Fence In Poems

Premium MemberIn Playground of Imagination

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Each day I wake as if I hold a sable brush in my hand
ready to paint upon a canvas what cannot be planned.
Or a pen to write about fantasies and adventures I find
in playground of imaginatio...
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Categories: fence in, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Memberautumn haiku

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burnt orange leaves on vines
cover a fence in autumn
spiderweb playground 

a rippling field bends
tall cornstalks dance head to head
wild rhythms of fall

eerie sounds at dusk
send a ting...
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Categories: fence in, nature,
Form: Haiku


Premium MemberA Frightful Buffet

...Miss Muffet was a girl of thirteen, filled with youth's beauty and charm;
And a love of vibrant life zealous, like eager, vivid thunder of blue alarm.

She was a fine student, pert and pop...
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Categories: fence in, beautiful, celebration, fantasy, fear,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberI Am Known

...I Am Known

Space:
endless expanse, eternal, inexorable.
Time:
Unknowable, from unbeginning befores, untill unending tomorrows.
An ache in my mind,
 A weakness in my knees,
A dread in my bowe...
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Categories: fence in, i am, life, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Cry

...Cry is greatest shield
In the midst of oppression
A fence in the field....
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Categories: fence in, abuse, best friend, confidence,
Form: Haiku


a sonnet

...A sonnet

I sat on a stone fence, in flat agricultural 
landscape, trees been planted around farms
to protect from the North Westerly wind 
I had collected shiny pebbles in the stream
only to f...
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Categories: fence in, abuse, age, allusion, anger,
Form: Sonnet

Riding Fence In April

...The calendar says spring has arrived
through the window the sun shines 
Outside the weather does not agree
But I still ride the fence and look through
the narrow slit between my hat and scarf
lo...
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Categories: fence in, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Clover

...In the morning
on the grass
pretty,
colorful,
fragrant flowers
I don't give on eye light

Three-leaf clover: happiness: grow enough
in all affairs
cross the fence in search of
four-leaf clo...
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Categories: fence in, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRebel Hens: Escape To the Picture Show

...The hens from our small, urban farm,
Had wild idea, caused great fright:
Escape their pen, come to no harm,
See a show, without a blight.

With feathers ruffling at benight,
They made p...
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Categories: fence in, animal, appreciation, funny, repetition,
Form: Rondeau Redouble

Daffodil Brain

...So peculiar
It springs up its head
On late Winter’s bed.  
This morning it was
That fence in my hand;

I'm pulling on her
where put upon, few see.
Smart on its petals, color vies,

Look on ...
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Categories: fence in, daffodils, dark, deep, earth,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBully For You

...I dwelt on a forest green, productive farm, in fruitfulness of golden autumn,
Where ragged scarecrows waved gladly, beneath turquoise skies, and plum.

Ours was the latest generation of farmers, l...
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Categories: fence in, bullying, courage, fantasy, farm,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberMy Father's Words

...Our two youngest grandchildren visited yesterday…Aden is 18 and Ava turns 16 in September…we opened a time capsule made 12 years ago and took time to remember.

I sat there for a moment thinking ab...
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Categories: fence in, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme

Golden House On the Hill

...The Autumn sun shone with golden magic
The warmth of the embrace was seen from afar
As I stood along the fence in the valley below

Inside the house are tales akin to tragic
A son had volunteere...
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Categories: fence in, feelings, grief, growing up,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberYour Choice

...The lusty limbs soon grows pale,
the youthful vigour wanes,
thy charms is time bound,
Those sockets soon grows dim with age,
shadows are no substance, 
see this hollow stream of life, 
soon the...
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Categories: fence in, bible, christian, destiny, faith,
Form: Free verse

Your Call

...The morning brings a moment 
frozen in time. Your heart is still within thee.
I can count a dozen one less or one more 
of angels that protect and surround me.
Given the time to ponder and weigh ...
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Categories: fence in, age, anger, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme

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