Best Workshops Poems
Matchstick Bikes...Matchstick Bikes
To tinkers and toilers
I salute,
From mending boilers
to weaving jute,
Man and boy
for generations,
I will unemploy
your occupations.
To bre......
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Categories:
workshops, society,
Form:
Rhyme
To Be Prolific...My life has been fairly stable. Rarely does an event “change my life” in any significant way. Marriage, children, one’s job. Of course, these alter one’s life course, but when I think of a life-chang......
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Categories:
workshops, writing,
Form:
Prose
Re-Assigned Sugar Plum Elf...I had barely escaped the cat’s enormous paws
When I found myself in fairyville Santa Claus
What is this place I ventured to ask?
The answer was a surprising gasp.
Are you new? The red robin que......
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Categories:
workshops, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
The Finest Antebellum Mansion In the South...The Finest Antebellum Mansion in the South
By Elton Camp
Windsor was near the banks of the Mississippi River
Extreme luxury, size, beauty and comfort it did deliver
The manor was completed j......
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Categories:
workshops, historyhouse, war, house, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Grease, Oil and Fashion...The lollipop lady and laborer,
Driving to work we can see who it is.
In bright fluoro orange and yellow
Retro reflective people wearing high vis.
There’s vests and jackets and singlets and bibs......
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Categories:
workshops, clothes, color, fashion, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
No Remembrance...My doctor says, as we grow older,
and keep cramming stuff into our brain,
sooner or later, it has to dump.
Is this really true?
Or, is it simply a doctor's excuse
for something to which he has......
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Categories:
workshops, age, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Ocean Sky Book In Progress...Flying airships battling in the open sky,
the sailors trying to save their own lives,
and all the panoplies of war revealed in broad daylight
unto the human psyche.
The cosmos composed wholly of ......
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Categories:
workshops, adventure, animals, life, loss,
Form:
Epic
My First Car-2...My first car
A great uncle of mine, those days, bought an used car,
Which turned out to be such a terrible sore,
Frantic, he pushed it up a hill, in front of all
And, sent it down to the ri......
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Categories:
workshops, funny, loss,
Form:
Lyric
Humans Be Not Proud...Humans, be not proud
Every human is a farm
Chocolate for animals
To live, eat and survive
Every human, bacteria’s cake
Food for viruses they are
With delicious juicy flesh
For fungus, fish an......
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Categories:
workshops, humanity, philosophy, wisdom,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Meltdown At the North Pole...Due to extreme conditions beyond Santa Claus' control,
'Tis rumored that he might have to vacate his home at the Pole!
Seems that climate warming is the culprit causing the Pole to thaw,
Which c......
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Categories:
workshops, funny,
Form:
Couplet
The Eight Spoke Water Wheel...A Quote By: Drama Queen Workshops
Karma even when you're not aware, it is present,
active, and responding precisely, always...
We live in bondage caused by our past views and......
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Categories:
workshops, analogy,
Form:
Free verse
Earthfirst Communities...He thought they could build
a healthier multinational corporation.
She felt we could grow
a wealthier multicultural
sacred cooperative network.
He led a hierarchical Council
for World Class......
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Categories:
workshops, earth, green, health, heart,
Form:
Political Verse
That Salad Went Right Through Me...That Salad Went Right Through Me
I've always wanted to write a poem called
“That Salad Went Right Through Me”.
And I would wager upon its best destiny:
To begin with, there is the Universal......
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Categories:
workshops, assonance, poetry, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Upon Exiting the Womb...Upon exiting the womb...
23,190 days ago,
Yours truly got hashtagged
as the 2,975,075,410TH
person alive on Earth
according to website
https://worldpopulationhistory.org/
my-population-num......
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Categories:
workshops, adventure, africa, america, birth,
Form:
Free verse
Where Blood Is Not Enough...Where blood is not enough
Blood flows, flows, flows
Competing with Nile waters
Blood Threatens to overwhelm
Tigris and Euphrates
To make Red Sea, redder
But the head goes crazy, crazy
Where......
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Categories:
workshops, allegory, destiny, heartbroken, humanity,
Form:
Epic