Miss Tawny Evermore
...
~
Dressed in almond taffeta,
a salted evening throw
With satin slipper grenadine,
where crystal glasses flow
I dreamt of Tawny Evermore,
her hair a fired flame
And songs now ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
footman, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Humpty Dumpty
...Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King’s horses and all the King’s men,
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.
The Queen’s seamstresses they tried to sew,
The f...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
footman, fun, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Poor Fairy Godmother
...The carriage arrived at the ball a few minutes fashionably late.
Which was exactly what Fairy Godmother had hoped for.
However, the carriage was empty.
The door opened and no one appeared.
Where ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
footman, books,
Form: Light Verse
Wandering the Road
...Wandering the roads. It has me under a spell even at this juncture in my life.
Even when spiked brambles
scrape my eyelids or those tender foot soles are being twisted by tooth-like stones. Qu...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
footman, beautiful, birth, blessing, earth,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Conversation With Cinderella
...
( Based on the animated musical produced by Walt Disney
based on the fairytale written by Charles Perrault.)
"Hello Cinderella, how are you ?
I am very happy and still in love,
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
footman, cinderella,
Form: Rhyme
Gothic Foot
...The haunted house was old and dark
empty but there was a sound “Hark,
of footsteps.”
This house was of Pennsylvania
and not in Transylvania’s
small foothills.
Among du...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
footman, gothic,
Form: Verse
A Bohemian Maze of True Evil
...Once so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now
During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view,
As evil red-eyed demons rain down upon us in their dark-sprit for...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
footman, creation, dark, evil, god,
Form: Narrative
A Bohemian Maze of True Evil
...A Bohemian Maze of True Evil
Once so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now
During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view,
As evil red-eyed demons rain down...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
footman, dark, evil, fantasy, god,
Form: Narrative
A Bohemian Maze of True Evil
...Once so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now
During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view,
As evil red-eyed demons rain down upon us in their dark-sprit for...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
footman, dark, evil, fantasy, god,
Form: Narrative
Diplomacy
...The footman, in impeccable white hose
and pigtailed wig, halts five yards off, and bows.
An under-secretary, in the throes
of studying the Lombard Ruse, allows
the silent slippered servant to s...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
footman, history,
Form: Quatrain
Poetic Encryption Like Ancient Egyptian
...Poetic Encryption Like Ancient Egyptian
This terror and threat to poetic clarity,
Becomes a pet rock for some poets.
Words do count for sure, but so does
Clarity unless poets put a mask on.
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
footman, allegory, analogy, emotions, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Famous Last Line - Poetry Contest
...Famous Last Line
ORIGINAL POEM
(Loveliness ---Acrostic)
L~etting out a gasp, the young man stared at the pretty face.
O~pening the curtains, he notice...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
footman, america, beauty, emotions, romantic,
Form: Romanticism
Loveliness Poem
...L~etting out a gasp, the young man stared at the pretty face.
O~pening the curtains, he noticed a
V~eil covering the beautiful
E~ndearing visage of a young
L~ady who sat upon purple velvet cus...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
footman, beautiful, beauty, class, clothes,
Form: Acrostic
Prufrock's Eternal Footman
...I think this Footman likes to snicker,
and the human situation is the kicker,
when one becomes sicker and sicker,
and it’s one’s time to die and cry for one’s soul.
Prufrock’s point is well-tak...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
footman, allegory, death, emotions, evil,
Form: Free verse
The Accolade
...Fighting mid the strong and bold,
His eye and blade were keen;
Marching like a thund'ring storm
On foes of Faith, his queen.
Now returned in victory
Upon his mighty bay,
Set he off to Langley...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
footman, christian, faith, love, me,
Form: Ballad
Related Poems