Tag: poem
member name: Kelly T.
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March 20, 2009 05:23 AM EDT --
Seven steps Down the stone and winding stair. Only seven. Push me there. Let me fall among dead leaves crushed sandy dirt, rough granite in a slow-motion fall, close-ups: ants crawl in a line up my neck . . .
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April 24, 2009 04:02 AM EDT --
A white owl brought me pieces of my soul
During the long dark night, this ritualistic winter descent of
the land of Fire and Ice, the land that's claimed me
into its' seasons, its times and . . .
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January 21, 2009 02:32 PM EST --
Before the august dawn
And the mirror of a Walden pond,
Looks a girl upon the shining lawn-
Bouquet plucked and early donned-
Oh thin, fast reach of heaven’s yawn
Before the shadowed wood beyond . . .
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February 22, 2009 09:15 PM EST --
Ach! How I would that I could turn
my Goddess Face from the task I’m asked, and leave it fallow.
Thrice you have been blessed
With life, then life again, rebirth,
Your spirit captive ‘neath the . . .
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January 12, 2007 08:09 PM EST --
I wrote this poem some time ago, around 1996. I am interested in how you might interpret it. I am not sure if the ending gets the point across that I originally intended. Thanks! I am still attempting . . .
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May 29, 2009 01:17 AM EDT --
The old gods return
Through the cracks in the fortress
Of ourselves, past the sentinels
We charge with our safe keeping.
The castle, a mirage,
Shimmers with the myth of king,
Queen, the crown . . .
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February 10, 2009 07:01 PM EST --
New Challenge Below!
Welcome to "A Poem From Thee Bi-Weekly Be". Here's how it works:
I will offer an inspirational challenge to poets, roughly, every other week. Depending on . . .
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March 12, 2009 01:41 AM EDT --
March 2009's Poem For Thee challenge was "The Golden Rule". JustMe and X-Tabber nailed it. They teamed up and collaborated to create the following "I-Thou" exchange . . .
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December 27, 2008 04:28 AM EST --
I am a mystic
Born in a non-descript
Brick ranch house
On a corner lot
With a grey chain-link
Fence.
A school bus drives by.
There’s a man on the moon.
Swing-sets forlornly . . .
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February 11, 2009 02:51 PM EST --
Libramoon's poem Adulation was submitted in response to A Poem For Thee's debut challenge "Doubles" or "Mirrors". Below you will find Libramoon's poem and Kelly's . . .
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February 24, 2009 04:37 PM EST --
Congratulations and thank you to JustMe. She is A Poem For Me Bi-Weekly Be Featured Poet for her response to the February 11, 2009 Inspiration "Threes," "Trinities" . . .
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March 11, 2009 05:36 AM EDT --
Tree.
Look for birds,
If none there
Suspect heresy.
Sun.
Round
Think of it
As flat instead.
Sky.
One third
The golden mean,
Two-thirds, never three.
Ocean.
From a small raft,
No sign . . .
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December 27, 2008 04:36 AM EST --
The new leader of the revolution is a poet,
He waves the baton before schools of fish,
Like Billy Collins, he makes poetry accessible,
He reads the manifesto, shaking his fist.
He waves the . . .
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March 10, 2009 06:30 AM EDT --
Hades Moon, Demeter’s Daughter
Unable to die, (no sharp instruments lie by)
When the moon is full and I have fallen, weak, upon my knees,
Painted upon myself Grief, orange, red, black, instead . . .
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January 13, 2009 04:11 PM EST --
In the middle of grandmother's house
on a wall
above the arched hall
He died.
Listen, she whispers, untying her apron
she can hear the holy ghost
we only hear
the wind. . . .
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January 17, 2009 05:15 PM EST --
Welcome to "A Poem From Thee Bi-Weekly Be". Here's how it works:
I will offer an inspirational challenge to poets weekly. Depending on the response, one to five poems written in response . . .
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March 29, 2009 04:02 AM EDT --
One day
I wake up to the not so far off rumble of Mount Redoubt esteemed
Volcano Mother of the Land of Ten Thousand Volcanoes down
The street and the land line ringing off the hook, . . .
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March 01, 2009 01:33 PM EST --
Welcome to "A Poem From Thee Bi-Weekly Be". Here's how it works:
I will offer an inspirational challenge to poets bi-weekly (approximately due to unforeseen problems such as technical . . .
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December 25, 2006 02:31 PM EST --
In Alaska, I do not think of it anymore. Vast space Holds an entire heart, a cup of tears, A hundred thousand rivers, The boundless tundra, An entire ocean; The cold and arctic glaciers move like tides- . . .
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