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Chimneys Poems - Poems about Chimneys

The Weight of Elsewhere 'Part Two'
...To: The Immigration Office Date: November 11th, 2024, 9:15 AM Subject: Application #47291 Focus: Limbo To Whom It May Concern, I am writing from the plastic chair in your fluorescent-......

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Categories: chimneys, political,
Form: Free verse
The Greatest American Generation
...They came with dust on their boots and a morning star, Shadows of boyhood still clinging to their shoulders— They were sons of the land, faces bright with the dew, Carrying small, cherished photog......

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Categories: chimneys, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse



Black or White
... In the Sistine chapel where frescos peep, away from watchful devote eyes that weep, a conclave gathers in reflection deep, to choose a shepherd for gospels to keep. Amidst partisan whispers, ......

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Categories: chimneys, change, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Evening Ember Glow
... Written: March 14, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Constance La France ***************** After the rain, the air smells musty and moist, and smoke swirls clumsily upward......

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Categories: chimneys, autumn, change,
Form: Free verse
Brian Short
...Your album cover Anything for a Laugh seems candlelight lit arched churchways and smoke from village Chimneys sepia daybreak angel clouds jettisoning with yellow filter You died in Newcastl......

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Categories: chimneys, appreciation,
Form: Free verse



Old man and young
...This is a familiar village, with a few homes, Smoke rises straight from the chimneys’ domes. Today the streets are desolate and bare, Houses decaying, no one to care. Did the children d......

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Categories: chimneys, old, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Meringues
... The yolks sit alone in the garbage can, tiny suns extinguished by my own hand. This is how I learned to hate abundance. I whip the whites until they stiffen, peaks forming like Fairy ......

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Categories: chimneys, allusion, sweet,
Form: Free verse
Christmas
...Candy canes with red swirls. Hollies strung across the fireplace. Ring-a-ling, go jingle bells from carolers. Ice skating with your friends. Saint Nick gives yo......

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Categories: chimneys, 6th grade, christmas,
Form: Acrostic
In Winter
...In Winter In winter shovels hide up chimneys, icicles cross stitch, jumpers go swimming in lagoons, ice skates go hunting for gold bars, bonfires make bed quilts and pillows, the dar......

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Categories: chimneys, humor,
Form: Free verse
The Shadows We Cast
...Beneath the sunlit dome of sky, Where whispers of winds and rivers sigh, Lies a shadow, a wound unhealed, The truth of mankind, long concealed. We stand, architects of dreams and light, Yet bu......

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Categories: chimneys, abuse, anger, angst, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member There's No Coal In My Stocking?
... I'm heading home for Christmas (Snows on the way) In a plane, then a cab and a sleigh Bringing presents and prizes I've made Giddy yup horsey! I musn't be late Of God we are saints, of myth ......

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Categories: chimneys, christmas, humor, winter,
Form: Rhyme
SANTA GOT STRANDED IN FLORIDA
...SANTA GOT STRANDED IN FLORIDA Santa, on an extended vacation in Miami Heard news that Rudolf’s leg was gammy It was the middle of December already And with wine he was feeling unsteady For t......

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Categories: chimneys, christmas, scary,
Form: Rhyme
A Christmas Story
...Sit around as I tell you a Christmas story..where the lights hang low, the chimneys are stuffed and the carolers are stuck in snow. ‘‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the night, a......

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Categories: chimneys, christmas, emotions, growing up,
Form: Spoken Word
Anti-Semitism
...Students asked if they were Jewish going into University lectures. Synagogue fire bombed. This is Australia and we don’t allow this to occur!! Antisemitism Children cut out of line Being Jewi......

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Categories: chimneys, anti bullying, prejudice,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Twas the Night Before Christmas
...Twas the night before Christmas at Muscatine Mall. There to see Santa, Sis was in a thrall. At only age six, she still believed that our Christmas gifts came from a guy old and fat: A man in a ......

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Categories: chimneys, christmas,
Form: Rhyme

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