Best Railing Poems
Peacocks and Predators
...The raptor and the peacock hence,
Sit pensive on a rambling fence.
The first, inclined to be the host,
Jumped down to claim the nearest post.
The pea averse to snubs or quailing
Moves closer on ......
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Categories:
railing, animal, identity,
Form:
Imagism
Waking Before I Found Love
...I stood on the step by the unopened door
Far from the meadows that precede the shore
Grasped tight the railing I longed to explore
Searching for truth in the lies
Looked at the mat as ......
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Categories:
railing, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
Scarlet Roses
...
"But when you showed me what happiness looked like, I shook harder, sobbed, wailed and bawled; tore at your clothes, your perfect, perfect face, and said, "This could never be mine."" - the poet.
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Categories:
railing, death, grief, hurt, loneliness,
Form:
Elegy
Survival
...
We boarded the Carnival Cruise in Miami with excitement,
our destination was Montego Bay- with a promise of great fun;
colourful reefs, tranquil waters, breathtaking vistas a......
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Categories:
railing, cute, imagination, lost, strength,
Form:
Narrative
The Day After Christmas
...On the day after Christmas, they started appearing,
cast out of houses, stripped of their finery,
lying crooked in the gutter, garbage bags flanking.
My brothers and I walked to school
and half......
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Categories:
railing, childhood, christmas, death,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Green Spanish Eyes - Part 3
...Continued from Part 2
Ah Consuela! I’m watching as lightning at midnight in green Spanish eyes
kindles cracks within crystals like flashes from pistols
residing inside of the gloo......
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Categories:
railing, green, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Bridge
...I walk towards you,
as you stand waiting at the center of the bridge.
Beneath my feet, aged timbers span the churning river below.
With each step I see you more clearly.
My eyes search out the ......
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Categories:
railing, adventure, child, growing up,
Form:
Free verse
One Thing That Love Is
...Everything here is true
Just as stated
because it's already happened
or - it has yet to occur -
but it's very soon to occur
and I have such strong feeling
that the future will be as I see it
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Categories:
railing, dog, love, memory, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Four Hours of Eternity - 3
...I woke to the sound of sizzling bacon, the aroma of fresh baked Muffins and my Beautiful Lenore in her bright green Teddy. "Nubbies", I said, "what time is it." Lenore said" for You it is 3:30P.M., J......
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Categories:
railing, faith, god, imagination, inspirational,
Form:
Narrative
Remembering When
...I remember when: on an August day, while on a Caribbean cruise
My echo rippling across the sea as I vowed Forever; "I Do"
Take thee LENORE for the Eons of Eternity, my ever Loving WIFE
Entwined as......
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Categories:
railing, love, marriage, wife,
Form:
Rhyme
Seeking the Answer -Miltonic Sonnet
...The shadows creep and faintly in the sky,
stars begin to come to us with gentle light.
And once more our fancy doth take flight
with man's eternal question " oh God, why?
What place have we when then......
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Categories:
railing, introspection, spiritual,
Form:
Sonnet
On Rescuing An Injured Pigeon
...ON RESCUING AN INJURED PIGEON
I.
sliding screen door screeches, pigeons scatter
thump of wing against breast, shockwave breeze
more frequent than in the past, shimmering necks
soundtrack squirr......
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Categories:
railing, analogy, animal, pain,
Form:
Personification
Vase Dream - C'Est La Vie
...Vase Dream - c'est la vie
White vase with no design
Dangling there - c'est la vie
I think somewhere in Center City
Apart from everything
In an apartment rising skyward
Lingering on the edge......
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Categories:
railing, adventure, change, fun, happy,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Night Ride
...One dark night takes me on a ride to an isolated hill where I inhale unpleasantness ..
Wide gleamy monstrous gate opens as the mighty wind blows,
creepy ferns crawl all over the floor.
......
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Categories:
railing, adventure, dark, horror, house,
Form:
Free verse
Smooth Sailing
...To fill each tethered sail, the winds must blow
in harmony, while gentle currents flow,
and if good fortune wishes to prevail,
the winds must blow to fill each tethered sail.
To still the roari......
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Categories:
railing, moon, sea, storm,
Form:
Quatrain