The Jungle Untamed
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“Wilderness has at once a mysterious beauty and horror entwined within. Human mind also harbours wild urges and benign emotions. When wild urges take precedence, life becomes an untamed jungle” ~ ...
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Categories:
sprawls, animal, nature, scary,
Form: Free verse
The Anvil of Stillness
...They shout for a piece of my mind—
I offer the quiet, forged and cool,
Not shrapnel, not wildfire, not the grind
Of teeth on bone, but a deeper tool:
A breath that holds when the structure sways,...
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Categories:
sprawls, imagery, imagination, independence day,
Form: Rhyme
Ashes of Paradox
...Monstrous faith,
Blasphemous state,
Cursed to a Lazarous fate.
Phoenix ashes tracing a Brownian route,
Genie dances with an ambient view.
Casting spells where destiny brews,
Crafting cells wh...
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Categories:
sprawls, art, deep, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
32 Bar Blues: A Spoken Word Poem
...32 Bar Blues: A Spoken Word Poem
In the shadow of the neon’s dusty glow, Oh, the blues, got me cryin’/echoes of Otis Span whisper, “Why?” Champion Jack Dupree, a voice so true, I’m lost in the Bad ...
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Categories:
sprawls, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
Strayed Sheep
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Reigning in cluster the edge of steep scarp,
the flock of mine sprawls so very proud.
I’m a meek loner in the midst of them all,
for each one is happy to be in the crowd.
As I’m secluded in...
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Categories:
sprawls, analogy, identity, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Mirrored
...My sadness is in the slumping of your shoulders
And your resignation is in the bowing of my head
Regret pours from your listless palms
Set open on your lap
And a mirror on the wall that's opposit...
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Categories:
sprawls, angst, betrayal, boyfriend, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
ME AND ALL OF HER
...From this far, my heart
fair far from here near to her thus she
Will know no other love
I touch her with the touch of such
A Master! Be leary my dear see I say
What comes after? Laughter?
Ye...
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Categories:
sprawls, allusion, beach, beautiful, best
Form: Alliteration
Start Over
...Dawn Never questions Dusk,
Sprawls upon to bring Sunshine.
Likewise,
Forget What's Gone,
To Kiss Happiness & Embrace the Divine!...
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Categories:
sprawls, confidence, dream, encouraging, inspiration,
Form: Verse
The Orange Cat
...An orange cat slithers into
the middle of her empty lap
out of thin air, like orange juice
poured into a little tumbler out of
an enormous jug, holding more,
more, more of the same.
Cats ha...
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Categories:
sprawls, abuse, depression, introspection, psychological,
Form: Free verse
When You Return Home
...When you return home after many years,
stepping onto familiar soil,
your heart stirs with bittersweet anticipation.
The sun-tinted house that once witnessed your dreams
now stands a stranger, wit...
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Categories:
sprawls, art, bird, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Sea
..."When I stare out into the sea, watching its changing moods, I see the reflection of life there and think of life's tumult and tussle on one side and its ease and peace on the other." _ By Poet
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Categories:
sprawls, beauty, motivation, sea,
Form: Free verse
Departing Autumn
...As the flotilla of climbing clouds calmly drifts in the sky
The beguiled birds bathe in the glimmer of the blue bay
While autumn departs with crystal ambiance on the sly.
The transpa...
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Categories:
sprawls, autumn, nature,
Form: Villanelle
November
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November delivers Autumn's prize
to stay before its last goodbyes
with its fiery, vibrant blaze
it brings us crisper days
while scenery sprawls
its golden shawls
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Categories:
sprawls, november, tribute,
Form: Nonet
Deprived
...A hundred miles North of here,
there are lonely shy sasquatch's
elderly crypto beasts
that roam the small woods
between gray urban sprawls.
I'm told they live on picnic snacks
discarded by oc...
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Categories:
sprawls, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Mad Molly Shaw 2 - Molly Stands Firm
...[If you’re a glutton for punishment, you
Can find ‘Mad Molly Shaw’ using the poems
Tag at top of screen]
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Mad Molly Shaw wasn’t mad anymore
But sometimes a name kinda lingers...
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Categories:
sprawls, western,
Form: Rhyme
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