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Deferring Poems - Poems about Deferring

the enjoyment of defeat
...by midday the capital is lost in deferring of appointment, illegal assembly and illegal protest of speech, past speech of the governance and the executive, insurmountable halls of congress have no ca......

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Categories: deferring, america, character, hero, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member LQQK
... how … how many odes have been composed for the sake of the human eye? since humans first etched papyrus or chiseled stone or painted cavern facades by firelight the magnificence of the visu......

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Categories: deferring, analogy, beautiful, beauty, feelings,
Form: Free verse



The Wisdom of Age
...Wisdom comes with age So the old saying goes But so does dementia As the world so sadly knows. It’s so easy to be vociferous Brave aggressive and bold Deferring action to others Just because ......

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Categories: deferring, age, conflict, society, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member April Cannot Live Without January
...A fierce and angry snow storm swarms around me. I trudge to the house, my feet pink in my cold wet socks. There are frosty icicles on my scarf, it is cold out here. January has shown us her streng......

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Categories: deferring, seasons,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Earthtribal Worldview
...Therapeutic political systems, like unpolluted oceans filled with healthy sea creatures, slowly evolve from cooperative thrival of polyculturally healthy nonviolent communication, anticipating......

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Categories: deferring, games, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member A Compromise
...Sometimes he tries To slim his size But mostly sighs: Weight on the rise. Deferring fries, And apple pies, He never cries, Nor does despise. It’s no surprise There’s no demise In what he sp......

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Categories: deferring, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member He Squelched Her Light
...He lured easy prey into darkest night Innocent, this had been no risk. Groomed her until she had squelched her light. Their romancing was a round pattern disc. She responds to his disapproving ......

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Categories: deferring, abuse,
Form: Terzanelle
Echo
...Echo A web waves in the warm breeze, caught between ancient wooden struts, indefensible, beneath an empty seat. It splays to breaking point; fine-knit, like a fibre-glass veil; delicate str......

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Categories: deferring, how i feel, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Destiny Urges Me Forward
...She urges me forward Time a concept dreamed by man Experience expects something Familiar feelings, the smell of success, I recognize this place A familiar stop gap She laughs and turns me Nor......

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Categories: deferring, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vacation Time
...The doc says I need a vacation My energy just can't be rationed Seems there's been some depletion leading to get-up-and-go secretion He told me to take a few weeks Get rid of those brain-dra......

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Categories: deferring, recovery from, vacation,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member 2021
...She came in storming, stomping and she shook us. Some did not feel her tremors or terror until their houses burned to the ground. She fed diseased bats, and she started a pandemic. We did not un......

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Categories: deferring, time,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Humility
...Humility M'Vatel, "Yield to People", Concealing, Not Ignorance, But Adequacy, In not Doing 'Nuff, To Be a Friend, Husband, Servant, As I Observe Great Figures, I Hope to Be in their Mold, Mod......

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Categories: deferring, cancer, courage, humanity, leadership,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Restoring Natural Spirits
...Dear Attorney Thompson Page, LLC Sentient Advocate for Domestic Companions Thank you for reminding me last evening, as I was feeling unfree, Retributive justice is rooted in ecological principl......

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Categories: deferring, earth, health, integrity, philosophy,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Loveliest Bird In My Forest
...The loveliest bird in my forest is she The beautiful cardinal in the oak tree. The blue jay is deferring to her, as his queen. He is her subject, loud cackles, but not a bit mean. She brings in......

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Categories: deferring, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Moonlit Prayers
...Lank shimmery hair flows off her shoulders Cascading aloft sweet midnight zephyr Alone she sits perched on seaside boulders Under somber moonlight where he'd left her Night after night she's at......

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Categories: deferring, death, fate, longing, lost
Form: Sonnet

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