Best Inexpensive Poems
Tapestry of Life, An Elegy...
Tapestry of Life
In the still graveyard overlooking San Francisco Bay.
Her husband's young body doth rot and in profound
silence lay.
Overlooking that city, where ......
Continue reading...
Categories:
inexpensive, bereavement, grave, husband, loss,
Form:
Elegy
Bobcat Moon...She sits on the porch in a cool desert night
A bobcat stalks prey in the day's fading light
The moon looks like a big orange in the blue
Evoking old memories she thought she outgrew
Memories of......
Continue reading...
Categories:
inexpensive, autumn, friendship, loss, moon,
Form:
Rhyme
Will Do Chores...I can do this, I can do that
I can do anything, splicketty-splat.
I'm quite the expert, and certainly quick
Excellent service here, licketty-click.
Your toaster won't roast'er?
Your car ne......
Continue reading...
Categories:
inexpensive, career, funny, humor, hyperbole,
Form:
Rhyme
Sunday Funnies Ii...Deffy Daffinitions (Monoku series)
inflation: the thing that makes balloons bigger and candy bars smaller
irony: when obnoxious online bullies post ......
Continue reading...
Categories:
inexpensive, humor,
Form:
Monoku
A Special Christmas...A special Christmas is sublime
Transcendent in many ways
Like simplicity at teatime
Hiding uncomplicated gifts from gaze
Singing jubilant carols of praise
Christmas tree hunting up......
Continue reading...
Categories:
inexpensive, holiday,
Form:
Quintain (English)
Life Music... Oh, hear the rattle of the rolling train;
yhe clap…clap…clacking rhythm,
beating like a conga drum;
every trip it sings along,
with the tracks repeating song;
such simple, inexpensive......
Continue reading...
Categories:
inexpensive, imagery, life, poems, poetry,
Form:
Sestina
The House Next Door...Some of the neighbors
Complain about the house across from me
It stands apart
From the neat lawns
Wide driveways
And picket fences.
Some say
The people who live there
Inherited the house from thei......
Continue reading...
Categories:
inexpensive, life,
Form:
Narrative
Letters From Home....Bleak heavens overbear this roiling ship
As on a rail, does know its destiny
Quick as truth let loose from cast-off lover’s lips
Parts great tidal mounds and speeds her way
I recollect my prec......
Continue reading...
Categories:
inexpensive, adventure, angst
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Who Will Watch Mother...We sat down at the kitchen table
Under an overhead light
And talked about my mother
My wife understood
I was the oldest, she said
Don’t wait for the others.
So I took care of mother
Paid the......
Continue reading...
Categories:
inexpensive, lifeme, old, me, old,
Form:
Narrative
Bittersweet...Alone
I watch
The house across from me
The people who live there
Keep to themselves
A shallow creek
No wider than a man’s gait
Water no deeper than two feet
Runs as a boundary between us.
......
Continue reading...
Categories:
inexpensive, life, house, people, house,
Form:
Narrative
The Barefoot Days of Summer...The Barefoot Days of Summer
By Elton Camp
When I was a child in rural Alabama during the 1940s, going barefoot during the summer months was still a general practice, especially for boys. It w......
Continue reading...
Categories:
inexpensive, childhood, childhood, child, childhood,
Form:
Narrative
- It Is the Market Today -...Come and buy
Fruits and vegetables from own garden
Best quality and most inexpensive items
Apples, Oranges, Bananas, Onions, Carrots and Potatos
Purchasers of my goods, I will give you some Plums......
Continue reading...
Categories:
inexpensive, holiday, people,
Form:
Free verse
I'M Giving What I'Ve Got...I'm crazy about living.I'm crazy about love.
I'm crazy about giving.I'm giving what I've got.
What I've got's a little money, and a inexpensive car.
What I've got's a little girl I know..
Who k......
Continue reading...
Categories:
inexpensive, guitar, life, song,
Form:
Ballad
Angelic Halloween...Halloween was coming and the angels thought they'd have some fun,
Since they sometimes thought of dressing up before the Holy One.
They all got together and decided to do just that,
......
Continue reading...
Categories:
inexpensive, fantasy, funny, imaginationhalloween, heaven,
Form:
Couplet
Mothers Day Surprise...Mother’s Day is coming and I should be happy about it, you know.
But instead of eating in… It’s eating out that we must joyfully go.
But remember, I have teenagers, Trolls, Dragon, and Hubby, too.
......
Continue reading...
Categories:
inexpensive, celebration, family, fantasy, fun,
Form:
Light Verse