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Hackles Poems - Poems about Hackles

Premium Member THE WITCHES BALL
...The witches ball, Halloween is drawing near As the leaves begin to fall, They`re flying in from everywhere For the annual witches ball. Toothless hags from north to south And crones from we......

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Categories: hackles, celebration, dark, evil, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member GRANNYS SPOOKY HOUSE
...Granny`s spooky house My granny has a spooky house she has a spiders web She keeps it in her room at night just above my bed. I cannot take my eyes of it however hard I try As it unwraps its pr......

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Categories: hackles, fantasy, fun, growing up,
Form: Rhyme



Cling
...At the moor's edge where the cliff-drop gnaws the wind and a jutting ledge raises it hackles, fingers scrabble, skinned toes curl within stiff-jawed boots. Turn an ankle here, and you may fal......

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Categories: hackles, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Humanitarian Pause
...Noshing time for but a moment muzzled to bring vaccinations up to date Far from a ceasefire this is but a pause without relief for the pending prey it is palpable The paws that pac......

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Categories: hackles, dog, health, war,
Form: Free verse
Epigrams V
...Epigrams V Are mayflies missed by mountains? Do stars applaud the glowworm’s stellar mimicry? —Michael R. Burch Teach me to love: to fly beyond sterile Mars to percolating Venus. —Mic......

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Categories: hackles, irony, jealousy, judgement, life,
Form: Epigram



Cling
...Head buried beneath the wind, hung, grasping an overhang, hug the thin bones of wiry tussocks. At the moor's edge where the cliff-drop, gnaws at the sky, a jutting ledge raises it hackles, fi......

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Categories: hackles, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Overcome
... My mind is full of stolen dreams And nothing is quite what it seems When everything bursts at the seams And we become separate teams But life is here in your hands Billions of lives like g......

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Categories: hackles, celebration, courage, encouraging, how
Form: Free verse
Eggs Mirror Image of Earth
...Soft-shelled things by their sources laid On spots assuring them no raid: In my poultry picked up by maid, With care handled or her upbraid “Boiled or Omelets but with bread, For my breakfast do......

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Categories: hackles, animal, creation, imagination, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Faux Pas
...For those who lack conviction Aspirations stay but a mirage And for those crafting mountains from mole hills Detriment a deadly barrage Believers of strange eyes upon them Flaunt shame as a wris......

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Categories: hackles, confidence, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Beyond Reach
...Reaching out, stepping out into the beyond. Feeling the stars bathing your vista with twinkles and sparkles. Venturing beyond is a journey through a time warp's quivering door with fate swat......

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Categories: hackles, feelings, future,
Form: Free verse
Reduction From Seduction
...Lips toothy smiles never desert: For one's main course pays plus dissert A granted walk by a bush stopped, A political subject dropped! Eyes searching for yours, finding them Eyes proclaiming y......

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Categories: hackles, evil, love, lust, women,
Form: Rhyme
Sun Poem
...Sun Poem by Michael R. Burch I have suffused myself in poetry as a lizard basks, soaking up sun, scales nakedly glinting; its glorious light he understands—when it comes, it comes. A flood ......

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Categories: hackles, poems, poetry, poets, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Good Ol' Rex
...He heard the car and came running, Jumped and whirled in the air, Barking his happiness! Dad lifted her down in her yellow-flowered Camisole and high heeled shoes. The dog dropped, His hind ......

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Categories: hackles, 8th grade, dog, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Honestly I Wont Like It
...Could it your fancy tickle: The fluid you need does trickle; Legs once free like vehicles On Stopped Feet of Manacles? Won’t it up get one’s hackles That one often tasks tackles Others’ Wrist......

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Categories: hackles, allusion, conflict, cry, work,
Form: Rhyme
Foul Play On a Football Pitch
...On a football pitch a frosty foul, Spared by The Referee his booking howl But not The Goalie’s condemning growl … Just badly kicked was his jowl By the scorer now wearing a scowl! “The Luck......

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Categories: hackles, bullying, career, cry, sports,
Form: Rhyme

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