Favorite Poems of Sungrl And Mrs Whatsit

  • Pandora (8) 9

    by Colm

    If you were a planet, I bet
    you would dance around the sun...

  • My Best Poem (42) 10 WIN

    by Sunshine

    Because I owe it to myself,
    I will be a better woman...

  • 87 (15) 5 WIN

    by Sunshine

    Today might be hectic
    bursting with announcements...

  • Old Souls (11) 4 WIN

    by sibyllene

    I feel like I've known you
    ever since I sprouted out of the garden...

  • To Dream of Plains (1) 5 WIN

    by Thomas Pender

    I will perhaps...dream of Plains
    where eagle's wing cleaves high thermals...

  • Casting Charms (5) 8 WIN

    by sibyllene

    I want to make worlds
    in miniature...

  • God in the City (5) 5 HM

    by abracadabra

    I know I should live in the country, but I fear
    for my soul overstretching. It might bloat in the...

  • Absurd Obsession (12) 2

    by Sunshine

    Lost in my literal obsession, I pen you down
    with absolute hunger to title my new book...

  • Less Traveled By (4) 1

    by Sunshine

    Boundlessly tossing into the ocean,
    gathering jewels from the muddled...

  • Egyptology (8) 6 WIN

    by The Princess

    For centuries
    they've trapped you...

  • Question Mark (3) 1

    by Melissa

    I keep reading
    our last drivel...

  • Freedom Denied (8) 4 HM

    by Daisy if you do

    Close my ears, shut my eyes,
    No learning I succumb...

  • Just Gray (1) 2

    by megann anne

    I carry myself in her shadows,
    in concrete tears shed over concrete angels...

  • They questioned my sanity
    for I feared not...

  • Calliope (7) 5

    by sibyllene

    I sing of heroes.
    Of Achilles and Patroclus...

  • Warp and Weft (5) 3

    by sibyllene

    There are lines that cross the void between the...
    and shape them to their fates...

  • Twin (5)

    by sibyllene

    Walking together down a path crowded with moss,
    white oaks, and thorny bracken we pause...

  • A Salute To Sex (8) 7

    by abracadabra

    You were always the desire to engulf another,
    from a billion murky years ago, when...

  • The Middle of a Sentence

    by Poet on the Piano

    Life is an unfinished composition
    a trembling earthquake of dissonances...

  • Gratitude (7) 3

    by Lonely Rider

    Smiles unlimited
    showers of genuine love...

  • Remember Me (8) 2 HM

    by Sunshine

    Britts' contest...

  • Alter Egos (11) 5 WIN

    by Emily

    Havoc, why do you stomp so readily
    On the lives of the innocent man...

  • Sunshine and Dust (11) 3

    by sibyllene

    The best writers have childhoods
    where I have an empty jar...

  • Book of Hours (5) 1

    by sibyllene

    I.
    Mornings tumbled in bed...

  • Because of My Passion (9) 2

    by Sunshine

    Words cross these blue inky rivers
    of mine; searching for me through the...

  • Finding Winter Now (10) 5 WIN

    by abracadabra

    To eat the first mango of Spring,
    we walked to the park...

  • My Candle, My Light (2) 1

    by sibyllene

    Here is my deception,
    made for the sake of my...

  • Water Creatures (4)

    by sibyllene

    There is goodness in living
    a life like a young river...

  • Borderline Consciousness (5)

    by silvershoes

    Most days,
    i'm living in the matrix...

  • I am from magazines with ripped out pictures,
    Pouring out of boxes...

  • A million worlds
    inhabit a single stretch of bookshelf...

  • Elysium (2) 4 HM

    by sibyllene

    We went where we always go -
    the place where the telephone lines shoot...

  • On the farm (1)

    by Ronald Edwards

    Some days I wake up as weak as pond water,
    to tired to scratch the chigger bug bites on my...

  • Paranoia (2)

    by silvershoes

    Persecutory. The infliction which
    alters a state of reason into madness...

  • Season's Farewell (9)

    by Sunshine

    My heart heavily beats, like the days of December
    Reminiscing warm rays amid the sky of September...

  • Our Metronome Poem (6) 1

    by abracadabra

    He's practicing his guitar with the damn metronome...
    tlok...

  • Bare-Boned (9) 6 WIN

    by Melissa

    There's something about the air in Fall,
    it begets this chill inside...

  • First Rain (4)

    by sibyllene

    The screen door is creaking in the damp breeze
    The first summer rain, warmer and wetter than...

  • Finally (1)

    by lisa marie

    Apathy has consumed our eyes
    Nurturing blindness coats our words...

  • Languishing (2) 2

    by Beautiful Chaos

    I wandered through the bitter cold
    In search of your warm eyes...

  • Emotional Solstice (4) 3

    by Beautiful Chaos

    A bitter wind blew through the reeds,
    Inciting every falling leaf...

  • I am from (12) 1

    by Daisy if you do

    I am from Y'all and Yonder
    every day of the week...

  • Inside of it all (1)

    by lisa marie

    An aged tree stands alone between
    A sleeping meadow...

  • GrapeNuts (3)

    by trippetta TC

    Forgo the amenities of luxury
    I'm in my revelry...

  • 69 or Farmers Demise (1)

    by trippetta TC

    Not the knot!!
    In a courtly manner...

  • Memoir for Him (2)

    by trippetta TC

    I remember when I got his
    Grandma hooked on pot...

  • I danced beneath the stars with you-
    a closeness I should never have allowed...

  • Hotel (4)

    by sibyllene

    Heavy,
    cast solid in sleep...

  • I have often wondered if we are born again,
    Thrown another chance, each and every time...

  • The air had an edge to it
    A blade in the heart of it...

  • Lighting Passion, If only, If only (5)

    by InvisiblyHeartless

    Lingering passion slips slowly through her blood...
    Affecting he limbs, making them feel electric with...

  • Let The Wind Be My Friend. (10) 2 WIN

    by Steven Beesley

    Let the wind soothe me,
    sweep away all my mortal encumbrances...

  • Night Rain (4) 1

    by John Long

    Night rain on leaf
    paternal maternal lullaby...

  • Waste (14) 2 WIN

    by limp

    I've thought so many times
    of my mother's ill-informed prognosis...

  • Ageless (1)

    by Jemma

    Open mindedness lets me go
    Whilst ever I give entrance to those who invade...

  • I've gone to war; I'm going to peace
    Some things are eerily reminiscent of what came...

  • Learning to Live (1)

    by Jemma

    Here I am, standing, praying and bowing
    To the mercies of the bereft and hollow...

  • Lasting Breath (1)

    by Jemma

    Strumming to the beat of the devil's war drums
    Almost exciting, this downward spiral...

  • To Where It Lives (5)

    by abracadabra

    To bathe after breakfast, shampoo the hair,
    condition it gently, exfoliate the skin...

  • Last Request (4)

    by John Long

    Nothing to push, nothing to sell,
    No wringing hands, just ring the bells...

  • Juxtapose (4)

    by sibyllene

    My first lover
    was sun sky colored, clear blue eyes, golden skin...

  • Sitting at the dinner table, they ask you about...
    You start complaining on and on how nothing goes...

  • Corporate This (3)

    by John Long

    I pledge allegiance to the corporate chain
    That makes choice simple, everything's the same...

  • I wish I could write eloquent verses
    beautiful turns of phrase, coy winks at this...

  • The Veil Woven Binds (1)

    by sibyllene

    So to avoid the sin of self-awareness
    let's all pretend to humor our pretense...

  • Flaming Burning Dancer (9)

    by John Long

    Flaming red hair, burning, yearning.
    A vibrant dress of colors that...

  • No one saw me
    late last night...

  • Snob (5)

    by sibyllene

    The tome in prominence
    on my shelf...

  • Within the midst of silver rising tide
    Shooting forth from the geysers below...

  • The Kiss of Dawn (4)

    by Cooper

    ***Luckily...I just caught the sunrise as I posted...
    Mind you...this is not specifically about today's...

  • Astronomical Reckoning (8)

    by silvershoes

    Some are wilting before
    Rising with the blazing...

  • More just random spurts of thought then anything...

  • The air is warm - a lover's sigh -
    the earth submits to regal sky...

  • Once (5)

    by silvershoes

    Once we set our sails
    We stared from towers...

  • Vagrant (1)

    by unknown

    I'm a mediocre vagrant.
    With a sense of direction...

  • To Be Alive (3)

    by sibyllene

    Alone within this evening bright,
    am I...

  • Song of Songs (3)

    by sibyllene

    Your lips, they are too fierce for this earth,
    showering grace and inciting devotion...

  • Eric the Antichrist sitting by the phone
    Flicking through the personal ads home all alone...

  • Winter solstice (2)

    by lisa marie

    The smell of winter
    forms the loneliness...

  • The Death (7)

    by sibyllene

    Why the world's treasure
    is plundered by dark, the thunder...

  • Celestial tears (33)

    by Deana

    I listened to the rain
    One warm summer night...

  • First Kiss (1)

    by ♥ no_one_knows ♥

    Alone at last, your arms around me,
    There is no place I'd rather be...

  • The Rose (1)

    by ♥ no_one_knows ♥

    I see it there, a beautiful red rose,
    though now only a tiny green bud shows...

  • Dream World (1)

    by dArKgOtHiCgIrL

    At night I go to a whole new world,
    My thoughts and the darkness together are swirled...

  • The Rose (1)

    by dArKgOtHiCgIrL

    I see it there, a beautiful red rose,
    Though now only a tiny green bud shows...

  • The heavy sheets of saddened rain collapsed
    And stinging, tearing, fell upon my head...