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Display Case Poems - Poems about Display Case

Premium Member Jane-By-The-Sea
...Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA is 114 miles from my home in San Francisco. It's home to my friend Jane (a former fellow worker) she now finds California's central coastline to be the next best place t......

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Categories: display case, friendship, girl,
Form: Free verse
Trick Room
...I stare at myself through a display case, Defaming the shape and molds that I hold. Capture my face through a lens, Posting yet another layer that I’ll have to tear. Scripting these dreams s......

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Categories: display case, feelings, health, identity, self,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Baked Temptresses
...They tease me, Vying for my attention Behind the bakery display case. Voluptuous, some bursting with fruit, The brazen, the coquettish, They tease me. Which to pick? The Austrian strud......

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Categories: display case, food, humor, metaphor,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Our Hidden External World
... Written: December 10, 2023 ________________________________________ A lengthwise lexicon for fulfilling any fantasy. Trapped in a landslide and given up by reality, In......

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Categories: display case, analogy, appreciation, creation, space,
Form: Rhyme
This Is Me Trying
...We walked through the doors, I felt a thousand eyes looking over at us. You assured me we that would have a great time, that I just needed to just let go, but I stood in the corner and watched yo......

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Categories: display case, crush, love,
Form: Free verse



Emancipation
...Clippity Cloppity Emily Davison confronted race horses losing her life dissident suffragette indiscriminately committed sabotage chaos and strife Hickory D......

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Categories: display case, conflict, death, discrimination, women,
Form: Double Dactyl
Gentleman Muffin
...Gentleman muffin wearing monocle My mustache never been out of fashion Never thought bringing out my chronicle Jockeyed searching my perfect companion I dreamed becoming morning glory muffins ......

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Categories: display case, celebration, child, cute, food,
Form: Sonnet
Display Case
...It s hard being the center of attention for so many greedy eyes, when you only want one pair locked on you. Or when you want none. But if you put yourself in a box, it locks you away from the world, ......

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Categories: display case, anxiety, bullying, corruption, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Don'T Be a Bully
...Don't Be a Bully! 'Each person who plans harm for weaker than you are,' A bully! Thus, defined invites another's pain! Perchance a victim once himself, he seeks new pride......

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Categories: display case, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme
She
... She reeked of it She flaunted it She displayed it She sold it SEX! Clad in provocation Glowing in her trade She called her buyers With provocative sounds And sinful gesture......

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Categories: display case, dark, deep, desire, horror,
Form: Free verse
But If You Try Sometimes
...But if you try sometimes... “I saw her today at the reception” My eyes filled with changing emotions In satin gown and fire brand hair A china doll beyond the display case Happiness......

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Categories: display case, imagination, music,
Form: Rhyme
Curse Upon Myself
...I swore I’d never be happy again…was it my own curse I laid upon myself? A personal skeleton song I turned into a personal vendetta It would explain so much, yet so little in comparison Oh, how t......

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Categories: display case, depression,
Form: Free verse
Display Case
...Recalled scenes, like diamonds gleam Scattered on velvet black Cloth of midnight shadows All laid out displayed in showcase Lining the dark chambers In this graying head, where the lampli......

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Categories: display case, nostalgia
Form: Free verse
Bard's Folley
...Rendering solitude, making use of old fat The poet's mind can find itself against the blade Squeezing the beauty of this world Building a plastic place within which to stand Placing dead butterfl......

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Categories: display case, introspection
Form: Free verse
Discordant
..."She is the fire within me and you're my deviation from the norm" You were right, and that's the heartbeat of insanity pulsing my roots from your sweet poisoned ground. I'm the butterfly pinne......

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Categories: display case, angst, loss, love,
Form: Free verse

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