Asway Poems - Poems about Asway

The Gewgaw

...I sit upon a moment’s tree
  with a gewgaw in my hand
and pluck its reed rhythmically
  to ride the distant land

the journ to drift her league to me
  upon my tongue, her tongue
caressing sou...

Categories: asway, dedication, introspection, journey, life,
Form: Quatrain

Some Days At Sea

...Some days at sea are nothing but work.
Heave out and trice up. The smoking lamp’s lit.
All one can dream of are stable foundations,
Roots in the soil, and walls made of stone.

Some days at sea ...

Categories: asway, adventure, allegory, sea,
Form: Blank verse

Rose Beauty

...Life 
armed with the fates
   of futility
   besieges.
So be it  with the rose,
   her beauty  asway,
   pushed around
   by breezy happenchance,
powerless to stop   
   her petals
   to wi...

Categories: asway, beauty, betrayal, death, earth,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Let Mind Breathe

...The mind is a high flyer.
An altitude of any measure
allows it to breathe clearer.
The mind breathes you.

Close out this world
follow the song-cycles
of your land-locked
wind-blown lungs.

...

Categories: asway, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Forget-Me-Nots

...Forget-Me-Nots

Across the field, I trampled a path
When I held back and marveled to see,
Near the babbling brook beneath the trees,
A sea of blue of scorpion grass:
Tiny blooms asway in...

Categories: asway, flower, spring,
Form: Lyric

My Heart Is On An Island

...My heart is on an island
Half a continent away. 
It’s not a hot and sunny isle
With palm trees all asway.
The trees are oaks and maples,
The winters cold and raw
The waves pound on the beaches,...

Categories: asway, appreciation, beach, change, emotions,
Form: Rhyme

Tom Watches His Son Choca

...Tom is in heaven chasing mice every day
Leaping with happiness, he is wiggling his rear all asway.
His child Choca is on earth, the image of his dad.
We love having his presence, he makes us feel ...

Categories: asway, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme

Last Hurrah

...Like Ken, ever on his last sail -
a soul slipper asway on gales …
Some loves shall lead these ending days
Tapering the winding display ~

High mountain air before lungs crush
Umpteen stars to d...

Categories: asway, appreciation,
Form: Lay

Poor Man Beggar Man

...She tinkers change someone left on the table
waiting for brunch at the Bluebonnet Bistro,
a hole in the wall with thick on the windows.

Lost deep to thought, this rock ‘n roll liberal
in her mi...

Categories: asway, lost love, memory,
Form: Free verse

I Am the Heron

...I AM THE HERON


There is a stoicism to me
silent, self reliant, pensive posturing
suddenness of intent and action.

My aggression is calculated,
measured in response to need,
activated by i...

Categories: asway, bird,
Form: Personification

Loving Nature

...I blink, I breath
You listen
The Earth's trees asway
Quiet
In the distance

No thoughts, no sounds
But feelings
Flowing to and fro
Guiding
All through life

You blink, you breath
I listen
To words le...

Categories: asway, nature,
Form: Light Verse

Envelopway

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eyesway ideway otay ethay orldway,
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anthay away ousandthay irthdayb...

Categories: asway, life,
Form: Free verse

Tumi Or Not Tumi!?

...No, It was not my time
to jaunt & jump about 
the Morld with You, to
glowering-green-glows
of Ischia, the privileges
of Mackinac, "...our Paris, Ilsa!"...

Ornamented ataud &
calefacted incin...

Categories: asway, introspection, life, lost love,
Form: Free verse