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Frailer Poems - Poems about Frailer

Mea culpa my child
...Thou wert frail, frailer still thy fate, Had reasons fair to feel nigh riled, Your sad eyes sure had looked for me, O my ill-fated child. I was too far to welcome thee, My child, had little t......

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Categories: frailer, child, daughter, remember, rose,
Form: Quatrain
Poems About Poets Viii
...Poems for Poets VIII Fireflies thinking to illuminate the darkness? Poets! —Michael R. Burch BeMused by Michael R. Burch You will find in her hair a fragrance more severe than camp......

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Categories: frailer, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form: Rhyme



Poems For Poets X
...POEMS FOR POETS X US Verse, after Auden by Michael R. Burch “Let the living creature lie, Mortal, guilty, but to me The entirely beautiful.” Verse has small value in our Unisphere, nor i......

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Categories: frailer, poems, poetry, poets, rose,
Form: Rhyme
Because She Craved the Very Best
...Because She Craved the Very Best by Michael R. Burch Because she craved the very best, he took her East, he took her West; he took her where there were no wars and brought her bright bouquets......

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Categories: frailer, allusion, extended metaphor, girl,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member In the House of Death
... In a house too huge for them to maintain, a man hunched over with back pain lives with a disabled daughter and his very elderly wife. A recent heart attack has left her frailer an......

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Categories: frailer, death,
Form: Etheree



Pleasant Pain
...Asunder have all my classical forms and themes been torn, Who tore them? Who destroyed them to bring the poem down to the earth? Yes, I did. It is I who is now cold like a fully unthawed polar o......

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Categories: frailer, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Famous Last Line
...Dad Revisited- Once More Last night I sat up in bed and prayed a little longer, I asked god to send dad back for just one more day with great fervour. Dad was waiting for me in the verandah......

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Categories: frailer, absence, bereavement, birthday, dad,
Form: Free verse
The Journey of Marriage
...The Journey Of Marriage Grand party, grand clothes, grand decor and grand style! Well-wishers and greetings cheering the dulled hearts Silver jubilee's are celebrated by partners with affected ......

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Categories: frailer, anniversary, celebration, marriage,
Form: Light Verse
The Couplet of Prints
...Out here, happ'ness impales no frailer scorn Onto the breath, than prints of foot reborn.......

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Categories: frailer, allegory
Form: Couplet
Ophelia
... She was taken away from me, At such a young age, We were just newlyweds, When she fell deathly ill, To an unknown sickness. The doctors could do nothing, But hope that the sickness would pa......

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Categories: frailer, death, forgiveness, loss, me,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Rain's Fall
...From heaven I fell in drop to swell, Upon the waves of Loch Fyne. From rain to girl, sand born in pearl thus formed was I divine. When first formed, I was Unicorn And no name had such as I Bu......

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Categories: frailer, fantasyrain, moon, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Concert (Or a Tale of Two Photos)
...My mother, who is eighty-five Has had a very rough year. So I planned a special Christmas gift Though it's November and nowhere near. Fourteen years ago I took her to see John McDermott perfor......

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Categories: frailer, family, mother, music
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Foil
...A weakness wound its wicked way inside where thoughts of “us”, not love, do dwell and swell, and formed a nest of twigs to stay the tide yet cresting waves of righteousness rebelled. “Stray not......

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Categories: frailer, angst, dedication, devotion, family,
Form: Sonnet
A Friendly Exoneration
...Twinkly bunch with loaded school bags Ambition injustice and itching their backs, Cunning those faces in front of the gate Heedful pupils well-chosen apparently late. A fistful primary breezine......

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Categories: frailer, friendshiptime, together,
Form: Narrative
To Be Hated
...I wish that I had the heart to hate you. I wish that I feel the way you do. I wish that I could dismiss of my conscience And I could do the heartless things you do. I wish that I could make you ......

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Categories: frailer, loss, love, passion, heart,
Form: I do not know?

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