Best Bootless Poems
Lonely Libraries
...(English Sonnet Rhyme in Iambic Tetrameter)
What tomes in lonely corners dwell
where undisturbed and rimmed with dust,
forgotten tales that once were held
and stained with tears and love and lu......
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Categories:
bootless, books,
Form:
Sonnet
- For Tom Cunningham and Jan Allison -
...old man
big plan
ladies
nineties
......
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Categories:
bootless, humorous,
Form:
Footle
To Hell and Back in the AM
...
When wracked with suff'ring even more,
I all alone bemoan my fate,
as one who drowns in sorrows sore
which harm, harass, and maul his state.
Aggrieved for what feels like forever,......
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Categories:
bootless, conflict, dark, depression, hope,
Form:
Bio
Blood In Stool
...the old brick is dead
tuck the morkin, shoot the dog
bootless memories......
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Categories:
bootless, allah, allegory, allusion, angst,
Form:
Haiku
The Barghest's Monody
...Therewithal, profluent life ettles it's while.
Thitherward, from Death's bleak campanile
Grim antiphonals serenade.
A capriccio, the slashing swipe of the reaper's scythe
will serenade.
Strin......
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Categories:
bootless, death, life,
Form:
Ballad
Map of Europe - 'Objectum Sexual'
...MAP OF EUROPE - OBJECTUM SEXUAL *
O coastline with cool expanse of blue Atlantic
Your curves and indentations drive me frantic.
Sometimes thrust out peninsularly;
Sometimes studied ......
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Categories:
bootless, funnysea, sea,
Form:
Couplet
The Immutable Plight of Mortals
...Existence is jam-packed with such deadly traps,
You would wonder why its Author made it so;
You never are sure and ever live on borrowed time
For its turns may any time deal you a terminal blow.
......
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Categories:
bootless, life,
Form:
Verse
A Small Lament
...Please...do not look away…
I am more than what you see…
I have no claims or expectations.
I am more than innocence fleeing..
more than flesh and blood, but soul as well.
I am free of sel......
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Categories:
bootless, emotions, identity, introspection, lost,
Form:
Free verse
A Poet To His Beloved
...All the praises you pick along the streets
Go confirm before a new-bought mirror,
And if those rare glories you all find true
Then know she’s near that beauty shearer.
Who’s time, the unerring ......
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Categories:
bootless, love,
Form:
Verse
The Innocent Mafioso!
...With a spine of steel
I walked down the lane,
The mortals lacked the pluck
to cross me in disdain!
To the trader i quizzed,
Buddy, 'Hows Business?'
Mum was the trader
With his lungs in distr......
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Categories:
bootless, cowboy-western, me, me,
Form:
Ballad
Temporal Dilettante Journalist
...Temporal Dilettante Journalist
David J Walker
no-thing need not name the nameless
breaks the morning in disguise
shakes the shame and wakes the shameless
quench tormented turbid eyes
the......
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Categories:
bootless, allegory, lost,
Form:
Rhyme
George Gordon, Lord Byron's Unlikely Lament
...I longed for a love pure like driven snow,
untouched and vestal in the spring years to come;
the years came, and were gone until my woe
over love now lost filled my present autumn.
Vi......
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Categories:
bootless, desire, flower, girl, innocence,
Form:
Sonnet
Silhouette of Life
...A misty path all through ahead
Quite uncommon, quiet was the way
Moonshine, the guide to his dark forlorn destiny
Marionette played by an unseen unknown.
Enigmatic enjambment, enmeshed he was
Le......
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Categories:
bootless, life
Form:
Narrative
Mental Captive
...it hangs on your wall.
a faded black n white wooden photograph
probably taken some time back in the 80s.
It's one of those bootless thingies a new home owner would cast away, barely even noticin......
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Categories:
bootless, allegory, dark, depression, lonely,
Form:
Ekphrasis
''George Gordon, Lord Byron's Improbable Lament,'' Rescripted
...
I longed for a love pure as driven snow
and fresh as spring 'ere Youth's brief joys succumb;
but a love never transpired; and, although
denied, I carried on to life's autumn.
......
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Categories:
bootless, desire, heartbreak, longing, love,
Form:
Sonnet