend
to confront the moment of truth,
a reassurance of...
"Trust your gut; you can do anything!"
she listened,
she prayed,
she fought,
v e h e m e n t l y,
against those voices of defeatism,
against negative forces
telling her...
"Not so fast! Think twice!"
she found
the inner strength
she never knew she had
to bravely walk into God's radiant light,
silence the echoes of trepidation
and seize the power
that was always hers.
with every breath
of her newfound freedom,
she finally realized
that she's infinitely greater...
than her circumstances.
Cruelty mirrors the times we live in
from the homeless family
to the hungry children
the vibrant disrespect of others
spewed from the lips of loathing
and the dark heart of the self-righteous
as they wallow in a stench of emptiness
where they loudly cry out their contempt
dirtied by the spiritual weakness of their heart
where they lay burning in the flames of hate
Hessy.. Wa Dandora
The shots rang out
The youngsters spewed blood..
On the city streets..
He pulled out a phone a dialled the police.. Come and collect the stupid..
Lest we jump the gun..
He had pre warned them..
As is usual in Dandora's Hessy style
Given them fare to skip town.. or they will be dinning in hell soon..
They chose to stay and perpetrate on their terror..
Knifing innocent civilians with impunity...
So Hessy wa Dandora vanquished them.. The people muttered whispers as they followed their new hero online.
Some do claim he is military.
Yet others claim he is paramilitary
Them others reckon presidents Recce guard..
But what they know is that he is effective..
Street crime has gone down in the suburbs..
Vigilante justice however unquestionable by Hessy.. has been bearing fruits..
#HessyWaDandoraCode254
Her love was in flowing in my veins,
Like opium pumping adrenaline.
My heart repulsed her,
Yet my head kept her.
Like a cow in the herd,
She has become bitter herbs
That need to be spewed out
For my normality to return.
I have taken a stand together with my
heart.
But the reins of my heart are stronger
than my blood.
Hooray! It’s time to write a poem
About an absolute
Disgrace by name of Kristi Noem,
Who finally got the boot.
A spotlight-craving dilettante
Who shot her dog and goat
Is not the person most would want
To hold a job of note.
Yet there she was, in camo gear,
Like she was set for war,
Though all her make-up made it clear
That she was out for more.
In ad campaigns she was the star,
With mucho millions spent,
To showcase her as Homeland’s czar,
Her failures evident.
What bothered me (and maybe you)
The most, with all she spewed,
Was, more than what she tried to do,
Her nasty attitude.
Good riddance, now; it’s way past time
The reign of Kristi Noem
Gets its comeuppance, though with rhyme,
She isn’t worth this poem.
Hurl the applecart
of crimson corruption
deep into a vortex
that whirs remorseless
and grinds to carbon
the bellowing chaos
spewed by mortals
voracious for victims.
Dread not the tremors
and tumult of wraiths
clamoring with poison fangs
to devour the light.
Its splendour of descending
A sky window's
Crazy glassed view
Bettered, and for what's but felt
Hearts, cool blown through.
Day of its fire is ending!
More sun's, spewed forth
For wrath, more vile!
Each street, so worked up, west-faced
Refreshed does smile.
By all names..By any, a cretin..Bet that last
Penny.' cregan; a creature, of dark tensions and most nightmarish featured; invention.' In respect, of the vindictive..Constitutionly contradictive,
With verb-iage, so offensive; a diorreah, spewed most intensive, the bad joke on a Nation..
What useful pupose? his tenure; and summations?
Classical music cleanse my soul
For thy sweet melody is purest soul of artism
The mood of requiem is of sweet heaven serenade
It roams my mind , echoes in my ears to forever remain in my heart
The vocals are of angelic melodies
Soothing strained nerves of my heart and mind
Thy shake the blood under my skin
An awakening of true mastery of artism
Spewed by the stream of talented melodious voices and instruments
Feud Tyrannosaurus Techs spewed they must be Taurus
Their notorious own porous homegrown lewd chorus
On a heinous hardcore intravenous tour to floor us
Felling their telling of spoof truths pointless like Icarus
Fury jury swelling..no quelling now imbued enormous
Screwed slewed after being pursued...they deplore us
Mood brewed skewed by a crude & rude thesaurus
Be shrewd make sure this brood are booed eschewed
Moan their scary lairy tone or drone's prone to bore us
It includes Sopka Veles speaks
the balalaika
Eumetopias Jubatus spoke this to the people.
from the Stone area of Mesozoic and Paleozoic.
Severo-Kurilsk in the Kuril Islands
the reports spoke of a 8.8 magnitude quake here
a quake that caused a tsunami wave.
from alaska to california thru mexico to the
south american coast
they watched and waited
for the wave not know how intense it would be.
tsunami warning in Hawaii, after damage in both Russia
and Japan. They discontinued the tsunami warnings Crescent City
was the last to warning.
The Kamchatka quake caused Volcano to erupt off the coast
of Russia.Klyuchevskoy Volcano spewed it's load, ashfall
caused damage.
The Songs to appease Perun has angered Veles
he unleased quake after quake to
quiet there worship
and after the strongest quake
he made the volcano erupt
and send out a tsunami to
dismantle the Temples
the people built
to worship Perun.
The water from the blow hole spewed.
It’s hard to believe what then ensued.
With his powerful tail and massive speed,
The great humpback whale’s breaching was awesome to see.
sitting on the dinner table
where instead of food, he was served cold
silence turned into words that hurt
sitting on the dinner table
he was served disappointment from others
who questioned his existence
sitting on the dinner table
his father made a loud thump on the table
spewed out his hate he always keep close
“She knows everything about everyone. That's why her hair is so big. It's full of secrets.”
~ Quote from ‘Mean Girls’ (2004)
Secrets in the locks of love
she knew everything true,
well, sort of,
as true as any gossip could bring.
Plastic rollers, as useless as her friends,
curled from her lips in hateful sprout
and spewed vile comments from her mouth.
She grabbed the secrets of others and shared them.
She didn’t mind her tangled ends belied her credibility.
Curling her mind around the struggle,
when all was said and ends began to fray,
it was she who brushed the cares away that day.
As my eyesight dims
nature's colors fade in shaded whims
books treasured, now unread,
may not forge the future ahead.
I would give the words away
but I know too well today
how few of them would find a place
where the messages could flow safe;
Walden, Leaves of Grass, the Caged Bird, Beloved... and others
now considered prohibited, forbidden, anathema, waifs to be rediscovered
in the minds and eyes of spewed rhetoric burned,
seeking out of ignorance of lessons learned;
but history is written and swirls
not always in books or in archives of the world,
wise men speak and hold sacred
truths that will always be heard.
Sub Categories
Looking for the formal definition, structure, and history of this poetry form? Visit the Poetry Dictionary entry below. Then return to explore how PoetrySoup members bring the form to life through their own poems.