best contemporary poems

With Time and Again
We gain

Life that teaches
Could be itchy

Lessons are learnt
Hearts that were burnt

With Years to come
People have gone

Love that calls
Is never recalled

Waiting that is
Sounds humor

Destination change
With age

Breath taken
Is pain to return

Numbness
Now that is
Smelling the freedom
Emotions that are caged
Hopes
Someday, Sometime, Something
Will be “The ONE”

If I stay right here and don’t look outside…
shut off the phone and pull down the blinds…
there would be no day and there would be no night…
the world would not exist…
and if the world does not exist…
then there is no you or kiss to miss.

In the woods, I came upon my soul one day…
it turned and looked as if to say…
“I look for heaven, but I’ve lost my way…”

My shadow turned to it to point…
“You’ve lost your way because your void.”
“Pray to Him a sign you’ll find…
because the Devil has made you blind.”

My body froze, would not believe,
my soul kept walking as it took its leave.

I came upon my soul one day…
I wish that I hadn’t let it stray.

At thirty-five I spent the night conversing with you,
that this conversation would last all my life,
still may never do.
What might is an eternity with this exchange and you,
so it would never complete.

And when the evening of my life arrives,
I will wait for you by the gates with your cup of tea.
So again you would converse with me.

This cold holds us down
Snow this deep must go

And so, we begin again
Again, the plow goes by

Filling our mouth so full
Knee deep again, I bend

To lift all seventy years of
Snow, and one shovel full

Feels the weight of time
Of distances I have been in

Of seasonal jobs I did, I do
The grass is waiting under

This snow lawn, this storm
And this cold holds us out

Here, assigns momentary
Tasks, I’m mending what

Nature has done this time
And promises to do again.