The Poets Niche
join | meet the family | about us | submission guidelines | order products | book store
moni's updates | poem of the week | events | poet resources | bulletin board | home
tell a friend about this site

poems of the week

Enjoy these poems and please email the poets (where applicable) and give them some feedback!


                SISTER-GIRL

Laying in the sunset of eternal beauty,
	I see my sister swaying in the wind
		Still she lies listening to the
			Whispers of my soul.

She hungers not,
	For she is filled with the love 
		Of my heart...for we are both
			Born from the richness of the land.

I sustain her...as she does I
	For we are one and the same...
		Sharing all that we are
			Within the silence
					Of stolen moments.

As I walk in the footsteps of her domain
	I feel her energy boundless..
		Intoxicating and captivating..			
			
I move through life feeling
	The shadow of her fervent spirit
		And as I breathe her air...
				Finally I live...


Gloria Ware (c) gware01@lanier.com

==============================================================

                handling rejection

just wanting something to go out and test the waters
somehow improving one's life and to find that other level
not always the results one desires as one falls short
so easy to question one's self and get into doubts
didn't always have the success
didn't always have the objectivity and measuring self-worth
wasn't always so sure that it would happen eventually in time
times were when nothing seemed to happen for months and years at a time
when something did come through it wasn't what was wanted
you usually get what you need when you're so adamant on a certain thing
you often are afraid and then you return to it later on in time
the ideas were always there in front of you and it was a question of the 
initiative
the motives weren't always as clear as the proposed solutions
yet to think of it as rejection you feel as though perhaps they're onto 
something
getting caught up in the cynicism it's one's self you begin to reject
forgetting that at one time the narcissism was a good thing
forgetting that self confidence did not equate to arrogance
forgetting that too much was always better than too little
to walk on a plane in which you're disillusioned
other's looking at you and everyone is critical of you
you can barely hold your head up and you can't look anyone in the eyes
you're fixated on inanimate things and play games within to entertain
just to find out that no one was paying you any attention at all
why is it we feel we stand out when there's nothing different about us
why is it we want attention but yet want to recluse into the background
why is it we fear the worst when it's only something positive that we're 
proclaiming
why is it to know that you can't live with yourself without the statement
yet you can live with knowing you never took the chance
and there's such a short period of time, and it's not the successful one's 
in the end
it isn't the famous or the rich
or on the other hand the infamous and fabulously poor
everyone thinks it's the beautiful or the skinny
yet they all think that it's us
and yet everyone has that own level they can achieve
put it all on a level playing field
nonetheless to fall short out of their own insecurities
in the end we have to answer for how much we failed
and of what we failed was due to how we tried, not to how we secluded
because the measure of the integrity is in that
and the measure of the character how many different avenues traveled
in reaching that ultimate goal

Chris Kendalls (c) chris_kendalls@hotmail.com

==============================================================

WHEN YOU'RE AROUND

When I see your smile
It brightens my day
And I just can't help
But to smile back your way

When I see your eyes
There's no one else I can see
I block everything out,
'Till it's just you and me

When I see you
Walking my way
I'm just so happy
I don't know what to say

When I hear your voice
I can feel my heart melt
Thinkin' if you only knew
How I really felt

When you're around
You drive me insane
I can only hope
That you feel the same


Rebecca D (c) delsol@tupac.com

==============================================================

POSITIVELY

When you see you have traveled down the wrong road,
Just stop right there and drop the load.
Do not look back, NO!  Not even once;
Forget the should of's and could have's and congratulate yourself with a hug.
Now let God carry your load.

Let us say denial was faced finally today,
Give God the GLORY, HONOR and PRAISE.
Do not forget to Thank GOD for the WISDOM he gave,
Take this new knowlege and continue  on your journey of  
the road you have paved.
Share this with others, show them the way.

Deppression, anger, anxiety, guilt and shame,
These are all lies and not a product of God,
All lies that somewhere, somehow came to be,
Learned from others, religion, culture or maybe 
society and you believed;
Seek GOD and His TRUTH will set  you FREE.

Have patience and watch LOVE grow,
Open your heart and let peace flow,
Open your mouth and believe;
Have faith in the Almighty to help you in His eternity forever to see.
You my friend will be set FREE.

Have patience and practice self control,
But be careful how you pray for that one,
Take time to see beauty;
In nature and every living breathing moving and standing thing,
Examine thine self daily.

Seek GOD first in the morning as you rise,
With Him then seek your quiet time,
One on one His word you read,
Pray that God will take away the lies that keep you in captivity,
Think POSITIVELY.

Seek POSITIVELY for blessed you will be,
Write this down and practice this peace,
Forever give GOD the Glory for He and only His TRUTH shall set you free.
Thank GOD in JESUS' name.

Leilani High (c) LLo9228134@aol.com

==============================================================

5 + 1  = DEATH

I try not to let it cross my mind
But the more I try, the longer the time
My insecurities through past lives
Brokenhearted, one through five
I just cannot help to wonder
Why our relationship has not plundered
The thoughts my foes have instilled in me
Has made me question if you love faithfully
I know you do, but again the past
Makes me think will the fifth be the last
If six is born, I shall breathe my final breath
For the devil's number will be my death

Jezula (c) Jezant@aol.com

==============================================================

                    ENDLESS

From the heart of man to the foot of love on the run... 
All love shared flows through to beyond ones soul. 
If ever love falls from my path then I shall fall!
If ever love should collapse from within my heart then I to collapse! 
My life, love and all that is to come have grown to know you as an 
essential part, a flow if you will, a niche.  Something great, but meager, 
something awesome, however humble, something blind, however beautiful. 
All that is, all that has come, all that is love - you!  As I grow to newness 
and have surpassed the old, other things, which were in the midst has 
remained in its place, in tact and complete.
A gentle whisper, persona even, a cool breeze, you are a silent prayer, love
beyond touch, touch beyond reality and reality unknown to this world! 
Hold still my heart never pass, nor follow, stay with me, beside me always.

Derrick Walker (c) WalkerDA@mail.nih.gov

==============================================================

                       UNTITLED

Sometimes my mind feels trapped in a whirling tornado.
Life presents me with so much turbulence that even the 
good times are so easily forgotten,
And in the midst of it all, I can hardly find a comforting 
phrase or thought helpful.

I look at those who face similar difficulties, and those who wish they
Could be in my shoes because their problems far exceed any I have seen.
(Thinking) to myself
How could I be so selfish in believing I deserve some pacifying moment?

I stand alone is the feeling I get in my times of struggle and no one 
But my Creator sees,
To over-stand it so, I write notes to my Creator admitting, 
not often enough.
By communicating with my Creator, I realize something.  
I am a part of the All,
So why then do I feel helpless?

FOR I CAN ALTER MY CIRCUMSTANCES!!
YES I CAN ROLE THAT ROCK FROM MY PATH
AND ATTAIN MY WEALTH FROM BENEATH.
KNOWING THAT SOMETIMES,
I WILL NOT BE GRANTED THE ABILITY TO DO 
AS SUCH FOR REASONS UNFORSEEN BY ME.


Naa-Shorme Norteye © 





NEXT:poem of the week---->    |   tell a friend about this site