Best Gapes Poems
Oh New Year, Burn Bright
...Open like a door before me
Be it sun or rain or stormy
Each new year gapes like yawning chasms, dark
And for all my silly scheming
All my notions and my dreaming
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Categories:
gapes, appreciation, dream, hope, new
Form:
Lyric
Past the Graveyard: Rondeau
...Past the graveyard deep in snow
where icicles from boughs hang low
one woman at a headstone weeps
as memories in warmth she keeps,
all dressed in black like winter crows.
Still muted angels' t......
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Categories:
gapes, death, sad love, winter,
Form:
Rondeau
A Tomb of An Ancient Bloom
...You look at me and see a northeast highway after winter
Cracked, worn, roughened by conditions not meant to be endured.
I was once the most beautiful cobblestone pathway through a garden of ripe, u......
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Categories:
gapes, age, career, change, judgement,
Form:
Free verse
Halloween Fright Night
...It is a black, moonless night; bleak and barren
the desert landscape is alien with twisted cacti shapes.
Elongated shadows fall upon fresh blood kill, with gapes
a cautionary reminder of coyotes,......
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Categories:
gapes, funny, halloween, scary,
Form:
Free verse
Divine Strength
...My divine strength, shield my dismay
Exult holly swiftness
Yield not to dull gloomy betray
Creed gapes at lavishness
Yield the boon, not the bad
Dark source upward forbade
Let ......
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Categories:
gapes, analogy, beauty, confidence, devotion,
Form:
Rhyme
Decayed
...Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. George MacDonald
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Categories:
gapes, analogy, angst, bereavement, care,
Form:
Rubaiyat
The Payload
...
"The Payload"
The payload
came crashing down
like rain expelled
from the fat belly
of a ruinous pregnant cloud
bilious with buxom promise
it came crashing down
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Categories:
gapes, fantasy, muse, mystery, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
The Wind Is Isolde - Part 1
...The warden’s bewildered, the keeper’s amazed
as the gate gapes behind us, a hole in the haze.
Our steps seem uncertain, the cobblestones crazed,
pearly stars burn above us like pinwheels ablaze.
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Categories:
gapes, fantasy, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Skin
...This night, I am trapped behind a face.
My eyes are barred with tears that blur
the look in them I would like so much for you to see.
I try a different face, one that splits into a smile at the ......
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Categories:
gapes, angst, hope, life, satire,
Form:
Free verse
Lost Love Deliria - Part 2
... Part 2
4th Delirium: Lost Souls
Sunken cities , pilgrims peering.. gawking,
squinting eyeballs, blazing sun
Janus facing, shepherds chasing.. stalking,
friends embrace before they shun......
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Categories:
gapes, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
Spring-Loaded
...I once knew this guy. Fred McBride
Whose wishes were sadly denied
He was wed in the spring
But before he could bring
the needs, of his wife, satisfied !
It's a shame that this groom and his br......
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Categories:
gapes, funny, humor,
Form:
Limerick
Nobody's Child
...The scorn of abandonment,
howls of silence
when a room entered,
the school yard clatter
community chatter,
pulpit perniciousness
traduce in speculation.
Housewives with
corrective attitudes
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Categories:
gapes, confusion, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Come Raging Fire
...Come, raging fire, and cleanse from my soul that
“Greatest” of all words … HOPE.
I have seen the detritus of this life and have known
The grandest of songs and still
I am left wanting. A bla......
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Categories:
gapes, introspection
Form:
Free verse
Morning Dew
...Crystalline beetles
down the picket creep
over peeling paint
toward drought seared soil.
Thirsty gapes the maw
of August seasoned Earth
where weary little bugs
are welcomed home.
07/09/15......
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Categories:
gapes, good morning, water,
Form:
Free verse
Chores
...Spin, twirl, they swirl
Mesmerized I sit
And watch colours mix,
match.... hopefully
Here is that sock,
it gapes and screams
silenced by the brief
strangled by failed
shirr
It pur......
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Categories:
gapes, funny, humorous, work,
Form:
Free verse