Best Traipsed Poems
Strange BathfellowsA spider traipsed onto my knee
While I was reading in the bath
Though most might jump and scream and flee,
I just gave a little laugh
A baby Daddy Long-Legs!
(Though really, 'twas just a son)
I shooed him back onto his web,
And continued reading on...
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Categories:
traipsed, books, humorous, insect,
Form:
Rhyme
Once Upon a Blue MoonThere's mischief in the air, and in the sky
Rises fair, sublime, and rare - Blue Moon.
Son of Venus, hidden, now lets fly
An arrow to a chaste fair maid who soon
Shall spy a youthful eager boy and sigh
As through the dance hall wafts a wistful tune.
For...
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Categories:
traipsed, passion,
Form:
Narrative
Impossible Mission To Sleep On Opposite Side of Marital BedImpossible mission to sleep on opposite side of marital bed...
Oddly enough even
when frolicking in the autumn mist
with seasoned super tramping
cheaply tricked out goo goo dolls
some resembling Indigo Girls,
one foo fighting beastie boy
unable to adjust snoozing
on the left bedside.
Don't ask me why,
cuz we...
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Categories:
traipsed, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Through Paned GlassBreezing trees heard the whispers of leaves
in the fardel of branches as they trembled
beneath the relentless breath of april's storm
i watched them from my window
this paned glass smudged over
with the splatter of lashing rain
pulsating against my hands
as i struggled to see clearly
through the...
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Categories:
traipsed, angst, rain, society, tree,
Form:
Free verse
On Writing Poetry[A few years ago, I wrote this poem “On Writing Poetry” for creative writing students. I hesitated to put it on Poetry Soup, but I did some revisions and decided to share it with you. It was my intention to be helpful and to give...
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Categories:
traipsed, poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Within Her EyesNocturnal butterflies chase anguish deep,
Mascara trails darken powder-white skies,
Peering t’wards nowhere unwilling to sleep,
Fearful lost visions seen within her eyes.
Within her eyes had love long ago deep,
Traipsed color cartwheels in somersault skies,
Peering tomorrows where marriage would sleep,
Next to her soulmate seen within her eyes.
Nocturnal...
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Categories:
traipsed, lost love,
Form:
Quatrain
The Rent of JudgementI've traipsed down a cobble of your path.
If you're ever lost, forgotten or misstep
I'll surely spruce up a room for you.
It'll be on the mundane -humble side
but safe-warm and welcoming
like in a child's sunlit dream.
I can cloak the well-worn floor
with a pattern of your...
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Categories:
traipsed, love,
Form:
Free verse
Spring BlizzardEleven horses traipsed single file toward home
The scudding clouds threw a snowflake now and then
A Brown bear sniffed the air and looked toward his den
the mountain emptied
The accumulation is...
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Categories:
traipsed, snow,
Form:
Sapphic stanza
How To Burn a Field(Good Advice Spurned)
Grandmother packed a picnic lunch.
Brother, sister, and I, with two uncles
traipsed into the woods,
in search of adventure.
We found it.
We ate our picnic lunch, sitting
on a fallen tree, spanning the creek.
We sampled “Rabbit Ice,” formed
on weeds, hugging the stems
in smooth, thin white...
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Categories:
traipsed, brother, family, farm, fire,
Form:
Narrative
Dark Woods MalI knew a man of careful life who longed to explore uncharted lands,
But family ties and circumstance for him held different plans.
Sometimes he would take a walk and find himself on the edge,
Of a great dark woods he’d never enter; to his wife he gave...
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Categories:
traipsed, fantasy, wife, sound, dark,
Form:
Light Verse
Saffron SummerSaffron Summer
Golden sets of surfs surfaces delve a surreal saffron sky,
Sands surrender shoeless soles that traipsed an eclipsing trail,
Amber rays supremely herald as an ocher beach comply,
Gild glitters halcyon flocked doves sprung free a summer's veil.
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Categories:
traipsed, beach, beautiful, imagery, nature,
Form:
Quatrain
The Wandering Soulno one allowed accompany him
a lonely spirit in the dark of the night
wanders with the bone-chilling air, shivering
when he traipsed to find a place to set root down
it was always autumn during which time he was a flesh
that’s why; he was rolling...
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Categories:
traipsed, death, life, loneliness, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Lessons From the SandpitGo play in the sandpit was the call from my Mother,
Whenever I was bored.
My first teacher then took over from my Mother,
In repeating those same words of Wisdom.
Thankfully the words had sunk in by the time our children arrived.
The answer to most of life's future...
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Categories:
traipsed, adventure, appreciation, art, beauty,
Form:
Pitter Patter On My HeartPitter-Patter on my Heart
Do not believe that your size in any way
diminishes the depth of my affection for you.
Some may say you are mere eating-pooping machines
but ever since you traipsed into my life a year ago
you’ve been pitter-pattering high and low
weaving circles all around my...
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Categories:
traipsed, friendship, love,
Form:
Free verse
In Time Gone By...In time gone by when cavemen were a thing of style
When plunder and pillaging were not thought of as vile
In times gone by when days were of leisure
And more thought was placed on fruitful pleasure
In time gone by when caveman speech was a platinum hit
And...
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Categories:
traipsed, history, time, earth, time,
Form:
Couplet