Knocks Poems - Poems about Knocks

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. —William Shakespeare Cupid Knocks War waged with red ribbons and lights of white. The lights pure, expansive, deep and wide; and ribbons spaced upon a stone wall. War waged, why you wonder; the holidays thunder. Across the street since half past October, erected, dastardly tall; couldn’t, hardly, have been borrowed from a laboratory scientist or graphic...

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Who could find the sheer temerity? To wallow in such ( sin-serity )...

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My Diploma Reads “School Of Hard Knocks” Miracle Man 1/6/2025 Your time and your talent I once heard said, was all a young person needed to get ahead. So I’d rise up early and lace up my shoes, I spent a few years just paying my dues. The life goal I had was to retire some past fifty, but this wouldn’t happen without being...

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it is four- thirty-eight a.m.. I was not aware until I heard the loud knock. Bam. at the front door next to my recliner I glanced at the clock. Four-thirty-eight a.m. BAM BAM two more loud angry-sounding knocks. I froze for a couple of minutes. who would be out there? If I answered the door, would I be sealing my fate? Would I be annihilated? I had to walk...

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Winter knocked but no one answered. Since Summer went on holiday and Spring is still in bed. Autumn hears but is sunk so deeply, so comfortably into the pumpkin colored easy chair that it cannot be bothered to get up and relinquish the leaves off the trees or the puffs of dandelion seeds or the ghost of...

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Some parents insist, And some parents resist, In sending their children to the school of hard Knocks. Before they start throwing rocks. There is no doubt that both sets of parents Love their children, And want to save them from ruin, But reality is a hard pill to swallow, When in the virtual it is easy to wallow, And only a love that...

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Death walks around like thief in the night looking for someone to start a fight; it knocks on every door with an AK47 rifle in its hand and a barrage of bullets in a container strapped to the carrier’s body. It was sent on a mission to kill and bleed the blood of the strongest...

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it's a starting point life struggles are life lessons we learn as we go 9-25-23...

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"the equinox knocks" Summer leaves exiting green Autumn leaves entering color fully...

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Taught Fall down Get up Setbacks Life learning Discerning Discipline Fulfilling Prospective Hard Knocks guideline Understanding Putting one in the know Process being slow Tears Advice No coincidence Day by Day Week by Week Year by Year Month by Month Buy and Buy Functional into able Being stable Accepting with complex Effort with every try Ready to enter Concept in effect Sometimes a reject Hard education Life’s presentation Stature Negativity and Positivity Full blown Hard knocks Over and out...

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When you are shaken to your core and old man grief knocks at your door. Life feels as if a storm passed through, and left you feeling numb and blue. Whether caused by a loss of job or one who was a dear heartthrob, or loved ones who are laid to rest, Grief is a never-welcomed guest. Grief may come when we least...

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I stand by my love forever In stormy and gloomy weather I shall be your navigator In times of persecution and betrayal I shall be the even handed judge When vicissitudes of life Strike and destabilise your emotions I shall be the shoulder you cry on When providence knocks and lifts you up I shall be that smile...

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Neville Knox was a trusting soul, He believed all that people told him. Even those who came around, To harass and even scold him. No matter what the suggestion, He would do whatever they said. From putting his hand in the fire, To breaking a rock with his head. All in town would snicker and laugh, They really thought it was funny. He made it...

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Life lessons are sometimes, Hard to take, Lessons not learned Will cause heartbreak A student with closed eyes, Will, not know much, And this isn't very wise. We never stop learning, However long we live, We should take every chance, Of the opportunities that life gives. Life is like a lottery; in many ways, With winners and losers, Always with a price to pay. Life isn't fair; that is...

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You Walk Into Stonewalls, Just To Feel The Hard Knocks O where do you go when you can no longer stand When flowers are fallen and dying colors bland Everywhere fly sorrows, heart does not agree And amidst darkness, even eagles cannot see. You walk into stonewalls, just to feel the hard knocks Breakfast is cold, crunchy as sharply broken rocks. O...

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