The Mountain
looms
and calls your name
To glory
or
perdition
Its summit
has a thousand
fathers
Whose abyss
awaits
— the orphan
(Beartooth Pass: August, 2025)
Categories:
sum, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
Sponsor: Rob Carmack - Contest Name '< 7'
Bare Autumn trees frowned - all their colorful leaves lay on the ground
Autumn holds them at bay – cold Winter winds want to come out to play
Seasonal work suited Autumn to a tee - rest of year fancy free
Categories:
sum, autumn,
Form: Monoku
.
'neath thuh prairie'z
thickets
'long it's lush open
hidden
mostly
'twere that pink
halter yo
stuck it were
in duh visible
thump
'cross mine dome
her daddy'z
warn
")
Categories:
sum, baptism, dad, devotion, humor,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Pecco, Ergo Sum
(I sin, therefore I am)
Not an aimless ride on Sunday morning,
But for a faith oblige I am tied to attend
“Sinners!” the priest thunders from pulpit,
“Repent, for your flesh betrays the soul!”
Verses cascade from the book of the wise,
Urging forgiveness to claim a seat
In a kingdom beyond the grave’s cold embrace.
I turn to the Creator, my maker divine,
Why craft flawed vessels, etched with fault?
Why carve weakness into our fragile clay,
Then wield fear to mend what You designed?
Could life not flow smoothly by Your Will alone?
Or is sin the pulse of existence itself.
Pecco, ergo sum?
Brief is our span, stumbling through shadows,
Misery and pain, heirs of an ancient wrong.
A scar of defiance haunts us still,
A faith forged in the fires of an old sin.
Fear, raw and unyielding, bids us believe
In redemption earned through sacred blood—
Yet suffering, sickness, poverty linger on,
We fall,wake up and sin again as if by default
Did creation compromise our existence
Making the essence of life not so divine
Did Your creation flaw our essence,
dimming life’s divine spark?
Where did dogma falter,
Rewriting life —Pecco, ergo sum?
Categories:
sum, anxiety, faith, religious,
Form: Free verse
Pecco, Ergo Sum
(I sin, therefore I am)
Not an aimless ride on Sunday morning,
But for a faith oblige I am tied to attend
“Sinners!” the priest thunders from pulpit,
“Repent, for your flesh betrays the soul!”
Verses cascade from the book of the wise,
Urging forgiveness to claim a seat
In a kingdom beyond the grave’s cold embrace.
I turn to the Creator, my maker divine,
Why craft flawed vessels, etched with fault?
Why carve weakness into our fragile clay,
Then wield fear to mend what You designed?
Could life not flow smoothly by Your Will alone?
Or is sin the pulse of existence itself.
Pecco, ergo sum?
Brief is our span, stumbling through shadows,
Misery and pain, heirs of an ancient wrong.
A scar of defiance haunts us still,
A faith forged in the fires of an old sin.
Fear, raw and unyielding, bids us believe
In redemption earned through sacred blood—
Yet suffering, sickness, poverty linger on,
We fall,wake up and sin again as if by default
Did creation compromise our existence
Making the essence of life not so divine
Did Your creation flaw our essence,
dimming life’s divine spark?
Where did dogma falter,
Rewriting life —Pecco, ergo sum?
Categories:
sum, anxiety, faith, religious,
Form: Free verse
Born into a world,
As a daughter or a son.
A new creation is unleashed,
A new chapter begun.
While mostly into a family,
Yet always as one,
Before becoming a new member,
Of humanities union.
It's a process, never ending,
Never seeming quite done.
Yet always moving forward,
Often on the run.
Rarely does it reward,
Beyond second to none.
Although boredom remains close,
Frequently warning to abandon.
Seldom does any joy,
Give way to any fun.
So excitement takes its measure,
If only to shock or stun.
Since peace and quiet is treasured,
There's little need for a gun.
Allowing time to reflect and total,
All the battles that have been won.
Categories:
sum, change, life,
Form: Monorhyme
Something in your eyes
Gives me butterflies +
Something in your smile
Makes me stay awhile +
Something in your voice
Makes my heart rejoice =
Some things in a someone
I love them all and then some
Categories:
sum, dedication, devotion, for her,
Form: Rhyme
together we are nothing but one ~ apart everything except one
even if finally undone ~ we still ain’t finished before we’re done
By David Kavanagh
Categories:
sum, meaningful, perspective, word play,
Form: Monoku
Who could find the sheer temerity?
To wallow in such ( sin-serity )
Categories:
sum, abuse, addiction, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Sum Secrets Of My Trade!
Upon The Skylines, .... Made!
Categories:
sum, appreciation,
Form: Ballad
We bare of human; sic-ning'
Planned these decade long schemes?
Some mad-sters of eugenics
In bid to cap our dynamics.'
All based on their (spatial distancing)
And murder as ever
Of conscious never
With extremisam
Of which I am no fan forever.!
Categories:
sum, education,
Form: Rhyme
The Sum of All Fears
You
Know
There is:
NO
EXTRA
TIME!
-Gray Squirrel
08-07-2024
Categories:
sum, life,
Form: Free verse
There's a secret in the SHIMMER
A shadow in its glimmer. SUM SUN? We say night? Its daylight.
ETERNALLY REALITY! IS there fright in the DIMMER? LOOK THE SUN SIMMERS when it sizzles
Day to day to day and day DAY DAYS and DAZE! What do you say
Sunshine? Do you mind this time?
The never night? The da da da DULL OF DUSK! the dimming the offender? The SUM SUN accomplisher. And WE SURRENDER NEVER DUSK EVER US! The SOLARRR! LIFE!
Categories:
sum, anxiety, appreciation, nature, new
Form: Rhyme
.
I said
Sum body's
Been gifted wit
The gift uv
write
Not just
Sum body's
But thuh body's
Cauze'n
them body's
trip
who need
think
*The bard meant "wit"
")
Categories:
sum, appreciation, poets, write,
Form: Free verse
I’m the lady with a big bum
A man offered quite a sum
Of money to play
With my bum he’d pay
Until I reached out to his mum
Categories:
sum, funny,
Form: Limerick
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