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Knifing Poems - Poems about Knifing

Premium Member Smuggler's Boat
...Migrants on the move from violence their only possession breath-space on a smuggler’s boat secured with back-bent harvests in pretzel-bent systems weight of crates of strawberries hoisted on ......

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Categories: knifing, boat, death, hope, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Descent And Ascent
...I fall a raindrop from stratus to stratum birthed from clouds pregnant with thunder a lion’s roar —a pride in the sky— fierce! armed with lightning’s rip and slit the scythe of claw and tooth fin......

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Categories: knifing, conflict, freedom, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Take your love back
...Take your love back Please, get back your love, pull out from my orphan soul You took your desire and magic into my fast-beating heart Stop killing, stop knifing, my tears are a river of your bo......

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Categories: knifing, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Blech impossible mission to savor mug of ginger tea
...Blech - impossible mission to savor mug of ginger tea... When the entire mug awash with floating leavings by golly by gosh, sipping said herbal brew analogous challenge to eat spaghetti squas......

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Categories: knifing, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Monster Medicine
...plasma barrier force field pressed against yielding bubble slipping through where have I been precious energy spent with no return foolishly so many verses wasted treasure hunting d......

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Categories: knifing, surreal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Winter's Retreat
...A Winter's Retreat Snowy week here we come and go Knifing thru the days with a nice flow In time our skis find themselves fine It's a cut above the week and forest line Naturally, we take to o......

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Categories: knifing, beauty, mountains, snow,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Smile Back
...Play a Krishna mantra Hear the rain pattering down Cars knifing wet wind Distant dogs howling Even the tinnitus ringing in my ears Anything but the narrative playing in my head Poison f......

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Categories: knifing, care, self,
Form: Free verse
Divertimento
...You pop my heart so heavily to the rhythm of “like a prayer”from Madonna. You flare the stars at night gleaming towards darkside. You flame the solar ......

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Categories: knifing, crush, i love you,
Form: Ballad
Beleaguered By Lactose Intolerance
...Lower gastrointestinal war civil declared because sweet tooth (er...rather dentures) craved absolute zero sum game yoking, wickedly villainous, x'acting tummy upsetting Pavlovian salivating, roma......

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Categories: knifing, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Well Runs Dry
...Couched in the concept of a well, (which supplied the water for faded glory of "Glen Elm)," my boyhood abode, another metaphorical attempt at writer's block - aid, ......

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Categories: knifing, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Dame Gravity
...Dame Gravity As a dear friend battles nocturnal EMT home invasions, fainting spells, falls, forgetfulness, fading like a plucked peony my health guilt increases-- what right have I to two ......

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Categories: knifing, age, time,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Poem Is Not
...A Poem is Not a lifeline to grab when your foot slips near the summit and the heavens suddenly lurch and loom; nor a salve for knifing rib pain when your beloved falls on black ice, and h......

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Categories: knifing, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Love, Blood Red
..."Love, Blood Red" I trusted with you my heart. I trusted with you my Special Love. I trusted with you, with YOU.. Everything I'm made to, for, and of... I was willing to wipe all you......

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Categories: knifing, abuse, character, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poetry's Burden
...Might you have a poet deep down in your gut That you try to keep tied up and gagged? Do some days make you feel slightly stuck in a rut For a fear lives that you might be tagged If you dare to ex......

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Categories: knifing, love, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Knifing
...Knifing Bread knife Case knife Clasp knife Fish knife Cut right Such tight Real life Sheathe knife Loose strife Streak knife Ex-wife Wild life after life been cut by knif......

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Categories: knifing, adventure, allegory, rude,
Form: Footle

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