Best Tailback Poems
The Pieces of PeaceThe pieces of peace were handpicked
Picked in the heart of the night
Shredded for an aspiration
To clutch the lone torch contained by the dark
A glimpse for some unusual rank
Then comes the arrival of time
With the angst that grow by day
Comes the...
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Categories:
tailback, political,
Form:
Light Verse
Minus Identity Who I AmPlagued by incandescent ferments I grapple zealously,
with tower blocks of titan topsoil myriads,
and melange of eccentric foibles,
considered by some to be a minus,
but without this composite what is my real nature?
reflection on a manifest mettlesome being,
leaden skewed traffic jam’s tailback of...
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Categories:
tailback, character, deep, endurance, fate,
Form:
Haibun
Meditations of An Offensive LinemanMEDITATIONS OF AN
OFFENSIVE LINEMAN
I am the essence
of patience and method
No reckless trash talk; I never
say a word
I am John Henry, harder,
A hammer on your bones driving
spikes through your soul and
your disintegrating self esteem
We have a chunky young
tailback who dances through
turbulence like light through...
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Categories:
tailback, football,
Form:
Free verse
Danger Is the ColourThe colour red makes you stop
thinking what can be wrong
it makes you hit the brake
as the tailback is so long
Red fills the heart in alarm
makes you think to fear
the conscience sets you off
your moral code gets in gear
A picture filled in red
gets your eye being...
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Categories:
tailback, color, red,
Form:
Rhyme
Road TripRough roads
Occasional vomiting
And crying by weary child
Deadly tailback
Terrain becomes pretty
Rapidly relaxing
Into destination
Paradise...
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Categories:
tailback, travel,
Form:
Acrostic
When Why But No HowWhen one tiny atomised shrimp meets a third of a Christmas pudding it is known as a classic meeting of minds. But not if the meeting takes place in an office or a chamber. That is just quite uncharacteristic and unchartered for the chatting chin...
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Categories:
tailback, absence,
Form:
From the Montreal Times January 24, 2029Born in 2000 he comes from a long line of athletes. His maternal great great great grandfather was a short stop in the ***** leagues. His Paternal great great grand father was a tailback in the Canadian football league. He was born in Costa...
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Categories:
tailback, encouraging, inspirational love, introspection,
Form:
Ballad