Best Undersides Poems
Song of The Peacock Butterfly No 6: AABB...Assures their breed a place among unknowns,
lest Europe and Asia part of their realms.
Peacock Butterfly, hues-full Inachis,
their uppermost topsides reveal truth bids,
yet undersides are black-l......
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Categories:
undersides, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beauty,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
A Frenzied Symphony...From evening's very ground it seems
gathering swelling sounds
waves crescendo-ing, grandeur...
appear the first colors on the horizon
streaks of magenta lighting up
undersides of slate-gr......
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Categories:
undersides, color, music, sky,
Form:
Imagism
Song of The White Willow No 6: AABB...Venture advances, the future ... occurs,
the White Willow trees, best found by rivers
edge. Salix alba, and 'Tristis' means sad,
hence, 'Weeping', yet the essence seems to add
a picturesque of a ......
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Categories:
undersides, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beautiful,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Villanelle: Live With the Borrowed Lives Made By Your Own Mistakes...Villanelle: Live with the borrowed lives made by your own mistakes
Live with the borrowed lives made by your own mistakes
A stranger to your stricken selves a tenant in your body
Disown not t......
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Categories:
undersides, courage,
Form:
Villanelle
A Storm In June...A crack of thunder splits a humid June sky,
shattering into millions of tiny droplets
to the the ground
a desperately needed respite from the early summers heat.
I belonged out here
I knew this ......
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Categories:
undersides, june, storm,
Form:
Free verse
Busy Neighbors...Two
birds - sleek
ebony,
with tinge of blue,
undersides of red
and dotted tails - dart when
I step out of my back door.
Circling overhead, they soar. I’d
like a closer look at them, to find
their ne......
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Categories:
undersides, bird,
Form:
Etheree
Unsocial...Step silent, listen
for the sizzle-slither
of a sister
snake who listens
soft for me, slides
among stones,
subsides
to undersides
of shadows, striking
soundless sinuous as
S, then......
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Categories:
undersides, animals, nature, sister,
Form:
Alliteration
The Nightmare Sleeps...THE NIGHTMARE SLEEPS
saliva drips off perfect white,
gleaming white, false fangs.
blood would fill, his full moon night.
breathless he sleeps,
bone-straight, crossed arms.
deep-brown rings ......
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Categories:
undersides, dark,
Form:
Free verse
Two Sides...The Laurels in my garden line the fence,
resplendent in their leaves of vivid green,
the undersides are coloured less intense
and on the gentle days, they hang unseen.
But, come the fiercer wind ......
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Categories:
undersides, character,
Form:
Sonnet
Le Drizzle Aleaf...The enchanted forest
Of Le Drizzle Aleaf,
Where trees become giants
And the roots become feet,
And the sky is distorted
By foliage sheets
Overlapping in rhythmic
Melody with the breeze.
And ......
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Categories:
undersides, absence, corruption, creation, grief,
Form:
Rhyme
Slip Jig Spring...The brook claps over the tumbled rock bed
applauding the Spring thaw
like a gaggle of Irish revelers;
setting the man high marsh grass
to dance a slip jig in the bonnie breeze.
Returning Can......
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Categories:
undersides, nature
Form:
Free verse
Such Fun Back In '61...The undersides of school chairs
all gooey with gum
We thought it such fun
back in sixty-one
In sixty-two we tore fruit loops
from the backs of girls' shirts
The innocent way
we f......
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Categories:
undersides, fun, kiss, nostalgia, school,
Form:
Rhyme
Noon Thunderstorm...patch of blue sky
behind acacia foliage
turns ominously black,
winds wail, winds blow,
impatient, agitated,
flipping up undersides
of shaken leaves;
deluge comes,
crack and dazzle,
ripping......
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Categories:
undersides, nature
Form:
Free verse
You (In So Many Words)...Broken glass tiles for your smile
Conch shell ears in pearly pink
Onyx mirror windows for your eyes
Butter yellow ribbons for your hair
Raw bamboo still green make up your arms
Sailor's knots ......
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Categories:
undersides, life, nature, people,
Form:
Free verse