Extract Poems | Examples


Cctv Extract

A fire in the kitchen?
I smell of smoke in the hall.
Somebody is very guiltily 
Washing down the wall.
What’s left of the toaster’s
Just a burnt plastic shell.
Some time last night
We almost had a mini hell.

Thank the Lord for CCTV.
A bit of a disturbing sight
He’d come in a bit tipsy
Just after midnight.
Put the toaster on the hob
Switched the wrong device  on
Seemed blithely unaware that
The smoke alarm had gone.

He’d sat drinking tea
Supremely unaware 
Of the flames and smoke
Swirling around his chair.
A pajamaed figure appears
Smoke alarm must have alerted
Situation quickly sorted 
Potential emergency averted. 

White faced and anxious
Sitting with his dad and me
As we all sit and watch
The  Closed Circuit Tv.
He’d been doing so well
Getting back on track
But, three steps forward
And two steps back.

Give credit where it’s due,
Criticise where it’s earned,
Put it down to experience,
Just another lesson learned.
Mending broken soldiers 
We all voluntarily chose
Win or lose its a gamble
Last night it was close.
Categories: extract, drink, fire, mental health,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberExtract An Open Form

EXTRACTS
speculations
of
identity
so
unintentional
bring
 intensity
 dovetailed
with
uncertainty
mixed
in
 doubt
brings
watchfulness

in
breathless
sensations
linger
in
twilight
where
the
impulse
of
 fact&reason
so
palpables
in design
& magnificent
axiomatic
 imagery
Categories: extract, poetry,
Form: Other


Poetic Focus On Drops

Fear
                   it's a picture
                   focused or
                   unfocised....
...

                     
                      Love,
                  a picture
                     alive
                   colorful...

                      
                       Passion,
                    it's a weapon
                      dangerous,
                     and confused ...

                        
                         Hate,
                    it's a fire
                       mortal,
                    infernal...

                       
                     The doubt
                    it's a passage,
                    unseen landscape ...

                       Luck 
                      Something simple
                    that easily
                      doesn't happen ...

                       
                         Music,
                       it is a dream
                         sung or
                           touched
Categories: extract, allusion, imagery, imagination, literature,
Form: Free verse

Extract

When yesterday left, today I'm a little right. 
This is a tad bereft, yet full with almight.
Misconceptions or misinterpretations, either way it's confusion. 
Dreaming of incarnations, and snarled in the illusion.
Mass produced Catholics, unforgotten inside their cathedral. 
Discovered some of the relics, 
Ancient talisman are unbelievable. 
Go forth into the tomb,
Open the sarcophagus, let the rancid stench consume.
Gathering up all that is charmed,
Born inside the depleted after birth. 
This does not meant to be alarmed,
However it's been full of its worth. 
Die another time, live in today.
Write another rhyme, lines lined word play.
Shaman type, opening the 3rd eye.
Extracted and ripe, breathe to see thru the lie.
Contradiction is a great way to open minds,
Salvation is not a problem unless you are in their binds.
Bells chime and chime, before you can get away with it. 
In time covered in lime, and I"m chock-full of grit.
Ready to go to the next, yes I've been there before. 
Sometimes just a little vexed, benumbed to the core of my lore.
And as always plum rotten to the core..
Categories: extract, art, growth, happy, poems,
Form: Rhyme

From Air a Scientists Extract Alcohol

From air a scientists  extract alcohol
For Russians an excellent type of warfare
We will to drink until die out all,
But so enemies will die of lack of air
Categories: extract, addiction,
Form: Quatrain


Epic Extract

Sing me a sweet song
of brave and heroic men
long ago passed on

(for some unknown reason, this popped into my head…no reason…odd)
Categories: extract, history
Form: Senryu

Extract of Unhappiness

I have emptyness inside my bristling bones
Filled with sorrow, away, alone
I'm in between the lines of a blank paper
separate from the others, like a skyscraper
Does anyone lend out a hand? 
Does anyone understand?
Only one but he has reasons
to be gone at certain seasons
Will I ever find another friend?
Will I survive till the end?
I grow weiry of these feelings
I am tired, unexpired
Tick tock tick goes the clock
I await for him to step in the door
Then these feelings go away
But not forever,
They'll be back someday......
Categories: extract, depression
Form: Rhyme

Extract

stretching gray
sheet sentinels
of bush


observe


a symphony of rain
wavers
a brook Rachmaninoff’s
the clinch of entropy


listen


Pastels of light
reach canopy
painting nature
With one luminous
golden strand


know


possum
crawling nose
scampers retreat,
as alien scents
reach downwind


become


cockatoo’s
Stark flamingo serenade,
into the pink
disc


wonder


the conjuring
of disrobing life,


its peaceful uproar
savoring
cinnamon specks
waiting future’s call


hope


salt cracks
from my face
at my feet


free
Categories: extract, nature
Form: Blank verse
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