Stopgap Poems | Examples


Hell

Unsatisfied sighs
Puff the heart of avarice
-It’s illusive mist

Restlessness pursues
The golden deer- happiness,
But greed is mirage

The unappeased minds
Hug the wicked schemes always
-Blissful life on thorn

The thorny cinders 
Though lit up the sinners' life
-Brightness is stopgap

The voracious fire
Waiting for the sinner's soul
Though earth is good nurse

The inferno realm
Reigns immoral everywhere 
As hell or mind strife

March 26, 2023


Hell Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori
Form: Haiku

Thrill :: Margeda


Who doesn't want to be happier?
View delight avert barrier.
Try to acquire more worldly things
Shy not with unco ways for wins.
Intention is to gain pleasure
Deception, it doesn't bring pressure.
Pleasure got from eating plenty
lesser feel of starve to many.
Satisfy thrust with some water
justify now, but lasts shorter.
All derive pleasure fulfilling
small wants, it's stopgap refilling.
Rejoice from instant need fulfil
Destroy happiness, but brings thrill!
~X~X~
Form: Verse


Premium Member My Mind, a Time Capsule

My Mind,
A Time Capsule
Written: by Tom Wright
1/27/2016

With the clock un-laboriously doing its thing,
I start today with blank canvas.
No chambered thoughts, tarrying from the dark side.
 
My mind functions as a stopgap time capsule,
Where is interred each thought, 
Concisely framed, that my existence lay’s in.

Occasionally I excavate thoughts 
Meant only for myself, while questioning,
At what depth into my seclusion 
Will I permit my pen to reach?

The farther my steps Journey,
The more these thoughts become frozen
On things Eternal;

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