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Backwood Poems - Poems about Backwood


Hebrew War
...Hebrews war We see them breaking every law of criminal conduct like it should be an everyday occurrence We are told by the eminent Jordan Peterson, that the people, from the back and beyond Turke......

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Categories: backwood, angst, birth, break up,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member A Waste of Time
...Sometimes I think my life a waste of time That I have accomplished nothing of note, When I observe those with lives sublime I fear I am stuck in a backwood remote. My mind becomes o......

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Categories: backwood, life, sometimes, time,
Form: Quatrain



The Squirrel
...The Squirrel Agile, gray-brown fluff burying acorns in the yarded scruff, future mighty oak spawned nests of hope stretched out branch trapezed along a tightrope, chatter banter circular froli......

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Categories: backwood, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Howling At the Moon
... Black market product truckload ... illegal cargo of tax-free merchandise, and plenty boxed liquor of trouble Leather clad tattooed dirty violet blonde riding shotgun, with a Rambo kn......

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Categories: backwood, allusion, dark, death, violence,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Blazing Beast
...The ground gaped garishly, gored with ghastly gouges of glowing, gravelly gobs ... Finally unfettered from a frigid firmament, flames flung fiery, flaring fingers ferociously forwa......

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Categories: backwood, fire, hero, nature,
Form: Alliteration



A Special Place
...shifting and swirling wind biting cold first light coming around the bend illuminating each crevice and every fold the kind of silence that makes a sound lone bird on a branch snow drifts ......

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Categories: backwood, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Carapace
...what a strange thing to compare yourself to, something that slips from water to land tastes the sun, slipping into the muddy dark again what a strange comparison woman and reptile warm and c......

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Categories: backwood, confusion, dark, dedication, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A New Road Home
...I've passed it by, so many times before While traveling this twisted asphalt highway That weathered sign, nailed, so crudely fashioned To peeling bark, upon the yoke Of one ancient, gnarled and ......

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Categories: backwood, introspection, old, old,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Road Unknown
...We've passed it by........so many times Along this twisted........ asphalt highway A sign that's nailed,....... so crudely fashioned To peeling bark.......upon the yoke of gnarled, old cot......

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Categories: backwood, introspectionold, old,
Form: Shape
Mile After Mile
...it is a long stretch of backwood country to walk (Mile After Mile) The scenery changes with every step from Blue and green to Winter White (Mile after Mile) My home is so faraway from me no......

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Categories: backwood, introspection, loss, nature,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things