http://www.mywordwizard.com/my-word-wizard-blog.html The Poets and Dreamers blog is great place to find and share poetic verse. Enjoy our selection of poetry submissions and share them with your friends. en-us My Word Wizard Blog Sun, 13 Nov 2022 20:59:56 -0500 Sun, 13 Nov 2022 20:59:56 -0500 mywordwizard.com http://www.mywordwizard.com/vampire-poem.html8f0351d688756cbad284cee9de7cae1cRoses are dead, Violets are too, I draw with blood My soul to you. Even when monsters lurk, Even when I say goodbye, We can be one forever- Or until we Sun, 31 Jan 2021 20:16:20 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/infernal-black.html5428a4a569171170173ebde40fffa7abThe city is full, dark, not alight... Neon shimmers in the black of Night Mountains of man's creation loom, The horizon is aglow . Bleeding into midnight... Sun, 31 Jan 2021 20:14:58 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/release-thats-within.html38dd291f2fdc7e641d391ac24e386c3aThere I lay dark, in stillness and silent Coldness emerges in my withering soul Breathless now, tormented with life in past From a world decay and consumed Sun, 31 Jan 2021 20:11:17 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/michael-collins.html9ce4ab1e7e7bb1f8886fc6cafd775f5dIt has often been said that empires come and go And from the beginning of time that has been so Empires ruled with terror with an iron fist Taking brutal Sun, 31 Jan 2021 20:07:08 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/death-penalty.html330710339aae744451c95479159fc9f5Death Penalty Sonny Johnson’s home was on the street Sharing space with rats who nibbled at his feet Until he moved his blanket to the county jail Sat, 23 Jan 2021 11:41:30 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/threshold.html4bb163bdb2c52e167dae6c424d9148beBeneath the Veil ​The pink and white blossoms are aglow With a soft ephemeral light, Whose radiance pierces the heart With a stream of loving energy. Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:48:58 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/self-fulfilling-prophecy.html62ffd2b6fcf40fe11ebfd932eb46d525..and I get it we're nowhere near it so are we there yet becomes redundant, much like a large proportion of the workforce. Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:47:02 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/zebelon-5.html942ac84d30f4c6453142b3198a360345Even as we are being stretched the world about us is collapsing and we're being dragged into an infinitely expanding black hole to be swallowed up in an Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:46:13 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/soldier-soldier.html2dc6b7197ec71899b0209cece81267f8Soldier Soldier Soldier soldier keep marching ahead Cracking and banging around thy head Load load cannons my fearless men The flag held high we fight Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:45:13 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/gentle-heart.htmld53905ae6611ccf49aa3594b0a5330a1Gentle breath and gentle touch Life holds no bound to thee Pale skin soft to the touch Eyes embedded into my soul Angels watch as dreams begin Laying Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:42:42 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/true-colors.html1547c20022d00bf11cb2a31420eeb740Our lives have changed because of Covid, Some for the good, others for the worse. Why does it take a tragedy like this, For ones to come together in unity Sat, 16 Jan 2021 10:52:47 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/brooding.html9a5dd7242da474cc335449ef1fd19cc2They're only dark clouds, but could be omens of soldiers marching off to war, ah the thunderclaps of Odin that echo through Valhalla ringing in my ears, Sat, 16 Jan 2021 10:46:21 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/itchy-fingers.htmlbc7cd9c1a04716209f0748c9e6ccefe0Why is it too early when it's early but never too late when it's late? They can't quarantine your dreams, not yet anyway. Routine, light write eat write Sat, 16 Jan 2021 10:44:53 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/an-american-uprising.html8bd4fae7b2ad1cad69579bab3b0349ecI have heard the lies of deception, Thou shalt not steal the election. We won in grand style and landslide. Rise-up patriot you of American pride. From Sun, 10 Jan 2021 19:08:08 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/the-gathering.html21003687b4a552d421260973702118c5They gathered at liberty's holy shrine, Their flag waving stripes and bars divine. Trial by fire or trial by combat the battle call, All for one and Sun, 10 Jan 2021 18:50:37 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/the-you-me.html25e47e73c4b63c1e0551aa3d50e87efcAn endless search for a new Joy A shared happiness even when sad The beginning of unknown era The YOU and ME I saw you before you saw me I met you before Sun, 10 Jan 2021 18:47:50 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/a-bird-in-cage.htmlac2636c9e1203fc3b7aa38cdf27671fbPoem (The bird in a cage) Listen to my story of how I forgot the days of freedom and nights I would fly with open wings and follow birds through woods Sun, 10 Jan 2021 18:44:16 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/god-honest.html5d27053d8ad764fabbc20170b92bc8e6It's only when I'm here that I sit to watch TV and if a God was here to witness this he'd know that I am watching Jumanji which seems so appropriate don't Sat, 9 Jan 2021 20:56:29 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/the-three-rs.html98bc339bcf6802c891f0add8dcb7f6eaThat it's in the dictionary doesn't mean it is in my vocabulary I'm quite ignorant and it boils down to bad schooling, that is me being bad and school Sat, 9 Jan 2021 20:55:33 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/saturday-arrived.html68bd5a1990b5d845db7a31b8c87611b5It all helps. Knock twice and ask for, and if you ask for you might get more. It's the waking up that tickles me because what I see is nothing like the Sat, 9 Jan 2021 20:52:56 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/the-highlands-call-.html51933f0300047b2733330c46ec603669The highlands call !! A call comes from the highlands there's going to be a raid, Time to gather your weapons, kilt and your clan coloured plaid, We will Fri, 8 Jan 2021 13:50:14 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/gossamer-threads-of-gold.html2561c349ac74d8d4de02da47b8f3a458 Filtering in with the first light A sound stirs my sleepy soul, Impalpable grace descends. How holy is the gathering silence A gauzy veil of dust and Fri, 8 Jan 2021 13:46:48 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/we-are-waiting.html60dfccfba281c50aa7849bf4174469d9 WE ARE WAITING Here where faces wear pallid frown Bones rattle in helpless pain Smiles freeze in cauldron of cursed blood Where the soil Fri, 8 Jan 2021 13:44:32 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/dear-papa.html9f4bc9b16addca1d7dcded6ba4b31583Dear Papa I miss you You're my sunshine when it rains You're my laughter when I cry You're my smile when I am sad Dear Papa You held my tears when Fri, 8 Jan 2021 13:42:32 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/made-in-china.html6b15f8464798b0ecf339f5ab60f8f337I have two nipples on my chest And a mouth full of teeth I have two legs facing up Whether I stand or I sit I have a pretty pink tongue And a tiny little Fri, 8 Jan 2021 13:39:57 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/light-and-shadow.htmlcba4385017f53aa16fe422f7cbb24955 Transcendent yet earthbound, the humaneness of my incarnational self Sacred fire spark of Cosmic Mind Veiled in darkness. The woman child at your feet Fri, 1 Jan 2021 20:36:24 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/dance-with-the-reaper.html4c4d9c9a19ad715c49e38c439acc43bdHow cruelly ecstatic to live forever to only go by the lust that drips from the tip of your tongue, the teeth that sink into my skin and the scarlet Fri, 1 Jan 2021 20:35:26 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/today-i-gave-up.html37a3695830098d5bf89d0e4d2de0e48aToday I gave up! I gave up on trying to make things better. I’m sick of always being the ball, And you always being the batter. Today I gave up! I gave Fri, 1 Jan 2021 20:34:17 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/they-say1.html241f4177baecbc571c6d7e343282067bThey say they know who I am, I say they don't. They say they know what I am, I say they don't. They think they know exactly what I'm going through, Fri, 1 Jan 2021 20:32:19 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/magnetism.htmla1d704c3c3100decd96b76ada981bfb9We were but strikes of lightening sealed in a glass jar Flumbling about Nowhere to go Exhaushed, we conducted ourselves With a slight curb of enthusiam Fri, 1 Jan 2021 20:26:22 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/the-most.html63ca003a858b4d65871c6c2c59a9d96bA poem for women who do the most. Y’all loud as hell. Your laugh, your smile, your fire Your eyes. I see that baby. You don’t want anyone else to see Fri, 1 Jan 2021 20:24:12 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/bleed-flowers1.html922d5b6223de4c670fc1930243fb38f7When I am gone I want to die in a field of wildflowers I want their stems tangled in my brown locks Their vibrant petals falling onto my closed eyelids Fri, 1 Jan 2021 20:23:04 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/one-black-boy.htmla36db703cc2131c21ebdb569c0ac9eeb One Black Boy I am the one, who stands tall and proud, Mother Africa's son. Red blood flows in my veins, my skin is made out of the universe melanin. Fri, 1 Jan 2021 20:21:28 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/family-first.html7cade78be23f8ab4771f2fcaf26a897bI was taught family first.Momma made sure we never forgot it,cause those words were rehearse and said first after all the dysfunctional and disagreements Fri, 11 Dec 2020 20:18:42 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/little-sister2.html0631bb430aa77d23c2c26d135f005b62I had a little sister, but now she's gone away. Cancer ran all through her. It didn't come to play. It ripped and roared all through her. From her head Fri, 11 Dec 2020 20:16:27 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/account-closed.html0a47bd90611523c86e852386d2e5f041I'm thinking that, 'born under a gooseberry bush' don't cut the mustard anymore anyway why a gooseberry bush and  why not a cherry tree? it flummoxes Sun, 8 Jan 2017 11:58:38 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/i-shall-arise.html32a49d4ebfac59b64c9c03b50628bff2I sit here, my heart beating in staccato I am in a reverie, I am deep in thoughts Lulling over life and its goings-on Will it be merciful once and halt Sun, 8 Jan 2017 11:55:29 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/missing3.htmld810b20493cb61b3dc88b10d82722a38To finish a life of silent misery I watched your eroding glory; Sought out hearts of quiet depravity, thoughts lingering on unwritten stories. Those Sat, 7 Jan 2017 15:44:36 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/the-trick-cyclist.htmle64eedf4c73f0c309d7a4dae82f52becThere is always the waiting you hit the panic button but should be used to it by now, biting your nails as if that makes anything quicker pacing the corridor Sat, 7 Jan 2017 15:42:38 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/secrets-of-mortality.html1a224337130f631015ce4f704ecaf558Our own mortality. One of the things that humans fear the most. Death. The end. ultimate termination. The cryptic darkness that awaits as we pray for Sat, 7 Jan 2017 15:39:45 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/a-friend3.html0f90a17ad5d2ccee1d5d87b8b9aeacabA friend is someone who listens, A friend is someone who cares, A friend is always there for you, A friend will always share. A friend is someone you Sat, 7 Jan 2017 15:35:58 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/in-the-end-i-mend-the-friend-we-tend-to-rend.html761d23aedee4a6dff4ff1f2ec9033cfaAt the start in January, We vowed in the sanctuary To become anew and live aright Alas! before dawn, we had a fight But fights shouldn't last the night Tue, 3 Jan 2017 10:49:52 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/green-eyes.html07913cb924af26f3018991081eab9d3aOf all the forests in this world I found the greenest in your eyes They rage with intensity Beckoning for me to wander in And get lost. Tue, 3 Jan 2017 10:48:20 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/christmas-magic.html28267bde85da398919d0b1b5edf5de25For days and days you wait and you wait, Carrots, cup of milk, and cookies on a plate A young child's Christmas is like a Hollywood flick, For how magical Tue, 3 Jan 2017 10:43:28 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/soulmates.htmla5b1477040d81d07cb854d593f3a3488 I'm so sure that you're the one, With you I feel life's just begun. I feel it when I touch your skin, I feel it in my heart, beating within.     I look Tue, 3 Jan 2017 10:40:12 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/holiday-break.html2a84bc6e2ce459e297bb44f5d5db3e5bWinter is here, the students set free Exams were a bust, but 'D' stands for 'degree' Take a deep breath for it's all said and done, Time to be with friends Tue, 3 Jan 2017 10:04:56 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/a-white-christmas.html54260834f6f660be0563726e60249a82In all my past memories it seems to come late, November, December we sit and we wait The weather is perfect it's bloody well cold, But it seems a White Tue, 3 Jan 2017 10:03:28 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/flat-out-at-the-bottle-bank.htmlcb33f0d5cd0850d4958faf8989f27d96Thanks for the memories that I can't really remember. was it the vino that made me a wino or was it waiting in the wings for me? who was it sang to Tue, 3 Jan 2017 09:56:18 -0500 http://www.mywordwizard.com/imaginetheres-no-place-like-home.html8138e7c114f89f3bca3baf5269b6ce94Imagine being all but twelve years old, Waking up each day hungry and cold, In a place where large rats live and play. Imagine smelling the scent of death Tue, 3 Jan 2017 09:54:35 -0500