RHYTHM OF A RIVER
...RHYTHM OF A RIVER
Poem written for “Rolling with the R’s” poetry contest, August 4, 2025, Nette Onclaud, sponsor
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Categories:
wearisome, 12th grade, river, sorrow,
Form: Rictameter
In Stars Above
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What I see in stars above is extremely wearisome,
with useless inane details that I wish I never knew.
Light years, space-time, black holes, big bangs,
myriads of pricks 'n specks a billion mil...
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Categories:
wearisome, joy, stars,
Form: Free verse
Thought of the day
...the game of push and pull has become wearisome ~
for we dwell in the heart, one with the cosmic hum...
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Categories:
wearisome, heart, peace, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Winterval Tale
...winds wicked ways
wind-up women's wear
winsome whispers woo
wine, walks, waltzes, white weddings, whoosh
winters' wearisome wars with warmth
winnow weathered warriors, widows weep...
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Categories:
wearisome, loss, love, word play,
Form: Alliteration
A Visitor
...Moonlight creeps through the writhing woodland as
Arion walks alongside me—upward toward the lone mountain.
We had trekked for miles and the way was wearisome,
heavy fog in its obscuring fidelit...
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Categories:
wearisome, allusion, beautiful, character, courage,
Form: Epic
Walking Man
...His eyes tell the tale we can read from the lines on his face.
A long, wearisome journey with connections in many a’place.
Some must've been favored destinations, for their shadows are grooves, du...
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Categories:
wearisome, character, dedication, endurance,
Form: Couplet
Wherever We Go, Whatever We Do
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Carry me over the threshold of home
into the future of life together.
Oh, Let me no more in loneliness roam
through wearisome roads and stormy weather.
For the road remains ...
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Categories:
wearisome, love, marriage,
Form: Sonnet
Pathways
...Onward as I mend my way
Looking towards the sheep go astray
Then in a flash appears that moment
Which I did many a time didst contemplate
Now lies it's reflection amidst shadows
For my heart di...
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Categories:
wearisome, 9th grade, death of
Form: Ballad
Grief
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Grief, for the heart who remembers,
Dismantles the silence,
With melancholic lights, softly glowing,
Restoring the music to the soul,
Who remembers, remembers the love…
Grief, fo...
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Categories:
wearisome, grief,
Form: Free verse
Delusion
...“ Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. Jim Rohn “
Relentlessly I pace around the room,
like a caged lion, dreaming of vast forests,
yearning for savannah grasslands,
vag...
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Categories:
wearisome, angst, anxiety, betrayal, hope,
Form: Free verse
Love Me, Save Me
...No one is willing to answer my phone calls unfortunately
Nobody cares to save me or love me deliberately
I’m sorry, this is how I tremendously feel
But, of course, obviously, it’s no big deal
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Categories:
wearisome, angst, fear, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Something is coming
...Something is coming.
Something terrible.
I feel bugs burrowing under my skin,
Making homes underneath my flesh
And inside of my organs.
They attempt to escape from
The acid that fills my ...
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Categories:
wearisome, anxiety, depression, fear,
Form: Free verse
Witch
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Words fail to explain her
Without doubt, sinister
Wearisome, she’s dreaded
Washed in blackest shadows
Wearing death like a cape
Wrathful as hell’s fury
Wishing for Halloween
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Categories:
wearisome, angst, dark, death, evil,
Form: Pleiades
Lord God, You Are My Everlasting Holy One
...August 29 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Habakkuk 1-3
Key Verse – Habakkuk 1:12 Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast...
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Categories:
wearisome, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Deserted
...You inserted the needle into my veins…
Now, I’m damaged goods that dry on
You sucked up my blood oh so insane
You deserted me by falling for hurtful lies…misunderstood like the dusked dawn
You me...
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Categories:
wearisome, angst, anxiety, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Lyric
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