Get Your Premium Membership

Genuflects Poems - Poems about Genuflects

Premium MemberImagine

...Imagine 

Imagine…
A mansion among many promised mansions
On the banks of a river from blessing, 
Sparkling in the eternal sun,
A shoreline lined with trees
In the harmonic hush of glory
Thei...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: genuflects, home, imagination, joy,
Form: Free verse

Moonspinner Seer

...
"Moonspinner Seer" 

Moments we dance
you and I 
alone 

sensing 
all the words 
gone

soul naked
we spin 
sad worlds away 

bad spells 
in a small ocean 
buried...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: genuflects, muse,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberHeading For the Hospice For Crystal

...She’ll be leaving soon I see
The ambulance has arrived,
Waiting for another guest 
To take a long, hard ride.   

A malicious, microscopic serpent 
Invaded blood and bones 
Leaving this sweet ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: genuflects, death, death of a
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberStone Earth Angel Overlooks Park

...genuine earth angel
she genuflects to the park
acknowledging Mother Nature’s Godliness
the flora and fauna admire her
wondering how she turned to stone...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: genuflects, garden,
Form: Free verse

What Happens To Most Demons, Part Ii

.....Dez sighed at a soft feeling when
a gentle breeze brushed past his skin,
it was the first soft thing he’d felt,
the first wind that didn’t burn him.

Far above came a subtle warmth,
comfortin...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: genuflects, change, confusion, earth, evil,
Form: Narrative



Premium MemberLove Toward the Magic of Christmas

...accompanied by subtle dove of peace
her holy presence was silent
she genuflects into the winter wind

holy feelings toward winter
mystical December
exotic loveliness

feelings of warmth
idea...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: genuflects, 5th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNeglecting Nefarious Nanny

...feisty flamboyant frenzied fanny
genuine genuflects to her granny
many of us yell whoa
for this means she is also
now neglecting nefarious nanny...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: genuflects, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberIn the Jungle

...There’s a forest bizarre neither nearby nor far,
full of sights somewhat scary to spook a soul wary.
The deep, darkened jungle, I think you’ll agree 
is never a safe place for you or for me...

...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: genuflects, silly,
Form: Rhyme

To Kneel Or Not To Kneel

...You watched it on TV 
And you might have wondered why
Colin knelt on that football field 
What was he attempting to try? 
The narrative of his actions 
Were about America's attitude 
Towards Bl...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: genuflects, black african american, courage,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

The Soldier's Request

...The soldier, he looked down at me
While I protested vociferously.
He seemed to be but twenty-five
An age that weathered eyes belied.
And as I turned to walk away,
I heard the soldier up and say:...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: genuflects, courage, freedom, military, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Inner Workings of a Clock

...The Inner Workings of a Clock

My Catholic schoolgirl
Denies my shadowy persona.
Costumed in
A navy blue uniform 
A snow-white blouse,
A chest pocket embroidered
By Saint John Fisher,
Her yo...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: genuflects, anxiety, confusion, courage, dark,
Form: Free verse

Armegeddon Prayer

...Have you ever found yourself stranded in the tract
between what you think is fiction and what you think is fact?
And whipped so hard with the bible belt, your minds a welt of doubt
throbbing in co...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: genuflects, religious,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberAutumn's Fire

...She dons her scarlet gown again
Still radiant from last year’s ball
She knows it will attract the men
As it glitters in hues of fall

A golden scarf ignites the flame
Of campfires in the painte...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: genuflects, autumn,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCollegiate Mantis

...COLLEGIATE MANTIS

solo stick figure genuflects at the knees
leafy green, prophet-like.
                 
petitions God with a tenacious grip -
of the windshield wipers,
assiduous ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: genuflects, child, insect, prayer,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFor Children of War and Other Deceptions

...For Children of War and Other Deceptions

The load of time
weigh heavy 
on the yokes of life;
the unshelled shelled.
Gone.
Innocence of children
preyed upon;
life failed to root itself.

J...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: genuflects, analogy, children, death, imagery,
Form: Prose Poetry

Related Poems


Book: Reflection on the Important Things