Best Procured Poems
Women In My Family
...Women in my family
are lovers of laughter and life.
Not often feeling much fulfilled, however,
in our individual roles as someone's wife,
still we have kind hearts, and do the best we can......
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Categories:
procured, family,
Form:
Rhyme
Jungle Drums
...Jungle Drums
Well known was Molly by gossips
Words fell so easy from her lips
They always found ready ears
Revered was she amongst her peers
A casual meeting Molly made
Good conversation sh......
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Categories:
procured, life,
Form:
Couplet
The Reluctant Bootscooter
...I s’pose you've heard of Tamworth and the shindig there each year,
where country music reigns supreme and all its stars appear.
They’re in the pubs and all the clubs and arcades 'round the town ......
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Categories:
procured, funny, people, music, music,
Form:
Rhyme
Prelude To a Poke
...I do not recall
The bravado with which I spoke
The titillating prose
Seduction’s prelude to a poke
You spoke of love
with a lust that I understand
your heart a bloom
your derriere met my hand
......
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Categories:
procured, allegory, angst, funny, life,
Form:
Quatrain
Peering In the Windows
...Peering in the windows,
Of those lives I barely see,
Except when tokens are procured,
For rides, intermittently,
They look at me, I look back,
Nothing severed or taken,
My pith, unimpaired,
An......
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Categories:
procured, betrayal, crazy, fantasy, how
Form:
Rhyme
A Principessa Waits: Constanza
...She floats among palazzo halls
in teal brocade of lambent silk
procured for ladies of her ilk
while sepia of gloaming falls.
Candescence rises in her skin;
awakened is her heart within
to ......
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Categories:
procured, imagery, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Final Countdown
...Israel and Palestine duel, as Iran pulls the strings
Abiding under the rule of the Country with the wings
As Russia looks down Turkey is twisting in the wind
All seeking one crown or just the chan......
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Categories:
procured, bible,
Form:
Rhyme
Stole Her Heart Too
...*prose was six lines when posted.
STOLE HER HEART TOO
A golden feather, shaped like a heart - the point like a prima donna’s ballet toes. Spoiled feather fell from forever into mortal ha......
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Categories:
procured, adventure, love,
Form:
Prose
Grit and Guts On the Gridiron - 1
...Mud and leather
dirt and nerve
bloodied laughter
collision to serve,
distance, drive and demolition
battle axe ambition in the wild air
muscle and mind joined in steeled instinct,
a stitched ......
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Categories:
procured, america, sports, war,
Form:
Epic
Campers Grandeur
...Fearless flames licking the night
as the glow flickers fire in their eyes
ah the tales round campfires light
of Sasquatch shadows and cougars demise
When sleepily those embers to ash burn down
like ......
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Categories:
procured, fire, holiday, nature, stars,
Form:
Quatrain
Coat of Arms
...COAT OF ARMS
Last night I couldn't sleep,for thinking only you...
As I wrapped in warm embrace, your spirit tinted blue
To oust away thine pangs, in hopes to see thee smile...
I'll yoke ye 'p......
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Categories:
procured, best friend, caregiving, depression,
Form:
Ballad
The Purloined Coffee
...like a night fairy
you invaded
my side of the room
stealing my coffee
hot handed
like the money
with which it was procured
selling poetry
composed with heart
and sore fingers
holding ballpo......
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Categories:
procured, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Springs Forth Spring
...A season to delight, to sing and thrive
Birth of spring beckons new life
Casting aside the winter nights
Dancing gay the flowers bloom
Endle......
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Categories:
procured, growth, happy, life, seasons,
Form:
Abecedarian
Make America Great Again Huh
..."Let's Make America Great Again!" *Sigh*
Great catch phrase! But...It's a ruse!...It's a lie!
Let's put the cards on the table! Shall we...Why?
(Your Brothers and Sisters will probably die!)
The ......
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Categories:
procured, america, conflict, corruption, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme
Poor Pandora
...We ponder Pandora as the person preordained
to unleash a plethora of plagues upon our persons.
But here's what I heard:
Pandora had two sisters,
Persephone and Proserpina.
Pandora perused poet......
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Categories:
procured, allegory, humor,
Form:
Light Verse