Best Drainage Poems
Below are the all-time best Drainage poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of drainage poems written by PoetrySoup members
Down a DrainageThe drizzle whips mildly like an omen
Along the ashen lane ; and I am troubled
While gazing through a drainage
Filled with mud and waylaid boughs,
As...
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Categories:
drainage, 3rd grade, pain, pets,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
As For Me I BelieveIt is the winter of 1980.
I’m twenty-eight years young,
Driving a red Mustang with glass T-tops,
Feeling all of my awesome sassiness, from toe
To Afro, when...
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Categories:
drainage, adventure, angel, blessing, christian,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Ode To a GargoyleI pass you several times a week
down at the Cheapside junction
your name defines the job you do
but you perform no function.
No drainage from the upper...
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Categories:
drainage, friend,
Form:
Rhyme
Song of a RaindropI am a rain drop flopped down from the clouds
I could have landed in a river or the sea
Then merging with the rising and receding...
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Categories:
drainage, blessing, growing up, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
Dilly-Dally of DandelionsThe base word “dally,” from old French used to mean to chat idly.
dilly-dally of dandelions - seeds on fire, blown
downward. ...
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Categories:
drainage, angst,
Form:
Free verse
Flint RiverGround seepage
A small start mere drainage
Grows to a mighty river rushing
Flowing some three-hundred-fourty-four miles a rushing
From Atlanta to the Gulf beauty accenting
Through ragged Spewell Bluff...
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Categories:
drainage, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Around TuitI've been told that I have a chronic case of procrastination,
But I simply pace myself giving things careful consideration!
Ain't no use rushing into things that...
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Categories:
drainage, funny
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
drainage, angst, body, confusion, dark,
Form:
Free verse
Fits the Need
"Fits the Need"
All people want
is a stable house
a place to call their "safe" home
to "LIVE"
outside of all cages -
free
live life
how "we"
were...
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Categories:
drainage, future, humanity, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
RiverRIVER
Running down from - high levels,
Flowing softly and rhythmically,
Carrying water to the plants and trees,
Streaming with fish - food for needy,
Permitting birds to build homes...
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Categories:
drainage, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Gravitational Whims ( "Write the truest sentence you know." - F. Scott Fitzgerald )
Variant plurals suffering suffixation's whims;
fly-tomatoes and the valley boo-mouse,
when the sheep...
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Categories:
drainage, humor,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Dumped BabyOne day, one of our daily papers carried a story about a teenage girl who
dumped a baby;after carrying the baby for nine months in...
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Categories:
drainage, education, grief,
Form:
Narrative
Life Stages of a RiverRain falls on granite.
Glaciers unwind.
Snowflakes decrystallize.
A murmuring stream collects,
in the confluence of the melt.
A river is born.
Her banks expand.
Nutrients collect in the torrent.
Rocks tumble in...
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Categories:
drainage, liferiver,
Form:
Personification
The Hardware ManI walked into the hardware store,
A place I’d never been before,
And knew that I would surely find
Exactly what I’d had in mind.
The narrow aisles were...
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Categories:
drainage, people,
Form:
Rhyme
Homeless EmptinessForced into grumbling stomach and head throb
It is dark cold emptiness all around
first laid off and then dissmissed from the job
It is a blight on...
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Categories:
drainage, dark, dream, grave, home,
Form:
Verse