Jostle Poems - Poems about Jostle

The Wrong Train

...London fog, harshly early with strained warning,
Looms all over the image of the hectic city
There’s the smell of mists and the taste of
Frozen rain gathered before dawn.
Pulses brake and start,
...

The Answer's A lemming

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There are those who think the masses
are like a legion of lemmings 
doing a death march into the sea
(actually a river)
but suicidal lemmings are a myth
created by none other than Walt...

Cupid’s Canopy Over Silent Sonnets

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Written: July 06, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Craig Cornish

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My path was unkempt, with cracked and bent signs
The once-azure sky turned gray, and ...

cobblestone

...the stones are smooth from years of wear
but not the jostle to cross the square

written June 16, 25 for Nette Onclaud's Crystalline Contest...

Race Track Thinking or My Mind's Raceway

...Race Track Thinking

16… little did I know the initiation began. 16 is hard enough navigating adolescence. Hormone dumping, the anguishing struggle to fit in any way—- relinquishing my individualit...

Race Track Thinking

...Race Track Thinking 

I didn't choose an ADHD brain. At times a random whispered thought, barely connected, pops in uninvited, insistent to be acknowledged and immediately included in my conversati...

So Fondly Recall

...Your gentle  touch,
sparks myriads of,
memories secretly lodged,
sequestered on queue,
awaiting slender threads,
of poignant  smile so warm,
heartfelt dispensation without strain,
at platforms...

A Lonely House in the Steppe - 1

...Through a tear in the wall, the sunlight peeks,
No one comes to ask how the old woman speaks.
How does she endure, so forlorn and alone?
Only God could be her aid, her own.
The horizon stretches,...

The Lingering

...follow the poolside shadows
Venus of Delphi
daughter of bitter waves
peek through the peephole
of my glaucous thorax
open your byzantine eyes and
spurn your locomotor ataxia

one glance at ou...

A Prey Circle

...A feathered crowd of crows
jostle together over roadkill.

They peck and tear,
lift a little in the air
allowing other beaks
to stab at a morsel.

Iridescent black wings
flap in the cram and...

On a New Year's day

...Located where the mountains and the sky collide,

The great pagoda floats amid the sea of clouds,

With a luxuriant garden stretching far and wide,

And solemn sculptures monitoring the sacred ...

Prehysteric

...I met a Megalodon who beckoned
“Welcome to the herd!”
I heard this lot was wily but
to me this sounds absurd 
Undeterred I approached
the powers that be
to see if it were true
But the powers t...

Alphabet Poetry Soup, Part XI

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Angelic
Bardic
Composers
Dole
Everlasting
Fabled
Garnishments.
Heathenistic
Improvisors
Jostle
Kitchen
Ladles.
Metrical Composers
Nourish
Otherworldly
Poetizers'
Quirky
Rumbling
S...

Food For Thought

...Grocery shopping seems to now have become a stressful event
The cost of food seems to be rising daily with more money having to be spent
Our very existence relies on what we have to eat, not that b...

Look closely

...Do we not wake up each morn,
refreshed, energised, reborn,
magnetism suffusing form,
touch tender, loving and warm?

Sans thought, soul presence in heart,
feels therein love’s bliss hum start,
...

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