Best Deems Poems
Natural Born Dreamers
..."Still Born"
Shh!! Mommy, quiet, quiet she is still sleeping
Shh!! Mommy, quiet, quiet she is off dreaming
Shh!! Mommy, before you wake her: “My baby sister!”
Now look what you have done, you......
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Categories:
deems, baby, death, loss, me,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Poetic Theme
...So, what is the best theme for
a poem? No guarded secret, all themes --
Freely to Roam! And what, the prescribed
destination or direction? Wherever the poet,
himself, deems worthy of fond or......
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Categories:
deems, perspective, philosophy, poetry, poets,
Form:
Free verse
Inner Lost Child
...We wander all, in feral dreams
of jagged thoughts and cryptic yearns;
a labyrinth of mirrored turns.
Along a ridge of moon stitched seams,
lie melancholic tapestries,
unfolded in an abstract......
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Categories:
deems, childhood, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
Echo
...Her neighbors claim her as their fairy,
And gather around to protect
This little wood nymph of their forest
Who so needs their love and respect.
They don't know how she came to their woodland.
It se......
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Categories:
deems, evil, i love you,
Form:
Rhyme
The Sun Rises- -The Moon Sets
...These were set in motion from the beginning of time.
Heavens abound in each of their glory, power sublime.
Every excursion that they set upon revolves in rhyme.
Solar orb that secures life upon ......
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Categories:
deems, life, nature, passion, people,
Form:
Acrostic
Dreaming of Legos Monotetra
...Using Jared Picketts form Monotetra
Dreamt I was a giant last night
running t......
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Categories:
deems, fantasy, hope, loss, time,
Form:
Free verse
Altered State
...Towers collapsed to foundations,
The planes exploded in air,
To gratify firebrand preachers
Destruction and death everywhere.
Bus became coffin on byway,
Train torn up beneath ground,
F......
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Categories:
deems, death, history, life, social,
Form:
Verse
The God Complex
...
“The God Complex”
His face imprinted
hidden under layers of ink
he whispers his words
like a haunting breeze
dust blown off the pages
tow......
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Categories:
deems, god, i am, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Ignorant Time
...IGNORANT TIME
I went up before a judge because it is a crime
to be at all ignorant in this place and time.
I was living evidence and the judge he saw this too
so I awaited his decision ......
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Categories:
deems, education, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
Caterpillars Become Butterflies
...They said that she was ugly, fat, and shy.
She went her way to shameful words and sneers.
Ignored or worse by those who passed her by,
She'd weep the dew each night with all her tears.
The cate......
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Categories:
deems, butterfly,
Form:
Sonnet
Abstracts Are Never Absolute
...He deems the ways and dares to understand,
a measure of a love that went astray,
from libelled forces, which compelled his hand,
to lies, and morals left to slow decay.
No one forgo or risk......
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Categories:
deems, abortion, anxiety, lost love,
Form:
Sonnet
My Persona's Adventurous Quests
...Feeling like a particle of dust in the expanse of existence
I keep trying to find myself
Hoping, when I would do so,
That I would find the anchor that I need
To feel at home while being myself!
......
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Categories:
deems, identity, image, people, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Missing Tom
...My cherished tomcat went missing
I sat at home in floods of tears
He’d been my devoted companion
I’d had him for so many long years
So I put up some missing cat posters
Around the ......
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Categories:
deems, cat, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Down the Road
...I looked at her across the years
her graying tresses, winnowed tears
and there amidst, my own dread fears
that life might find her lacking -
her one true love
long du......
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Categories:
deems, age, fate, heart, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Ping Pong Parp
...If you hear the sound of rat-tat-a-tat
It's not a woodpecker or a chattering cat
Tis George F. Latulence an aristocrat
Playing ping pong with his gold crested bat.
A competitor and show-off he ......
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Categories:
deems, games,
Form:
Rhyme