The author I've never been
...Sadly as I put the pen down
Trying to pour out all my emotions
My trauma and my life drama then I think…
Thinking that i was a writer for as long as i lived
Been playing with words my wh...
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Categories:
wiling, absence, creation, cry, death,
Form: Free verse
Drift
...Feeling is but a distraction
A distraction from being present
While presence is masked by mist
Created by unwillingness to perceive.
Perception requires a bravery that only
The willing can ac...
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Categories:
wiling, allusion, anxiety, deep, identity,
Form: Free verse
The Music Swells
...Edna Morris lived in the town of Shadow Fells, in rich green, hilly country,
With doting parents and sister Violet, plucking fruit from their plum tree.
Pretty Edna was twelve years old, ...
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Categories:
wiling, children, christmas, dream, happiness,
Form: Couplet
The principle of natural fairness
...Nature shaped the earth into the sphere
While leaving each piece of parts flats
To offer individual life places to grow
While rotating around the sun as a whole
For all individuals can thu...
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Categories:
wiling, destiny, faith, fate, happy,
Form: Free verse
Yeshua
...Who is Yeshua?
Yeshua is the Only son of the Most High God, manifested in the Flesh.
He was born of a Virgin named Mary in a town called Bethlehem, in the city of Judea.
He came to Earth to ...
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Categories:
wiling, bible, christian, encouraging, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Raving, Raving; the Tides Receeding
...Here I am,
In the first fling of youth-
In what sterile field did I find this anti-fecund missive?
This stretching of a hand, drenched in rubbery black; accompanied by a smell; a sewing, c...
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Categories:
wiling, allusion, angst, anxiety, i
Form: Free verse
Loosen the Strings
...Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet
Wiling her time away
She heard some shooting
Of course, it was Putin
Egging his puppets on.
She did not know them
So she did not show them
Any sign of fear,...
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Categories:
wiling, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
No Impeachment
...I don’t believe Donald Trump should be impeached,
He’s brought light to the Presidency, a dynasty,
Of a long line of ‘born again’ believers, screeched,
Wiling government into a god-inspired fallac...
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Categories:
wiling, america, desire, destiny, devotion,
Form: Quatrain
Whisper of Light
...
There is a soft, gentle light
Which inspires my heart and life
To reach beyond my doubts
Toward the dreams that I have
Deep within my soul, always alive
Dancing to the fires that resid...
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Categories:
wiling, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Free verse
We Do Solemnly Pledge On Our Sacred Honor
...We hereby solemnly pledge on our sacred honor.
Fully realize, "now is the time which try men's
souls." Admitting, "we are in clear and present
danger! Fully recognizing we all need to rely
upon a...
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Categories:
wiling, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
I'M Gene Kelly Again
...Spending today
whilst wiling away
each hour
each minute
each second
Pottering about
doing nought
I am feeling
relaxed as can be
For today...
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Categories:
wiling, appreciation, encouraging, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Twins
...Rebecca and Isaac had twins
As different as different could be
A hunter was Esau, a man of the field
A scholar was Jacob, a dweller in tents
The same mother, the same father
the same educati...
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Categories:
wiling, family, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
She's So Fine
...Wiling away
my way
or the thorough
fare up front
if you know
what to look for
wiles do
have a very fine sheen...
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Categories:
wiling, abuse, identity,
Form: Light Verse
Secret Lover
..."Secret Lover"
Fight to live and never stop,
Give it hell till the casket drops,
Break these chains and find my self,
Shake this habit for my health,
Don't believe him when he lies,
Bitter s...
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Categories:
wiling, addiction, drug, inspiration,
Form: Lyric
Lonigan
...Thomas Lonigan 1844 to 1878 (34 years old)
Tom Lonigan married Charlotte in the Irish town of Bella Sligo.
He knew for her only the best life to give, to Australia they would go.
In 1871 Melbour...
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Categories:
wiling, hero,
Form: Ballad
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