Gawked Poems - Poems about Gawked

The Maze

...I lay , Frozen in my own creation - The Maze
 It is gawked at by passerbys
Only to laugh and scrutinize.
They undermine the hold of them on me
Not one willing to stay and untangle the poisoned iv...

The Morning After

...The consequences known, foretold for years, 
a crushing blow would break the country’s back,
eclipsing the most pessimistic fears,
a devastating night of blackest black…

The zealots would be wo...

Pave the Adirondacks

...
They told me, "Leave Brooklyn, find the green,"  
"Head upstate, change the scene,"  
Nature's arms open wide,  
So I took that long Amtrak ride.

I knew there were bobcats, I knew there was b...

Confident Cousin Claire

...At the laundromat a girl who could not find a chair
Sat in a dryer, her attitude was beyond compare
She did not care who gawked or gave her a stare.
I know her well, she is my self-confident cousi...

And she screamed

...She found herself Screaming,
Why was she here , she often wondered ,Why !! 
But deep down she knew , she was elegant ,she was classy , a head turner and most of all she knew how to work the audienc...

The Heroes of Buzzard's Bend, Part Iii

......Then he could see it, the boils,
on their neck and wrists, bright and red,
he felt an itch on his own back,
and felt a cold moment of dread.

Now Diaz could not ignore it,
and Mains’s words ...

How Much Longer Does a Woman Wait

...how much longer does a woman wait?
she feels humiliated and gawked at
she got all dressed up to be jilted?
in public? In the fanciest restaurant in town?

She was thinking it was wedding proposa...

Bruce the Goose

...I’m Bruce the goose
And fly with geese
I follow the rules
In forming V’s

And being a goose
Sometimes I lead
Then play caboose
To lessen breeze

Yet I faltered
Their perfect V’s
When I al...

Nature Speaks Best

...Dark space
               Cold 
           &
inexorable
    soul
        adrift
            heart
               stopped
         plopped
    shocked
gawked

     I see you
  in 
 m...

Swaggy Doggy

...
Once, I saw a doggy, shaggy
His dress style was super swaggy
And when he walked
The people gawked
For off came his trousers baggy


27th February 2023

For "Put y...

Gawking

...Forty-eight, sixty-eight, eighty-eight
Age has no bearing whatsoever
When it comes to a gorgeous young filly
As long as she's breathing, that's all we need
When the time we have left gets...

Snowed

...It snowed last night which pleased me - but hardly enough - it just teased me.

The thin, white sheet of snow looked bright and fresh 
the dull, browned hedges of fall became holiday dressed, 
th...

17, 37, 57

...Seventeen, thirty-seven, fifty-seven
Age has no bearing whatsoever

When it comes to a gorgeous young filly
As long as she's breathing, that's all us guys need

When the time we have le...

His Life Mattered, Part Iii

......When her own had run, that man had remained…
they still called him evil, that seemed insane,
when one day her brother came home stained red
all of her concerns would come to a head.

“We got ...

One Lone Rose

...One lone rose tumbled from the basket,
the same as the others but set apart
All were beautiful. They congregated
in one basket, these Southern belles,
but she, with her pink cheeks, tumbled,
she...

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