Briar Poems - Poems about Briar

...In the thicket forgotten of deeply anchored thoughts, Where ideas nest, across time and tailored spaces, There I stand, guardian of the undimmed realm, the archivist of the flame That knows not ex......Read the rest...

...We’d go exploring along the river and through the woods, We’d run, and we’d whoop, then go silently to try and see a rabbit if we could. We’d push through all the briar and the bramble, Then cha......Read the rest...

...From the thistle and vine From the thicket of thorn Into the light of the morning Out from the briar patch, gone In a flicker of light Into the glimmer of dawn Slipping out at the daybrea......Read the rest...

...Midday, no shadows to muddle the glare. Fawn stuck in a briar bush. Bear coming. If only a cloud could hide the face of death? The hungry cries of her cubs unsettle the air. If only y......Read the rest...

...In crowded halls, ivy clad, walk the sleepless zombies - the walking dead. They’ve come to grapple, the chosen few, in trials by pen and pencil too. Long ago we quietly agreed to trade studies an......Read the rest...

...**Trigger Warning** "I Knew Anne Silently - My Ravenous Poe" I knew Anne. you’d think with a name like hers she’d be able to find her way out of unchartered water......Read the rest...

...The Unsupervised Stop Sign 10-26-23 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Unsupervised Stop Sign STOP! Red lights flash crimson warnings As arias of bloodred omens swirl about ......Read the rest...

...Written: August 12, 2023 ______________________________________________________________ I fitfully stumble through bramble and briar. Cut by the cold promise of a lost season's fire, ......Read the rest...

...Through restless nights and weary days, When strength is lost in endless haze, The body, worn down, and weathered, cries. But, deep within the spirit roars soars and defies. The bones may groan......Read the rest...

...I listened for the rain, it emerged slowly now and again from a crepuscular caliginus sky, the tenebrous mist that trickled down lightly in the by and by as if they were drops of salted tears......Read the rest...

...There was a firefly who had lost her fire-- How it did happen, no one quite knew why. She looked in trees, under rocks, and briar But couldn’t find it, she started to cry: “Oh, dear, what’s a fir......Read the rest...

...Indelible link to a bygone event, one clutches with foolproof recall, of cerulean cloud-ridden sky, on that pivotal day I penned my first opus, I strolled at a leisurely pace, down this charmin......Read the rest...

...Read these words, no Not ‘these’ words, read the words that are laid to rest under a thorny bush. See how they emerge to eat the spikes and burrs become this life of yours? Tell the teach......Read the rest...

...As long as I can remember came Christmas cards in December - my aunts back home to thank. With glad tidings at yuletide and always tucked away inside a cheque from Barclays Bank.......Read the rest...

...Blackberry briar bounds the river: a curb o’er the levee’s curve; a thorny imbroglio under which twitters sing in broody milieu Naught but the resilient do venture within daunting vine bent in as......Read the rest...