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Dike Poems - Poems about Dike

After the Flood
...Stray cats slipped under a waterlogged night only to drift back bedraggled, as if today still pulled at their tails Old Charley Winslow died before the deluge, before the river threw itself o......

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Categories: dike, poetry,
Form: Free verse
a Sunday eleven year ago
...Any Sunday 2015 Long is Sunday, empty streets a tunnel of silence, damp pavement, water trickles into gutters. Burnt matches, *** butts and yesterday's leave forms a rust brown dike, it bu......

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Categories: dike, absence, boxing day , child,
Form: Free verse



Trump, the man
...Trump, the man The mass media in Europe is as bad as any mass media all over the world  also lazy and copy one another and have in common a dislike of Trump Sometimes, they take their cue  fr......

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Categories: dike, absence, angel, anti bullying,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member DO NOT APOLOGIZE
... When I was young my parents taught me…without ever telling me why that whatever happens to me in life…boys aren’t supposed to cry. For years I heeded that childhood lesson…and anytime tears esc......

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Categories: dike, cry,
Form: Rhyme
Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk
...Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke within noggin of average baby boomer bloke catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke positive growth experiences through......

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Categories: dike, abuse, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme



Movements
...Into the funneling drains, go the lesser drains, as they flow or seep. Culverts coalesce, the rain keeps moving, the flushed keep swimming through their own momentum. Is there an end to t......

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Categories: dike, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and Gaoled
...Self destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled... with kidnapping little boy ordered to suffer life sentence without parole. The deadly scourge of one obsessive/compulsive di......

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Categories: dike, 2nd grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Melancholy
...The mood lifts from the lips, parched with permanent nicotine, and falls, like snowflake-ashes from a turbulent volcano. The uninhabited eye, underneath the patch - a vacant stare into a cloudless......

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Categories: dike, angst, emotions, imagery, senses,
Form: Other
After the Flood
...Cats and cars slipped under the long night, only to drift backward as if yesterday still pulled them in. Old Charley Winslow died just before the deluge but when the river threw itself over t......

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Categories: dike, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Mine Psyche Riddled With Dybbuk
...Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke within noggin of average baby boomer bloke catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke positive growth experiences throu......

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Categories: dike, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
My Humble Request
...Please, take me by my hand and show me what the subtle lining of a cloud really looks like. For being with you brings tears of joy as if a finger was removed from a hole in a dike. Lift me up......

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Categories: dike, america, creation, environment, growth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member You Do Believe
...You believe it’s all innocent, the programs that infiltrate your mind. it builds from age to age, and it’s nothing new. there is nothing new, under the sun. You believe the devil does not e......

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Categories: dike, god,
Form: Free verse
All the More Human, For Eve Pandora
...All the More Human, for Eve Pandora by Michael R. Burch a lullaby for the first human Clone God provide the soul, and let her sleep be natural as ours, unplagued by dreams of being someone e......

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Categories: dike, birth, death, eve, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Mine Psyche Riddled With Dybbuk Haint No Joke
...Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk - haint no joke Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke within noggin of average baby boomer bloke catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke positive growth e......

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Categories: dike, abuse, body, dark, family,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Boo-Tiful Save
...Hans tried this save as a tike - Episodic finger in the Holland-days dike. Not afraid to swim. See-through stranger didn’t spook him. Friendly Casper scared the boo out of all, Spared the sca......

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Categories: dike, humor,
Form: Clerihew

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