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Eking Poems - Poems about Eking

Eking Poems - Examples of all types of poems about eking to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for eking.
The Eke Eek
...Struggling for so long Eking it look so easy They don’t believe me......Read the rest...
Categories: eking, mental health,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member The Persistence of Memory
...Inspired by the painting by Salvador Dali: 'The Persistence of Memory' The endless eking out of time Drains me of my verve Trying to recall what once was mine Is any sense of self conserved? ......Read the rest...
Categories: eking, art, mental illness,
Form: Ekphrasis
He Stands In the Street
...With traffic flowing he stands in the street Arms stretched, hands up, commanding a halt Obedience and fate will now compete His adrenaline pumping like a drumbeat His eyes shut tightly sting w......Read the rest...
Categories: eking, humanity,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member The Day When Two Fools Met - Both Audio and Text
...I would like to tell you folks about the biggest deal I’ve ever had the chance to make and how it all went down. I owned a small antique shop, where I bought and sold old treasures, eking out a livi......Read the rest...
Categories: eking, humor,
Form: Narrative
Repayment
...Refrain The devil wants a payment and the angels need a check;; And the world keeps saying their ain’t no cash to get So you reach for the savings that your people wont release Then you look ......Read the rest...
Categories: eking, business, community, environment, judgement,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Great Escape
...Gravitational pull like quicksand, her ebony eyes Ripping into his outer space. He tugs at his collar, Eking out the empty space of honeysuckle perfume. Avant-garde arrest of his indeterminate hea......Read the rest...
Categories: eking, love,
Form: Acrostic
Seeing Off My Guests
...Fast wind sees off a dying year The sense of fall strong Hurriedly I see off my guests to my hometown The Double Ninth Day is near I wish my friends to cheer Eking out a living as alien here ......Read the rest...
Categories: eking, friendship,
Form: Light Verse
I'M Just Getting Started
...Mayhem, pandemonium total chaos, bedlam, devastation. A soft, soothing breeze turns into a whirlwind, a tornado causing death, destruction and unimagined misery… Is it the fault of the fair......Read the rest...
Categories: eking, god, miss you,
Form: Free verse
Guilded Cage
...My big friend has locked me Inside of his house I do not believe I will ever get out I don’t really mind It’s comfy and warm And except for that dog I never face harm In the earliest day......Read the rest...
Categories: eking, animal, cat, pets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Himalayas
...Himalayas Eons ago in the planet’s evolution, During tectonic plate movement: 1 The Indian Island Ma moved northward Crashing into the Eurasian continent, To form the Himalayan m......Read the rest...
Categories: eking, culture, education, environment, mountains,
Form: Verse
Burn After Reading
... Proceed no further, please ... this Rorschach ink will give you nightmares Horrifying images everyday in the world you dare don’t see, terrible things that will make you so soul scared......Read the rest...
Categories: eking, dark, humanity, society, visionary,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Odyssey From Africa 13d 14a
...Chapter 13d Yet at length he reawakened As if in another lifetime Han discerned a sound and movement Stiffly rose to look about him And he saw his precious Matto Crouching near him in th......Read the rest...
Categories: eking, adventure, africa, animal, children,
Form: Narrative
Oppression
...Mayhem, pandemonium total chaos, bedlam, devastation. A soft, soothing breeze turns into a whirlwind, a hurricane causing havoc, death, destruction and untold misery… Is it the fault of the......Read the rest...
Categories: eking, endurance, lost,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member November's Saint
...November’s Saint I watch Truman’s Capote's tale in November the south, trapped in frost bare, naked to the eye a penury of snow like poor folk clothes hardly enough to cover the jagged ed......Read the rest...
Categories: eking, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Mosaic
...The mosaic A myriad of faces, Most, long and forlorn, Each in a constant flux, Eking out a living Worry, deeply etched, Like parallel ridges, On an otherwise barren waste The many f......Read the rest...
Categories: eking, art, depression, future, hope,
Form: Free verse

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