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Best Yolk Poems

Below are the all-time best Yolk poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of yolk poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Dusk
Melting sorrows drift toward tomorrow
when sounds dance in hushed irrelevance.
Sacred seconds are held in creation's tawny yolk
as crystal waves of wind bid farewell to this...

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Categories: yolk, sunset,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Aurora Spills
"Aurora Spills"


Aurora spills like a waterfall
light from the eyes 
saltwater tears
crocodilian
scaled in the weight of worth
a drop in the ocean of fate
breaks the seaweed fields...

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Categories: yolk, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Mystery of Humpty Dumpty
(typo just fixed)

Old Humpty Dumpty, the egg on the wall,
had a friend Bacon, who was ten feet tall.
Those two went together like bread goes with...

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Categories: yolk, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Sky Cracked Open
"The Sky Cracked Open"



One day 
the Sky cracked open
the yolk of life
shined through

Splinters shifted
blooded angel quills
flew amongst the
black spots in the iris 

20/20 vision 
wild...

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Categories: yolk, dark, fate, i am,
Form: Free verse
The Hamburger
For thirty years I’ve been a truckie who has driven far and wide,
Carting goods through day and night all across the countryside…
But hours spent upon...

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Categories: yolk, food, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Doctor Said
An apple every day, he said to me.
Berries too, for your recovery.

Can I have just one small slice of pie?

Doctor nearly glared into my eye!
Even...

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Categories: yolk, cancer, food,
Form: Rhyme
All Through Tuscany
The afternoon outlined. The sunny strokes
of a samurai blade on her body
revealing things the eyes feign see.
Tempted, wounded, the virgin parchment floats
between her skin and...

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Categories: yolk, love, nature, nostalgia, passion,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Imagery
Love comes early in the morning
we watch the sun rise
a light yellow yolk
walking with red legs across the sky...
Hurrying from her car
we are just two...

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Categories: yolk, dream, imagery, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Take Heed, Love
We cannot mimic the cry of a loon. Nor capture the light of the moon.
We'll never reach a distant star. Both too high and much...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: yolk, angst, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Seasonal Color
Summer Sunset

I smiled at seagulls dancing on the beach at low tide
and dug my toes into lemon-colored grains of sand,
nearly the same light hue of...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: yolk, beach, sea, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Caramel Macchiato, Please
I’m tapping my feet to the music escaping an old man’s saxophone
On main street
I can feel the raindrops hit my hand
I roll them in my...

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© Iris Blade  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: yolk, pain,
Form: Free verse
Embers of Memory
embers of memory- solitude
a rugby inside me trembling
jerking off seeds, heat yolk
furtive cells melt in furnace

a secret pleasure perfumes
a little room an eve garden
my son...

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Categories: yolk, allegory,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Murder of Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
But he didn't fall deliberately, he was pushed.
He was smahed to pieces when he landed...

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Categories: yolk, food, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Butter Side Up
In life…
Whether you remain as plain toast,
Or into a soldier you are cut,
Whether you are covered in marmalade,
Or dipped into yolk from an egg cup,
In...

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Categories: yolk, life, literature, meaningful, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Hardboiled Woman
Hardboiled women, has your solid heart never been cracked.

Your golden soul still intact.

Allow life’s experience to peel away your shell, before we expire.

Let the yolk...

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Categories: yolk, courage, encouraging, hope, identity,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things