Best Nearsighted Poems
Riveting Romeo
...I was a famous, American actress, who adored performing for live audiences,
In stage plays, both modern and classic, like velvet time, which often rushes.
Rose acclaim filled long, chaotic days, ......
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Categories:
nearsighted, fantasy, happiness, love, nature,
Form:
Couplet
Smiles I Remember
...I was an experienced family therapist, helping families maintain functionality,
As wandering, starlit seasons maintain all nature, being rooted in practicality.
I loved preserving healthy relatio......
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Categories:
nearsighted, family, fantasy, grief, love,
Form:
Couplet
The Nearsighted Dragon
...To celebrate his new glasses,
home a nearsighted dragon, did fly.
the doctor had truly, helped his sight.
A party he’d throw, full of savories;
on many delicacies, his friends would feed.
All n......
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Categories:
nearsighted, humor, myth,
Form:
Sestina
Star-Crumb
..."HUNGRY GAMES"
"I can’t find the words I want to say! “
Under the moonbeam and sparkling scattered stardust,
I can feel the dew, which surpasses through the night.
As I speak to you in tongue, this......
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Categories:
nearsighted, food, funny, night, night,
Form:
Alliteration
A Lion Looms Listless
...A cold lion roams, doctrinaire and sterile,
The expanse of Africa offers him no sanctuary, the Saringehti no salvation,
He can only smell the scent of his pride now, his cubs shun him,
Repelled by......
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Categories:
nearsighted, character,
Form:
Epic
Insults
...Glowing, half transparent
underneath the pot, burnt,
yes I'm scorched but not sweating,
because I'm furious, so hurt!
Horrid, nagging insults
though they break before my skin,
salt unto the o......
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Categories:
nearsighted, anger, anti bullying, emotions,
Form:
Lyric
And No One Spoke
...….And no one spoke…
protecting all about them from
the perception of impropriety,
insensitivity, misunderstanding
…and no one looked…
shielding their eyes lest their gaze
be taken as an a......
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Categories:
nearsighted, fear,
Form:
Free verse
Real Eyes See
...I realize
I have real eyes
That see real lies—
~Nearsighted
(rule of law)
~Farsighted
(rule of lies)
~The "ayes" have it
......
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Categories:
nearsighted, conflict, corruption, hate, truth,
Form:
Free verse
A Lesson Learned
...Charles Green was eight years old, and his father was a great teacher.
Yet, Charlie preferred playing to school; because he was a daydreamer.
The Greens lived in the town of Ivoria, where......
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Categories:
nearsighted, boy, fantasy, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Couplet
Animal Alliteration
...Alphabetical animals all around:
Angry army ants,
Busy buzzing bees,
Carousing calico cats,
Dancing dolphin duo,
Eerie electric eels
Fancy feathered flamingos,
Graceful grey geese,
Harmless hairy ham......
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Categories:
nearsighted, animal,
Form:
Alliteration
Presidential Trivia
...President's Day is approaching so I thought I would further your education,
By revealing useless trivia about some of the dudes who've served our nation.
President Washington actually had to borr......
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Categories:
nearsighted, funny, history, old, old,
Form:
Couplet
'nearsighted Perception'
...You woke up this morning
Remembering what they said to you
You remembered what they did to you
Learn by heart
That it doesn't matter who said what
Or who did what to you
Do......
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Categories:
nearsighted, judgement, life, people,
Form:
Light Verse
Little Lad and Big Dog
...My small lad and his big dog are the absolute of friends.
Each knows he is the one on whom the other one depends.
I spy on them as they're wrestling on the newly mown lawn,
then with one motion th......
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Categories:
nearsighted, best friend,
Form:
Rhyme
Dinosaur's Rules
...I’ve heard people say dinosaurs are extinct
But I think there must be a resurgence!
It seems that our scientists all must have blinked,
Could it be just a bad egg emergence?
Imagine eggs dorman......
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Categories:
nearsighted, angst, betrayal, humor, political,
Form:
Quatrain
Hold My Hand
...I was out in this world
amidst the nearsighted
unknowing of the winding road
How could I have not seen the dead end sign
therefore to be led off course into a ditch
seems as if no one
knew ......
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Categories:
nearsighted, inspirational, me, me,
Form:
Free verse