Poems About Na Po Wri Mo 2024 Seeking Honest Critique
#NaPoWriMo2024
cabcool
Poem Published
29th Apr 2024 8:00pm
29th Apr 2024 8:00pm
april songs (Theme 2): elements of life 8
april song 18—steam
when your life explodes with spelendour,
you must take time to remember
that a sudden surge of wet steam
could devour, at once, your wet dream.
when the trials of severe life
whet your temper like a sharp knife,
you should seek urgent appeasement,
lest you blow your fuming steam vent.
when the motion of the ocean
bends your sweet love and devotion,
let your liquid equilibrium
be the consummate asylum
for the turmoil you are facing.
let the gentle,...
when your life explodes with spelendour,
you must take time to remember
that a sudden surge of wet steam
could devour, at once, your wet dream.
when the trials of severe life
whet your temper like a sharp knife,
you should seek urgent appeasement,
lest you blow your fuming steam vent.
when the motion of the ocean
bends your sweet love and devotion,
let your liquid equilibrium
be the consummate asylum
for the turmoil you are facing.
let the gentle,...
#anger
#anxiety
#LifeStruggles
#NaPoWriMo2024
#steampunk
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cabcool
Poem Published
29th Apr 2024 7:52pm
29th Apr 2024 7:52pm
april songs: elements of life 7
april song 17—dust
in the paths of puffing billy
(though, at first, it sounds so silly),
citizens of every nation
tremble at wild-dust invasion.
his passport is universal
and his threats know no reversal;
birds and mammals take a dust bath
to routinely ease his gust wrath.
embryonic to the human
race, ‘tis dust makes up the true man,
and to dust he soon returneth,
when the breath in him adjourneth.
nasa stardust has a duty
(and we should all join the tutti)
to reduce saharan nuisance,
till...
in the paths of puffing billy
(though, at first, it sounds so silly),
citizens of every nation
tremble at wild-dust invasion.
his passport is universal
and his threats know no reversal;
birds and mammals take a dust bath
to routinely ease his gust wrath.
embryonic to the human
race, ‘tis dust makes up the true man,
and to dust he soon returneth,
when the breath in him adjourneth.
nasa stardust has a duty
(and we should all join the tutti)
to reduce saharan nuisance,
till...
#environment
#LifeCycle
#LifeStruggles #NaPoWriMo2024
#LifeStruggles #NaPoWriMo2024
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Kinkwizard_95
Poem Published
29th Apr 2024 5:32pm
29th Apr 2024 5:32pm
Existence
Are you dreaming a dream
Or spinning a web
Lost inside distractions
Losing your head
What is this dichotomy
We find ourselves in
How is this existence
And what is living
What is your wish
What adventure are you on
Where are you going and
Where do you come from
Please tell me the truth
Please tell me our plan
What on earth is happening
Is this all a sham
Are you a stranger
Or are you my friend
What is our future
When is our end
Are you a self
Or are...
Or spinning a web
Lost inside distractions
Losing your head
What is this dichotomy
We find ourselves in
How is this existence
And what is living
What is your wish
What adventure are you on
Where are you going and
Where do you come from
Please tell me the truth
Please tell me our plan
What on earth is happening
Is this all a sham
Are you a stranger
Or are you my friend
What is our future
When is our end
Are you a self
Or are...
#NaPoWriMo2024
#philosophical
#SelfReflection #spiritual
#SelfReflection #spiritual
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Gahddess_Worship
Poem Published
29th Apr 2024 5:15am
29th Apr 2024 5:15am
Cold Comfort-Second Scoop
The role of an icecream scooper
is not a gig that's easy.
Especially on hot Summer nights
when the store
is super busy.
Customers uttering
dog day's mumbles,
lined up out the door
just to pick a number.
Believe me
icecream is like
scooping granite
when straight
from the walk-in freezer
and we could have used
a stick of dynamite
if someone
ordered Daiquiri Ice.
To prepare milkshakes
we'd slide the steel collar
into a paper cup
and mount it on the blender. ...
is not a gig that's easy.
Especially on hot Summer nights
when the store
is super busy.
Customers uttering
dog day's mumbles,
lined up out the door
just to pick a number.
Believe me
icecream is like
scooping granite
when straight
from the walk-in freezer
and we could have used
a stick of dynamite
if someone
ordered Daiquiri Ice.
To prepare milkshakes
we'd slide the steel collar
into a paper cup
and mount it on the blender. ...
#childhood
#food
#job
#memories
#NaPoWriMo2024
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Josiah
Poem Published
29th Apr 2024 3:39am
29th Apr 2024 3:39am
The Yes Man
They all have a habit of gliding in so slyly
Post three coffee Yetis with ideas grandeur
Pre ten ante meridiem press conference
It's their eyes, that silence before speaking
Two faced distortions and slight contortions
Movements sniffley, syntheticy, hesitant
What will I say? What will I do? What wont I?
Looking for my eyes, I make sure they see
War crimes. Excessive nuking. Blood lust.
The void forces their quick recalculations
And so concludes this silent bargain
A deal, neither good nor bad, just that
Just business,...
Post three coffee Yetis with ideas grandeur
Pre ten ante meridiem press conference
It's their eyes, that silence before speaking
Two faced distortions and slight contortions
Movements sniffley, syntheticy, hesitant
What will I say? What will I do? What wont I?
Looking for my eyes, I make sure they see
War crimes. Excessive nuking. Blood lust.
The void forces their quick recalculations
And so concludes this silent bargain
A deal, neither good nor bad, just that
Just business,...
#job
#manipulation
#NaPoWriMo2024
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cabcool
Poem Published
29th Apr 2024 3:33am
29th Apr 2024 3:33am
april songs: elements of life 6
april song 16—fire
flammable sometimes, the temper,
even deadly in its ember;
who can pacify a furnace,
when with rage it burns in earnest?
purify my wanton dreaming
that your tongues, for my redeeming,
may appoint me to rejoice in
kinder metaphoric cruisin.
an aspiring pyromaniac,
straddling burning candles bareback,
fascinated by the flame dance,
withers in his budding romance.
yellow flames in low combustion
leave fair room for verbal fustian,
but the deadly blue of high noon
breathes an...
flammable sometimes, the temper,
even deadly in its ember;
who can pacify a furnace,
when with rage it burns in earnest?
purify my wanton dreaming
that your tongues, for my redeeming,
may appoint me to rejoice in
kinder metaphoric cruisin.
an aspiring pyromaniac,
straddling burning candles bareback,
fascinated by the flame dance,
withers in his budding romance.
yellow flames in low combustion
leave fair room for verbal fustian,
but the deadly blue of high noon
breathes an...
#anger
#fire
#LifeChangingMoment #NaPoWriMo2024
#LifeChangingMoment #NaPoWriMo2024
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wallyroo92
Poem Published
29th Apr 2024 3:07am
29th Apr 2024 3:07am
Seek Advice from the Wise
Seek advice from the wise
Those who lived a longer and extraordinary lives
Because learning from them
Can lead to improvement on character and judgement
The wisdom we can gain from others
Can enrich our personal lives
Gaining knowledge and strength
Which can serve as a practical guide for balanced living
By emulating those figures
Role models we admire
Who have exemplified
Ethics
Integrity
Resilience
Logic
And other qualities we wish to acquire
We can build an internal fortitude ...
Those who lived a longer and extraordinary lives
Because learning from them
Can lead to improvement on character and judgement
The wisdom we can gain from others
Can enrich our personal lives
Gaining knowledge and strength
Which can serve as a practical guide for balanced living
By emulating those figures
Role models we admire
Who have exemplified
Ethics
Integrity
Resilience
Logic
And other qualities we wish to acquire
We can build an internal fortitude ...
#NaPoWriMo2024
#PersonalGrowth
#wisdom
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cabcool
Poem Published
29th Apr 2024 3:03am
29th Apr 2024 3:03am
april songs: elements of life 5
april song 15—clouds
clouds would seem, at first, like blindness
charged with weather-borne unkindness;
Yet, with cumulus abounding,
you can find sure-footed grounding,
if with confidence and courage
you embrace the timeless marriage
twixt your laughing and your weeping,
and your waking and your sleeping.
chilling cirrus clouds bring shivers,
as cold-shoulder hate delivers
to the peasant in his groaning,
nought for pity grace atoning.
nimbus-stratus cloud commotion
carries oft the faulty notion ...
clouds would seem, at first, like blindness
charged with weather-borne unkindness;
Yet, with cumulus abounding,
you can find sure-footed grounding,
if with confidence and courage
you embrace the timeless marriage
twixt your laughing and your weeping,
and your waking and your sleeping.
chilling cirrus clouds bring shivers,
as cold-shoulder hate delivers
to the peasant in his groaning,
nought for pity grace atoning.
nimbus-stratus cloud commotion
carries oft the faulty notion ...
#clouds
#LifeChangingMoment
#LifeCycle #NaPoWriMo2024
#LifeCycle #NaPoWriMo2024
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Gahddess_Worship
Poem Published
29th Apr 2024 2:27am
29th Apr 2024 2:27am
Cold Comfort-First Scoop
Yeah, I did my time
on the ice cream scooper line.
On my first day
the most senior server said,
“we'll call him Buffalo Bob.”
supposing the reference
was to the Howdy Doody host
and not to my corpulence.
I was told that
one would likely lose
their affection
for the creamy confection.
Not so in my case.
To this very day
Ice cream ranks
second or third place
in my dessert predilection.
My favorites
an orange sherbert, vanilla
milkshake,
chocolate chip
on a...
on the ice cream scooper line.
On my first day
the most senior server said,
“we'll call him Buffalo Bob.”
supposing the reference
was to the Howdy Doody host
and not to my corpulence.
I was told that
one would likely lose
their affection
for the creamy confection.
Not so in my case.
To this very day
Ice cream ranks
second or third place
in my dessert predilection.
My favorites
an orange sherbert, vanilla
milkshake,
chocolate chip
on a...
#childhood
#food
#love
#memories
#NaPoWriMo2024
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Wafflenose
Ellie
Ellie
Poem Published
28th Apr 2024 8:52pm
28th Apr 2024 8:52pm
Mystery number
I am a mystery number
between one and ninety nine;
in fact, I have two digits,
and I am not a prime.
When you add me to the number
of spots upon two dice,
divide me by eleven
and add on two score (twice),
subtract a baker's dozen,
times the days within one week,
minus days in a leap year,
it just adds to the mystique.
Halve your current total,
then subtract three score and ten;
if the answer's quite unlucky,
what is MY name then?
between one and ninety nine;
in fact, I have two digits,
and I am not a prime.
When you add me to the number
of spots upon two dice,
divide me by eleven
and add on two score (twice),
subtract a baker's dozen,
times the days within one week,
minus days in a leap year,
it just adds to the mystique.
Halve your current total,
then subtract three score and ten;
if the answer's quite unlucky,
what is MY name then?
#funny
#NaPoWriMo2024
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Wafflenose
Ellie
Ellie
Poem Published
28th Apr 2024 8:51pm
28th Apr 2024 8:51pm
Riddle
My first is in bath but not in shower;
my second in strength, and also in power.
My third is in sister and also in brother;
my fourth is in father but never in mother.
My fifth is in short and also in tall;
my sixth is in shout but never in call.
My whole can be found in the land of the living.
though not in the dead, for its gift is life-giving;
stirs music to being, yet can kill a flame;
you have all your clues now, so what is my name?
my second in strength, and also in power.
My third is in sister and also in brother;
my fourth is in father but never in mother.
My fifth is in short and also in tall;
my sixth is in shout but never in call.
My whole can be found in the land of the living.
though not in the dead, for its gift is life-giving;
stirs music to being, yet can kill a flame;
you have all your clues now, so what is my name?
#NaPoWriMo2024
#PowerOfWords
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Kinkwizard_95
Poem Published
28th Apr 2024 4:26pm
28th Apr 2024 4:26pm
Show of life
You’re here to watch the show of life
Please step up into the round
Spotlights bright, curtain call
Are you ready to perform?
Throw on this costume
Read out these lines
Pose like this whilst you do
Show me your persons
Enact your truth
Reveal your inner world
Silhouette disguising
Story enticing
Mesmerising
Enchanting tales
An eclectic collection of
Trials and tribulations
Moments and undulations
What is this ride we call life?
Please step up into the round
Spotlights bright, curtain call
Are you ready to perform?
Throw on this costume
Read out these lines
Pose like this whilst you do
Show me your persons
Enact your truth
Reveal your inner world
Silhouette disguising
Story enticing
Mesmerising
Enchanting tales
An eclectic collection of
Trials and tribulations
Moments and undulations
What is this ride we call life?
#learning
#NaPoWriMo2024
#philosophical
#spiritual
#TruthOfLife
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