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Bristly Poems - Poems about Bristly

Nilgiri Tahr
...Sure-footed on rugged hill Likes life on mountain range Rolling grassland fits the bill Short horns reveal their age Ovines in endangered stage Males change from Brown, grey to black Deft cli......

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Categories: bristly, animal,
Form: Quintain (English)
Seedlings
...We all start out like seedlings Just emerging from the earth, Alike in that we’re each of us A product of a birth. Depending on our genus, We may grow up tall and straight Or be scraggly or b......

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Categories: bristly, life, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Well this took a while to get to the point
...Imagine - trying to be profound I feel it's automatic failure by applying effort That all sounds like a me problem Both with automatic failure And judgements I could have an existential crisis,......

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Categories: bristly, anxiety,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Brushing
...Circling and scraping. Bristly and comforting. When I brush my teeth. It’s never that bad. But getting out of bed is the hard part. I find myself wishing someone would bring me my toothbrush. I......

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Categories: bristly, anxiety, depression,
Form: Free verse
Tired
...He thinks he killed me. So he rolled me up in a rug. I thought I died too but then I wiggled my toes. Rugs are bristly and hot, so I felt that too. When I try to unfurl, I just get wrapped tighte......

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Categories: bristly, mental illness,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Charlotte
...Charlotte You were smiling at me As you were looking right Through him Or were you Looking right through me As you were smiling at him? False subtleties From dew to dust From dawn to du......

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Categories: bristly, analogy, anger, betrayal, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Roadside Poetry
...Well, I suppose that I am again revealing my age, But I grew up when Burma Shave signs were all the rage! Could it be that those 'masterly creations' sparked my poetic bent, As I soaked up a tad o......

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Categories: bristly, humorous, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Witch
...Witches are wizened hags With long nose and loose hair Wart nosed ugly spirits Wicked ramblers of night Who ride on bristly brooms Wielders of black magic Weird sisters in Macbeth...

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Categories: bristly, dark, evil, green,
Form: Pleiades
Premium Member Crux
...Crux is a craggy, seasoned, sunbaked fisherman from Missouri. Never one to speed up a story, and never in any kind of hurry. He has no grandchildren of his own, but likes my daughter Grace. Grace ......

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Categories: bristly, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member We Are Flowers of Life
...You are a rose, with prickly words and thorny ways. Your life is hardy like a mum and a bit dull like one too. My cousin is an orchid, delicate and bristly, brittle. One strong wind could end her.......

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Categories: bristly, life,
Form: Free verse
Cracked
...down the road past the slips and fallen power lines a massive macrocarpa pine tree 90 feet of sprawling bristly dark green all wild spiky branches and cones squat a......

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Categories: bristly, storm,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumn Leaf
...“Autumn leaves don’t fall; they fly. They take their time and wander on this, their only chance to soar.” Owens, Delia. Its solemn swaying into this world isn't a fall, From the ever-season-shif......

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Categories: bristly, autumn, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mr Otter Nursery Rhyme
... Frisky frog forgot to bathe So off he went, to the creek Alone in the water, he decided He’d be so clean, he’d squeak Silly squirrel, scattered his nuts Along the bank where Frog s......

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Categories: bristly, animal, funny, nature, nursery
Form: Rhyme
The Sacred Virtue
...Just like a germinating node, so are the childishly preened pudenda load. Ecstasy in fluffs of dew are bestowed as croissants for neonate are getting bold. Silky gazelle of a nymphet endowed w......

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Categories: bristly, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Foxtails Haiku
...Weeds~ what a nightmare! the pesky, bristly mean seeds; prickly spikelets......

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Categories: bristly, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Haiku

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