Volitional Poems | Examples


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Premium Member Desiring You, Valentine

 




       Sensuous, handsome you!

       
       Eternal kisses, those abundant lips.

      
       Hypnotic eyes, spell-binding me
 
       
       You are desire, in human disguise!
       

       I am your volitional, melting candle.
   
    
        Lost… in your embracing thighs!

                 

                      2/10/2023

Premium Member A Voice of Consciousness-

In my ear I hear a voice of consciousness
In my spirit I feel the voice of consciousness 
Hark! I hear in mine mind's ear 
A sentence I'm in awareness 
Of mine internal external existence 
Souls in movement volitional
My spirit listening 
All my thoughts memories 
Feelings and wishes 
Unique thoughts feelings,  reelings 
More than just feelings 
 I hear a voice of consciousness
I know my environment 
I'm entitled to it
Fondness I stare
I am well aware 
I'm in my spirit I feel my consciousness
This I'm hearing
I'm just saying
I hear a voice of conscience


5/31/21

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Premium Member Character and Personality

As
 
liquids accommodate themselves
 
by 

taking the shape of the vessel they are

poured into

so 

one's personality is developed  

by 

adjusting to the mold his character 

provides!*







© Demetrios Trifiatis
       17 June 2020


* Character: (Gr.: character, from the Greek verb "charassein" to engrave) A name for the collective traits, emotional, intellectual, and volitional, which constitute the individual mind that Man is born with! 

**Personality: Characteristic configuration of behavior response patterns that each person evolves as a reflection of his individual adjustment to life.


The Flower Within

Hear not the silence in the new fallen snow
embankments high of drifted wonder hide
all that winter buries underneath its surface
and cocoons itself in an invisible whisper
when temperatures rise, sounds of rustling begin
from the depths of a volitional quietus 
small lives will break beyond their shells
as they ascend toward the sunlit heavens
and discover how to unleash their power
by finding the flower within.

Premium Member Byway Colors

I’m learning to love pink
In bowls;
And boys and girls.

For my bedroom wall
Was claimed
  Putrid pink                        by my volitional Aunt
And thus       made me hate
The color of its paint.

            And yellow by the way,
The honking, screaming hue
     Of a steamroller-child

~~~ i ~ love ~ him~~~

Through my grand’s eyes,
Orange too!
   Peel those layers,
Those juicy, goosebumpy —
Yes, scary
Four flame-throwing
Tires of                                     to the moon and back.

I’ve had to draw back
from red...the apple of my eye
for
  the
     cops
keep a score of tickets in their squad cars
  for those
     who believe they can pull off this trend

better to keep the Holy Bible in view
We found out, instead

For the eagle-eye of Virginia,
  the sceptic of his state
turned to psalm 46:10

You can turn there too
and net your escape.

To summarize, pink is cool for sexes
Love yer yeller feller
And love yer orange peel
Things in the rearview mirror’r closer
than they appear

God is at hand.

7/26/2019

A Personal War

Her arms shake as she lifts
Shredded white cloth
Strained by the burden
She carries on her back
Only to realize
Surrendering for greed 
Is better than giving in
To fear forever
A single tear hovers
Her strength to fight
Is dwindling with each 
Step forward towards
A line that carries
Penalties to which
She must face
Her limbs
Bruised and bleeding
From running afar
A stained path
Guides the enemy
For an artless retrieval
At a volitional stance
She begs not 
For nourishment 
Though her heart remains 
Useless and empty
His tears dress her wounds
Covering her chest
With the flag
She used to wear
Cradling her body
They sleep
Awakening to
A war that has ended


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