Best Monocle Poems
No Set Future
...As I pass through time
in my physical vessel
I connect the rhymes,
balancing them on my mind's trestle.
My consciousness detaches
from emotion and commotion
and intricately latches
onto an o......
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Categories:
monocle, inspirational, introspection, life, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Happy Couple
...Why do we have pairs of scissors?
Since that's how they've always been known,
why do we care why we call them a pair
when one is no good on its own?
The same thing applies to our trousers,
just ......
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Categories:
monocle, humor, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
The silent song of Chester Gray
...
The silent song of Chester Gray,
a murderous affair
This quiet soul of little word,
not known of him to share
This eve upon a moaning moor,
a pier of rotted wood
A body lay a......
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Categories:
monocle, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme
The Red Train
...From an aerial view, the sight of a beautiful red train
chugging along down the railway track
takes my breath away;
One moment I am watching a funnel shaped smoke stack sending......
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Categories:
monocle, appreciation, fantasy, farewell, forgiveness,
Form:
Narrative
The Death of Pleasantries
...My monocle, please,
or if you please,
my spectacles so
I
can attempt to eye
a book with both irises
and which book
to attack first:
the gigantic book of fashion;
it’s
not a lap anim......
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Categories:
monocle, books, love,
Form:
Free verse
Gallbladder-Green
...My Love, Eve
Your skin glows like the Apple, blossoms eagerly as the rose in the purest hope of spring.
My yearning heart rises to your guitar voice and leaps like a dog at the whisper of your na......
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Categories:
monocle, angst,
Form:
Free verse
Brotherhood of Man
...Watch out, brother,
An eye's following you,
Watching what you do,
Each movement remembered.
Don't cheat,
Don't steal,
Don't breathe too loud,
Someone's sure to find out.
Each flaw, each mista......
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Categories:
monocle, brother, educationmen,
Form:
Puttin' On the Ritz
...A four piece string ensemble competes
with fluted crystal glasses harmonizing
to the tinkling of fine silverware
underpinned by the purring whispers
of well-to-do's and their hobnobbery.
Butt......
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Categories:
monocle, beauty, celebrity, class, clothes,
Form:
Free verse
The Mandela Effect
...Have you always thought that something was true
And then find out that it wasn’t then
There are beliefs of the masses found to be untrue
Named after Nelson Mandela who spent 27 years in jail
And......
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Categories:
monocle, perspective,
Form:
Ballad
The Purse
...Sometimes people ask me... What's in your purse...
So I tell them the best that I can...
Lipstick, chapstick, matchstick
What’s in your purse?
Billfold, change purse, money counter, and clip?
As......
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Categories:
monocle, beautiful, best friend, butterfly,
Form:
Free verse
Black Snow
...1. A dangerous vision coveting another,
blurred by envy to need a mental monocle.
she burns in such deadly blast
not to realize the soul already promulgate itself
to the better one.
Nothing can ......
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Categories:
monocle, anger, anxiety, dark, evil,
Form:
Lyric
Yelling Through Pinecones
...
i watch the sunrise
unbuttoning the stuffed pouches
of thunderclouds
soaking
imagination
with dry-drunk dewdrops
becoming bubbles
blown through
ringbarked
jewelry
worn
by th......
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Categories:
monocle, angel, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
Wrong
...A lap dancing molecule is dressed in a monocle. Such dainty prowess but naked no dress. No suit could taste an acrylic sheet as sheer fabric is often moving unseen across oceans,beams, and many windo......
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Categories:
monocle, art,
Form:
Jif Is a Terrorist! Skippy Was Only a Patsy!
...-In 2008, a massive recall of peanuts thought to be contaminated with bacteria occured. Not
very many people became ill, and only twenty percent of those that did were hospitalized.
Only a handfu......
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Categories:
monocle, health
Form:
Free verse
A Rattling Rhyme
...The Clockmaker
The old clockmaker sat at his bench
In the shop where he'd lived all his years
With a monocle lens on his eye
And his desk filled with sprockets and gears.
Everything h......
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Categories:
monocle, humorous, time,
Form:
Rhyme