http://ezinearticles.com/?cat=Arts-and-Entertainment:Poetry EzineArticles.com - Trusted By Millions as The Source For Quality Original Articles http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ Look in the eyes of your brother see what it's telling you. You will clearly see a vision of gentle unadulterated truth. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:51:12 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Eyes-of-Your-Brother&id=2551096 http://ezinearticles.com/?Eyes-of-Your-Brother&id=2551096 This poem was composed in remembrance of what I passed through during my service year in the Eastern part of Nigeria. I never believed that some are still living in such manner in this 21st century. All the same, it is a nice experience and an opportunity to impact lives and affect destinies positively. It was service to humanity and to our fatherland. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:51:15 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Just-Somewhere-There&id=2539381 http://ezinearticles.com/?Just-Somewhere-There&id=2539381 An examination of the choices and consequence that face our lives daily. Travelling from one station to another, my suitcase knocks against my knees... Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:16:19 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Eye-Doll&id=2535843 http://ezinearticles.com/?Eye-Doll&id=2535843 We have leaders, and we have leader. In this part of the world, one died and we all rejoice and another died and we all mourn. The big difference in two leaders, one that has been and another who is yet to be. What a big difference! It is not all about living, it is all about contribution, impact and quality of life. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:55:05 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Big-Difference-Life&id=2534440 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Big-Difference-Life&id=2534440 This poem was composed when I was passing through the dark tunnels of life. When I feel dejected, abandoned, hopeless and helpless. However, I summoned courage; I encouraged myself and put myself together to face the challenges. God heard my voice! Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:59:05 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Oh!-What-a-Silent-Night&id=2530779 http://ezinearticles.com/?Oh!-What-a-Silent-Night&id=2530779 Painted with natural brush, butterflies around plants and bush. I run after them to catch live, kids insisting for catch not one but five. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:20:07 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Butterflies-Around&id=2518472 http://ezinearticles.com/?Butterflies-Around&id=2518472 What does Time buy with us having spent it in a certain way? There's laughter in the corners and there are dangerous dunces; ounces of liquor, ounces of red-glow molten glass, pints of fast-walking, pints of those who look away when their non-blood-elders wave, and gallons of spaciousness, space and pacing fathers who are truly fathers-to-be beginnings, beginnings begging for an Inn, anywhere to call home and hear that nothingness is OK, that nothingness is right where smiling for no reason stands oughting to be. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:32:52 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-City&id=2547367 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-City&id=2547367 Are we a match? May I ask why? You must tell me every detail, and look me in the eye. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:47:13 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Master-of-the-Craft&id=2527904 http://ezinearticles.com/?Master-of-the-Craft&id=2527904 Mothers are always close and yet never really appreciated. Most will give their last dime to see the prosperity and success of a child. We, as children are stood by, no matter how good or bad the situation may be. Yes, sometimes they are too protective, too loving, and yes they want us to live their dreams to feel fulfilled. What is so wrong with a little love? Have you taken the time to say thanks to your mom today? Have you said I love you lately? Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:37:06 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?My-Mother!&id=2483261 http://ezinearticles.com/?My-Mother!&id=2483261 I want to explain how the judicial system is there to charge criminals with a crime, but it does not work to do that at all. It only works to help criminals get glamor and want to commit more crimes. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:58:24 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?People-Are-Abused-by-the-Judicial-System&id=2476989 http://ezinearticles.com/?People-Are-Abused-by-the-Judicial-System&id=2476989 A black man is troubled at home. So; therefore, he is troubled in his life. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:56:59 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Troubled-Black-Man&id=2473907 http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Troubled-Black-Man&id=2473907 Don't accept the eyes, Don't accept the skin, Don't accept the the hair, Don't accept the body, Don't accept the soul. Don't accept ones life, Forsaken it all, a burden, Turn away from me I'm not there, I'm not real, I'm not human. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:34:20 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Dont-Accept-Ignorance&id=2517244 http://ezinearticles.com/?Dont-Accept-Ignorance&id=2517244 When I know it all, I am the little fool wearing a pair of six shooters 'locked and loaded' with triple-peanut-shells, and spurs made from popsicle sticks and burrs. I want to know everything since I am the unconditional non-willing magistrate of nothing. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:33:35 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?All-Else-is-Aging-Around-Your-Eyes&id=2540621 http://ezinearticles.com/?All-Else-is-Aging-Around-Your-Eyes&id=2540621 In any garden you might find there will always be a fairy who is watching YOU. No matter that you might not believe in them they are still where they are in any garden you might roam carelessly through. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:10:38 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?In-Every-Garden-You-Might-Find-There-Will-Always-Be-a-Fairy-Who-is-Watching-You&id=2542891 http://ezinearticles.com/?In-Every-Garden-You-Might-Find-There-Will-Always-Be-a-Fairy-Who-is-Watching-You&id=2542891 To a world God groomed, time comes and goes, and within our heroics, in the end, it is our very breaths that keep us here in the miracle of self. Feel your own breath. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:06:43 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Listening-to-Our-Own-Breath-and-the-Miracle-of-Being&id=2542696 http://ezinearticles.com/?Listening-to-Our-Own-Breath-and-the-Miracle-of-Being&id=2542696 Life does not always go as planned. Sometimes the bumps along the road become too much for us. They say no one is tested beyond what they can handle. I think that is subjective and that sometimes sadness never really leaves certain circumstances. Even though we learn to sing again, we sing again to a different tune, always remembering and in some ways honoring the old ones. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:08:42 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Sometimes-Life-Does-Not-Go-As-Planned&id=2542475 http://ezinearticles.com/?Sometimes-Life-Does-Not-Go-As-Planned&id=2542475 There are people who come into our lives, like it or not, they make an impact on us. We must weigh their messages and decide if they are for good or ill. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:57:50 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Finding-My-Own-Eyes-Past-Your-Superstitions&id=2542216 http://ezinearticles.com/?Finding-My-Own-Eyes-Past-Your-Superstitions&id=2542216 When I know it all, I am the little fool wearing a pair of six shooters 'locked and loaded' with triple-peanut-shells, and spurs made from popsicle sticks and burrs. I want to know everything since I am the unconditional non-willing magistrate of nothing. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:24:05 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?All-Else-is-Aging-Around-Your-Eyes&id=2540621 http://ezinearticles.com/?All-Else-is-Aging-Around-Your-Eyes&id=2540621 A poem, poetic prose, about a cigar box, an old, old, very old, cigar box. What more can I say, it stares at me! Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:39:47 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Old-Cigar-Box-(Poetic-Prose)&id=2538820 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Old-Cigar-Box-(Poetic-Prose)&id=2538820 What do you want? Do you want it...ALL? Hippos for Christmas, humm is that all? Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:48:48 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?I-Want-to-Become-a-Wizard-With-Magic-Powers-and-BTW-I-Want-a-Hippo-For-Christmas&id=2535322 http://ezinearticles.com/?I-Want-to-Become-a-Wizard-With-Magic-Powers-and-BTW-I-Want-a-Hippo-For-Christmas&id=2535322 This youth fulfills what's in between the nighttime outline of the flower and the morning color wheel rolling into one lone unfurled fern. To see you again in my memory, to run across an edgeless field with you, to dive into a pond that starts at the top of the sky and to swim to the bottom of a swan's closed eyes. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:49:52 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Deep-Does-the-Mask-Go?&id=2535997 http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Deep-Does-the-Mask-Go?&id=2535997 There was something in how we picked one another up, not in order to brush anything off; instead, we were just wishing to look closer at our dreamed-into puppet string connections, our ghostly turn keys and our underlined frowns who sat and sat, sometimes all day long, with no particular reason to be a pale rainbow speaking of no gold at either of its dimpled ends. There was something in how you stood by any window, transforming it immediately into a painting that a Dutch master would tiny-spoon his way out of a frozen grave to get a glimpse of. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:49:10 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Quiet-Field&id=2536049 http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Quiet-Field&id=2536049 Why did you look at me that way? It caught my sight, then you walked away. Like the butter fly I have seen this shiny spring day. It looked at me from the top of a flower, like a king on his throne who has all the power. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:54:39 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Butterfly-and-The-Fairy&id=1110908 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Butterfly-and-The-Fairy&id=1110908 I want to believe that there are good men and good women in this world, and I think there are. I think that once people set their minds towards goodness, (yes corny) but I think it is true, set your mind towards goodness? And it will come true. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:50:02 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?I-Want-to-Believe-There-Are-Good-and-Honest-Men-and-Women&id=2535234 http://ezinearticles.com/?I-Want-to-Believe-There-Are-Good-and-Honest-Men-and-Women&id=2535234 Brown eyes with sparkling light, Standing before me just to right... Inviting me near but not to fight, May be closer views and clear sight... Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:36:04 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Brown-Eyes&id=2517070 http://ezinearticles.com/?Brown-Eyes&id=2517070 Creative ways to say I love you and different ways to kiss, makes me want to write a poem, or at least a list of 101 ways to flirt or ways to tease a guy, ways to become a vampire kiss. Oh! I need a list of emotions not yet spoken... by me at least. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:34:39 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Creative-Ways-To-Say-I-Love-You-and-Different-Ways-to-Kiss&id=2535097 http://ezinearticles.com/?Creative-Ways-To-Say-I-Love-You-and-Different-Ways-to-Kiss&id=2535097 Sometimes we are too hard on each other when it comes to what we expect. And yet... Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:26:35 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?I-Need-a-Hero-and-I-Was-Just-Wondering-If-in-Fact-My-Hero-Might-Be-You&id=2534976 http://ezinearticles.com/?I-Need-a-Hero-and-I-Was-Just-Wondering-If-in-Fact-My-Hero-Might-Be-You&id=2534976 More Lily saga. Lily did not die, the assumed conclusion, deep dark sighs. She found herself in new surroundings, true, but she was just too accustomed to never following through on her dream schemes. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:49:28 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Story-About-a-Fairy-Who-Never-Found-Herself-at-All&id=2534878 http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Story-About-a-Fairy-Who-Never-Found-Herself-at-All&id=2534878 And the laughter that would peel the silence away ever so gently, like a wet shirt being lifted with grace from a beet-red sun-burn having had no mercy for the deeply dreaming human being. Finally, the gray cat... Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:00:13 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?I-Know-the-Sound&id=2533402 http://ezinearticles.com/?I-Know-the-Sound&id=2533402 Follow my steps as I produce a poem. To start, I will need a subject - how about flowers? Next, I think about what flowers mean to me. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:56:58 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?See-a-Poem-in-Progress-Tips-For-Poetry&id=2512562 http://ezinearticles.com/?See-a-Poem-in-Progress-Tips-For-Poetry&id=2512562 Twenty years ago I ate a cold, wet stone. It was the night I was gone to lay my life down. All of my life I wanted to get something done. And I had to save someone's life to end mine. It was my dark-maned gorgeous sister led me there... Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:19:08 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Night-Changed-and-I-Didnt-Die&id=1771001 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Night-Changed-and-I-Didnt-Die&id=1771001 Word from the author: Follow your dreams and do not even let a wise man tell you that you can not accomplish your dreams because the wise started like anyone else. He was not born wise, he learned to be wise. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:00:41 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Inspired-Poet&id=1190127 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Inspired-Poet&id=1190127 Poetry is a great way to relax unless you are writing emo poems. The authors of these poems are emotional as you could have guessed from the name but the for the readers they provide great reading material. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:53:57 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Emo-Poems&id=2527592 http://ezinearticles.com/?Emo-Poems&id=2527592 Where does chocolate come from? And while I'm asking how about strawberries, apples and banana's too? A poem about their delight. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:44:48 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Chocolate-and-Other-Yummy-Food-Friends-Where-Did-They-Originate?&id=2531313 http://ezinearticles.com/?Chocolate-and-Other-Yummy-Food-Friends-Where-Did-They-Originate?&id=2531313 A pre dawn examination of words that have become looted vaults. Once burgeoning now housing a consistent drip, drip, pipe work in need of repair. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:23:11 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Lip-Stick&id=2514480 http://ezinearticles.com/?Lip-Stick&id=2514480 Granite, a construction stone. Cool to touch, a respite from desert heat. Secure. A fortress shelters my soul. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:19:08 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Stone-Floor&id=2514432 http://ezinearticles.com/?Stone-Floor&id=2514432 Distortion into gem stone, although right now I am contemplating my whole life is compression. A journey from one to the other. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:03:57 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Sugar-Cube&id=2514534 http://ezinearticles.com/?Sugar-Cube&id=2514534 Dolphins are leaving the earth so I was wondering, in the meantime, where do dolphins go when they need to cry? Where is that space for breath and key to my closet? Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:49:05 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Where-Do-Dolphins-Go-When-They-Need-to-Cry?&id=2531120 http://ezinearticles.com/?Where-Do-Dolphins-Go-When-They-Need-to-Cry?&id=2531120 The strong arm of the law and the Pandora's box its prosthetic condition lies on to keep its lid closed. The comment that weeps down deep, beyond the expectations of what conscience doubly knows or feels is true, because being the cause before the effect is always a surprise. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:44:11 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Love-Sometimes-Wins&id=2530587 http://ezinearticles.com/?Love-Sometimes-Wins&id=2530587 Why did you come alone? Why you are not with some one? No, I am not alone but with friend... Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:30:08 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Did-You-See?&id=2513062 http://ezinearticles.com/?Did-You-See?&id=2513062 I am trying to let women know it is better to depend on yourself and God other than man. If you always depend on a man you'll always end up doing badly. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:05:23 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Women-Dont-Forget-Who-We-Are&id=2476915 http://ezinearticles.com/?Women-Dont-Forget-Who-We-Are&id=2476915 I want to explain how the judicial system is there to charge criminals with a crime, but it does not work to do that at all. It only works to help criminals get glamor and want to commit more crimes. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:02:55 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?People-Are-Abused-by-the-Judicial-System&id=2476989 http://ezinearticles.com/?People-Are-Abused-by-the-Judicial-System&id=2476989 I love chocolate, its true and I don't care who knows it, in fact, at this moment, with you reading this? Hey I am exceptionally GLAD that cause you're reading this, must too! Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:55:56 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Where-Does-Chocolate-Come-From?-A-Poem-Written-With-Kisses&id=2527611 http://ezinearticles.com/?Where-Does-Chocolate-Come-From?-A-Poem-Written-With-Kisses&id=2527611 This article talks about the hard birth of a child. Then I talk about what problems he deals with when the child gets on the outside. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:18:20 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Child-is-Born&id=2473954 http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Child-is-Born&id=2473954 A black man is troubled at home. So; therefore, he is troubled in his life. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:17:06 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Troubled-Black-Man&id=2473907 http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Troubled-Black-Man&id=2473907 It can rain oil too, sometimes igniting itself by the tiniest spark and very often it simply douses that Eros-flame by being a handleless, petroleum umbrella alighting where Might, Fear and Talk have ceased proving that their hopes of love far outnumber the one digit of Love itself. Help is coming in the form of the unknown. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:03:37 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Wish-to-Be-With-You&id=2521824 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Wish-to-Be-With-You&id=2521824 Craving, self indulgent, starving for immoderate desire inside motivations of someone I knew. Lily, with an uncut story of sexual precision that was forever building to another force beyond her control. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:52:41 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Lilys-Uncut-Nude-Vision-and-Passionate-Moves-Calling-Out-For-Lust&id=2527211 http://ezinearticles.com/?Lilys-Uncut-Nude-Vision-and-Passionate-Moves-Calling-Out-For-Lust&id=2527211 There are those who've rightly loved one another in a one-of-a-kind way; the arguments begin when the individuals love of themselves begins to decay. The perfect-lover becomes the mirror of desperation's hope, the small agonies of having lost pieces of oneself little-by-little and not realized how patient spirit-piranhas ARE. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:40:26 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?This-Body,-Its-Blood&id=2527206 http://ezinearticles.com/?This-Body,-Its-Blood&id=2527206 It can rain oil too, sometimes igniting itself by the tiniest spark and very often it simply douses that Eros-flame by being a handleless, petroleum umbrella alighting where Might, Fear and Talk have ceased proving that their hopes of love far outnumber the one digit of Love itself. Help is coming in the form of the unknown. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:06:07 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Wish-to-Be-With-You&id=2521824 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Wish-to-Be-With-You&id=2521824 The angel in all of us is now sleeping. She came and walked about. Then after seeing no one had noticed took the flowers from someones grave. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:28:01 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Angel-Took-No-Prisoners-and-Vowed-to-Show-No-Mercy&id=2526692 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Angel-Took-No-Prisoners-and-Vowed-to-Show-No-Mercy&id=2526692 Gliese 581, home of a Libra, claws of a scorpion, reaching for her scales, considering the art of possibility, within a skylines visions. Black holes considered by a star searching visitor. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:56:45 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Where-is-Libra-Located-in-the-Sky-Tonight?-Is-it-Past-the-Black-Holes-of-a-Stars-Faded-Light?&id=2525817 http://ezinearticles.com/?Where-is-Libra-Located-in-the-Sky-Tonight?-Is-it-Past-the-Black-Holes-of-a-Stars-Faded-Light?&id=2525817 Poetry is the universal language. It can heal the deepest wound, cause the greatest joy and penetrate our very soul. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:30:08 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Poetry-is-the-Music-of-the-Heart-and-Individual-Poetic-Words-Are-Like-Pictures-of-the-Soul&id=2505907 http://ezinearticles.com/?Poetry-is-the-Music-of-the-Heart-and-Individual-Poetic-Words-Are-Like-Pictures-of-the-Soul&id=2505907 My Darling, My love I know you are sick and I know if I touch you then I will become sick too. I'd rather Hold You in My arms than leave you all alone, and I don't want to let go of you, and I don't want to give up on you. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:56:38 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Love-in-Life-Sickness-in-Death&id=2470432 http://ezinearticles.com/?Love-in-Life-Sickness-in-Death&id=2470432 A dungeon has been breached by the shadows of trees growing on the other side of its walls. She awakes, brushes the hair out of her eyes and her companion's sightseeing squints, an old sheep dog born with five legs... Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:07:07 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Wish-to-Be-With-You&id=2521824 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Wish-to-Be-With-You&id=2521824 Haiku... three unrhymed lines... 5-7-5 syllables... describes scenes in nature. Senryu... same pattern as haiku... not about the natural world, but about human nature. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:42:36 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Quick-Lesson-on-Haiku&id=612704 http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Quick-Lesson-on-Haiku&id=612704 Can any one tell me the truth? Why all are not painted white with brush? Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:31:08 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Can-Any-One-Tell-Me?&id=2502790 http://ezinearticles.com/?Can-Any-One-Tell-Me?&id=2502790 We can't have separate way, Wise men always prefer and say, Nothing can be good in a day, When everybody has to dearly pay... Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:38:11 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Separate-Ways&id=2501943 http://ezinearticles.com/?Separate-Ways&id=2501943 If you're looking for a loving but personal poem for your boyfriend then you're in for a treat! I have put together the ultimate collection of happy birthday poems for your boyfriend that you'll ever come across. Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:56:38 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Boyfriend-Birthday-Poems&id=2499361 http://ezinearticles.com/?Boyfriend-Birthday-Poems&id=2499361 This poem takes a cognizance look at the rate of killing most especially in the developing communities of the world. My experience of the Kano City war, Nigeria, West Africa, prompted this poem. Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:26:11 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?At-Times-I-Wonder&id=2498654 http://ezinearticles.com/?At-Times-I-Wonder&id=2498654 At times, the dark tunnels of life may be so confusing that one may conclude that the day will never break. But, just patience and calling on God, the day will surely come though the sorrow may last for the night. Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:55:47 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Very-Painful,-Indeed-Painful&id=2498548 http://ezinearticles.com/?Very-Painful,-Indeed-Painful&id=2498548 A collection of poems that I hope offers some general interest. Thoughts are captured in response to nature and to life experiences that are common to us all at times when our soul is moved to perceive the beauty and the wonder of existence - or when caught by the complexities of human experience. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:50:51 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Forgotten-Dreams-9&id=2512957 http://ezinearticles.com/?Forgotten-Dreams-9&id=2512957 As you shop for a special gift or card to celebrate the birthday of someone you love, why not commemorate the occasion with a thoughtful birthday poem? Birthday poems are a wonderful way to show how much you care. They show that you put real thought into your gift, rather than just shelling out for an impersonal item or picking up a stale birthday card at the last minute. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:03:48 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Birthday-Poems-Make-That-Special-Day-Memorable-With-Poetry-From-the-Heart&id=2511903 http://ezinearticles.com/?Birthday-Poems-Make-That-Special-Day-Memorable-With-Poetry-From-the-Heart&id=2511903 Sometimes who we really are is in fact defined by our memories and the beauty we held sacred years before. I wept for hours after I left your forest. All I could think about was the box you left for me... Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:38:39 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?I-Wept-For-Hours-But-I-Will-Always-Hold-Sacred-Stars-and-the-Box-Left-Out-Along-the-Path&id=2511740 http://ezinearticles.com/?I-Wept-For-Hours-But-I-Will-Always-Hold-Sacred-Stars-and-the-Box-Left-Out-Along-the-Path&id=2511740 He approached me hesitantly, I understood, I did. It wasn't as if I hadn't met others like him before. I too was apprehensive, not really ready to pursue whatever might develop between us. See how this story develops. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:56:39 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Well-Do-We-Know-Mens-Charm-and-Should-They-Be-Trusted?-A-Secret-Romance&id=2511141 http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Well-Do-We-Know-Mens-Charm-and-Should-They-Be-Trusted?-A-Secret-Romance&id=2511141 Bitterness and loss of love considered. Choices, looking away, ready to settle arguments, or never overlooking those sins. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:37:16 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Bitterness-and-Betrayal-Forgiven-Beyond-the-Wounded-Sky&id=2510833 http://ezinearticles.com/?Bitterness-and-Betrayal-Forgiven-Beyond-the-Wounded-Sky&id=2510833 Tanzanite and electrum teardrops, the astuteness of the frozen to stay closest to whatever's representative of that consciousness in thawless ice. The dictionary of persistence, the accidental swallowing of an engagement ring worn on the thumb and the anxious scratching of a puppy's first boxing match with a horsefly. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:14:52 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Deep-Green-Divers&id=2510633 http://ezinearticles.com/?Deep-Green-Divers&id=2510633 I think it is important to offer a disclaimer here, right off the bat, I need to tell you that I never really rescued Saturn. Well, wait a minute that is not quite true either, I just didn't do it all by myself. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:15:21 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Ive-Been-Measuring-Stars-For-You-and-Saturn-Was-Misplaced-Did-You-Know?&id=2507120 http://ezinearticles.com/?Ive-Been-Measuring-Stars-For-You-and-Saturn-Was-Misplaced-Did-You-Know?&id=2507120 Children are the saddest casualty of any war or conflict. If you listen you can hear them calling out. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:23:46 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?There-Are-Children-in-the-Grave-Who-Used-to-Laugh-and-Sing&id=2506692 http://ezinearticles.com/?There-Are-Children-in-the-Grave-Who-Used-to-Laugh-and-Sing&id=2506692 We decide how to play our own game of life. It is up to us to choose one mindset over another. Is it really all that simple? Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:21:39 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Move-Sadness-and-Sorrow-Aside-and-Fly&id=2506789 http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Move-Sadness-and-Sorrow-Aside-and-Fly&id=2506789 Vampire, let me coax you past this now. Vampire, let me tell you how to draw a scorpion and the wings of yore. Let me feel safe for just awhile. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:04:20 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Vampire-Let-Me-Coax-You-Past-Your-Evil-Intent&id=2504671 http://ezinearticles.com/?Vampire-Let-Me-Coax-You-Past-Your-Evil-Intent&id=2504671 To be dead was not enough since the light his life's shinning shed was far greater in volume than that ever-seeming recreated candle wax called 'flesh' ever was. So, as crickets played and lizards held fast to fluttering Swallowtails and Hairstreaks, his life lived spun Death into a breathing and glowing silk cocoon. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:39:59 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Shed-Entered-a-Lions-Nest&id=2505316 http://ezinearticles.com/?Shed-Entered-a-Lions-Nest&id=2505316 This poem is a simple description of a joyful and resourceful life without being involved in religious tangles or wasting the precious life in accumulation of wealth beyond what is needed for a simple and modest life, and what is the true purpose of life. Daybreak, yet full of stars is the sky. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:24:40 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?True-Meaning-of-Life&id=2505108 http://ezinearticles.com/?True-Meaning-of-Life&id=2505108 Male or female, oft times someone is holding us back. Sadly, that might be someone who says they love us. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:48:11 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?If-I-Had-Wings-Would-You-Let-Me-Fly?&id=2504436 http://ezinearticles.com/?If-I-Had-Wings-Would-You-Let-Me-Fly?&id=2504436 Ever heard of the legend of Hawaii's Pele? This poem is a bit of a twist including a fairy's vision and demise. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:15:04 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Pele-and-Her-Undying-Vengeance-No-Matter-a-Fairies-Plea&id=2504331 http://ezinearticles.com/?Pele-and-Her-Undying-Vengeance-No-Matter-a-Fairies-Plea&id=2504331 Sometimes love does not come easy rosebuds do not unfold...they hesitate. Unsure of their future...they hesitate and watch for the wind. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:53:30 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Caitiff-and-His-Reluctant-Lover-the-Mad-Fairy&id=2504204 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Caitiff-and-His-Reluctant-Lover-the-Mad-Fairy&id=2504204 It is a poem not to please. But to worry all who go through it. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:29:34 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Jingle-on-the-Way&id=2478816 http://ezinearticles.com/?Jingle-on-the-Way&id=2478816 Over the years there have been many occasions when I have heard somebody ranting about the superiority of prose, particularly fiction, over poetry. By contrast, rarely have I heard anyone suggesting the poetry is superior to fictional prose. Does this say something about the supporters of one as opposed to those of the other? Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:34:18 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Is-Prose-Superior-to-Poetry?&id=2052540 http://ezinearticles.com/?Is-Prose-Superior-to-Poetry?&id=2052540 Dreadful lost soul, without a voice without a face you can't hear her screams within Her. For she is silently screaming within this darkness. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:12:08 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Silence-Within-the-Night&id=2470561 http://ezinearticles.com/?Silence-Within-the-Night&id=2470561 The Blue Ridge Mountains, a cave filled to its bat-lined ceiling with worn out harmonicas and dull whittling knives. And now this, inlaid into the earth, books of musical scores serving as a narrow cobblestone pathway leading away to an abandoned town, to a place who decided to own no more Dust Bowl-frowns...Memories glare off and into the new leaves, a springtime meltdown of hearths on fire, a boy called Timothy Yellow stands atop a gold plated placenta, dressed in orange, holding bunches of grapes and devoid of hate... Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:44:20 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Under-Held-Breath-the-Heart-is-Beating&id=2502582 http://ezinearticles.com/?Under-Held-Breath-the-Heart-is-Beating&id=2502582 Nighttime and Daytime; this world is both simultaneously all the time. In this moment there is lifting light and sifting dusk, all that is planned lands and that which is not supposed to happen takes off and flies... Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:02:28 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Nighttime-and-Daytime&id=1740667 http://ezinearticles.com/?Nighttime-and-Daytime&id=1740667 I love a lot of people and a lot of them seem to be alcoholics. I love a lot of other addicts too. Just because I stopped doesn't mean everyone stops. It's just that I see them more clearly now. I love them and I hate them. Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:00:16 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Its-Raining-Alcoholics&id=2473124 http://ezinearticles.com/?Its-Raining-Alcoholics&id=2473124 I remember you, not more favorably on this day, though this day called, 'Father's Day,' does have a tendency towards the currency of the confessing heart's favors. I try to be as I am with you in my invisible diary, a little less invisible so that you can see yours dovetailed and opened next to mine. Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:16:46 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Happy-Fathers-Day-Again&id=2498214 http://ezinearticles.com/?Happy-Fathers-Day-Again&id=2498214 What happens when a fairies heart is broken? Resting her wings she folded up her plans. Lily took out all her drawings ripped them from their pages and left them on his table. And then she waited for them to be forgotten and... they were. Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:09:24 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Fairy-Folded-Her-Wings-Lest-the-Music-Start-Again&id=2490410 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Fairy-Folded-Her-Wings-Lest-the-Music-Start-Again&id=2490410 Lew Welch was born August 16, 1926 in Phoenix Arizona. As a Beat Generation poet Welch made his mark with poetry that was incisive and sparse. He often created images in which the superfluous reality of daily existence was cut down and stripped. As a result, his poems were often iconic penetrating and raw. In an event that may be considered quite ominous. Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:09:53 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Bang,-Bang,-Bang-In-Memory-of-Lew-Welch&id=2457100 http://ezinearticles.com/?Bang,-Bang,-Bang-In-Memory-of-Lew-Welch&id=2457100 Mothers are always close and yet never really appreciated. They are the once who will give their last dime to see the prosperity and success of a child. We as children are stood bye no matter how good or bad the situation may be. Have you taken the time to say thanks to your mom today? Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:26:48 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?My-Mother!&id=2483261 http://ezinearticles.com/?My-Mother!&id=2483261 Outside the son's completion of 'Happy Father's Day.' stood a memorandum, a cosmic rhythm; he perceived that his own bones were all one greatly misconceived 'key.' A key that grew, stabilized and then began to stoop into a bend, nearly breaking off inside god's heart. Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:20:58 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Happy-Fathers-Day&id=2489275 http://ezinearticles.com/?Happy-Fathers-Day&id=2489275 Did Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Have a Love Affair that Most Don't Know About? The local folks say yes, but the experts say no. Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:47:32 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Longfellow-Legend-in-Maine&id=1160909 http://ezinearticles.com/?Longfellow-Legend-in-Maine&id=1160909 Nervous re-visitors looking around, not a sound, except Cookie's beans grumbling underneath protruding abdominal sonnets, in camouflage, polyester, cellophane unwoven and stitched together bonnets. Sloppy noose tying while the bandana-management was lying about the Harry Houdini-ness of him, compliments of a Fist full of dollars, who's twice filled boots are now somewhere they can only guess, is similar to where the owl goes after its incognito midnight hoots. Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:09:26 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Fist-Full-of-Dollars&id=2485399 http://ezinearticles.com/?Fist-Full-of-Dollars&id=2485399 Did Moses lie? Was his face on fire from shame? Was it blame, embarrassment, lamentation or because Death's solid gold skeleton had walked inside his body hollowed out by the whittling of other's fame and fortune? That 24ct Yellow Glory standing there not sorry, not shape-sifting, not transfiguring sticks, only glowing to see the living and breathing songs by? Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:07:07 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Does-the-Darkness-Get-In?&id=2487339 http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Does-the-Darkness-Get-In?&id=2487339 On a way to temple greeted with simple smile, So sweet and me to follow for an extra mile, Steps were directionless and just followed, Passage was so smooth and simply allowed . . . Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:31:35 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Simple-Desire&id=2480238 http://ezinearticles.com/?Simple-Desire&id=2480238 Dreaming for days past might prove to be a trap preventing the future. Moving on may not be easy, but offers more promise for fulfillment. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:18:12 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?If-the-Past-Held-the-Future&id=2478476 http://ezinearticles.com/?If-the-Past-Held-the-Future&id=2478476 No, she is unwanted and not welcome. Done away with it so she doesn't come. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:22:18 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Dont-Kill-Me&id=2478270 http://ezinearticles.com/?Dont-Kill-Me&id=2478270 It would've cost him nothing to listen, to lead, to give, to help, to share awhile Yet, he chose to hoard the fertile essence of love. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:17:24 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Too-Dark-The-Winter-of-His-Barren-Life&id=2482015 http://ezinearticles.com/?Too-Dark-The-Winter-of-His-Barren-Life&id=2482015 This is talking about how horrible men treat this black woman. She probably won't talk to anymore black men! Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:45:55 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Black-Woman-Scorned&id=2473991 http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Black-Woman-Scorned&id=2473991 When she fell asleep on his chest, something far beyond the depth of oil wells knew that she was dreaming of The Guarantee of Arms and not the real world's predicament, these leases our births foreshadow in the brightest hue Conscience reads by. Spill and turn into Easter egg-paints, pray disappointments into zigzags and pray celebrations of immortal transience into spirals; hide yourself to be the easiest found by a child and most difficult, near impossible for adults. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:20:44 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Want-to-Be-Held&id=2480187 http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Want-to-Be-Held&id=2480187 A collection of poems that I would wish offers some general interest. They are captured thoughts that gathered and passed again in response to nature and to life experiences common to us all at times when our soul is moved to perceive the beauty and the wonder of existence or when struggling with the complexities of human existence. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:18:33 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?Forgotten-Dreams-8&id=2481129 http://ezinearticles.com/?Forgotten-Dreams-8&id=2481129 Feeling young or feeling old is all about your attitude. Five ways to feel younger. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:15:31 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?5-Ways-to-Not-Feel-So-Stinkin-Old-and-Notice-Life-Before-Our-Very-Eyes&id=2479183 http://ezinearticles.com/?5-Ways-to-Not-Feel-So-Stinkin-Old-and-Notice-Life-Before-Our-Very-Eyes&id=2479183 As the school year comes to an end, a teacher says goodbye to her second grade students through a poem. She hopes to teach one final lesson to her students before they leave her classroom and continue their journey through life. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:11:51 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Teachers-Last-Lesson&id=2471428 http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Teachers-Last-Lesson&id=2471428 This article talks about the hard birth of a child. Then I talk about what problems he deals with when the child gets on the outside. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:06:31 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Child-is-Born&id=2473954 http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Child-is-Born&id=2473954 I was almost frozen When saw in mirror faces dozen, Al clumsy and faces barren, Looked as if descended from land foreign... Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:04:13 -0500 http://ezinearticles.com/?My-Friend-In-Mirror&id=2475294 http://ezinearticles.com/?My-Friend-In-Mirror&id=2475294 Copyright 2009 EzineArticles.com - All Rights Reserved.