Yen Poems | Examples


Yen Til

You ain't got nowhere to be
Since it's your day off
Except here with me
My day off too

I'm kinda liking being here
I really. really enjoy
Being here with you

Don't conjure up no clever
Conversations
Evasives acts ain't what your
Displaying

Keep it true tween me and you
Gotta love I wanna share with you

Quiet times when we're together
Disco dancing and reggae 
They see us together
Rock and roll me alnight long
Happy people
Baby that's what we are
If I got a sneak around to be with you
Damn it- that's what I am gonna do
Ain't no fussing gonna keep us apart
I swear it's true it comes
Straight from my heart

Do you feel like loving me
I wanna have you loving me
I don't wanna look elsewhere
I want you here loving me

It aint that complicated
Ah compromise on what
We debated

Get ah trill outta loving you
Smiles and cheers to your
Best friend
So glad I am with you

Dong Zhongshu, 179-104 BC

If you've a yen
(it's not zen)
you may bet your bottom dollar
while integrating yin yang cosmology
Chinese philosopher and scholar
Dong Zhongshu
(good old you know who)
favoured heaven worship results
over and above traditional cults
altho' a man well-read
he often wrote instead
yet to avoid confusion
knowingly said, 'Jump to assumption,
arrive wrong conclusion.'


Premium Member Yen

 i drew 
        my bedroom curtain 
      this morn' and scanned 
           the outside world 
            for inspiration.
    i'm stymied by writer's block, 
              yet I bruise 
    blank papers with my pen 
     to craft the extraordinary 
         out of the ordinary. 
             my poetic ink 
       is drying up, yet I feel 
           this gnawing yen 
          to keep scribbling,
            to keep taking 
     the overlooked in nature 
          and beautifying it;
                   a leaf,
                 a pebble, 
              a crack here, 
          an aperture there.
        i look for inspiration 
        close to, or confined 
           within my home, 
        worthwhile moments,
                 sounds, 
                emotions 
              that still gift 
            my imagination 
             wings to soar.

Premium Member Duchess Has Den Lind's Empathetic Yen

Duchess has Den, Lind's Empathetic Yen
Laughing with Casey gave "rise" to a fall,
Giving "urgery" to surgery,
We pray the setback is soon annul!
Sometimes when mishaps occur,
Causes appreciation in full,
When things stop working,
Face the horns of the bull,
Carpe Diem! Step back & reflect,
Refute descent, resaddle!
Read, think, thank, pray, sing,
May the Big One bless you ->"Troubles Skedaddle!"

Premium Member Yen For Zen

Yen for zen, if not now, then when
Love the touch that endears
Bliss bubbles burst, in our heart’s den
Erasing narrow fears

Heart glows, in stillness slow
Pure inspirations flow
In blissfulness mellow

Poet’s pen
Yen for zen

01-December-2021
Quietus


Yen

Yen!

Come to me
Undress me
And wrap me with your skin
Color me with your blood 
And of course your soul is sheath

Premium Member The Yen of My Pen

The Yen of My Pen


      My impassioned pen has a strange addiction!
      It will only move with its mania-madness
      for music.

      Alas, poor pen~it's so unfair to blame you!
      An honest confession?
      I am the same as you!

      We waltz, we samba and yes, we boogie
      quite a lot, too!
      For my pen and I, you see, write poetry
      in glitzy, fun, dancing shoes!

             

                 October 19, 2019

Yen In Reverse

Two finger salute
They do a little dance
Gotta wash your hands
Two finger salute
Chew a piece of gum
Freshen up some
Two finger salute
Maladaptive solution
For a funhouse illusion
Two finger salute
I saw you through a mirror
Late in the night
Staring at myself so long
I saw through to the other side
You were combing your hair
You were brushing your teeth
I picture you reading in the den
With some food on the table
Picking up your pen
And writing
After a two finger salute

Ch'I-Yen-Shih Metre - I Am Brave

i chase the sun, on bare feet.
one thought i have, the sun stays.
no cloud to hide, my dim route,
for death, it hides, feel it's gaze!

one day I walk, smooth ground run.
mind rocks and sand, the track hides
eyes seek out cracks, could mean some
food, tum needs grub, each step bides

i have cool drinks, streams quench thirst.
a time to rest, i must think
a cold front seen, yet well far,
i hear it roar, cloud still pink

the storm now close, a cave seen
dark clouds a flash, in the cave
safe sleep it calls, next day waits
it comes no sun, i am brave!

Yen of Greatness

Take away what I love 
Only to give me "better"
And watch me live in misery forever.
Finding new realities
Embracing new things
It's like I have a voice
But I don't choose the songs I sing
If it were up to me
It wouldn't be so hard to be
It shouldn't be so hard to see
I have my own life
But this isn't who I wanted to be
I'm free to a certain degree.

Yen Yang Laugh Cry

Keeping up with people and their emotions are increasingly more difficult these days.
A couple days ago I thought about the coming day that now has come and went;
I was disheartened by the whole manner of ramifications of it all.
Just two weeks ago I was planning to live yet another twenty five years;
But today practicality and common sense have created a large hole in all that.
And yes the odds are unfavorable but no it’s not impossible.
       Last week I swore I was not going to let certain people hurt me anymore;
       Today a soft touch or a kind word and here I am right back on the same mount;
       Riding head on at full gallop wearing heart on sleeve  and pen in hand.
       And yes I have been a warrior and battled on night and day;
       Today I weary and desire change but to some I am as I were and always will be
       But surrender I will not so maybe they're right about me

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