Best Living Daylights Poems
Worry Knot Chokes Out the Living DaylightsWorry knot chokes out the living daylights
I know from personal experience
the foolhardiness of
courting, flirting, honeymooning...
worse case scenario,
particularly when just a wee lad,
yours truly internalized
unfamiliar bodily aches and pains
as a death sentence,
slept with one eye opened
against nightmarish fiends birthed
courtesy overactive imagination
and subsequently did buzzfeed
crowded house of...
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Categories:
living daylights, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Living DaylightsDaylight Saving time again.
I guess we have never
had to make egg sandwiches,
at 7a.m.
deep in the dead-eyed dark of night,
then run out of must have mayo,
drive to the edge of a pale-faced light
to bring some home
then crawl to work half-asleep
with an aching head.
and already punch-drunk,
from leaping...
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Categories:
living daylights, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Living DaylightsDaylight Saving time,
not many want or need it.
I guess some busy body
never had to make egg sandwiches,
at 7a.m. and then run out of mayo,
or crawl through traffic half-dead
with an aching head.
The living day lights;
half too dim, half too bright,
and in this clock-watching boxing ring
of a...
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Categories:
living daylights, poetry,
Form:
Free verse