Best Shack Poems

My love, please take me back
To your sweet sugar shack 
Sitting on the soft sand beach
Paradise is within reach

Rolling waves crest, so dreamy
Briny air, wafting steamy
Coconuts so full and ripe
Swaying grass skirt, my delight

Taut humid air, tan skin
Dewy lips meet, it begins
Swim southward along the...

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The roadway's blocked with drifts of snow,
by winter winds that howl and blow.
And ominous clouds clot the sky,
beneath a sallow sun's faint glow.

House calls get performed on the fly,
even though I'm no longer spry.
But a country doctor's no good,
unless he is willing to try.

Experience; says...

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Be patient my soul for your earthly shack will soon be replaced by a mansion in the sky! 









© Demetrios Trifiatis
    02 August 2017...

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I adore sweets and that's just pathetic
cos' for ten years I've been diabetic.
When that pie rolls around 
or the muffins are crowned
my desire for them grows quite kinetic.

There are wrappers hidden under the bed
and there's leftover banana bread.
Every year I vow
to stop eating somehow.
If I...

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If I Won the Lotto, I'd Buy Forgiveness...

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I grew up in a one roomed shack
a king size Coca-Cola space
crammed like Marlboro cigars in a pack
a place I ran to for defense
my home which some see as a plight
where my family had to find the right way
it was my bedroom at night
my mother's...

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Old weary & weaving roads to Colva it made me take,
To Mickey’s I was heading after a long break.
The monsoon rains & the heady winds,
Shut down the joint , but the ambiance it reminds.

Opened this joint to yester’s morn,
For the native, traveler or tourist afore...

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Without warning
Without reason
Sometimes my visions
Return to an old shack in the woods.

It's mysteries are unaltered 
And the unkept years 
Still number the same.

Some of the boards
Rest on ones before them
The earth is visible 
Beneath it's structure
The support pillows are
Still leaning to and fro.

I again find...

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Password Paranoia

Hey, how did you do that?
Do what?
Open that can?
I used the can opener.
I KNOW, but where did you put in the password?
What password?
The CAN OPENER password!
I stare at my 4-year-old grandchild, who is scowling and glaring at me, with the hate of a disemboweled...

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Near the river Jane,
there’s a little shack plain.
Not much my dear to see.
Come and share it with me.

Bring your little dog, Poke,
who’s the color of smoke.
And a cushion for sleep
that at night warming keep.

The roof doesn’t have leak,
new floor’s pine lacking squeak..
Bed of oak with...

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The run down shack
Out in the woods
Boards missing
Graffiti

But that lock on the door
Hasn't stopped anybody
From breaking in through
The windows

What they don't know
Is that you gotta be
A special kind of person
To actually see

What the inside really looks like.

There's more to it than meets the eye....

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Darkish blue, purples and reds,
Strokes of paint dance inside my head,
Evening lights, brushed just right,
I can taste this special night,
Moon far off, fading through this black frame,
Focus geared towards the star lit name,
Mina Mills, written in cursive swirls,
Each letter has a twist and twirl,
Extended road,...

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Funkin AT THE CHICKEN SHACK – Tony Adamo - 1990

Jimmy Smith was laying down an incredible riff on a wall of kinetic sound that was oozing out of my car radio.  I was on my way back from a singing gig at an Indian...

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it near the hiway
where we uese to play
it was in the south
no doudt
and old house
with no mouse
close to the railroad track
it was home we carry own
fill a love rack
OLD SHACK

i...

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The cottage was no more than a shack,
But it kinda took me back,
To that place, I grew up and spent me days,
Livin and learnin, its all sort of a haze.
We was poor, but always had enough to eat.
Me dad was hard, and oh, me mum...

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