Best Agelong Poems
DisplayAs the sun rise casts sand upon the clouds
And whispy angel wing overlay's paints
The red sun's cast silhouettes proud
A rural scene not quite modern but quaint
But yet the cars with loud motors still roar
Amidst the crowing roosters' echoed voice
Down where crows caw and buzzards some...
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Categories:
agelong, character,
Form:
Sonnet
Tangerine Mistan enshrouded dawn
all lost in thick orange mist
in a one hued world
redbirds are waiting
with their celebration song
a tune that's agelong
tangy dewy blooms
of a vivid magic morn
wait for butterflies...
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Categories:
agelong, beautiful, bird, butterfly, color,
Form:
Haiku
The Myth Called Father BernardTHE MYTH CALLED BROTHER BERNARD
Brother Bernard is just a name
but a name that has saturated fame,
notoriety in Nigeria and it's the same
that evokes comical blunders.
Hope Bernard isn't one of your brothers.
Man dreams of a trip to Peru,
had a dream he was eating his...
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Categories:
agelong, 1st grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Flamingothought:
ever so pink
extremely fluffy
rather intelligent
positively feathered
noble, soft, superior ...
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Categories:
agelong, 7th grade, bird,
Form:
FAREWELL"Fare thee well
If not forever, still forever
Pride which not a word could bow
Bow to you, and by you rejected
Fare thee well"
Not now nor ever shall I
Seek the directions of your natal star
Nor crave your unyielding heart
Nor forever seek your quaint embroid beauty
Or the presence...
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Categories:
agelong, angst, betrayal, boyfriend, break
Form:
Free verse
A Broken MirrorA battered pier glass, the length of a running lightning,
The width of a Caesarean window,
And next to an agelong, framed
Daguerreotype, lies face down across
A musty room.
Shafts and rods of robust sunlight from cracks and holes
Make it less dingy.
The smell of arrogant tobacco haunts the breath
From...
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Categories:
agelong, emotions, life,
Form:
Free verse