Best Geyser Poems

No, not a geyser,
Not a woman,
Old faithful sits
Patiently in my kitchen,
Awaiting my need for her

Old faithful is an organ,
Rich velvety tones
Growls when I ask her
Or...

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I was in the hospital at only five, 
the medicine gave me a big hive. 
Sunday school taught us to be alive, 
my spirit soared...

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"
I have memories of this place.
I made friends.
I made enemies.
I lived within the walls of this block.
In the corridor.
In the bathroom.

When I leave, I'll leave...

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Hark and listen well, if those foretoken in the eyes of hungers lust
Trapped in their illusion, trampling the Stars into dust
Forced with the detestation stench...

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My head feels like it has a lava lamp inside
The skull has a long crack going across the front

I think it’s time to rotate the...

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by Rachel Dunkerque AKA Carolyn V. Crawford
(lyric and melody)

You yearn to hear me whisper, your name against your chest
Taste my lips in the kiss of...

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I Leaped
     By Dane Smith-Johnsen

Saw my life indisputably clinging to a past night. 
Saw my hopes fall downward, as my heart...

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Who suggests a trip back...rides to this bit of nostalgia in the middle years of the Great Depression aboard a Chicago elevated train, "the El."...

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Something sublime about you
I cannot shake it from my mind
Something that never came to view
Life is short and dreamers blind

Time lapsed into a itch of...

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Nature is beautiful, quiet, and serene,
nature is the forest, with its many shades of green.
Nature is the birds, welcoming in the dawn,
nature is a calf,...

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The stretched moments and the yawns I swallow are bitter 
Mr. Boss keeps rolling his eyes 

Sleep is camping behind my eyelids and I hopelessly...

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Her tears run down her face as she backs away.
The cold, hated anchor of betrayal drags you beneath. 
The harsh, razor covered kiss, runs down...

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Mom, Grandma, Nancy, Stephen, June
Laughing, talking, cooking past noon

Clean, fresh vanilla candle smell
Messy house means all is well

Christopher, David, Penny, Jan
My dog Short Stack; my...

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Nature Park 
In Yellowstone, a man fell into a spring
A geyser brought him up again alas by that time he was cooked 
And crows came...

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I inhale
Your Intoxicating fragrance
Pheromones entice
Lingering passion
Sun and sky sweet
I am delirious
Dancing in your
Wakening melodies
Bouquet of pearly-white peaks

I Awake
In your quicksand soil
Scattering seeds
Delicate sea legs
Wobbly wooden...

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