Hovels Poems - Poems about Hovels

Sonnets Before Surrender and The Building That Follows

...The war refuses the head, below wasting in dead
Rearing the front as storms fell the timbers rot
Upheavals breast, shorn and filled in neglect
Lay useless she had cried, allow dimple and deny

T...

Aliens! I shouted above the roar of the blaze

..."Aliens!" I shouted above the roar of the blaze.

Please rescue us from this godforsaken place
veritable hellscape, where angels fear ingress.

Just then an unexpected pleasant distraction
woke...

In sepia shadows where my soul drowns

...In sepia shadows where my soul drowns,
In the depths of misery, where silence reigns,
Yet, there blooms a serenity, a pure harmony found,
A whispered symphony, where silent dreams are bound.
In t...

Coconuts

...On sandy beaches and along fertile riverbanks,
In fecund soil and in lush green plantations,
Coconut trees stand tall towering into the sky.
They are benevolent palms at the service of...

Day Ends In Shanty Town

...day ends in a shanty town

When crossing the bridge to the shanty town
The day was almost over, blank and tired
and due to pollution, the light on the bridge had a hue of aureate 
The huts in th...

Poverty

...“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment
 of all republics.”              ~Plutarch, Greek Philosopher and historian.

Poor people living on the fri...

Gaias Dreams

...Beneath a white blanket, Gaia sleeps;
in crystalline slumber, dreams cascade,
like the thawing waters of a river.
Her children are nestled deep,
among the roots of the trees
and hovels dug be...

Psychopath On the Road

...I know the sky is beautiful, I told her
who seemed delighted with everything on the road
I'm focused on driving, I grumbled
palaces and hovels
heavens or hells,
I don't care anymore, I said
...

The Visit

...It went wrong,
two days to visit my former life
as a Londoner.

Old men in East End pubs
knew my past
but the tour bus
did not pass that way.

Trips around Buckingham Palace,
the Tower of L...

The Journey

... I set out on a long journey by train 
That spans from end to end
Out through the window flashed past 
Assorted scenes one by one
Sky scrapers and mud hovels, 
Steaming cities and pe...

Clerihew Ostade

...Adriaen van Ostade
peasants&hovels were his special fad
His brother Isaak followed the same path
their amusing art still produces a laugh*

*https://www.wikiart.org/en/adriaen-van-ostade...

Nightvisions

...I DREAM OF LIGHTING DANCING IN A RED SKY.
BLACK CLOUDS
ACID RAIN
THE EARTH SWEEPS BEFORE ME
HORIZONS OF SILENT DESOLATIONS
A CHASM OF GREAT VOLUME BREAKS 
BEFORE MY VISION LIKE A WAVE
OF DRY S...

Ava Aka Anas Anatidae

...AN AYLESBURY DUCK https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aylesbury_duck

There's a duck 
    of high renown
bred &reared
    in my county town
with orange 
feet &plumage light
      of culinary fame...

The Topology of Eden

...if adams and eves be
hovels for souls
- and -

their bodies of some 
thirty trillion cells
- then -

they average genes about
thirty five percent human
- meaning -

the adams and eves be ...

Transition of the She Sky Warrior

...For Tolulope Arotile

Men that choose to be warriors do not die
Women who earn warrior badges live forever 
And death, though dreadful and inescapable 
Cannot wipe names of she-warriors from tab...

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