Best Callow Poems
Flight To Midnight...O albatross guide my loosed soul
from the shipwreck seized by sandy shoal
persuasive Polar Star in quiet pull
a sailor’s tired eyes gone dark
I will dream while we fly
on wings that span......
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Categories:
callow, angel, beauty, death, forgiveness,
Form:
Verse
Memories In the Sand...If ever a moment in real life deserved a romantic, melancholy
backing track, it would have been that one ... we'd spent the
entire afternoon at Ferry Beach, sunning and playing frisbee, I
play......
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Categories:
callow, memory, missing you, passion,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
To War, From Youth...oh youth in all its callow shades
is from our hope, precisely made
yet giv'n to stain the bib of war
a bleed each mother answers for.
the whee......
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Categories:
callow, war,
Form:
Epic
Our Love As Memories...* This for is called Acrostic, but this particular one forms a phrase on BOTH ends - I hope you enjoy it! *
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Yesterdays, never tell me where they run to
O...
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Categories:
callow, analogy, metaphor, nostalgia, romance,
Form:
Acrostic
No More Soup For Me...I sought a place to post my poems and thought I'd found a fit for me.
At first I was thrilled and felt I belonged to a pleasant community
But I lost my taste for soup and then came to the sour real......
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Categories:
callow, me,
Form:
Elegy
Stem of Thorns...
~ Her love abloom fell blinded in the bliss
of one thought gentle in its callow prime,
and if she felt one inkling of amiss,
a thwarted tempest may have been in time.
As love became a storm ......
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Categories:
callow, innocence,
Form:
Sonnet
Double J - Just Jetsam...Marred and minced remnants pile high in a storm’s swarm
Yesterdays, hardened-soft, surface where sea’s warm…
Flotsam found, lays tales around, in frayed traces
Another shattered shell whimpers o......
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Categories:
callow, allusion,
Form:
Masnavi
Baby Brave...A boy lines up plastic soldiers
In straight rows across his floor.
He knocks them down with callow ease
In a naive game of war.
Far across the deepest ocean,
In between rich, well-known place......
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Categories:
callow, fear, life, war,
Form:
Quatrain
The Tempest...The Tempest
Upon enchanted sands of shipbreached shores
Dethroned beggar of a borrowed callow mystery
Heaves a lightning staff into the waves -
Thunderous and raw clandestine secrecy
On lumino......
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Categories:
callow, life, ocean, peace, storm,
Form:
Free verse
Opaque...I lived ... once
I loved and laughed and ached from my marrow
I spoke my soul, and spun my mind to my innervation and impulse
Swam up spirits to the source of their dreams and passions
......
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Categories:
callow, analogy, introspection, metaphor, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Love Spiral...Oh haste, brumal mists, that twilight kisses
on hollyhocks, meadow-born,
Sweet tears resurrected on petals neglected,
collect 'midst the early morn.
The dew-ch......
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Categories:
callow, appreciation, insect, magic, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Scented Leaves...Crisp ...
You lay like solemn ashes
'Neath glass ... spotless, sacred
Dried to bright hues ...
The shades of her lips in chill autumn air
(Winter, whisp'ring soft)
Edges crimped ...
Like the h......
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Categories:
callow, imagery, lost love, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Overjoyed-Originally Del Valle...If vain thy earthly hopes did prove, thou canst not mourn their flight; Thy brightest hopes were fixed above. And they shall know no blight—Anne Bronte
Overjoyed
An am......
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Categories:
callow, baby, birth, daughter,
Form:
Rhyme
Hiraeth of a Modern Celt...Upon the green hills of Cymru
I stand arrested by the veiw
of cryptic sea and ancient shore
that stood ten thousand years before
they met my callow eye
and will remain for many more
long after......
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Categories:
callow, adventure, family, history, inspirational,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
jemaa el-fnaa - morocco -...
hold still, eventide ...
I am a capricious cad among wraiths,
waltzing with a mop in
a Marrakesh courtyard - catching stars
as they drip with waxy and
wild wonde......
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Categories:
callow, adventure, appreciation, celebration, travel,
Form:
Imagism