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Poem Details | by
Jacob Reinhardt |
Categories:
abuse, age, art, business, career, change, class, color, computer, conflict, death, depression, devotion, flower, green, happiness, introspection, irony, jobs, language, loneliness, lonely, longing, metaphor, nature, pain, philosophy, political, poverty, self, simile, slavery, social, society, spiritual, stress, technology, time, today, together, truth, urban, visionary, wisdom, work, world,
The Color Missing
Red, black, and blue are the colors of our work pens. Red is the color of the blood we spill on other people’s mistakes. Blue is the color of the songs we sing on tax forms or pay stubs- every page has a secret melody. Black is the color of the streets we fear most. Black is the color of our signature of approval. Black is the color of our death.
‘But what about the Green pens?’ I ask. They say ‘the ink is too hard to see.’
Poem Details | by
Ngoc Nguyen |
Categories:
fear, grief, horror, introspection, joy, simile, thanks,
Like Frankenstein, I, too, am loathed to death;
I walk this earth devoid of friend and hearth,
devoid of joy from the time of my birth
and from the first draw of my infant's breath.
An outcast and a pariah among
the friended, I exist without the mirth
and glee of those born of more ample worth,
esteem and prize,—O would that I belong!
Still, I am loved of my dear family
and most scarce friends, my books, and by Lord God
and my most oft-read, soothing poetry.
These things I cherish, honor, and so laud
with gratitude and thanks abundantly,
and am glad as a worm in blesséd sod.
Poem Details | by
Peter Lewis Holmes |
Categories:
fun, poetry, satire,
Oh I am a little metaphor
I love to play a word,
today I am a fortress on
Tuesday I’m a bird
On Wednesday I’m a simile
cos I’m like a train, storming
into history,to play this wordy game
On Thursday’s I push the boat out,
ploughing through the waves, then
Fridays I’m like a scimitar, slicing
through the raves
And if you catch me weekend, I
won’t hold a grudge, just take me
as you find me, wink, wink,
nudge, nudge, nudge.
Poem Details | by
millard lowe |
Categories:
africa, black african american, children, death, faith, simile, war,
CRY THE BELOVED CONTINENT…
(Apropos The Ripping Veil of Pan-Africanism)
In all her blackness
her soils run red
with the blood of her children
Whose bloated bellies
mock the pregnancy
of liberty
And her breasts
sag in union
with faces
of hopeless hopefulness;
While hollowed eyes
of mourners
gaze into the wholeness
of nothing---
Smiling death stalks
the narrowing corridors of
life---echoing souring laughs
to virgin wombs
screaming from the shadows
of the valley of death:
But believe brethren---
mock not the gods---
keep plodding;
for in the theism
of this imposed dystopia,
a wretched mother
tenaciously clings to time
and history.
Poem Details | by
millard lowe |
Categories:
analogy, bereavement, black african american, death, discrimination, grief, simile,
of unjust harvest
when will
the grim reaper
tire
being cast murderer
how long will
stopped stalked beings
be blown away
like crows in forbidden fields
does not war yield
enough to be reaped
or
will strange fruits
forever to be plucked
by the harvesters of hate
Poem Details | by
Ngoc Nguyen |
Categories:
dark, death, fear, metaphor, river, simile, symbolism,
In Hades flows the chthonic Styx, a river
of pain and woe—a current of despair,
a spiritual demise that we all share
which shell-shocks our souls and makes us shiver.
Beware! It's like cirrhosis of the liver
that kills with great relish; it does not care,
and torments us beyond what we can bear.
Entombed like lifeless shells, we now quiver
with the drowned ringing of the wet death-knell
(where Heaven's over-run and God seems dead),—
as if we’re just a drink away from hell.
Here, where daunted souls dare not swim or tread,
we are like phantoms: like ghosts in a shell;
yet, we fear not hell. But Despair we dread!
Poem Details | by
millard lowe |
Categories:
allegory, analogy, black african american, conflict, grief, hope, simile,
The Last Supper of Hope
Grief has exhausted itself
And pain has abandoned the heart;
Emptiness now lives where joy
Once called home.
Our streets have become cisterns
Of blood—death quenching its thirst—
Flashbacks of the belly bowels of slave ships
Flying flags of crosses and crescent moons alike.
Hell remains without fury—never discriminating;
And Dante smiling—spits in the face of justice.
Today Armageddon sits at the Last Supper;
May hope be the Bread and Wine. And
Judas forgets to RSVP.
Poem Details | by
Tim Smith |
Categories:
grief, simile,
Sickness sucks the sugar off
Tongues tied to thoughts of tomorrow
If the ingredients don't add up
I search for a cup to borrow
Lost souls left in a breezless meadow
Waiting for a seed to sprout
Can't you hear my shout
Languished and left in peace
Gripping ghosts of past deceased
Sticking the sick with crosses denied
Why do I anymore try
Poem Details | by
millard lowe |
Categories:
bereavement, black african american, discrimination, metaphor, simile, sunset, sunshine,
from rising to setting
she saw sunshine
shooting above
the horizon
exploding
over pregnant
skies
sunset saw son
shot in back—black
stopped on morning
side drive
baby rattler
found in hand
Poem Details | by
millard lowe |
Categories:
analogy, children, death, imagery, simile, war,
For Children of War and Other Deceptions
The load of time
weigh heavy
on the yokes of life;
the unshelled shelled.
Gone.
Innocence of children
preyed upon;
life failed to root itself.
Janus face war genuflects
craving forgiveness;
praising its necessity.
Poem Details | by
millard lowe |
Categories:
allegory, analogy, eulogy, games, grief, imagery, simile,
The Hungry Games Continue…
In a rose monkey moment
Hungry rides its pale horse
Into the sunset—Stunned;
Basketball bellies
Refuse to deflate
Even in death.
The hunger games continue…
Poem Details | by
millard lowe |
Categories:
africa, allegory, analogy, bereavement, betrayal, daughter, simile,
Of Daughters and Aborted Liberties…
My ravished womb drips
precious blood of incestuous rape;
the ghosts of my daughters scream
from shared graves
marked with vaginal blood
shed by sons drunk
on the wine of intoxicating power.
Mislead adolescent warriors
fan holocaust embers
scorching time tested hopes
gone to ashes
as death winds strike chimes
of ebony genocide;
and the cradle and the grave
stand juxtaposed to each other.
My desperate screams
reverberate off once listening ears
and ricochet into the void silence
of a newsworthy footnote:
caught in the cobwebs of history
my aborted blood of liberty flows
like the meandering Nile.
Poem Details | by
Ngoc Nguyen |
Categories:
death, humanity, life, metaphor, perspective, simile, symbolism,
Most delicate and
fragile, a snowflake drifts, melts
and dies—like mankind.
Poem Details | by
millard lowe |
Categories:
analogy, betrayal, emotions, grief, lost love, pain, simile,
The Call…
Pain answered the call
you never returned;
Happiness took a dive—fell
into a junkyard of despair—leaving;
Left a broken heart behind
With
Streaming threads of tears through eyes
of rusty needles of grief
to mend itself—
And you have the audacity:
(to ask)
What’s love got to do with you and me!
Poem Details | by
Diane Pennestri |
Categories:
death, funny, memory, simile, thanks, tribute,
In our lives you were forever,
to make us cry, no never.
So many things that you did,
you made us all feel like a kid.
Every word you ever spoke,
somehow turned into a joke.
A special gift you had somehow,
I guess God must need it now.
He sent you to Angels above,
remember it's you we'll always love.
If it was loose, you would tighten the rope,
after all you were Bob Hope.
We're all so grateful for all you gave,
the crazy ways you would behave.
So may I say from many,
"Thanks for the Memory!"
Poem Details | by
millard lowe |
Categories:
analogy, bereavement, discrimination, eulogy, evil, simile, violence,
Once More…
(Apropos Orlando)
Once more and again
bigotry spreads
like a keloid of shame
across the face
of the promise land.
Once more
liberty and justice
proves to be
only for some—
serving Satan
in the name of God.
Once more
eschewed minds
flake death
to the tested innocent
living out
the tried truth—
their being
who they are:
children of the same God
blasphemed with desecration
of name.
Poem Details | by
millard lowe |
Categories:
allegory, death of a friend, eulogy, poets, simile, thanksgiving, tribute,
For Dead Poets Who Yet Live
The earth swallowed you—
spitting out seeded words
to linger like dusty books;
pages yellowing on rotting shelves.
Like your blood,
your ink well has dried—died.
Tomorrow
we go in search of mangers—seeking
the resurrected word—crying out.
Old poets—at last—die; but
their words are reborn
in the pregnant minds left behind.
Poem Details | by
millard lowe |
Categories:
analogy, grief, imagery, love, metaphor, sea, simile,
The Waning of Tides of Love
Like the ebb
and flow
of tides
to thirsty shores,
so surreal
were the ups and downs
of our love;
then at yesterday’s
sunset,
the moon
forsook us
and with lost gravity,
the thirsty tides
of our love
waned away:
lost at sea
to return no more.
Poem Details | by
Saahil Parwez |
Categories:
emotions, grief, humanity, metaphor, philosophy, simile, symbolism,
Heart, the most wounded part of the soul
Felt the darkest and wildest moment ever
Until the down of the pain of separation.
And then there entered the light of love
Unto the eyes within the heart
For love is not about grief and sorrow
Love is but the greatest force of attraction
Binds human and life together
And heals wounds within moments
For love is a fountain of youth, indeed.
Quote of Rumi -:
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
Poem Details | by
millard lowe |
Categories:
analogy, bereavement, emotions, grief, imagery, loneliness, simile,
loneliness is a period
without
a full sentence;
it mirrors a riverbed
that once
knew water.
loneliness is like a dried
empty egg shell
that has lost its all;
you were the watered
sentenced yolk of my life
and i miss you so dearly.
Poem Details | by
millard lowe |
Categories:
allegory, analogy, black african american, grief, hope, imagery, simile,
Today the rain fell
steadily;
her drops reminiscent
of waters drowning
justice struggling
to survive tidal waves
of deception
seeking to douse
the flame of hope
held in the hand
of an elusive lady trying
to bear her anchored mooring.
The reality of the dream
remains deferred—
the children
of past and present cargo
remain on the outskirts of equanimity;
and while all lives matter
and crime knows no hue of skin,
it’s a crying shame
that injustice
is still considered not to be a crime;
and keeping hope alive
is still an illusion of its own mind.
Poem Details | by
millard lowe |
Categories:
analogy, grief, imagery, irony, life, metaphor, simile,
A fly dropped
into my soup;
drowning.
Down the drain I poured,
watching an old lady
digging through the garbage.
I puked as she ate
the stale bread
I had thrown away.
Yes, my life has had its fecal moments;
and hasn’t been like a bed of roses; but
at lease it ain’t been flushed down the toilet.
Poem Details | by
Ngoc Nguyen |
Categories:
death, irony, metaphor, philosophy, poetry, simile, symbolism,
Deathwards go I—
Through this needle’s narrowing eye
Called Life, —
With mortal Thread stitched—.
If garment be weaved—
From Life by the Weaver’s loom;
Then weaved was
I by Him— ‘til worn and creased
Out of shape into Death’s cold womb—.
Poem Details | by
Ogaga Eruteya |
Categories:
death, deep, judgement, mystery, religious, simile, sleep,
At night I sleep
Its start, I know not
But, will I ever know?
Now so long, still,
eyes close and open
Can I control, ever?
Someday these eyes,
finally, will close
How and when, can I know?
Someday like sleep,
they will so open
Where will they open?
Poem Details | by
Edward Ibeh |
Categories:
animal, emotions, grief, loss, pain, simile,
In hibernation, like a polar bear
After the searing pain dulls
Bearable, day by day
Writing Challenge 4, March 2019- Kimo- Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Dear Heart (Winner: 5th Place)
Date written and posted: 03/20/2019