Best Alley Poems


To the Alley of Your Heart,I Come

Early rain falls gently

like your fingers 

running softly through my hair

in our cabin down the valley

The wind breathes lightly 

like your lips 

treading kisses  on my neck

as I keep humming merrily

Crimson poppies bow in silence

whilst I walk down the lane

I cross over the bridge

to cross over again

I watch the Tuscan sun

 set down beyond the prairie

I dance in verdant fields 

where once  met a pink fairy

With eyes full of love 

I follow fluttering wings of tiny fire-flies

which glistens in night sky

 like little lantern lights

I pass through fragrant vineyards 

which pour perfumes of wine

I walk distance and moments

 in memory of time

I hold on to a star

 which leads me somewhere far

to cobbled winding streets

to wherever you are

To the end of glowing moons

to the still sound of your cry

to a forgotten kite 

which keeps freedom

 soaring high

To the well of your thoughts

to that soft tender part

to the cascading passion

 in the alley of your heart.

Premium Member Oak Alley

Gifting us a green canopy,

oaks bow with old South gentility.


For Brian Strand's the 'Podium placing promise(2)' Poetry Contest

Wuyi Alley

Beside the Zhuque Bridge wild flowers bloom lonely, 
On the Wuyi Alley the setting sun beams serenely. 
The swallows that once nested in halls of the noble,
Have now flown into the simple homes of the humble.
(tran.)
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Along Tornado Alley

All that time will do 
is install you
in comfortable stockings.

The wind howls away the years.
Foxes hunt even while we sleep.
The binding is broken.
The straps are disconnected.

Wind carries away
even massive objects.
It is the tornado of life.
Chunk chunk
Clink clink

The mind keeps puffing
like a steamer.
Even pine trees are inspired
by the wind.

Shadow Rock hides the eyes
	of children.
Their eyes grow heavy with sleep,
and they groan.

The bad dream progresses;
a story unfolds.
There can be no talking
during this time of storms,

this time of hiding behind rocks.
There is nothing left
	worth stealing.
© Bill Yates  Create an image from this poem.

Haiku Alley

Dark alleys call me

cold mist gets inside my clothes ~

I sleep shivering.
Form: Senryu

Premium Member The Blind Alley Ways

Red tape maps certain ugly areas not yet examined properly 
as the bad paths are clearly marked as worthless dust blown away 
over a passage of time we need to live within the strength of obedience 

To the very letter perfectly constructed 
put into figures and words to reject God

Shadows dart within life they carry the dusk inside reality existing 
debts gambling with our future growth in favour of a death wish 
Which dishonours the meaning of love 
and it's Divine right caring little about human equality 
never forgetting who holds the rights to life and death key 

In His hands their is mercy under such a grave sin confessed 
entering these unlawful hallowed grounds lay buried deeply 
disturbing the truth where it remains facts to be held under oath
Form: Verse


I Miss You Alley

In the moon I see you beautiful face, it glows love
The stars tell of your smile, that inspires me to write 
Beautiful purple skies paint the scene for memory lane, of when we kissed
I miss holding you, looking at you, singing to you and telling you pretty things

The days go on, and this feeling for you grows stronger, I love you
I can't wait for the day in which I can hold you again, I need you
The way you look at me, the way you speak to me, you complete me
Drving down the street singing at the top of my lungs, for you I miss that too

For 6 years I have longed to be yours, and now I am
I shall seek to find, I will ask to learn
For my hearst desires are to be married to you and serve God as one
To weep at your side, to write and paint by your side, oh for you I yearn

Making you laugh honey, my favorite hobby
To place that ring on your beautiful finger, and have you call me hubby
You are my one and only, my love my all
I walk to joy, I crawl to learn and I lay to endure, for I shall live by the word of God

I will fight for us, I too have faith in a bright tomorrow
Alley my love my life, I have you in my mind all day
I miss your dimples, your baby talk, for us I pray
I love you mi amor, I miss you Alley

Premium Member I Was Here

Graffiti          fades          from          the          wall,
            Alike              the           alley        after          dark.
    "I                  was          here!",     screams      the
        Wrecking         ball,        leaving          your      mark.
Form: Other

Parasite Alley

The moon sunk her teeth in a sky of black,
Over city backdrops and the scent of crack,
Neon spilled burning through traffic veins,
Dead man's handles on subway trains.
I tasted of acid in the end of night,
Snow descended dirty, off-white, 
Staring through curtains at six a.m.,
Into the kitchen and back again.

All currency spent in the cheapest of bars,
The ones beside wreckage of burned-out cars,
Drinking from morning 'till midnight chime,
With stoned stool-pigeons and lives of crime.
I hurt nobody, only hurt myself,
Sat in the shadows, toasting my health,
As sleep comes calling I start to fall,
A dreamer washed-up with no dreams at all.

Don't tell any secrets, don't tell any lies,
There's enough depiction in these blood-red eyes,
Don't require religion or my soul to save,
Or a shallow legend on a shallower grave.
I could preach you sermons to warp your mind,
I could show you things to strike you blind,
But the world won't listen, it remains the same,
Always leaves me stranded with a crying shame.
© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

Bowling Alley Haiku

pin's drive me crazy
the ten pins lazy.go down
let lying around
art
Form: Haiku

Santa Snickers-Nonsense Alley V

Merry Wulfman!
Santa Snickers
Jingle Jugs, and
Rudolph's knickers

Happy Crackers
Mistle twits
Porky pudding
Snicklefritz

Frosty gnomes
Disgusting tarts
Home Sweet Cheeks
and Uncle Farts

Happy New Tweets
Merry Tickles
Santa Jack says,
Pass the pickles....



5.  Turkey, cake
      & Mull Cider
      Pumpkin pie
      So open wider                (By Edlynn Nau)
                   

6.  Got indigestion
      I feel ill...
      too much turkey
      I need a pill!                    (By Jan Allison)  
       

7.  Chocolate truffles
      a fork or spoon
      my tummy's swelling
      I must stop soon            (By Tim Smith)


8.   Hard rock candy
       breaks my teeth
       Someone help me
       Pwetty Pweeth!             (By John Wulf)

Please keep adding verses my Happy Soupers!
© Kim Shaw  Create an image from this poem.
Form: List

Easter In Nonsense Alley

John and Jack Bunny are snoozin'
For Easter will keep them both cruisin'

Cute, puffy white tails
Big, tall ears like sails

Hippity hop!  Those kids are droolin'
© Kim Shaw  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Bowling Alley

Sunshine acres
long black shadows falling down.
sun-bowling alley
sun
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Dreamtime: the Old Alley Way

A slow funeral dirge loops through my head as I bend the reeds
of wild alley weeds in my old neighborhood, pausing to listen
to the drunken diatribes hurled by the shell of a man, 3-houses
down…praying I won’t be seen. 

Newcomers don’t often visit, the same faces cringe in surprise at
the sudden change in tempo or tone, afraid a new direction may
 result….sounds never heard before….questions never asked before.

Finally, I find the familiar crevices and secret passageways, proven
over time…..balms and knowing glances, to a place I know,

                                                                                        ……a place

                                                                                                      I know   


10/22/10
© All Rights Reserved

5:22 am
Mom had a stroke Monday,
She’s doin a bit better…….
I’m hangin’ on
old
Form: Narrative

Trouble In Nonsense Alley

Our two funny limmerists are at it again
Clucking about like two mother hens
Jack's chemise is just wrong
Can't look at John's thong
Hey ya two cowpokes, when's this all going to end
© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

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