April Iambic Pentameter Poems

Written by Gail R DeBole
on April 4, 2022
Updated on December 29, 2022

...Free Verse................
Unless you turn it into Iambic Pentameter.

...a swirling kaleidoscope of colors...........
Unless you only...

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The rain set me adrift inside a dream
My mind was on a painting miles upstream
An unforgotten "en plein" I once viewed
A light pastoral springtime interlude

Two...

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The tree is breezy you will come I know
The jasmine wind is waiting to greet you
The hands of the clock moving very slow
On the rose...

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When I was young, my weekends started with
an after-supper bonus Friday nights—
soft drinks and candy bars. We watched one of
three channels while we relished these...

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“The kids are fast asleep,” Bob whispers to
			his wife.” Ann smiles and mouths, “That’s great.” They go
			to get some snacks and drinks before they start
			a...

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 Somehow   I always know when Spring will come 
By the fragrance of lilacs in the sun ;
Their trembling buds awake beside my...

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If I would be stronger,
without crucial mistakes,
if I would have last longer,
wouldn't step on the brakes.
Wouldn't consider an ending,
surrender at last,
get depressed at a bird...

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Femininity - Anima


Sweet femininity was formed in Eve,
   before thrown from the Garden for her sin;
      engrained in...

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I laid my aching heart upon your grave
that February day when trees were bare
of life; their withered leaves fell down to brave
the chill of winter...

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I shall not weep, for him, nor for his crime
Since while he killed he murdered noble lives
And on that angered day, he muted the chime
He...

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Twists and big turns in the name of real love
Either it will mend or break a heart
If this feeling of love, its author is God
Involved...

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Please fill the glass, it is going away.
The buzz can't linger on the lips and buds.
And now his legs will give to ridge and sway
or...

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