Best Straddles Poems
Hush the Stars“Look up at the stars,” you say
Its just another night up on the old water tank
Our blanket is spread and here we sit with the universe our theater
Another night of showing me the constellations
Astronomy…your love
You…my love
The stars….your hobby
You….my idolatry
I try to follow your pointing...
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Categories:
straddles, passion, universe,
Form:
Epic
Eight Days a Weekmaudlin
maudlin Monday's mostly mud
halts the weekend with woeful thud
laughs and sillies
get the willies
on maudlin Monday, what a dud
tintinnabulous
tintinnabulous Tuesday
is the second paying-dues day
we head uphill
but it’s no thrill
'cause we’re not there, but we’re on our way
wadd'lin
wadd'lin Wednesday straddles the hump
wiggles and shakes like a wide-angle...
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Categories:
straddles, nonsense,
Form:
Limerick
The Mighty OneThe Mighty One
(A Description of “Scene du deluge”)
He straddles jutting rocks beneath a pall
of sky. Beneath is swirling water, and
the crooked arm of one lone tree is all
he’s found to cling to with his left curled hand.
An older man, who also grasps the tree,
upon the...
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Categories:
straddles, natural disasters
Form:
Ekphrasis
Me and My ShadowA shadow’s bean juts out over the shore
One that I have not seen before
Enlarged beyond my own
No color, no tone.
I’ve been this way for many a time
Was young then and in my prime,
I have not seen it until now
Missed it, but how?
No streaks from...
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Categories:
straddles, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Limerick Multiplication: Once An Optimistic OpticianLimerick multiplication : Once an optimistic Optician
for Elodie
Once an optimistic Optician
Looked deep into her Client’s vision
Saw worlds unknown to her
And lost her way back here
Client left her in utter confusion
...
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Categories:
straddles, fun, , cute,
Form:
Limerick
CowpunchersBeen throwed
Legs bowed
Prefers
Brass spurs
Bunk house
Sans spouse
Wears chaps
Perhaps
Wears jeans
Eats beans
Brands steers
Likes beers
Hates boss
Loves hoss
Straddles
Saddles
Wears boots
Hates suits
Spits juice
Profuse
Payday
Small pay
Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
(c) 2015 All Rights Reserved...
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Categories:
straddles,
Form:
Footle
An Interpretation of the Tarot Sun Cardbeneath a gold sun
a small child with arms outstretched. . .
joy of life embraced
wearing just a smile
the boy straddles a white horse. . .
strength in purity
an orange banner
grasped tightly in the child's hand. . .
vitality seized
sun's rays in blue sky. . ....
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Categories:
straddles, life,
Form:
Haiku
Birthright Deniedmorning sun, a newborn babe,
exhales her first breath each dawn in mist
daybreak’s kiss
straddles the North Carolina and Tennessee line
Cherokee Nation’s last reservation
remains within a hazy, vaporous veil
nearly two centuries crept past
since 14,000 ill and hungry Cherokees
trekked the Trail of Tears
moving westward wearily
to sparse lands...
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Categories:
straddles, history, native american, places,
Form:
Free verse
HomeWinter morning light filters through lace curtains,
Reaches down, spills onto the corner kitchen sink,
Through east and south facing windows.
The glass jar, the scrub brush and pad in plastic butter dish,
A down-turned, empty yogurt container,
The pink plastic rinse pan
Keep company around the sink's edges.
The dried-out, yellow...
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Categories:
straddles, age, blessing, dedication, home,
Form:
Free verse
A Painting For HumanityThe vividness of the dazzling tones
of an Autumn's landscape is alluring,
making the beeches gleam when it rains;
it has captured me into the realm of fantasy,
as I am taken onto a road walked by a couple
that strolls side by side so gladly...
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Categories:
straddles, art, autumn, beautiful, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
Pleasant MelancholyIt is symphonic
It is rhythmic
It tells a story,
of love and life,
of pleasure and pain,
of joy and sadness;
a story of defeat and triumph
It is the invisible book
of the human experience
It has the power,
to move you,
to make you yearn for more,
of its delightfully painful,
audible deliciousness
It...
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Categories:
straddles, inspirational, introspection, music, longing,
Form:
Ode
Poyecto De Tren Instantaneo Entre Santiago Y Puerto Montt By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T WignesanProyecto de tren instantaneo entre Santiago y Puerto Montt by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan
Soliloquio del Individuo by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T Wignesan
(Homage to Nicanor PARRA, 1914-2018, the Chilean ANTI-POET, winner of the "Cervantes Prize" (the highest literary honour for writers in...
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Categories:
straddles, allegory, extended metaphor, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Her Lonely Heart PleaShe unties the rope that bound her to shore
Anchors the mast and straddles the oar
Retreating to set adrift on the sea
Fighting the current of her lonely heart plea
Her brilliance and beauty I admire from shore
Desiring her sails with their wild allure
Saddened when she’s seen no...
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Categories:
straddles, break up, conflict, confusion,
Form:
Couplet
AfricaThe land of Baobab and Acacia sassa trees
The proud land of our forefathers.
The home of the fastest animal on earth - Cheetah
The oldest inhabited territory on Earth,
Who handed treasure of wisdom down to us
The most-populous landmass.
The place of origin of humans and the...
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Categories:
straddles, 8th grade, africa, animal,
Form:
Free verse
Onions and Applesonion booty delight
i love staring at the art of it all
you may look at me as the typical male
well i cannot help myself when i stop, look and wonder....wonder, look, and stop
then i look at her
those eyes shooting daggers through me like an aggressive type...
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Categories:
straddles, beautiful, blessing, funny love,
Form:
Free verse