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Best Cushion Poems

Below are the all-time best Cushion poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of cushion poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member A Kept Woman
Dream-worker 
delves deeply into my dream;

vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed 
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...

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Categories: cushion, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form: Free verse



I Dream of You (To Jew)
What shall I see when I see a picture of you 
Frame against rainbow of eternity?
I dream of you ... upon the canvas of my...

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Categories: cushion, imagination, lovenight, sweet, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Covid-19 Haunting Fear
Silence is deafening
Like a dungeon dark hallway.
Door after close door of bounding
Moans and groans, and painful
Yelling gasping for air.
I sit in this cold
Dark cell shivering...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cushion, emotions, heartbreak, sick,
Form: Free verse
Wall Street
Set upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth....

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Categories: cushion, political, slam, social, war,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Funeral Footles
Deceased
Released

Goodbye
I cry

Church pew
Hurts you

My bum
Now numb

No droppin*
The coffin!

4th March 2015
Written before dad’s funeral - I'll take my cushion to sit on lol
* not proper footle...

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Categories: cushion, funeral, humor, sad,
Form: Footle



Premium Member Little Things
In novels, love is the obstacle overturned by the ardent swain
In song, love is a grandiose solo in melodic chains
In poetry, love is fervent rhyme...

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Categories: cushion, caregiving, husband, pain, sick,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member My Most Embarrassing Moment
A trip to a very large
and far away hospital. 
I was visiting a sick member
from church, there belittled

For a wet place I felt on my...

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Categories: cushion, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Let Me Go Osteoarthritis
Many days I am as frisky as dandelions of the diaspora
With mine liberated wings in the pristine skies I fly… fly… 
Other days it is...

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Categories: cushion, emotions, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member One Second Delay
Hesitation
Just a moments delay
Lives change forever
Trajectory altered 
Heading to the unknown
Why? Why?
I so liked my routine
The unchanging gives me security
Makes me feel safe
I like to...

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Categories: cushion, introspection, me, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pearl of Merry
Between the trees tall figures

Sisters hidden by perfect mirrors

Behind shivering trees pale and drawn

Shadows snicker at glories dawn



Fairies draw near flickering sheer petal wings

By quivering...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cushion, fairy, magic, muse, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Come Rain
Come rain, come; let the swallows fly
Let womb of swollen seeds travail
Let the prison wall of dust now die
Come rain, come in water, sleet, and...

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Categories: cushion, faith, nature
Form: Rhyme
A Winter Treasure
beneath skies of topaz

flawless

 infinite     in     depth     and     clarity
...

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Categories: cushion, happiness, love, nostalgiawords,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ma's Little Imp
Tussled hair, bruised knees, toothless, lop-sided grin;
Ma is so thankful her dear little imp wasn't born a twin!
She likes things running smoothly, like a finely-tuned...

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Categories: cushion, childhood, little sister,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Knowers Are the Star Gazers
The knowers are the star gazers
Who sit on the corner of the crescent moon
Wildly, wildly
With sparkling eyes

My notions are lacking substance
Lacking grace
Lacking innuendo
Separately I traverse
The...

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© Bill Yates  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cushion, stars,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ice Rain
a walk in ice rain
                    ...

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Categories: cushion, nature
Form: Haiku

Book: Reflection on the Important Things