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Best Litters Poems


Premium Member To the Dandelion In the Concrete
...You probably don't think much of me
save for the season of spring
when your lawn litters itself
with giant over-buttered popcorn

(birds that think they can sing,
supersonic sneezes?
those kin......

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Categories: litters, character, endurance, flower, humorous,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Asp of Grief
...ASP OF GRIEF

She buries her head upon this asp of grief —
soft with reptilian fangs, hard with poison.
Her covetous husband lies upon the Nile’s reef.
She holds her abdomen in her a......

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Categories: litters, beauty, death, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member October Golden Chain
...Percussion plays once in a while beyond its curtain
In duo with the flash of paparazzi’s capturing film
Prelude to an exhilaration of blissful days’ chain
Where rain and sunshine smack on a rainbo......

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: litters, celebration, october,
Form: Pantoum

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Bridal Dress For the Hawthorn Tree
...BRIDAL   DRESS FOR THE HAWTHORN TREE

In  the  church  garden   fair,
One glorious  May day  near the ides  -
Blossom  on  gown  and   hair
Flowing,  floating  down her sides,	 
Bosom  and  bouquet  ......

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Categories: litters, nature, spring, tree, may,
Form: Quintain (English)
Nihilist Apathy
...The rain pours down on the city. 
A sense of putrid disgust fills the air, 
as trash litters the streets 
and grime grows in every back alley. 

The clouds cast their shadows 
and the lack of s......

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Categories: litters, addiction, april, city, dark,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Ballad of Smorgasbord Cat
...Ballad of Smorgasbord Cat

Once upon a hot July night
Smorgasbord Cat was born, not right.
The only kitten born with clothes,
She came out wearing pantyhose.

Blue bellbottoms when she turned ......

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Categories: litters, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Ballad



Mother Rat
...Mother Rat

The queen of common suffering
is a pregnant rat.
She lifts a perfume atomizer
from a dumpster-

for its chandelier glint,
lilac smell,
mint vodka taste,
soft squeeze-bulb feel,
......

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© Jcr Ritter  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: litters, animal, death, drug, mother,
Form: Free verse
The Starlings Descend
...They flow out of a pocket of sky,
a door in the air no one saw
until dark wings shower
over our heads.

Their plumage has a metallic sheen,
as if they were made in parts,
in some elvish worksh......

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Categories: litters, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member That was Then This is Now
...That was then
when the truth was a lie
scorching the bitter tongue
of unseen circumstances
that crawled on the belly of youthful unrest
running toward the darker quarters
where Angels left wear......

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Categories: litters, change, conflict, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wool Gathering
...under my bed                       
under invasion! 

invaded by piles             
of migrating balls!

dust rolls around  
gathered in piles        

piles tied in bundles
some are like p......

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Categories: litters, funny, home, house, humor,
Form: Blitz
Premium Member Oomph Ooze Orbit
...Pleasure primes pain,
Wit wonders why?
Glimpse gutsy gain,
Style sanguine sigh.


Fancy feels faint,
Big blossoms bulge;
***** questions quaint,
Ideas indulge.


Prompt payment plays,
As......

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Categories: litters, onomatopoeia,
Form: Alliteration
The Tales of Throng
...Thy songs oh throng, 
Scattered as litters on the floor:
Thy message without language, 
Shattered by the wind, faint and poor.

Thy voice, thy choice 
Of words is slaughtered by impediments; 
......

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Categories: litters, art, life, philosophy
Form: Verse
The Homeless Child
...Street lamps still lighted
night has retired and faded
a new day unfolds

heavens rolled darkness
tucked it away for the sun
to give light and shine

in the horizon
a golden beam of sunrise
......

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Categories: litters, childhood, life, poverty,
Form: Haiku
Woman of the Wasteland I of III
...As I wash these dishes. 
I wash the wishes 
from these tired and ruined hands. 

I look out into the street 
with a thousand yard stare
Eyes lost glazed bare…
I see my children playing 
in th......

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Categories: litters, abuse, allegory, analogy, angst,
Form: Free verse
Summerland
...She loves her family... 
her husband, her children, her pups and kitty. 
She loves the color purple. 
She loves the Goddess, 
all her special potions in their fancy bottles and jars. 
All her spices ......

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Categories: litters, deathmother, care, care, earth,
Form: Elegy

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry