Best Girdling Poems
Below are the all-time best Girdling poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of girdling poems written by PoetrySoup members
One Brief MomentLook...See how long nights are drawing in.
Dreary birdsong gradually abates -
Opaque dusk grows dim;
And just outside the creaky little garden
Gate,
Stood opposite the empty wood
Where the...
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Categories:
girdling, imagery, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
And Still I Drive - Part OneStars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
And sadly...i start to drive.
Through the unremarkable village with its tall
Georgian Bay window panes, lightless,
devoid of visages; outwardly...
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Categories:
girdling, heartbreak, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Oh Baneful Yellow MoonOh baneful yellow Moon in fullest rounded sphere,
Bright as Summers Buttercups in abundant yield,
Coldly riveted upon Winters beaten, thin silvered panels;
Thereof: By ye mighty hammer...
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Categories:
girdling, moon,
Form:
Rhyme
Feathers In TransitWhile
plumes
flutter
in rhythm,
swans twirl a ballet
girdling through agile quills aflight
and pivot in choreography of glazed moondance
till wings leave at finale's point when icy...
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Categories:
girdling, bird, seasons,
Form:
Fibonacci
Martha, the MatronFor Martha a girl of thirteen
Dreams were not umpteen
She saw a nurse walk briskly
“Wish I were her’ she thought frankly
Having set this goal in...
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Categories:
girdling, dedication, education, children, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme Royal
Thin Skin of LifeThis world we inhabit, a giver of life
That on the surface is so rife,
Akin to a tree’s cross-section,
A thin cambium bound by natural selection.
The...
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Categories:
girdling, animal, earth, environment, nature,
Form:
Couplet
The Root, the Tree and the BranchThe path progresses in a linear manner
like a fallen tree trunk
branching occasionally.
Perpendicular cousins gauntlet
the peripheral borders.
Winter’s extreme nudity
revealing an earthly crust,
a spine of granite;
a...
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Categories:
girdling, adventure, allegory, faith, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Nostalgic FlashNear the horizon the blue hills cascaded in waves,
Over the emerald slopes of rhythmic undulations
Surrounding the hamlet where my home was once.
The flotilla of ivory...
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Categories:
girdling, childhood, memory, nostalgia,
Form:
Acrostic
SlumdogA dime for a lie, a lie for what is his; his father endows him, a bouquet of lies. It carries no promises nor paradise...
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Categories:
girdling, abuse, anxiety,
Form:
Haibun
Search of a Drift WoodSEARCH OF A DRIFT WOOD
The blue hills rolled down the verdant slopes in rhythmic dance
in the cradle of the humming hamlet where my home was...
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Categories:
girdling, analogy, home, remember,
Form:
Rhyme
Life's WalkwayThe quick sands collapse within abyss
invited by airless darkness
where marshy reeds slither,
escape routes entangled
as hazard paves life’s walkway
for the destiny to saunter.
Weary steps uncalculated falter
wobbly...
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Categories:
girdling, analogy, destiny, life, peace,
Form:
Free verse
The Atlantic's GazeI see colours
far from day
visible to sight
never fading away
I see colours
painting sad nights
revealing to shine
of today's fight
I see colours
save dark nightmares
no dreams cut
crown our...
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Categories:
girdling, absence, adventure, angel, city,
Form:
Quatrain
Obsession of Drift WoodThe blue hills rolled down the verdant slopes
in rhythmic swings on tinged topography
cradling the charm of the humming hamlet
that lodged once...
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Categories:
girdling, analogy, fantasy, youth,
Form:
Free verse
DriftwoodThe blue hills rolled down embracing
the verdant slopes in rhythmic dance,
to the cradle of the humming hamlet
where my childhood home was once....
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Categories:
girdling, childhood, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme