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Checkered Past Poems - Poems about Checkered Past

Reflections of the Past, Visions of the Future
...Tying the knot, I thought sowed my soul. Making me a better man, But I discovered the lack. Learning how to respect one another. Loving another at the cost of loving myself. Unrequited pain, ......

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Categories: checkered past, divorce, motivation,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Bird With a Checkered Past
...I met a quirky bird the other day, Who has a checkered past, they say. Many a nest she left in shambles, As she continues her rambles. Takes what she needs, Leaves others to bleed. ......

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Categories: checkered past, 12th grade, betrayal, relationship,
Form: Free verse



Deciphering Crossword Puzzles, Cryptograms and Scrabblegrams Once Favorite Pastimes
...Deciphering crossword puzzles, cryptograms and scrabblegrams once favorite pastimes Livingsocial at 324 Level Road circa post high school graduation found yours truly voluntarily holed up for a......

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Categories: checkered past, 12th grade, angel, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Mine Courtship and Marriage With Deadly Obsession
...Mine courtship and marriage with deadly obsession... As September daze will soon arrive recollections from a psychologically checkered past loom large recalling tragic storied days of mein......

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Categories: checkered past, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Checkered
...A pattern like a checkerboard Is one that I adore, On clothing, bedding, even rugs Or tiles upon a floor. Though stripes and dots and plaid are nice, I’m partial to the squares, Especially in......

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Categories: checkered past, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Stalemate
...~~A chess match is an opaque mirror into societal clash slippery rules and taboos playing upon a checkered past balcony kings and queens glaring down on the lower caste. Ramparts buttressing crook......

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Categories: checkered past, america, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Statement and Stage Presentation
...Did you hear about the time the Doc was on the clock? Apparently an actor took a shot At the President who was enjoying the theater in a special spot Being popular knowing the right team had wo......

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Categories: checkered past, america, hate, leadership, presidents
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Resurrected
...Sipped one Pabst Sobriety lapsed Resolve collapsed Resurrected His checkered past His fiancé aghast Once more, outcast......

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Categories: checkered past, addiction, drink, relationship,
Form: Monorhyme
Paths To the Foundry
...The World is a testing ground to burn out impurity, a forge of sorts, sorting out infermity. A Threshing floor of chaff and wheat. The bread of life consuming your choices as you eat. Of ......

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Categories: checkered past, character,
Form: Rhyme
Picnic
...How then by trite opinion should foul ink print its confusion and in the guise of truth and the flurry of news be a rabble of hype for its own concocted proof Each lie spread gourmet upon the......

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Categories: checkered past, integrity, political, riddle, social,
Form: Free verse
Defined By Idioms
...Defined By Idioms Naked truth, bent nails dead men tell no tales bad Apple, broken mirrors burnt out light bulbs, crocodile tears spilt milk, goose chase two cents worth, rat race rotten egg......

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Categories: checkered past, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Would You Still Love Me
...How strong is your love? Should a rather cruel fate befall me; a disfiguring accident robbing me of what first attracted you to me, wha......

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Categories: checkered past, change, devotion, faith, love,
Form: Free verse
Two Steps Ahead
... You’ve met me, but you just don’t know it yet The dream house that you want, I once polar bear hibernated there ... two winter moons ago The summer fruit of relaxation that you’re ta......

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Categories: checkered past, conflict, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
Form: Epic
Gitti Ghetto Like That
... I loved a suburban woman, but she didn’t urban love me as deeply as a brother needs She said I was too ghetto But my bank account said I was qualified gated community CitiBank gi......

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Categories: checkered past, emotions, feelings, lost love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Lickety Split
...Long legs travel faster Incendiary post: Checkered past, Knocked up. Eager ears! Tell me more! Yodel across......

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Categories: checkered past, travel,
Form: Acrostic

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