Best Amuses Poems
Write What You Know
...Write what you know
Write what you love
Invent a new world
Invent words
Be silly
Play
Write what you see
Write what bothers you
Write what amuses you
Invent a new persona
Let the words da......
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Categories:
amuses, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form:
Free verse
Dead Air
...The DJ shuts the fader by mistake,
yet speaks his words in slick and practised tones,
but doesn’t hear them coming through his ’phones,
berates himself: That’s quite a gaffe to make.
That’s five ......
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Categories:
amuses, satire,
Form:
Sonnet
Enchantment of a Tower
...Carve not a tower enclosing your heart
Allow our breaths to play, let warmth prevail
Sabers fling across moors searching the grail;
While armor of conquest tears us apart.
Unload all ha......
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Categories:
amuses, devotion, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
The Beach Entertainer
...Miles of broken, sunbaked seashells,
resembling pieces of porcelain of lesser value,
lying across a populous beach subdued by misty blue,
as hungry sea-gulls pounce the fiddler's crabs..
The ......
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Categories:
amuses, beach, character, funny, hope,
Form:
Quatrain
So Long As the Poet Amuses Them All
...Poetry is breathing out
graces of the heart;
for unlike other writing,
such exhalation
transcends words:
whether scented with sulfur
or mint de jour
poetry is the soul’s lure
dangling immo......
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Categories:
amuses, humorous, nonsense, poems, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
the raw madness that makes me who I am
...It amuses me when people ask
“How are you?”
Fortunately for us both
They never ask
“Who are you?”
For that answer relies upon a deep dive
Into the hollows of a heart
The scorched remains of ......
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Categories:
amuses, age, growing up, identity,
Form:
Free verse
Lighthouse In the Storm
...Plunged into darkness the coarsen tempest struck,
Shattering the silence calm facade.
Raging with passion reverberating laughter,
The gales unrelenting moaning and thrashing
Provoked and ......
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Categories:
amuses, light, rain, sea, storm,
Form:
Free verse
Mr Bean
...Mr. Bean has made the world go laughing
and if laughter tis the best medicine
then Mr. Bean sure is doctor of laughter
for quite apt is he at appealing humour!
Perhaps the world's best most bel......
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Categories:
amuses, career, cheer up, fun,
Form:
Clerihew
Dabs of Halloween
...Written by Gail DeBole
My laughing paintbrush
Amuses the canvas with
Many mornings and tickles
Two half-polished pumpkins.
Cobwebs of cornstalk
Casually poise on the
Pumpkins and branch into
The ai......
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Categories:
amuses, holiday, seasons,
Form:
Imagism
A Valentine Poem
...He gave her a bunch of roses
deep red and highly scented
sweetly he romanticizes
With loving heart, her, he teases
with his love before her casted
he gave her a bunch of roses
Some may think he nee......
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Categories:
amuses, love, valentines day,
Form:
Villanelle
Dengue Lawn
...Modern landscaping amuses me no end
in mansions and cottages round the bend.
To folks who seem aesthetically cultured,
a well-mown lawn is still ill-manicured,
unless there are potteries stre......
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Categories:
amuses, funny
Form:
Rhyme
Minstral
...Mainly a friend that loves and amuses
I often would be lost without you
Never a moan parts your lips
Steadfastly you guard our home
Tenderly you wash and groom the cats
Ready to go for a run at ......
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Categories:
amuses, dog, friend, love,
Form:
Acrostic
Heat Lightening
...Heat Lightening
by Michael R. Burch
Each night beneath the elms, we never knew
which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance,
then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up
like searchlight......
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Categories:
amuses, car, crush, desire, love,
Form:
Sonnet
Tomorrow's Geniuses-My Lovely Children
...Never thought children were tomorrow's geniuses;
'though they're still innocent, their behavior amuses!
There's an adorable child who is much smarter that I am;
he's talkative, vibrant and happ......
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Categories:
amuses, character, child, computer, culture,
Form:
Couplet
Loves Definite
...Loves Definite
An intense feeling of deep affection
Love
Love is depicted in so many ways.
We say love and share this love, in ways that seem forbidden or hidden.
Laced in secrecy, sometime......
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Categories:
amuses, absence, abuse, betrayal, change,
Form:
Free verse