Curtained Poems - Poems about Curtained

Four Transcendental Grandmothers

...I had just got my hands
on the new ‘Sergeant Pepper’ album.
The four girls that lived above my pad
were notified by jungle drums.

Soon we were six, Roger
with his blonde Mexican mustache
and ...

a twilight sonnet

...   Twilight tiptoes through curtained clover leaves
Cape starlings stanzaed thank mighty Lord
spindly legs shake on spritely evensong breeze
closing chirp reminding that day i...

She tells me

...Apparently, 
I was a naughty boy
At three,
Disappearing in a shopping centre,
Lost for what felt like hours.

Legend has it,
The infant siren song caught air-conditioned wind
And led the sear...

Snowbound

... 
    *
             *
"Snowbound"
       *
For days winter's freezing winds and snow raged
cold windows now curtained white 
but, my rooms whisper peace   *

                   ...

Hermann Hesse Translation of 'Stages' from 'The Glass Bead Game'

...This is my modern English translation of the poem "Stages" by the great German poet Hermann Hesse from his novel "The Glass Bead Game."


"Stages" or "Steps"
by Hermann Hesse
from his novel The ...

The Hound of Sleep

...I see thee yet, mine eyes on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
Thus to mine eyes, o'er th'one half world 'pon the sacred curtained sleep,
Seek thou sure and firm, set stepp'd earth nigh summon ...

Untrue

...You say you love me, but your love's untrue
I do not feel it in the things you do 
and when you say it, coupled with a "kiss"
the searing heat of passion's what I miss

You say you love me, but ...

SPIRITED GIBBERISH

..."SPIRITED GIBBERISH"

Curtained eyes droop, closing, cleansing, visions. Feathering sunlight. Splintering waked-vivid lashes dreaming of the day. Eyes concealing retreat from here, to there, to wha...

Spirited Gibberish

..."Spirited Gibberish"
  
Curtained eyes droop, closing, cleansing, visions. Feathering sunlight. Splintering waked-vivid lashes dreaming of the day. Eyes concealing retreat from here, to there, to w...

Maestro

...Maestro bows, a motion lulls thunder, 
ovations a period of heeling, a clap
diverts a few, then attends silence. 
A typical cough failed its challenge,
disturbed section promptly affects
a hall-...

Children's Poems IX

...The Tapestry of Leaves
Michael R. Burch

Leaves unfold
as life is sold
or bartered, for a moment in the sun.

The interchange
of lives is strange:
what reason—life—when death leaves all undo...

Hydrangea Hideaway

...Listen to the shifting winds 
carrying musical meteors,
there soars floating
letters between 
lyrical lines,
emanating runes
that reflect 
revolving rhymes
of faith within
and beyond.
F...

Special Places

...
There were special places 
where the mind could hide,
way up in the branches 
of a tall tree, safe within
a ball of leaves,
halfway to heaven.
Or on a bike aimlessly riding
streets when the ...

Idols of the Theater

...They are like two beam lights that claim the stage 
on a hot summer eve in the middle of a makeshift 
floor parkette made of wood, varnish, and lights that aim 
They are more than two Amer...

Ruins

...I remember it well- the old Broadway
My city celebrated years ago;
So nicely paved and lined with special stores
And curtained windows, seen in rooms above.
Where we would walk and shop with fami...

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