"equips" poems
Trees (haiku #1)
Tree wood with fire
Nature equips survival
Light, heat, and cooking
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Trees (haiku #2)
Leafy beings, green
Wood umbrellas, ancient roots
Growing, reaching sky
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Trees (haiku #3)
Pluck the tender fruit
Motherly branches feed all
Body and soul, blessed
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Trees (haiku #4)
Shelter for our homes
Furniture within our walls
Uses-myriads
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Trees (haiku #5)
Pencils, books, paper
Education thanks to trees
Writing, poetry
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Trees (haiku #6)
Trees crafted, songs sung
Guitars, violins, harps-more
Wood, melodious
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Trees ( haiku #7)
Birds, critters depend
Harmonious relations
Trees magical grace
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Trees (haiku #8)
Bountiful beauty
Standing upright or chopped down
More precious than gold
Oct 29, 2013
Oct 29, 2013 at 7:10 PM UTC
Distill water is healing.
The moons voice manipulates the ocean,
By reaching and pulling away from the sand
the suns smile equips us with Vitamin C
The Water cycle is a universal enigma.
She starts of as clouds quenching our planet with:
Oceans, lakes, rivers, and water puddles
she evaporates into mist of waves
Camouflaging her family recipe in the sky,
While cooks up new baby clouds
its starts all over again like the tadpole evolution
even though we all take water for granted sometimes,
She still supplies our needs.
By Shannon Pollard
©Summer 2012
Sep 12, 2012
Sep 12, 2012 at 7:22 PM UTC
Sanctuary,
Take me from these wintry prisons
That captive, I am, through misery’s fangs
Be still, defiant, no more to me
my course heart beats, so guiltily
Harsh words I spoke, regret, I fold
Your care, I trust, to gaurd me safe
Humility bars me, I fall so low
I’m sorry..
I’m sorry…
Defeat, I pulse, my blood runs warm
In relief, my spirits, content to you
Vulnerability guides me to your arms
Sanctuary, take me away to your heart
Hold me not to my flaws
Forgive me, my love, I plea…
I’m sorry…
I’m sorry..
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Sanctuary,
Such solitude, you rescued me
My love, I gave compassionately
Yet now I find I’ve lost the sight
No sanctuary, are you, this night
In light, I guard my heart from you
This pain I suffer, I hold anew
With filth and bile, my body tense
Struck upon your cheek, my harsh caress
Alone I sit, to ponder such strength of love
Such confound deeds you treason for
I surrender myself to a subconscious alcove
Understand me, I have strength none more
I have forgiven
I can’t forget
Sanctuary,
Apologize, your actions speak
Arrogance,your sin, you live vanity
A lust you craved, such a tempting taste
The distinctive man now gone to waste
Bountiful bosoms, and laughter equips
All of my once pleasure and happiness
Selfish desires, contrite you now seem
Was my heartbreak worth your wanton need?
I’m vulnerable, you seem so strong
I live imprisoned within your arms
I take you back, my weakness of love
You rapture my heart, your mistakes undone
I have now forgiven
I can’t forget
Dec 7, 2011
Dec 7, 2011 at 9:21 PM UTC
My Heart Awakens every day
Desiring to express in some way
A few thoughts that Occur
About the coming Dawn
Like the Happy Birds
Singing before the Sun
Kisses the Sky and Beyond
Moments like these
Then pump through
Every part of my Being My Body
Slowly Seeping into my Brain
Dare they Refrain
Until I feel attuned
To all that surrounds me
Is flowing fully Within me
Truly it is lovely
Natures Song
Then Equips me
To set about my Path Daily
Glad I am part of Life's Throng.
DLR
06/09/2016
Sep 5, 2016
Sep 5, 2016 at 3:38 PM UTC
as space sufficiently expresses, or succinctly paraphrases with the concerns for time: or hue, or suntan, or baritone hummed weakening into a humph... crazy-bone etc.; sometimes poetry is so much more than the usurping of onomatopoeia... life is the essence of being timed, but that's hardly the essence in the space we occupy - over-versed thinking never formalised toward an outer-reaching imagination that might become copper-raindrops' worth of Disney, or a way memory is made adaptive to cure dementia... yes, space is the essential component for the compartment of life... i believe time has no place in what's to be called life, i believe time exists, but on an Olympic scale, in the metres and millimetres, on the minutes and seconds scales... space is the essence of life: so diverging from known apparatus to unknown operations, thus so diverging from known operations to unknown apparatus... and so on and so forth, until dinosaurs roar and we merely say: yawn - arrogant in our guise.
true, space devalues time; as said the people between us who we never had a meal with, but had the crazed look of craving an unnecessary contentment with despair. can i guess at something? i like your alphabetical onomatopoeia, i.e. pun for knocking, a sorta p p p / b b b, not necessarily needing the suffix for rhyme, why is it that poetry requires the echo, why not rhyme upfront? anyway... but it's there, that alphabetical onomatopoeia... a repeating of the first letter, like opening an oyster... which contradicts the orthodox methodology of rhyme... meaning that there's a repeated seance of an opening... which (although alphabetically staged to a prevailing repeat) equips the reader with many more surprising alternations - basically you begin with what rhymes alphabetically, but not necessarily phonetically: the lost suffix -ing via i had a cat called blinding, and he said all things were shining... one of your poems enabled me to spot this reversal of poetic orthodoxy, in that the rhyme became less musicological, and more rubric enlisting a coherent schema, such as a list... or rhyme via propped first, and cascading into oblivion, never really minding the waggling tail of a bouncy-ball of accepted verse. aardvark and acupuncture... the rhyme begins with A, and ends as it should end, diverging, so there's no feel for a repeat akin to drum or rhythmic bass... otherwise: shout an A into a cave and hear an echo... that's what poetry is damnably worthy to congest one's thinking with... don't rhyme: echo! and ensure that echo is alphabetical rather than musicological. perchance lessened talk, i too would have revised this example with some worthy emoticon.
Oct 20, 2016
Oct 20, 2016 at 10:52 PM UTC
I am far from being perfect, but still Christ loves me dearly.
I have much brokenness, yet he still uses me to encourage others.
Because if I can do the things that he calls me to do here on earth.
Then everyone else can do them , if they choose to do them too.
For the things are quite simple in reality, for if he chooses to use you.
He then shall equips you with the means to accomplish the task.
So whatever he calls you to do , trust him and allow him to use you.
Whichever gifts that he has bestow upon you, use them freely.
For he has already gave you the things that you shall need.
Apr 30, 2017
Apr 30, 2017 at 4:15 PM UTC
This is not some old tradition;
This is the way of truth.
Years of instruction without reception
Making "yes men" out of our youth.
The truths that we've heard, shall we not own?
What equips us to disagree?
Each person thinks they can judge alone,
But God's Word stands from eternity.
Another friend has fallen aside,
A child of the church, a brother.
Drawn by enticements only the world can provide,
To follow the mastership of another.
Oh, friend! Entrench your roots in the truth of God's Word,
So that none can pull you away!
Saturate your mind, let your prayers be heard,
At stake is your eternal stay.
Mar 31, 2013
Mar 31, 2013 at 12:36 AM UTC
It was meant to be the
most important line
of all known history
but you forgot it
screenwriter
your sheer deed
equips your script
with perpetual discretion
prompting props
praising speeches
persuading species
Prussian Blue and Russian Spirits.
Mar 31, 2017
Mar 31, 2017 at 12:27 AM UTC
Your warm armour enfolds me, equips me for loving battle.
Your warm sword stabs the cold, severs frostbite's grip.
Your warm shield shelters me,
shoulders the weight of attack.
Your warm tears flow artery deep, steel me for winter battle.
You're my warm core,
warm to my touch.
You're my warmth.
Mar 8, 2024
Mar 8, 2024 at 3:03 PM UTC