Best Piling Poems
Shikata ga nai- POTD...
Time speeds away unmindful,
ages added on to eons,
piling changes on change,
it moves on,
seldom posing lull and loll.
With the current rushing swift and fleet
we race past ......
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Categories:
piling, change, identity, sympathy,
Form:
Free verse
Moving On...I'm not selling a house, i'm leaving my home.
Happy times together, months spent alone.
Morning sickness, baby loss, labour and birth
Planting my seeds in good strong earth.
Mess in the kitchen, ......
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Categories:
piling, child, emotions, family, garden,
Form:
A Murder Most Foul...I am having that dream of dreams again
The one that wakes me up in the night
Then my Heart did ask me with fright.
Wh......
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Categories:
piling, autumn, beautiful, best friend,
Form:
Narrative
A Mother's Love, Steels Her To Infinite Faith and Sacrifice...**************
A Mother's Love, Steels Her To Infinite Faith And Sacrifice
She cooked breakfast, got her kids off to school
took a brief rest on her favorite stool,
watched through front window......
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Categories:
piling, appreciation, character, dedication, devotion,
Form:
Rhyme
Do the Math...
Fifty stars
and
thirteen stripes
Wavy patriotic mathematician
do the math ...
Subtraction or addition,
what will the numbers be,
37 or 63?
Slavery took away my parents’ human rights......
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Categories:
piling, america, history, math, truth,
Form:
Narrative
No Free Lunch...A scientist pursuing research—
with disinterested curiosity,
Poets distancing themselves—
from personal emotions,
from ‘personality’ (in Eliot’s idiolect),
A sportsperson focusing on the event—
......
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Categories:
piling, irony, satire, society,
Form:
Free verse
My Mirror Must Be the Trowel...Your words lance through to bone, acid sizzling into every hole
I haven't filled in, yet I dig, and ponder, and dig, filling in.
I still rock where the echoes of door slammed shut, bounce around
......
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Categories:
piling, angstchildren, me, children, me,
Form:
Free verse
Oh Baneful Yellow Moon...Oh baneful yellow Moon in fullest rounded sphere,
Bright as Summers Buttercups in abundant yield,
Coldly riveted upon Winters beaten, thin silvered panels;
Thereof: By ye mighty hammer doth great ......
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Categories:
piling, moon,
Form:
Rhyme
No Time For Her- the Affair...He never seemed to have the time for her
Responsibilities kept piling high
His days just seemed to fly in blinding whir
He could not sense her love was soon to die
So tired from his work, he'd ......
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Categories:
piling, betrayal, hurt, husband, wife,
Form:
Narrative
Please Don'T Leave Me - Emotional Write - Dark Side of the Moon For Contest...My darling
Time is no longer on our side
Since your car crash we have no money
For you are no longer able to work
If I can’t find a job I may have to go on the run
The debts are piling u......
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Categories:
piling, memory, sad love,
Form:
Free verse
I Saw You Again Yesterday...IV
Once more I have been given cause to dwell
On that ill-fated romance;
I saw you again yesterday, years hence...was
It just another casual dalliance?
The affected tilt of your cruel and
A......
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Categories:
piling, romance,
Form:
Rhyme
Writing Letters Is a Dying Art...Dear Sir:
I realize you’ve been busy, so I’m sending a letter of distress
Postmarked today, addressing my quality of living
Since the last time we told our life stories
Sewed the seams between o......
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Categories:
piling, love, on writing and
Form:
Free verse
One Senior's Sonnet...One Senior’s Sonnet
The feelings are frozen, fetid in time,
Decisions denied to the dwindling mind;
Possibilities piling like lengths of twine;
Acceptance of aging cannot be blind.
Duties de......
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Categories:
piling, age, angst, hope, peace,
Form:
Sonnet
Griselda's Revenge...We had a garden gnome named Griselda
the bane of our small bungalow
she was nasty and mean, at times quite obscene
the worst that you ever could know!
Her garden mate, Gregor, had feared her
b......
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Categories:
piling, fantasy, funny, hilarious, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
A Dusk In Time...Still bodies piling in spooky dress
longing for last touch of sweet caress.
On the street are young hearts lying lifeless.
Shouting joy at this point and time is heartless.
In the blink of ......
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Categories:
piling, sorrow,
Form:
Rhyme