Upraised Poems | Examples

Memorialized

To the veteran; daughter, son
We honor you for all you’ve done.
Throughout the land, our flags we raise;
A grateful nation gives you praise.

From general to private class,
Unsung heroes and honored brass
Receive our broken, heart-felt gaze.
A grateful nation gives you praise.

No benefit nor medal pin
Begins to fill the debt within
Each fallen tear reflects a glaze
A grateful nation gives you praise.

Widows know and children feel it:
Freedom’s price, they so reveal it!
Ceremonies, wreaths they have laid
A grateful nation gives you praise.

No greater love, than sacrifice
All veterans have paid a price
May thankful prayers be upraised
A grateful nation gives you praise.

Before the King

Before the King we bow the knee
And pledge eternal loyalty
For He has saved us from our foes
Thus we shall go where’er He goes

Before the King we march ahead
And cross the Jordan’s riverbed
To take possession of the land
He pledged to us with upraised hand

Before the King we bravely fight
Defending what is true and right
Whate’er the risks, despite the odds
We wage a war ‘gainst Caanan’s gods

Before the King we serve and stand
To do whate’er He shall command
To learn His wisdom, sing His praise
And glory in His wondrous ways

Before the King we shall rejoice
So glad to hear His mighty voice
So humbled that for us He cares
Our troubles and concerns He shares

Before the King we shout His fame
Our victory is in His Name
To every nation we shall tell
There is a King in Israel

Before the King a river flows
Which sends forth life where’er it goes
Before our King shall we abide
By Him forever satisfied

Tranquility

Like a calm lake with no concaves of current or whirlpool,
Like valleys and landscapes unaffected by hurricanes;
Like a spiritual shrine wherein minds and hearts feel cool,
There are places and psychic states of mind with no stress strains...!

Peace, like a still river flows; the breeze of calmness prevails;
Volcanoes of violence are endlessly extinguished;
Calmness, through the seas of humanitarianism, sails,
Love, joy, forbearance, kindness, and goodness are distinguished...!

Anxieties and pessimisms and worries are erased,
Emotional poise, happiness, and confidence upraised;
Fondness, friendliness, humanity, and bliss are well-placed,
The concept - the globe as a single family - is praised...!

Health of spirit and soul and mind and body flourishes,
Tranquility, like divinity, freedom nourishes...!!!

Lucky Lovely Elephant

Lucky lovely elephant with a tuft of green
Created by a master artisan, that is easily seen.
With trunk upraised, in the luckiest of elephant ways.
We congregate around him, to give him some praise.

His décor is lovely, his metallic finish is a treat.
He is the utmost beautiful elephant on Rochester Street.
We follow him around, fawning over him, giving him our best.
He finally asks for some privacy, so he can get some rest.

Prime Turkey

A curious thing,
seven pounds of primero prime rib
materialized in my freezer.

Mouth-teasing saliva reached a high-waterline
just below upraised quizzical eyebrows.

I thanked the beefy butcher
who had dumped out the frozen turkey
in order to make room
for this massive joint of protein perfection.

Did I mistake reality again?
Did the meds confuse my mind’s eye?
I had to check.

Opening the white door
I saw the lumpy turkey still there
and not a hint of delicious steak.

I just hope the turkey ate it.

In Two Minds

IN TWO MINDS
a  bastion of
 tradition
appealing
indominatable
stylistic  shapeshifting
driven by impulse
an isolated trend

yet
   erstwhile
    antagonizing
 scandalous&
    disturbing

unconcered
 by controversy
  & inverted
  upraised
     gestures
touched
   by catastrophe
the
peculiar
    neurotic disrupted
wretched & dismissive
distinctive
the
 celebrated
    provocation
  disembodied
with a
prediliction to
    unconformity

a focused
  individual
still infamous
  for intervention


THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma so derived

Cleansing the Temple

On temple mount Jesus went to battle
with those who were selling sheep and cattle.
     With corruption about,
     he drove them all out – 
the coins of dealers on stones did rattle.

Indignant the Jews asked for a sign.
“Destroy this temple and its holy shrine
     and within three days 
     another I'll raise.”
His body upraised did confirm that sign.

John 2.13-22

Out Like a Lamb

March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb
       — English proverb

Any sign of Spring makes me sigh
        — Kim Rodrigues

OUT LIKE A LAMB

pink petals of confetti throng
the Spring tree eulogizing Fall.
snowy buds cling like upraised songs.
March first bleating breaks down the wall

of incessant roaring rainstorms.
the keyboard-roof is fighting back,
the lion napping, seeds perform.
Daffodils give Winter the sack.

3/11/2020

To Ply His Trade

A man sets out to ply his trade
He's anxious: Will he make the grade
He knows there is a lot to learn
Yet money also must be earned
His life's adventure, to be played

Into the marketplace he wades
He thrusts his blade into the fray
A butcher, he, with strength to burn
To ply his trade

He slices true, his knife upraised
Each cut of meat with care is weighed
His customers do soon discern
This butcher is a man who's yearned
For livelihood that's honest-made
To ply his trade



      (Iambic Tetrameter)

Stallions With Stingers

Terrified, the little girl cries
until her grandmother turns wise,
“All God’s creatures want to survive.
I know you love your small garden.
Now watch these workers work magic”

Those stallions with stingers, hover,
tantalizingly tease petals
of the roaring dandelions.
Those golden gals honey’d sunshine,
with fair upturned, xanthous faces.

Not to be outbuzzed, the blush rose,
her loving cup with upraised hands.
“Drink deeply, my love, my nectar
pleasing to my lord. Drink deeply.”
The succulent sensation sates.

“Well, child, a life without seeds won’t
succeed. Pollination is key.
Those bonnie buttercups happy
to see their buzzing friends come by.
Be patient, Daisy, he’s landing.”

9/11/2019
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A Plea In Its Eye

The dog slinks past me
   a plea in its eye
bowed head upraised
   barely 

Turning toward me 
   piteously --

Snap! 
its collar is yanked back
   by its imperious master
Plea denied

Aspect: Aurora

Dawn is upraised
Fierce in disguise--
Then you are dazed
By her rising at length—

Once you have gazed
Straight in her eyes,
Never be fazed 
By her beauty and strength.

Ward Trotter, International Poet

Trotter's words are his deeds
girding the Earth
in great magnetic lines
of universal intent.

In Ward's ritually upraised palm
we see the symbol Coriolis
south draining left
north draining right

Into the realm of Neptune
via the cisterns of Rome
down the ancient river Po
to wicked storms at sea

Into vortices the poet's passport
falls as a man overboard
all its pages torn
one by one.

Spring's Salute

Spring’s Salute

Somewhere
beneath the icy crust
a diamond awaits.

The laboring March sun
thins the crust
a layer at a time

sharpening
the edges
of crystal facets

unveiling
the faded sparkle
of old smiles.

April winds
waft earthen scent
of joy

summon
the hope
of passing clouds

sprinkling color
across diamond’s
green.

Silence lifts
upraised on shouts
of Spring

soft soil
awaits the touch
of happy feet

flags bask
slow dancing
in the sun

salute Spring’s
halcyon call
                     ,,,PLAY BALL,,,


©3/17/2017

submitted to SPRING TIME – Poetry contest

Sun Ray

Sun ray
Time is n't with me again and again
Becalm till dawn; I can't say
There is dim hope of sun ray
Quivering earth jarred me everyday
Becalm  till dawn i can't say
thunderbolt upraised with lightening
Blemished castles made everyone panicking
Can't allocate anything countless
Aches., clamor collectively  odious

womb of mothers with departed fetus
puddles of lake over bloomed lotus
lap of mother got barren 
debiting successor adhering lone
no tears, only vacuum, nowhere to stay
becalm..., till morning i can't say

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