by Caren Krutsinger |
Categories:
love, self,
a fantasy land
dreamt up by sleeping child
a peaceful magical place
where self-love is born
imperative to her soul
by Dorian Petersen Potter |
Categories:
beautiful, bird, flower, love,
~ Mountains ~
(Double Choka)
Over the mountains
Sun shines in all its splendor
Beautiful trees stand out tall
Birds assemble there
Eagles soar right to the top
Wild flowers covers the ground
Blue mountains stand grand
Deers and bears roam all around
Eyes can't get enough nice scene
All trees seem to glow
You can feel God's loving touch
Breathe in enjoy all the view.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2015
July.24.2017
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
- Mark Twain-
~ Author's Notes :
The " Choka " is a Japanese poetry form or style.
by Tim Ryerson |
Categories:
for her, friendship,
she’s a faithful friend
a mentor, a confidant
a trusted teacher
of poetry forms
loyal, loving me for me
with no conditions...
on one occasion
she set aside precious time
to study ALL of my work
yes, from first to last
offering kind opinions
on what she thought were my best...
she loathes the lazy
practice of copy/pasting
bland, boring comments
or: ‘Nice work! Love it! Congrats!’
(short but not so very sweet)
enough already!
she’s funny and fun
honorable and honest
sometimes brutally...
(she knows I need it)
confidence sans cockiness
now THAT’S a lady...
8/14/2014
by Liam Mcdaid |
Categories:
beautiful, beauty, love, magic, metaphor, mirror,
Ruby all boils down
to you in every dream hot
one vision cannot shake free
Visiting center
nerve glows of everlasting
beauty flowering blossoms
Singing jewel gem
voice of a sweet angel kiss
eyes faraway mystery
Rose your soft petals
touch the deepest chambers
swept away ocean tides wave
Pearl of the deep sea
crowning queen between two
shells holding such rare color love
embracing ring one daisy
by Ernesto P. Santiago |
Categories:
lost love, love, sympathy
Emotional me
is out from my verbose head
like a winter flower with
petals, so much like
hankies of a sleepless god,
to wave in such elegance
my charm over you,
again and again, ‘til your
smile, left to death by the strides
of your rococo
lover, is awakened and
becomes my choka poem
by Seren Roberts |
Categories:
dream,
a large old gnarled bench
by a much older gnarled tree
where the old men sit to dream
of happy boyhoods
love was foremost in their minds
now keeping awake is hard
5-7-7-5-7-7
by Tim Ryerson |
Categories:
wife,
No need to pretend
She had seen me at my best
and my very worst
"So what?" She would say
"Don't you know that I love you?"
and then she would smile
by James Marshall Goff |
Categories:
lost love,
Tears lost and alive
Finding hope with golden moon
Regrets I’ve left holding close
Tremble in my angst
Rising once more with your smile
Shimmering in your full moon
James Marshall Goff
What happens during a full moon contest
10/30/11
by Raul Moreno |
Categories:
love, music
Curvaceous body,
His bow caresses her strings:
Ode to Joy...begins.
·
Musical romance,
Passionate sighs grace the air:
Fervent notes ascend.
·
Music fills the room,
She’s addicted to his bow:
The violin plays.
·
Heated melodies,
Of a musical affair:
Between bow and strings.
by Hiya Sharma |
Categories:
destiny, grief, heart, heartbroken, imagery, longing, love,
You and I, we are,
two polar petals, laced with
arctic blue moonshine
of soft sweven-hymns
and sunburst apricity
of aqua-gold tides,
reminiscing mauve
hours, when our love waltzed in teal
faithful lakes hued with
ivory ink of
coral kismet, shimmering
in wine-auroras,
but now we just trace
poisoned pixie-dust, upon
each other's frail fate,
sinking in folklores
of shaded red canopies,
as I bleed stardust
in ebonies of
hellfire heavens and we fade
like smoked-ash comets;
for you and I, are
we Hemlock and ivy, swathed
in swan-shaped ballads,
floating like hail on smudged graves?
by Levi Justice |
Categories:
love
She flushes and drops bright eyes
to hide my image...
I cup her face and drown it.
[me]
She breathes hesitantly, mouth
Pressed and obstinate...
I gather her corners up.
[drawing that smile again]
She welts tearlines onto the
Pale perfection: skin...
I wet my thumbs, agonized.
[her sorrow breaks]
She sleeps, curls framing movement
And serenity...
I weave myself into both.
[touching the ends of eternity]
by Anna Kittrell |
Categories:
nature
Soft sprinkling shower
Paper rustling in the sky
A gift is unwrapped
Quiet is the grass
Awaiting relief that comes
One drop at a time
The sky grinds his teeth
He unleashes a wild roar
His clouds churn with wrath
Ice rocks hit tin roofs
Ammunition from the sky
Rings through the air
The storm sings to me
A love song of cracks and booms
My favorite kind
by Sara Kendrick |
Categories:
fantasy, imagination, love, nature
.
Running Pale Pink Rose
On the trellis grows_ soft scent_
Wafts on morning air
Under rose trellis
You steal a kiss__Oh! Blissful
Lips that taste of rose
by Diana Bosa |
Categories:
inspirational, language, love, silence, true love,
And the tower of
Babel is destroyed within, thus
there is no more din;
cacophony of
mother tongues. Everything is
silent now: the noise
is fractured, the voice
is shattered, the sound is ruined
and at last, I hear
no other sound of
voice, know no other language,
but yours, the true love of mine.
by Silent One |
Categories:
poetry,
In abstract eyes
what is poetry,
but words weaved in
meter, verse and rhymes
to explain profound
vivid images
using metaphors,
or simple stanzas.
What our eyes capture,
what our mind thinks and
the moods of our heart.
Some inspired by the
moon, flowers or love,
politics and health,
showing and telling
in different styles
or freely flowing.
Using techniques like
alliteration,
syllable forms like
cinquain and choka
or an acrostic.
Poems will make us
laugh, cry or relate,
so let your ink bleed
to release your thoughts
in whatever way
your soul desires to
express without
ignorant judgement.
by Liam Mcdaid |
Categories:
angel, beautiful, beauty, blessing, color, love, miracle,
When you kissed me love
pure the heaven's above smiled
melting the warmest dream dew
From crystal oceans
buried salt upon footprints
underneath into sand held
A thousand shades gold
diamond light shades rainbows
illumination one host
stands beaming through the stars mead
by Raul Moreno |
Categories:
lost love, love
There’s three puppets here,
You and him are on the stage;
I am in the box.
·
I am in the box,
Tangled up in my own strings:
Waiting for my turn.
·
Waiting for my turn,
I know, I won’t have that chance:
Darn this puppeteer!
·
Darn this puppeteer,
Pulling your strings far from me:
While you enjoy your show.
·
While you enjoy your show,
My wooden heart snaps for you:
Splintering my soul.
“4-Minutes”
For Matt Caliri’s Write Now! Contest
by Linda Alice Fowler |
Categories:
funny, giggle, humorous, money, work,
She wore her skirt short,
her lingerie to be seen.
Such sights aplenty!
Gawking, gawping eyes
lusted at shear nudity.
They burned with hunger.
She proudly stood in
ruffled edges of cheap chintz,
dimmed and stained with wear.
Though worn and weathered,
her shoes had seven-inch heels -
a platform for love.
She was hardworking,
a rough road for seven years,
never a complaint.
She saved her rewards,
wed an investment banker,
retired at 30,
and laughed her way to the bank.
by Jan Allison |
Categories:
joy, weather, wedding,
on our wedding day
huge dark clouds won’t bring me down
I’m simply walking on air
my large umbrella
stops my tresses getting wet
let the love rain down on me
Fives and Sevens Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Joseph May
Image 1 chosen
5,7,7,5,7,7 with how many syllables
7/8/19
by Sara Kendrick |
Categories:
family,
"Darkness may hide the trees and flowers from the eyes, but it cannot hide love from the soul." Rumi
gnarled, giant twisted roots
connect the family tree....
so much dysfunction
removed, rescued child
gnarled roots dangle hanging on....
before love showed way
an empty effect
deep within the soul that last....
until dawn cracked
a longing for love
which appears at first light one day....
Holy Spirit filled the soul
by Edward Ebbs |
Categories:
abuse, analogy, beautiful, beauty, bible, celebration, courage, culture, depression, desire, destiny, encouraging, endurance, friendship, hope, life, light, love, meaningful, motivation, social, society, strength, suicide, tribute, voice,
Life does not stand still
If we look, we find friendship
There is always love
Sorrowfully, we look at death
There is always hate
Our days begin with sunlight
The night has darkness
Hope is the light of the moon
We only need one
One light to end the darkness
Your life does matter
Let your light shine fore others
Hope is the light from your life
by Richard Lamoureux |
Categories:
beauty, blessing, dance,
I love how you dance
Pirouette across my page
Delicately take my hand
Glide into my soul
Gravity cannot hold you
Neither can this paper heart
For Dr. Rams Choka contest.
by John Freeman |
Categories:
allegory,
~Wisdom seeks virgins,
wise virgins therefore love Him
the Rose of Sharon,
the beloved Lily,
Beloved is mine, I am his,
I swoon of His love~
Choka 5,7,5,5,7,5
by Richard Lamoureux |
Categories:
beauty, fantasy, first love,
She kissed me slowly,
The memory still lingers.
First kisses are so special.
A silly young boy,
imagined such a moment.
Some dreams really do come true.
by Erich Goller |
Categories:
inspirational, faith,
Faith And Courage
(Choka)
With faith and courage
seeds of love shall never die
everything shall feel right
deep within the heart
a dream that heaven fulfilled
has refreshed the soul again
heavenly reflected
turns shadows into sunlight
touching everyone with love
with His guiding grace
forever when you believe
blesses life in many ways
courage to cope with
when you reaching the summit
forever near will be your gain
within many ways
life be never quite the same
giving strength and faith anew
Erich J. Goller
Copyright 9.21.2012