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I want to thank the sky for crying that I don't have to weep And thank the sun for hiding that I may return to sleep The hours will pass slowly as I relive my yesterday One year ago exactly when my Bobby went away I want to thank friends and family, but special thanks are due To those who let...

I know someone who's still a stanger Because I do not know her name She passes by my house And her routine stays the same I say, "hello,' she nods and speaks And was soon I realized I knew her as my own reflection; Her smile never reaches her eyes. I leave her walk in privacy To live in some...

I know someone who's still a stanger Because I do not know her name She passes by my house And her routine stays the same I say, "hello,' she nods and speaks And was soon I realized I knew her as my own reflection; Her smile never reaches her eyes. I leave her walk in privacy To live in some...

Section, please, Yahoo.? How grateful, Lord, I am, for ordinary days Performing ordinary chores in ordinary ways Let others have the spotlight, center of the stage And all I'll ever ask for, Lord, are ordinary days. When the sun has finished and day is finally done I'm always most grateful...

Battles Who wears the victor's crown today Who makes us bow, touch our forelocks Who won the latest battle And bleached the other's bones with clorox? Who, indeed, is the winner Must take his prize and go Leave us all to forgive the sinner As you rest in victory's afterglow. However, judging...

I will go and I will find him My lover's lost and to the sea But I can not live without him Or the love he gives to me They say I will never find him That he's swallowed by the sea Unforgiving salty waters Won't return my love to me But I'll sail tomorrow for him To search the wide, wide sea...

In dark corners he hides lying in wait To grab the unwary and drag to their fate This monster who would not hesitate To destroy you and me And lying in wait to tear us apart He eats first our brain and then our heart Never finishes but always starts To destroy you and me And who he is I've...

Genie The genie in the bottle, three wishes to be made Was Aladdin like the hero or do my memories fade? Those years like yesterday are fuzzy in my mind But the genie in my bottle was of another kind He granted me wishes though they lasted but a while Made me laugh a bit too loud or smile an...

I wonder if he still wanders or did he finally find a place His eyes were azure blue and too youthful for his face His name was Raphael and I thought it odd He had an angel's name but had given up on God. He had an accent very strange and yet familiar too Turned out he was Polish, turned out...

The war had lasted long enough Enough of them had died Enough bullets had been fired Enough gold mothers cried So America made The Bomb The Russel-Einstein Manifesto Declared the bomb our solution Without it humankind would die Or so was their conclusion And Russia made The Bomb And other...

Saturday Morning Saturday mornings at the cabin We'd awake to geese out of tune Flying the length of the creek Like a pathway that God had pruned They'd fly just inches above the water And we'd quietly laugh at the sound Of the talentless singers honking boldly a song Of the most unmelodious...

read, comment/critique. Elizabeth is Calling I was in my study when James knocked on the door Was his nightly habit should I require more Then he would retire to his rooms for the night And I'd sip my sherry by the firelight Maids helped my Caroline to bed each night at eight But it had to be...

A soft footfall, a creaking board, a rustle and a breeze A thump unexplainable, a distant shriek, unease Maybe there be ghosts tonight or demons straight from hell Maybe they'll come for me and come for you as well Maybe this is the night ye die, or maybe this be mine Or perhaps ye'll live and...

To thank you for your sweet invite I baked a cake for you last night And since your clever invitation Drew my heart's standing ovation And made my smile so very wide My answer's hidden somewhere inside But I hope my note's still credible Though be warned; it isn't edible That okay?

Answer w/ just the first sentence so you can come back anytime to write your poems... AND DON'T FORGET TO POST THEM!! Rather than titles this time, I'm giving you the first sentence or partial sentence of your poems. Pick one, pick all but just have fun with it! It was after seven in the...

A fat toady on a rock Blinked his golden eye And didn't seem to mind me As I passed him by I fought my way through briars And through swampy marsh And made my way through terrain Every bit as harsh I had the map in my mind A vague memory But knew that I would know it When I found the tree...

I could hear the rumble Of a train coming through Like the sound of distant thunder And I smiled and thought of you How young we were back then! When trains were not so rare And their sound off in the distance Sounded like a prayer All is well, all is well All is well with you And the whistle...

Deep Green Eyes The rugged face I met too late And too late loved him well For the ghost of she who haunted him Had cast him in her spell Though she be three years dead I knew he mourned her still And married again a year to me But seemed t'was 'gainst his will Caring I was near or not He hid...

Here goes: Toadstool Sand on Silk Young Jim Unrung Bell Misread Books I Can't Reach That Far Ghost of My Content Call Me By No Name And Then it Was Done I Couldn't Stop the Rain I just realized something... if people could see my reactions as I read their poems, I wouldn't have to say a word. I...

Here's your titles; start writing! (Everyone gets a TU just for responding) Backroom Bar None Baby Blues Rocks Little Vicious Things Slippery Steps When He Comes Home Epiphany Tremor Did You Hear? So He Said Lead Me And the River Ran Blood The Day the Dragon Died Well, I Always Say... Jesus and...