Best Breather Poems
The Perfect Painting...I could not refrain from asking what it was that made her sigh
When each picture that she started she took down. I wondered why.
The young lady was forthcoming; said her thoughts were fresh and bri......
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Categories:
breather, art, beauty,
Form:
Rhyme
Part One, From That Dark, Dark Abyss, the Long Black Curtain Rises...From That Dark, Dark Abyss, The Long Black Curtain Rises
Third poet in my poet dedication series
Part One:
Curtain rises and we see as Raven's prisoner, old Master Poe
chained to his cell, ......
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Categories:
breather, appreciation, art, dark, literature,
Form:
Rhyme
My Shadow Muse...The fast beat of Lindsey Stirling’s track - ‘Shadows’ - aptly describes what all poets would be familiar with.
Sit back and prepare yourself for a fast trip down poetry lane to the beat of L......
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Categories:
breather, creation, humorous, me, muse,
Form:
Rhyme
Hashtagmetoo- Yes, Me Too...hashtagmetoo- yes me too
I see it in nightmares-
paralyzed with fear did I do something
wrong? will anyone believe me?
I knew something was very wrong
inside me cause
......
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Categories:
breather, abuse, child,
Form:
Free verse
The Great British Pancake Day Toss Off - Warning Contains Innuendo...Today it’s Pancake Day and there’s to be a pancake race
Entrants are on the starting line with a smile upon their face
Old Ted ‘s ready with his frying pan, he is a fat old josser
bu......
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Categories:
breather, food, humorous, race,
Form:
Couplet
As the Crow Flies...As The Crow Flies
Staring past the curtain,
At the vigilant crow upon the mast,
The creature unaware of a presence,
In a moment forever lost.
Unflappable in its endeavour,
A breather from i......
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Categories:
breather, bird, dark, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
Thinking about Nevermind!...
Thinking about Nevermind!
Skinny dipping soaked in bleach, albino by design
Eyes burning, -Something in the way- future gives a sign
No pacifier needed, when remuneration’s on the line
Keep......
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Categories:
breather, age, music, perspective,
Form:
Ekphrasis
In the Beginning...How did it all start
Was there really a 'Big Bang'
Or is that just code for
ex nihilo* we sprang
What if there's really a Creator
Who fashioned the world
then Adam and Eve
If H......
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Categories:
breather, birth, confusion, world,
Form:
Rhyme
For Grandmomma Pt 2...Con't from Pt 1
At two years old your motherly instincts took me away./ What could my "mother" say,/ she
was married to a man who had a violent hand./ I was too young to understand./ But being
......
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Categories:
breather, death, loss, love, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Atmospheric Pressure...Welcome to this club called "Earth"
Your wait will no doubt fill its worth
If you're a breather, have no fear
Your going to like the atmosphere
Mind not the pain behind your eyes
I......
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Categories:
breather, fun, metaphor, weather,
Form:
Rhyme
Re-Construction...I've been through so much destruction
perhaps all I need is some re-construction
a moment to think and re-build what had fallen apart
to slow down and take a much needed breather
for a moment I c......
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Categories:
breather, life, love
Form:
Free verse
Life In An Aquarium...My life in an aquarium, so great,
But fearsome, with unknown fate.
Swimming against the fresh water,
Flapping my gills for a breather,
The air pump producing bubbles,
Se......
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Categories:
breather, fish, fishing,
Form:
Rhyme
Bawdy - the Great British Pancake Day Toss Off Lol...Today is Pancake Day and there’s to be a pancake race
folk are on the starting line with a smile upon their face
Ted is ready with his frying pan, he is a fat old josser
but when it comes to pan......
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Categories:
breather, food, humorous,
Form:
Couplet
Element Wind...She wonders where to go, clueless in her ceramic cage,
with octaves oceanic (there's an oaf in my ocarina)
But Oh! Her delight when her Breather goes soprano
a whippoorwill trying her w......
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Categories:
breather, adventure, allusion, bereavement, change,
Form:
Alliteration
Why If Its Not...Why, do we call it
Something it’s not
If we’re going to name things
Let’s give it, some thought
If it’s called a chilli
Then why is it so hot
And I can say this
A guinea pig, is not
A pra......
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Categories:
breather, humorous, nature,
Form:
Narrative