Best Take Root Poems
Once Upon a Purple Sunrise...Once Upon a Purple Sunrise
Pretty as a Periwinkle,
in your frilly summer frock,
the one with purple polka dots
that matched the cool of early dawn.
Haloed in hazy lavender hue,
I'll ......
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Categories:
take root, memory, morning, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Where Love Grew Collaboration With Poet Freddie Robinson Jr...Where Love Grew
Beneath the maple tree
is where our love first started to grow
Green buds of unblossomed love,
basking in the golden dappled light
of spring’s awakening
A sweet kiss......
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Categories:
take root, love, tree,
Form:
Free verse
I Am Me, Set Me Free...I am given to you by Creator Himself
My Limbs long to grow straight and tall
Bathed in sunlight from above, paying homage
Fulfilling my God given task
From the dawn of creation, in the Ho......
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Categories:
take root, cancer, creation, environment, health,
Form:
Ode
Sweet Surrender...I would willingly lose myself, to find rest in your iridescence
Thirsting the taste of your sacred place, craving your inner presence
I would freely submit myself, offer my sweet surrender
Kneel a......
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Categories:
take root, fantasy, imagination,
Form:
Romanticism
Within Your Heart...Do not let doubt take root within your heart.
To pain, and wrong paths, it keeps the feet bound
To where gathered dark clouds refuse to part.
Yes, hearts wrench as ones beliefs fall apart.
When......
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Categories:
take root, emotions, feelings, heart, love,
Form:
Villanelle
Promises...
promises blooming like flowers in unfertile soil ~are seeds that can't take root......
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Categories:
take root, analogy,
Form:
Monoku
My Ring Trilogy - the Poems...You Know Who You Are!
I know that you probably know who you are...
Abusers who prey on women (or men) .
Your aberrance mostly extends to the weak,
Your generosity just serves other's pain
An......
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Categories:
take root, hurt, jealousy, recovery from,
Form:
Blank verse
To a Weeping Willow..."the willows dip
Their pendent boughs, stooping as if to drink." William Cowper
To a Weeping Willow
The graceful, sweeping green
I remember seeing it,
my first weeping willow
graceful trails of le......
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Categories:
take root, earth, grief, tree,
Form:
Free verse
Gift of Love...Regardless of our faith, in Love we can believe,
For Love's within us all, if we choose to retrieve.
Should we choose to leave Love in a dormant state,
Then we invite into our heart the bitterness......
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Categories:
take root, giving, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Spring Is In the Air...Spring is in the Air
Rebirth parallels springtime breeze
Creatures slowly emerge from the freeze
New seedlings take root
Birds mimic the flute
And the world see......
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Categories:
take root, animal, beauty, bird, hope,
Form:
Limerick
A New Year...The carcasses of rockets litter grass
dark hours advanced since midnight bells have chimed
and revellers stood watching seconds pass
to cheer and kiss to strains of 'Auld Lang Syne'.
Outside, fro......
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Categories:
take root, new year,
Form:
Sonnet
We Are Not Familiar...We are not familiar –
we are city dwellers.
We have passed each other
on crowded city streets.
Proud yellows protruding
through concrete cracks.
I have danced with “lady slippers”
in a shade......
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Categories:
take root, flower, spring,
Form:
Free verse
The Rose...The thorns over grown and tough
Rip the flesh from her aging skin
Difficult as the chore may be
She prunes where others haven't been
Deep in thought as she does the job
Gloved hands remo......
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Categories:
take root, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme
Y and Z...Gen Y and Z- one cryptic crowd!
Manage, by text, to Laugh Out Loud!
Not loud enough?! Well, there is more -
Laughing While Rolling On The Floor!
LMBO LMAO ......
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Categories:
take root, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
When Love Appeared...
Time can't always tell
when love will choose to emerge
Love has its own rhythm of conception,
which is timeless as creation ...
a force of nature undeterred
Spring can always be foreseen
b......
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Categories:
take root, blessing, love, spiritual, truth,
Form:
Verse