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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Edward Ebbs |
Categories:
abuse, depression, desire, friendship, hope, life, love, suicide,
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
Edward J Ebbs - April 10, 2015
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 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
October.11.2016
~ Author's Notes :
The " Choka " is a Japanese poetry form or style.
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
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 Kristin Reynolds |
Categories:
love, native american, nature, peace, places
wheat at its finest.
long before the cut of blade
and grinding of teeth –
it sings through clear wind –
rolling waves, soft in their hush
raising old ones souls,
ingraining lifetimes
upon the wanderer’s skin –
raising hairs on necks –
recognizing sound
as it is meant to be heard –
wheat is heeded wind.
always, wheat whispers
hush…(the heart of prairie grass)
through the mouth of wind.
by Jerry T Curtis |
Categories:
cute love, funny love, humorous, love, romance, romantic, word play,
Just A Couplet od Lovers by JTCurtis Oct 8, 2014
As I hop upon my Metaphor
I hope I still have Rhyme
I need to make the last Quatrain
Which leaves at ten 'til nine
My Haiku's waiting for me
I Lyric her so much
That I, bought a mixed bouquet for her
Of Triolets and such
A gift wrapped Box of Canzone
I know she'll like to eat
Those Blitz', Choka, Clerihew's
Are Villanelle sweet
One day I hope to buy her
A huge Diamante ring
And List forever, in a world
That's Free Verse-ever-ing
by Sandra Ramacher |
Categories:
sad love,
struggling to breathe
the choking hold on my chest
your hard words like bricks
bury me deeper
bearing the weight of your love
until I’m breath less