Get Your Premium Membership

Carbuncle Poems - Poems about Carbuncle

Premium MemberMoonstone Melodies

...
Let me conjure some mystical moonstone melodies
A symphony of sapphire strains and ruby rhapsodies
A harmony of hessonite hymns and pearlescent praises
A litany of lapis lazuli lullabies and...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: carbuncle, song,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member The Man

...
 The Man
Miracle Man
4/19/2024

An old geezer who had a thin truncal,
was cursed with a large neck carbuncle,
He wasn’t the same,
after bad news came,
of cannibals making a meal of ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: carbuncle, humorous, political,
Form: Limerick



Premium MemberMy Uncle Carbuncle

...My Uncle Carbuncle lived all alone,
In a very small house made all of stone.
No one called him or ever came by,
Just a hermit by choice, My Oh My!

My Mother's Brother and a real sad sack,
Had ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: carbuncle, destiny, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme

Sorry Uncle Albert

...We are so sorry uncle Albert
we will all miss your crazy Thanksgiving talk.
I am so sorry uncle
I have done nothing all day
but drift away to Never-Never land.
Peter Pan sends his regards,
but ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: carbuncle, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Shred

...Why I Will Always Be Alone



emptiness craving amorosity loathing darkness vintage dreams ravenous/heart gong a silent beat, shivering the desire bed empty since you left. Sex boiling with poten...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: carbuncle, allegory, allusion, beautiful,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberAnswer On a Bed of Nails

...Should it be a poet's duty
To write solely about beauty?

A POET’S DUTY by BETH EVANS

ANSWER ON A BED OF NAILS

let me answer the quixotic brioche —
we all need a delicate pinch;
bra...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: carbuncle, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberArt G's Golden Years

...Remember that singer, Art Garfunkel
He developed a painful carbuncle
   Got down on his knees
   Said, 'Don't lance it, please'
The mere thought of blood makes me cry 'Uncle'

Of course, old Ar...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: carbuncle, age, hair, pain, satire,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberAutumn's Auburn Rustic Dust

...AUTUMN'S AUBURN RUSTIC DUST

When with closed eyes in Autumn's eves of gold,
She breathes in the blades of orange-yellow,
Looking for that 'something' called auburn rust,
Halting mid suntanned t...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: carbuncle, autumn, joy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Weird Woman

...she pips in fear for lateness like her peers,

hauteur cloaked with reticence,

her-boo-boo-vague, though walled around and palpable

official Narcissist disguised in rude affronts

Bravado o...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: carbuncle, anger, animal, bullying, dog,
Form: Burlesque

Premium MemberThe Crap Shoot Poetry Contest

...On the surface 
you’re all sweetness and light

But ... 
the truth is life isn't a game
and if I were to start digging
digging deeper than a gravediggers soiled shovel
I'd see thro...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: carbuncle, bullying, poetry, slam,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Weird Woman

...she pips in fear for lateness like her peers,

hauteur cloaked with reticence,

her-boo-boo-vague, though walled around and palpable

official Narcissist disguised in rude affronts

Bravado o...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: carbuncle, beauty, betrayal, character, crazy,
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberCrumpled Sheets

...A pleasant sleep eludes her bed of stars.
Her crumpled sheets in twisted heap aloof.
The restless mind of mirth responds afar —
In moonlight serenade she scales the roof.

Arouse his...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: carbuncle, absence, longing, love,
Form: Sonnet

Diamond Made

...

I’m carbon-based,
Resurrection cornerstone foundation laid
Diamond made

These obsidian eyes
sardius shine ...
agate Illuminating
my igneous bright coal face

With volcanic intens...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: carbuncle, identity, spiritual, truth, visionary,
Form: Bio

Friend and Foe Frolick

...“Friend, friend, why do you hate me
I shower love to make you see
How much in your company I’d like to be.”

“Foe, on the contrary, no friendship debt to you do I owe 
Look me in the eye and fri...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: carbuncle, poems,
Form: Free verse

Carbuncle Unbidden and Unwelcome

...Wounds drained, opened, ingrained, rained, sprained, trained
In the midst of a family loss
Recriminations canned, fanned, planned, tanned
To fight the brute boss

Dressed up as justice cause
Di...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: carbuncle, poems,
Form: Free verse

Related Poems


Book: Reflection on the Important Things