Best Reals Poems
Bloody Feet Upon the Slab
...That tiny pause to skirt the truth, half-reals you'd paraphrase,
The subtle softly spinning gyre of cunning in your gaze,
Vague reflections from your skin - a shedding, sheltering plaque,
All conc......
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Categories:
reals, addiction, life, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Idol Chatter
...I’m so confused, what do they want?
Those judges seem to goad and taunt
One week they ask for something new
Then criticize when you try to!
To my dawg, Randy, I’ll throw a bone
For Paula, I’ll......
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Categories:
reals, funny
Form:
Rhyme
Kris Kringle Kisses Kalliope
...
"Kris Kringle Kisses Kalliope"
A Dream: the 4th Christmas.
deck the halls
with memories
poets whisper pasts
that are ne’er forgotten
......
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Categories:
reals, christmas, dark, light,
Form:
Romanticism
For Reals
...HEAL MY SWOLEN HEART YOU HOLDER OF ITS PAINFULL BEAT,
REPEATING STRONG SENSATIONS WHICH DEVOUR ME,
NO LONGER STRONG ENOUGH ALONE,
MY SOLITUDE SHOWS MOMENTS THAT I'VE TRIED TO HIDE,
SUDDENLY THE A......
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Categories:
reals, art, confusion, devotion, friendship,
Form:
Heart Break
...
Chill winds surge atop placid lake
Reflections of rapture shattered
My hope of redemption laying in shards
Tears flow, dreams end in desolation
A tempest beats against the keep
The pal......
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Categories:
reals, grief, sad,
Form:
Free verse
The Pavane
...
"The Pavane"
Autumn leaves
whistle nonchalantly
along the left-behind
paths of serendipity
hesitantly touch fingers
lightly for a while, tipping
lost in the wastel......
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Categories:
reals, autumn, muse, winter,
Form:
Free verse
Going Back To Br
...going back to br ...... no love up here...... much love in br...... home is up here......
the only reals are the youngsters.... everyone else is busters.... fakers and haters....
roe city see you......
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Categories:
reals, lifelove,
Form:
Rhyme
Devotion To the Oceans--
...I’m a sea-going servant some call me, John
I love, love to sail, sail on
From ocean to ocean I sail, sail on
Encompassing rough high waters of the ocean
Devoted to the seas, tis my dr......
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Categories:
reals, analogy, appreciation, devotion, ocean,
Form:
Free verse
Playmate
...A little girl with fairy tale dreams; playmates only she can see
spending her time playing like she was big...eating honeysuckles and serving tea
her playmates loved to listen to her talk, she did ......
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Categories:
reals, adventure,
Form:
Verse
Cheese and Wine
...Ants
And uncles' too
They get under my goat.
Skin crawling little lactose tolerant yokes.
"Holy guacamole, pass the cheese."
Says Uncle Whine O.
Hold the phones stop the press I gotta go......
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Categories:
reals, analogy, giggle,
Form:
Rhyme
The Unicorn and the Sticky Asphalt Jungle
...
"The Unicorn and The Sticky Asphalt Jungle"
Bedtime stories
now walk through fog
The Unicorn skips
on lines of sticky Asphalt
The father w......
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Categories:
reals, freedom, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Midnight Bling
...Lil’ twobits clanging
past midnight with
cash and carry dreams
sell low buy
cheap tomorrows news bouncing
yesterdays hate
in WTF headlines
“oh for sure like its for reals”
u know sunset paych......
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Categories:
reals, angst, poverty, psychological, racism,
Form:
Free verse
50 Words For Poe: Styx
...
"50 Words for Poe: Styx"
Sleep now
Your Nepenthe has been taken
listen to your dream
what you pay alms for
requires surveillance
this i......
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Categories:
reals, dark, destiny, gothic, love,
Form:
Romanticism
Worthy of Thought
...some sought remedy
it was less likely that these approaches
would yield fact: after all in
the broader realm of it's being
it paled in comparison to what
it wished and wanted to be.
But as one ......
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Categories:
reals, adventure, business, encouraging, endurance,
Form:
Classicism
In Love
...in love
only words don't to be
hearts need
difficult to walk thorny paths
in love
only feel don't to be
reals are founds
everyone sees when the curtain rising
in love
only two person don......
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Categories:
reals, allegory,
Form:
Alliteration