Cheeked Poems - Poems about Cheeked

...Long ago in Littleton, when just a little lad My parents bought a coat for me of rusty-orange plaid. Not made for higher fashion, nor one of tailored f......

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... She's like the essence of a coral rose a latent bloomer with a heart of gold And when she speaks to me in prose deep inside, she opens doors of old Rosy cheeked and full of vitality a t......

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...I write to you, dear Miss Muffet, who once sat upon a tuffet. It was sixty long years ago, when your story, then, was told. Unfortunate details would unfold as a spider's yarn unrolled, if yo......

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...The fearless soldier with a glowing and youthful look aims his rifle toward his enemy behind the barrack, while thoughts are focused on practical and clever survival; the concept of horrifying dea......

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...The Wanderer, Part II Awakening, the friendless man confronts the murky waves, the seabirds bathing, broadening out their feathers, the hoar-frost, harrowing hail & snow eternally falling… Th......

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...Sappho Translations XV by Michael R. Burch Gaia, rainbow-crowned, garbs herself in myriad hues. (168c) We ran like fawns from the symposium: me, Cleis and reckless Gongyla. (168d) Destiny is......

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...Sappho Translations III by Michael R. Burch Bed the bride with the beautiful feet, or bring her to me! —Sappho, fragment 103b, translation by Michael R. Burch I long helplessly for love. Ga......

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...Somewhere I hear Earth's ever ticking clock Emptying the grains of Summers’ sandy seas Parting from birds flying South in flocks Time for leaves to fall from ancient tr......

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...Another generation of himself unzipped his soul like a banana, stepping instantly into another dimension of the same dream. Never died - never born, it was an implanted imaginary life......

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... Suzy with her cute black curls and red rose in her hair plays with June. These rose-cheeked girls have lots of love to share. Tea parties make both girls grin. Some sweet tea they have made.......

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... I endure my arrogance like a leftover twin absorbed during gestation, seeing myself in everything, not only the eyes that watch me rocking back and forth in a corner in order to flip my ......

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...I heard my tongue scream YES!!!! YES!!!!! OH GAWD YES!! The fork trembled The knife hesitated The maple syrup Dripping lips quaked. Cage free egg yolks Filled the craters Of the unexplored ......

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...ruddy-cheeked and whimsical October comes skipping in brightly drawing attention then leaves with a BOO......

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...It’s a boy thing the clickety-clack, clickety-clack of a train along its tracks all manner of boys from diapered toddler to arthritic codger from suited gent to aproned chef the clickety-c......

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...Glowing days that were once red-cheeked and ripe with promise, Are narrowing like tall candles in a church window, Tapering from the golden stand and the sturdy base, To the glorious flame and the......

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