Let’s follow the poet to his
Hell and heaven! Count his
Ghosts and dilemma’s…
Reach out to touch his
Stretched-out skies; let’s follow
The poet to see where he lays.
Let’s follow the poet to his end;
To see if he can…whatever
He wants to do, do over again….
Let’s find the poet’s soul, and then
Once found, let it go; And watch the [...]

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On through the darkness she searches the bones
Seeking the hand of her love;
Deep in the stillness, the maid searches on,
Petitioning help from above.
Onward she gropes through the flesh and the blood
Of the warriors disfigured and maimed;
She carries no hope for the life of her love -
For naught but his body she came.
To see his face [...]

Angel Of The Morning
You’re my Angel of the Morning,
My lover and my best friend.
With you here beside me,
Our love will never end.
You’re my Angel of the Morning,
So delicate and so sweet.
With you as my lover,
My life is just complete.
You’re my Angel of the Morning,
The support that [...]

Do you remember, from your early education days, how you used to select colors from the Crayola box to color inside the lines? Maybe later on, your grade school teacher, to stimulate your imagination, asked you what any one color looked like, or smelled like, or tasted like.
Poets, too, use their colors to trigger their [...]

I’m not well. Can’t you tell?
Kinda low, so,
give me a dose of laughter.
Mirth will heal my every ill
and give me rest from my distress.
Now, give me a dose of laughter.
Glee can revive, keep me alive
and give me chance to happy dance.
So, give me a dose of laughter.
I’d crawl a mile for a smile;
but to [...]

Advance: Mr. Dennis Siluk’s poetry can have its fire-hearted twists: as with ‘Lovers’…’, and ‘Death…’ and the ‘Loves’s Curse’;but love can carry with it, luring assets, especially in these three poems, as you will soon see; two of which he calls sonnets. He sings a dim song, but it all seems to fit in [...]

I was living in a dream
Full of hatred and pain
Someone I thought I loved
Was not really loving me
For Who I am
For Who I have become

Half a decade I have wasted
For that someone who never knew
My worth as a human being
As someone who loved him deeply
For who [...]

Do you ever stare at the paper, waiting for poetic inspiration? Well, you can stop waiting and start using systematic techniques for creating poetry. If it seems too mechanical or artificial at first, don’t worry. The point is just to get you writing, because creativity is stimulated by work.
When You Have A Poem In [...]