Terza Rima Poems

Bushfires are raging already this year,
High temperatures are no doubt the reason,
Those vulnerable are living in fear.

High temperatures are no doubt the reason,
Combined with an absence of rain,
Resulting in a hot, hectic season.

Combined with an absence of rain,
There is the...Read More

I’m scared of myself when you’re around; 
A mouth full of sandpaper 
my voice and throat are bound; 

The sensation crackles with danger 
like lightning, every hair is raised, 
anxiously awaiting the cliffhanger; 

Holding it together by a silken thread,...Read More

The bolt was not on the barn that day
A big mistake by Old Man Fuzzins
We thought it was the perfect place to play.

We brought in a bunch of our cousins
Some of them slightly odd ding-a-lings
They had ideas by the dozens

With...Read More

Witch, warlock, goblin and vampire fine
Wearing one slipper and one tennis shoe
They all ran home at promptly half past nine.

Fine goblins, ghosts, and ebony cats too.
And a lively she devil newly born
Hid down at the corner at twenty-two

Barn owls wearing...Read More

Flowing into healthy sun
Beams subtle on my face
Mama’s ills are often none.

Hands peek in a good grace
Obviously I am still needed
Battle won, continue earthly race

Healthy cuticle glow completed
Hands sparkle, vibrancy attack
Fears and woes superseded

My aches and pains are pushed way...Read More

Such earthly beauty 
no painting does justice 
sewn from the fabric of this planet 

Adoring jewels blessed by the morning dew
cutting stone into diamonds radiating brightly 
Sweeping priceless over oceans echo's polished whispers 

Drunken by the spirit holding eternal light...Read More

Nature's divided into four seasons 
each eye-catching in a similar way
and yet, different for many reasons.

Winter's crystalline beauty carries sway
but She is both barren and deathly cold
with a hollowed-out heart of papier-mache.

Spring’s spectacle slowly breaks Winter’s hold
accompanied by a moist...Read More

Green Luna moths, cardinals and dragonflies too
Freeist beings on earth is butterfly
Dusky moth form a spiritual tree.

All effortlessly gliding from heavenly sky
Each being born from angel’s heartfelt cry
Exuding great beauty without a try,

Eretheal angels like to sit
Their enhanced beauty great...Read More

Books are being stacked on the streets to impinge   
blame on their words as worthless thoughts; 
yesterday they were a great source of knowledge.

Scriptwriting is being totally replaced by obsessive texting,
one of the marvels of our artificial intellect;
once...Read More

Your face may CONTORT in SURPRISE,
Your SUBCONSCIOUS may be CONFUSED,
You may not believe your eyes.

Your entreaties have been refused,
I ATTACH an official SEAL,
Your status remains "Accused".

I assure you this order is real,
Despite your improbable dreams -
You are not advised to...Read More

If only you knew me,
When I was in dark state,
I was born by the sea.

Can't remember the date,
Grew up without a dad,
Turned bad when I was eight.

Taking drugs made me  mad
I'm the boss on the street,
My actions made mum...Read More

A silent whisper enters the ocean's mist 
cured from the spiced waves faraway gulls sing 
murmurs echo once upon a pearl held inside the shell 

You came to me a vision filled with beauty 
it was there I made a...Read More

Self-inflicted wounds causing misery
Sins do shut my soul from joyous worship
Robbing me of God-granted victory.

Toward triumphant faithful stewardship
I pursue through Christ’s fortifying might
Vanquishing oppressive vain partnership.

While in the Saviour’s sweet communion light
My spirit enjoys lovingkindness
Loathing to miss His warm presence-delight.

Upon...Read More

Slugs and snails line the highway,
Munching, crunching, drinking fumes;
Early in the morning, late at day.

A tunnel of black ahead looms,
Feasting on diesel, ready to growl;
Into the maw a lucky one zooms.

Compacted inside the giant jowl,
Hooter poised, horsepower stalls;
Bodies meet with...Read More

Deer do frolic: How they run and laugh and play
Birds chirp sweetly, soaring on a gentle breeze
Rabbits scoot and scamper, in their puckish way

The sunlight shoots through branches of tall trees
As clouds drift off to Heaven's vast expanse
The coolness of...Read More

The morn dawned gray, the fog crouched o'er the sea
It spread across the land; on hill, in vale, it lay
Obscured the rolling meadow, 'till arose a breeze

As sun burned through the mist with slanting ray
A thought did find its way...Read More

Its ardor grew like the sprouts being verdant green,
As the lowliness of a meadow's reach for sun.
Their whispered breaths trails farewell to a doting Spring,

Neath the grassy spreads of life, seeks a saffron sky.
Enters the hoverance, flights a white dove...Read More

Yielding humbly to God for His gracious moulding
Here am I, acknowledging my sins, repentant
Seeking His forgiveness that my soul is needing.

By His grace at work, tremendously triumphant
I surrender to His control my stubborn will
As He directs my steps by His...Read More

-- Queen of dashes! --
but potential fame
with seclusion -- clashes

As for me, I feel no shame
thrilled by my poems' views
or entering a contest game

Sharing Natures' news
we have in common
or venting the blues...

...Expressing drama, and
I'd rather be a poet
than marry a...Read More

Compliant to God, never defiant
Persistent in doing His will by grace
Jubilant, amidst trials, triumphant!

Yielded to the Lord in running life’s race
I’m upheld by His love’s magnificence
For joyous service along might’s brace!

Dependent on His light’s iridescence
Taught am I through the precepts...Read More

With sounds that gather round the ocean’s shore,
the whimsied muse her lithesome being girds
in utterances from unfathomed store.

Akin to Alice dwelling in absurds
the words go round and round in Cheshire grin
when off I go on romp of rhyming thirds

in artless...Read More

You've lost your mate one decade gone,
a longshoreman who bode his time
upon the seas from dusk till dawn.

Knew every route, when he should climb
the towering waves to safely ground
his skiff, bring men home in their prime

to families, lovers, safe and...Read More

Inspiration, my fickle old friend,
You come and you go as you will,
And so, on you, I cannot depend.

My mind, my dreams you constantly fill
Only to leave me all alone
Unable to drink up my heart’s fill.

Oh, for the sights you might...Read More

      SCARY
                  
      Octopus dancing twisting eight tentacles.  
   ...Read More

Please, never take a toddler to the store.
But if you do, you’ll find that I am right.
Your sanity will not endure the chore.

The struggle that ensues is no fair fight,
'cause they are armed with cuteness and a scream,
which trump your...Read More

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