Best Dislodging Poems
Resurrection
...(Chorus)
You think you've got swagger but really you hobble,
you've got the jet lagger and you're drunk so you wobble,
don't start on me mate 'cus I will bring trouble,
to put it into slang words......
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Categories:
dislodging, hip hop, humorous, power,
Form:
Rhyme
Irretrievable
...I stroll a silvered landscape
where trees are silhouetted spears,
stabbing memories of days first walked with you . . .
ice traceries, firey strands of longing lace,
wrap the crumbling dream,
li......
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Categories:
dislodging, betrayal, desire, loss, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Twas the Night Before the Wedding
...Twas the night before my cousin's
wedding
He reluctantly gave in to the
bachelor party vetting
A burlesque, tawdry strip club was
the setting
Unbeknownst to him, the bridesmaid
was his app......
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Categories:
dislodging, funnynight, night,
Form:
Rhyme
Just Show Up
...Basic Attendance,
listening deeply to the sounds
and functions
flows and forms of nature's voices,
human nature's moving choices
evolve from panentheistic roots
toward win/win co-empathic,
vul......
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Categories:
dislodging, culture, leadership, peace, philosophy,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Collateral Damage
...Cajole me in the right frame of mind
For I'm vexed not because of
Personal issues but because of the
Morbid, abstract canvas of life
I'm subjected to witness, where
Groups of so-called righteou......
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Categories:
dislodging, children, innocence, political, war,
Form:
Prose
I Caught Him High
...I caught him high, but I was high
as we passed each other with mutual dread
he caught me high, but he was high
smoked some of his s--- and thought I would die
then he looked at me as if I were ......
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Categories:
dislodging, family, father son, mother,
Form:
Villanelle
The Night I Grew Up
...Dad, I remember well the night I grew up.
I know you remember that night too...
I know you never forgot this happening:
It was 1966, an early Fall night, around 10:30 when you called the p......
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Categories:
dislodging, 9th grade, brother, confusion,
Form:
Bio
Broken Glasses
...The sun dappled patio
irresistibly beckoned
pillowed pad to bedeck
cement spongsbob
square pant sized couch cushions
leapt into field of view
as a posse abl......
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Categories:
dislodging, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers I
...Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers I
I translated the first six Native American poems for my father when he chose to enter hospice and end his life by not taking dialysis …
Cherokee Travele......
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Categories:
dislodging, father, father daughter, father
Form:
Rhyme
Fragrantly Suited
... mutton chop whiskers
grandpa puffs cherrywood pipe
dislodging smoke rings
6/22/2019
MagiCicada 13 or 17 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Maureen McGreavy
Syllables: 5/7/5......
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Categories:
dislodging, grandfather, imagery,
Form:
Haiku
Poems About Children Iv
...Poems about Children IV
Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch
Dedicated to the memory of my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first......
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Categories:
dislodging, child, childhood, children, dad,
Form:
Rhyme
Salat Days
...Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch
(dedicated to my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch Sr.)
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the fro......
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Categories:
dislodging, age, america, appreciation, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Perceptive Consciousness
...If the anchorage of the wayward mind is unsteady
Unbound from the righteous roots of sanctified soul
In the dislodging thrust of the upwelling desires
The untamed instincts rush feral on sordid tr......
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Categories:
dislodging, desire, devotion, god, life,
Form:
Free verse
Enrichment
...Heavens open dreary gray, cool breeze, as silence swears.
Emotion choked, refusing to give in to the tears.
Without a doubt it sees the parched; what if it threatened.
Halted, a......
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Categories:
dislodging, heaven, imagery, rain,
Form:
Rhyme
Screen of Awareness
...The embodiment of the unique existence,
life is the construct of transient elements,
that align in the plethora of perishable patterns
within the mundane entity of the fragile body.
Beneath t......
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Categories:
dislodging, life, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse