Best Casks Poems
Garden Fresh
...Crisp end of winter morning,
my shovel digs the soil,
turning over weeds and worms,
and watch them twist and coil …
hoe the dirt once more again,
until a soft and silky bed,
then plant seeds, w......
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Categories:
casks, garden,
Form:
Rhyme
Fo'C's'Le - a Dream
...fo'c·'sle /'fohksel/ noun deriv: forecastle
1. the forward part of a ship below the deck, traditionally used as the crew's living quarters.
2. historical: a raised deck at the f......
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Categories:
casks, boat, endurance, history, native
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
A Prayer
...My prayers I offer, Lord
They are like incenses brimming heavenly casks
Might is in your words
Aided, I rivers ford
Gratify us children as we ask
A long diseased child
A mother's arms release......
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Categories:
casks, faith,
Form:
Love's Fruit
...Among your orchard grooves lemon green grew
At first the dream-like pear-shape eyes
Until i parted and stared closely
Into your cherries iris pupils
That aim the Cupid's arrow,
Piercing through my ......
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Categories:
casks, happiness, love,
Form:
Blank verse
I Fear People
...I fear people
People who are wearing colorful masks
Hiding poisoned daggers in their casks
I'm afraid of people
Whom over their head
Carry the banner of benediction
Then again at nigh......
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Categories:
casks, abuse, loneliness, society, violence,
Form:
Free verse
The Barrel Angels
...Some carry swords
All praise the Lord
Warriors, messengers,
Ministers all
Others are tasked
With opening casks
And dipping out
Glorious new wine
They splash and toss
But not a drop is lo......
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Categories:
casks, angel, bible, wine,
Form:
Fo'C's'Le Ashes
...Ashes collected into the collated casks and
Corked with animus, Moon Girl pounded on.
Drumming a dirge on the tanner's own flesh.
Pounding the seed of echoing hope.
......
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Categories:
casks, sea,
Form:
Free verse
I Was Listening To Levertov Read
...i was listening to Levertov read
one of her poems
and as she spoke my mind drifted
her words were of those moments
when manunkind sinks its' teeth
into the bowels of the earth
rapes untold but ......
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Categories:
casks, poets,
Form:
Free verse
It's All In a Name
...This is a poem about surnames,
Surnames we could hear any day.
How their name was derived
From how they survived,
Their occupation will give them away.
ARCHER is the first one,
Shooting his a......
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Categories:
casks, career, character, destiny, fun,
Form:
Rhyme
Wine In the Val D'Aosta
...Steep slate slopes glow in autumn gold
Below jagged white aretes.
Strong young men hunt among the crags
Pursuing choice chamois and deer.
Valley maids harvest purple grapes.
Laughing children......
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Categories:
casks, age, children, emotions, food,
Form:
Free verse
This Tipped
...Wood,
she gazed across to their titanium towers
from her granite perch across the wide
fair and wandering
what's
written for her;
and her ladder rungless,
jake's steps swallowed up,
feath......
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Categories:
casks, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Camera Land
...CAMERA LAND
We are all celebrities in camera land! In hoods and hard hats, behind the wheel or borrowing “Click”
Beneath the scaffolding. Picking up dog ends in the p......
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Categories:
casks, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Her image in her eyes: Request for True Identity
...Her image in her eyes: Request for True Identity.
She couldn't write about her mother-
Her young womb a cradle
for a different form,
Was her brothers'
Memorial wall.
When she was born,
no ......
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Categories:
casks, angst, brother, daughter, environment,
Form:
Free verse
Thank You
...Thank you dear poets
for being always here
for the things you write
and the things you share
our words that define
our words are refined
we are the ageing casks
yet we wear a million masks
......
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Categories:
casks, beauty, celebration, encouraging, how
Form:
Free verse
The Passionate Pirate
...“In the days of pirating
Much pirating was done
Some for gold and riches
Some for glamour, some for fun
But nothing fills a pirate’s head
With such tremendous joy
As when he’s got a lass in Bl......
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Categories:
casks, lust, sea,
Form:
Lyric