Best Dry As A Bone Poems
Below are the all-time best Dry As A Bone poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dry as a bone poems written by PoetrySoup members
Dry As A Bone
Imagine an oil stroke on a virgin canvass
an image coaxed out by a velvet hand
pas de deux artist and brush
here comes the wind
and...
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Categories:
dry as a bone, analogy, emotions, poets,
Form:
Free verse
Serendipity of SoulsRevealed in that ancient place
where roses become stone and lips dry as dead bone,
the ruins of love my home, hopeless heart shown damp as sorrow...
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Categories:
dry as a bone, courage, devotion, encouraging, faith,
Form:
Epic
Rabid BelieversThe track marks are exposed, so you’ll have to look twice without getting caught. Your mind starts to wonder what it is he’s been shot...
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Categories:
dry as a bone, art, blue, culture,
Form:
Ballad
Happy HeatHappy Heat
I had no Huck Finn
sort of existence except
for summertimes
at the lake.
Walking the state road,
tar melting like licorice
as I worked it with my...
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Categories:
dry as a bone, childhood, me,
Form:
Free verse
The River and the FishermanAn alabaster jar
Amongst the discard
Embedded in the mud.
The fisherman
Well trained in the ancient art of picary
Catches a halibut
In the morn
It is the noon. The...
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Categories:
dry as a bone, allegory, analogy, art, fishing,
Form:
Rhyme
Repeter Depuis Le DebutRépéter Depuis le Début
The Pink Studio, by Henri Matisse, 1911.
Perception fuses like melted rose quartz,
fuses on the lens of Matisse’s puzzled eyes
like the naiveté...
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Categories:
dry as a bone, art, marriage,
Form:
Free verse
Alone In a Crowded RoomSitting absolutely alone
In a round room of riled people
My brain feeling dry as a bone
Staring at a silent steeple
They’re sleeping upon a hill there
In a...
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Categories:
dry as a bone, life, social,
Form:
Quatrain
The Fall of a Great EmpireOh! A mighty empire that was built
Beneath thé shield of the sun,
Thé empire that glows of victory,
Home of great mortals that dined with glory.
Oh!...
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Categories:
dry as a bone, imagery, pride, war,
Form:
Epic
Seed of BirthMoments to Reflect
Seed of Birth
After a summer shower I watch the wonders unfold Gods truth is being shown. His love for all shall be known...
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Categories:
dry as a bone, inspirational, life, father, son,
Form:
Prose
BelieveA beautiful mind, one of a kind
Kept alone, river of love as dry as a bone
Hidden from society, protected from it's immoral notoriety
With no purposed...
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Categories:
dry as a bone, desire, emotions, feelings, heart,
Form:
Rhyme
Devonshire Tea Fur Fower
Devonshire tea with Peter an' Beryl, beware,
it's no the fact that Peter disnae care.
But 88 years doon the track o' life,
an' 84 years fur Beryl,...
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Categories:
dry as a bone, natural disasters, me,
Form:
Quatrain
The Black CrossI SPOT a lofty black cross
Standing conceitedly on a rock-strewn mount,
Where nothing akin to a tree can be seen,
Murky clouds hovering over it,
It is on...
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Categories:
dry as a bone, loveme, me,
Form:
Free verse
Goodbye To HomeSand in my lungs and in every nook and cranny possible, nothing out here not even a simple bush or tree. Everything is dead and...
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Categories:
dry as a bone, art, me, woman, old,
Form:
Epic
An Ode To the MoonAn Ode to the Moon
By Elton Camp
Oh lovely moon so shiny and bright
Many lovers you will inspire tonight
They gaze at you, get filled with desire
When...
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Categories:
dry as a bone, funny, moon,
Form:
Rhyme
SaltI hate salt for the sake of my cake
That is sodium-rich by the baker's mistake
And the syrup I poured
That I never ignored
Is more salty still
Then...
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Categories:
dry as a bone, humor,
Form:
Rhyme