Best Oaths Poems
Broken OathsIt is relentlessly our intent
To do the right thing.
Why then do we relent—
A bird with broken wing?
We make earnest pledges
Vowing to fly higher.
But they fray at the edges—
Caught in self-made mire.
We would strive to be
A friend of welcoming ways.
Except they quickly flee—
Gliding through wasted days.
We...
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Categories:
oaths, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme
Opiniated Onion OathsMonstrous rabbits often visit sea turtles with a view to drinking vast amounts of salted tea located within shells. Oh see how wise that horse is reading encyclopedias seated in it's wicker chair. If branches cry out to atoms and air laughs it is said...
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Categories:
oaths, animal,
Form:
Firey OathsSongs which
repeat themselves
in the mind
are things which
repeat themselves deep in the heart
Adon Olam will be heard again
by me and by others
the years...
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Categories:
oaths, jewish,
Form:
Ballad
Oaths Broken By TimeEndlessly.... scribbling....
Of our illusion...
The tale myself mouths through tears....
The line that murders my psyche....
Is "Wait... we'll come across once more...once again"
The era's arrive aging thy skin.... to ossein...
For those loaned words...
Aim through my psyche....
It slaughters me.... it tortures me...
Now all the odes
I scribble...
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Categories:
oaths, absence, cry, dark, death,
Form:
Free verse