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Holmes Poems - Poems about Holmes

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Lulled to sleep courtesy white noise of the fan
...Lulled to sleep courtesy white noise of the fan Onset of first 2023 heatwave found yours truly lulled to sleep courtesy rattle and hum (U2 can dreamily tread where the streets have no name) ......Read More
Categories: holmes, beach, books, city, cool,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Oh Poe
...A disastrous sunflower, Poe is hour after hour now studied the way a murder is by Alfred Hitchcock or Sherlock Holmes long-lived even in death, he suffers in hell through our eyes on the page......Read More
Categories: holmes, age, america, fate, heaven,
Form: Other
A Very Telling Poem
... “Alas for those who die with their songs still inside them.” ---- Oliver Wendell Holmes Soul means nothing until we understand the language of crying. The voice of the soul is you br......Read More
Categories: holmes, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Me In The Third Person
... Strange thought just entered my head What if I critiqued my own poems D'ya think I'd really be tough on myself Or would you detect a slight bias tone Tried using the criteria of a......Read More
Categories: holmes, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Monsters
... He was a man that knew the word ‘monster’ well though he never quite spelt it out. My dad told me that he had seen stuff. He had a Meerschaum pipe, you know like Sherlock Holmes, and he knoc......Read More
Categories: holmes, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Bloodstained
...Plan, in the process of hatching, gave romantic pleasure. The Macbeths decided to dig deep for their dream treasure. While honey dripped through their words, poison brim-filled their hearts, Envir......Read More
Categories: holmes, murder, sin,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nightmare K9
...distant wolves sniff at the winds, sense what you do not. your death hums in the air! pings run through your heart to raise a berm of hair! Baskerville hounds now shift from lope to lunge. th......Read More
Categories: holmes, animal, childhood, dream, evil,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member 1800 TO 1899
...I am the war of 1812. I am Standard Oil Dripping with wealth. I am Edgar Allen Poe And Beethoven. I am the first time the Kentucky Derby opens. I am the battle at ......Read More
Categories: holmes, history,
Form: Rhyme
we slow down
...we slow down cooperation and compromise we discover each other in new ways why we fell in love is found again with an aged maturation we eat our warm apple pie and vanilla ice cream we drink our......Read More
Categories: holmes, care, growing up, growth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lay It Down
... Not sure what I'm doing here tonight. Seems like all we ever do is fight. And I'm too tired to argue 'til the coming of the light Won't you lay it down and let it go... Things have change......Read More
Categories: holmes, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member All I Need
...Little I ask, my wants are few, I only wish a roof and home - a simple one this man will do that I may call my own. To within its walls live and age with a memoir to fill my page. Plai......Read More
Categories: holmes, life, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Self-inflicted murder
...I've seen Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson In a bar room near my dorm on one foggy afternoon Dr. Watson was singing, Holmes was playing the bassoon When a loud voice was heard that sp......Read More
Categories: holmes, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Murder Weapon
... It was a mystery The death of her twin sister Helen became jittery On the manner death had kissed her. These few words sister could only say “It was the speckled band” Before he......Read More
Categories: holmes, murder, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member i was listening to Levertov read
... i was listening to Levertov read one of her poems and as she spoke my mind drifted her words were of those moments when manunkind sinks its' teeth into the bowels of the earth rapes untold bu......Read More
Categories: holmes, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Something to Read
...The red brick stands, beckoning, where I'm met with cool library air A rush of hushed murmers provide Relief from the hot, noisy outside The graceful rounded stairway looks On treasures in t......Read More
Categories: holmes, books, joy, words,
Form: Couplet

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