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Clacking Poems - Poems about Clacking

Premium Member Knees
...Pursuing springtime walking sprees beside our dog, beneath the trees, I oft detected some unease amongst the birds and buzzing bees as echoed by flat monodies of clicking, clacking, knocking kne......

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Categories: clacking, body, health,
Form: Rhyme
Sappho Translations IV
...Sappho Translations IV by Michael R. Burch Sappho, fragment 133 translation by Michael R. Burch Blushing bride, brimful of rose-petaled love, brightest jewel of the Goddess of Paphos, come t......

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Categories: clacking, friend, joy, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse



February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024
...February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024 I believed fortune cookie maxim cryptic message couched Apple Macbook Pro update process alternately titled “markedly a L......

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Categories: clacking, absence, abuse, adventure, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Your Death
... Why do you Put me through this This death of yours? Why can’t I dance And play And eat My God Or sleep And forget. The sky is the same The blue The air full The clacking of a train ......

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Categories: clacking, death, love,
Form: Free verse
Onomato-pea-a
...I’m Onomato-pea-a The window is my home. I love the sounds of cooking At day, at dusk, and dawn. Mom clomps into the room And clicks on every light The curtain whooshes open, I wake up, “No ......

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Categories: clacking, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme



Subway
...Subway It’s 3 a.m. on the subway. I’m high and lonely. A little girl in a womans body. Oversized hoodie and ripped jeans. Messy bun and tear stained cheeks. An empty stomach under a shattered......

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Categories: clacking, abuse, addiction, allusion, angst,
Form: Free verse
NOTORIETY OF PENNILESS
...SAPA: THE NOTORIETY OF PENNILESS Their ambition grew higher, Sapa, blew out of proportion. Their expectations grew higher, Sapa extend its wings. Sapa, the Invincibly diabolical. cri......

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Categories: clacking, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Recipe for Eagle Meat
...We've used our gifts to... watercolor disease potter haloes of love into horns of hate knitting the fallout of nuclear dreams. Evolution is unwinding at the speed of light. DNA is drunk on ......

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Categories: clacking, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Within these Walls
...Faces of death stare against my raptured skin. Silently, they watch me in frigid judgment. I used to run from them in unholy matrimony, Peeling the sins from my teardrops Wishing they......

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Categories: clacking, abuse, introspection, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Town Full Of Sound
...Town Full Of Sound I use to live in A town full of sound With Roller Coasters And Merry Go Round Horns would blast To sound an alarm I use to live in A town full of sound I use to li......

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Categories: clacking, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Walls ana wails
...WALLS AND WAILS I am confined within these four walls For far too long and pray a wall falls And the guns jam with wardens asleep As I take a walk of freedom, a leap To a new world without gun......

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Categories: clacking, 12th grade, depression, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Critterature: A Prickly Situation
...Old joke: How do porkypines mate? Very carefully. The porcupine's a modest And mostly solitary beast, Akin to capybara and to beaver, Though in size he is the least. He rarely gets invited ......

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Categories: clacking, animal, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Flying
...Tense and clacking. Beautiful scenery. Ominous yet bright sky. I don’t brace myself this time. That just makes my breath hurt more. I can just… Pretend to fly. I can be dizzy and......

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Categories: clacking, anxiety, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
The Peacock King
...An old peacock has lost his voice, among the hens he wanders, his soundless beak a' clacking. Once he rode the roof of life, once he strutted across its gaming board, a tyrant lover, a beady-ey......

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Categories: clacking, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soccer
...Lisa and I had been watching some boys strut about, as they played soccer, in their little shorts, in the freezing cold. It’s an old animal story. The game ended, or it was intermission and about ......

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Categories: clacking, boy, life, school, student,
Form: Free verse

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