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Despoiled Poems - Poems about Despoiled

Toil
...I am as constant as the stars. From your soul I shall never depart. The fever grips her in large part in the phase of popular charts. For you I am forever in debt about the things you never sa......

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Categories: despoiled, work,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Age Appropriate
...Whining, is age appropriate, With wrinkles - both newborns and aged. Boo-hoos - in cradle; before grave. The old straitened; babes’ swaddled. With wrinkles, both newborns and aged, The......

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Categories: despoiled, age,
Form: Pantoum



Premium Member Apollo Defends Humanity
...My brothers, sisters, all of this I’ve seen As every day across the sky I’ve been. Whilst you have watched the flowers gleam and grow, ‘Twas I that held the lamp that made them so. And I have we......

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Categories: despoiled, education, emotions, god, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Cry in the Night
...Hooves of horses thundered across the fields Onward they came urged by murderous men Huddled behind stout stone walls Women and children in the halls Tears were shed as in fear we wai......

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Categories: despoiled, allegory, anger, death, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wind and Snow, Fire and Ice
... The gods are angry and growing angrier. Poseidon views his beautiful ocean despoiled with garbage, poisoned and polluted by heedless humans. He rages to Hephaestus and Vulcan, gods of cre......

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Categories: despoiled, anger, emotions, environment, mythology,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Picture on the Parlor Wall
...She'd been staring at me since I can recall. A da Vinci saccharine smile painted on her lips that I'd traced with fingertips in my youth. Forsooth wondering, "Who are you, comely lady, and why do......

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Categories: despoiled, family, history, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Too much of a good thing sniffed
...The farmer looked on sown fields with dismay, Be-spotted with tiny holes in despoiled array. Each spot where mice had dug up and eaten. Wheat seeds sown with mice-controls well beaten. The farm......

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Categories: despoiled, farm,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pearl Harbor III
...Beneath the ash its morals face defeat as segregation separates is corps. The scars outline a union incomplete and wounds define its failure to restore. Though rally calls have filled a Nation’s ......

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Categories: despoiled, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Surrender
...Surrender Surrender to all am and all I’m not All the memories and those I forgot Surrender to where I am and the void Places of beauty and the cruelly despoiled Surrender to the pace of time ......

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Categories: despoiled, adventure, birth, destiny, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Pit Valleys
...In parts of Derbyshire and Yorkshire there are still pit-valleys, where industry and nature collide, marry, and have their natural born children. The earth once gouged, raped and laid desolate,......

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Categories: despoiled, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Tick, Tick, Tick
...Soft and complacent our youth in denial What evil disguises the past has on file Wishing and hoping a smokescreen at best Masking our fear while fouling our nest The seeds of our history ......

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Categories: despoiled, character, destiny, history, home,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Penning Words of Love For You
...You always tell me how much you love my poetry but is that the only reason you feel drawn to me? I write Sonnets filled with love and romance for you, adoring stanzas meant to caress your heart an......

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Categories: despoiled, love, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Loki's Revenge
...A demon’s playing but no one’s listening Black whirlwind coming tomorrow hissing The moment christened in dark despair Entrapping vision beyond repair A mantra chanting its rhythm waning......

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Categories: despoiled, dark, god, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Storm
...We cannot tame a raging storm, so with patience, we must wait for the calm. ~ by poet The balmy afternoon had been fulgent and warm Until darkness foreshadowed an approaching ......

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Categories: despoiled, storm,
Form: Sonnet
Deep Dreams
...in the deepest of my deep dreams I shall take my little dream boat away and away from the earth I shall gently slowly surely float outwards in between the planets I shall haul and jib tack and r......

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Categories: despoiled, death, imagination, leaving,
Form: Rhyme

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