Best Doff Poems
Once Upon A Time In Milton Creek...The sun was rising high in the east over the town of Milton creek
It was the eighteenth day of December, the start of Christmas week
All the store fronts were decorated; it was a colourful sigh......
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Categories:
doff, america, anniversary, christmas, remember,
Form:
Narrative
Cora's Clothesline...What softness in silence amidst the cacophony of a spin cycle world war.
Lying next to your glow in sleep's stillness, careful of your bandaged hand.
Watching your breath enter and leave, the rise ......
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Categories:
doff, desire, heart, innocence, june,
Form:
Narrative
Milton Creek, Another Chapter...The sun had just risen over town, it was a beautiful morning
And outside Baker's new Bakery, a long queue was forming
The aroma of fresh baking was lingering in the morning air
Words alone can......
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Categories:
doff, america, western,
Form:
Narrative
Death Is Not the Enemy...I have found myself at the threshold of death on several occasions. Each time I managed to
look it in the eye, doff my hat and say, “I’ll catch you up the trail.” This is not to say that I
am som......
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Categories:
doff, death, hope, inspirational, lifelife,
Form:
Quatrain
Flagpole Annie ...My grandma was a steeple jack,
Of heights she had no fear.
The crowds would gather round to watch.
They came from far and near,
To see her swing and pirouette,
Doff her hat and wave.
And ......
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Categories:
doff, grandmother, humor, humorous, jobs,
Form:
Rhyme
Footling Around...Footling Around
Shoes off
Clothes doff
Feet reek
Spray seek
Romance
Last chance......
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Categories:
doff, funny love,
Form:
Footle
Panta Rei,Ouden Menei...We are but fleeting shadows
Upon the face of this earth
So solid,so tangible ,yet so ready
To slip through the hands of life
When we doff our mortal coil
To leave an inert and empty shell
Doom......
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Categories:
doff, meaningful, nonsense, science fiction,
Form:
Free verse
American Angel... For Andrea Dietrich...Andrea is an ambassador of alluring art
Noble, she is nice and nifty both day or night
Dedicated, dutiful and dogged like a dart
Resourceful, she’s got a mind… real and rapt
Experienced, she’s un......
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Categories:
doff, dedication
Form:
Acrostic
The Dramallach Raven...My head hit the pillow and I was asleep,
I fell into a dream that was so deep,
standing on the deck of a fighting ship,
the vessel did rise, then into gulley did tip.
The waves so cruel did ris......
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Categories:
doff, dream, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
The Trails of Sanity...The Trails of Sanity
Why do I care if the disturber carries on
Why is it I cannot just wait it out, bide my time
Be more mindful, try and bond
Embrace what I don’t understand
Welcome the s......
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Categories:
doff, change, character, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
The Secret That Lies Inside...pictures painted on her face,
painted eyes in koal black,
lips in light painted cherry blossom pink,
painted freckles across the nose,
picture painted of beauty,
the earth changes in her eyes,......
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Categories:
doff, god, light, earth, god,
Form:
I Doff My Heart...You are a definition of
timeless love;
an adorable angel sent
from above.
My hands are tied but my
heart is freed
I cannot help myself, I'm in
love indeed.
Deep within flows an
endless ......
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Categories:
doff, love
Form:
Couplet
Ode To Junk Food...I doff my fedora to the feller who invented pertater chips!
That genius developed the ideal thingy in which to immerse our dips!
How could we survive sans our weekly fix of Dominoes pizza pie,
Or ......
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Categories:
doff, food
Form:
Rhyme
Tooth Brush...I didn’t scoff the grub;
for pleasure and sanit I scrub.
To doff trite piece of food
is my calling from the wood
When man meets assorted meat,
I grieve for the chewing treat.
I’m man’......
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Categories:
doff, funny,
Form:
Lyric
Sons of Memory...Sons of Memory (For those among you in the soil)
I render this verse to sons of memory
Who have been trailblazers to the history-
In poetry world and many beyond.
I doff my hat to you in ......
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Categories:
doff, africa, america, death, muse,
Form:
Rhyme