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Covetously Poems - Poems about Covetously

Again
...It comes in waves Before you know it Was it always there It comes in waves You didn’t think about it today Did I make it up Is pain a feeling I’ve ever known It comes in waves This time was......

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Categories: covetously, abuse, dark, depression, feelings,
Form: Free verse
The Balls: A Parody of Poe's the Bells
...I Hear the bouncing of the balls-- Basketballs! What a sound of merriment they cause when each ball falls! How they echo, echo, echo, Inside the gymnasium walls, Arriving at a crescendo......

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Categories: covetously, 11th grade, basketball, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Triumph of Self-Glory's Loss
...God-wrought triumph* jubilantly serene, blissfully radiant faith-fortifying, spirit-reviving, Christ-exalting stewardship, faithfulness; arrogance, selfishness mind-afflicting,......

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Categories: covetously, blessing, character, christian, faith,
Form: Diamante
To Help the Deaf To Hear and the Blind To See
...TO HELP THE DEAF TO HEAR AND THE BLIND TO SEE “Skepticism," the poet told the woman, "is contained in human reason and can never divorce itself from it, because human reason contains the truth.”......

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Categories: covetously, people, philosophy, silence,
Form: Free verse
Fool's Goad
... Little lemmings, beware of the Yukon yodel Don’t ear swallow the Arctic shiny yellow Fake eureka disclosure: It’s jingle hollow So, enamel blowflake please, place not your panhandle h......

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Categories: covetously, allusion, muse, wisdom, word
Form: Rhyme



Jade Oinkment
... The sow beauty queen’s favorite color is money green The cloven jaw cutie’s favorite sound is “cha-ching” Miss Piggy Lips loves how the cash registers throughout the land constan......

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Categories: covetously, funny, humorous, parody, satire,
Form: Ode
Sea of Collateral Carnage
... See the human debris, the scattered limbs torn apart by shrapnel velocity In so many Third World places, the second-hand groan grafters commit mercantile murder in the first degree......

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Categories: covetously, dark, imagery, perspective, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Sand Goddess
...Supine she lies upon the sand beads of perspiration finely dot curvaceous golden brown form carefree tresses spring, fly away hair coconut oil lathers coquettish peaks bared free, fles......

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Categories: covetously, beach, summer,
Form: Free verse
Imp-Ulse Attraction
... The seductive voice emanating from the Cyclops eye, whispers: Don’t believe what you see! Only trust what I say, when you zombie sleep turn off the TV Have no bewitching faith in y......

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Categories: covetously, allusion, imagery, satire, surreal,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Digital Translation
... Ten fingers left and right palm pig squeezing a thief’s prayer merry One finger covetously dipped in the pie hole green apple gouging Nine fingers raven cloaked in vulture reape......

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Categories: covetously, allegory, corruption, perspective, wisdom,
Form: Couplet
New Moneychangers
... And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them t......

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Categories: covetously, corruption, religious, spiritual, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Liberty Bow Face
... Red power mode White digital Blue logo My, oh my ... sweet apple pie! Patriotic American cheese is turning sour Kraut commie Democracy is Wisconsin curdling ... penicillin shot ne......

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Categories: covetously, allusion, imagery, truth, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Slithering Meat
... Reptile meat got a foul swallow The creeping things they eat emit putrid vapors ... vocal odors lemmings do follow Falling off the cliff into the mouth ... Bask in the saliva nasty......

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Categories: covetously, corruption, dark, truth, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Speaking Ill of the Dead
... Dishonorable plastic discharge gouge a crater debt of predatory lending regret Dead faces on printed paper exercise still their executive will Oppressive weight from the mausol......

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Categories: covetously, corruption, money, perspective, truth,
Form: Verse
Life In An Aquarium
...My life in an aquarium, so great, But fearsome, with unknown fate. Swimming against the fresh water, Flapping my gills for a breather, The air pump producing bubbles, Se......

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Categories: covetously, fish, fishing,
Form: Rhyme

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