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Flattens Poems - Poems about Flattens

Premium Member What the Hill Remembers
...I have counted her footsteps for thirty-seven years the same path worn into my slope, the same pause at the thorny ridge where she catches her breath and adjusts the weight on her spin......

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Categories: flattens, children, mother, woman,
Form: Free verse
The Dry Tear
...The sandman moved to the corner as I eyed him. The pain creased, and sheared my attention. Pain would shoot blanks at my head. Running would only excite the strange feeling of being followed but not ......

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Categories: flattens, courage,
Form: Free verse



WHEELCHAIR BOUND
... WHEELCHAIR BOUND Dots appeared and disappeared a single sunray flashed onto wheelspokes, canvas seat comfortably frayed bought secondhand her unexercis......

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Categories: flattens, body, care, change, character,
Form: Free verse
The Doomed Tornado
...Up in long bands of gray and white angry clouds are whirling, fingers stretch downwards to the ground, faint traces of swirling. the farmer sees it and suspects what nature is unfurling. Glad a......

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Categories: flattens, imagery, nature, sky, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Universal Chaos Song
...In the cosmic dance, where stars collide, Galaxies spiral, and planets ride. Saturn’s rings shimmer, Jupiter’s dim, Moons circle round, a celestial hymn. From quasars’ crescendo to......

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Categories: flattens, creation, heaven, universe,
Form: Lyric



Rolling Tides
...Midnight darkness suddenly descended upon the city as morning peeped through the blackened sky the city waits in suspense to die. They have been working for several days battening up windows and ......

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Categories: flattens, absence, animal, beach, business,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Landfall Devastation
...air depression in ocean thick cloud sucked by low pressure… moisture billows up hurricane is born eye follows blindly the track … land lacerated by fall storm surge flattens things on way ......

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Categories: flattens, depression, storm,
Form: Haiku
September Spring
...Tui birdsong starts again, melodious warbling bitter southerly wind still bites sleet, horizontal and cold, flattens the daffodils sudden rays of bright warm sunshine......

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Categories: flattens, seasons, weather,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Coded Mystery
...Within a night, a simple crop field has been transformed into a magnificent work of art, the overnight cryptic formations capture the attention of all as the large section of the crop has been t......

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Categories: flattens, adventure, appreciation, earth, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Neutral Scrutiny
...Cherub's unfurled fingers faithfully extend to his fallow fringe hung from a chest made firm by suede, sweat and rain. Chernobyl blue irises mimic April '86 radiation, dessimating her......

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Categories: flattens, 5th grade, adventure, baptism,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Sheets In the Wind
...Like a sheet blowing in the wind Your hair flows gently I feel your embrace with protection Like the mother sparrow feeding her chick The embrace nourishes When the wind dies and goes ......

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Categories: flattens, allusion, dedication, emotions, visionary,
Form: Free verse
The Perfect Poem : and the Truth Is
...and the truth is, the truth is there is no such thing as the perfect poem syllable count and line and verse the poet lays out his tools to show them his best rhymes and worst to curse and the ......

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Categories: flattens, school, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Draft Tarpaulin
...once more the rainbow paints in anthracite colour graphite expressions of grave charcoaled remains the lost beauty of obscure pastels is shadowed in pain the horizon threatens rational geo......

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Categories: flattens, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Horsepower
...Climb inside and buckle in Anxiously twisting the key As a mechanical symphony roars to life Setting nine hundred horses free The machine becomes an extension Of my own flesh and bone My hea......

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Categories: flattens, car,
Form: Rhyme
Misplaced Appreciation
...MISPLACED APPRECIATION Once more the irrepressible wind of spring nears, Flattens the stalks of new copse shoots, Drowns the dryng roses with excessive vernal tears, Exposes the remains of......

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Categories: flattens, garden, spring,
Form: Quatrain

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