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Cowering Poems - Poems about Cowering

Premium Member Prolegomena Soliloquy - Pt 1
...Tell me, my friend, does infinity not unsettle your reason, or is it a comfort—to believe it meaningless? Look beyond the rust of your disbelief— this isn’t the frostbitten dogma you im......

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Categories: cowering, beauty, christian, easter, faith,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Fate strikes upfront or with backender
...The serpent rears up with fangs bared, upfront and center. The scorpion's sting is poised to strike with a coiled, curled, cowering, concealed, backender sting in its tail. A life flips on......

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Categories: cowering, fate,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member No more
...No more Cowering behind the door, my son and I Praying the brutal fury would subside. In his little face, desperate not to cry, I saw the truth and could no longer hide The man I married had......

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Categories: cowering, abuse,
Form: Rhyme
Son of Sleep, Father of Thunder
...Weeping walls of heralded hallows, Sweetless seam of darkening shadows, Seldom son of sickening honour, Shall bring, shall bring, this darkening hour. So sweet, so sweet, this tallowing cower, ......

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Categories: cowering, birth, child, death, father,
Form: Quatrain
Shaking
...I have a cup in my hand. Spilling it. Then I pour some into my hands. Laughing. So I get more. Sipping coffee from my palms. Beautiful. The journal. Pages. Folded up, turning into p......

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Categories: cowering, mental illness,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member terrified husband
...Crunch of her shoes fascinated the hallway House had been empty way too long Husband waited, expecting her to open the door Masked, dressed in black, intruder entered bedroom Husband reached fo......

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Categories: cowering, husband, wife,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Creed
...My Creed I live - a child - Wrapped in feast days of divine whimsy When the world outlines itself In blue zircon sparkle A child of the season When glittering petals of snowflowers Rest on......

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Categories: cowering, child, life, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Five Ku
...autumn ambles slowly shuffling through fallen leaves dodging Winter’s kiss crumpled pumpkins frown sparrows await a sunrise a barn cat stretches seagulls battle gusts crabs wander an empty......

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Categories: cowering, autumn, change, winter,
Form: Senryu
Lonely
...With a face full of anguish he walks a lonely street at night. No room for tomorrow in his world. Today is just a fight. Sadness stripped the bones clothes hang upon his frame Heartache drips from......

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Categories: cowering, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Song
...The song is a gift from God to me And a present from my heart to yours. It’s meant to be shared. It’s meant to be free. It’s meant to break down closed doors. The song is worth nothing if no one ......

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Categories: cowering, inspiration, song,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Duping the Demons
...I often wake up tired Too much cerebral housecleaning Dusting, filing, musing Feeding the demons They are less likely to act up If they are nurtured Recognized for what they are I no longer fe......

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Categories: cowering, fear, identity, scary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member of feral thought
...I wander through a minefield Of feral thought Ever alert For the slightest hint Of hidden prey Trembling thoughts Shamed in their youth Cowering Beneath dried roots A shadow Out of sync wit......

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Categories: cowering, courage, self, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Once the Giant of Africa
...Once the giant of Africa, Now a nation lost, without a map. The people, once proud and free, Now trapped, in chains, without the key. The land, once green and lush, Now barren, as if struck by......

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Categories: cowering, growth,
Form: Other
SIMPLE SPIDER STORY
...SIMPLE SPIDER STORY Palsy poison spider bickering, binding, biting sparring, stinging, scampering creeping in crevices cocooned coded crooked cock-eyed Here, there, everywhere Scorpion......

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Categories: cowering, 12th grade, analogy, color,
Form: Alliteration
Dauntless
...Quote: 'Put on the dauntless spirit of resolution' (King John, act 5, scene 1, lines 48–53) - William Shakespeare Mutterings of awful shame (a child’s bones) vie for supremacy; yet here you ar......

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Categories: cowering, character, courage, england, history,
Form: Free verse

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