Poems About NaPoWriMo2019 Seeking Honest Critique
#NaPoWriMo2019
SatInUGal
Kumar
Kumar
Poem Published
27th Apr 2019 5:43pm
27th Apr 2019 5:43pm
MAMA SONG
Everything looks gorgeous, mama
Everything looks right as rain
Everything looks gorgeous, mama
Why can’t I go out to play?
Do you have your jacket, lovely?
Do you have all that you need?
It’s a cruel, cruel world, trust me
I don’t want to see you bleed
Everybody is playing, mama
Everybody is having fun
Everybody is playing, mama
These feet were made to run
Keep your hand in my hand, darling
Listen to the words I say
Many things are so alarming
Maybe you can wait a day
I don’t wanna wait...
Everything looks right as rain
Everything looks gorgeous, mama
Why can’t I go out to play?
Do you have your jacket, lovely?
Do you have all that you need?
It’s a cruel, cruel world, trust me
I don’t want to see you bleed
Everybody is playing, mama
Everybody is having fun
Everybody is playing, mama
These feet were made to run
Keep your hand in my hand, darling
Listen to the words I say
Many things are so alarming
Maybe you can wait a day
I don’t wanna wait...
#motherhood
#childhood
#lyrics #NaPoWriMo2019
#lyrics #NaPoWriMo2019
620 reads
4 Comments
Hepcat61
geoff cat
geoff cat
Poem Published
27th Apr 2019 2:37pm
27th Apr 2019 2:37pm
Renga: Sensei’s Shodo – Day Twenty-Seven
#love
#sex
#WritingPoetry
#senryu
#NaPoWriMo2019
627 reads
4 Comments
Josh
Joshua Bond
Joshua Bond
Poem Published
27th Apr 2019 11:40am
27th Apr 2019 11:40am
Crafting a Damn Poem
Even the little words are reluctant
to heel in neatly, do what they’re told
greased with some spittle, cleverly constant
sneaking discretely they anchor their hold
brazen with bottle, never repentant
creeping concretely they’re breaking my mould
pressing the throttle, smiling expectant
almost completely my focus is rolled …
… but restless to whittle words that are extant
lifting astutely the meaning they polled
eyeing the prattle, shooting the mutants
...
to heel in neatly, do what they’re told
greased with some spittle, cleverly constant
sneaking discretely they anchor their hold
brazen with bottle, never repentant
creeping concretely they’re breaking my mould
pressing the throttle, smiling expectant
almost completely my focus is rolled …
… but restless to whittle words that are extant
lifting astutely the meaning they polled
eyeing the prattle, shooting the mutants
...
#WritingPoetry
#NaPoWriMo2019
689 reads
16 Comments
yelluw_always
Poem Published
27th Apr 2019 7:20am
27th Apr 2019 7:20am
Lakeside 26/30
A different kind of ending
is happening in the underbrush
you might see it as a kind of matted
with its braids and twisted
bodies making do with space though it appears a mess
a real pollack moment of turning a head
everything appears fast
appears indiscernible and indescribable and streamed
of starved language
pretty much it’s a whirligig or a thingamabob
that all needs to be weed-whacked
to most
flattening what exists in a layer between control and worldview
mowers and machetes, landscapers...
is happening in the underbrush
you might see it as a kind of matted
with its braids and twisted
bodies making do with space though it appears a mess
a real pollack moment of turning a head
everything appears fast
appears indiscernible and indescribable and streamed
of starved language
pretty much it’s a whirligig or a thingamabob
that all needs to be weed-whacked
to most
flattening what exists in a layer between control and worldview
mowers and machetes, landscapers...
#identity
#nature
#culture #NaPoWriMo2019
#culture #NaPoWriMo2019
17 reads
7 Comments
wallyroo92
Poem Published
27th Apr 2019 2:54am
27th Apr 2019 2:54am
Frameworks
She’s got these alluring honey brown eyes,
Inviting,
Exciting,
Seductive
With elusive airs,
It’s tempting to look in her soul,
Yet in her subtle stares,
There’s an appealing magnetism
Like a prism
Or a schism within my internal frameworks
Into the abstract
and beyond the unknown
Where I have no control.
It’s a
D e
c o n
s t r u c
t i o n
Of all logic and reason,
When...
Inviting,
Exciting,
Seductive
With elusive airs,
It’s tempting to look in her soul,
Yet in her subtle stares,
There’s an appealing magnetism
Like a prism
Or a schism within my internal frameworks
Into the abstract
and beyond the unknown
Where I have no control.
It’s a
D e
c o n
s t r u c
t i o n
Of all logic and reason,
When...
#love
#romantic
#fate #NaPoWriMo2019
#fate #NaPoWriMo2019
853 reads
6 Comments
Viddax
Lord Viddax
Lord Viddax
Poem Published
26th Apr 2019 8:59pm
26th Apr 2019 8:59pm
War of the Wrigglers
Hark and hear the absurd proclamation of a terrible tyrant
the Lord of Slugs
who with envious eyes has declared all of Deep Underground
are to be his dominion,
another diamond to add to his under empire
where the enslaved will toil to harvest soil
so that all becomes base and broken
and as impotent as he is,
the virility around offends his sight
and must be brought to heel
in order to satisfy his tyrannical demands
for this so called lord
is naught but a greedy parasite
who feeds upon the labours of others
plagiarising...
the Lord of Slugs
who with envious eyes has declared all of Deep Underground
are to be his dominion,
another diamond to add to his under empire
where the enslaved will toil to harvest soil
so that all becomes base and broken
and as impotent as he is,
the virility around offends his sight
and must be brought to heel
in order to satisfy his tyrannical demands
for this so called lord
is naught but a greedy parasite
who feeds upon the labours of others
plagiarising...
#war
#CallToAction
#NaPoWriMo2019
619 reads
5 Comments
ImperfectedStone
The Gardener
The Gardener
Poem Published
26th Apr 2019 8:29pm
26th Apr 2019 8:29pm
Rockhollow Series: Destiny
Title: Destiny
Twenty Six of Thirty
Unique Words: One Hundred and Forty-Six
#NaPoWriMo19
The rain she heaves as if she knows
I need to watch from the window,
my mind gives no hoots
to the body's pain, I've always been that way.
Thinking beyond here lately - of gifting
something all together, full bodied and rich with worthiness
to the ether, my daughter, to you and I.
I want to give Rockhollow to it, let the thanks of it leak
pleasantly through pages
as valium to anxiety. ...
Twenty Six of Thirty
Unique Words: One Hundred and Forty-Six
#NaPoWriMo19
The rain she heaves as if she knows
I need to watch from the window,
my mind gives no hoots
to the body's pain, I've always been that way.
Thinking beyond here lately - of gifting
something all together, full bodied and rich with worthiness
to the ether, my daughter, to you and I.
I want to give Rockhollow to it, let the thanks of it leak
pleasantly through pages
as valium to anxiety. ...
#nature
#confessional
#CharlesBukowski
#historical
#NaPoWriMo2019
492 reads
2 Comments
SatInUGal
Kumar
Kumar
Poem Published
26th Apr 2019 8:10pm
26th Apr 2019 8:10pm
URGENT
You want me to believe in God
Yet pray to the Marquis de Sade
Content to be what humans be—
I pray my kids grow up wild and free.
What did nature do so wrong
That we must interrupt her song?
Like Kanye in his foolish rut
Imma let you finish, but…
Got parking lots to be laid down
Got permits to build out more town
Got money in the bank so sure
That you don’t need to worry ‘bout her—
Well Mama Nature worries ‘bout you
And there are plenty things she’ll do!
I urge you all to practice wooing
Her so she won’t end up...
Yet pray to the Marquis de Sade
Content to be what humans be—
I pray my kids grow up wild and free.
What did nature do so wrong
That we must interrupt her song?
Like Kanye in his foolish rut
Imma let you finish, but…
Got parking lots to be laid down
Got permits to build out more town
Got money in the bank so sure
That you don’t need to worry ‘bout her—
Well Mama Nature worries ‘bout you
And there are plenty things she’ll do!
I urge you all to practice wooing
Her so she won’t end up...
#environment
#nature
#NaPoWriMo2019
722 reads
4 Comments
Hepcat61
geoff cat
geoff cat
Poem Published
26th Apr 2019 4:27pm
26th Apr 2019 4:27pm
Fall of Metered Words: Day Twenty-Six
(sestina)
How deep the math and structure take my mind.
How swift the fall of metered words define.
In sounds that sing in evening’s colored airs,
In taste of lines that only tasting bares
The poets’ phrase that only shapes can hold
In spoken nights and ranting silence told.
How many times her luscious tales I’ve told,
That seep like lovers’ wells to fill my mind,
That whisper tight like muscled want takes hold.
Words bound to Love that harness their define
In dancing tongues that silken gateway bares
With scents of sea and...
How deep the math and structure take my mind.
How swift the fall of metered words define.
In sounds that sing in evening’s colored airs,
In taste of lines that only tasting bares
The poets’ phrase that only shapes can hold
In spoken nights and ranting silence told.
How many times her luscious tales I’ve told,
That seep like lovers’ wells to fill my mind,
That whisper tight like muscled want takes hold.
Words bound to Love that harness their define
In dancing tongues that silken gateway bares
With scents of sea and...
#relationships
#WritingPoetry
#NaPoWriMo2019 #love
#NaPoWriMo2019 #love
541 reads
9 Comments
rosegold
Poem Published
26th Apr 2019 4:32am
26th Apr 2019 4:32am
Blooming
Bright orange,
blooming
waves of petals
spread across the hills -
bursting through the earth's
surface to say hello
to the sun.
Our hot, dry desert
that the world loves,
brown and lifeless
for as long as I've known it -
now transformed,
surprising me with its
hidden beauty.
Pretty purples and pinks
and poppies galore,
and a bit of blue
sprinkled in here and there.
Yellow and white mixed in
everywhere, and
the most vibrant green grass
I've ever seen.
Fields full of ...
blooming
waves of petals
spread across the hills -
bursting through the earth's
surface to say hello
to the sun.
Our hot, dry desert
that the world loves,
brown and lifeless
for as long as I've known it -
now transformed,
surprising me with its
hidden beauty.
Pretty purples and pinks
and poppies galore,
and a bit of blue
sprinkled in here and there.
Yellow and white mixed in
everywhere, and
the most vibrant green grass
I've ever seen.
Fields full of ...
#flowers
#nature
#uplifting #NaPoWriMo2019
#uplifting #NaPoWriMo2019
654 reads
2 Comments
ImperfectedStone
The Gardener
The Gardener
Poem Published
25th Apr 2019 9:36pm
25th Apr 2019 9:36pm
Rockhollow Series: Birds
Title: Birds
Twenty-Five of Thirty
Unique Words: One Hundred and Ten
#NaPoWriMo19
In the darkness, above the cardoons, echiums and rhubarb I can sense the courageous buzzing,
a storm dancing in unseen cloud, a rain of thousand strong army proud
and drumming up their rage. I worry for the birds.
My womb can feel the New Moon sauntering a gentle journey to this space,
songs of my youth dance on my diaphragm, songs of blue tit
and warbler too - I long, by night, for the songs of morning bird
to be heard with coffee in...
Twenty-Five of Thirty
Unique Words: One Hundred and Ten
#NaPoWriMo19
In the darkness, above the cardoons, echiums and rhubarb I can sense the courageous buzzing,
a storm dancing in unseen cloud, a rain of thousand strong army proud
and drumming up their rage. I worry for the birds.
My womb can feel the New Moon sauntering a gentle journey to this space,
songs of my youth dance on my diaphragm, songs of blue tit
and warbler too - I long, by night, for the songs of morning bird
to be heard with coffee in...
#birds
#storm
#night
#nature
#NaPoWriMo2019
532 reads
2 Comments
wallyroo92
Poem Published
25th Apr 2019 9:22pm
25th Apr 2019 9:22pm
Schlitz and Giggles
Pour another round,
Tonight it’s going down!
A couple of more nice cold lagers will do,
My glass is almost empty,
But I know there’s plenty,
Oh you bet we’ll have barrels of fun too.
We’ll remember the times,
Anything that comes to mind,
Laugh at old jokes as if they were new,
We share the same struggles,
We’ll forget about our troubles,
Just for a couple of hours to get us through.
Have another draught,
Surely we’ll have a blast,
The night is young so we’ll let it all unfold,
And our hearts will rejoice, ...
Tonight it’s going down!
A couple of more nice cold lagers will do,
My glass is almost empty,
But I know there’s plenty,
Oh you bet we’ll have barrels of fun too.
We’ll remember the times,
Anything that comes to mind,
Laugh at old jokes as if they were new,
We share the same struggles,
We’ll forget about our troubles,
Just for a couple of hours to get us through.
Have another draught,
Surely we’ll have a blast,
The night is young so we’ll let it all unfold,
And our hearts will rejoice, ...
#happiness
#alcohol
#escape #NaPoWriMo2019
#escape #NaPoWriMo2019
650 reads
10 Comments
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