Best Corkscrews Poems
Below are the all-time best Corkscrews poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of corkscrews poems written by PoetrySoup members
Curlicues and Squiggles~ Curlicues and squiggles ~
A skywriter flew by
He drew a straight line
I looked up with a sigh
What if the...
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Categories:
corkscrews, flying, heart, sky, write,
Form:
Rhyme
Psychosis At TwinsSharp alien quiet accosts our nuclear fallout,
Twin beds and I between them,
Remnants of faces
Laughter, tears,
Exchanges deadline in future tense,
The decimating absence of marriage
To anything whole--
This...
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Categories:
corkscrews, beauty, crazy, fate, violence,
Form:
Narrative
Exotic GreenCrushed mirrors hammers melted nails
spooky silent snails
Feathers in my teeth
The red in your lips
The curl of your hips
Your tongue on fire
Kites in...
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Categories:
corkscrews, sweet love,
Form:
Light Verse
On Life (For Rene Bennett)"Loneliness has never earned a day's pay.
What I've learned, first of all, is that loneliness chooses it's own weapons. ...
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Categories:
corkscrews, angst, depression, life, loneliness,
Form:
Prose Poetry
TreeYggdrasil is a home to hanging bones
As trees to singing birds
Yggdrasil
Beneath its hallowed branches
Thick wands of spring tree flesh
Twirl into the finest corkscrews
Suspended from the...
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Categories:
corkscrews, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Old New Year Blues
It’s time to flip the free calendar,
loosen the rusty Christmas tree stand screws
Battery’s low on the reindeer car,
boost the spirits with some gift used snowshoes
In...
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Categories:
corkscrews, angst, holiday, poverty, truth,
Form:
Quatrain
Leaving LondonLeaving London
A thousand flickered lights
Beat out neon
Fantasies animation
Jerks its pseudo motion
Feet by fifty foot tall
On the south river board walk
Juke box gangsters one-armed bandit
Hang street...
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Categories:
corkscrews, places
Form:
Free verse
FlameSit unflinching in a slumbered pose
each exhaled breath like a moor's mist,
a rhythmic pulse like a metronome
on the thin temples throb
like a snare...
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Categories:
corkscrews, allusion,
Form:
Free verse
BenderCorkscrews in the jugular
and wine sat there in front
of you,
cheese and pickle on the sofa
so far and it's so good.
But then the morning comes
to frisk...
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Categories:
corkscrews, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Springing FlowersThe iced earth encases within hidden depths
a dormant forgotten fossil, enslaving each limb's tendril budding like pebbles locked
in chains forged, contorted by rock and stratified...
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Categories:
corkscrews, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Forged By FireBut with her love, the flame is wrath-furnaced,
dissolves like ice cubes in blazing sunlight.
Then classic symphonies are syncronized
as a phoenix sets its last...
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Categories:
corkscrews, nature,
Form:
Verse
Maxed OutThe blushing beauty doesn’t want to be noticed?
She wears a peacock in her hair...corkscrews,
ringlets, spirals everywhere. Yellow, orange, bluebirds,
hearts exuding happiness. The X’s and O’s
on...
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Categories:
corkscrews, art, beauty, imagery,
Form:
Ekphrasis
ZephyrA hot muggy day sets the stage.
The warm air blows across the dry prairie,
Suffuses with the high cool air of the gulf.
They entertwine to form...
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Categories:
corkscrews, nature,
Form:
Free verse
A New GirlHair like corkscrews,
crazy curly and short,
pulled into two plaits,
begging to be let free.
With her eyes wandering about,
she sprouts a smile on my face,
as she...
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Categories:
corkscrews, friendship, innocence,
Form:
Free verse
THE NEVER CHANGING ROAD
Life is a straight road
Sometimes it bends, corkscrews or whips
But it never waivers from where its eye is leading it
Like a lemming it knows its...
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Categories:
corkscrews, faith, religion,
Form:
Free verse