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Goalposts Poems - Poems about Goalposts

Premium Member streams of mud
...streams of mud we played in shallow streams of muck where there was no black, no white we were all mud-packed kids crusty-skinned little boys who knew the sludge would wash away when ......

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Categories: goalposts, black love, childhood, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Runner
...the road runner raced within the lucid dream looking for something to satisfy its heart goalposts shifted in the desire stream shapeshifting fears did not depart as time flowed on body aged th......

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Categories: goalposts, introspection,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member WE ARE CANADIAN, EH?
...WE ARE CANADIAN, EH? We came across the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago. We didn't linger long up there – 'twas 99 below! We wandered south while looking for a Timmy's 'round each bend,......

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Categories: goalposts, humor, pride, song,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Vanishing point
...The sticky glue of longing, gives a sense of belonging, betwixt heartbeat’s silent chime, though life is devoured by time. Soul’s adrift as goalposts shift and decay of form is swift, yet we ......

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Categories: goalposts, spiritual,
Form: Jueju
Premium Member The path back home
...1 The human condition Since we’re mistaken we’re this body-mind, we are driven by animal desire, to the truth of our eternal light blind, fanning flames of raging lust, till we tire. ......

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Categories: goalposts, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



Premium Member Sleep meditation
...Slipping into dark night’s restful sleep We trust God we will awake at dawn Readied for a consciousness leap Fearing not onset of stupor’s yawn Recognising play of the Gunas three Layer by lay......

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Categories: goalposts, sleep, spiritual,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member The pathless path
...We scored goal after goal, yet felt not whole Goalposts shifted, we found ourselves adrift We were exhausted as life took its toll Torn apart thus by our head and heart rift We stopped flow of......

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Categories: goalposts, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Big boys toys
...Horizons blurred, goalposts shifted The genie granted three wishes Yet our heart aimlessly drifted Weary at doing the dishes Hall of mirrors made heart shiver Horizons blurred, goalposts shi......

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Categories: goalposts, desire, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member Building tension
...Feeling incomplete, heart yearns to expand and so transmits this desire to the mind, which ego driven, fails to understand, that peace is found if cravings are declined, so in the world of transi......

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Categories: goalposts, angst, anxiety, silence, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member All we require
...Life’s inflicted many a scar From God’s light, we’ve drifted afar Desire begets fear, fear desire Love and light is all we require We drift through life, as though we’re blind Shifting goalpos......

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Categories: goalposts, light, love,
Form: Kyrielle
Berth
...She wanted to go back to the place that expelled her- Octopode ink on a birth certificate. Black smoke, not blue, Dark smatter hid from view Pale pink sunrise Baby blue skies... It rained th......

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Categories: goalposts, identity,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Ouroboros
...shifting goalposts desires hosted by ghosts guarded......

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Categories: goalposts, desire, fear,
Form: Than-Bauk
From Ashes To Ashes
...They can't have the Ashes trophy so they have a cup, it's becoming irritating as they're trying to catch up, there's nothing you can say, all out at the end of the day, square leg in a round hole,......

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Categories: goalposts, care, confusion, fairy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Screen of Awareness
...scream of awareness like factor fifty lotion a screen of cognizance shields emotions in rational thoughts perceptions illusions mere grasps of appreciation slice through an underworld o......

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Categories: goalposts, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Twice Born
...Maslow Researched Our form Has needs Food and Water Warmth and Shelter More and Yet more Desires Endless Spawned by Our heart Childish Fickle Goalposts Shifting ......

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Categories: goalposts, spiritual,
Form: Footle

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