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Ironwood Poems - Poems about Ironwood

Ironwood Poems - Examples of all types of poems about ironwood to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for ironwood.
Premium Member Earth Surely Is The Place Of Purgatory
...Earth surely is the place of purgatory Where “homeowners” are bolstered up - Are thrilled by and thrive in lies and slavery And would sooner scoff at desert encampments But I think it should be m......Read the rest...
Categories: ironwood, home, nature, vanity,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Sheltering Light at Ironwood
...The sun sets leaping in fierce golden shafts As days shift shorter with Winter’s warning We seek emblazoned fires from the chilled drafts That glaze windows from iced winds each morning As twil......Read the rest...
Categories: ironwood, beauty, earth, imagery, introspection,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Ironwood Violin
...I saw you with my ears; before my eyes could ever let you in Felt you deep within my heart; before my fingertips could begin Fully lost; I found a new spectacular, hopeful; kind of grin My mind fe......Read the rest...
Categories: ironwood, appreciation, cute love, inspirational
Form: Monorhyme
The Tragedy of Reginald King, Part I
...I. He was riding south from Boise, having split from the other men, they’d got together for this job, would not see each other again. It was much safer doing that, thought Reg as he sat on hi......Read the rest...
Categories: ironwood, history, lost, love, myth,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Calm and Ready
...For the few short moments when I let my mind rest. I ponder eternity and purpose and, my favorite, nothingness. It’s strange to witness the natural human drive. Always shifting and moving as a me......Read the rest...
Categories: ironwood, character,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member War Crimes
...The 90 year old Could no longer bend or even lean Over His brother’s grave Stands in the sun with his planted cane At his elbow Tells me He hears his brother speak from the grass “Bobby......Read the rest...
Categories: ironwood, bereavement, childhood, death, father
Form: Free verse
Cholla's Legacy
...A diverse array of flora and fauna reign majestic in vivid tawny imagery of shifting sand dunes and barren rocks-- sixteen miles from the golden rays of western tomorrow. Time is played out i......Read the rest...
Categories: ironwood, america, appreciation, august, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Courageous Little Hero
...Even today in Texas after twelve decades people are narrating the story of John, the courageous little hero who fought two heartless outlaws; was he allowed to own a gun and protect his mom ......Read the rest...
Categories: ironwood, anger, boy, courage, death,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnets Xc-Xcvii
...Sonnets XC-XCVII Artificial Smile by Michael R. Burch I’m waiting for my artificial teeth to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub between cle......Read the rest...
Categories: ironwood, art, grave, grief, life,
Form: Sonnet
The Butterfly Effect
...Once a lost and lonely soul Too torchered to ever see That a man could come in my life and know All the beauty that hid in me You showed me ways to live and love A life I never thought could be ......Read the rest...
Categories: ironwood, change, confidence, encouraging, fate,
Form: Ballad
Orang Ulu
...Orang Ulu Pronounced Uloo = Collective name for the up-river people of Sarawak Orang Ulu, loping through mottle-green light of the jungle-track, lighter than dawn-mist, nimble as wild-cat. H......Read the rest...
Categories: ironwood, bullying, earth, environment, green,
Form: Epic
Odyssey From Africa 8b9a
...Ch8, cont. Northward parallel the valley. And their ridge-top elevation Gave advantage of perspective They could see the forest's ending In the distance. That same evening Would reveal ......Read the rest...
Categories: ironwood, adventure, africa, history, journey,
Form: Narrative
Odyssey From Africa 8a
...CHAPTER 8 Two Paths   North they travelled through the jungle  Aiming to escape from forest Seeking an itinerary  Near the coast in open country    So they climbed a wooded hilltop; Han attai......Read the rest...
Categories: ironwood, adventure, africa, history, mythology,
Form: Narrative
The Ironwood Tree
...The best fire wood to be found If dried it cannot be split Extremely dense and heavy And as hard as nails Leathery evergreen leaves Red bark peeling from the trunk Whitish flowers, red berrie......Read the rest...
Categories: ironwood, nature,
Form: Dodoitsu
Birds and Water
...crows seem to be the first to find it sometimes it bubbles up from under a rock or out of the side of a hill the crows know where it is they feel it when it come to the surface she was sick......Read the rest...
Categories: ironwood, life, loss, for her,
Form: Free verse

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