Get Your Premium Membership

Careens Poems - Poems about Careens

Wheels Up
... Why does the trolley dolly or cart I choose to use in every supermart always have a wonky wobbly wheel and feel oh so wearing as if it's about to lose its marbles or ball bearings? ......

Continue reading...
Categories: careens, fun, humorous, silly, word
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Embodying the light
... Written: January 20, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker Quote: “There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.” Aeschylus, Line of inquir......

Continue reading...
Categories: careens, analogy, light,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Today Again
...Today Again It does not improve the void where hope once lived now genocide has set her tent among the childrens’ toys toy trucks and broken dolls blood smeared the silence smocked in mot......

Continue reading...
Categories: careens, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I See You In My Dreams
...I see you in my dreams I feel you in my arms But reaching out to touch you Only causes harm You are not there on my pillow You are nowhere to be found Sheer despair surrounds me In m......

Continue reading...
Categories: careens, dream, hope, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fiddle-Faddle Footle
...I haven’t written a fiddle-faddle footle in a while. Here goes: flotsam bought some floating doting for miles exiles flash scenes… careens ah trees… ......

Continue reading...
Categories: careens, adventure, imagery, water,
Form: Footle



Ambush
...A brook cascades daintily extant ~ flowing gayly heart’s incited joy Meandering, nestles on Peace ~ quivering restraints strain ‘n squirm Breaking-bank, careens downwards ~ extols faith’s grim ......

Continue reading...
Categories: careens, adventure,
Form: Acrostic
Bird By Rehab
...They unload life’s lead into unseen enemies machine gun memories flying rapid fire recollections and musings spent shells amassing mental turbines spinning smoking the room. And they yawn a......

Continue reading...
Categories: careens, addiction, recovery from,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Monkeying Around
...Her bulbous profile and pungent odor That sunken chin and busy motor A tremulous scowl crosses her flaring lips From her cup rum she gulps, while others sip Her mouth opens wide in a hideous gr......

Continue reading...
Categories: careens, animal, scary, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Blue Light Bulbs and a Bottle of Bleach and the Incandescent Must Win - Part 1
...Blue Light Bulbs and a Bottle of Bleach and The Incandescent Must Win (part 1) By: J.R. Wren A wilting flower and a blade of grass No presumptions of the way things ought to be Feeding ......

Continue reading...
Categories: careens, america, farm, muse, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Blurred Frenzy
...the minutes the hours the days in wild frenzy whistle by before long weeks turn to months to years on the racetrack life in a blur careens at headpopping speed i can barely hang on ......

Continue reading...
Categories: careens, angst, appreciation, life, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Slave of the Night-Ca
...ahh...auspicious shake of good fortune. the soil so red, smells so rich. the allure of an ancient burial box. my eyes, like pyres of greed. admiring thieves have no appetency for my pillage. t......

Continue reading...
Categories: careens, dark,
Form: Free verse
Catching the Trump Madness
...Releasing the Trump Monsters The Trump madness deepens And the world grows darker The evil ones have been released The wild things are growling The dogs of war Satan’s hell hounds Are on t......

Continue reading...
Categories: careens, america, angst, anxiety, political,
Form: Quatrain
Releasing the Trump Madness
...Releasing the Trump Monsters The Trump madness deepens And the world grows darker The evil ones have been released The wild things are growling The dogs of war Satan’s hell hounds Are on t......

Continue reading...
Categories: careens, angst, anxiety, horror, political,
Form: Quatrain
Endless Movie
...Watching the TV coverage Of the great government shut down Of 2018-2019 I am reminded of a movie As I fall asleep Listening to the TV Blather on and on About what it all means Mr. N......

Continue reading...
Categories: careens, crazy, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Mask of Tourmaline
...Twice the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber, Yet again awoken by winter when the third was three in number. I sense that a silence doth sneak ‘tween cracks of weathered wood, Conniving w......

Continue reading...
Categories: careens, anxiety, horror, imagination, mystery,
Form: Couplet

Related Poems


Book: Reflection on the Important Things