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Defray Poems - Poems about Defray

Premium Member A Wake on the Night Before Christmas
...'Twas the night before Christmas, and insomnia befell, No creature was stirring, but my thoughts are pell-mell. Would the family squabbles and feuds come with the cheer? Would I have to drown them......

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Categories: defray, celebration, christmas, family, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Bomb III
...For life and death were caught within a race to destiny – and all the world awaits. His despot realm would falter from the pace and thus, awaited fire from Heaven’s gates. As mighty legions faded......

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Categories: defray, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



Premium Member Animating innate vibrance
...What lies between the ticks of time? The pause between heart beats pulse? The eye sight missed when you blink? The still moments when you are breathing neither in nor out? Our body's attempt to k......

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Categories: defray, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Anomie
... Written: April 10, 2024 For Edward Ebeh Contest “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” — Rumi ~~~~~~~~~~~......

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Categories: defray, analogy, drug, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member U K election 2024
...Can we work to be busy? May we do it till dizzy' Up until 70.' Against a scene of inflation and wage freeze' To be punished by care home costs.! Homes sold, still can't defray' all lost?) Work t......

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Categories: defray, appreciation, assonance, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Dolce Far Niente
...Imagine there's nought to do today In the gentlest, 'let it be' kinda way. No clock's insistent hands to allay, No hurried 'to do' demands to obey, When the peace of stillness has sway, When 'wh......

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Categories: defray, peace,
Form: Monorhyme
Downfall of Ye and Resurrection of Kanye West
...DOWNFALL OF "YE" & RESURRECTION OF KANYE WEST Recreation is here to stay. So who made "Ye"? Like a chain reaction, Hov' created "Riri" and "Ye". Kanye's the creation made out of heavenly dew ......

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Categories: defray, 1st grade, for him,
Form: Rhyme
Sacred Flame
...SACRED FLAME Let others speak in praise as well they may Of nature green, untouched by human hand A perfect Eden, God, sole would defray That we should tend unchanged, this virgin land When ......

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Categories: defray, creation,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Unforgivable Freedom
...Our severe pain is unforgivable at eternal night. I twist over, my brain hustling with mystic insight. Cries made me exuberantly sad, letting my sting. I felt bound that could never......

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Categories: defray, analogy, bereavement, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
The Willow and the Alder
...THE WILLOW, THE ALDER (& We) The Willow and the Alder choose to stay By river bank and margin of the lake Their roots, content, submersed, will thus defray A thirst, to take libation and to sl......

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Categories: defray, life, tree,
Form: Sonnet
An Agents Dirge
...Today here Absolutely no fear Gone tomorrow We must now borrow Expenses unforeseen Ceremonies and meetings in between Funeral Directors need money like candy That life insurance not taken, w......

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Categories: defray, 12th grade, africa, death,
Form: Rhyme
Song of Espousal
...The words came as gifts from the land of proposal, a voice of enchantment heard far, far, away Wrapped in the promise of a better tomorrow, new bows made of letters untie and defray Although un......

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Categories: defray, marriage, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Hardened Heart
...Throughout my life the bridges crossed so many times I’ve loved and lost as hopes and dreams were used and tossed; my hardened heart had paid the cost. I felt as though I couldn’t go on......

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Categories: defray, feelings, hope, inspiration, love,
Form: Rhyme
Heron Contest
...The Heron, grey priest of the shallow mere Stalks slow and calculated t’ward its prey With cool far seeing vision of a seer And knowing his own power needs no defray For he alone adjudicates the ......

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Categories: defray, bird,
Form: Quintain (English)
Political Damage
...Political Damage When minds contend must each depend on delivering cuts that may never mend? When ideas offend do each then defend their hurtul slings to the bitter end? When words bet......

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Categories: defray, political,
Form: Verse

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