My Poems - my best

by Kåre เลียม Enga

Rated: ASR · Folder · Other · #1061190

As chosen by the folks at WDC. Need to look no further than this folder, unless new.

Best poems inluded in this folder received at least a 4.5 average based on ten ratings or more:

"Zmitri" 13+: A surrealistic poem of longing, of loss found once again.
"'heart's home'" ASR: A prose poem lament in letter form to a friend from New York praising Oklahoma and Kansas.
"Koan on an October sky" ASR: Based on the prompt: like an image tattooed on the sky.
"Clematis on the flagpole" E: Very vigorous vines vanguish ... a salute to the letter v.
"At three" E: After watching kids at the playground, trying to remember me as a child of three.
"Speak soft my name" 13+: Can Earth be given a voice? Not a children's poem.
"Of mice, owls and moonflowers" ASR: A light view of natural processes of life, death, life. Response to a challenge.
"Starbeams on Tulsa" ASR: A fantasy of what stays and goes in Tornado Alley. Nature versus the follies on Man.
"For Jeanette ... when she grows old" E: About Kansas and diamond slippers. Jeanette is a hoot, in spite of her knees and sugar.
"A radiant moon has set" ASR: Homeless, black-eyed, had young children, 34 and found dead in the park last winter.

Good poems that received at least a 4.4. They are filed elsewhere:

"'we are like trees'" E: A prose poem letter for a friend, using the metaphor of humanity as trees of one forest.
"At two" E: Just a wistful afternoon with the two year old, quiet, of course :)
"Yes, redbuds sing" E: Do we hear the melodies around us? Do we ignore the harmonics in our hearts.
"The silk shrouded Rose" 13+: A prose poem vignette written in 20 minutes with a prompt: a bench and a found object ...
"I, Katrina" 13+: In the spirit of I, Claudius, the empress arrives with a case of bad-breeze.
"Boise City" 13+: Can you feel emptiness? Boise City is in the panhandle of OK where it touches 4 states.
"Snow goose in flight" 13+: What can be made of a poet's life? / Two pillows: one for sleeping, one for napping.
"Byron Lynn" ASR: This is an short elegy for Byron Lynn, who died of cancer November 23, 2004 in Kansas.
"Mission girl" 13+: We are becoming a class stratified society. Not all of us are ab-fab. Sarcastic?
"Kipuka" E: Just imagine crossing miles of lava fields to reach a green oasis on the slopes of Hawaii
"On the Illinois" E: The Illinois is an incredibly beautiful river in North-East Oklahoma.
"Summer in Sabetha" E: This is based on a very beautiful summer in Sabetha, Kansas ... a long time ago.
"First drum set" E: My friend gave his 2 year old a drum set! Can you hear him play?
"Lament of the bottle" 13+: Supposed to be witty or humorous. PG rated.
"Earth groaned" ASR: Written as I was thinking of the homeless caught in a rainstorm

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