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Best Lifestyles Poems


Lifestyles of Four Tropical Birds
Pretty pink plumage, Roseate Spoonbills delightfully spooning.  

Majestic Osprey…hatchlings chirping in the nest,
Fishes flip in parents’ talons, fast food, flying free.
Homestead refurbishment, the parents never rest.
Incubation has become a pleasant memory,
Perched on a pinnacle, proud parents, near the sea.

The Great White Egrets, 
Leisurely walking,...

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Categories: lifestyles, animals, food, life, nature
Form: Free verse
Lifestyles
When traveling, the lives I see
Are different from my own,
The choices made unlike the ones
That I have ever known.

It's really not a question of
What's better or what's worse,
Though if you questioned others,
They might answer the reverse.

To me, I think our journeys,
Whether minuscule or long, 
Encourage...

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Categories: lifestyles, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Two Lifestyles
I saw a groundhog waddle out
From underneath the shed.
I guess that is the place he’s chosen
Where to lay his head.

I’m not too thrilled that he is there,
Though he won’t bother me.
When we are in the country,
That’s the way that things might be.

One year we had...

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Categories: lifestyles, animal, home,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



The Poor and Lonely
Today someone praised a poem I wrote
It is about considering the disenfranchised
at this supposedly jolly time of year
Why, she said, just think about all in need,
why not spend Christmas with them, she asked

Amazingly enough, that is just what I do, 
For you see I am...

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Categories: lifestyles, analogy, culture, writing,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry